abnormal mutation

Chapter 91 Extraordinary Traits
After leaving the frozen canyon and entering the giant forest, Roland threw the white-robed man onto the snow.

This man's mind was damaged; his eyes were open but his gaze was vacant, clearly indicating that he couldn't get anything out of him. There was no need to ask; judging from his appearance, he had most likely already been exploited by Commissioner Suleiman.

He stripped the other person naked and found a pile of odds and ends: a wallet, a pocket watch, a diamond pendant, and two extraordinary items sealed in a metal can...

There was also a black and red notebook with a big mouth on the cover.

'What a generous boss!' Roland thought to himself. Who wouldn't want a boss like Suleiman?

He packed everything into his backpack; this wasn't a good place to investigate. Then he drew his hunting knife and ended the white-robed man's life, stroke by stroke.

He wasn't being perverted or venting his anger; he mainly wanted to know the difference between intermediate-sequence extraordinary individuals and low-sequence extraordinary individuals.

'This physical strength is quite average, even weaker than before I entered the Extraordinary realm.'

'Muscle tissue and organs are strange, vastly different from ordinary people's. Every cell contains extraordinary properties. Is this evolution? If this continues, the physical body will become a vessel for spirituality and extraordinary qualities...'

His expression was complicated. Could it be that spirit beings were the final template?
At this moment, the extraordinary qualities of the white-robed man gradually emerged and gathered in his brain. When it was dissected, it was a soft, limp mass with a slightly trembling surface, which was somewhat eerie.

Fortunately, Roland had no appetite for human extraordinary qualities. Not only would his voracious appetite be unable to digest such highly polluted extraordinary qualities, but even if he could, he simply couldn't bring himself to eat them.

Instead of using a special container, he had a flash of inspiration and temporarily constructed a thin-skinned golden container using liquid divine metal, which worked unexpectedly well.

After all, it's an extraordinary quality of a mid-sequence extraordinary individual, so it's worth his effort.

After squeezing every last drop of value from the corpse, he had the two wolves dig a hole, buried the body, and then returned to camp.

Fifteen minutes later, the sled stopped in front of Julia's little house.

With a creak, the second-floor window opened, and Yulia looked over with a serious expression.

Several extraordinary qualities were casually tossed on the sled; their mixed spirituality emanated an astonishing aura.

"Then—" Several silver jars engraved with patterns were thrown down from the window one after another, exactly four.

Roland sealed away his extraordinary qualities and, together with Drake, moved everything into their room, then arranged them one by one, categorizing them carefully.

Yulia stood with her arms crossed, leaning against the doorframe, watching him quietly, a bag tucked under her arm.

“You don’t seem surprised,” Roland said with a smile.

"The Remnant Society is like a piece of chewing gum; once you're on it, it's hard to get rid of. It would be strange if they didn't come to you." Yulia's lips curled up, her tone certain. With a high-sequence extraordinary being personally involved, there was no chance of failure.

"So your one-day stay was creating opportunities for them?"

“Not entirely.” Yulia chuckled as she watched Roland start counting the money again. “The materials from those four extraordinary creatures were bought by the merchant guild and given to you at market price. It’s about six thousand seven hundred. It’s all here.”

As she spoke, she tossed a black wallet to Roland.

"So many?" Roland's eyes widened in surprise.

The wallet was exquisitely crafted and much better looking than his. When I opened it, I found it was full of rare 100-yuan bills, a vibrant green that was very appealing.

I pulled out a sheet and held it to my nose; the ink smelled rich and strong.

“A portion of the profits was shared with the participants, otherwise it would have been even higher,” Yulia explained. “Extraordinary creatures are not to be trifled with. Under normal circumstances, it takes three to five extraordinary individuals to hunt them in a team, and the success rate is not certain.”

However, you shouldn't underestimate them because of this; countless extraordinary beings perish in the snowfields every year.

“I understand.” Roland nodded slightly. “No extraordinary individual should be underestimated.”

He admitted that he had become a bit arrogant. Thinking back on the battle just now, he still felt lingering fear. Without the Dragon Soul, he wouldn't have been able to even touch that mid-sequence extraordinary being.

Compared to those bizarre extraordinary abilities, his archery skills were not that useful. It was one thing for him to be ignored by mid-series extraordinary individuals, but he couldn't even take down two low-series extraordinary individuals.

