Chapter 20: Chapter 20 - Mass Eating
After the FBI Agents finished speaking with their superior they now had to come up with an excuse to move the girl to their HQ in New York— with the most suitable excuse being witness protection.
The paperwork for this would be worked out by the people in the office, and all they had to do was speak to the sheriff and the girl to get her to move.
So the first step was the sheriff.
On the other hand, Liliana decided to get up from the bed and stretch her body a little— even though she didn't need to actually do such things.
She had been laying for such a long time that she no longer cared to rest— she wanted to act. But with the heat being rather high right now she wasn't quite sure if she should.
On one hand, she wanted to quickly return to the forest and eat all the things that were collected by her hive, while on the other hand, she didn't want them to notice her missing.
She had to eat the food herself— that is if she wanted to properly gain DNA.
As of currently while her hive could eat things for her— and she would benefit from it— they couldn't properly digest all the DNA which caused a certain loss between her and them.
This loss was ignorable on bigger creatures that she had a lot of— like a human— but it wasn't when the creature was smaller like insects or even plantation.
She had to eat it herself to properly gain the DNA, or she had to have her hive eat large quantities— which would be hard to collect and take time.
She hummed to herself as she tried to come up with a plan— or decide if she should go or not. That's when an idea came to mind.
Rather than going all the way to the forest to eat the things— she could order some of her workers to bring the material to a location outside of the town— that is much closer to her and much easier to eat.
This lowered the risk of being caught missing while also giving her the DNA she wanted. So with that in mind she ordered the hive to do just that.
This wasn't a fast process, but with all the units she had it wasn't very long either— taking at most an hour to bring all.
During this hour the Agents were talking to the sheriff and their personnel at the HQ— however, that was no concern to her as she wasn't fully aware of their conversations.
She did know however that they were planning something from how much they moved around— and the places they went.
Around an hour later she slipped out from the hospital through an empty back door and hallway— being able to get out relatively unnoticed thanks to her shifting form and lack of people in the area.
Sneaking underground through a hole she had her workers made in an alleyway— she joined up with the tunnel system she had made and walked to the food.
As for the hospital— she left a few of her hunters there in order to notify her if anyone was coming so that she could sneak back quickly.
It didn't take long before she was before a mound of dead insects, small animals, and flora. So much lay before her that they created a pile that was somehow bigger than her body.
However the pile wasn't made up of one thing in particular but a mixture of other small animals, insects, and flora, the most abundant being insects.
Without a second more to waste she began to eat.
Rabbits, foxes, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, badgers, tortoises, turtles, salamanders, snakes, frogs, newts, skunks, ants, beetles, cicadas, aphids, cockroaches, and much more.
Those were just some of the creatures she had eaten and collected DNA for.
Sadly, the insects didn't provide her with a lot of mass or DNA, meaning she would need to eat a ton of them in order to fully develop their capabilities, but she did get a lot from what she had.
The animals, while small, still provided her with abilities as well.
Those weren't the only things she ate though, as she also ate a ton of Flora in order to build up her mass and see if she could get any information from them.
Alder, Cottonwood, Willow, Walnut, Maple, Ash, Box Elder, and even Cacti.
Just eating all of them took her around an hour, thankfully she was able to eat an endless amount without feeling full otherwise she wouldn't be able to do it so fast.
Once she was done, she couldn't help but sit back against the wall and relax for a second— after all she had just eaten more than two times her own weight in food.
She allowed her body to digest the information— feeling her mass building up within her and her body evolving due to the new information she had stored.
She was growing— stronger— better.
She was becoming what she was always meant to be— superior.
Chapter 21: Chapter 21 - Tons Of New Skills
After digesting everything she had eaten, and allowing her body to adjust and evolve along with it— she decided to check just what she had gained from it.
She could instinctively tell some of the things she had gained already— after all the status panel was merely an extension of her own subconscious— but she decided to use the easier means of checking it.
The very same status panel her mind had made up.
[Name: Liliana Goldbrone
Age: Physical: Unknown, Soul: 18
Race: Mimictarion BroodMother.
Titles: Last of Their Kind, Hivemind.
