Toys
When Iziul and her children found a rather safe place to stay for the night, Iziul discovered something special about their body.
Similar to video games, Geno Points works as a stamina bar that allows them to stay up all day. With a rate of one Geno Point per five hours, Iziul and her sons had already consumed 5-6 Geno Points from the moment Iziul arrived in this dungeon.
Taking note of this, Iziul talked to her children about this issue and decided to leave 25 Geno Points all the time just in case they something happens.
Since geno points are the energy that they consume, she wouldn't want to waste them and take risk.
Moving on to the next issue, Iziul discovered that their bodies would glow a faint blue hue during the night and so travelling in the dark would be looking for death.
Staying inside the tree hole, Iziul had Curro block the entrance with twigs as they started digesting the Green wasp they had encountered.
Taking a limb, Iziul swallowed it through her skin cells as she digested it shortly after.
"Tastes like chicken... weird..." Iziul muttured to herself as the trio looked at her curiously. She was also confused as to how her taste buds work even after eating the limb through her skin cells.
"How was it mum?" Acer asked as Iziul heard a notification ringtone.
"Hold on..." Iziul waved her hands.
'Oh right, I haven't checked the notification since I killed the wasp before.' Iziul thought and willed the system as rows of holographic panels appeared in front of her.
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[4 Geno Points Acquired]
[5 Geno Points was deducted]
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[Skill Acquired]
[Cell Division] (0/20 Geno Points]
- An Active Skill
- Allows you to divide your own cells and rip off a certain amount of Geno Points. This skill will allow the you to share Geno Points among your kind or create someting out of it.
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[Skill Acquired]
[Blade Creation (0/20 Geno Points]
- An Active Skill
- Allows you to reform the cell structure of your cells into somethimg similar to a sharp blades.
Durability: 5
Strength: +3
Geno Points: -5
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[Skill Acquired]
[Mono Chromatic Senses] (0/20 Geno Points]
- An Active Skill
- A hyper-drive mode of your senses where everything around you turns grayscale as you receive the following bonus and debuff:
Speed: +10
Strength: +5
Defense: -2
Skill Duration: 2 seconds
Skill Activation: 2% chance at random
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"Oh... quite a few skills noh? Might as well teach them how I learned these skills." Iziul muttered then looked at her children and said.
"Just one limb gave me four Geno Points. You should all try it. It's better than eating soil and leaves."
"Really?? That's greattttt Lemme eattt youuu!!!" Curro excitedly said then was about to launched itself towards the Green Wasp when Acer stopped him and said,
"We need to divide the body first. There are four of us here, don't be insensitive."
"Ah... Eh... ow... Sorry." Curro lowered his head and felt sorry.
"Aww, that's okay sweetie." Iziul said and patted his head. She then turned to look at Edur who was silently looking at them.
Seeing Iziul looking at a certain direction, both Curro and Acer turned to look as well.
Feeling their gazes, Edur shuddered and panicked slightly, "W-What's t-the m-matter, m-mum..."
"Oh nothing, just checking on yah. You're so quiet while standing there, perhaps you have something to share to the group?" Iziul asked as Curro and Acer nodded their heads.
"Uhmm... ummm... Well... I-I..." Edur stuttered and mumbled.
"Don't be shy... how about this, Mum and your brothers wouldn't judge you whatever your opinion is." Iziul said as Edur tapped the tip of his index fingers.
'Cute.' Iziul thought to herself and smiled inwardly.
"Okay, why not start with, 'I think that...' then you finish the sentence." Iziul suggested as both Curro and Acer nodded their heads again.
"Uhmm... I-I think that.. y-you should be t-the one who divide the... b-body parts...m-mum..." Edur shyly replied.
"Very good! That's a good improvement in the social department, and yes. I'll be the one dividing the body to not cause any discord between you two. Is that okay?" Iziul said and looked at Acer and Curro who nodded back.
"Very well..." Closing her eyes, Iziul imagined a figure of the Green wasp inside her head, Iziul started to slice the parts evenly. Without her knowing, a part of her cells grew and ripped off from her skin as it levitated and formed into the figure of the Green wasp that was evenly divided.
"M-Mum... what's happening to you...." Curro widened his eyes while looking at the floating bit cells in a shape of butchered wasp. Not only him, both Acer and Edur watched the spectacle that was happening in front of them.
Opening her eyes, Iziul found out that it was her controlling the cell figures through her mind. Imagining a sphere, the butchered shape of the wasp turned into a sphere and imagining a rhombicosidodecahedron, a rhombicosidodecahedron appeared.
Iziul smiled softly, amused. However, she shook her head afterwards then reverted the shape back to a butchered wasp.
"Here, Acer, I want you to chop the wasp based on this model." Iziul said as Acer looked at Iziul confused.
"With my horns mum?" Acer asked.
"No silly... With this." Iziul giggled and crafted a blade as Acer gasped in excitement.
"This is..." He muttered slowly while suppressing his excitement. He suddenly felt a weird connection with the item, as if a certain memory he inherited from his mother was awakened.
"This is called a blade. It doesn't have a handle... wait lemme add it." Iziul said then took more cells from her body that was wrapped around one tip of the blade and formed into a handle. "This is... A sword, it might look crude by now but when we can master the skill, we can create better models in the future." Iziul added as she passed the sword towards Acer.
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[Crude Sword]
Durability: 5
Strength: +3
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"We?" Acer asked as Iziul nodded her head.
"Yup, lad. You'll starting practicing on how to create stuffs like this.
Facing her children, Iziul started discussing about the notifications she received and told them how she got those skills and how it felt attaining them.
Nodding their heads, the trio started to imagine. Seeing them spacing out, Iziul giggle then decided to 'summon' a Shield, a lasso, daggers and all the weapons she can think of.
She tried to create a gun, but remembering how intricate the designs are, she could only conjure the shape of the gun instead a working gun.
When the trio saw this, they were mesmerized and shuddered a bit as if something clicked within their heads.
Picking up the weapons, the trio started to analyze them in a closer inspection.
Surprisingly, Acer took most of the Swords, as Edur took the shield and a hammer. As for curro, he was fascinated by the small daggers and the lasso and end up holding and inspecting them.
Acer suddenly stood up and took a broadsword, it wasn't too big but the sword the the biggest of the weapons Iziul can conjure. As for the spare weapons, Iziul absorbed them back again as those stuffs were still Geno Points.
Slash!
Acer cut the wasp into pieces. As if excitement filled his body, he kept on slashing downwards, chopping the wasp into four parts.
Smilimg softly, Iziul tried to summon the weapons back to her. The weapons rattled a bit then flew towards Iziul and merged back to her body once again.
The trio suddenly felt saddened, even Curro started to show some signs of throwing a tantrum.
"What?" Iziul asked in an amused tone.
"T-Toys..." It was Edur that spoke which surprised Iziul.
Chuckling at their cuteness, Iziul summoned them in miniature versions before passing them to the trio.
"I already taught you guys how I made them, to to copy the technique and start recreating them." The trio couldn't help but only nod in response.
'Alas, if I'm not saving Geno Points, I would've given them those weapons.' Iziul thought.
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The wasp was consumed as Iziul and her children were able to get at least 20 Geno Points per parts. After digesting everything, Iziul started to analyze her skills once more and planned ahead. Meanwhile, the trio were busy inspecting the miniature versions of the weapons as they started to follow the techniques Iziul taught to them.
'How should I do this. Uhmm...'
"Status?" Soon, rows of data flashed in front of her.