[System Ghost: Rank (Awaken); Star Level: 4. Total Star Level: 14]
[Host gains 14 Skin Star Level]
[Ghost Clothes is retained]
The Star Level in the Prime System changed. It reached level 10 and continued to rise. Carter became an Awaken.
It wasn't his skin or his body. His presence, his soul, his existence had risen. Carter Hayes was now officially an Awaken.
Every Awaken would have their own supernatural ability. For humans, it was Adrenaline and a random secondary ability. For Terror, it was Terror Force and a random secondary ability.
Carter also awakened his own supernatural ability. But the Prime System couldn't detect what it was.
The ability showed up as a bunch of question marks.
'Heh. If I was just an ordinary Awaken, I would be screwed. But luckily, I have the Skin System.'
To reach Elite, you need to hone your main supernatural ability, like Adrenaline for humans. However, if Carter didn't know what it was, he couldn't train it.
He didn't need to. If he kept collecting skins and kept synchronizing them, he would become stronger. Naturally, the skin would reveal itself.
'Now. Let's check the Token.'
A coin appeared on Carter's hand, it was the Eldritch Knight Token.
[Token: Token might be used as the sacrifice or the host in Skin Graft]
[As the sacrifice, the token shall give the host skin characteristics of the original token skin]
[As the host, once the token receive enough sacrifice, it will become an identical skin of the original token skin]
Skin Token. It was an item that could duplicate rare skins like Eldritch Knight where acquiring an extra copy would be difficult.
Or you could sacrifice it to another skin to give it the power of the Eldritch Knight.
Carter had a huge urge to sacrifice the Token to Dracula and made it even more powerful. But he refrained from doing it. The Token was a guaranteed Elite Skin. He only needed to feed it with enough skins.
Carter then took a look at his current resources.
[TOTAL SKINS]
[Mortal]
1x [Cyber Slave] (0 STAR): 30.1%
2x [Minor Human] (3-4 STAR)
[Awaken]
- Terror Line:
1x [Terror Wolf] (3 STAR): 2.6%
2x [Terror Bat] (1 STAR): 3.6%
1x [Terror Man] (2 STAR): 100%
1x [Terror Woman] (2 STAR): 1.2%
1x [Terror Mutated Wolf] (6 STAR): 0%
+ Human Line:
1x [Medium Awaken Carter Hayes]: 100.0%
+ Unique:
1x [System Ghost] (4 STAR): 117.0%
1x [Dracula] (10 STAR): 5.3%
[Elite]
1x [Eldritch Knight] (1 STAR): 200.0%
[Total Skin Shards]
- 8 Minor Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 9 Medium Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 4 Major Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 2 Minor Cyber Slave Shards (Mortal)
- 713 Minor Human Shards (Mortal)
- 466 Medium Human Shards (Mortal)
- 159 Major Human Shards (Mortal)
Carter's skins were much less because he fused or sacrificed most of them into Dracula.
'Still have a lot of Human Shards left. Let me forge those also and see how high I can reach.'
[-700 Minor Human Shards (Mortal)]
[x70 Minor Human Skins (Mortal) Acquired]
Carter fused all of the Minor Mortal Human Skins. In the end, he acquired 2 Minor Awaken Human Skins, 2 Major Mortal Human Skins.
[-450 Medium Human Shards (Mortal)]
[x45 Medium Human Skins (Mortal) Acquired]
He then continued to use the Medium Shards. In the end, he acquired 2 Medium Awaken Human Skins, 1 Minor Awaken Human Skin, and 2 Major Mortal Human Skin as left over.
'Two Medium Awakens… It's enough for me to raise Medium Awaken Carter Hayes.'
Carter fired up the Skin Fusion again and pulled Carter Hayes Skin to the last stage of Awaken.
[Major Carter Hayes (Awaken) Acquired]
[Star Level]: 8
[Skill]: Level 9 Charisma (Awaken); Level 8 Intelligence (Awaken); Level Mental Fortitude (Awaken), Level 10 Acting (Awaken); Level 10 Performance (Awaken); Level 8 Metabolism Manipulation (Awaken); Level 8 Reflexes (Awaken).
[All skills with the same name are also updated to the highest level]
'Hmm… I still lack some shards to reach Elite.'
Carter Hayes Skin reached Major Awaken. He would need two more to reach Elite.
One Major Awaken meant 27 Major Mortals or 81 Medium Mortals or 243 Minor Mortals.
That would be a total of 2430 Human Shards if Carter was unlucky.
'Reaching Elite is not as easy as it seems…'
Carter stopped his fusion once he acquired Major Carter Hayes. He left it there to fuse later, once he had more time to rob more graves or kill more humans to take shards.
[Total Skin Shards] (Updated)
- 8 Minor Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 9 Medium Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 4 Major Terror Shards (Awaken)
- 2 Minor Cyber Slave Shards (Mortal)
- 13 Minor Human Shards (Mortal)
- 16 Medium Human Shards (Mortal)
- 159 Major Human Shards (Mortal)
[DRACULA EQUIPPED]
Carter transformed. He was now the pale man with dark hair.
Dracula didn't have any item so whenever he had equipped this skin. He would be naked. But Carter was different now. Because he had acquired Ghost Clothes.
The Ghost Clothes didn't disappear as he changed his skin. Instead, it changed with him.
A royal count should have proper attire.
The Ghost Clothes changed into a Victorian suit with a black trench coat. The trench coat had a high and straight collar. It stood up like a spike around Carter's neck, drawing attention to the cravat at his neck.
He adjusted the flowery sleeves and looked at himself in the mirror.
'Now this… This is Dracula. A perfect gentleman…'
Suddenly, Carter's face changed. It became hideous and his teeth grew sharp as a shark.
'But it is only a disguise for the true monster beneath!'
The reveal was brief. He didn't even turn all the way and return to the perfect gentleman.
<-999 Prime Coins>
<+1 Bronze Prime Ticket>
"It's time for me to leave this world. Let me see what the Prime Train actually is."