Chapter 864: Calm Cocoon
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Having resolved the infighting of his tribe for the ti being, Roland the Holy Knight slowly led the silver sorcerers in the ga, consolidating power and quickly prosper to hence expand over the entire world, setting the stage in advance of the fourth phase ‘Civilization’.
anwhile, the ‘elent-friendly cell’ that Priest controlled had just cleared the ‘Spore’ phase to enter the ‘Creature’ phase.
Naturally, the ga could not relive the full billion-year long process where life evolved and developed, nor how creatures and civilization take each stepped forward. However, Continental War was developed to the point that it was virtually reality—to Priest, at least, the ga was considered genuine.
In his Spore phase, Priest finally obtained the advanced photosensitive part by moving along a tide to ambush his targets from the rear and surviving a difficult lee. After equipping the part, Priest at long last had reliable observation in the dark seas, and could acquire more valuable food and cells.
After playing for eight long hours (seven point five minutes after 64 tis acceleration), Priest finally cleared the ‘Spore’ phase.
And his cell had been considerably reward.
Apart from basic parts of different classes such as Elent perception part, thick cell war, chitin horn, tough flagella and high energy cell drive, Priest unexpectedly gained an SSR item the extrely rare special part called ‘elent absorber’!
It was an unexpected gain from one adventure in the volcano. Priest, having grown into a carnivore that fire a jet of water and crushed shells through its horn had been searching for food in a dormant volcano.
That was when he had been ambushed by a unique ‘dual-volcanic elent’ creature.
Leaving aside the rather thrilling course of the battle, one or the other, Priest had used the special landscape to trap the creature in a gap and grinded it to death. That was he noticed the creature that resembled an elental was rely a colloidal squid—on its skin, however, was a special layer of cells that could siphon large amounts of beneficial elents from its environnt, briefly turning it similar to an elental-like creature!
Having seized the ‘elent absorber’, Joshua’s control over his cell gained in redoubled power because he could use magical elents to attack. Furthermore, he could swap the chitin horn which occupied great portions for many other parts, such as the high energy cell drive which provides the cell with energy, or so special energy storage composition.
Soon, near peerless in the surrounding seas, Priest managed to clear the conditions for ascension and join the second phase, ‘creature’.
“This feels great!”
Priest clearly played over more than eight hours, but was no less entertained—especially after realizing that not even ten minutes passed in reality, he was even less prepared to stop, and would keep playing.
“It’s still entertainnt after all, and much more fun than strolling through the streets.
With that thought, Priest did not hesitate to continue.
Then, the silver screen appeared before them.
[First phase ‘Spore’ completed, assessing scores now]
[Lethal: 10/10—You are the purest of hunters. Devouring other cells is the aning of your existence.]
[Coexistence: 3/10—you would slumber inside corals under the cover of sea anemones. That is probably the only aspect where you need the help of other creatures.]
[Nurturing: 0/10—Devourers do not care for nurturing; you only need to produce excrent]
[Collection: 9/10—you have collected many special components, even entering the most dangerous of regions to obtain the rarest of abilities]
[Strength: 9/10—you are peerlessly powerful amongst the realm of multicellular creatures. You are one of the most powerful beings in the virgin sea.]
[Comncing random developnt of life form... comnding random renaming of ‘elent-friendly cell’]
Since Priest had selected ‘all-random’ at the very beginning, his cellular, creature form and naming were all completely random even as he advanced to the Creature phase. He was totally fine about that since he was the type who was fine with anything they have—be it a creature he shaped or nad himself or not, he would feel invested once he began to play with it.
Soon, as his evolution was completed, the elent-friendly cell which had jerking long, hard barbs, a shell that appeared soft but was actually very sturdy, its entire form glinting in various colored light enlarged and transford at once in a wave of white light.
The white light slowly diminished as its form changed quickly, and what appeared before Priest was an extrely unusual ‘cocoon’ shaped creature that had more than twenty protruding bony armor which wrapped around its soft organs inside. Outside the armor was a thick layer of elent absorbers, and on a single glance, it was a large white thorny pine cone.
