[Teen Wolf : A Chimera Rising—Chapter 70]

It took Markus an entire hour to be done with his spree of absorption.

And an hour later he stared himself in a mirror, looking at the same face he woke up with everyday but now seeing it in a new light.

It wasn't just because he became more handsome, as vain as might sound, no, it was all due to the power brimming inside his very cells.

The power he now held was so prominent in him that he was sure that nothing as of yet could stop him, but as quickly as that thought wormed itself in his head it was squashed with ruthless abandon.

He did not have time to be overconfident, he understood that there would always be someone above him in power and all he could do to offset that was grow and grow till there was no further peak to ascend to.

So he quickly started to get through the full benefits of his gains, starting with the total stats that he obtained from 6 were-creatures.

From the Werewolf he obtained—

‘+23 Strength,+19 Dexterity, +25 Stamina, +12 Perception, +7 Mana, +4 Charisma and +2 Mind’

A decent haul compared to what he obtained from the others.

But other than that he also obtained the Ascended Werewolf Race Assimilated into him.

The form was ultimately way above what he absorbed from the subjects he turned into were-creatures.

And all that was thanks to his True Royal Alpha Chimera Race.

This though hadn't been a one-time occurrence as it happened to every race he then absorbed.

And so from the Werelion he obtained—

‘ +35 Strength,+14 Dexterity, +29 Stamina, +11 Perception, +15 Mana, +20 Charisma and +13 Mind’

All in all the Werelion gave him a great haul in stats and even bumped up his charisma by a good margin which inadvertently made him have some esthetically pleasing changes.

Then from the Werelion the forms he obtained, after [True Royal Alpha Chimera] used it's ‘evolution’ property that he hadn't realised it even had made the form change two.

And these were the forms he obtained.

[—Solaris WereLion Half-Shift ~ The Solaris Half-Shift form is one of brutal efficiency and power, spotting many similarities with most were-creatures Half-Shift forms with slight peculiarities from its evolved state. The Solaris Werewolf draws power from its pride of females while blessed by the sun as it's champion, garnering grooves in its pride. It's fangs are more pronounced, the shifters mane turns a luscious golden and their claws a blistering heat to those affected by them.

~Stat Increase - +100 Strength/Durability | +100 Charisma | +50 All Other Physical Stats.

~Unique Abilities - Sunrise[A]

—Solaris WereLion Full-Shift ~ The Solaris Full-Shift is one blessed by the sun itself, unlike the more bestial Full-Shifts, the Solaris Full-Shift takes on a different form, fusing lion and human fully into a bipedal lion of hulking proportion radiating the golden power of the sun.

~Stat Increase - +250 Strength/Durability | +150 Charisma | +100 All Other Physical Stats.

~Unique Abilities - SunBreaker[S]-]

And then surprisingly enough, the subject that had been injected with the Pride Serum(Werelion Serum) had a trait, one which now belonged to Markus after he absorbed it.

[— Enhanced Smell[Trait]-]

He had been a bit surprised at obtaining the trait at first before remembering that this had been a possibility after using [Origin Of Power] on the ability [Chimeric Absorption].

It was only then that he started to realise how overpowered [Chimeric Absorption] was, coupled with his other benefits it made him a terror for anyone to go against.

The trait though wasn't that bad, nothing truly awe inspiring but useful nonetheless.

The form though was curious, he had expected to obtain something like the Ascended Werewolf, an Ascended Werelion form.

But it looked like each race had its own evolution route, something that he incredibly curious about at the time and later found to be true as each race he then obtained was different from the last.

The Solaris WereLion form was his strongest, it also unlike his Ascended Werewolf form which had its ties to divinity, this form had ties to the sun itself.

A peculiar thing that he would have to study later, but something that he had come to notice of the evolutions was that they all seemed way more fantastical and of divine descent than he thought.

But then again he already had an inkling of that from discovering the Potentia-Gene.

And so done with that absorption he moved on to the next one.

The next were-creature he absorbed was the Were-Jaguar.

The state he then obtained from it were speed focused.

‘ +15 Strength, +40 Dexterity, +20 Stamina, +25 Perception, +30 Mana, +7 Charisma and +9 Mind’

Another great haul that had his speed obtaining the most alongside his mana.

Then the forms he obtained next were also as remarkable as the the previous two.

[—Ender WereJaguar Half-Shift ~ The Ender WereJaguar form is one connected deeply to Mystism, the Ender WereJaguar has ties to the ancient necromancers of old, their power more so being derived from the bone spirit magicians, able to bring out the spirits of the animals of which they brought about underlings from. The Ender WereJaguar has peculiar traits that show from their Half-Shifted state. One being their skin turning a void black, claws dripping with toxins that can rot the flesh and speed that blurs their form.

~Stat Increase - +200 Dexterity/Mana | +100 All Other Physical Stats.

~Unique Ability - Spirit Drain[A] | Spirit Reanimation[B]

—Ender WereJaguar Full-Shift ~ The Full-Shift of the Ender WereJaguar is unlike most Full-Shifts, where most Full-Shifts take a bestial form of their Progenitor Animal, the Ender WereJaguar instead takes on the form of a formless cloud of dark spirit energy, corrosive with the ability to possess lesser creatures.

~Stat Increase - +350 Dexterity/Mana | All physical stats become inactive.

~Unique Ability - Soul Possession[S] | Drain Vitality[A]-]

Markus had his eyes glued to the screen when he obtained this form.

The potential it had dwarfed most of his forms, he almost immediately shifted to full form just so he could feel what it was like to be formless and immaterial.

And most of all he had been surprised to see that the Ender WereJaguar form had two abilities for each form instead of the 1 he had seen from the others.

That alone showed him just how much potential the form had.

‘ This form could make for a great infiltration and escape form just from what I know, the abilities must be something of note too from the sheer stats each form grants, though the last form does invalidate all physical stat.’ He mulled to himself.

The disadvantages of having no physical weight though could be offset with magic, and the form seemed extremely receptive to magic as it was connected to Mystism at its bones.

Then the next form he got to was the Were-Lizard form, one that surprised him initially just as the Were-Jaguar form had.