Poor dino, he's sweating buckets fighting nonstop, actually kill-stealling nonstop. How much poison does his glands produce? Anyways, I am reaping lots of levels.
Congratulations you have reached level 4!
Oh the good times of being a disgusting vermin feeding on entrails and whatever levels may be here, lovely indeed I say taking a sip on my imaginary cup of stolen xp tea.
Hmm, now that I think about it, I don't think stealing all this is a good idea, I am a parasite, I am NOT the main body, if this godzilla in the making dies, I will go along with him!
Quick, Equilibrium, change it-
Before I could finish a group of ants showed themselves, no doubt attracted by the ruckus of our battle orgy. With astonishing precision the ants dealt with the bigger foes, but left unarmed the smallest prey like some frog, rabbits and lizards like my ride.
How curious, they would slaughter those furry dogs and other strong foes but blatantly ignored my little dino host, to the point of walking side by side with it. I don't know if this guy has some racial passive skill to detect power levels, but he looked outright terrified by them.
Dammit, I want their bodies not this dumb lizard. Oh god… what kind of thoughts are that?! Have I succumbed to such disgusting instincts of a parasite?
Well, the ants finished their work, killed all that attacked them and took the bodies, like all of it. Dino felt frustrated, all its food taken without a single bite.
I keep wondering why those monstrous ants dont kill us as well, they did kill the other largest tri-pointed spinosaurus. Hmm, perhaps its because of our size? Are they waiting for us to fatten enough to feast on more meat? Damn, that would be dark, like monster cattle, slaughterhouse dark. Are ants that smart?
I feel useless here, those 4 levels didn't change my base stats, but I did get 3 skill points. I need something to support my ride here, there must be something.
[ Host operator
The user can manipulate simple biological workings on the body such as blood stream and hormonal flow. ]
THIS!!! Its actually quite good, I can help him albeit indirectly, like injecting the little thing with a nice adrenaline shot when tired or more blood to its legs to run faster? I'm not that good with biology but we will learn.
[ Host Management
The user may manage the usage of the host skills and biomass ]
Hmm, I am not keen on this one really, I don't want to micromanage things, I dont even know what to do, but its quite obvious that this fella is not the brightest star out there, so I should take it anyway.
Still one skill left, nothing that looks remotely useful right now, no magics as I dont have MP to do it anyways. I'll save it for later.
Oh Host Analysis got lvl 2:
[ Tri-pointed Spinosaurus emotional state: stressed ]
Bah, quite the development, huh.
Before I forget, Host Management, activate!
How funny, Host Analysis activates as well, so this system operates in a skill tree pattern here 'cause Host Management wasn't available before.
[Tri-pointed Spinosaurus lvl. 4]
[Stats: (stressed) - (infested)]
Might: 10
Toughness: 20
Cunning: 10
Will: 10
HP: 29/40
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MP: 0/0
Skills:
Anti-armor strike level 2
[ Available skill points: 3 ]
Mutations:
Spike Horns +1
Poison gland +3
Scale skin +1 ]
[ Available biomass: 0 ]
Zero biomass huh, almost like someone sucked it out of him hahaha… my life sucks, literally.
Well, I need to improve our survivability rate here, skills should do the trick for the time being, so I take a long time picking them while this venomous yoshi does its thing. For real your name is Yoshi for now on, you want to fight and eat anything.
What we get is this:
Endurance lvl 1
For a brief time, empower the user's defenses.
Quick Attack lvl 1
The user damage becomes faster although normal damage is applied.
Backstab lvl 1
The user does 150% damage if attacking an unaware enemy.
That's some synergy I've seen some!
Hmm, Am I trying to make some really greedy asian company lawsuit me with such a large amount of references or what? Nah, nevermind, they have no power here! I hope?
Hmm after all that I think I need to think more about mutation, looks like it's important. When we get biomass more tests shall be done.
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A few days later I got a surprise, well I don't know if it was days, this place here doesn't have night cycles. But anyways, those battle orgies we had last time are getting quite common as time passes and after my intervention my guy here became a ruthless last hitter, together with Equilibrium letting it have all the xp, our dino leveled up! It was weird, after getting to level 5 my ride went to a small crevice between rocks and its eyes kept moving as if looking at something but I couldn't see it. Few moments later it went to sleep, and thats when things became wild! everything around my body began shifting like crazy, I was being pulled, pushed, squeezed and god knows what more. The last thing I remember was being crushed by something really hard, it was not like the moist organic tissue I'm used to, it was spherical as I inquired about with my proboscis.
After all that ruckus about our loved dinosaur entrails I noticed quite a lot of changes. Not only a nice lvl up my something Dino specs changed a lot, new organs, new skills and more stats, even its name got an addendum and it looks the same color at the infested status that's, well, obvious… so perhaps it's related to a new condition, and looks like dino has mp now, I bet they are related. So If I get my lvl 5 I will also get those things! Gotta change the xp distribution again.
Tri-pointed Spinosaurus - Core
Level
5 - (0.0%)
Skills
* Backstab (I) lvl 1
* Endurance (I) lvl 1
* Wheel movement (I) lvl 1
* Quick Attack(I) lvl 1
Mutations
* Spike Horns +1
* Poison gland +3
* Scale skin +1
* Flexible musculature
HP
50/50
MP
10/10
Might
20
Toughness
25
Cunning
15
Will
10
Status:
Happy - (infested)
Wow, Even if I don't know how these stats translate into reality this new Dino became quite good. I'm curious why it has flexible musculature or what this wheel skill does. I'm not connecting the dots here, perhaps they were randomized?
God, I want to know that too!! Go on you dumb lizard, go on and try to kill yourself already, I want my next level and see what happens!
It doesn't take long for us to spot prey in this bizarre red dyed forest. Our next prey was an obnoxious mix of a lion and a crab, can you imagine what the hell that looks like? Well try on because goddamn if I don't know where to start. It had pincers, it had a lot of fangs and a big mouth, and it also had a nice luxurious mane. And disgusting crustacean legs.
Man, I don't know Yoshi, It reeeeally doesn't look like a good match for us.
As if trying to surprise me Yoshi just stand on his back legs, I didn't even know it could do that. Our dino took a good look at its enemy, since I was looking through his eyes I knew he was focusing for areas with less exoskeleton, meaning: its head. The moves I picked was all about KS, not a front attacker so I was quite lost here. Yoshi then just curled up, grabbed his own feet and bit his tail, securing it in his mouth.
Hmm… I'm still lost here dude.
And then Yoshi started spinning, faster, faster, FASTER!
DA HELL IS HAPPENING HERE.