Chapter 20: Undead Evolutions

"Master! I am finally ready to evolve!"

Kabuto suddenly emerged out of the shadow of a tree and shouted so with eyes brimming with glee.

"I see, how about your seniors?"

Kabuto suddenly looked in a certain direction and pointed his index fingers while jumping around like a toddler in a playground.

"There they are! They too are already illegible for evolution!"

... So he is so excited he became a child? And it seems like the gap between Kabuto and my first two subordinates is already bridged huh? That or he is just really too ecstatic about his evolution that he forgot about seniority, anyway as I was thinking of such things, Lyra's voice suddenly was heard in my head.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Now your wish for me to evolve will finally come true, if you want to praise now is the time to do so!"

Philo did not say anything but is hopping like a bunny right now, and should I say that his hops will put His Royal Airness to shame? He can go past the whole height of a tree you see.

Anyway, [Guide] aren't they too energetic? Will they finally gain their sentience?

[Scanning Undead Subordinate Philo...

Affirmative, the Next evolution will unlock his conscious self.

Scanning Undead Subordinate Lyra...

Affirmative, Next Evolution will unlock her conscious self.]

And Kabuto already has his consciousness, I cannot help but smile from ear to ear, finally, my journey will not be boring anymore... I promise that I will not let them come into harm.

At that moment, I still did not realize the flaw of my mindset that I thought to ever be so perfect, and I will learn that the hard way.

"I will praise you after your evolution, now stop bouncing around because you will hit yours-"

As I was warning them to stop being so giddy because a tranquilizer-like phenomenon will go through their whole body any moment now, it was already too late, they suddenly got struck with an irresistible sleepiness that made their heads dive first when Kabuto and Philo suddenly fell asleep in mid-air.

Lyra is no different as she slumped face first into the ground, suddenly, as if on cue, all of them suddenly encased with a white-colored cocoon that came creeping into their body, the cocoons are similar to each other, white with black matter hovering over half of its surface, making it putrid somehow.

So I just waited for them to come out of their shells as I asked [Guide].

When I learned that I got encased with a cocoon, it made me wonder, are humans aside from me evolving like this too? Or am I a special case?

[Master, though humans did not evolve ever since they are created, it is said that they glow so bright that the whole world will know of their evolution without even a world notification to notify every single one of the world's population.]

I see... Then why am I evolving like a monster then?

[Master, you are the daughter of a god, and your father employed a special evolution tree for you to have a hastened growth.

Humans are not supposed  to evolve until they became a hero and became the pinnacle of humanity.]

I was conversing with [Guide] as such and suddenly some cracks resounded silently in my front as I saw Philo with... Uhmm... Arms?

My bunny emerged not looking like a bunny at all, he became as tall as me with arms in front of his supposed-to-be front legs whilst also having one, though a little smaller in his back part, he also gained fangs protruding out of his mouth, the only feature that makes me certain that he's bunny is the pair of ears in top of his head.

His body became muscular and he suddenly looked at me and bowed a little and once again looked up high like a proud beast.

Notice [Your White Giant Bunny (Undead) Evolved into Low Half-Nian Giant Bunny (Undead).]

Huh... But isn't the race of a monster supposed to only change when they reached the peak of their species?

[Master, A Common Bunny is the weakest of the whole forest, thus A White Giant Bunny is already at the peak of their evolution. Even so, it is rare for such a creature to ever evolve

Undead Philo can be considered as some sort of Anomaly.]

Huh... I see, so that's how it is, but still, I named him after the Greek word for love but now he looks like someone you won't love at first sight. Well, he is still my bunny so I do not mind his new appearance.

Anyway, here are his stats.

Name: PhiloHP: 117Race: Low Half-Nian Giant Bunny (Undead)Mana: 20Stamina: Unlimited[Level: 1/20EXP:  0/1200Stats:

STR:  29

INT: 7

VIT: 27

AGI: 20

DEX: 11

LUK:2]

Well, even though I have guessed as much when looking at his stats, this is what I can't understand.

Look at all of his skills, there is finally a unique skill it is:

[Adaptation]: Ability: Continuous, Ultra Regeneration

Ability Description:

Continuous: Lets the user continue fighting even with missing limbs or organs, unless the individual is disintegrated atomically, he will continue to fight.

Ultra Regeneration: No matter how grave the user's injury is, no matter what missing part of the user's body is. As long as there is a single finger left by the user, will regenerate and will keep the user alive.

Of course, that's only normal right, and oh, there is also a new common skill.

[Strong Bite]: Uses the strong fangs of the user to bite off the enemy, enemies with lower VIT than the user will have a 100% chance of having Mangled debuff.

Right? Of course, having two new skills is just normal right? After all, I also got a new one the [Low Regeneration] stuff, what I can't understand is this:

[Ram]: Uses the user's Thick Skull to Ram the enemy, 5% chance of Drowsy Debuff inflicting the enemy.

[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already in its final form, it cannot further be evolved.

[Ram] came from the [Headbutt] Skill, and [Sprint] came from [Dash].

Question is, why is it that all of his skills evolved while mine only had three?

[Master, you already have 14 skills right now and the system only allows 3 random skills to evolve while Undead Philo previously only has two skills, thus all of them evolved.

But of course, that is not always the case, sometimes, based on utility, a skill will just be added to the arsenal and will not evolve anything or evolve everything but not give any additional skills. But the latter is in very rare occasions only.]

Thank you for the information that I did not ask but that's just unreasonable! All of my skills of mine are hard-earned from my blood and sweat!

[Blood and Sweat? Do you mean by your ridiculous brain who can learn anything as long as someone showed you its theory or you understood it yourself?

You are the one being unreasonable here.]

