Chapter 50 Human Companions?

Through the entirety of the lower floors, Victor didn’t find anything note worthy except for some humans he ran into on the 36th floor. They turned out to be within the same level range as him, but as it turns out they were very weak compared to him, and he disposed of them easily. Their equipments were nothing much, so he didn’t take any with him, and their bodies were left there too. Adding a weak human to his legion was not going to happen.

After entering the upper floors, Victor made sure to allow his legion to run amok and gains some levels as much as possible. There was no need to rush to the last floor this time. If Victor wasn’t sure he could at least have a chance to kill the drake on the 50th floor, he wasn’t going to face it to begin with.

Victor stayed on the 41st floor for the time being since he saw signs of people being there not too long off and wanted to find them. Maybe this time his luck would be good and they would be high level players with some good equipments. Back on the 40th floor, Victor spent around three days there as he allowed his legion to hunt and increase their levels.

While on the 41st floor, Victor still allowed his legion to go about the place, but made sure to instruct them on what to do if they encountered any humans. He wanted to be the one to fight them so that he would be able to see their levels and whether they are of any help. He just sat at a spot on top a stone slab and waited for the news to reach him.

While waiting, Victor pulled up the evolution panel to check for the list of monsters whose evolution material he had.

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Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

-Red Back Salamander – 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony – 8,000

-Dark Incarpos – 10,000

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Looking at the evolution materials he had, Victor just realized the very fact that he had many evolution materials, but none of them was enough to really make him stronger. If he wanted to reap the full benefit from a creature, the best way was to evolve into that creature and make it his second form. The second most effective way was to incorporate a creature into one’s form, and for this one the evolution material had to be much in order to actually make a significant impact. If he used insufficient evolution material, he would just end up getting at most a physical trait of the creature or similar, getting anything useful like a skill would be less than 5 percent if he was exaggerating.

As for now, the best monster to incorporate next was the Dark Incarpos. It was able to find its way through the water while it was completely pitch black.

“System, begin evolution.” Victor said after choosing the next evolution path. This evolution was going to be for his second form, so he needed to to remain still.

[Starting evolution process]

[Evolution will take one hour]

[During evolution process you will be unable to use your Minotaur form]

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After a while had passed, Victor got the signal from Arac and rushed over its location where he found four humans. Just as he had thought, humans had been on that floor, and since the map the humans had didn’t reach the upper floors, Victor was sure they wouldn’t be able to find their way through the floor easily, especially because the way the floors’ cave system were structured made it hard to do just that.

‘Sysytem, identify.’

[Human Level 60]

[Human Level 61]

[Human Level 60]

[Human Level 65]

‘Not so high in the level department.’ Victor said in his mind. Then again, Victor didn’t need those too high a level since he would be unable to use them as part of his legion to begin with.

‘I should use this opportunity to do a little bit of interrogation.’ Victor said in his mind.

The problem was, if he was to act too rashly, these guys might decide to be patriotic humans and not release any information till they die. That was something he didn’t want as the whole point and effort he put into capturing them would be defeated. The last guys he caught were a bit stupid, so it was quite easy to get information from, not to mention they were very low levelled.

As Victor thought about it, he realized that he might just have to kill them in the end. He had been watching them fight Arac from a hidden spot where he could not be seen, and just at the right moment he brought back Arac, as right before the human’s eyes Arac vanished into the black smoky mist.

Arac was actually about to die, and he would have if Victor was a little late. Arac had been using whatever means it could to survive the attack of these multiple enemies that were of a higher level, but good thing was that Victor was quite fast too.

‘Let’s just go with the flow. If possible then good, if not…’

Victor came out of the corner he was in, and for the first time he was received rather better than he thought it almost threw him off a bit.

“Hey! Mr. Hunter!” One of the guys from the humans said.

From the last humans Victor came in contact with, there was one whose body proportions were similar to his, just a bit bigger, but since that human was wearing fitted clothing, it made no difference as in the end it only appeared a bit loose, like a fashion style. Victor was covered from the face to his feet. He was now wearing an old style trouser that fit at the ends with a baggy shirt, a pair of black boots, and an inner shirt that covered all the way to his upper nose like a face mask.

“H-hey!” Victor responded. He hadn’t had a conversation with another person for a while, and suddenly being engaged like this, he still didn’t know how to respond properly.

“What are you doing there? Come over!” The one with the highest level said. Victor could guess that he was the leader, but as he got closer and was introduced, he saw the actual leader, who was the one with level 61.

“You are alone?”

“Yes.”

“Seems the rest of your team were unlucky, or did you just get separated? That’s possible too.” The leader asked.

Victor responded, agreeing with his first suggestion that the rest of his team was dead. He didn’t know what to do in such a situation, and didn’t know he looked normal before. Maybe the clothes helped, but damn! Why did the others attack him then? Was he just coming off as a pervert? And that was why he was being attacked? He was naked anyway, so that is possible.

“So you ability causes you to turn like this? I heard there were a few people who had these kind of strange abilities.” The leader said.

“Yeah, cheat characters. They also tend to be stronger than we the normals. Worse is when they become higher level.” Another person said, the one with the highest level.

Victor could say much, and did a good job to remain silent unless necessary. Because of the way his mind had become, he was always calm and chill in all situations, making him have an expression that looked as though his face muscles were dead or something, as he would just remain unchanged no matter the situation. He himself hadn’t noticed this, but even after the others did, they just chugged it off as a side effect of his ability.

Luckily for him, they didn’t pry more into where he came from and what group he was part of after asking once and he didn’t give a definitive response. They must have thought that he had been in a traumatising situation for all he knew, but whatever the reason was it was to his favour, so he didn’t care.

As things were now, Victor decided to get the information he needed while we them as it was the best option. If they weren’t stupid, they would eventually find out that something is wrong with him, and when that time comes, he would know how to handle them. For now though, he just had to play along.

They kept going forward, and just like he thought, they had absolutely no sense of direction or where they were supposed to go. The short time he had been with them, they had already walked through one route multiple times without the others knowing. He tried his best to give out suggestions, but at the same time he didn’t need them to advance so soon. And also, he was just about to start his recognisance.

“Hey Lary. What’s this thing used for?”