Tentacle Monster Conquest Manual

Matsubara Hōichi was deeply shaken when he saw his childhood friend's expression for the first time.

The girl with the ponytail silently turned her head away, saying nothing.

Seeing his childhood friend remain silent, Matsubara Hōichi breathed a sigh of relief. "Besides, it wasn't me who chased it away; it left on its own, didn't it?"

Sakura Natsumi still has not responded.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere between the childhood sweethearts, Senior Ruomu was about to speak up to ease the tension. Actually, she also felt that the tentacle monster was different from other monsters. Judging from Xia Hai's expression, it seemed that he knew some secrets.

"Let's not talk about this now, let's get out of here quickly... Dong Hua?!"

Suddenly, Matsubara Touka, who was lying in her senior's arms, underwent a strange change. Senior Ruomu opened her eyes wide and saw the veins on Matsubara Touka's neck bulging. She watched as Matsubara Touka's eyes gradually turned blood red.

"Uhhhhhhhh!!!"

"Dong Hua? What's wrong?!"

Ignoring their anger, Sakura Natsumi and Matsubara Hōichi immediately looked at the girl trembling on the ground. When they saw the tentacles emerging from the ground from her back, the three of them felt their pupils tremble and their scalps tingle.

Instinctively took a few steps back.

"What is this?! Why did Dong Hua become like this?! Dong Hua! Dong Hua?!!" Matsubara Hōichi collapsed to the ground in disbelief, unable to accept what was happening before his eyes.

My own sister... has grown tentacles?

With bloodshot eyes, Songyuan Donghua looked at his own body in a daze, then at his friends who stood there dumbfounded, "Brother..."

Her innocent, bewildered expression suddenly changed. She frowned in thought, then seemed to understand something, and laughed—a laugh brimming with cunning, madness, and yandere charm. "Hehe... I never expected it to turn out like this..."

Dong Hua?

Is that person still Dong Hua?

"Run!! Get out of here immediately!!"

Sakuragami Natsumi reminded loudly.

"What did you say? Dong Hua is still there! She—"

“Feng Yi, you said that a monster is still a monster,” Matsubara Touka’s sinister smile sent chills down Xia Hai’s spine. “Touka used to be your sister, of course, but now…”

Matsubara Hōichi was dumbfounded. He stared blankly at his childhood friend, shaking his head angrily, "Natsumi! Tōka is my sister! Don't confuse her with that monster!!! They... are completely different things!!"

Sakura Natsumi did not respond, her cherry lips pursed and her eyes filled with complex emotions. She was once an inseparable childhood friend, with whom she had a very good relationship, and even had a slight crush on Hōichi.

Now, an inexplicable crack has appeared.

The estrangement between childhood sweethearts.

She said nothing, staring at the sickly-smiling Matsubara Touka in front of her. She felt that Matsubara was unfamiliar and terrifying, and she always felt that there was malice in her smile, which gave her a very bad feeling.

Sakura Natsumi's mind went blank for a moment.

Wait a minute, Dong Hua has actually turned into a monster, and he can communicate, likes to eat, can use a mobile phone and even type... and even has his own name!

Could he also be a human who transformed?

A bold idea began to sprout in Sakura Natsumi's mind.

Chapter 005 Branches of Evolution

Evolution Points: [118/100]

The evolutionary path has been activated—

Standing on the rooftop, Mu Xiaoxiao could overlook the school below and see most of what was happening there. There was no one or any monsters on the rooftop.

"Ouch, that really hurts—"

The injuries on its body are quite severe; the broken tentacles and hunger are problems, but... as long as it can evolve, these don't matter.

"A small boss provided 50 evolution points, so all my effort wasn't in vain," Mu Xiaoxiao muttered to herself, shaking her tentacles as she thought of the girls she had glimpsed during the battle.

"I'm such a pure tentacle monster, oh well, let's prepare to evolve first, this is my first time—but wait, there's a route selection too?"

Mu Xiaoxiao stared intently at the subtitles on her system panel with some anticipation.

[Evolutionary Path: Incubator]: An evolutionary path centered on the corruption of reproduction. Upon evolution, it gains the new skills [Implantation] and [Whip of Desire].

【Evolution Path 2: Snake】: An evolution path centered on eating and devouring. After evolving, it gains the new skills 【Decompose】 and 【Devour】.

[Evolution Path: Alien Tentacle Monster]: An evolution path centered on combat and battle. Upon evolution, it gains the new skills [Combat Instinct] and [Bloodlust].

[Evolution Path: Tentacle Monster II]: An evolution path centered on balanced growth. Upon evolution, it gains the new skills [Growth Advancement] and [Intuition].

[Evolution Path: Tree Monster]: An evolution path focused on defense and durability. After evolution, it gains the new skills [Nature Affinity] and [Growth].

As soon as these five evolution paths were revealed, Mu Xiaoxiao ruled out the first one. "What incubator...isn't this just making me a stud? Being a stud is one thing, but this skill is so trashy."

【Whip of Desire】: All your tentacles have reproductive capabilities.

Who would want such a useless skill!

What kind of "whip of desire" is this? It sounds impressive, but what's the point? It's utterly useless!

This path is no longer viable. Unless someone is an extremely twisted pervert, no one would choose such an evolutionary option that offers no improvement whatsoever.

