300. Chapter 299: Analyze the Dragon Core! Devour Rize!
[Fusion Condition: Devour the Dragon Transformation Kakuhou within Rize's body]
[After Fusion, some of the Player's mutated cells will condense and extract the Dragon Transformation Gene. This Gene can cause the Player to transform into a Dragon, but unlike the Ghoul's fundamental form 'Dragon', the Dragon transformed into by the Player will retain partial self-consciousness.
However, once Dragon Transformation begins, it cannot be stopped. Unless the Player is willing to detach from the Dragon's body, the Dragon Transformation will continue until the Player's cells reach a critical threshold, at which point they will directly collapse due to being unable to bear the continuously increasing energy.]
"Retain partial self-consciousness? How much exactly will be retained, goddammit?" Seeing this, Xia Shang couldn't help but curse.
If the retained portion of self-consciousness couldn't detect the cells nearing collapse, then this ability would be almost a death wish.
"Forget it, I'll keep reading."
[Furthermore, once Dragon Transformation begins, the special cells within the Player's body will undergo irreversible malignant proliferation. During this proliferation process, a special toxin will be released. Humans infected by this special toxin will transform into special Ghouls and lose consciousness.
At the same time, special Ghouls who have lost consciousness will search everywhere to devour humans and Ghouls. Once the special cells within their bodies accumulate to a certain degree, they will emit toxin, infecting surrounding humans, and then return to the Dragon's body, contributing all their energy to the Dragon.
As long as the number of humans is sufficient, this process will continue to cycle, and it is precisely through this cyclical method that the Dragon continuously grows stronger, until the Player's cells collapse because they cannot bear the continuously increasing energy.
Friendly reminder: The Player's main body within the Dragon will be strengthened during the above process]
It wasn't until he finished reading the ability description on the panel that Xia Shang smiled again.
Undoubtedly, the growth potential of this ability was simply impeccable. As long as he used the Dragon Transformation ability multiple times, he could continuously enhance the strength of his cells through reinforcement. This was equivalent to constantly raising the threshold of his cells' tolerance, making it almost impossible to collapse later on.
Correspondingly, the required energy would also become increasingly large. It was estimated that later on, even devouring all the humans on an entire planet would likely struggle to satisfy his appetite.
What about other life forms outside the planet? Or Supes from higher worlds, like Mutants from X-Men, he wondered if they would be infected by his toxin.
In short, this ability required continuous development, and the commotion it caused was also quite significant, easily attracting the attention of certain powerful individuals.
"Why do I feel like I'm sprinting towards Cthulhu territory?" Xia Shang thought of the Black Goat Organization founded by Ken Kaneki in the original Tokyo Ghoul story.
"Let's not think too much for now. If not much consciousness is retained, then this ability can only be left in a box to gather dust."
Just in case, Xia Shang separated three clones. This way, even if his main body collapsed with the Dragon, he could resurrect through the clones. After resolving his worries, Xia Shang looked down at the dragon beneath his feet.
"Where is Rize's main body...?"
Unlike the original story, where the Dragon destroyed and devoured the entire Tokyo before a flesh and blood flower bloomed at its peak, with Rize Kamishiro wrapped in something resembling transparent green fluorite at the center of the pistil, Xia Shang now guessed that Rize Kamishiro should be deep within the dragon.
"Break open a hole and drill inside."
Xia Shang raised his right arm, then clenched it tightly.
His right arm rapidly twisted and transformed into a black blade, emitting a chilling light under the moonlight.
The dragon below seemed to sense Xia Shang's malice.
Several flesh and blood tentacles, each with two rows of teeth and resembling giant worms, suddenly lifted upwards, carrying immense strength, and lunged towards Xia Shang to bite him.
"Too slow."
Xia Shang transformed his other arm into a blade as well, then leaped high.
Swish! Several flashes of chilling light, like lightning, streaked across the flesh and blood tentacles. *Puchi!* Their tough epidermis was instantly torn open, splashing out large amounts of blood. At the same time, the severed tentacles crashed to the ground, quickly losing their vitality.
Unexpectedly, the intense pain only further provoked the dragon's ferocity. It roared and, in a twisted, crawling posture, crashed into a Building. *Boom!!*
The Building was instantly struck with a large hole and teetered precariously amidst the swirling dust. Xia Shang, standing on the dragon's head, to stabilize himself, plunged his twin blades into the dragon's skin. *Screech!* Xia Shang pulled hard, creating two bloody gashes.
"Interesting." Xia Shang wrapped his whole body, including his mouth and nose, with Kagune.
*Rumble rumble!!!* The dragon, sensing a foreign object drilling into its body, let out incomprehensible roars while rolling around on the ground, directly crushing many buildings.
Seeing this scene, the Military thought the bombing had been effective, so they quickly increased their firepower, attempting to take down this monster that had suddenly appeared in Tokyo.
"Did you find the monster's weakness? Good job! Increase firepower, don't spare the cannon shells!"
At this moment, the pilot in the airplane, hearing the voice in his earpiece, pressed the fire button towards the dragon in the ruins.
*Boom!!*
Two missiles carried by the airplane, trailing exhaust flames, whistled and struck the dragon's head.
However, when the smoke cleared, the dragon was still safe and sound, wildly destroying buildings.
"What's the effect?" the Military inquired.
"Effect? No effect!"
A flesh and blood tentacle shot up into the sky like a cannon shell, heading towards the airplane. The pilot in the plane urgently pulled the control stick, causing the airplane to climb rapidly, barely avoiding the attack.
"How is that possible?" the Military said in disbelief.
"That monster's epidermis is too hard, the missiles can't penetrate at all!"
The pilot was starting to feel despair, because right in front of the glass canopy, a giant tentacle suddenly appeared.
*Bang!* A dazzling ball of light suddenly exploded in the air.
"Damn it!"
The Military slammed the communication device, which had lost contact, onto the table.
This was already the fourth airplane destroyed, as for tanks, they were countless.
"What's the situation with the CCG? Still unable to contact Tsuneyoshi Washuu?"
"Not just Tsuneyoshi Washuu, currently the entire CCG high command seems to have vanished into thin air, not a single one can be contacted."
"Damn it! Forget about them, send out the entire ground Military. We must seal the monster within Tokyo."
The screen image shifts back to Xia Shang.
After some searching, he finally saw Rize Kamishiro, with her eyes tightly closed and her body covered in black patterns, within the scarlet flesh and blood.
Without a word, he raised his hand and shot out a tentacle, instantly piercing Rize Kamishiro's abdomen.
(End of Chapter)