Ding!
"What was that what was anything it simply couldn't know nor understand, at first it was nothing but a blank slate devoid of thought but now it can think whatever think and those words were".
"What was that what does any of this even mean whatever it was it couldn't help but focus on the skills?".
"It examine the description of each of the skills it had absorbing the knowledge it just learned when a thought popped up as it checked the other things on it status screen".
"More knowledge entered it head as it went through what it just saw before coming to a conclusion.
It was apart of a race that was said to be extinct but that can't be because it still exist and is here even if it may not know why nor did it know much about said race, next energy lvl exp and it skills will allow it to do many important things that it know of tho it doesn't understand the status effect thing? for one of the skills something it'll deal with later, the ability to infect things something that will be crucial key element in survival where ever it was, now that it thought about it".
Ding!
"Memories entered it mind as it learned about the host it controls now knowing where it is, opening the eyes of the rat it got to take a look at it's surrounding seeing nothing but white walls and a bright light above it, as it got up off the ground the four limbs it was in control feeling as if it been using them for years".
Ding!
[Level up]
"Level up? Is this how it gets lvl but it did nothing unless infecting the rat and completing the infection was also included as a means of getting exp tho that raises a question what was the rats lvl from what it could gleem by going through the memories the rat lacked what it had and it doesn't know why?".
[Infection completed commencing first test...releasing test subject #50089]
"It would have to continue thinking about this issue later because right now it captors were conducting an experiment a word it picked up from the memories of the rat before its death same goes for what the captors look like due to the rat exposure to them despite it being confined, tall mostly hairless creatures that walked on two legs who also made weird noise which was how they communicate to each other.
It moved around it's confinement anticipating what will happen next when the wall to it's right opened up allowing another rat to enter this one was bigger than the one it controlled and appeared to be salivating upon looking at the infected rat.
Without hesitation the bigger rat ran at full speed towards the infected rat not caring about the different smell it had nor how it acted as it came in for a bite only to be disappointed as the rodent dodged out of the way and returned a bite of it own digging into the bigger rat neck with it's teeth some of them chipped broke or cracked as they asserted more force than they could handle as a sickening crunch resounded the bigger rodent collapsed to the floor neck broken and a chunk of flesh missing as it layed in a pool of it own blood.
That was quick and a bit of a disappointment even tho it host teeth were damaged it can simply regrow them, the unfortunate part was that it didn't gain a level in anything but at least it has more memories and biomass to add to it's own but just to make sure it waited around for some time expecting more enemies but upon seeing nothing else.
It drag the rat body to the corner in the room to ensure it wouldn't be interrupted as it layed on top of the big rat body, letting the instincts guide it as it used the biomass manipulation skill, like playing with clay whatever that word was the virus started to fuse the bodies together removing the cellular barrier that separated the two, anything it deemed useless such as most of the organs small claws hair and skin would be used to grow more biomass as it got to work.
20 minutes was how long it took to get done the energy lost was only 200 which may seem big but due to it level up it had 600 energy as it total now and was close to another level up it'll hold off on further energy spending just in case, now being satisfied it went over the things it changed.
The body was skinless and much bigger than before about 3ft while being more muscular as well, the two limbs at the front were slightly dark in color due to them being hardened and had sharpend curved bones coming out of the area where the claws would be, bones grew crudely out of the back and neck shielding them from harm, it fused the ribs of the smaller rat to the big ones creating a thick fully covered ribcage where it stored the enlarged stomach and made sure to cover any exposed interior of the body with excess flesh.
The head of the smaller rat was mostly absorbed into the big one strengthening it the bones and adding more strength to the jaw bone and muscles, 4 eyes two in the front two in the back the mouth had another row of teeth behind the original ones the teeth themselves were sharpend and any of the damaged teeth from the small rat were fixed.
The tail was lengthend a bit being half a foot as sharpend bone grew from the sides, when it was done with the check over it look through the memories of the other rat not finding much useful other than knowing why it was so careless due to it being injected with something that gave it insatiable hunger and having a bit of a layout of the place that was outside it confinement that would be beneficial even if not by very much to it escape once the right opportunity arise but now it will just wait and go over the things in it status panel due to the changes the lvl up brought and what it just created".