It was a pity that System's inability to sense the outside world during his metamorphosis meant that he couldn't test out [Ability Enhancement] on other targets. Otherwise, he wouldn't mind using the ability to try to enhance Shava.

  'I wonder if Shava has the [Limb Regeneration] ability?'

  If Shava had [Limb Regeneration] like a grasshopper, and the ability could be enhanced by [Ability Enhancement], then the disabled Shava would quickly grow out a new set of limbs.

  System's metamorphosis was taking much longer than he'd imagined it would. After a few random thoughts, he continued to tinker with his newly invented ability, [Tools Menu].

  The more System used this ability generated by [Data Compition], the more functions he was able to discover. He could even add various features simir to those in a game to the [Tools Menu].

  ...

  Ding! Your level has increased.

  Ding! Your [Tools Menu] talent's level has increased.

  Ding! You gained 58 units of experience.

  ...

  He could add a voice notification function to his body, just like in a video game.

  A voice would automatically notify him whenever he leveled up, when one of his abilities upgraded, or if he gained experience from eating.

  This voice notification could also be repced with a text message, which would appear floating in front of him. He could also add a time module and a direction module in his field of view to dispy the time of day and which direction he was facing.

  These simple functions could be activated at all times and would only consume a tiny amount of his mental power. System felt that even if he always kept them turned on, they would have negligible impact on his mind.

  He realized that he was increasingly transforming himself into an online game character. As long as a health bar, mana bar, and a minimap up in the corner were added, it would basically be the same as a standard online game.

  If System's [Tools Menu] had been present when he'd first woken up in this world, there was at least a ninety percent chance that he would have thought he'd been reborn in a game world.

  ...

  System continued pying around with the [Tools Menu]. After he integrated the skills into the [Tools Menu], he divided them into several functional modules and renamed them.

  The new modules were called [My Information], [Data Bank], [Reading and Analysis], and [Useful Gadgets].

  [My Information] corresponded to [Personal Information Generation]. The [Data Bank] had the same function as [Information Entry]. [Reading and Analysis] was like the ability of [Information Reading]. The [Useful Gadgets] were the various miscelneous abilities he'd created.

  System discovered that the ability [Reading and Analysis], which could dispy the outlines of objects in his surroundings, could be modified to become more useful.

  After he briefly visualized his idea, he immediately took action. He used the records stored in the [Database] to conduct experiments and began tweaking his [Reading and Analysis] ability.

  System had no way to strengthen its ability to analyze things, but its ability to make the outlines of surrounding objects emit a faint light was quickly upgraded and optimized.

  He differentiated the colors of the shimmering light generated by [Reading and Analysis] according to the types of objects being observed. Things that weren't dangerous were set to a green light, things that were somewhat dangerous were set to a yellow light, and things that were very dangerous or had never been seen before were set to a red light.

  In this way, after activating the [Reading and Analysis] function, any dangers and unknown objects in the external environment would be much more visible.

  ...

  System was studying the various uses of the [Tools Menu] so intently that he even forgot that his body was undergoing metamorphosis.

  While he was studying the [Tools Menu], he suddenly heard a buzzing sound, which was like a mosquito flying around his ear while he was sleeping, making him restless.

  While System was looking for the source of the sound, he suddenly found himself in a strange pce. He was surrounded by an expanse of pure white, and it appeared as if there was nothing there at all.

  In fact, even he himself wasn't there. He felt as if he'd transformed into a puff of air or a grain of dust that couldn't be seen by the naked eye.

  System noticed that he seemed to hear something. The sensation was actually more like when he received a mental message from his [Mental Transmission] than when he heard a sound, but it was also very different.

  It felt like this sound directly acted on his soul.

  'Could this be how the Voice of the World appears during the third metamorphosis?'

  'But I don't understand it at all...'

  Suddenly, System felt an inexplicable power approaching from the void, and this power merged into his soul.

  He felt his vision gradually dim, and he fell into a deep sleep...

  ...

  When System woke up, his third metamorphosis had already successfully completed.

  As he stretched his body, it made a series of crackling sounds.

  After his third metamorphosis, System's body had grown to a length of about twenty-five centimeters, and his antennae had become as slender as Quin's. An unknown, complex pattern was visible on his green exoskeleton.

  System didn't know what pnt the pattern was supposed to look like. It was very strange and appeared simir to the pattern on Quin's body, but it wasn't the same.

  He moved around a bit, cleaning up all the dregs remaining on his skin from his metamorphosis.

  He suddenly saw that his two forelegs had undergone special changes. A very conspicuous circur gap had appeared near the spurs on his front legs. There seemed to be some tiny brown things trembling from time to time inside the gap.

  System exerted a little force, and several dark-brown, fleshy sprouts suddenly emerged from each circur gap. These sprouts continued to grow and extend like tentacles until they reached their limit at about ten centimeters in length.

  Three such tentacles emerged from each gap. The tentacles were about two millimeters thick and were very flexible. System could freely control them just like humans controlled their fingers.

  He easily grabbed an ant rva lying next to him with his left foreleg's tentacles, then tore off a piece of luminescent mushroom nearby with his right foreleg's tentacles and fed it to the rva.

  ...

  After being reborn as a grasshopper, System had missed the flexible fingers of a human tremendously. Only after losing his fingers did he truly understand the various benefits of having them.

  There were many things that he could easily accomplish with fingers that were difficult to do with a grasshopper's legs.

  Perhaps it was because of his obsession with fingers that System had evolved these finger-like tentacles during his third metamorphosis.

  However, although his tentacles were as useful as fingers, they were also very ugly. System felt that it was downright awkward to have tentacles like his on a grasshopper.

  He randomly controlled the short tentacles sprouting from his legs. Suddenly, he seemed to sense something...

  System shook his body and moved half a centimeter to the left in the cave. A second ter, a clump of scattered soil fell from above and nded right next to his head.

  He suddenly remembered the mysterious Voice of the World, and the ability the Voice of the World had given him. Information began to rapidly surface within his mind...