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Energy: 20
Strength: 15
Durability: 30
Agility: 50
Mental: 60
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Free Mass: 6500
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Skills:
Hivemind
Adapt, Evolve, Overcome
Mimic Creation
Bat Capabilities
Enhanced Senses - The user has enhanced senses, increasing their sense of smell, taste, hearing, touch, and sight. Their eyes are also able to see in the dark without any issues and are covered in nictitating membranes to keep them protected.
Enhanced Reflexes - The user's muscles are much denser and due to this have much faster reaction time and reflexes.
Powerful Legs - The user's leg muscles have been condensed and strengthened, granting them the ability to leap to great heights with ease, and exert force equal to their own weight.
Retractable Claws - The user can extend and retract claws from their limbs that are both sharp and durable.
Poison Resistance - The user can resist certain levels of poison due to the composition of their body.
Parasite Resistance - The user can resist certain levels of parasites due to the composition of their body.
Illness Resistance - The user can resist certain levels of illnesses and diseases due to the composition of their body.
Accelerated Perception - The user can temporarily enter a state of accelerated perception, in which everything around them seemingly slowed down to them, and their brain functions at a higher speed.
Danger Sensing - The user can sense incoming danger and threat within a certain range as long as it isn't concealed or hidden from them.
Decelerated Aging - The user has a much slower aging process than other creatures, taking a long time to get older.
Hardening - The user can temporarily harden certain parts of their body to a level many times harder, and denser, than their own skin.
Oxygen Independence - The user does not need oxygen to survive. They also have extraordinary lung capabilities, able to store much more than they could have before.
Regenerative Healing Factor - The user can heal their own wounds at a speed much faster than their previously could.
Amphibian Physiology - The user has all the capabilities of an amphibian, mutated to fit their body.
Reptile Physiology - The user has all the capabilities of a reptile, mutated to fit their body. Including the poison of various common snakes.
Other abilities are dormant until the user has fully awakened]
(In the future chapters I will be shortening these down to just Physiologies so they don't take up so much room and need less explaining. As for how strong they are, and weaknesses, I didn't set any hard limits because I like to scale things as the story goes. Hope you understand.)
Looking over her stats she could see just how much she had gained from eating all those things— however, she also didn't gain a lot of things either.
Most of the insects didn't give her any skills due to the lack of DNA— the same could be said for the plants. This was most likely due to how little information just one part of them had, meaning she would need to eat a lot before she could gain their skills.
But that was fine— she had already gained quite a lot and with what she had now she didn't feel the need to worry. She was sure she could deal with weaker mutants at this level— and maybe even some stronger ones if she played her cards right.
She also noticed that gaining certain skills and DNA could help improve her stats, so that was something to look out for in the future.
For now, she had to return to the hospital before they started looking for her— so she got up and left after cleaning her clothing up a bit.
Good thing she wasn't stupid enough to eat it with on, otherwise, blood would've covered it. She took it off and put it aside— eating naked— then just got dressed after cleaning her skin of the filth.
Now, she had arrived back in the hospital room after sneaking back in. Her abilities made it much easier now than they did before, being able to partially blend parts of her body into the walls to hide from view.
Thankfully she got back in time because shortly after returning she was visited by the two FBI Agents that had news to tell her— they were moving her.
She didn't really have much choice in the matter but they made it seem like it was for her own good, telling her they could keep her safe like this and such, which was an obvious excuse to just get her under their watch.
They even provided her with a fake identity of her own— mind you did they this very quickly so even she was quite surprised by their actions.
She had a new name, Lily Garcia— they allowed her to keep the nickname Lily since it was a very common name, and tracing it would be very hard.
But they also gave her a backstory.
She was 15 years old and was currently moving in with her aunt and uncle since her parents had died in a car crash recently. She was homeschooled since young and because of this she didn't have many friends or went out often.
It was a very simple— but good— backstory since it explained why she suddenly moved to New York and even why she would act as strangely as she would.
And while she put up a front of being unsure and somewhat resistant to it— in reality, she couldn't be happier.
She had a fake identity and she didn't even have to do anything to get it, how easy could this be?
Nonetheless, they gave her a day more to rest before taking her away to her new life.
Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
12 Power
stone 
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