Changes

Chapter 15: Changes

The red glow faded from the Black Giant Ape's eyes as it stood on the blood-soaked ground.

So hungry! As it exited its enraged state, intense hunger immediately surged through the Black Giant Ape's body—the kind that left its chest pressed against its back.

Ignoring its wounds, the Black Giant Ape bent down with some difficulty, picked up a mutilated ferocious beast carcass, and began tearing into it.

This beast's corpse was relatively well-preserved. Only its head and the front half of its body had been smashed apart.

However, it was only a little over a meter long, and the remaining parts were covered in cyan horn-like spikes. After discarding the pitch-black organs, the giant ape only managed to dig out a little meat! And this beast was not of a very high level either, only First Order like the Black Ant Ferocious Beast.

Of course, while the Black Ant Ferocious Beast was also First Order, it was probably only at the early stage. These Cyan Ant Ferocious Beasts were at the late stage of the First Order, especially their pincers.

As a result, the Cyan Ant Ferocious Beasts' meat was chewier and contained more abundant energy.

Throwing away the shell in its hand, the giant ape picked up another shattered beast carcass. Like digging meat from a shellfish, it dug out the edible flesh and stuffed it into its mouth by the handful.

One, two... As large amounts of ferocious beast flesh went down its throat, the hunger after its enraged outburst quickly faded.

At the same time, the wounds on the Black Giant Ape's body stopped bleeding and healed at an astonishing rate under the ample supply of biological energy. Its body also continued growing slowly.

Unfortunately, these Cyan Ant Ferocious Beasts had too little meat, and most of their bodies had been blasted apart and torn to shreds by the Black Giant Ape.

More than two hours later, the Black Giant Ape had eaten all the edible meat. Its body had grown from 7.3 meters to 8 meters tall, and its height, nearly three stories high, radiated an oppressive presence.

Fed, hydrated, and recovered from its injuries, the Black Giant Ape looked toward the distant cave.

It had always been curious about what these ferocious beasts relied on to survive. Without herbivores, how had these creatures formed a food chain?

After pondering briefly, the giant beast walked toward the cave.

The cave was more than two hundred meters deep, filled with rubble and narrow black holes. Inside, the Black Giant Ape also discovered what those ferocious beasts ate.

Scattered along the edges of those narrow underground tunnels were black ores excavated from deep beneath the earth.

The giant ape picked up a piece the size of a Hami melon and directly put it in its mouth. With a series of crunches, it chewed it up like candy and swallowed it.

Soon, a faint warm current spread from the giant ape's stomach. The energy converted was roughly equivalent to a piece of Black Ant Ferocious Beast meat one percent the size of the ore.

Ptooey, ptooey! The giant ape spat out the remaining ore fragments in its mouth with distaste.

Clearly, aside from hunting, these ferocious beasts relied on these weakly energized ores to grow. That was why their flesh contained so much energy.

But the stuff was buried deep underground, troublesome to excavate, tasted terrible, and had a low conversion rate. The Black Giant Ape immediately lost interest.

After leaving the cave, it found a tree more than a hundred meters tall. Climbing onto the trunk, the giant ape rapidly shrank.

After returning to human form, Jiang Hou took out a prepared old towel from his bag, casually wiped the bloodstains off his body, put on his clothes, and vanished.

In the Real World, Jiang Hou's figure appeared out of thin air in his room.

His phone showed that it was almost six o'clock, much later than yesterday, but it was not a problem. Qin Siyu next door had not gotten up yet.

Quietly opening the door, Jiang Hou went to the bathroom. Soon, hot water sprayed from the showerhead.

While bathing, Jiang Hou summoned the Attribute Page with a thought, intending to examine the changes in his attributes and estimate the Black Giant Ape's exact strength.

His strength had risen from 61 to 98, an increase of 37 points. It was already equivalent to ten times that of an ordinary person. Both the value and its rate of increase made Jiang Hou draw a deep breath.

It was too fast. Just a few days ago, he had still been an ordinary high school student in subpar health.

In addition, Jiang Hou noticed that as the Black Giant Ape's body continued growing and evolving, the increase in his base strength after transforming into the giant beast seemed even greater.

But without any instruments to measure it, he did not know the exact figures. He could only estimate that the strength increase had been around twelvefold when it was five meters tall. Now, it should have reached thirteenfold.

Compared to strength, however, his agility had only increased from 35 to 47. His defense had risen by merely 8 points, from 22 to 30.

"Defense is a little too low." Jiang Hou frowned.

The basic data in his human form was a reflection of his Behemoth Form.

Today's battle had made Jiang Hou realize the importance of defense. Even if your strength far exceeded your opponent's, as long as they could break through your defenses, you could still be overwhelmed and killed.

But defense was not something he could raise just because he wanted to. After all, the giant ape's body was covered in skin, not scales.

Unless he changed the essence of his life, such as through... evolution.

Jiang Hou's gaze fell on the Evolution Points at the bottom of the Attribute Page. Of the 100 points required for evolution, he had currently accumulated 42, nearly halfway there.

He would probably be able to initiate his first evolution after entering the ruins another two or three times.

Anticipation flashed in Jiang Hou's eyes. He wondered what changes would happen then. Would its form change, or would it become even larger?

Jiang Hou soon finished showering and picked up a towel to dry his hair. But just then, his gaze swept across the mirror, and he paused slightly.

The young man in the mirror wore a cold expression and had sharp eyes. Even his originally gentle facial features had become more defined, carrying an added trace of ruthlessness.

A faint, almost imperceptible oppressive aura also seemed to emanate from him.

After slaughtering several hundred savage ferocious beast monsters in succession, Jiang Hou had gained more than just strength. His bearing and mindset had changed as well.

Morning, dining room.

Qin Siyu looked at the dark circles beneath Jiang Hou's eyes with some confusion. "Jiang Hou, did you stay up all night playing on your phone?"

"...No, I just had a little trouble sleeping." As he spoke, Jiang Hou yawned.

Although his physique was growing stronger and stronger, he had barely slept these past few days. Especially today, when he had only slept for a little over half an hour before being woken up. Dark circles were unavoidable.

Of course, although he felt somewhat mentally exhausted, the rapid increase in his strength over the past few days still made him feel great.

"You were saying you wanted to sleep early and get up early just two days ago, but last night you had insomnia." The girl shook her head, not knowing what to say.

Qin Siyu ate quickly today as well, because she had arranged with her classmates to get to school earlier.

After Qin Siyu left for school, Jiang Hou quickly finished breakfast too. Then he looked at the black watch on his left wrist and pressed the button on the left with anticipation.

Beep, beep! Jiang Hou's current data appeared on the screen.

Physique Strength: 8.6, no trace of power pathways within the body, overall level: First Order late stage.

"First Order late stage. Not bad." Jiang Hou nodded in satisfaction.

After only one night, his human form had advanced by a minor realm. His Behemoth Form needed no further mention; its improvements in every aspect had been even greater.

At this rate of growth, his Behemoth Form would soon be able to ignore heavy weapons such as missiles, rampage through the city, and roar at the heavens and earth.

Of course, that was assuming there was no worldly suppression and he could transform freely! Third update—brothers, remember to vote and support me!