Bonus chapter for the 300 power stones.
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Ringo watched as Han Xiao and Antonio finished the survivors and looting the place. Then they left in Thorns, the modified vehicle that looked like something out of a Rambo movie.
The pair returned to the base to repair the car, and afterward, Han Xiao returned alone. By this point, the explosion he caused had attracted several groups searching for Felonia.
It was amusing how everyone started arguing because they didn't understand anything, but it had already passed, and each group returned to their base.
Han Xiao also sent word that the Rose Militant's main force had been eliminated, giving the other groups chasing Felonia an opportunity to dispose of them.
He arrived at Thorns while the base was being overrun. He quickly found the secret passage with the help of a mechanical spider. He learned from them that they had gone through the underground tunnel and escaped with the cars. This made him click his tongue and quickly return to his own car, ready to give chase.
Unfortunately, his new car, the Thorns, was very ostentatious and attracted the attention of the militants in the group that invaded the base. However, after a tense moment with guns pointed at each other, the other side had to give up because they didn't want to ruin the plans of their boss, who was Han Xiao's employer.
Thus, Han Xiao finally pursued the fleeing Rose Militant group.
This also finally cheered Ringo up! He could finally finish this boring mission.
As Han Xiao chased the group, firing shots in all directions, Ringo finally saw the sunken desert area. Han Xiao, who had triggered the hidden requirement of the Rose Militant mission by finding Felonia, was also shocked.
Ringo, excited, quickly left Han Xiao's rifle in the back of the car and descended toward Felonia.
He saw the desert pilgrims entering, thinking they had found Felonia. They were a group that had survived the previous war and become wanderers. Ironically, they were right, but with their strength, they would only die trying to enter this place.
Ringo paid no attention to the beasts living there, in hybrid form, with their purple skin, black eyes and lilac hair. His ears grew, and he closed his eyes. Ringo opened his mouth and began mapping the place with echolocation.
Floating, he flew away, ignoring walls, avoiding any living beings, until he found the room with the genetic potion case.
He took two of the three fluorescent serums, remembering that Han Xiao would use one on himself and the other to gain the friendship of a group. This way, he could get their help in purchasing some antique collector's weapons and learning a skill and profession from Bennett, the currently publicly recognized strongest Super in the world.
Unfortunately, Ringo wouldn't let Han Xiao off the hook for this, just as Han Xiao had taken many things in his previous life due to his future knowledge, even the Spacetime Amber, a universal treasure.
Ringo had no interest in harming Han Xiao, but he also had no interest in leaving behind things that should have belonged to him.
He knows what kind of guy Han Xiao is, profit is his middle name, so he knows that even without this group's help, Han Xiao will find a way to get what he wants from Bennet.
He took two serums for a reason.
One for himself and one for Emerald Grass. He wanted her to discover the formula and improve it. Even if she couldn't improve on the original, he could still use its evolution to create capable super soldiers.
Satisfied, he packed the weak ones into a padded briefcase he had prepared, returned it to his backpack, and departed in ethereal form, chuckling lightly at Han Xiao.
-Don't complain to me, old friend. I'm kind enough to leave you a serum. - He smiled, feeling caustic satisfaction.
He soon flew away, emerging in another part of the desert. He returned to human form and transformed into a large eagle. Grabbing his backpack, he flew away, ready to spend a few hours flying back to Hesla.
He returned to Hesla in the late afternoon, but he didn't return to the Victoria Hotel. Instead, he flew to the military base, ready to inject the potion while receiving radiation.
Well, he's not a geneticist, nor does he know anything about nuclear science, but he's not afraid of something going wrong and the more energy during the serum administration, the better, right?
Well, it doesn't hurt to try... wait, it looks like it's really going to hurt.
As soon as he returned to the base, he stored his things in a tree hole a few kilometers from the base. Taking an serum with him, completely naked, he descended to the nuclear reactor and before entering, he injected the serum, floating inside shortly after.
The effect was immediate, pain, every cell in him seemed to boil. Unfortunately, or fortunately, he had long since grown accustomed to the pain. Besides, he could turn off his senses, so he turned off the pain.
Even so, he could still "see" the reactions within himself. If it were anyone else, they would have already deformed by now, especially since their DNA was constantly being broken by the direct radiation.
But his evolutionary energy was what tied all the factors together. His body began using the energy to fuel the serum. The serum then grew stronger and continued to mutate his genes.
This also came at a cost, his own energy was being reduced to an alarming level. He couldn't stand it for another minute!
His body seemed to feel the same, but what happened next was incredible.
it began absorbing the radiation and transforming it into energy!
Ringo's eyes widened. This wasn't purely evolutionary, no, it would take a long time to evolve to have this ability, but the serum itself was changing his genes. He could see that his DNA had been working for a long time to change the way he acquired energy, along with the nightmare DNA, which is basically an energetic spiritual life, and finally the Serum, which strengthened the vital level. At that moment, everything culminated in a fundamental change.
If his body was previously working to improve the Hardware, to finally improve the Software, the serum acted as a Hardware upgrade while his esper gene finally acquired this ability.
Acquire energy through radiation? No? He can read his own DNA. It wasn't just radiation, it was any type of energy, be it purely energetic, physical, or spiritual.
A fusion of three factors went far beyond what was expected. No, the fourth factor, radiation, was also important, it was the source of stress.
His permanent gene acts based on stress and his subconscious. This was an ability he expected to acquire. In fact, he had already planned to use the source of the mutation to obtain this ability. So, from the beginning, this wasn't a random change. Combined with the stress of the radiation, his cells evolved in the desired direction much earlier than expected.
This ability is even better than that of the source of the mutation because he can also absorb spiritual energy. If he hadn't chosen a spiritual race, this wouldn't have happened, at least not so soon. He wouldn't have had any basis for it.
Now he had increased health and energy regeneration, he only needed accelerated healing. Even though he has the ability to heal himself, it's more of an offshoot of his ability than pure healing.
It accelerates cellular activity during evolution, and this, in turn, accelerates healing. Most of the energy isn't actually used for healing, but for evolution, so his so-called healing is very wasteful.
So he would still have to track down the source of the mutation, but at least now, he could continue to evolve here for an extremely long time, his energy growing while he was hit by radiation.
His imaginary health bar was now in a constant flux of falling and rising.
The effects of the serum soon wore off, he could feel it, his cells vibrating with happiness. If he compared before and after, his cellular activity had increased by at least 200%!
Even the radiation around him began to fade, making him frown thoughtfully. He looked at the uranium bars and made a decision. He approached and transformed into his spiritual form, entering them. He used his energy to surround the bar, and soon it turned into a nightmare.
Ringo's eyes lit up. He had long realized that he could switch between spiritual and physical states. Besides himself, even the items he carried became spiritual. So he decided to try to transform something spiritual after transforming, not before.
Smiling, he had 50% energy resistance in this form, but he was still taking more damage than before.
He grabbed all the uranium and flew away. This uranium wasn't used regularly heck, he didn't even know what it was used for, but there were still sensors. When the first bar was removed, the alarm began to sound.
Not that he cared, he was already far away, to avoid radioactive contamination, he went 50 meters underground, where he opened a hole using his hybrid form, with his strength, it wasn't difficult, he simply turned part of the soil into a nightmare and threw it away, before going down again.
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