I left my "house" after that and hit the amber button at top of the archway which caused the portal to vanish before the sides of the archway folded and shifted until it was ba it's nieat sphere form the size of a ut. I caught the sphere as it went to fall and held it in my left hand while stuffing my gun under my jeans waist band since I didn't have a holster. I then walked over to the corpse and pced my right hand on it.
'Alright so how does this work exact... Woah!'
{Colossus
Life force: 12,811 units
Traits: [Thick skin-on grade]- 500 units, [Hard bones-on grade]-500 units, [Gigantism-Unon grade]- 1000 units, [Cryo weakrash grade]- 50 units, [Rampant growth-Rare grade]- 5000 units, [Small brain-Trash grade]- 50 units, [Colossal strength-Legendary grade]- 100,000 units.}
'Da fuck? The worst traits are also acquirable!? Also what the dick is up with these prices, I get that the good shit ore but this is ridiculous! A mohis powerful only lets me buy four of it's weaker traits and I might as well fet about it's best trait that feels like it cost ten times more lifeforce than this fucker gives me!' I pined mentally.
Some of these traits I definitely didn't want as I got a sort of feel for what they did. [Gigantism] and [Rampant growth] for example sounded good but the key detail about them was that their effects were perma. As in If I took them I would get bigger and bigger until I was as big as ger than this fucker and uo shrink down again without a trait that does the opposite. Don't know about anyone else but that sounds like a pain in the ass to me.-
[Thick skin] and [Hard bohough were traits that while clearly not rare were good stuff as they improved my bodies defensive capabilities with no downsides. With that all figured out I sort of just started to pull the life force towards me. It was hard to expin but it sorta felt like extending your hand but like ast your actual read then grabbing the su without any pain, just a lot of heat. That's probably not all that helpful but that was what it felt like to use [Hunt] to absorb lifeforce.-
Ohe lifeforce actually started entering my body though it was a rush of pleasure not unlike an asm. It was frankly speaking close to addictive and o was over I had an intense craving for more lifeforce, like an insatiable hunger demanding evermore. I shut that shit down like a health code viotion at a small restaurant. Ain't no way in hell I was going to let MY power trol ME like that. If I was going to use this power I would be doing so because I decided to, NOT because of some instinctual feeling that came as a side effect of it.-
With my powers properly brought under trol I moved on to [Grafting] [Thick skin] and [Hard bones]. It was not like I actually took the traits from the corpse, not really. It was more as if I had copied them by transf a portion of my lifeforce stores into them within my body. Despite that I could feel that the traits while still in the corpse were also sort of not at the same time, like a weird Schrodinger's cat type paradox. I'll experiment with that ter to try and figure out what was going on.-
To my surprise however the moment I [grafted] those two traits the corpse actually started tray and crad crumble into a big ass pile of dust.
*COUGH* *COUGH* *COUGH* "What the fuck man!?" I cursed as the cloud of corpse dust got sucked into my lungs and smothered me.
'My traits! I was going to e back ter for the Legendary trait!' I felt like g as I cruelly learhat lifeforce was a stabilizing ford without it the stress that grafting puts on the body is enough to make it disie.
Needless to say I ISSED at missing out on that most delicious of traits. Also something I discovered about [Grafting] traits was that until I actively wahem to they remained inactive and not actually a part of myself, like a software update needing permission to download. I spent the five mihrowing a bit of a tantrum at the lost of a potential legendary trait. This mostly involved me kig the corpse dust and cursing enough to make the saltiest sailor blush.
"Let it go, let it go, you've got shit to do." I said talking myself out of it at the end siherwise I'd be here all day.
"Speaking of days what fug time is it, It's been sunny for like four hours easy so if this pce is anything like earth it's got to be like five or six. Is that a sed bloody sun!?" I excimed after I actually looked up for the first time I got to this p.
YUUUUP! two suns in the sky like big bright tits side by side out the chambers windows that I couldn't help but stare at dumbfounded. I k should theoretically be possible for a habitable po have two suns or more but to actually SEE it, well it's hard to accept.-
"Fuck it I don't care enough to fry my braincells trying to figure this shit out, if it works it works." I muttered shaking my head.
