Chapter 571 The concept of metamorphosis
One week later…
"Waaaa…!!!" Legolas was assaulted with the pitiful cry of a baby.
This did not stop him though.
In the Dark Warg form after fusing with Warp Prime, this pitiful Warpsnare stood no chance before them as a second attack was all it took to end the life of this beast despite the myriad abilities that it had.
The claw strike tore its innards apart as it lay lifelessly on the mud.
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You have killed a Grade C Beast: Warpsnare!
You have received Experience Points!
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[You have made use of ability-stealing innate ability!]
[Congratulations! You have stolen special ability: Spectral Form!]
>Spectral Form: When activated, this grants the ability to become faint and ghostly. This enables user to become intangible and invisible at the same time, this can be controlled to various degrees and isolated parts of the body if so required<
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[Congratulations! You have stolen special ability: Bloodline Cleansing!]
>Bloodline Cleansing: When activated, you become capable of cleaning your blood vessels of impurities, increasing reaction speed in battle. This ability also grants smoother skin and increased charm<
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[Congratulations! You have stolen special ability: Cry of Pity!]
>Cry of Pity: When activated while shouting or roaring, your roar will turn into the cry of the most pitiful of creatures, becoming capable of inducing pity in the most stoic and cold of opponents. 30% chance of success when activated<
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Another Warpsnare kill and Legolas got 3 new abilities.
This was the power of a Warpsnare and their ability-stealing innate ability.
Over the course of one week, Legolas spent a lot of hours observing the Warpsnares living here as he was able to learn a ton about their habitats, their habits and personalities, and how their powers worked.
After a long period of observation, he started experiments.
He decided to go on a killing spree.
Before going on the killing spree, he simply decided to use the ability-steal on targets without killing them. This made him learn more about Warpsnares.
When he used the ability without killing the target, the success rate was less than 40% and when it worked, he could only get 1 ability per target.
Also, after stealing from a target once, he could no longer steal an ability from that same target unless he went all the way and killed the target.
Like he expected, there were limitations to every ability.
This led him to starting his killing spree.
Over the course of one week, he killed 1 Warpsnare after the other and already killed hundreds of them. Each Warpsnare kill while using the ability-steal gave him from 2 to 5 new abilities, this innate ability was simply insane.
After over a week of hunting in this planet, he already got over a thousand different abilities just for Warp Prime.
Fused with Warp Prime, his versatility was now on a whole other level.
He had abilities to heal himself, he had abilities to recover his mana faster, he had abilities for literally everything though a lot of them were also useless.
For example, he had an ability that could change his hair and skin color.
It was simply useless.
Despite the fact that he did not get any really OP ability, another thing that bothered Legolas was his inability of being able to kill any of the Grade B Warpsnares, these guys were on a whole other level.
After 50 years spent in galactic space, Legolas was already an experienced Army Commander who had taken part in a hundred battles.
He was a war veteran yet against these beasts, he struggled.
They simply had too many f*cking abilities.
The Grade B Warpsnares in this planet were those geniuses that rose above millions of their brothers, stealing abilities left and right to create their perfect selves that could not die to anything in their grade.
During the past week, Legolas already confronted 3 Grade B Warpsnares.
He could kill none of them, they simply had no weaknesses.
Apart from his failures and his successes, one thing though was that despite the fact that his base control level with Warp Prime was yet to increase, he finally understood the power of the Warpsnares after a week of observation.
He called it the concept of Metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis was mostly detected in insects, and it was the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages, this was what Legolas learned from his previous life.
The concept of Metamorphosis in Warpsnares was crazier.
Warpsnares reproduce asexually.
Once a new Warpsnare was born, they were in their most immature form with no ability. The greatest struggle for any Warpsnare was surviving the first few hours of living because it was by far the most dangerous.
By using their innate shape-shifting, they try desperately to blend with their surroundings and survive while hoping.
Yes, they could only hope.
If a strong predator found them, they would 100% die.
They had no chances of resisting.
But if a weak beast like an ant found them, they could simply move their huge slimy forms to engulf this beast and steal its ability.
The first time in their lives, their ability steals always work.
The ability that they steal the first time was a great determinant of what they will grow to become in the future. Warp Prime's first target that he used his ability steal on was a Swamp Frog, it determined his growth route.
After getting their first ability, they metamorphosize into the next stage.
They become weak predators.
Every hunt, if they so wish, they gain more abilities, changing and metamorphosizing more until they get their first mutation.
They metamorphosize even further to get their first Warpsnare form.
Warp Prime's first Warpsnare form was the Swamp Frog form.
After getting their first form, they become even stronger predators.
They now have the power to steal even more abilities and mutate further.
At this moment, Warp Prime already had 4 forms but after a week of observing thousands of Waprsnares, Legolas could tell that Warp Prime was nowhere close to his peak and could mutate even further to get more forms.
This drove him to the conclusion of the concept of Metamorphosis.
Warpsnares have no end form.
They are always evolving and growing stronger the more they live.
They are always metamorphosizing.
A Warpsnare that you fought against a decade ago, if you meet the same Warpsnare again, it may now be completely unrecognizable from before.
This was all due to their innate abilities, the concept of metamorphosis.
And this was the reason why Legolas could not defeat the Grade B Warpsnares.
These monsters were all old and all had time to develop their powers in line with the concept of metamorphosis. Legolas guessed that they had thousands if not tens of thousands of abilities in their repertoire.
They had no weaknesses; they were jacks of all trades and masters of all.
This was the reason why they were so immensely powerful.
After a week of observing them, Legolas felt that he was close to a breakthrough, perhaps one that would increase his base control level with Warp Prime but he also felt that something was holding him back.
Something like… not being able to kill a Grade B Warpsnare yet.
This was why, today, after the last Grade C Warpsnare kill, he changed his target.
'It's time to hunt one of these old geezers Warpsnares'.
'I need you to complete my training here'.
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