The System Sent Me to Breed an All-Female Amazon Tribe-Chapter 255: [Unique Skill - Cryptic Lord] Has Been Obtained
{No, the woman laying there is Master’s second born.}
Oh... second?
I didn’t know.
So she isn’t actually the first one to be born.
The quiet correction landed with a soft but heavy thud in my thoughts, shifting my entire mental picture once again in ways I hadn’t expected.
[Then why is she called the Eldest Born?]
{That is due to her being born first amongst the titans.}
...Heh. Sys has gone mad.
The dry observation slipped through my mind as I tried to keep up with the twisting logic, a small, tired laugh threatening to escape even in the middle of all this confusion and heat.
[So, by your logic, I have another child somewhere? And the Eldest Born is actually my second child?]
{Affirmative.}
Server issues have always been a pain in the ass.
The familiar complaint rose again inside my head, mixing with the growing sense that something fundamental was off in the way everything was being explained.
Maybe she is tired from all the hard work we’ve been through.
{...}
Huh? It felt like Sys pouted in my head just now.
The subtle shift in the her usual flat tone caught me off guard for a moment, making the silence that followed feel oddly charged and almost... human.
Anyway, I urged her to do the Soul Link thing already.
She sent a tether to the... ugh...
Calling her the Eldest Born is becoming a pain.
It feels off, like forcing a label that no longer quite fits the reality staring me in the face from the crater floor.
Let’s call her...
"Grey Ivy..." I bent down and crouched slowly, bringing my face close to hers so our eyes could meet more directly, the hot ground pressing against my knees through my clothes. "Your name is Grey Ivy, okay?"
Her dead eyes began to light up in surprise and glee as the unthinkable occurred next.
She lashed out a dark tongue from her throat as it struck inside my mouth, dripping some black gooey stuff that was only describable with "disgusting."
The sudden, wet contact sent an immediate jolt through me, the thick, unpleasant texture spreading instantly across my tongue and making me instinctively recoil in shock.
I tried to pull back, but she kept the intensity with surprising strength.
Soon she grabbed my body with both hands, pressing her larger form firmly against me as if trying to fuse us together in that single desperate motion.
Crap!
[Sys... I can’t get her off!]
{...}
[Sys?! Are you even listening to me right now?!]
{...Soul Link successfully restructured. Beginning acquisition of abilities and body modifications.}
Hold up just a second there, you absolute skill-loving bastard!
You need to help me first before you start diving into all of that nonsense!
I mean, yeah, sure, I am not suffocating at all thanks to my recent no-oxygen upgrade that I somehow managed to get, but what the hell is even happening to me right now?
I can clearly feel this long, slimy tongue of hers dancing and wriggling deep inside my oesophagus like it has a mind of its own.
And Grey Ivy’s entire body is way too slippery and slick for me to have any chance of peeling her off me no matter how much strength I put into it.
OUCH!!
Something just bit down hard on my thigh!
Owww! Oww! Ow! That really hurts like crazy!
Damnit, I am being freaking swarmed from every single direction at once!
Suddenly, without any warning at all, the other numbered Borns were right here surrounding me.
And having barely regenerated from the damage they had taken earlier, they were looking like absolute gross zombies straight out of some nightmare.
But, for some reason, they had already begun to bite into me with those sharp, hungry teeth of theirs.
They were biting me on my arm, on my torso, on my thigh, and then the Second Born slithered its way up to my neck like some kind of twisted serpent and sank those sharp, nail-like teeth deep inside my flesh without any hesitation whatsoever.
And damn, they were impossibly stronger than they had been the last time we had tussled and fought against each other.
No matter how much I struggled and pushed, I simply could not break out of their grip at all.
My teleportation skill and all my other abilities were not working either, no matter how many times I tried to activate them in my mind.
And Sys, that damn "assistant" of mine, was completely busy running its analysis and calculations, too occupied to even care about the absolute predicament I was stuck in at this very moment.
Tsk.
Were they actually hungry or something?
Is this seriously their twisted idea of sucking milk from their parent like some kind of deranged family bonding session?
It was not just blood they were after either.
I could physically feel these freaky kids draining my entire essence straight out of me.
Soon enough, I would probably be left with nothing but empty flesh and my clothes hanging loosely on whatever remained of my body.
I was being drunken dry, completely and utterly consumed from the inside out!
{Success: Evolution to Demigod will start any moment from now. Soul link has been successfully established and the following abilities have been Acquired:
* Cannibal: The ability to devour another individual to take their life force, abilities, and even identity.
* Form Manipulation: The ability to tweak one’s vessel. Make yourself elastic and viscous, or turn into the most hideous and unsightly form to terrify the enemy.
* [Unique Skill - Cryptic Lord] has been obtained; this will take traits from Concept Assimilation, like Fear Aura, World Lord, Dark Tendrils.
* Ultra Regeneration: Master no longer has to worry about losing limbs or being cut in half. However, some weapons and individuals might bypass this. Caution is advised.
Congratulations, Master: in approximately a few hours, you shall become a bonafide demigod!}
You sound way too happy about all of this right now, but let’s start by deleting the Cannibal ability right away.
And also that whole thing about me becoming unsightly and hideous in form. I do not want any part of that at all.
So you have finally succeeded in turning me into some kind of cosmic beast after all this time and effort, huh?
But, hey, look at that: The titans have actually stopped drinking me dry for some reason.
