My Talent Skill Mutated

Chapter 178: Chapter 96: Still Humble? Celestial Eye World

’Is she about to transform?’

In the basement, Chen Yu’s eyes widened as he stared at Sophie.

Her entire body was glowing.

The light illuminated the basement as if she were a human-shaped sun.

After absorbing all three canisters of mechanical energy, Sophie’s glow reached its peak.

Watching the radiant Sophie, Chen Yu held his breath.

The light surrounding Sophie’s body finally began to fade after a full minute.

Chen Yu looked Sophie up and down.

’Hmm, her skin is fairer and more delicate.’

"Did you succeed?"

Chen Yu blinked, looking at Sophie.

Sophie shook her head. "There isn’t enough mechanical energy here. I can’t undergo Evolution."

’Is that so...’

Hearing Sophie speak, Chen Yu’s excitement immediately deflated by more than half.

"How much more do you need?" Chen Yu asked, looking at Sophie.

’Since we found mechanical energy here, there might be more in other places.’

If Sophie could successfully evolve, he wouldn’t mind spending some extra time helping her do so.

After all, Sophie had been with him for so long. Even though she was just a highly intelligent robot, he still had some affection for her.

"I’ve only reached one-tenth of the requirement," Sophie replied.

"Only one-tenth?" Chen Yu was stunned.

’All that mechanical energy was only enough for one-tenth?!’

Chen Yu’s brow furrowed.

’Can I even find that much mechanical energy?’

"Alright, let’s see if we can find more. For now, change back," Chen Yu said to Sophie.

Sophie nodded and immediately transformed back into a metal bracelet.

Chen Yu glanced around the basement before leaving.

Stepping out of the basement, Chen Yu looked up at the blood-red sky and spread his Force Field senses, sweeping them across the entire ruined city.

In an instant, a series of images flooded his mind.

Searching carefully was a delicate task. To find more of the same mechanical energy, he couldn’t afford to miss a single corner.

...

’Nothing. What a pity. I’ll just have to hope I find some somewhere else.’

He had carefully scanned the entire ruined city, but he came up with nothing.

There was nothing besides those three canisters of mechanical energy.

Looking up at the sky, Chen Yu stomped his foot, and his figure shot into the air like a cannonball. In the blink of an eye, he was gone.

「An hour later」

Chen Yu arrived at another ruined city.

Finding mechanical energy was one objective, but hunting alien beasts was another.

In that hour, he had harvested around ten million more Source of Life.

His accumulated Source of Life was now approaching forty million.

However, compared to the appetite of his Skills and the needs of his physical Evolution, it was still a far cry from what he needed.

His figure descended from the sky, and Chen Yu landed on the roof of a dilapidated skyscraper.

His gaze swept the area as his Force Field senses began to probe his surroundings.

Compared to the previous one, this ruined city was in better condition.

Although most of the buildings had collapsed, a portion remained relatively intact.

The ruined city was quiet, with no roars from alien beasts. But this silence was merely superficial; beasts could be lurking within the ruins, waiting to launch a surprise attack when you got close.

"Hm?"

After a brief scan with his Force Field, Chen Yu’s eyes quickly locked onto an abandoned factory several thousand meters away.

His Force Field senses had picked something up.

SWOOSH!

With a single leap into the air, Chen Yu’s figure vanished from the spot like a flash of lightning.

The next second, he appeared inside a massive, abandoned factory.

The place was overgrown with weeds, having been deserted for an unknown amount of time.

It was very quiet.

Chen Yu landed in the abandoned factory, his gaze directed toward a huge workshop deep within the complex.

Inside the workshop, there was an alien beast nest!

It was densely packed with no less than a thousand giant metal eggs.

The metal eggs of a Niel Cuttlefish.

At the same time, he sensed powerful Life Fluctuations.

Deep within the nest, a giant Niel Cuttlefish lay in wait.

It was a powerful mother cuttlefish.

Around the Sixth Grade.

Chen Yu strolled to the front of the workshop deep inside the factory. He looked ahead into a pitch-black space that seemed like an Abyss, ready to swallow everything.

As he approached the workshop, strange noises echoed from the alien beast nest within. From the gloomy entrance, several tentacles with a metallic sheen emerged.

"HISS—"

A hiss like that of a venomous snake rang out, and a Niel Cuttlefish over a hundred meters in size appeared before his eyes.

Its metallic tentacles writhed, making it look like a monster from the Cthulhu mythos had descended.

Baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, it looked utterly ferocious.

"ROAR—!"

A deep roar erupted from the Niel Cuttlefish’s mouth.

It seemed to be warning Chen Yu.

"Level 6, not bad." Looking at the Niel Cuttlefish, Chen Yu was calm and unbothered.

Before the Niel Cuttlefish could even act, he lightly pointed a finger.

An extremely cold, deep-blue frost erupted. In an instant, the power of ice swept out, directly freezing the hundred-meter-tall Niel Cuttlefish.

Frozen solid in a heartbeat!

The massive Niel Cuttlefish was instantly turned into a giant ice sculpture, shimmering brilliantly in the light.

His awakened Legendary Level 2 Skill, ’Frozen World’, could freeze even a Level 8 alien beast, though it couldn’t kill it outright.

But against a Level 6 Niel Cuttlefish, it could deliver a one-hit kill with frost.

"CRACK!!"

With another light tap of his finger, immense Power erupted, and the ice sculpture of the cuttlefish shattered, breaking into countless pieces that scattered across the ground.

Having dealt with the mother cuttlefish, Chen Yu leisurely strolled into the alien beast nest.

Inside the dark nest, metal eggs were scattered about in dense clusters.

And in the deepest part of the nest, Chen Yu saw a pool filled with a black liquid.