Chapter 221: Fusion once again (1/2)
Being left alone again, Aiden sighed once again as he took another look at both small tents, before shifting his attention towards his inventory.
'I still have several hours and I will need all the advantages I can get to be successful. My goblin form might not necessarily bring me the results we would need… What to do…' He lamented. While Aiden's goblin form would be genuine and not just an illusion as the girls believed, it would still not be necessarily enough to get him the results they were hoping for.
From the absorbed ex-leaders' memories, Aiden realized a crucial problem: Goblins were looked down on by the other races in the horde. If he wanted to command proper respect, he would need to either raise his own worth by a significant amount or, and that's what would be the most feasible, use another form to gain entry. The question was, what? The two monster cores extracted from the bodies of the two dead orcs, might not give him enough life essence to formulate the new form… Even if it would, he would be considered a regular orc, and would have no knowledge on how to climb the ranks, he did not absorb the orcs directly. No, he needed something more, something special…
”Wait, that's it!” Realization suddenly hitting him, Aiden jumped up from his seat hitting his left palm with his right clenched fist. He almost forgot, he had a system feature that he never used, besides taking a quick look at it once!
He still had several hours, before they would need to get ready, and now with all the additional items he gained, he might have enough ingredients to create something unique, something that would command the respect he would need!
Focusing his will on his System's interface, a transparent, blue-tinted window appeared, floating in front of Aiden's eyes. Focusing on the available options, he selected the Fusion item, from the appearing System Menu.
Following that, a faintly familiar and very brief screen greeted him. The Step-by-Step Fusion System Process screens.
[Fusion
* Step 1 of 3 *
Please provide the ingredients for the process. Once ready, continue to NEXT step.]
'If I remember correctly from Enya's words from back then, I will be able to select as many Mastered Forms as I want plus Monster Orbs if I have any… She did say I should try to stick with at most 3 but prefer 2 as that would be still feasible. Anything higher than that would risk potential mutations, whatever they may end up being.'
Deliberating his options, he looked through the list of choices that suddenly appeared.
[* Available choices: *
- Mushroom bug
-Cave Viper
-Worgen (mutated)
-Goblin
* Usable items as ingredients: *
- Monster Energy Orb (Tier 1) (clean)
- Mountain Orc's Heart (Tier 1) (clean)]
As expected, his two first acquired but mostly harmless, primitive forms appeared as the first two choices. His more feral, mutated Worgen form was also amongst his expectations. The Goblin form, however, did surprise him slightly, as he just recently acquired it, and whilst he did gain the goblin leader's memories and was quite confident in using it, Aiden didn't expect that it would be an available option to choose.
From the items, he smiled, as he was hoping for the heart to be amongst the list of choices and was glad that it was the fact. Lamenting about the list of choices for a short while, he selected the ones he wanted to check out first then hit the flashing NEXT button.
The screen quickly faded, only to reappear with a new one.
[Fusion
* Step 2 of 3 *
Selected Life Forms:
-Goblin
-Monster Energy Orb (Tier 1) (clean)
-Mountain Orc's Heart (Tier 1) (clean)
-Worgen (mutated) (Tier 1)
Chance for mutation: Calculating…
…]
The screen kept flickering as the system most likely did the necessary calculations. Thinking back, he remembered that back then this part did not take long, however back then, there was only one possible result displayed. With the three that he selected, Aiden was expecting at least a few.