I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 353-2: Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon, The Special Nature of the Feed (2)

“Damn. This Hatchery Lord is really trash. Even as fertilizer it comes up short.”

[You look around. The hall is empty. Aside from you and the Flying Dragon currently hatching, there is not a single living creature left…]

He rubbed his chin and thought.

Since the console’s formal name was a tuning station, could he use Initial Ascension Tuning to control it.

Previously, at the War Hatchery in Tentacle City, he had taken over a Shell called an Ascended Hatchery Lord.

The Shell name differed from Hatchery Pool Lord by only one character. He did not know whether he could possess that Shell and unlock the tuning station operation options.

[You possess the Shell of the Ascended Hatchery Lord!]

[You look at the console before you and fall into thought…]

[You previously used the Initial Ascension Tuning technology to tune the War Broodmother to create Ascenders but you are not familiar with the console before you.]

[However, since it is also tuning, only the organism being tuned is different. Although you cannot perfectly control the tuning station to manufacture new Flying Dragons, you can parse a lot of useful information through operating the console.][The Flying Dragon in the hatching pool is about to break the membrane and emerge. At most, there are only five to six minutes left before it completes hatching.]

[And the technology for tuning Flying Dragons is already extremely mature. The required feed can only be more, not less. Even being short by one percent will cause the Flying Dragon’s strength to drop sharply after hatching.]

[If you need to inject feed again so that the Flying Dragon hatches in a perfect state, you must finish it within the limited time.]

Right now, the Flying Dragon was about to hatch, and the time left was not enough for him to go to Stink Bug City and abduct a few Ascenders as feed.

Even if there were enough time, using Ascenders that had already become Extreme Evil monsters as feed, whether it could hatch a normal Flying Dragon was still uncertain.

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, and a thought popped into his mind.

In ancient times, the Buddha cut flesh to feed an eagle. Now there was him sacrificing a Shell to feed a Flying Dragon.

“I hope the Flying Dragon’s strength won’t disappoint me…”

[You stride to the edge of the hatching pool, staring at the constantly writhing flesh membrane. You can already sense the terrifying creature within continuously taking shape…]

Directly abandoning a Shell as an operation definitely would not work. The Shell would vanish immediately.

Using Shell fatigue value to faint, causing the Shell to leave the body, was feasible, but time did not allow it.

Among his only three Ascender Shells, besides the Purgatory Angel and the High Priest, only the Hatchery Lord remained. The other Shell was the initial gifted Aberrant Shell.

The Hatchery Lord had no attack skills. If he relied only on basic attacks to deplete fatigue, by the time he exhausted stamina, the Flying Dragon would have hatched several times over.

As for diving headfirst into the hatching pool, that was even more impossible…

If he used the Hatchery Lord Shell to dive into the hatching pool and sacrifice himself as feed, then he would unquestionably die and respawn.

And his previous respawn point was in Bush Cricket City, extremely far away. By the time he respawned and made the trip back, the Flying Dragon would probably have already run off.

Only by using the Ascended Full-Adaptation Parasite Shell and the Perfect Molting skill could he complete the magical operation of feeding without dying.

[You possess the Shell of the Ascended Exploder High Priest!]

[…]

[Special skill Perfect Molting activated!]

[You cut off all ganglia connected within the container and gradually detach from the container…]

[…]

[Molting successful. You have perfectly detached from the container Ascended Exploder High Priest!]

[Due to the special effect of Perfect Molting, this container can maintain brief activity for three minutes.]

[While activity remains, you can parasitize this container again without loss!]

This High Priest Shell could become an invisible turret.

As long as it was equipped with the dancer’s weapon Widowmaker – Hidden Blade, it could continue to stay hidden after blasting an enemy to death from afar, like a ghost sniper. It truly was quite a good Shell.

Using it directly as feed, Lin Xun felt reluctant.

He also did not plan to use this Shell as feed, but instead used a tricky operation.

He opened the Inventory and clicked Shadow Dancer Tuning Fluid!

This reward that young girl Flanda had given him had never been used. Using this item would allow the Ascended Full-Adaptation Parasite to Ascend and advance into a Shadow Dancer.

Then he could peel off the container again, use the Shadow Dancer as feed, and then parasitize back into the High Priest Shell, truly killing two birds with one stone.

He had obtained the Shadow Dancer Shell before, and he clearly remembered its stats.

A classic assassin-type Shell, only it lacked a stealth skill, making it less useful than the Ninja Master.

With the Ninja Master available, this Shell was somewhat redundant, so he might aswell maximize it’s value as feed.

[You tilt your head back and gulp down the Shadow Dancer Tuning Fluid…]

[A wave of pain that spreads through your entire body strikes abruptly. The skin on your body surface slowly peels away and sheds, replaced by solid pale carapace…]

[Ascending…]

[You cannot help letting out a painful wail, collapsing to the ground and curling into a ball…]

[…]

Time passed second by second. With several Ascension experiences, he was not worried.

A full Ascension and advancement process only took one to two minutes, enough for him to complete the tricky operation.

[Ascension successful!]

[You have advanced from Ascended Full-Adaptation Parasite to Ascended Shadow Dancer!]

Lin Xun immediately molted off the container, turned around and parasitized the High Priest Shell, switching back to the Hatchery Lord to operate the console.

[…]

[You stride to the tuning station and quickly press the button…]

[Another thick blood vessel extends from the hatching pool, dragging the container named Shadow Dancer into the pool…]

[The Shadow Dancer makes contact with the flesh membrane, but unlike ordinary Ascenders, it is not dissolved and absorbed in the blink of an eye. Even without resisting, it persists for quite a while before finally turning into plasma sludge and becoming feed.]

[A deafening roar suddenly comes from within the flesh membrane, shaking the ground violently. The flesh membrane writhes and quickly thickens and grows stronger. The blood vessels on the surface twist and knot like giant pythons.]

[The terrifying creature in the hatching pool swings its limbs, stretching the flesh membrane until it thins. From that ferocious outline, you can tell the Flying Dragon’s size seems even larger than before!]

[You stare at the hatching pool, but see that an eyeball at the very center of the tuning station keeps rotating, as if conveying some message.]

[You reach out and press the eyeball, and a thought immediately pours into your mind…]

[The Ascended Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon absorbs unknown feed and mutates!]

[Its neural reaction speed, muscle tissue strength, bodily vitality, and immunity have all improved.]

[Due to the feed’s special nature, you can use your Hive Consciousness to activate the feed’s activity, granting the Ascended Divine Kingdom Flying Dragon one of the following abilities…]

[1. Phantom Waltz (Epic+ Skill): With this skill, you will leave a phantom double behind when dodging to confuse the enemy. Their attacks may strike the phantom instead and deal no damage to you.]

[Requires Hive Consciousness to reach level +3 before it can be activated.]

[2. Blood-Drinking Piercing Siphon (Legendary Skill): Using this skill deals massive damage to an enemy. All damage dealt is converted into your HP and has a chance to inflict the negative statuses Weakened, Diseased, Bleeding, and so on.]

[Requires Hive Consciousness to reach level +6 before it can be activated.]

Lin Xun’s eyes widened.

“Aren’t these skills the Shadow Dancer’s skills?”

“Tsk… if absorbing certain feed lets it comprehend certain skills… then if I feed it the High Priest too, wouldn’t I profit massively?”