Chapter 68 - A new look

*Ding!*

With the arrival of the familiar ringing of the bell in his mind, the dark, transparent screen appeared in front of Lucien at the same time. The blood-dripping nightmarish font slowly, but steadily continued to be drawn in the holographic board, forming a series of messages after only a few passing instants.

[…::: Homo Sapiens (Lvl 1 - Category: Mammals) mass has been found! :::…]

[…::: Absorbing essence… :::…]

As if upon command, it was at this time, that the limp body of the deceased leader of the so-called 'Hudson Reavers' began to violently convulse and drop the defining traits of his physique in an instant, reforming itself into a mass of dark, globoid shape of a fluid. 

From flesh, bones, and organic matter it was now a floating viscous ball of life essence, swirling around the three distinct ebony tendrils that shot out from the center of Lucien's right palm.