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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: Fusion & Graft

Terror Wolf was exactly the same as the previous one Carter had.

[Terror Man]

[Rank]: Awaken

[Star Level]: 2

[Ability]: Terror Form (Awaken); Terror Force (Awaken).

- Terror Form (Awaken): Living beings are naturally afraid of you. You can transform into a shadow and crawl through tiniest cracks. You will die if you touch sunlight.

- Terror Force (Awaken): You may cause a being that sees you to fall in extreme terror.

[Skill]: None

[Item]: None

'What the hell? Not even one single skill? Terror Force better be extremely useful then.'

[Terror Creeper]

[Rank]: Awaken

[Star Level]: 5

[Ability]: Terror Form (Awaken); Creeping (Awaken).

- Terror Form (Awaken): Living beings are naturally afraid of you. You can transform into a shadow and crawl through tiniest cracks. You will die if you touch sunlight.

- Creeping (Awaken): You may put a mark on a being. You can feel their location at any time if they have a mark.

[Skill]: Level 4 Free-Running (Awaken); Level 3 Grappling (Awaken); Level 2 Terror Fight (Awaken)

[Item]: None

'Huh? Another Free-Running Skill. I wonder what is the difference between this and System Ghost's Free-Running.'

Suddenly, a window of the Skin System popped up.

[Detecting a skin line…]

[Detecting identical skins…]

[Skin Fusion and Skin Graft are unlocked]

[Skin Fusion: You may fuse the same skins together to raise its level. Three identical skins at a time.]

[Skin Graft: You may sacrifice a skin to another skin of the same skin line and let its power be absorbed. Any incompleted Synchronization will be gone.]

[Attention: If the Host has absorbed the power of a skin, the Host will retain its power even when it disappears.]

'Skin Fusion and Skin Graft? Just another way to make me more powerful.'

Carter tried on the Terror Man. It was a tall man with extremely long limbs.

Then he switched to Terror Creeper. He actually faced a similar one before.

The Creeper was a humanoid creature that had its limbs bent backwards and it ran on four legs.

'Interesting… The Terror Man is the most useless one of the bunch. Maybe I can sacrifice it to Terror Wolf?'

Carter decided to try out the usefulness of the Terror Man first before using it. He transformed into the Terror Bat and flew around town. Carter was looking for some poor souls to experiment.

There were surprisingly not a lot of people around at night. Logically speaking, all of them had hidden in their house to avoid the Terrors.

Carter flew to the highway and found two cars on the road.

One belonged to a family while the others were a group of men.

The men slammed their car repeatedly toward the family car.

"Come on, man! We just want to talk!" One of the men said.

The father of the family was the driver. He looked straight forward and kept driving. He hoped they would go away eventually. But they didn't.

They rammed his car even more, causing one of the tires to explode.

The family car strafed to the side and stopped.

The men's car stopped in front of them. The three men walked out of the car. They didn't hold any weapons but their appearance was intimidating enough to the family.

"Come on, big guy! Get out of the car!"

The father turned to his wife and daughter. "Grab a weapon! Anything you can find."

What happened next was an ugly sight to behold. One of the men grabbed a crowbar and broke the car window.

He grabbed the father out of his seat and beat him up while the others went inside the car to assault his wife and daughter.

The Terror Bat landed under the shadow of a tree.

'I don't think anyone would be mad at me if I ate them three.'

Carter turned into the tall man and walked over the cars.

The man was pinning the father on the ground and beating him to a pulp.

"Wait! What is that?" The father shouted.

"You don't think I'm that stupid, do ya?" The man laughed.

Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder. The man turned back to see a tall scary man with a smile so wide it could cut his face open.

The father got out from under him and rushed to his wife and daughter.

The man trembled in fear. He pissed himself. He couldn't even run away. That was the power of the Terror Force.

'This is a sublime ability.' Carter thought to himself.

Carter slapped the man and knocked him out cold.

The father was able to get the two men out of the car.

The two men saw Carter. He activated Terror Force and immediately put them in extreme terror.

The men knelt down and drooled like mindless zombies. Carter put his two hands on them and lifted them up.

He was strangling them. But not to death. He let them go as soon as the men fainted.

The wife and daughter screamed in terror. The father held them and covered their mouths. But the Terror Man had already looked over to them.

Death knocked on their door. They prayed to God.

"At least… We die with each other." The father said. He knew there was no way out. He shielded his wife and daughter.

He couldn't imagine that one day, he would hear a Terror talk.

"Go." The deep voice of the Terror Man Echoed.

The father widened his eyes. He didn't need to be told twice. He pulled his wife and daughter to the men's car and drove away.

The family didn't even dare to look back as they disappeared under the highway.

'You're lucky that I found you. But these bastards definitely aren't.'

Carter transformed into the Terror Wolf.

[Terror Wolf Equipped]

'These bastards should be enough to reach max Synchronization.'

[Synchronization +5.1%]

[Synchronization +4.5%]

[Synchronization +3.9%]

[Current Synchronization]: 95.5%

'Hah! I am almost there. I just need to eat some more human meat!'

Carter feasted on the leader of the men. He ate slowly to make sure he wouldn't eat more than he needed.

[Current Synchronization]: 100%

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