Planet Pandora, the Land of Falling Stars.
Lava gushed out, and on the stone wall, the red light illuminated a huge, ferocious figure.
Click! Click!
Its fangs snapped shut, Crush the last bits of the Dark Nightmare Beast's body tissue and swallowing them whole.
The stomach, like a furnace, rapidly absorbs nutrients and transports them to all parts of the body. The Predator's innate abilities activate automatically, extracting fragments of genetic material.
Deep within the brain lies a vague and ethereal soul. Fragments of the Dark Nightmare Beast's genes flow in like a gentle stream, nourishing the nascent soul talent.
Buzz~
His soul trembled, Gustavo's body stiffened, and then all four pairs of eerie green pupils revealed a look of wild joy.
"It's finally done!"
He could feel a brand new power being born deep within his soul—the soul talent he had longed for.
Open the information panel, and sure enough, a new talent has appeared in the Bloodline/Talent section.
[Soul Devourer] Active - Devours the souls of other creatures to increase its own soul strength and randomly strips away some of the other creature's soul information.
Note: This ability should not be used frequently, otherwise the soul may be corrupted by the distracting thoughts of living beings. It can only be activated again after the soul of the prey has been completely digested and absorbed.
"It's a growth-type talent!"
Gustavo was pleasantly surprised.
While the Soul Devourer talent may not seem to immediately improve his combat power, it greatly enhances his growth potential and broadens his future path.
Although the path of the soul has a long development period, once it matures, it will be extremely powerful.
Moreover, Soul Devourer and Predator are a perfect match.
One method involves plundering gene fragments, focusing primarily on the physical body.
One type devours the soul and seizes memories, focusing on the spiritual level.
It can be said that no prey targeted by Gustavo escapes, from head to toe, from skin to bone, from body to soul; not a single bit is wasted.
"I was wondering why my mental attribute had been rising so rapidly lately. I thought it was a special effect from devouring the Dark Nightmare Beast, but it turns out it's an innate ability," Gustavo muttered.
Besides awakening his Soul Devourer talent, his other attributes have also improved significantly in the past twenty-odd days.
In terms of physical attributes.
Physical fitness level 43+3, reaching 46 points.
Spirit 33+10, reaching 43 points.
Energy 46+3, reaching 49 points.
Its charm remains unchanged, still at 1 point.
Gustavo couldn't understand it either. Despite having very high energy affinity, elemental affinity, and gravitational affinity, his charm attribute just wouldn't increase.
Does that mean we, the most evil faction, are unworthy of charisma?
With a Mystery attribute of 9+15, reaching 24 points, the largest increase is not surprising. The Mystery attribute is closely related to soul strength, and the strongest barrier against curses and other strange abilities is a sufficiently high soul strength.
The Devil Clan has a lot to say on this matter.
Finally, there's the Luck attribute, which increases by 20+5 to reach 25 points. Although the increase may seem small, it's actually a significant boost.
Normally, even Legendary creatures don't necessarily have such a high luck attribute.
The reason why the Luck attribute increased by 5 points in a short period of time is ultimately due to the Soul Devourer's awakening and the resulting increase in soul strength.
The two key factors supporting the plundering of Luck Deprivation are life rank and soul strength.
Improving either of these will simultaneously enhance the Luck Deprivation talent.
In addition to physical attributes, some talents in the Bloodline/Talent section also received a certain degree of improvement after absorbing Dark Nightmare Beast gene fragments.
However, since the Dark Nightmare Beast's gene fragments are more focused on the soul level, these improvements are not significant.
The corresponding section on knowledge/skills shows even more significant changes.
All core professional skills have been upgraded by several levels.
[Star Capture] Level +2, reaching Lv3, overall physical energy strength and controllability increased by 30%, gravity-based Transcendent ability damage increased by 9%.
[Gravity Control] Level +3, reaching Lv4, with stronger control over gravity and more effortless manipulation.
[Air-Stasis Corridor] Level +4, reaching Lv5, with even stronger control capabilities.
Finally, the [Neust Body Tempering Method] level increases by 3, reaching level 26, with each training session resulting in increasingly significant improvements.
These improvements significantly increased Gustavo's combat strength.
His ultimate combat power level increased by 24 points from the original 546 Dale to 570 Dale. This level of combat power is barely enough to rank him in the upper echelon among Seventh-Tier Transcendent.
If Gustavo were to deal with the Nirat Clan chieftain again, it would be much easier.
"His soul talent has awakened, it's time to leave the cave, otherwise..." Gustavo turned and glanced at Mora and Bradley lying on the ground.
As his luck increased dramatically once again, the siblings became increasingly unlucky during this period.
They were either suddenly hit by boulders falling from the sky, or choked while playing in the lava.
Even while eating, they might encounter mutated parasitic bacteria, causing them to vomit and have diarrhea.
A series of unexpected events turned the lively and active siblings into withdrawn individuals, afraid to move around for fear of encountering something outrageous again.
"Mother!"
Gustavo calls for Spider Mom.
Index, who had been sleeping, opened her spider eyes and looked down.
"From today onwards, I will leave the cave."
"Okay, I understand. But you'd better not go too far. There are too many dangers on Planet Pandora, and you're not strong enough to handle them all right now," Index said with a yawn.
Gustavo nodded slightly, and then, under the watchful eyes of Spider Mom and the siblings, slowly left the cave.
"Mother, what is this, Gustavo?" Mora asked, puzzled.
"He's going out to make his way in the world." Index glanced at her eldest daughter, and before Mora could speak, she continued, "You're not good enough. You're too weak. I'll only allow you to leave the nest once you possess the strength of High-Rank Transcendent."
"Ah?..." Mora lowered her head in disappointment, but she dared not disobey Spider Mom's will, so she could only turn her gaze to her younger brother beside her.
"Sleeping? Get up and exercise! How can you sleep at your age?"
Bradley: "(◦`~´◦)"