[Spawn: Unnad
Status: Grade 1 Wyrmling
Evolution Points: 5
Abilities: [Perfect Camouflage Lv. Max]
Skills: [Swarm Lv. 1]]
[Spawn: Unnad
Status: Grade 1 Wyrmling
Evolution Points: 2
Abilities: [Perfect Camouflage Lv. Max]
Skills: [Swarm Lv. 1], [Blood Burst Lv. 1]]
After Alexis finished nurturing both spawns, Matt checked their status. Just like in the ga, each spawn seed to be randomized in their potential and skills. The first Wyrmling only had a single skill and wasted five evolution points. The second spawn had two skills and only wasted 2 points. The best roll would have no evolution points left over.
In a ga, these two would be imdiately reabsorbed and the Parasite player would reroll for better minions. However, looking at the way they rubbed their little heads up against Alexis's arm, and the soft expression on her face, he decided not to ntion anything. In the ga, the only resource was ti. However, in reality, there is a biological factor too.
[Perfect Camouflage Lv. Max: Hiding in plain sight is as easy as breathing for you. Your whole existence is based around stealth. With a thought, change your scales color, texture, and consistency. You also have full control of your body's flexibility to be as tough or as soft as you choose. Squeezing into a container ten tis smaller than your body is no problem.
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[Swarm Lv. 1: The Wyrmling is the weakest of the Parasites spawns, however, it is not to be ignored. All Wyrmlings have the ability to form a swarm. When three or more Wyrmlings have ford a swarm, they will receive a boost in all attributes. Every additional Wyrmling in the swarm will increase the factor of the boost without limits. The highest level of Swarm will take priority in calculations.
]Attribute Bonus: 1.5
]Factor Increase: 0.1]
[Blood Burst Lv. 1: Increase your body's temperature to temporarily raise all attributes for a short duration, and then explode, weaponizing your flesh and blood. The shrapnel will cause damage to everything in a small area based on the total attributes at the ti of the burst.
]Attribute Bonus: 100%
]Duration: 3 minutes
]Radius: 5 ters]
Matt was satisfied with what he read. It was exactly the sa, so his plan worked out. Originally, he wasn't going to push Alexis to this path. But, since he was already on a unique evolution path, he thought that she would get a similar option and not have to turn into an alien egg laying creature. This, combined with the sheer strength of having your own army was too tempting. Therefore, when he convinced her to go down this path, he left out most of the cons.
Alexis frowned and looked over at Matt. "What should we na them?"
"We'll think about it later, quickly have them turn into sothing inconspicuous. It's too suspicious to have the jamr on for long periods of ti." Matt said, playing with the device in his pocket. Since Scorch let him keep it, either he didn't mind Matt giving himself so privacy, or he had a way around it. If it was the latter, Matt figured he would already be taken out.
"Okay, got it." Alexis thought for a few seconds and commanded the two Wyrmlings telepathically. They crawled up her arm and suddenly turned to a neon green and neon blue colors. Their expressions went dead, their eyes turned to plastic beads, and their scales beca soft like felt. In no ti, the two scary looking dragon-like snakes turned into cute stuffed animals.
Alexis walked out of the bathroom and went toward Alex and the others. "Alex, look what mommy made for you!"
When she handed over the two 'stuffed animals' to Alex, he imdiately got excited and grabbed them by their necks. He began giggling and flailing them around, bashing them into each other. It was truly impressive, since newborns didn't typically have that much gripping strength. The twins got excited seeing the toys too and wanted a turn to play. Alex ignored them and offered one of the snakes to Fran.
"Wow its so cute. Auntie you have to make one too!" She had never seen a stuffed animal before, so she was very excited. Alexis laughed a bit and nodded her head.
"Sure, when I have ti, I'll make you one."
However, Matt was one step ahead of her and already ordered so felt and fabric. Although it was in limited supply, there was enough to keep as a cover for a while. He didn't want anyone asking where the material to create these little toys ca from.
"Fran, how about you na them since Alex is still too young." Alexis suggested.
The young girl's eyes bead, and she almost answered imdiately, but then paused. She bit her lip and pondered for a while. Matt was always impressed with how intelligent the young girl was. Since discovering the space gene, he was more interested in the children of this ship. He suddenly had the thought to turn Fran to his side. However, a tertiary spawn would be too much of a waste. Perhaps this was a potential use of the incomplete sub-body, Matt thought.
"I got it! This one will be Rene, and this one will be Trey!" Fran shouted out in excitent.
Matt spit out the coffee he had just started drinking and stared at her in confusion. However, he was in the back, so no one had noticed his action. Matt started to question reality until Alexis clapped her hands together.
"Naming them after the two physicists?" She asked curiously. Being familiar with them herself.
"That's right! We just learned about them in class. They are so aweso! Professor Reynolds said we wouldn't be here without their breakthrough!"
anwhile, Matt's head was spinning in confusion. He retreated to his office and closed the door behind him. Once he sat down in his chair, he activated Perfect Mimicry. mories flowed in from school. It had been too long, so his mory of the two famous figured was limited. However, it was enough to look them up on the database.
On his tablet device, he searched the nas of his friends from his past life and hundreds of results ca up. He went through each and every one of them, reading about their whole lives as they were recorded in history. What he discovered shocked the very core of his being.
Professor Rene nendez, leading expert in computer science and artificial intelligence, and Doctor Treyvon Boucher, leading expert in astrophysics and theoretical physics, worked together to solve the issue of faster-than-light travel. They even created a computer model which calculated the exact specifications needed to achieve FTL.
When Matt looked up pictures of them throughout their life, he was finally convinced. Their likeness was the exact sa as his mories. Even the background from the photo he found was the sa from his dream. The courtyard, the school building, the single tree, everything. Matt began to question his existence. He was on the verge of ntal breakdown when Alexis ca into his office.
"Matt, we are about to have lunchMatt! What's wrong?" She saw his expression and feelings of anguish began to flow into her from their bond. She ca over to him and held him. Her instincts were kicking in and she only thought to console him at this mont.
Matt's mind was completely chaotic. When he discovered that Matthew had the parasite in him since he was a child, it didn't feel very real to him, so he had a detached response to it. However, this concerned his perceived existence. Were all of his mories a lie? Did his family not exist? What was real?
However, when Alexis barged in and began to hold him, unconsciously releasing her ability on him, his mind began to clear up. The disturbance in his mind evened out and he began to see reason. If his mories were fake, how did he know about the ga? It was nearly identical to reality. Either he existed in a simulation, or there was sothing wrong with his mory.
However, regardless of the answer, he was still real in this mont. He was determined to reach the end of this 'ga' and discover the truth. For now, he would put this revelation to the back of his mind. He couldn't trust his 'mories' anymore. This situation proved that soone or sothing may have manipulated his mories without him realizing. He used his powerful ntal power to scan his consciousness, soul, and mind for any foreign bodies.
To his surprise, he discovered a fragnt that wasn't there before. It was completely foreign, protected in a bubble within his mind. He tried to approach and remove it, but the energy had seeped in too deep. It was like a dead man's switch. If he disturbed it, or the owner of the energy died, it would cause severe damage to his mind, even possible turning him into a vegetable.
'No way these ntal fluctuations that bastard Willard'
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