Epic Of Caterpillar

This Skill lets the user channel the power of the arms, jaws, and claws of the beast in oneʼs body. The arms can become enormous limbs that can shake the earth, the jaws will be filled with razor-sharp fangs and voracious appetites, and the claws will be sharp and enormous, being capable of slicing mountains with ease.

The ability to channel such power can be increased by leveling this skill and through the conjunction of other similar skills, alongside the ʼCalamity Abyss Demon Fusionʼ Skill.

Just as the changes in my body ended, the three Skills that had reached level 10 evolved by merging themselves with many other similar skills… and all three of them seemed to have gained a new ʼtraitʼ or ʼbody partʼ… for example, the Calamity Abyss Demon Limbs; One Thousand Hellish Arms and Jaws of Slaughter Skill only had [Arms] and [Jaws] before, but now it has acquired the new [Claws] body part added into it, giving me the ability to create sharp claws with the combined effects of the skills added to it when it evolved.

I also began to believe that I might get some new body parts in my dreams, as I have accumulated a large amount of Monsters Skills with talent, and perhaps I might not need for them to reach level 10 anymore for them to become a Calamity Abyss Demon Body Part.

But I still wonder if I could acquire something else by merging all these Skills, and although I have tried to do so before, it seemed to not work. These Skills cannot be simply fused with my Synthesis. Certain conditions must be met for them to awaken and become stronger, it seems. But whenever it happens, they seem to absorb compatible skills to break through the evolution more easily.

Since I have been acquiring so many Skills from my birth in Genesis, that I have always seen Skills as something more. Perhaps due to my perception or my familiarity with the acquisition of them, it is as if each Skill is a special power, a special thing inside of oneʼs soul or body. Each time I use many skills at the same time, they would show up as lumps of bright colors, and when such skills are very strong, such lumps would become bigger and more colorful.

It seems that even though they do not have a physical appearance, skills are some kind of… thing? I cannot really say that they are alive, but they might be something similar to a cell amongst the enormous body that the System is.

I can acquire the Skills from what I devour through Uroboros (formerly Devour), which gives me the ability to digesting the skills and making them my own. Even when they would often not make sense to have due to my physiology, but that did not seem to stop my body from simply adapting to the skills. In such a way, I was even capable of shaping my body, transforming, and doing many other things that I was not supposed to be capable of.

When Skills are fused, the resulting skill is the combination of all these lumps, which grows larger and larger… perhaps the Sin of Lust appearance inside of my soul is also something like a skill itself, as it appears like a dark sphere, similar to other skills I have acquired after fusing hundreds of them together into one.

And as I develop my Skills more, they begin to become stronger and even… to gain a bit of independence, and due to this, those that awaken often decide to absorb similar skills or ʼdevourʼ them without my permission, so their awakening and evolution can be triggered faster.

What just happened in the awakening of these Calamity Abyss Demon Skills was similar, each of these skills resembles a giant sphere of darkness, and they needed a bit more power and energy to properly evolve… What did they do? They simply absorbed or ate other skills similar to them to trigger their awakening, transformation, or evolution faster.

When Skills eat each other, the effects of the skills that they eat are often carried with them and merged, remarkably similar to how skill fusions happen to begin with.

Due to this explanation of how Skills are, I often think about what would I do if I were to fight someone that can ʼStealʼ Skills… what would I do if my strongest asset is taken away from me?

However, I often assume that even if such an enemy might appear in the future, as the Realm Menace of Envy that I am suspecting to exist in the Demon Kingdom of Thanatos, I shouldnʼt be capable of completely losing my power through having my skills stolen.