Carnage [Initial Symbiote]

Defeated Tsunade [Youth], triggering a chance to obtain a new template.

Name: Carnage [Initial Symbiote]

World: Marvel

Quality: Green

Advancement: Can advance—Carnage [Proliferated Individual] (Purple)

Abilities: ① Bio-Armor: Immune to some physical damage and a small portion of special-attribute attacks, while enhancing the three basic attributes.

② Precise Camouflage: Could alter one's appearance, build, vocal cords, pupils, aura, and more through willpower. Could also perfectly mimic a specific target's appearance through cellular genes.

③ Mimicry Transformation: Could devour non-living matter for decomposition and mimicry, transforming into similar structural forms, such as shields, blades, wings, spikes...

④ Division Proliferation (Locked): Generated subordinate individuals through division and proliferation, with the master's consciousness serving as the core connecting the individuals.

⑤ Specialized Healing (Locked): Its highly malleable body granted it specialized healing abilities. Even if broken, pierced through, or smashed apart, it could rapidly recover and regenerate. Immune to toxins and mental control.

⑥ Possession Fusion (Locked): Could attach itself to other individuals and control their bodies, but only retained over 50% of the above enhancements. Ultrasonic waves and high temperatures could also forcibly separate the symbiote.

Advancement Requirements: 0/10000 points (Not met)

Points Held: 2200

"...A symbiote?"

Yun Chuan frowned, looking somewhat troubled. I really can't bring myself to like that sticky stuff.

He knew very little about the character "Carnage."

What left the deepest impression on him was its appearance.

A mass of sticky goo surged out to wrap around the host, leaving only large white eyes, sharp teeth, and a long tongue.

But judging from those abilities, it was a very practical template...

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

Just as Yun Chuan was considering his newly acquired template, he suddenly heard knocking from behind him.

"Boss!"

Yahiko's expression changed, and he was about to say something.

But Yun Chuan merely smiled and shook his head, making him swallow his words.

"Coming, please wait." As Yun Chuan spoke, he gave Nagato a look, signaling him to restore the room to its original state.

Click.

Yun Chuan opened the door just a crack, and a few faint rays of sunset filtered into the dim room.

"Sorry to disturb you. You must be the noble gentleman my husband mentioned, right?" A warm, kindly voice came from outside.

Standing outside was a silver-haired old woman with a benevolent face, followed by a young man with an expressionless face.

She carried a bamboo basket containing three servings of dinner, steaming hot as though they had chased away the chill of the approaching evening.

"I made a little too much food today, but there are only my husband and me at home. It would be a waste if we couldn't finish it."

As she spoke, she looked at Yahiko behind Yun Chuan and said gently, "If you don't mind, could I ask you to help us finish it?"

Yahiko felt as though she were looking at him like her own child. Every word she spoke was as warm as the morning sun.

It sounded like a clumsy excuse she had deliberately made so they would not feel embarrassed.

"Is that so?" Yun Chuan accepted the bamboo basket and said politely, "Thank you very much."

"I should be the one thanking you."

A gentle smile appeared on the old woman's face. Pointing to the young man behind her, she said, "This is my nephew. He'll stand guard outside. If you need anything, you can leave it to him. I won't disturb your meal any longer."

Just as she was about to turn and leave, she suddenly stopped.

"Oh, right." She turned to Yun Chuan with a smile. "We'll be holding a group activity tonight, so please do not wander around outside."

With that, she turned and slowly left, leaving only the young man behind.

Ignoring the man's seemingly attentive but actually watchful behavior, Yun Chuan shut the door with a bang.

"Boss." Yahiko looked at the food in his hands and swallowed. "This... probably isn't edible, right?"

Nagato gave him a look as though he were an idiot and directly dumped the food into the hollow space beneath the wooden bed.

If they ate that tonight, they would be the ones getting eaten tomorrow.

"Let's give it a try."

Looking at his fresh serving of food, Yun Chuan narrowed his eyes and spread open his right hand.

The next moment, a mass of flesh-like "liquid" surged from his palm.

"It has no independent consciousness of its own, nor will it contradict or resist me. It's more like an extension of my consciousness, and otherwise it only acts on orders and instinct?"

Yun Chuan raised his brows, his interest piqued.

When he tried controlling it with his consciousness, the mass of "liquid" gradually rose into the air and actually transformed into drifting crimson "mist."

"As expected, combined with the abilities of Stand - Stray Cat, it can indeed transform into a mist-like form."

Yun Chuan discovered that he could control this state, so he began directing it to spread out with all his strength.

The "blood mist" no longer remained gathered together. It spread in all directions like fog, filling the entire room with a thin crimson haze.

When he tried to project part of his consciousness into it, he found that the world before him had changed. The blood mist seemed to become his "eyes," allowing him to clearly sense everything enveloped within it.

He was not seeing it, but sensing it.

It was like observing the things in the mist from a god's-eye view.

"Since that's the case." Yun Chuan "looked" at the short blade at his waist. "Then next..."

"Huh?" Yahiko turned his head from side to side, staring at the scene in astonishment. "What is this stuff?"

Just as he cautiously extended a hand, wanting to touch the blood mist, Yun Chuan slightly clenched his palm.

A scene like time reversing unfolded before them. The crimson mist no longer spilled outward, but was drawn back inward by some force.

Within Yun Chuan's loosely clenched hand, a red gauntlet formed first, condensed and compacted from the blood mist, followed by a blood-red blade extending from it.

A scarlet short blade condensed in Yun Chuan's hand, its edge gleaming with a faintly cold light and looking incomparably sharp.

"Hardness and sharpness are directly related to control?"

He casually spun the blade in his hand and tested it briefly, roughly determining the nature of the ability.

At its current level, it was already no inferior to his mass-produced short blade.

Just as Yun Chuan was thinking, a buzzing vibration jolted him awake.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

Yun Chuan looked up toward the window, a strange gleam flashing through his eyes.

At that moment, the sun had completely set, and even its final rays of light had been swallowed.

That pure darkness had nearly devoured everything, and all the buildings were shrouded in shadow.

The three consecutive tolls came from the distant Stone Tower.

Like the darkness at that moment, the sound waves seeped everywhere. Even in the darkest, blackest room, Yun Chuan could feel that trembling hum.

"..." Yun Chuan lowered his gaze to the utterly calm scarlet short blade in his hand and murmured thoughtfully, "It seems I won't be affected by sound waves while using it."

As he pondered, the bell rang again—three more identical tolls.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

"W-What is that?!"

Yahiko's deliberately lowered voice carried an irrepressible sense of terror.

After the second ringing of the bell, the tightly shut doors opened silently, and countless figures emerged from within.

Their lowered faces were hidden beneath the shadows of their hoods. With hands pressed together as if praying devoutly, they walked like pilgrims toward the source of the bell.

By the window, a figure could vaguely be seen standing there like a corpse.

"So this is the so-called group activity?"

A faint curve appeared at Yun Chuan's lips as he said quietly, "Perfect. They've brought me a suitable whetstone."

As his words fell, the spreading scarlet blood mist was reflected in his deep blue eyes.

Hazy, mysterious, indistinct, boundless...

Triggered [Achievement-Type] Mission: [Acolyte's Sacrament]

Mission Details: Witness the ritual of the newly formed organization [Heretic God Cult] and participate in it.

Mission Level: Blue

Mission Duration: 4 natural days

Completion Reward: 3000 points