Hero of Darkness

Chapter 69: Seeking Copper but finding Gold

Kahn put his hands on the dead body of the floor boss. He felt like patting himself on the shoulders for how tactfully he took out this floor boss.

If not for his extremely well thought planning such as closing all escape routes, removing the option to fly and then simply scaring down the boss to a state where even he appeared as an immense threat to the monster and simply stood rooted to the spot as Kahn ended its life.

It was no different than the highly intelligent and experienced boss allowing itself to be killed. Kahn thanked the previous floor boss in his head again for giving such a useful skill. Because even with all of his strength, his small army and even his Lord-rank subordinates; he really wouldn't have been able to kill the boss so efficiently.

The fear toxin was by far one of his most effective skills just like the Somir scales, poison acid & extensions.. Truly worth investing in. If he could find monsters and skills that could improve its potency and effectiveness, it'd be worth going through the trouble.

He was done absorbing the skills and bloodline of this floor boss in 40 minutes. Unlike many of the monsters he had absorbed the bloodlines of, this time the whole body and blood was completely absorbed by Kahn. Leaving nothing but an empty husk of bones under the skin.

DING!

[Congratulations to the host for finding an S Rank Metamorphosis bloodline!

Current bloodline purity : 68%

The host must eat & absorb the core of the Uthraqiris to complete this bloodline. ] a sudden notification sounded in his head informing him about the monster boss.

"What? A Metamorphosis bloodline?" Kahn was gobsmacked after the notification. Because never in his wildest dream did he think of finding the almost rare and unique metamorphosis bloodline inside this dungeon.

From his knowledge, only dopplers who were a rare type of demihumans had this type of bloodline from the books about different inhabitants and species of this empire he read in his free time.

But even those had a very low purity in bloodline and at best, they could take the form of another humanoid species after going through the arduous trouble of shedding their skin and having their bones cracked to match the shape of their targets.

If Kahn wanted that bloodline, he'd have to kill at least 200 dopplers that were already hard to find. But even then, he'd get a B rank bloodline at best.. Not the S Rank bloodline that this floor boss had just gifted him.

Kahn bowed in respect to the deceased Uthraquiris.

"Thank you for your sacrifice." he said and pulled out the blue core from the now dried-out heart.

"So it was a Lord rank boss as well." spoke Kahn as monsters who were of Lord rank and comparable to Grandmaster humanoid species fighters had blue cores unlike the latter who had golden cores.

Kahn gulped down the big lemon-sized core and sat on the ground in his usual Lotus Buddha position whenever he absorbed high-grade monster cores. He always found his mind calm and able to comprehend the surge in strength in that position.

DING!

[Bloodline Absorption complete.

Current bloodline purity : 100%

The host has acquired the following abilities & skills :

Metamorphosis :

Allows the host to transform into beings and creatures the host has a complete bloodline of without any delay or harm done to the original body.

However, the host must learn to function and move in these different forms by himself.

Bloodline Merge :

Allows the host to mix different physical and magical traits of different bloodlines the host is already in possession of.

The host must possess a significant portion of bloodlines and physical skills for them to merge together.

Note : Since the different physical & magical traits of the different bloodlines will put a huge strain on the host's body after using them to merge; the activation span of this skill is short.

Current time limit : 15 minutes.

The host is advised to absorb even higher rank Metamorphosis bloodlines to overcome these restrictions.] replied the system in its usual robotic voice.

Kahn was elated after hearing this message. Because this was no different than giving himself the biggest advantage he had whether it came to fighting, if he had to hide himself, doing a reckon or even infiltrate inside a place.

As long as he had met the conditions of 100% Bloodline purity, he could transform himself into any creature he wanted. This ability clearly had opened many doors for him. Because if he were to travel into a place inhabited by a particular race or species, he would have no problem mixing in with them let it be Elves, Dwarves and maybe even Seafolks.

This was far better than any Shapeshifting ability where you'd be restricted by many things such as the types of shapes your body allowed you to take or have physical traits that would restrict the kind of species you could imitate.

And the biggest advantage was that if he obtained the full bloodline of some type of rare monster or even a Dragon for example; he would be able to transform himself into them. Although he would need a higher bloodline like a Mythical rank metamorphosis bloodline for it to be successful.. This was still a gate that opened hundreds of possibilities for him.

And the Bloodline Merge was also another handy and useful ability even though it had a short time of 15 minutes only. He could select the best traits of the bloodlines he had and take a form that would be an amalgamation of these OP physical and magical traits and skills.

To put the cherry on top, Kahn also noticed that his level went by 5 levels and now he was level 70. This was indeed an immensely fortunate harvest.

"Muhaha.. Hahaha hahaha!!" Kahn did his usual Joker laugh as he stared at the sky with nothing but joy and happiness in his eyes.

[Has master gone senile again?] asked Ronin to his fellow subordinates.

[What do you mean?] questioned Omega.

[I'm usually on the lookout when master is doing something important. So whenever he gets something useful or precious.. He always laughs like this.] replied Ronin.

Unbeknownst to Kahn, all the subordinates that had reached the Lord rank after the Evolution had formed their own consciousness and will. Although they were still programmed to follow Kahn's every order, they could think by themselves and even converse with each other with the same Hive Mind skill that he used to talk with them.

"So the sayings are true. When you search for the copper, you might as well find Gold." said Kahn and decided to leave the dungeon after today's extremely rewarding Hunt.

Now he was going to spend some time practicing and experimenting with this Metamorphosis ability for some time. This was definitely one of his biggest hauls ever.

Little did Kahn knew that one day.. this ability would change his life.