Becoming Cthulhu

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Chapter 11: Phantom Clone?

Name: Noah 

Species: Phantom Octopus 

Bloodline: Rare level (medium) 

Gender: Male 

Age: 1 month/30 years 

Status: Infancy 

Weight: 2000kg/5000kg 

Strength: 20,000 kg/50,000 kg 

Speed: 50 meters per second/150 meters per second 

Defense: 2000 kg endurance/5000 kg endurance 

Skills: "Color Changing Camouflage", "Deadly Venom", "High-Pressure Water Cannon", "Flash Technique", "Phantom Clone" 

Talents: "Regeneration", "Advanced Precognition", "Detection Technique", "Almighty Sensing", "Episode of Spiritual Illusion" 

Energy Points: 36,500 

After reading the "Attribute Page," Noah showed doubt. Although his basic attributes had become stronger, his skills and talents had changed significantly. "Change" and "Disguise" merged into one, and "Venom" remained "Venom." "Precognition" became "Advanced Prediction," and "Induction" and "Night Vision" combined to become "Almighty Induction." This species evolution changed him greatly. He could feel that he had changed significantly from before, especially in the brain area. Now, his sensing had become a talent. He was sensing the situation within his body every moment, with a sensing range of 5 kilometers in radius.

The information fed back by this sensor would first be filtered through his eight tentacle heads and then sent to the main brain for decision-making. The thinking speed was several times faster than before. Meanwhile, the body size had evolved from 30 meters to about 45 meters. "I also got a new skill, let's see what its attributes are," Noah excitedly said as he clicked on "Phantom Clone." 

Skill name: "Phantom Clone" 

Skill type: auxiliary combat skills 

Skill introduction: Uses one of your own tentacles as a medium to condense an unconscious clone. 

The attributes of the clone are one-third of the original body and it has no skills or talents. The behavior of the clone is controlled by the original body. If the main brain of the clone is destroyed, it will die directly. Currently, you can condense 3 clones. 

"Hell! Isn't this a skill customized just for me? Now I can be a qualified sixth-former! Haha!" Noah said happily. It's better to grow to maturity first and then start to gather clones. Ding! Can the host use 10,000 "Energy Points" to grow to adulthood?" 

"Yes!" 

Ding! Can the host use 10,000 "Energy Points" to grow to maturity?" 

"Yes! Grow immediately!" 

Another ten seconds passed, and his size suddenly grew from 45 meters to 90 meters! The terrifying size almost caught up with the mutant Canglong. If Noah were to face the mutant Canglong now, he would definitely turn around and run away! Yes, you read that right, just turn around and run away!

His fighting philosophy is to crush, absolutely crush! Otherwise, he would never take action easily. What if he meets the Chosen One? Waves of hunger swept over him, and then he took out the mutated Canglong's corpse and ate it! 

Ding! The host devours "Mutated Canglong" and gains 1,000 energy points! 

Ten minutes later, he had eaten one-fifth of the entire mutated Canglong. As his body grew larger, his appetite also increased significantly. "Well! The feeling of being full is comforting!" Noah said, touching his body with his tentacles. 

After looking at "Energy Points," he already had 66,500 points, but the next evolution required 100,000 points, so he still had to continue accumulating for a while. He estimated that after eating this mutated blue dragon, he could get another 200,000 "Energy Points." Evolving once is enough, but in order to reach maturity, a few more energy points are needed.

After thinking about it, he interrupted his three tentacles with three snaps, suppressing a sense of pain. "Young Master has spent your hard-earned money on this, so your avatar must be powerful!" Then he stretched out an intact tentacle and said to the three broken tentacles, "Phantom Clone!" Suddenly, three streams of blue light shot from his tentacles to the three broken tentacles. After a few minutes of condensation, three octopuses, the same size as him but slightly smaller, appeared in the cave on the seabed. Through his induction, these three clones were connected to his consciousness, and just like one of his tentacles, he could command the clones to do anything.

"Then let's give you a name first! Huh~!? I'll call you No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3!" For Noah, who isn't great at naming, this was not bad. He immediately ordered clone No. 1 to swim to the northern sea, and swim all the way north! He wanted to test how far the clone could be controlled to prevent unexpected situations! As for No. 2 and No. 3, he didn't let them sit idle and began to multitask, controlling them to perform some complex behaviors. As he experimented, he found that these clones were unable to unleash his skills and talents, could only use physical attacks, and had only one-third of his own attributes and body size.

Sure enough, it was as described in the skill. Ten minutes later, there was a pain in his head. "MD, clone No. 1 was eaten by a giant beast in the sea! f**k!" Noah was speechless. No. 1, who he had spent all his efforts to condense, was lost, but through the eyes of clone No. 1, he saw a giant shark swallowing him. All the clones have the same vision as him. The giant shark was at least 150 meters long, and his avatar was only 30 meters tall, making him prey for this kind of shark. Then he cut off one of his tentacles and formed a new clone No. 1. The clone No. 1 had just swum north for fifteen minutes. He could still control the clone like an arm about 15 kilometers away.

"Oh, it seems we have to continue testing!" Noah directed the three clones to swim in different directions this time. At the same time, he was always paying attention to the situation around the three clones. If he encountered a more powerful creature, he would secretly record it in his mind. Creatures have their own territories, and as long as he took note of these powerful creatures, he would be in much less danger in the future. His broken tentacles also grew back during this period. If he deliberately restored the injured tentacles, they would grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the clones continued to swim farther away, he also detected information about some areas. For example, the sea to his north was the territory of a giant great white shark, only 15 kilometers away from him. In the sea to his south was a giant turtle, the guy who defeated the mutated Azure Dragon before, 50 kilometers away from him. The last one was the eastern sea area, where a giant python was entrenched, 70 kilometers away from him.

This time he concentrated on controlling the three clones, and all of them avoided danger in time. When his three clones were 500 kilometers away from him, his control began to decline. When the distance was 600 kilometers, he could only control the clones to do the most basic actions and couldn't even fight. When it exceeded 700 kilometers, the control ability was directly lost.

"It's better to control the clone to hunt for me first!" Noah said. After mastering all the skills, he started his hunting journey!