CHAPTER 40: TYPE: SYMBIOSIS (PART 3)

Anna had achieved everything the system had asked of her... Her position within the Jyera Space Station was very high, and people didn’t ask questions even when she asked for something a bit unusual, like vaccine samples for the Chronos environment, or animals and guinea pigs for testing...

This resulted in her completing all the system’s missions in less than 1 day.

Still looking at the screen of completed missions and all the rewards she had earned, Anna spent the next few days testing them all...

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Crystal Extraction... This skill always said that there were no corpses in range. And when I got my hands on some corpses, the message responded that there were no crystals on the corpse... It was obvious that something like this would happen, but I still needed to test it just to collect more data...

Another interesting detail was the colonizer AI that I let the system absorb... It had been transformed and improved, and was now active within the system. Before, it could only perform certain tasks when under orders from the Council. But now the system had erased the Council’s name and placed mine at the top... So it was the key to me completing the system’s Main Mission...

Back on the subject of crystals, I consumed a new one that I had received, it said it was a level 2 crystal, in the system, my mutant level rose along with the level of the new crystal... And after that, I became even more powerful, my body had reached inhuman levels, even after running for 2 hours at the highest speed on the treadmill, I still hadn’t gotten tired or even sweated. The new lab and DNA tests showed that I had changed even more. My new immune system was even stronger, and the percentage of my human DNA had decreased even further...

After becoming a level 2 mutant, the symbiosis ability also rose from level 0 to level 1.

At level 0, the description of this ability said that I was able to adapt and transform by absorbing traits from animals from Jyera.

But now, at level 1, there was an upgrade saying that I was able to adapt and transform by absorbing traces of animals contaminated by the ZY pathogen.

The change was simple, but again, I didn’t have any of those contaminated animals, so my tests began on Jyera animals that were in the colony ship’s biome...

The reason I hadn’t tested this skill before getting an advancement to level 2 was because of the strange message the system sent.

[Warning: Using the Symbiosis skill will cause the user to permanently lose access to their Universal Force when they become a level 3 mutant.]

Do you want to proceed: (YES) (NO)

I didn’t want to lose something I didn’t have yet, or didn’t know how important it was, the name "Universal Force" made it sound like something very powerful... But I would only find out when I was level 3... I was now far from getting my hands on the so-called level 3 crystal. And there was something very important here, the "Type" of my system was the same name as this skill...

"YES!"

The first animal I used the skill on was a rabbit. All I had to do was touch it, and right after that, I felt my vision change, my teeth changed size, and my hands started to grow white fur... At the same time, the rabbit started to disappear, being completely assimilated... Despair took over me. Was I going to turn into a giant rabbit? But when I felt fear and wanted to be human, the entire transformation stopped.

[Absorbed symbiotic data from Dwarf Rabbit Hotot!]

[Do you want to use symbiosis to create a new level 1 symbiotic race? Or do you want to continue absorbing more symbiotic data?]

Anna’s thoughts flew at high speed, she also took the opportunity to see the camera in her laboratory that was now under the control of her new AI, and watched her transformation again...

She then chose to continue absorbing more animals until there were none left inside the room...

"Ding Dong"

Anna went to the door and saw one of the assistants who brought the many items she had recently requested...

"Miss Anna, the Council sent a message and is asking you to join them by tomorrow on the mothership; it seems to be something important..."

"I can’t go, I’m very busy this week, besides, I will need to continue collecting samples of all the animals on the colonization ship No. 22, ask everyone to empty it in the next 3 days, and today I want all the laboratories in the biome area completely closed for my exclusive use..."

The assistant already knowing Anna and her habits, quickly sent a reply back to the Mothership, and began issuing her orders to the Ship No. 22, and despite taking at least 200 workers and astronauts from their posts, no one dared to question her since the order came from the greatest scientist of the human race... They probably deduced that she was working on something for someone and needed space and privacy...

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Three days later, Anna had completed the collection of symbiosis data from all the animals in the biome of ship No. 22, and now she finally understood how her ability worked... But she still postponed the fusion and creation of the so-called Symbiotic Race.

In addition, as two more days passed, Anna received the news that all the animals in all the biomes of the colonizing ships had died from a mysterious disease. Anna completely isolated the biome area of her ship, initially ignoring the incineration protocol sent by the Council, and began the hijacking of the system of ship No. 22.

[Hijacking of Colony Ship #22 initiated!]

[Establishing escape trajectories...]

Escape Trajectory 1: Solar Orbit

Escape Trajectory 2: Marana Abyss

Anna looked at the two options and read the pros and cons. Sol Orbit would use its powerful radiation to protect the ship’s systems from the initial anti-technology pulse of the apocalypse, but she would have to remain in orbit for 1 month before being able to cross the atmosphere of Jyera or Jyor and enter the planets...

If she chose Marana Abyss, the deepest part of Jyera’s oceans, the ship would be protected from the pulse due to its greater proximity to Jyera’s core. But she would be stuck on Jyera for the next 30 days before the ship could cross the atmosphere again...

She now knew what she needed to do:

"Begin course for the Marana Abyss! Also, initiate the incinerator protocol in the biome area!"

[On course... Fasten your seatbelts, we are entering Jyera’s atmosphere...]

{Colonizer Ship No. 22. This is General Yang, leader of the Colonizer Fleet. You are leaving the ship formation without authorization!}

{Colonizer Ship No. 22. You are violating the laws of the Jyera and Jyor Galactic Treaty, your ship has been marked as a stolen ship and—}

Anna turned off the communications; she didn’t need someone reminding her of the crimes she was committing, but she hoped that she would be helping, so she could save at least one of these ships...

[Entering the atmosphere of Jyera...]

[Main Mission Completed!]

[Obtained new Contagion system skill!]

[New items for sale in the Symbiosis Shop!]

[Wait for the apocalypse to begin to obtain new missions...]

Anna’s eyes lit up at the last notification. Last time she completed all the missions very easily, so she didn’t feel very satisfied...

In addition, the shop that previously had nothing for sale, both on level 1 and level 2. Now, only have a single item in each level...