"Shyat nya pak off!"

Uwaah! Where did that come from!? It couldn't be...

"Master, that was such a cute voice."

"I am nyat Cute!"

I tried to retort to restore my dignity, but I shattered it further instead.

[It is cute.]

Shut up! I won't talk with my mouth again okay!? Until I get to be a teen, I'm telling you two!

"But I am just alone, Master?"

I flinched a little, right, I forgot that he doesn't know my skills, that's kind of unfair but that's one of the "Master's Perks" so not like I have any intention of telling him anyhow.

So forcefully forgetting the Cute Voice Incident (Even Though I know I can't), I look towards the cocoon of Lyra.

The cocoon broke like how Philo's cocoon did, but the one who appeared still looks like Lyra, but her belly became flat, her waist gained a little curve and a little bump is now visible in her chest area that is covered by a loincloth, her hair that is short like a male when I saw her first has now become neck-length whilst her ears became a little bit pointed peaking out of her hair, lastly, her first dead-fish eyes became a sharp looking pair of eyes, flaring with confidence as she inspected her new self and so did I.

I can sense the change in her expression as she looked at Philo and looked at herself, it seems like she realized that she doesn't have any Unique Skills but Philo got one.

"Eh... Wha..." Her feminine voice is filled with shock and a tinge of despair came out of her lips as I look at the description of her skills.

Notice [Your  Mid-Goblin (Undead) Evolved into High-Goblin (Undead).]

All of them evolved, and for me, that's impressive, but for her it is unfair.

[Archer ]: The Individual is now an expert in the way of bow and arrow. +10% of the total DEX as damage.

[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already in its final form, it cannot further be evolved.

[Range]: Anything that is thrown or shot by the user will hit its target without fail in a 50-meter radius.

All of those three original skills of hers have evolved, and it seems like the, [Sprint] skill is already in its final form. Of course, there are new skills too, yeah "are" because Siri gave her two new skills.

One is passive.

[Homing]: Let the projectile of the user lock on a target and hunt the target until either the projectile gets destroyed or the target is hit.

And the other is a magic skill.

[Crooked  Curse Magic]: Let an individual enchant a weapon with a random curse. 2 mana per usage.

Why is the Magic Skill name hers decent while mine are...

Well that's beyond the point, anyway, here are her new overall stats.

[Name: LyraHP: 57Race: High-Goblin (Undead)   Mana: 27Stamina: Unlimited[Level: 1/20EXP:  0/1100Stats:

STR:  11

INT: 13

VIT: 6

AGI: 25

DEX: 27

LUK:1]

Even though she's my archer, she has lower stats in her DEX than me huh? Well, it is understandable, after all, I had a workout before setting on a journey.

I am staring at Lyra with knitted brows as she misunderstood it as a look of disappointment.

"Ah... No... The... Ahhh...."

She started to have tears dripping from her green-colored eyes as I stared at her tall figure, taller than me actually who is crying because she thought I'll abandon her. After all, she doesn't have any Unique Skills.

[In short, you made her cry.]

I did not okay!? You're becoming disrespectful these days.

[Master, it is just your imagination.]

I ignored [Guide] and then hugged Lyra, ah... even though she's a goblin she has such a soft body and her skin is silky too.

I patted her back whilst saying, in my cute voice because that would surely cheer her up.

"Don't cwy otay? I won't weave you just because of unique skills."(Author: That's my best attempt at a cute dialogue, any more and I'll die of cringe.)

She kept crying for a while and finally answered.

"R-really?"

I nodded whilst replying.

"Mhm, Reawy."

As we are having a such cute scene, the last cocoon was shattered and Kabuto who also had his fat belly disappears but doesn't have any noticeable changes, who would have thought that the earliest person to reach the level cap have the most boring evolution, even his skills did not evolve whatsoever and a new skill just got a new one out of utility.

[Stealth]: Lets the user muffle the sound of its steps and breathing, making it easier to sneak without being noticed

This skill is effective with [Shadow Step] for extra concealment ability but the true utility of this skill is when the night came and there are no shadows, because, [Shadow Step] utilizes shadows and not the darkness of the shadow itself. But I think the skill is obtained when they are grinding because he has a new unique skill.

[Direct Communication] Abilities: Bypass, Continental Range.

Bypass: Bypasses any kind of detection ability.

Continental Range: The Genesis continent is the limit of this skill.

No, I retract my previous statement because he just became a walking communication device, with this a spy network for the whole continent will be something not so hard to obtain, hell it can be obtained for a week if you combined my genius and his ability. But for now, he will be the communication catalyst between the points I will be getting in the future.

Notice [Your  Goblin Scout (Undead) Evolved into Mid-Goblin Scout (Undead).]

[Name: KabutoHP: 45Race: Mid-Goblin Scout (Undead)Mana: 20Stamina: UnlimitedLevel: 1EXP:  0/1200Stats:

STR:  22

INT: 9

VIT: 11

AGI: 26

DEX: 26

LUK:1]

"Master, I have Evolved."

I just nodded and directed a mind message.

"I am impressed."

[3rd Person POV]

Meanwhile, in the second layer, a place in which the volcano of the Five-Pronged forest resides alongside monsters of the fire and earth attribute. A wolf rejoiced swiftly running through the vast forest as if the obstacles of trees and bushes with occasional monsters did not exist.

Soon enough, he howled loudly as he stopped momentarily, the wolf then continued running as several howls were heard, because of the distance between the part of the forest wherein the wolf resides and the first layer in which Sophia is residing, no howls were heard by her or any of her subordinates.

The wolf then, while running said in his mind in a ravenous and mad manner

"FINALLY! THOSE UNDEADS STOPPED BEING ARROGANT!"