Black Spider's return to Juberly Hub was scheduled, but on the other side, Ringo managed to save another scroll with Austin's help, who simply teleported them back with a spell.
A Grade S mage could cross a huge distance without spending a penny. Ringo understood more and more why Han Xiao was so envious of these guys. Ringo even felt like changing classes, but thinking that he wouldn't grow so fast without his Esper power, he shook his head in denial.
Back on the Floating Dragon, Ringo left the clone in Kandor to help Eva with her armor and the purifying flames, and also to hand her the sword, if he went alone, the woman would probably drag him back to bed.
Ringo had something else in mind, something he had wanted for a long time and had finally achieved.
The Mutation Source.
This time, without the parasite problem on his mind and with the bow completed, Ringo finally had time to concentrate on it.
his goal? To use the evolutionary polymer to fuse the Mutation Source directly into their body.
It's not that Ringo didn't want to absorb powerful races out there, but he had already done that before, absorbing genetic serums from various races. Doing so was indeed useful for gaining new abilities and improving his strength, but it also brought him closer to his genetic limit.
Currently, few breeds actually had genes that interested him, the Mutation Source was one of them.
More specifically, absorbing damage to transform it into energy and converting energy into life, in the original novel, Han Xiao became known as an unkillable tank precisely because of these two abilities.
Ringo wanted to reach the same point.
As soon as he isolated himself in a training room and opened the container holding the Mutation Source, that gelatinous black liquid began to move slightly, slowly awakening, ready to fulfill its function.
Absorb energy, control the planet's fauna, and acquire a compatible host until all life on the planet becomes 'part of it', More precisely, its eyes and ears.
Unfortunately for this Mutation Source, it is still only in the larval stage, this thing was a dangerous biological weapon, and although Ames was nearby, Ringo wouldn't let it get so far as to hide inside the Floating Dragon.
While he kept a piece of it for Emma to study, or in case he needed to use it to create a group of subordinates as difficult to kill as cockroaches, the rest he absorbed directly, using the evolutionary polymer.
While consciousness of this entity was still in its early stages, not even possessing a concept of "self". Ringo absorbed its spirit with ease, and its body merged with his quickly.
The process didn't involve any pain, Ringo started working on what he wanted to keep. He didn't want to become space jelly, so the first thing he discarded was its form. It took several minutes to complete, but when it was all over, Ringo was smiling with satisfaction.
He transformed his finger into a claw and lightly cut his own arm.
The moment the wound began to bleed, Ringo felt most of the kinetic energy from the cut transforming into his own energy. He used this energy to force his body to heal. The wound closed quickly, the blood itself seemed conscious, flowing straight back inside before the wound closed.
Han Xiao couldn't utilize 100% of the Mutation Source's power because his life form was too different, he could only heal himself, but the lost blood would be wasted.
Ringo, on the other hand, could utilize 100%. Aside from the synergy with his other abilities, such as the C-31 gene, his cells were alive and could now transform physical damage into Super energy in real time.
Ringo took a deep breath, with this, he would no longer have problems with energy, no longer have problems with healing, as long as it wasn't a spiritual attack and he healed faster than he suffered damage, he couldn't die!
Even if it were a spiritual attack, he's still a nightmare, most of the spiritual damage would be negated, and the rest would be resisted. He was increasingly becoming a space cockroach.
Of course, that wasn't all, the power of the Mutation Source wasn't limited to healing itself. No, that was just the part that made it so difficult to deal with.
The true power of this thing is its ability to control microorganisms. In the future, Godora and the affected planets will treat this thing as a virus, but that is the real mistake this biological weapon forces civilizations to make.
The Mutation Source actually controls the microorganisms in our body, thus controlling our basic desires. It secretes dozens of times the normal amount of enzymes to give the brain an intense stimulus.
It has no relation to our thoughts and is not capable of controlling our thoughts. However, it can influence us on a biological level, using the desire to destroy, sexual desire, hunger, suffering, and many other emotions to direct our thoughts and cause a huge change in personality.
You might even end up thinking that these thoughts belong to you, because you are still your normal self during the virus outbreak.
The reason the virus cannot be detected by the infected individual is because the virus does not exist! The so-called 'viruses' are microorganisms necessary for someone's survival!
With the main body as its core, the Mutation Source's consciousness will be able to cover a large region. Within this region, it is capable of detecting any form of life and controlling its microorganisms. It's like a wide variety of sentient abilities.
In addition to living beings on land, even living beings in the ocean will be controlled by the Mutation Source. Furthermore, Supers are resistant to its control and will not be easily affected. However, their range and strength of control will increase as the Mutation Source grows.
However, with Ringo as a base, being a nightmare, this ability became even more powerful. Opening his evolutionary field already granted him potent control over others, but it failed to be truly useful in a real Grade A fight. But now, if he opens his evolutionary field and adds control over microorganisms...
Even a top-tier Grade A Super will suffer greatly from this power, altering someone's mindset to make them irritable is extremely detrimental during a fight. At that moment, they can only act like raging bulls while Ringo remains calm.
As for anyone below Grade A, the moment they entered Ringo's control perimeter, he could make enemies fight each other directly, he had become an even more terrifying biological weapon than the Mutation Source.
At least Mutation Source had a genetic limit, Ringo had none of that.
At this point, his defense improved, his senses improved, and even his field control reached a new level.
However, what Ringo was really thinking at that moment was that his training with Ames would reach a rapid breakthrough point!
He always needed to expend a lot of energy fighting Ames, but now? As long as his mind could endure, he could be a perpetual training machine! A new golden age for Ringo had arrived!
In a distant room, Ames suddenly shuddered, sensing a "disturbance in the force".