Mutated White Tiger (Part 1)

When the Blue rune entered the Tiger's forehead, it went straight towards the tiger shaped golden figure that represented the Tigers soul. Having made its decision, the beast made an attempt to expel the rune when it tried to enter its soul.

But the tiger's expression changed when it noticed that no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't expel it. It became desperate. A Blue glow was being released by this rune which dispelled all soul force that approached it. This made it impossible for the tiger to expel this rune.

How can a beast with such a noble bloodline like it be enslaved by such low level being? The fact that Alvin was actually initially its plaything made it even harder for it to accept.

One had to note that the system of the 'Pirate World' Virtual Reality Game, which was backed by the advanced technology of the whole human race and an unknown technology from a very advanced civilization couldn't block the fate stone's infiltration on more than one occasion. So how can a Level 8 mutated beast block it. It was virtually impossible.

No matter how hard the white tiger struggled, after a few seconds, the rune entered its soul and immediately released its special blue energy slowly transforming it. It first dispelled all the poison within the white tiger's body and slowly began to transform its body.

[Ding! Warning, Warning! Infected Contract Rune causing unknown mutation in the beast. This might be very detrimental to the safety of player. Player is advised to terminate this process at once.]

[Does player wish to terminate this process now?]

Despite the warnings, Alvin still answered 'NO!' At this time, he felt a special relation between him and the beast so he could feel its transformation. He knew that this transformation was an effect of the Fate Stone so Alvin was rather looking forward to how the Fate Stone was going to change this White Tiger's fate.

Originally, because of its special mutation, it had already awoken some of its ancestral bloodlines but at this time, this blue glow was slowly causing a special reaction within its bloodlines, eliminating redundant bloodlines and strengthening its ancestral bloodlines.

Even though the white tiger's poison had already been dispelled at this time, it was still wriggling in pain.

"Roaaaarrrrrr!!"

It roared in pain as it thrashed itself against the floor. This transformation was very painful for it. A special noble and dignified aura that far exceeded the aura of a Level 8 beast was slowly being released by it into its surroundings.

The aura scared away all beasts that were being drawn towards this location because of the commotion being caused here. Alvin was also sitting cross-legged experiencing a pleasant sensation in his body. Even though his transformation wasn't as dramatic as this beasts', he still felt the change taking place in his body. He felt his body growing slowly lighter, with his perception of his surroundings as well as his flexibility, balance and reflexes also slowly increasing.

[Ding! Congratulations to player Monkey D. Arnold for reaching 30 full points in Agility. Special skill [Nimble Feet] upgraded to Level 2!]

[Ding! Congratulations to player Monkey D. Arnold for reaching 30 full points in Vitality. Special skill [Mysterious Aurora Healing Sill] upgraded to Level 2!]

After thirty minutes, Alvin slowly opened only hear prompts from the system signaling the achievement of 30 point in both Agility and Vitality. He immediately brought up his attribute panel;

…..

Name: Monkey D. Arnold

Age: 16

Level: 5 (60/600)

Unallocated Attribute Points: 0

Sword Talent: SS+

Fate Energy: 10/100

Strength: 26

Agility: 30

Vitality: 30

Soul (Spirit): 35

Stamina: 325/325([35*10]/2) + ([300*10]/2)

Health: 300/300(30*10)

Skills:

Gathering Skill: Helps gather materials and drops from kills of player.

Investigate: collects information about opponents who are not five levels higher than player.

Mysterious Aurora Healing Skill (Level 2 [0/200]): Stamina Consumption: 15. Activate increased recovery of HP and Stamina at the rate of 1 point every 4 seconds! Seven minutes minute Duration. Forty five minutes cool down. [Can be used to heal others when it gets to Level 3]

Battle Skills:

Force Fist (Intermediate - 9/20) – Effects (exerts 10 % extra explosive fist force)

Basic Sword Arts (Intermediate Stage – 150/150) – Effects (Improves attack speed, attack power and movement speed by 60%)

Basic Marksmanship (Peak - 70/200) - Effects (Increase accuracy, attack range and attack power by 100%)

Nimble Feet (Level 2 – 0/200) - Effects (Increases movement speed by 100%)

Blitz Attack (Level 10/100): Jump from one target to another, hitting up to 2 targets, dealing 70% damage to each. Targets are chosen randomly in a 10m radius

Conqueror's Haki (Locked) - Effects (None)

Pursuing winds Sword Arts (Uninitiated) – Effects (None)

[Skill Levels: Initial, Intermediate, Advanced, Peak]

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Alvin's excitement couldn't be contained at this time when he saw the increase in his attributes. Even though he was still at level 5, he believed that his attributes far exceeded Level 6 players.

His strength, agility, vitality and even soul attributes had all experienced varying degrees of increase with his agility experiencing the strongest increase. Apart from these two of his essential skills, the [Mysterious Aurora Healing Skill] and [Nimble Feet] had all been upgraded by one Level because of reaching 30 points.

All their effects were dramatically increased. He also noticed that his Fate Energy points that had increased by 10 points out of nowhere.

"Could it be because of the mutation? But when it altered by attributes very early at the start of the game, I didn't get any fate energy, so why did I get some now? What is its function?" these questions went through his mind when he saw the new fate energy points.

Usually, when he focuses on a particular attribute, the system gives him an explanation on its function but he always gets question marks when he focuses of his Fate Energy attribute.

After realizing that he wasn't going to get anywhere with this, he immediately put away his attribute panel and once again looked at the transforming White Tiger. Its struggle had now died down and it was still lying powerlessly on the floor with its body experiencing subtle expansions. Its transformation had still not completed.

Shaking his head, Alvin turned to the corpse of the snake and decided to collect his spoils. Touching the long body of the python, Alvin activated his collect skill.

He immediately collected eight pieces of Blood spotted reticulated python meat and well as 1 piece of Blood spotted reticulated python Poison sack and 1 Blood spotted reticulated python heart.

He put all these away and once again sat by the white tiger waiting for its transformation to end.

…..

The transformation process of this mutated beast took quite a white. It went on all the way till dawn. The only reason Alvin could still sit peacefully in this dangerous part of the forest is because of the aura that was being constantly released by the White Tiger which scared all dangerous beasts around this parts.

During this while, Alvin imagined how easier it will be for him to Level up in the future with the help of this strong mutated white Tiger. With its strength of Level 8, Alvin also decided that it wasn't necessary to waste any more time in these parts but should make his way to Shimotsuki Village.

When the morning sun finally showed signs of rising from the East, the transformation process also ended. The Tiger opened its now golden eyes and looked pitifully at Alvin. The transformation had now taken a lot out of it so it looked pretty weak now.

But Alvin could determine that this beast was now stronger than before. Looking at its pitiful face, Alvin laughed, "You think I don't know what you tried to do during the contract ceremony? You can stop putting on that nasty face and get up. We have a lot to do today!"

Alvin then took out four pieces of blood spotted python meat that he harvested yesterday and threw them to the beast.

When it saw the meat that Alvin threw towards it, lounged forward and caught them swallowing two pieces in a single gulp while catching and slowly savoring the remaining two. The reason why Alvin was letting go off such high quality meat was that he wasn't very keen on snake meat.

While it was eating, Alvin looked at the new Contract Beast panel on his attribute panel. When he opened it, the attributes of this beast made it very surprised, especially, its ancestral bloodline!