Becoming Cthulhu

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Chapter 1: Am I A Tentacle Monster?

In July 2023, within the waters of the Dragon Kingdom, Noah found himself in a strange situation. "Eh?! Where is this? Didn't I save people just now?" he thought.

Suddenly, waves of dizziness overwhelmed him, and he remembered his limbs cramping after jumping into the river, causing him to sink straight to the bottom and lose consciousness. Noah, a senior student at Huanan No. 2 Middle School, had spent his summer vacation wandering around when he saw a woman accidentally falling into the water in the moat. Driven by anger and urgency, he had jumped in to save her.

However, once in the water, his body's temperature imbalance paralyzed his limbs, and instead of rescuing her, he ended up drowning. Shaking his head, he opened his eyes and surveyed the scene before him. "Huh?! Why am I in the water? No, how can I breathe in the water?"

Swiming upwards, he was shocked to discover that his limbs had turned into eight tentacles, resembling the octopus tentacles in his memory. Noah gazed at his tentacles, lost in contemplation. "Oh no! Am I a tentacle monster?"

As he pondered, a peculiar voice echoed in his mind. "Ding! Congratulations to the host for awakening the 'Energy Evolution System'. The system will give the host a gift pack for newbies!" Noah was puzzled. "???"

Was this really the essential system for rebirth? He had read many novels about time travel and rebirth where a golden finger system played a crucial role. "Holy shit! Is this uncle also the chosen one? Is it finally my turn to take off?" Noah began to get excited.

It was best to first understand what the system was, so he submerged his consciousness into his mind. The functions of the "Energy Evolution System" appeared before him one by one. There were four functions in total: "Attribute Page," "System Backpack," "Evolution Tree," and "Quest."

For Noah, who was well-versed in system novels, these functions were comprehensible at a glance. He decided to check the "Attribute Page" first.

Name: Noah

Species: Common octopus

Bloodline: Ordinary Level

Gender: Male

Age: 1 month/3 years

Status: Infancy

Weight: 0.5kg/3kg

Strength: 10kg/60kg

Speed: 4 meters per second/13 meters per second

Defense: 0.2 kg endurance/0.5 kg endurance

Skills: "Color Change," "Camouflage," "Venom," "Induction"

Talents: "Regeneration," "Precognition," "Detection Technique"

Energy Points: 0

"I'm going to kill you! It only has a lifespan of 3 years? What kind of plane are you running?" Noah was speechless but grateful to still be a male octopus. If he had been reborn as a female, that would have been another matter.

Wrong! It seems the male octopus gets eaten by the female during mating. This...!

Newly born octopuses can only eat plankton and fish eggs. "F**k! This uncle has been reborn as an existence at the bottom of the food chain!"

Why? Others were reborn as tigers, bears, and even dragons. Why was I reborn as an octopus? At this time, Noah's heart was extremely broken. He wished the system could allow him to be reborn again, even if it meant being reborn as a bird.

A tentacle seemed to sense Noah's sadness and stretched out to stroke his head. 

"The tentacles still understand me!" Noah thought.

Wait? If this tentacle is not mine, why is it suddenly touching my head? His senses immediately revealed that something was wrong, something was terribly wrong! He realized there were eight little heads on his eight tentacles. The tentacle that touched him was commanded by one of those heads.

"Ah, this...!"

The CPU in Noah's head felt like it was overheating. Everyone says that the octopus is the most bizarrely evolved creature in nature, and it seems that this is not wrong. Forget it, let's continue studying the system functions!

[Backpack Item: "Newbie Gift Pack"*1]

"Open the 'Newbie Gift Pack'!" Noah opened it without hesitation.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for opening the "Newbie Gift Pack" and obtaining 500 energy points, 1 bottle of "Bloodline Boosting Potion", and 1 bottle of "Talent Strengthening Potion"!]

What are the last two?

[Item name: "Bloodline Boosting Potion"]

[Item Type: Disposable Consumables]

[Item function: After use, it can increase one's own bloodline by a small level]

It turns out that it improves bloodline! Not bad! Move on to the next one.

[Item name: "Talent Strengthening Potion"]

[Item Type: Disposable Consumables]

[Item function: After use, you can choose the specified talent for one enhancement]

The items given in the "Newbie Gift Pack" are pretty good; at least they didn't give him a wooden stick and a commoner! But what is bloodline level?

"Hey, hey, hey! The system is huge! Can you tell me what the bloodline level is?" Noah asked. But he waited and waited, and the system didn't reply to him.

Darn! Is this system without intelligence? Let's take a look at what this "Evolutionary Tree" function does. When he clicked on "Evolutionary Tree," an extremely huge tree appeared on the page. His consciousness felt like an ant next to an elephant by this giant tree. He looked at the top of the "Evolutionary Tree." There were spherical nodes at different positions in the tree, each containing a strange image.

After simply counting the evolutionary nodes on this tree, there were almost more than 300.

"Good boy! So there are so many evolutionary paths for octopuses?" Noah was delighted.

After a while, he saw a familiar image. Its appearance was very similar to "Eye of the Void," but it was more domineering! He touched this node with his consciousness, and a system prompt appeared in his mind.

[Ding! If you want to evolve into "Void Monitor," you must unlock all evolutionary species of the previous level and have enough energy points to complete the evolution!]

""Void Monitor"??? Awesome!" A voice in Noah's heart exclaimed. Then he looked at the higher levels of the "Evolutionary Tree." There were many more advanced node images on the "Void Monitor," but he didn't recognize any of them. Finally, his eyes rested on a familiar image.

[Ding! If you want to evolve into "Cthulhu," you must unlock all evolutionary species of the previous level and have enough energy points to complete the evolution!]