CHAPTER 93: 93 ABERRANT FLESH (2/3)

"Cough, cough..."

Herbert coughed twice, opening his mouth somewhat uncomfortably, moving his tongue around.

reoreoreo——

The experience of transforming into another creature is quite unique, as is the feeling of directly tearing through an eyeball.

At the end of that flesh and blood world, Herbert transformed into what he remembered Valentina looked like, extracting and thoroughly devouring that eyeball.

["You’re awake, how do you feel?"]

Herbert first glanced at the clock, noticing that less than a minute had passed in reality, and couldn’t help but shake his head.

The difference in time flow between inside and outside really is significant, no matter how many times he experiences it, it’s hard to get used to.

"What abilities did you acquire?"

["This time, why don’t you try guessing on your own?"]

"You want me to guess?"

Herbert raised an eyebrow, but didn’t refuse, carefully sensing the changes in his body.

There weren’t any changes in physical fitness, but Herbert had a strong intuition — he understood his body better.

"First is the control over the body."

Understanding every muscle and organ in his body, knowing how long they needed to rest at the moment, and clearly aware of how much nutrition was needed for further improvement.

Other than not having a digital template to tell him detailed data, there was almost no intuitive difference from a system.

With that knowledge, Herbert became the master of his body.

At the same time, he could precisely control the movement of any specific muscle, even adjust their positions.

No...

The knowledge flooded into his mind can probably do more than just that.

He looked at his palm, and in a trance, it was as if he gained x-ray vision, able to clearly discern the location of bones, the direction of muscles, the distribution of blood vessels...

Hmm, it’s a good skill for a nurse to give injections.

"Next is the insight into the body’s weaknesses..."

At the same time, this ability also means that Herbert knows exactly — where to cut with a blade to cause the greatest harm to this hand!

This applies to others as well.

Just like dissecting an ox, when you know this body inside out, you can inflict the greatest damage with the least cost.

"Next..."

Herbert hesitated for a moment, then drew his sword, lightly cutting his own finger.

Sss.

The sharp white blade sliced through, and blood immediately oozed out, but when Herbert gently wiped away the blood, there was no wound left on the finger.

In just a few breaths, the wound had already healed.

"The ability to regenerate."

However, this regenerative ability is not without cost.

As the flesh grew, Herbert felt one percent of his internal energy had been consumed.

Using his own energy to regenerate flesh and blood — this ability is totally worth it, right?

At the critical moment of life and death, who cares about being hungry?

Recovering a little more means increasing the chance of survival a bit more.

["That’s all? Is it over already?"]

With a cheerful laugh, Nenasha’s voice made Herbert raise an eyebrow, hesitantly moving his fingers.

"As for the last point..."

He manipulated the flesh and blood on his palm, trying to transform its shape into another form.

A dense scale-like pattern appeared on the back of Herbert’s hand, changing towards the shape of a dragon claw, but that was all, it didn’t actually become dragon scales.

"Hmm, still not working."

There certainly is some flesh and blood transformation ability, but it’s not that convenient.

["Of course, because you don’t truly understand a real Giant Dragon~"]

"...Hmm."

In the world of consciousness, Herbert seemed to have the ability to transform into a Giant Dragon, but in reality, he was just forcing a superficial change.

His understanding of the Giant Dragon’s body structure was still far from sufficient.

In the end, he merely forced his flesh and blood into a form matching his impression, but inwardly, he remained himself.

The ability to fly merely relied on brute force and flying bricks, it wasn’t truly flying, just forcibly jumping up...

After figuring out the problem, Herbert changed his approach.

"Since Giant Dragon doesn’t work, then..."

Looking at his own reflection in the mirror, he slowly controlled the muscle lines on his face, quickly transforming into the likeness of Duke Albert he remembered.

As father and son, they already looked quite similar. After a few detailed modifications, Herbert almost saw a young Silver Wings Duke.

With a turn of his head, his face changed into Blake’s likeness, then he transformed into three or four other people.

Besides a servant whose face Herbert couldn’t clearly remember, everyone else was almost identical.

"I am — the Faceless Man!"

["You noticed~ Although you don’t understand the Giant Dragon well enough, you’re very clear about the human body."]

"Hmm."

That means unless he could thoroughly study and understand a Giant Dragon someday in the future.

Otherwise, he would have to make up substantial knowledge to achieve it... Better find an opportunity to delve into it soon.

"Moreover, my current flesh and blood strength isn’t enough to transform into creatures of other sizes, only into humanoid creatures similar to my own form."

Instead of being disheartened after figuring it out, Herbert felt somewhat excited.

This ability does have certain limitations, but just being able to perfectly disguise, that’s already quite good.

Got lucky!

After a substantial harvest, Herbert decided to keep up the momentum and expand his gains further.

"By the way, I still have two drops of Vampire Essence Blood here, might as well absorb them while I’m at it... Hmm?"

When Herbert reached into his pocket, he found the bottle containing the Essence Blood had vanished without him noticing.

"..."

Raising his head and glancing around, he noticed on the shadowy tentacle to his left a familiar-looking glass bottle — empty.

At this moment, the tentacle was sneakily retracting, and upon noticing Herbert’s gaze, it awkwardly stopped there, swayed a bit, and waved at him.

Cough! Hi, hi~

Herbert squinted and slowly spoke:

"Nenasha."

["Uh!? Wh-what is it? Do you have questions for the great Nenasha? Don’t worry! I will certainly answer them for you!"]

"Did you see my Vampire Essence Blood?"

["No, I didn’t!"]

"Didn’t really see it?"

["No! How could I possibly steal your Demon Material~ Hehe, of course not~"]

After she gave a dry laugh, the room unsurprisingly fell into an awkward silence.

"..."

["...Cough."]

"Was it tasty?"

["Tch, the flavor was just so-so..."]