Chapter 707 - Progress (1/2)
As a woman, the agent that slipped into Dora Milaje was certainly ravishing. Smooth skin, wide h.i.p.s, and full, plump lips. In fact, Nik felt a little attracted to bald women. It was new for him and certainly exciting in certain situations but now wasn't one of them. He had already read the woman's mind and knew the connections of Hydra spreading far but with such a delectable subject in front of him, Nik had a completely different thought process.
”Let's start,” there was a reason he didn't explain what he was going to do to the woman. What he had against her personally came nowhere near his need to further his ability [Body Manipulation: A+]. Even though this ability only provided Nik complete control of his body, he found an interesting method to expand the area of effect of this skill.
”You'll really be Orochimaru like this...” Asmodeus mumbled while Nik smirked, ”As long as I don't eye young boys, I think, I'll be fine... probably,” without waiting any longer, he snapped his fingers as the ground beneath the woman instantly shot up akin an overly large and sharp scalpel that cut off the woman's limbs.
Without any change in expression, while trying his hard to not stop and walk away, Nik crouched down and covered the wounds with life energy until the bleeding stopped but the moment he began, he had forfeited this woman's life.
”Even when you were just born a sleeper agent... I hope your incarnation doesn't hold it against me...” Nik mumbled as he took the severed left arm and started fuelling life energy into the hand.
Emerald mist covered the left arm and from the cut-off edge of the arm, flesh grew out wildly but it looked aimless. Flesh and muscle simply hung at the edge of the arm and dangled about as Nik gritted his teeth and continued.
”Can he really do it?” Lilith inquired Sky. Out of the four spirits, even if Pure was a genuine rank 6 spirit, Asmodeus had her knowledge back, and Lilith had her Absolutely Sharpness, Sky was still revered. Several clues and instructions to Lilith and Asmodeus also made the two spirits believe that Sky knew the two of them before all of them died.
”Well,” Sky took a deep breath as she gazed at Nik from the spiritual world. Honestly, she was slightly surprised, which didn't happen quite often. The idea to 'evolve' Body Manipulation was ingenious and the process, in theory, requires little resources and consumed less of a person's mind.
”To control Life Energy and use Body Manipulation to change the structure of healing, dividing the parts into bones, tendons, and muscles... not to mention organs, their various functions... all of this is simply the reconstruction of the fleshy body from a severed body part. But... the problem he'll face is to get a soul. It powers one's body and holds consciousness together. Even if he evolves Body Manipulation to an ability that genuinely affects other fleshy entities—”
”Oh my god!” Asmodeus groaned with Pure echoing another, albeit softer one, in support of the violet slime, ”Can he do it or not?!”
”Tch, I'm not gonna answer now,” Sky snorted and observed Nik while Asmodeus snorted in return.
”Ah!” Pure exclaimed as all of them looked at the dangling muscles moving up, becoming slightly stiff as a bone grew out of the arm and fashioned into a socket.
Nik's eyes lit up in excitement as he continued.
He had energy reserves— according to Loki— comparable to lower gods and with the first step accomplished, Nik started to slowly 'create' an entire body out of a single arm!
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”Huff!”
Nik looked at five bodies lying in front of him. Sweat covered his body and even he felt lacking in energy, his mind, on the other hand, felt as active as before.
Meanwhile, the five bodies looked exactly the same and Nik reckoned that the ones he created were definitely 'better' than the one the woman was born with, however, only the one in the middle was alive while the remaining four were 'dead'.
”What will happen if take the four bodies out? They have functioning brains and beating hearts... will they just... sit up?” Nik thought as his gaze narrowed.
His eyes twitched for a moment and he summoned the status panel.
[Name: Nik Minion
Age: 17
Limits: (Phantom Physique)
Bloodline: L.u.s.t Apostle/ ???
Talent: Exotic Escort, Balance, Perfect Eyesight, Skill Palace, Physical Genius, Limit Buster, Legacy Eyes, Wild Intuition, Impersonator
Profession: Imperfect Chimera
Legacy: Idle Summoner
Physique— E-
Mental— C
Energy— D+
Luck— B+]
'My mental stat is already comparable to rank 6 in raw quantity but as Sky said earlier, any proper rank 6 with 5 limitations broken will wipe the floor with me. Hmm, and...'
[Body Manipulator: S-
Use: The ability to manipulate any fleshy body with extreme precision and control. The user must have complete knowledge regarding the manipulation it wishes to make.]
This evolved ability alongside [Imperfect Chimera] worked smoothly since he can finally introduce mutation to his partners' bodies without any side effects.
Thinking for a moment, he looked at the 'living' agent and decided to not turn her into a rhinoceros to be bred by the two rhinoceroses she meant to blow up. After all, once he begins testing cosmic Elemental mutations, he would still need her help for more concrete research. He already had the fire and earth-like mutations in his grasp, all he needed to do was now search for more cosmic batteries to research the mutation of lightning, and other elements.
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”Nngh,” Felicia felt her head booming. Like she was having a heat stroke or something. Hazy-eyed, she looked around while her gaze finally stopped at a bundle of something black. It was placed over her foot while she was quite well tucked into the bed.
Leaning forward and fighting against the banging of her head, she touched the ball of darkness only to realize that it was a ball of hair. A wig.