Chapter 615 - 252: Another Skill! What About Life Steal
Chapter 615: Chapter 252: Another Skill! What About Life Steal
Lin Ye felt strange wisps of energy carried on the rising steam, trying to invade his body.
The energy seemed to pulse with intense emotions.
There was the bitterness of unwilling souls, overwhelming fury, and endless regret and sorrow.
But the moment this chaotic energy entered his body, it vanished without a trace, failing to stir even the slightest ripple.
Lin Ye could sense that this energy was related to the Dragon Race.
He wasn’t sure, however, if his Chaos Physique had devoured it, or if his Ancient Dragon Blood had assimilated it.
Just then, Lin Ye suddenly suppressed his aura, his body halting abruptly in mid-air.
His gaze swept over the coastline several kilometers away.
A lone figure was moving there.
Without making a sound, Lin Ye flew silently above the area.
It was a person.
A person who appeared to be in terrible shape.
He was sprawled on the dark brown sand, his body wracked with violent convulsions from dehydration. His eyes were shot with horrifying veins of red, and a sound like a broken bellows wheezed from his throat.
Lin Ye saw he was wearing the standard-issue uniform for the Longyin Academy selection trial.
But beneath the man’s exposed skin, a layer of fine, ominous red scales was stubbornly emerging.
The man seemed to sense something and violently flipped onto his back, facing the sky.
Lin Ye was stunned to see that the pupil in one of the man’s eyes was no longer round. It was sharpening into a vicious, reptilian slit. His toes had also grown unnaturally sharp, digging deep into the sand.
’These are... signs of dragonification?’
’No.’ Lin Ye was certain this wasn’t dragonification at all, but an uncontrolled, malignant mutation.
’It was a world apart from the perfect fusion of power and body he experienced when activating his Dragon Descendant Incarnation.’
’The body of the candidate before him was being eroded and reshaped by some external force. The only possible outcome was for him to become a mindless monster.’
Just as Lin Ye was debating whether to put the man out of his misery...
The mutation occurred again.
SLOSH—
As if the tide were rising, the crimson sea began to creep up the beach.
The viscous, blood-red seawater quickly washed over the man’s body.
Strangely, the moment the seawater submerged him, the candidate’s pained expression melted into one of utter bliss and intoxication.
He seemed to be in a state of euphoria, letting out a foolish, dazed laugh.
Lin Ye’s eyes narrowed slightly.
He saw tiny, blood-red, algae-like organisms frantically burrowing into the man’s body through his mouth, nose, and every other orifice.
The next moment, to Lin Ye’s astonishment...
The seawater that had crept ashore suddenly swelled upward, forming a cavernous, bloody maw.
The seawater itself had seemingly transformed into a massive, transparent, gelatinous monster over ten meters in diameter. In a single gulp, it swallowed the helpless candidate on the beach!
However, just as the monster was about to snap its massive jaws shut...
A flash of white light flared.
The candidate’s figure vanished into thin air.
Almost simultaneously, a notification popped up on the terminal on Lin Ye’s wrist.
[Current Survivors: 46/48]
Undoubtedly, Longyin Academy had registered the man as "killed in action" and teleported him out, eliminating him from the trial.
The massive gelatinous monster snapped its jaws on empty air and visibly froze for a moment, its movements betraying an almost human-like, dazed confusion.
But a moment later, as if mimicking a human spitting something out, it expelled a faintly glowing, bronze-colored fragment from its body, which clattered onto the sand.
At that exact moment, two sets of information appeared before Lin Ye’s eyes.
One was from the System.
[Blood Algae Dragon Scorpion]
[LV52]
[Evolutionary Tier: 1.2]
The other was a detailed analysis provided by his Intelligent Mechanization Transformation, which had instantly accessed a massive database.
[Name: Blood Algae Dragon Scorpion]
[Source: Originates from the notorious Celestial Abyss Rift: the Eternal Dragon Tomb.]
[Description: Inhabits the shallows and estuaries of the Dragon Blood Sea. Its main body is a constantly writhing, translucent gelatinous mass, ranging from several to several dozen meters in diameter. Countless red, vein-like algae filaments and bioluminescent organs are visible within its amorphous form. It can extend pseudopods or tentacles, and its surface is often covered with camouflaging materials like shells and coral.]
[Special Ability: Life Siphon: Its tentacles or pseudopods can pierce a creature’s body to efficiently drain blood and life force. It simultaneously injects digestive fluids and neurotoxins. The victim feels no pain; instead, they are plunged into a state of extreme euphoria until their body is completely hollowed out, resulting in death.]
[Hive Mind: Multiple individuals can connect via their internal algae filaments to share perception and thought, forming larger hunting units. They are the "scavengers" and low-level energy converters of the Dragon Blood Sea ecosystem. Some highly intelligent members of the Dragon Race domesticate them to clean parts of the sea or use them as biological traps to guard their lairs.]
Along with the information on the Blood Algae Dragon Scorpion, its weaknesses also appeared.
As a member of the hive mind, it possessed some capacity for independent action, but its core consciousness and senses were intrinsically linked to countless, much larger parent bodies in the deep sea.
Severing this connection would cause it to completely lose the hive’s collective intelligence and coordination, reducing it to a simple mass of flesh acting purely on instinct.