Ch.4

Which skill should I choose? All of them would be useful to me both now and later. If I can forcefully make my host adapt to the surroundings I won't have to graph animals together new animals for different environments. But if I can integrate myself into the host more i can be more protected. Actually I think I'm gonna discard that one because it might make it much harder to move to more powerful hosts. The graphing one though might be good for right now but not later.

'I'll choose graphing, if the scientists continue to test me like this then I will be able to fuse creatures together to become stronger'

I choose flesh graphing for the short term gain more so than the long term. After I choose it my body felt a rush of energy with my wounds healing like nothing happened.

'Interesting, so that happens when I level up. I don't get the heal until I get a new skill. Let's test out the graphing skill using the saber tooth as the base.'

I crawl over to the big cat finding out the "quills" was just spiky fur that was surprisingly soft despite the state of the animal. I activated the bio hijack and as soon as I could walked the saber tooth over to the human corpse. Fortunately the only thing that the tiger ate was the stomach area so the rest of it I could still use.

I activated flesh graphing and I saw blue veins start coming out of my hosts body towards the corpse. A screen popped up in front of me showing my saber tooth host on one side with the human corpse on the other. With my mind I started by taking the human arms and attaching them to the underside of the front legs of the tiger.

Next I took the eyes and the eye sockets and added them to the sides of the tigers head. I took the spine and replaced the tail with it with the finishing touch being putting the rest of the skull at the tip.

I fused the back legs with the human legs to give me a upright stance while still being able to run on all fours.

' why did I make myself a were-cat body?'

As this was going on I made sure to tap into the tigers mana expecting the transformation to take more mana than what I got. As I was making the were-cat body the two body's started the process using from what it looks like mana veins to do it.

It was satisfying to see it happening but really weird to feel it. It didn't hurt but I could feel all the changes. The closest thing I can compare it with it your arm waking up after falling asleep.

'Why did it suddenly slow down?'

After the first minute it started to slow down. I opened my status to find my mana empty and not recharging.

'Sigh* I'm gonna be here for awhile'