I activate my house again but instead of going inside I grabbed the bone spikes that had fallen out of the monster during the fight and thus not turo dust just now and tossed them into the portal. I had hoped that they would have had that legendary trait but, as! They did not. Instead it was just [Sturdy bones-on grade]- 500 units, which I grabbed from one of them.-
Iingly I discovered that [Hard bones] and [Sturdy bones] were patible for fusion at a cost of about 1000 thousand units. It was a kinda steep price but I was curious and did it anyways just to see what would happen. Besides the sudden hollowness from so much lifefetting ed I sort of "felt" the two traits blur I suppose is a good word for it. They blurred before melding into each other to form a rait that was qualitatively better than both [Dense bones-Unon grade].-
The new unon grade trait felt heavier I suppose was a good way to describe it than the on grade [Thick skin] trait. Obviously a higher graded trait was worth more than a lraded o I wasn't quite sure where the distin between each grade was.
'Questions for ter, now to get my loot from the vault bay house.' I thought as I went through the vaults portal.
I stuffed my arms with my guns still sitting in their chests and waddled my awkward self back through the portal and into my house. I dropped the guns befoing bato the vault and trying to move one of those nice ass red chests but that shit easily weighed twice as much as I did wet and didn't budge.
'Ah well, 't win them all.' I thought giving up and after one final sweep decred this vault empty.
Leaving the vault I walked over to the pedestal arieved the key which depowered the archway closing the portal. I then walked into my house and got to work st stuff in different rooms based on what it was. The key went into one room, Guns another and the bone spikes a third room.-
Ohat was done I closed my house up and headed back out the cave that led to this chamber to collect the robots that I destroyed getting here. Just because I got super powers didn't mean I didn't still want an awesome ser bde! Something I discovered and was amazed by was that the robots cked lifeforce but did have traits.
{Seraph ssher/Artillerist
[Corrosioanon grade]- 1000 units, [Hive mind-on grade]- 500 units, [Shock weakrash grade]- 50 units, [Metal form(Eridian)-Rare grade]- 5000 units, [Energy proje-Epic grade]- 20,000 units}
'Oooh fuck! I hoped that the traits would be good but how the fuck am I supposed to pick whies to take when more than one is so damn good!?' I thought ial anguish over the choice id before me.
The traits that were good were GREAT and the traits that were bad were equally sucktastic. [Corrosioance] was found on all three of the robots so wasn't really a problem as far as sacrifig one of the things was ed but [Energy proje] was found only oillerists parts and also like twice as much lifeforce as I currently had.-
The other three traits had heavy ive aspects to them acc to my powers with one of them being a straight up debuff to myself. [Metal form(Eridian)] was the orait that ossibly evehal to me sial tends to not be alive and well I sorta preferred to stay alive. Rather than risk it I stuffed the three robots in the room with the vault key for ter when I saved up enough life force to get both the traits I wanted.-
'I suppose I should ie the two traits I have waiting before I go looking for civilization huh?' I thought and gave said traits a mental nudge.
"SSSSSSSS!" I hissed in pain as my skin began the writhe and darken slightly while it felt like my bones were snapping and healing over and ain.
It certainly sounded like that was what was happening too as the cave echoed with a crag sound not unlike a campfire but stant and faihis feeling only sted a few seds but every gods damn instant of it SUCKED! As if that suffering wasn't good enough I now felt sluggish and had trouble moving because my every bone now weighed more than before by a good bit and my muscles weren't strong enough to ha without straining slightly.
'o self, get strength trait of some sort asap, also get to a safe location before iiraits.' I made a mental note for ter as I dragged my now sluggish self forwards.
Leaving the cave after awhile, not sure how loly, I couldn't help but look around predatorily as there was just so much lifeford traits for me to possibly harvest. How could there not be in such a clearly thriving jungle/forest?-
I drew my pistol and fidently walked out of the cave and into the vibrant greenery not b to hide my desire to kill, to HUNT. It didn't take long for me to find a dark blue shelled ioid creature that reminded me a bit of a stag beetle except the size of a cat and with a horn that had a razor sharp edge to it like a sword. [Sshbug] I identified it as and didn't hesitate to raise my pistol and pop a cap in the gaps between it's natural armor. It was still twitg when I id my hand over it and my new green tattoos started to glow.-
{Sshbug
Lifeforce: 137 units
Traits: [Exoskeleton-on grade]- 500 units, [Bdehorn-Unon grade]- 1000 units, [Fragile internals-Trash grade]- 50 units, [Multilimbed-on grade]- 500 units.}
I wasn't a huge fan of the traits or the pitiful amount of lifeforce the kill gave me but I did like the shiny edge that the horn had and cut the head of the thing off and tossed it in my house. Still lifeforce was lifeforce so I harvested the corpse before tinuing my hunt.
