The Legendary Mechanic: Triple Six Chapter 18 18: Evolution

Two pieces of news for my lovely readers, one good and one bad, lol.

First, the good news, is that until tomorrow I'll be releasing 4 chapters, bringing the total to 20 chapters for this story.

The second, the bad news, is that starting next week, the webnovel chapters will be reduced to 2 per week, while the Patreon release will remain at 5 per week.

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Over the next month, Ringo repeated the process of sinking deeper and deeper into the lava, with the temperature and pressure increasing, but he barely noticed. He continued to evolve while doing so, but his cells were finally saturated. He felt he could have advanced much earlier, but when his cells were saturated, he felt it would be more beneficial for him. It was a strange, instinctive feeling, but he believed it.

Now thousands of kiloters underground, with pressure and heat that would crush any human, his naked body remained motionless, only the movent of the lava seed to move him.

Suddenly, his eyes opened. Even in the hot lava, they were unaffected in the slightest, but at that mont, his eyes seed to emit a brighter light than the lava around him.

-"Finally, my body can't take any more energy." - He ntally sighed.

With his energy saturated, he didn't even choose to leave. Releasing the restraint, he let the energetic current flow through him. In the next mont, all that stored energy was devoured by his own cells. The cells that seed ten tis their normal size were shrinking rapidly, but they didn't beco weaker, but stronger, all that energy being refined.

It was at that point that he sensed sothing, while a vague sensation left him dubious, he felt a pull and quickly used his energy to connect with it.

The next mont, he found himself floating in an infinite void. Around him were countless sources of light. They emitted light of different colors, different sensations, even different emotions, each one seed unique.

So were lit, so were dim, so seed free, and others were connected to others by threads of energy.

While he was confused, his own gene was not, urging him to hurry. He did so. Using his consciousness, he tried to touch those stars. That's when he understood. As soon as he touched one, he seed to gain information about it.

Demon race, black fire demon, good at destruction and able to conjure black fire with spiritual damage...

He looked around with understanding. This seed to be the evolutionary source. Endless races were there, and... he seed to have a choice!

It wasn't like Han Xiao. He wasn't given random options, far from it. He was directly given the entire grid available to him. In this place of high evolutionary information, any creature with an evolutionary percentage above 0 was there, available to him.

Looking around, he tried to touch more stars, his gene urging him to hurry. He didn't have much ti.

His consciousness advanced steadily through this space, spreading like a shapeless do. Each ti he touched a star, he sensed its general information, information hidden in high-dinsional forms, 10... 20... 100... 1,000... 100,000...

He continued searching. He had a sense of what he wanted. He preferred survival to improving damage. Of course, damage was important, but his survival was more important. So he knew he could beco stronger by strengthening his body. But even if he improved his spirit, he couldn't attack with it, just as a chanic, even with millions of bullets, without a gun, would be useless.

Therefore, he wanted a race that would cover his weaknesses, preferably spiritual!

He began using selection criteria.

The race should focus on the spiritual attribute.

The race should have a powerful final evolution.

The race should have a useful initial evolution.

The weirder and harder to stop, the better!

After he divided all this, he began looking for options. Even the Void Race was there, but he ignored it because there were better spiritual options, and the Void Creatures weren't focused on the spiritual aspect.

He could feel his ti was running out, he only had a few minutes before evolution beca random.

So, after mulling it over at high speed, he finally decided. He chose the Nightmare Race. It's an extrely spiritually focused race. From what he saw of the options, they are extrely powerful. Even though he can't yet see the higher levels, he can see that there are many later evolutions for this race.

He quickly began choosing, ignoring the lowest-ranking ones like Nightmare Spirit and Nightmare Embryo, also passing through the interdiate ones like Nightmare Hunter and Nightmare Instigator. He finally focused on an evolution from the Nightmare Spirit line, the Nightmare Devouring Spirit.

Even with a near-zero compatibility rating due to choosing a different interdiate race, not a starter, he still chose. Confident in his own evolutionary power, he managed to directly pass the Nightmare Spirit and the Nightmare Wandering Spirit to the Nightmare Devouring Spirit.

He couldn't see the exact abilities, only a general context of Nightmare power with spiritual focus, but from the na and energy level, this seed like the best option.

But it was only after choosing that Ringo rembered a problem.

He ended up so focused on choosing a good race that he forgot that racial evolution has many different forms, energy beings, spiritual beings, high-dinsional beings, hybrid beings, bestial beings, mutant beings...

There was no description of this, after all, this isn't a system. His ability only helped him choose an evolutionary line from millions of possibilities. Having the species na and so information was already a very good thing.

Perhaps there would even be more information in the future, but with his current energy level, all he could "see" was this.

It was at this point that he knew he'd screwed up, because his body began to break down. It seed he'd chosen an energy being!

The pain was intense, but he ignored it as he turned off his sense of pain and focused on using his energy to try to change his transformation. At the very least, he didn't want to be an energy being! Unfortunately, only his physical pain could be denied, the pain in his soul was anything but light.

So he used everything he could to force his permanent evolution with evolutionary energy.

Under normal circumstances, his energy level would never have allowed him to transform an energy being into a physical being so quickly during the short period of ti evolution had given him, it would have taken much more ti and energy. But this was no normal situation.

His DNA was changing at an absurd rate. During this period of genetic enhancent, a super's body beca extrely volatile, very different from a normal one, where it seed to be trying to reforge steel, now it seed to be shaping clay.

A normal super, no matter how good, couldn't reshape clay because he didn't have the necessary tools. But he did. His skill made him like a sculptor with the knowledge and tools to sculpt whatever he desired.

Then his body, which was separating into luminous purple particles, stopped and reford again. Instead, his flesh seed to be constantly phasing, shifting between reality and illusion.

His illusory form had purplish skin with a soft glow, as if his own skin were a representation of the star-filled night sky, completely black eyes, and light lilac hair.

He managed to mitigate so of the pain by removing it from his body, but the pain in his soul wasn't easy to remove, it hurt even more. Every microscopic part of his soul acted like a nerve receptor; he had millions of tis the receptors he had in his human form. He could only grit his teeth as he was being transford from the inside out.

It took several long minutes before his energy finally cald down.

Still naked in the hot lava, his hair, which had adapted to the temperature, floated ethereally. Even in his illusory form, he felt his body.

His strength had grown greatly, he was still at the sa rank, but if before he could run over a Tank, now he could run over ten in a row!

Sighing lightly and feeling this new form, he seed to understand sothing as his body returned to human form, then returned to ethereal form.

He gained much more information now, his Esper power could "read" information about his own species much more easily than when he was in that void.

The information said that nightmare beings are likely almost always spiritual creatures. This information ca from the fact that there was no gene that showed any physical aspect, but he couldn't be certain.

He wasn't even surprised that energetic and spiritual lifeforms in this world had genes. He vaguely rembered this from the original novel, but he couldn't be sure, until now.

His current form is probably an exception among nightmare creatures. He could be considered a hybrid of human and nightmare, sothing that should be unprecedented for this species. After all, who would say a nightmare would want to mate with a human? According to current data, other living beings are almost exclusively seen as "food" by them.

The upside of this transformation is that the form he assud would have consud energy to maintain and had a cooldown, but due to his evolutionary power, this form beca completely part of him and he could phase out at any ti without any damage or cost.

He gained five abilities. Additionally, in his Nightmare Devouring Spirit form, he would have physical immunity, 75% ntal resistance, and 50% energy resistance! Even in human form his ntal and energetic resistance did not diminish!

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