[Evolution complete—random naming in accordance to essence: Calm Cocoon]
[Calm Cocoon: advanced elent absorber, all-elent affinity, sturdy endoskeleton and exoskeletons, shock-absorbing innards...]
“Uh, how do I control a cocoon?”
Priest was left gaping at the creature his cell had randomly evolved into. The cocoon was around seventy centiters tall—it was very small to certain deep-sea behemoths, but excessively large for a pine-shaped cocoon creature.
At first, Priest had imagined that he was still staying in the sea. It would not be easy to control the Calm Cocoon if that was the case, since he could swim through elent manipulation. Never did he imagine that each Calm Cocoon starts their Creature phase on the seashores due to the factor ‘continental lifeform adaptation’!
“Could I have to wait until the tides drown the shores, and seize that chance to return to the sea?”
Priest simply dropped the idea the instant it appeared—for so reason, he had the vague sense that things were not so simple. Since he was placed on the beach, the Calm Cocoon must have the capacity to live on land. Priest also had the sense that the creature evolved from its fragile multicellular form to its present form is to leave the seas and conquer the land!
There was profound aning lurking behind ‘random’!
“There must be sothing I don’t know how to do... co to think of it, Priest, which of the Calm Cocoon’s abilities could let it move around on land?”
In truth, there was no need to rack his brains or use his full strength—all Priest had to do was think for a bit to understand what he should do.
“Common human logic is not required in Extraordinary realms... The ntor ntioned that even death is rely the beginning, and having no limbs does not an moving is impossible.”
Thinking every day once, softly repeating the words of a certain count, Priest frowned before turning his full attention to the layer of ‘elent absorber’ on the skin of the cocoon. “Don’t be bound by normal thinking,” he muttered to himself quietly, “if I can control elents, why would I need to grow limbs?”
At those very words, Priest began to draw in the elents around him through the elent absorber layer. All at once, water and earth elents began to gather from the beach, clear seawater combining with sand into a clump of pale-golden elental stream, climbing onto the Calm Cocoon’s body as if alive!
Countless elental tentacles stretched out, spreading to every corner of the cocoon. Then, as Priest controlled it, the stream turned into a several-ter tall giant that had limbs, a body and head, placing the cocoon by its chest.
“Alright!”
Moving the elental stream and walking freely over the shores, Priest could not help but want to whoop excitedly, although he had already done so. Such was the talent of the Calm Cocoon: by using its suprely developed elent absorber, he could completely change between various forms by manipulating natural elents, assuming various movent postures!
***
Just as Priest was cheering in celebration of his first step on land, Joshua, who was strolling past many screens in the main Mana Net server, observing the performance of other players.
In reality, the so-called random was not actually really ‘random’, but the arbitrary selection of a civilization with corresponding traits from Chaos mories and applying it to the person who picked random.
Now, the warrior himself appeared satisfied with Priest’s performance—the Calm Cocoon’s path of evolution had indeed followed the developnt of one of the creatures in history. Furthermore, Priest’s ability to leave the early Spore phase, focusing entirely on the roleplay as a Calm Cocoon and quickly found a way to move around made evident his clear thinking that was unrestrained by traditional concepts.
There were not many in this world who had a flair for gaming or had poor luck. Incidentally, there were even fewer players for Continental War, with many already showing signs of being stumped during the Spore phase, not to ntion the Creature phase.
Even with the needed intelligence, it would still fail as long as their thinking failed.
Joshua looked around the screen. There were now almost 6,000 players, but 1,700 had already been eliminated, temporarily entering a one-day cooldown period in real world ti, only able to rejoin the ga another day later and play the ga of civilizations.
It avoids ga over and possible Chaos mory backlash, while giving them ti to think seriously about how they should resolve their problem.
Joshua could see that many unwittingly led their tribe and race into dead ends. They may or may not have considered the clash between different civilizations and hence jumped to decisions easily, hence failing the ga... However, that thod of failure was similar to how the many civilizations in Chaos mories t their ends, despite clearly different paths.
“They would learn.”
With that quiet muttering, Joshua turned and continued watching Priest’s ga.
What he did next, however, left Joshua shaking his head in disappointnt.
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