From Ant to Abyssal Demon - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Basic Attribute Template!

Once again, Su Bai woke from his slumber.

Ignoring the changes in his body, Su Bai first opened his attribute panel.

As he opened it, the data on the panel fluctuated for a while before finally stabilizing.

At this moment, his data had drastically changed.

【Name】: Su Bai

【Race】: Tyrant Ant

【Template】: Basic Attribute Template

【Level】: Level 1

【Status】: Health 18, Mana 25

【Attributes】: Strength 1.5, Agility 1.2, Constitution 1.8, Spirit 2.5

【Talents】: Soul Points (Soul Talent), Devour Evolution (Unique Talent), Adaptability (Species Talent)

【Skills】: Enhanced Mandibles, Enhanced Carapace, Healing, Primary Poison Resistance

【Gene Points】: 0 points

【Evolution Points】: 0 points

【Skill Fragments】: None

From top to bottom, Su Bai’s eyes scanned the attribute panel, generating a lot of information in his mind.

He gained a general understanding of his current state.

First, the tier section had disappeared, replaced by a template. He now possessed the Basic Attribute Template. In terms of player attributes, this would be the basic tier, similar to a player below level 10 in the beginner’s village.

Above the Basic Attribute Template for monsters is the Advanced Attribute Template, which corresponds to the player’s Apprentice tier, covering levels 10 to 20.

The difference was, players advance by leveling up, reaching a certain level, and completing advancement tasks to smoothly upgrade their tier.

For monsters, advancing tiers required slaughter!

They must hunt players and other monsters, plundering their attribute templates!

Only in this way could monsters continuously improve their levels and tiers, progressing from the Basic Attribute Template to the Advanced Attribute Template, then to the Elite Attribute Template, Warrior Attribute Template, and beyond…

Fortunately, player tier advancement has strict level requirements.

Players must meet these requirements and complete advancement tasks to upgrade their tiers.

Monsters, however, only need to keep hunting to gain higher attribute templates at lower levels.

The higher the attribute template, the greater the attribute bonus it provides to both players and monsters.

In simple terms, Su Bai’s current attribute template was basic, and his level was 1, placing him at the bottom among monsters. But if he could upgrade his attribute template to the Lord level or even Legendary level, his level 1 attributes might crush level 30 or 40 ordinary monsters.

A level 50 slime being unable to defeat a level 10 legendary dragon was an example of this principle.

Attribute template suppression was essentially a suppression of the life level!

Secondly, Su Bai’s level had finally moved beyond the Tiny rating to become level 1. Additionally, a status bar appeared.

The status bar displayed his health and mana!

The appearance of the attribute template and the health and mana values were all due to the injection of game rules, officially marking him as a monster within the game world.

The benefit was that as long as his health didn’t drop to zero, he wouldn’t die!

The Basic Attribute Template didn’t provide any bonuses, and health and mana are simply derived from Constitution and Spirit multiplied by 10.

Even so, this greatly enhanced Su Bai’s survivability.

Finally, there were his four core attributes.

Strength increased from 0.8 to 1.5, Agility from 0.6 to 1.2, Constitution from 0.6 to 1.8, and Spirit from 1.4 to 2.5. The improvement in these attributes had exponentially boosted Su Bai’s power!

In terms of attributes, Su Bai was still at the bottom of the monster hierarchy, but his power was now hundreds of times stronger than at the beginning!

Now, facing another level 1 slime, Su Bai could easily kill it in one shot!

“Next, it’s time to draw a skill…” As Su Bai pondered, the ethereal voice rang out as expected.

Having evolved to a level 1 monster, Su Bai confirmed that this ethereal voice was indeed the system prompt.

[Ding! Second evolution successful, you have gained a skill draw. You can choose one skill from the following options.]

Then, the skill options appeared.

【Scythe Legs】: Passive skill. Choosing this skill will mutate your first pair of legs into scythe-like shapes, making them sturdier. When facing enemies, you will have stronger attack power.

【Regeneration】: Passive skill. Choosing this skill grants you powerful regenerative abilities. Your severed limbs and body parts can slowly regenerate, and you can significantly accelerate regeneration by consuming health.

【Underwater Breathing】: Passive skill. Choosing this skill will modify parts of your skin and limbs, granting you the ability to breathe underwater.

【Acidic Mucus】: Active skill. Choosing this skill will modify your mouth. When facing enemies, you can consume 5 mana points to spit mildly corrosive acidic mucus at them.

Four skills, three passive and one active.

Looking at the skills on the panel, Su Bai didn’t rush to choose but instead fell into thought.

With these two evolutions and skill draws, Su Bai had begun to speculate on the pattern of skill appearances.

Perhaps the types of skills that appear are related to the genes fused into his body during evolution.

In the first evolution, he only devoured insects, and the genes fused were purely insect genes. The skills that appeared after evolution were【Scythe Legs,【Enhanced Carapace】, and【Charge】.

These skills all had prototypes in insects.

This time, the four skills that appeared after evolution were【Scythe Legs】and【Regeneration】, still corresponding to insect genes;【Underwater Breathing】clearly corresponded to frog genes;【Acidic Mucus】corresponded to slime genes.

“So, in theory…” Su Bai mused.

If he wanted to obtain a specific skill, he only needed to target and hunt the corresponding monsters, acquire their gene points, and during evolution, he would likely draw related skills!

“Choose the【Regeneration】skill!” Having chosen his skill, Su Bai felt a surge of warmth flow through his body. Just as he was about to close the attribute panel, his actions suddenly halted.

“Wait!

“What’s this…”

It was only then that he noticed a new line of data at the bottom of the attribute panel.

【Soul Points】: 1 point.