"The second one won't work either... The route centered on eating and devouring seems good, but the [Devour] skill can only restore and store stamina? Tsk..."

[Devour]: Accelerates stamina recovery by eating and stores stamina for future use.

Slightly disappointed.

The last three evolutionary branches are not bad. The alien tentacles are good at fighting and killing, Type II is balanced, and as for the tree monster... it has a lot of health and is tough.

"From a tentacle monster to a tree spirit, tsk tsk... the species has changed. Is it to get rid of the tentacle monster identity?" But tree monsters are also monsters. Thinking about it, I decided against it. It's not necessary. If these evolutionary paths had human forms, I might waver a little.

"The alien tentacles are just about fighting; compared to that..."

Based on the description alone, Mu Xiaoxiao wasn't very interested in the Type II Tentacle Monster. A balanced evolution path would mean it would be unremarkable, right? But when she saw its skills, wow!

[Growth and Advancement]: By consuming evolution points, you can grow a specific attribute or evolve a single skill.

"hiss--"

"This ability... isn't it much better than that devouring thing?"

Although... although it's still a tentacle monster...

Forget it, becoming stronger is all that matters; species doesn't matter anymore.

Mu Xiaoxiao rolled around sadly on the rooftop, then decisively chose the evolution path. As the evolution points were cleared, white light spots appeared from all directions and enveloped him. The dazzling but not scorching light made him feel warm all over, and his body structure also changed in the radiance.

Is this evolution?

It feels great; all my injuries have actually healed.

The not-so-dazzling light stood out conspicuously in the approaching darkness, resembling the morning star in the night sky when viewed from afar.

"This light of evolution makes me feel like a Pokémon or a Digimon," she muttered, squinting as she enjoyed the healing and transformative power of the warm light. After about a minute, the radiance gradually faded, and Mu Xiaoxiao's first sensation wasn't a physical change, but rather a shift in her five senses.

The monsters downstairs, including the zombie tentacles that resembled walking corpses in the stairwell, clearly came into his view, even though he had no eyes... A long, illusory line stretched from the bird flying overhead; that was its flight path.

With a wave of its tentacles, it foresaw the bird's flight path and shot it down.

"Intuition, a special sensory ability," Mu Xiaoxiao glanced around before looking down at himself. He was startled by what he saw; his tentacles and body had become incredibly smooth and delicate, and his body had undergone a drastic change.

"What the hell?!"

Originally, the fleshy ball resembled a giant octopus. Now, after evolving, it's rounder and smoother, and even looks a bit like a jellyfish. To be honest, it's actually quite cute at first glance.

"Beauty filter? But don't just focus on cuteness, have your attributes improved?"

Open the system to check.

【Mu Xiaoxiao】(Tentacle Monster Type II)

Strength: D→C (+)

Durability: C (+)

Agility: E→D (+)

Magic: F → E (+)

Skills: [Rapid Recovery (+)], [Desire Breath (+)], [Growth Advancement (+)], [Intuition (+)]

Evolution Points: 18/500

"The attributes have increased, but the durability hasn't," Mu Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, then clicked the plus sign after [Durability]. This should be the extra boost brought by [Growth Advancement].

A prompt appears on the panel.

[Durability C→B, requires 300 Evolution Points]

"It's confirmed, it's a price I can't afford... 300 evolution points isn't too much," I'll give it a try when I have enough evolution points.

After thinking for a moment, he added some more skills.

[Fast Recovery → Super Speed ​​Regeneration, requires 1000 Evolution Points]

"Skill evolution is expensive, but upgrading skills is definitely worth it..."

Of course, I don't have that many evolution points to spend in a short time. A thousand points! How many zombie tentacled monsters would I have to kill? Even if all the students in the school were infected and turned into monsters, it wouldn't be enough.

There are just so few students in Japanese schools...

With her improved agility, Mu Xiaoxiao jumped onto the water tank on the rooftop and looked out at the school, which was deathly silent after nightfall. Even in the darkness, her powerful senses allowed her to detect the slightest movement below.

As the tentacles beneath the jellyfish's head swayed, Mu Xiaoxiao felt increasingly strange.

"Didn't find it? The source of these zombie tentacle monsters can't be found. Could it be that it's not in the school? Also, we didn't see any mini-bosses similar to the worm monsters from before."

He was on high ground overlooking the entire campus, and could even hear the girl's panting and cries for help as she ran away in the distance. Mu Xiaoxiao shook her head, no longer dwelling on these things, and jumped off the roof. Her fully revived tentacles wrapped around the tree branches, and she landed steadily on the ground.

The dotted lines in her vision charted the attack routes of the surrounding zombie tentacles, aiming at her body? Mu Xiaoxiao casually turned around and dodged them, but the shredder-like tentacles swept up, waving wildly under the moonlight, tearing apart everything in their path!

Pfft——!

With effortless ease, Mu Xiaoxiao shredded the zombie monsters into minced meat, her figure amidst the countless pieces of flesh resembling a demon god.

Evolution Points +5

"Let the hunt begin—"

Ignoring the astonished girl sprawled on the ground, he leaped into the distance and disappeared. Since evolving, his thirst for evolution points has only grown stronger.

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