Blood Assimilation

290 Training in the Safe Room, The Synergy Ability Stone

In a spacious white room, filled with nothing in plain sight all around, space rippled for a moment before a figure abruptly appeared in the room.

It was Randy.

Within seconds, he had succeeded in instantly transporting himself from the Imperial City to inside his personal Safe Room. While he assumed that it was possible for him to use the feature of the Challenger’s system to directly transmit himself into the Safe Room from anywhere in Acruxia, he never tested the possibility until now.

He was initially skeptical about whether he would succeed or if something terrible would happen to him in doing so. Therefore, before teleporting himself, he asked the Challenger’s system for assurance.

After receiving affirmation that it was indeed possible to return to the Safe Room from any part of the world, he proceeded to carry out his plan. That was before he visited Gutz.

Speaking of Gutz, he was still in his bed when Randy visited him to inform him of his sudden departure. When Randy asked him why he was still in the medical area of the Coliseum, Gutz looked totally embarrassed. He said he was beaten and bruised up by the group of Gladiators he faced during the time that he was away.

This left Randy puzzled, as he wondered why Gutz even attempted to do the same thing as he did. After all, he had trained in basic martial arts since he was young and had a full grasp of body coordination compared to most.

However, Gutz and everyone else on planet Acruxia relied mainly on their skills in combat. As witnessed during the Gladiators’ matches, they did not have solid foundations in either their movement or fighting style.

Randy eventually shook his head to clear his thoughts, and then he surveyed the white Safe Room for a bit.

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‘Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Still, this place is quite strange and uncomfortable, to say the least.’

Randy always felt odd when inside the Safe Room, as he could feel pairs of unfathomable eyes staring at him from the unknown. That was also the case when he was practicing the Incarnation Technique by himself before. It was one of the reasons he left right away after he acquired the secret knowledge from the black tome.

Regardless of the unsettledness he felt, the Safe Room was his best bet if he wanted to get stronger faster. After all, there seemed to be a time dilation spell or mechanism that allowed time to pass by slower in the Dungeons than in the real world.

Although the Safe Room was unsettling, he could also feel that it was the safest location to stay in. No one could do anything to him as long as he was inside the Safe Room.

This was one of the reasons why he chose to return to the Safe Room when he decided to pursue the slow method of power acquisition. With the current time dilation feature of the Safe Room, he could spend months training his mana, but only a few hours or days would go by outside.

The time dilation feature of the Safe Room, which functioned just like Dungeons, seemed to be a perfect haven that was made for him to exploit without limits. Perhaps, the next time he visited the outside world, he would have already been unrivaled in all aspects.

However, he knew that such wishful thinking was too naive and unrealistic for his growth. Not to mention that he didn’t want to hide from the world simply because there are dangers lurking everywhere. If he shirked or absconded from every trouble or enemy, how would he grow himself in every aspect in the future?

With that thought in mind, he proceeded to take a seat next to the wall of the Safe Room. Then, he took out a pouch from his spatial ring. The storage pouch seemed like it would be a bit heavy. However, it was unexpectedly light as a feather when he pulled it out and held it in his hand.

He stared at the storage pouch for a moment, and then he injected a bit of his mana into it. The storage pouch opened by itself, only to reveal a few shining rocks lying inside shortly after.

These were the elemental essence crystals that Randy received from the Society Leader before departing from Alpheotus City. Now was a good time for him to employ the use of these elemental essence crystals to create a genuine and functional incarnation.

At this point, he suddenly remembered something that he had been ignoring for a while now. He immediately halted the movement of his hand that was about to take out the elemental essence crystals. He hurriedly closed the storage pouch full of shimmering crystals of different colors and then urged his system to take something out of its storage.

A moment later, a few crystalline objects, one shapeless due to being deformed, and the others, different shapes and colors, but they were in uniform states without deformities. These crystalline objects were encased in a mysterious light as they hovered in front of Randy’s eyes.

These crystalline objects were the crystallization of abilities, otherwise known as Crystallized Ability Stones, or Ability Stones for short.

There were three of these Ability Stones. Two of them were from the Sunglasses man and that invisible man Randy dealt with when he faced off against their group. The last one was the incomplete Ability Stone that he received from the Chimera Monster he faced before coming to Acruxia.

He recalled that the sunglasses man had the ability to alter the intensity of his weight known as Weight Change. It was a terrifying ability that could make the strength of one’s body heavy or lighten exponentially through magnetic field manipulation. The apparent effects were super speed and super strength.

As for the Sunglasses man’s subordinate that he dealt with first during their encounter, he seemed to have some unique mental ability to obscure his form or see through obscured objects or humans. This ability was used to locate him at that time. He remembered that, despite using the Stealthy Python’s assimilated state’s [Stealthy Scales] skill to hide from plain sight, he still couldn’t escape the detection prowess of that person’s unique ability.

Of course, the sunglasses man had more than two subordinates at the time. However, after killing all of them, he only got three ability stones from three of them, including the sunglasses man himself.

He fused with the Energy Manifestation Ability Stone he got from the subordinate that initially coordinated with the other subordinate that gave away his location. That subordinate was deadly as he nearly broke his spine at the time. He saved both his and the sunglasses man’s ability stone for future use.

The Ability Stone of the Chimera Monster, on the other hand, was incomplete. However, it had properties that interested Randy when he first acquired it. The name of the Chimera Monster’s Ability Stone was ‘Synergy’.

Just from the meaning of the name alone, it could imply that the Chimera Monster had the ability to synergize with others to get stronger. Either that or something related to combining similar or compatible things. However, Randy had personally witnessed with his Infrared Vision what it could actually do on the day he fought the Chimera Monster.