This would never happen if they were within Drake's range. It seems Wu Guangyi needs to practice more.

"You suffered a loss?" Yulia raised an eyebrow. "The extraordinary is not as simple as you think. Being one sequence higher than the enemy does not guarantee a win. It is common to lose."

Although Commissioner Mosley had a sharp tongue, he was right. Physical strength doesn't have that much of an impact on combat, especially after the mid-series.

"You need to develop your own unique traits. Different understandings of traits lead to vastly different forms and powers of extraordinary abilities..." Roland wondered, "Each extraordinary pathway has multiple highly interconnected traits; how do you coordinate them?"

"Hehe, you're overthinking things." Yulia raised an index finger and shook it slightly. "Extraordinary people rely more on instinct and intuition. Being a little less intelligent means they don't have these kinds of troubles like you."

As long as you don't go against your own characteristics, understanding and adhering to one thing is enough.

She walked up and sat down opposite Roland: "I'm asking you, what do you think is the core characteristic of the Pharmacist path?"

"Something like healing the sick, saving lives, or improving health?" Roland guessed.

“No, the core is medicine and the contract,” Yulia emphasized. “How to understand medicine—dispelling, dispelling, healing, deadly poison, magic potions, creation… all count. The path of the apothecary is full of extraordinary individuals skilled in using poison, killing without a trace…”

"It can be done like this?" Roland said thoughtfully.

From this perspective, the extraordinary are a group of very idealistic cultivators who use their extraordinary qualities to constantly manipulate the rules of the world, and eventually become the rules themselves. That's probably how those so-called gods came to be.

He doesn't believe in God, but in the potential of life, focusing on exploring bloodlines and unusual mutations, which inadvertently aligns with his own characteristics.

A flurry of thoughts raced through his mind. By the time he came to his senses, Julia had already quietly left.

"Only seven hundred German Yuan, how meager." He continued to take stock of his spoils; a mid-level extraordinary individual didn't have much money on him.

Including the other people's wallets, a total of more than 1,500 German dollars were transferred to his new wallet, which was stuffed full, giving him a nouveau riche vibe.

There were many other miscellaneous items, all ordinary goods or weapons, but they were well-made and should be worth a lot of money.

The most valuable items should be the black and red notebook and the seven extraordinary qualities.

He focused his mind on sensing the chessboard and tried to bring the metal cans into the spirit world, but failed. After emptying them from the cans, he finally succeeded in bringing them into the chessboard.

Upon sensing the extraordinary qualities, the Rune Seed's rhythm noticeably accelerated, conveying a faint sense of longing and excitement to him.

"Here, take this good one."

Before the words were finished, the Seed of Runes appeared and swallowed the extraordinary qualities of the middle-sequence extraordinary individuals.

"You'd better give me a powerful mutation." Roland didn't expect the rune seed to understand, but to his surprise, it actually twitched twice in response.

With a wave of his hand, the remaining six extraordinary qualities shattered one by one, turning into countless streams of light that flowed into the energy pool on the left.

Spiritual Glimmer: +1, +1, +1...

Extraordinary Traits: +0.1, +0.1, +0.1...

There are gaps between each cluster of extraordinary traits, making it easier for him to calculate the increment.

Of the six extraordinary traits, two should be Sequence 8, and the rest should be Sequence 9.

Each cluster of extraordinary qualities contains less than one hundred spiritual glimmers, but the extraordinary qualities themselves are all above one unit, with the two Sequence 8s exceeding two units.

Spiritual glimmer increased by 274, and extraordinary traits increased by 8.7 units.

Roland was in high spirits; what he lacked was an extraordinary quality.

Moreover, these people from the Legacy of Light only have two extraordinary pathways, two traits that accumulate, one at 5.2 units and the other at 3.5 units, which is just right.

'It seems that living spirits possess higher spirituality, while those that die primarily retain extraordinary qualities.'

Extraordinary traits are contaminated, which is called heterogeneous traits, but it's about the same for both the chessboard and the rune seed, and the loss is not significant.

'I can summon a two-cost minion, or three one-cost minions. What does two-cost represent, talents or immediate combat power?' Roland was a little unsure.

A one-cost piece costs 1+1+1, which is one Spiritual Essence plus two Extraordinary Traits.

The two-cost combination is 2+2+2, consisting of two Spiritual Essences and four units of Extraordinary Qualities, in sets of two.

(End of this chapter)