Blood Assimilation

Randy could see that his body glowing dark blue color when he absorbed the ability stone.

But instead of feeling uncomfortable like the system stated, he was rather feeling more serene and peaceful as he felt changes occurring to his body, no, perhaps to his entire existence on the fundamental level. 

This feeling was very hard to describe, but if he had to put it into words, then it would be like being showered with a blessing of some kind.

Even though he had never experienced what receiving a blessing would feel like, but that was how he felt at this moment when the warm but soothing currents of energy permeated his whole body.

Although that may be a wrong interpretation, but it does not matter if that was not truly the case since he was not feeling any discomfort at the moment.

At this point, he could feel the warm currents of energy entering something that was not physical or tangible within his body.

And he wondered after a moment of thinking whether this was the soul that the system had mentioned before when it explained how to absorb the crystallized ability stones.

Despite that, he did not indulge in this comfortable feeling for too long since the situation does not demand him to be this carefree.

At this point, he could feel his mind easing up from the strain that he had put it through from constantly using his mental ability earlier.

And so, after realizing something, he decided to try activating his mental ability within this state of clearness to see if he could find out the chimera monster's weakness before this feeling wears off. 

[All Law Seeker], Mental Ability

An invisible and ethereal mental energy ejected from Randy's mind and surrounded himself and the struggling but stationary chimera monster.

And then all of a sudden, the chimera monster's form changed into that of a grey form where all light indicating its weakness should be shown. 

Earlier, when Randy used his mental ability, he was indeed able to see the grey silhouette of the chimera monster, but there were no dot lights to indicate a weakness which was why he had to use his ability constantly during the fight. 

But right now, he could see it.

He could those red dot lights that he could not perceive before and right away, he concentrated his mind to search within all the red dot lights to determine which one would cause significant damage when struck to the other party. 

Randy searched for a few moments, and still could not find any relevant weakness because the other party seemed to have a strong physique that might stem from the fact that it was a chimera monster. 

Another few moments, at this point, the feeling that was within his body was wearing away, and he still could not find any light that could cause his opponent critical damage. 

Randy was feeling frustrated at this time because he was able to finally use his mental ability to find out the chimera monster's weakness while in this unknown state, but it still was not working as he had hoped.

Even though unlike before where his mental ability did not work or discern the weakness of the chimera monster, now it was working properly yet it seems to be fruitless in discovering any critical weakness of the chimera monster.

Very soon, the unknown state that he found himself in before wore off, and the system message announcing the completion of the absorption of the ability stone reflected in his eyes. 

Despite seeing this, Randy ignored it and continued using his mental ability until he was almost drained before he suddenly found something.

Though the size of the red dot light may be small, it was deeper when compared to the other red dot light on the chimera monster's body. 

'Could this be a critical weakness…?' He wondered. 

Even though he was not certain about this discovery, but he had a feeling that this might perhaps be the true weakness of the chimera monster and not those red dot lights that were bigger in size, but lighter in color. 

'This has to be it! Otherwise… No, something tells me that might be its actual weakness. Even if it doesn't work, I can just hit the other weakness on its body and test out my luck with those.'

After scanning for the weakness of this chimera monster for a long while, he had finally succeeded in finding a likely critical weakness and he was willing to bet on it because he does not have much of a choice left even if it turns out to be not its critical weakness afterward.

With that, he concluded and made up his mind to test it out, but before that, he had to check his system notification that he ignored before.

With that thought in mind, he quickly turned his gaze into the void in front of him as he stared at the series of notifications from his system.

[[Ability Stone Absorption Success]]

[[Congratulation to the host for successfully absorbing the ability stone and obtaining a new ability]]

[[Due to the ability stone, the host had now acquired the ability, 'Energy Manifestation' in the form of a skill]]

⟪[[Energy Manifestation]]⟫

⟪[Mastery: 70/100]⟫

⟪[[Type: Ability/Skill]]⟫

⟪[[Description: This ability allows one to manipulate energy on the fundamental level and thus manifest it into various weapons, or items. Depending on the mastery of this ability, one could very easily give special forms like colors or texture to the manifested product. Once the mastery level increases to 100, the ability would then have the chance of evolving. And when that happens, one could manifest physical objects or products by using this ability]]⟫

[[Attention! Due to forcefully absorbing the ability stone without its comprehension beforehand, the grade of the ability has degraded drastically as a result. Futhermore, while you were able to completely obtain the ability contained within the ability stone without the need to worry about incompatibility through this absorption method, the ability obtained itself did not have the trait or capability to evolve as a consequence. If you wish to increase the ability grade to evolve this ability in the future, then you will have to find other means to increase its mastery level other than the now impossible natural means. Though it would be nigh impossible to do so]]

Randy read through all these notifications without any concern on his face.

That was because he was well aware of this since the system had informed him about it before when he first came into contact with the crystallized ability stones.

Regardless of whether he could or could not evolve this ability to the next level does not matter to him right now because, with this ability, he might be able to kill the chimera monster.

That was if what he was thinking right before he had selected the magical energy as the energy source of his new ability was possible.

Without wasting too much time, he activated his newly acquired ability.

The next moment, he was able to successfully activate the ability, so effortlessly that it felt like had this ability since birth.

[[Energy Manifestation Skill Activated]]

At this moment, Randy was now holding a knife shape energy in his grasp and after observing its details for a while, he turn the  knife shape energy back into cluster of magical energy.

And afterward, he absorbs the energy back into his body through his palm.

'This is quite a useful ability; I don't have to worry about depleting my energy as long I absorb it back into my body afterward. However, it seems like if the energy weapon breaks upon impact, it would dissipate instead, and I won't be able to absorb it back into my body…'

'...Wait a minute, how do I know this? Is this the effect from absorbing the ability stone? Did I also naturally obtain the method to use it after absorption? If that is the case, then this is good.'

'I was worried about how to use it since the system mentioned something about understanding the ability's nature if I had used the second method of absorption. But it seems this method is not too bad. I wonder what it would be like to use the second method if this method is already so good.'

Randy silently thought these to himself and then he quickly took out all the knives and weapons that he brought with him on the trip.

He then placed them on the ground while holding onto a single rugged military knife with his left hand.

At this moment, he was thinking of experimenting with something that he thought of before absorbing the ability stone. But before that, there was one other thing that he had to confirm first.

With that thought in mind, he immediately lifted his right arm that was not holding anything.

And almost right away, he had manifested a formless cluster of magical energy in his palm.

And then afterward, the cluster of magical energy in his palm started exuding cold energy, the cold cluster of magical energy then turned into cube-shaped ice shortly after.

"Ah! It's so cold just like I thought..."

Randy tried holding onto the manifested ice cube in his hand, but it was too cold, so he threw it away instead.

'It seems like it was a success!' He silently thought in delight.

'Now to test it on the military knife...'

While thinking this, he lifted his left hand that was holding onto the military knife, and right away, he manifested a cluster of magical energy around the knife's body, forming a sort of a second layer of the knife's blade.

And just like before, after manifesting the cluster of magical energy and forming it into a shape, he then turn the manifested but shaped magical energy's nature into cold energy, followed by turning the shaped cold magical energy into ice afterward.