[x2 Terror Bat is lost]
[Dracula is lost]
[Dracula Acquired]
'Huh? Wait a minute…'
Carter frowned. He looked around in his office to make sure no one saw his surprised reaction.
'Where is my mutated bat?'
Carter immediately pulled up the new skin. It did not have the portrait of the bat nor the pale human anymore. Instead, it was a human head with bat characteristics.
'Holy shit… It created an entirely different skin.'
[DRACULA EQUIPPED]
Carter transformed into the skin that he made. It wasn't human normal. Instead, it was a half-man half-bat creature.
He looked into the mirror.
'If anyone sees this monster, they will piss themselves.'
Bat wings on the back. Four usable limbs like a human. A giant nose in the middle of the face like any bat. And two large pointy ears accompanied with deep black eyes.
It wasn't the charming, sexy vampire that Carter used to see back in the film industry. This Dracula was a monster. A solid terrifying monster.
'But this thing isn't perfect…'
Carter opened his mouth and saw that it still had human teeth. It didn't sit right with him.
'If only I can have better teeth. Bigger. Stronger. Sharper.'
Carter looked back to his Terror Skins. His body trembled. Not from fear, but from excitement.
There was a way for him to accomplish that.
Terror Wolf. It had the meanest teeth in all of Terror Skins and its Bite Skin allowed it to have a bite force strong enough to tear through metal.
'Are you still able to be fused with other skins, Dracula?'
Carter fired up the Skin Fusion again. He put in the two Terror Wolf Skins. Dracula was still available to be used as a filler.
'Show me what you can do!'
Carter fused the three skins once more.
[x2 Terror Wolf is lost]
[Dracula is lost]
[Dracula Acquired]
His body changed once more. He became bigger. The bat wings spread wider and longer. His head touched the dangling chandelier at the top. He was at least two-meter tall at the moment.
The wolf was large. Its body mass was twice the size of a lion. When Carter combined that with the already big manbat, it grew even more.
But that wasn't the only thing that he acquired. His tame human teeth grew sharper and larger. He grew a snout. A very short one but still easily recognized as a snout.
Carter had to hunch over to look at himself in the mirror.
'A little stray away from the look of a bat monster. But I don't mind it.'
Carter opened his mouth wide. It was a terrifying mouth with countless glimmered white teeth. This jaw could crush the neck of any victim in the blink of an eye.
'More. This skin needs more. It needs… a pair of fangs.'
Carter once again looked at his Terror Skins.
[Terror Snake]
[Rank]: Awaken
[Star Level]: 3
[Ability]: Terror Form (Awaken); Venomous Fangs (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.
- Venomous Fangs (Awaken): Your fangs induce venom that can stun the enemy when you bite them.
[Skill]: Level 3 Strangling (Awaken); Level 2 Stealth (Awaken), Level 1 Surface Gliding (Awaken)
[Item]: None
'This is it… The next piece of a puzzle.'
Carter didn't have enough Terror Snake Skins to fuse Dracula once more.
But he still had Skin Graft.
Skin Graft could only be used for Skins within a Skin Line. Dracula was made from humans and Terrors. Technically speaking, it was both.
Carter opened up the Skin Graft window. The stone plate appeared again.
[Offer your sacrifice]
Carter put in the Terror Snake.
[Choose your host]
The list of available options appeared. He scrolled through them all and hoped to see that one skin that wasn't entirely Terror.
And there it was.
The card of the Dracula Skin was visible as an option.
Carter's pupils dilated slightly.
'It is both a Terror and a Human!'
Carter sacrificed Terror Snake immediately.
[Terror Snake is sacrificed]
[All unique abilities, skills, and items are transferred to Dracula]
"Argh… Agh!"
Carter moaned softly. He lifted his head up and allowed the fangs to grow. It became significantly bigger and longer than any other teeth.
And within it was venom. The kind that would freeze its victim immediately.
Carter admired his new fangs in the mirror. He could even retract them like a snake.
'Vampire could retract their fangs. This fits the lore perfectly. I wonder if there is more I can do…'
He could. He had a lot of fusions that he could put Dracula into.
Terror Climber, Terror Walker, and Terror Creeper both had two copies.
He fused them all into Dracula.
[x2 Terror Climber is lost]
[x2 Terror Walker is lost]
[x2 Terror Creeper is lost]
With each fusion, Dracula's Star Level slowly raised. The increase was lower than what a normal fusion would be. But since he could fuse Dracula with anything, the low increase wasn't a problem.
Terror Transformer and Terror Witch both had good secondary abilities that Carter wanted for Dracula.
[Terror Transformer]
- Terror Flesh (Awaken): You may transform into a body with the same height and weight of the last human you ate. You bear resemblances to a human but your appearance is clearly a monster.
[Terror Witch]
- Terror Skin (Awaken): You may wear a female human skin and transform into that person. You may breathe, bleed, and have warmth like a normal human being.
[x2 Terror Transformer is lost]
[x2 Terror Witch is lost]
Dracula gained all their skills. However, their secondary abilities weren't retained. They're fused into one.
- The Human Above: You may hide your true self and transform into a human. You may breathe, bleed, and have warmth like a normal human being. Your flesh is similar to a human unless you deactivate this ability.
Both of the abilities came together to show the true extent of Terror's disguise power. One disguised the exterior, and the other disguised the interior.
'Who would believe me when I say the most powerful Terror is the one that is most human…'
Dracula became a Star Level 10 Awaken Skin. It was stronger than both Pighead and Wolfhead. All because Human Skins were that flexible.
'It can be even more powerful…'
[Terror Charger is sacrificed]
[Terror Wolfhead is sacrificed]
[Terror Pighead is sacrificed]