I Can Control Resources

"Lifeform Transformation?" Gao Neng stared at the spot where the Lucky Wheel had stopped, feeling rather conflicted. He was pleasantly surprised, yet also felt a strong urge to complain.

The pleasant surprise was that his judgment hadn’t been wrong!

The Lucky Wheel really could grant special skills. What he wanted to complain about was, what the hell was this "Lifeform Transformation"?

’Most importantly, why is it only beginner-level?’

"Lifeform Transformation (Beginner): Different lifeforms possess different attributes. The host can transform 30% of their body."

"That sounds impressive, but it’s so vague it tells me nothing." Gao Neng was speechless. He immediately opened his Attribute Panel.

Sure enough, a new skill had appeared on his skill list: ’Lifeform Transformation (Beginner).’ Below the skill, there was a triangular expand button.

Gao Neng casually clicked it. A wall of densely packed text appeared before his eyes...

The description was nearly ten thousand words long.

"..." Gao Neng was utterly dumbfounded.

’This skill’s description...’

’It’s so damn long!’

Gao Neng’s reading speed was decent. He read very carefully, but the further down he got, the more astounded he became.

This skill was truly outrageous. It wasn’t a single ability at all, but a complete series focused on lifeform transformation.

Simply put, the gist was that the human body is composed of over 60 different elements. Among them are 11 essential major elements, including calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and chlorine.

In addition, there are over a dozen essential trace elements, such as iron, copper, zinc, manganese, cobalt, vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, selenium, and iodine.

And this skill allowed Gao Neng to achieve a 30% transformation of his body’s ’major’ and ’trace’ elements.

For example!

Take the ’Iron’ transformation...

’Holy shit?!’

’This skill is insane!’

"Increased ’iron’ composition in the body. Unyielding constitution! Defense Power increased by 100%, Strength increased by 50%!" Gao Neng was stunned when he saw the transformation data.

’This is insane!’

He’d always known the skills from the Idiot System were ridiculously good, but he’d never imagined one could be *this* ridiculous.

’Is this what they call "the greater the risk, the greater the reward"?’

Gao Neng could hardly believe it. He decided to check the stats for copper...

"Increased ’copper’ composition in the body. Flexibility enhanced! Defense Power increased by 70%, Strength increased by 50%. Semi-conductive: 50% lightning damage reduction!"

’It even reduces lightning damage?!’

’So badass!’

’As expected, every transformation has different attributes.’

Gao Neng was thrilled. He felt that it was now impossible to deny how super strong he was. This skill was absurdly powerful, and this was only the beginner level. What about intermediate and advanced?

’Strength skyrocketing by 1000%!’

’Shatter mountains with a punch, part rivers with a kick!’

’I’d be an Immortal!’

Gao Neng was so excited his face was slightly flushed. He continued reading and saw the conditions for use...

"Friendly Reminder: Use of Lifeform Transformation (Beginner) is not recommended for extended periods. Overuse may cause adverse reactions, such as: dizziness, vertigo, vomiting, pregnancy, etc."

"What the hell?!"

Gao Neng completely ignored that list of adverse reactions. He’d expected as much. After all, he wasn’t an idiot; an excess of trace elements from a prolonged transformation was bound to cause problems.

But the real issue wasn’t the dizziness and vertigo...

It was the string of numbers that followed.

"Cost to use ’Iron’ enhancement: 1,000 Alliance Coins per minute."

"Cost to use ’Copper’ enhancement: 2,000 Alliance Coins per minute."

"Cost to use ’Zinc’ enhancement..."

"..."

"The cheapest one, ’Iron,’ costs 1,000 Alliance Coins per minute?! ’Copper’ is 2,000, and there are even more expensive ones..."

"This is fucking daylight robbery!"

How much money did Gao Neng have right now?

In total...

Barely ten thousand!

In other words, even if he used the cheapest ’Iron’ option, he could only "transform" for ten minutes?!

’What the hell kind of condition is that.’

"Idiot System, I’m telling you in all seriousness, that kind of thinking is dangerous. You’re just blatantly discriminating against the poor! No money, no fun, is that it? Go on, be a bigger rip-off if you’ve got the guts! 1,000 Alliance Coins a minute?! Why don’t you just make it 2,000 a minute, huh?!" Gao Neng had reached his limit.

"Understood. The system has humanely fulfilled the host’s request. Lifeform Evolution (Beginner) ’Iron’ usage cost has been changed to 2,000 Alliance Coins per minute," the mechanical voice intoned.

"..." Gao Neng was stunned speechless.

"..." The Idiot System.

"Um... my dearest, most handsome system, I was just kidding. Do you believe me?" What else could Gao Neng say? All he wanted now was to turn back time.

"I do not."

"!!!" Gao Neng took a deep breath.

’This is the last straw!’

At that moment, he made up his mind. As soon as he got a little bit stronger, he was ditching this Idiot System no matter what.

’I’ll never take another one of its quests again! Not even if you beat me to death!’

’Screw you, you idiot! I don’t want your rewards, no matter how good they are!’

He didn’t say anything else.

So what if the ’Iron’ enhancement now cost 2,000 Alliance Coins?

’Big deal!’

’Worst case, I just won’t use ’Iron.’ I’ll use ’Copper’... I’m not losing out if I use ’Copper,’ since its price was 2,000 Alliance Coins per minute to begin with.’

Gao Neng glanced at the ’Copper’ enhancement again. Yep, still 2,000. Unchanged! He was ecstatic!

...

The battle on the island had reached a fever pitch.

Chen Bai seemed to have no intention of actually killing the examinees surrounding him. Instead, he chose to bog them down in a prolonged fight, neither advancing nor retreating, simply wearing them out.

The students from Third High, however, were in a much more miserable state.

Besieged by First High and Fourth High, with Second High harassing them from the sides, the Third High students were beaten back again and again, with one of them getting eliminated every so often.

"Gao Neng... help... help me!" A Third High student, unable to hold on any longer against three attackers, began to stumble toward Chen Bai.

Chen Bai, however, merely shifted his position in silence.

"Ah!" The Third High student finally collapsed.

The other Third High students glanced over with a hint of pity but said nothing. As long as "Gao Neng" didn’t die, the title of top scorer in the college entrance exam was guaranteed to go to Third High.

For "Gao Neng" to avoid being aggressive and conserve his strength... was perfectly normal behavior.

"Protect Gao Neng!"

"We can die, but Gao Neng can’t!"

"For the honor of Third High!" 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The Third High students yelled, forming a desperate human wall.

Just then, a yellow-feathered duck poked its head out of the lake. Then, it slowly began to approach an octopus standing on the shore.