Chapter 864 Calm Cocoon (2/2)
[Calm Cocoon: advanced element absorber, all-element affinity, sturdy endoskeleton and exoskeletons, shock-absorbing innards…]
”Uh, how do I control a cocoon?”
Priest was left gaping at the creature his cell had randomly evolved into. The cocoon was around seventy centimeters tall—it was very small to certain deep-sea behemoths, but excessively large for a pine-shaped cocoon creature.
At first, Priest had imagined that he was still staying in the sea. It would not be easy to control the Calm Cocoon if that was the case, since he could swim through element manipulation. Never did he imagine that each Calm Cocoon starts their Creature phase on the seashores due to the factor 'continental lifeform adaptation'!
”Could I have to wait until the tides drown the shores, and seize that chance to return to the sea?”
Priest simply dropped the idea the instant it appeared—for some reason, he had the vague sense that things were not so simple. Since he was placed on the beach, the Calm Cocoon must have the capacity to live on land. Priest also had the sense that the creature evolved from its fragile multicellular form to its present form is to leave the seas and conquer the land!
There was profound meaning lurking behind 'random'!
”There must be something I don't know how to do… come to think of it, Priest, which of the Calm Cocoon's abilities could let it move around on land?”
In truth, there was no need to rack his brains or use his full strength—all Priest had to do was think for a bit to understand what he should do.
”Common human logic is not required in Extraordinary realms… The mentor mentioned that even death is merely the beginning, and having no limbs does not mean moving is impossible.”
Thinking every day once, softly repeating the words of a certain count, Priest frowned before turning his full attention to the layer of 'element absorber' on the skin of the cocoon. ”Don't be bound by normal thinking,” he muttered to himself quietly, ”if I can control elements, why would I need to grow limbs?”
At those very words, Priest began to draw in the elements around him through the element absorber layer. All at once, water and earth elements began to gather from the beach, clear seawater combining with sand into a clump of pale-golden elemental stream, climbing onto the Calm Cocoon's body as if alive!
Countless elemental tentacles stretched out, spreading to every corner of the cocoon. Then, as Priest controlled it, the stream turned into a several-meter tall giant that had limbs, a body and head, placing the cocoon by its chest.
”Alright!”
Moving the elemental stream and walking freely over the shores, Priest could not help but want to whoop excitedly, although he had already done so. Such was the talent of the Calm Cocoon: by using its supremely developed element absorber, he could completely change between various forms by manipulating natural elements, assuming various movement postures!
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Just as Priest was cheering in celebration of his first step on land, Joshua, who was strolling past many screens in the main Mana Net server, observing the performance of other players.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
In reality, the so-called random was not actually really 'random', but the arbitrary selection of a civilization with corresponding traits from Chaos memories and applying it to the person who picked random.
Now, the warrior himself appeared satisfied with Priest's performance—the Calm Cocoon's path of evolution had indeed followed the development of one of the creatures in history. Furthermore, Priest's ability to leave the early Spore phase, focusing entirely on the roleplay as a Calm Cocoon and quickly found a way to move around made evident his clear thinking that was unrestrained by traditional concepts.
There were not many in this world who had a flair for gaming or had poor luck. Incidentally, there were even fewer players for Continental War, with many already showing signs of being stumped during the Spore phase, not to mention the Creature phase.
Even with the needed intelligence, it would still fail as long as their thinking failed.
Joshua looked around the screen. There were now almost 6,000 players, but 1,700 had already been eliminated, temporarily entering a one-day cooldown period in real world time, only able to rejoin the game another day later and play the game of civilizations.
It avoids game over and possible Chaos memory backlash, while giving them time to think seriously about how they should resolve their problem.
Joshua could see that many unwittingly led their tribe and race into dead ends. They may or may not have considered the clash between different civilizations and hence jumped to decisions easily, hence failing the game… However, that method of failure was similar to how the many civilizations in Chaos memories met their ends, despite clearly different paths.
”They would learn.”
With that quiet muttering, Joshua turned and continued watching Priest's game.
What he did next, however, left Joshua shaking his head in disappointment.