Reincarnated With A Glitched System: Why Is My MP Not Running Out?

Chapter 1537: Bizarre Lifeforms

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Too many things were happening at the same time!

Aquarina was shocked as she stepped back in the utter horror that it caused her to see that disgusting mushroom thing become a copy of Silvia.

Of course, it wasnʼt completely perfect, it couldnʼt copy her skin color, or the hair, or her nails and everything else.

But it took her shape, with translucent blue skin, and long hair made of thin tentacles. Its eyes were blue and watery with no pupils, and its hands long, moving around as if they had no bones.

And then, she noticed the description of this thing changed entirely.

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[Unregistered DNA-Parasite Lifeform (Tier ???)]

A strange mushroom-like creature that isnʼt a mushroom, their bodies are translucent and slimy, and they seem to be mostly composed of water.

However, their analyzed biology greatly differs from the majority of living organisms related to fungi. Once theyʼre touched by a living organisms, their tentacles will latch into their skin and drain their blood and eat their flesh, copying their DNA.

Once the DNA is copied, the creature will imitate it and mature from its larvae stage into its young adult stage. In this stage, it will copy some of the original DNA holderʼs abilities and even magic, and then use this power against them, attempting to take their life.

It is presumed that once they take their life they will devour their DNA target and become a perfect copy of them, replacing them and infiltrating their society to further reproduce and spread.

Safe to touch as it has already chosen its DNA to copy, however, it is advised to not touch the larvae, or catastrophic circumstances could ensue based on the hostʼs great power if copied.

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”What the fuck…?!”

Indeed, this was right out of nightmares!

This wasnʼt like Furohʼs Mimicry either, which was something of a magic ability he was born with.

No, this was something like a parasite trying to replace its host completely.

”A-Ah, theyʼre weird…”

Pyukuʼs response was also strange.

”Why do they feel… like theyʼre similar to me?”

”Huh?”

As Aquarina glanced at Pyuku with a strange expression, the monster rushed forward swinging a massive blue hammer made out of projected psychic energy, copying Silviaʼs Soul Weapon!

”Dan… ger… kill.”

”Eh?!”

Silvia panicked as the massive hammer came down towards her. She rapidly swung her hammer upwards, as both of the hammers clashed against one another, generating an explosion of energies that sent both Silvia and her clone flying away.

BOOOM!

”Silvia!” Justicio panicked. ”Shit, we have to kill that thing quickly before- ugh! What the…?!”

Justicio just realized that something pointy was piercing his leg- no, actually, three of them. their slimy tendrils unable to drink his blood but taking DNA from the slightly damaged skin.

It was enough for these beings.

”Donʼt fuck with me…”

”Geogeogeogeooohh…”

”Gygaygyaaagh…”

”Geogoeogeo…”

They started screaming like the other one had done, and their bodies immediately began growing larger, fattening up with more and more water as if they were balloons, aiming to copy Justicioʼs enormous physique.

Not once, but three times at the same time!

”Shit!”

”Justicio, destroy them!”

Aquarina quickly commanded Justicio, before the larvae were to fully mature!

”RAAAHHH!”

Justicio didnʼt even hesitate, swinging his fists down as he encompassed his entire body with his Aura, crushing the strange creatures and making them explode into pieces, splattering into disgusting slime and innards.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

”Hahh… Hahh…”

He gasped for air as Justicio felt utter horror, it was something that he had never felt before with anything else. He was facing against a disgusting being, something that attempted stealing his own identity, something within him activated, perhaps his self-preservation instinct against a threat beyond this world.

Yet, suddenly, as he was crushing them, a hand stopped him from destroying them into smithereens.

”Huh?!”

There was a fourth one, and it had already fully matured. It only took ten seconds for them to fully transform, these organisms were completely and utterly optimized to overtake the host they had stolen their DNA from.

”Kill… replace… repro… duce…”

”FUCK OFF!”

Justicio panicked, covering his body with his Aura and his Insectoid armor, punching the monster away several meters, only for the thing to glance back at him, covering its body with a hardened blue colored armor, copying his own.

”Re… place…”

It spoke with his voice, making things even more disgusting for him!

”Iʼm not going to be replaced by some disgusting thing!”

CRAAASH!

”Cover your bodies with Auras and you wonʼt touch them!” said Aquarina, rushing to help Silvia. ”Khepri, what are you doing?! Help Silvia now!”

”Y-Yes!” Khepri nodded, she had stopped moving for a while for no reason, it was as if she knew these things from somewhere and couldnʼt believe when she saw them again. ”Ornament Summon!”

FLUOSH!

Khepri rapidly summoned her mecha, rushing towards Silvia, swinging her sharp metallic claws, and intercepting the several attacks coming from Silviaʼs clone!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

”…Annoying.”

The clone glared at Khepri arriving, its hands had been destroyed, but its hammer reformed again through its psychic energies.

”What the hell are you guys?!” Silvia asked. ”Why do you want to replace me!”

”…Kill.”

The entity didnʼt answer, it couldnʼt. It was simply and merely following its own directive, its own instincts. It had been shaped and evolved to be this way, through millions of years of evolution.

FLASH!

It enchanted its body with a powerful blue aura imitating Silvia even more, unleashing a barrage of powerful hammer attacks.

Silvia intercepted them, but she was being pushed back, the power of her clone shouldnʼt be higher than her, but somehow it was.

There was something that these beings inflicted into those being copied…

Fear.

This fear made those that felt it become weaker unintentionally, and this primal fear against another powerful lifeform extended through their entire bodies.

Realizing this, Khepri quickly clashed against the clone herself, pushing it back, and rapidly dealing more damage to its body, which could regenerate, albeit slowly.

”Silvia, letʼs do it together!”

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