'System, do you mind telling me the difference between absorbing these crystallized ability stones and comprehending them?' Randy asked the system.

Absorbing the ability stone of an entity would grant you the ability absorbed completely, which includes the grade of the ability upon absorption. However, there was a possibility of incompatibility and thus, the grade of the ability or your control over the said ability may or may not decrease. Furthermore, the chances of the ability evolving to the next level would be nigh impossible after you absorb it.

As for comprehending the ability contained within the ability stone, that grants the host the ability to understand the ability's nature and mechanisms completely and even had the possibility of forming a core after comprehension. However, in order to comprehend the ability within an ability stone with the above mentioned in mind, then the host would need to spend an appropriate amount of ???. Moreover, there was a possibility of the comprehended ability evolving by spending ??? in the future or naturally evolving the ability.

The host can also choose to use the knowledge points to comprehend the ability within the ability stone, however, it would only become a technique after comprehending it and or might not have the possibility of forming a core or evolving. The system does not recommend this method as it would it is no different from absorbing the ability stone directly

Randy:

"…

"

After a while of deliberation, Randy who had been left baffled by the system's explanation decided to ask the system something that bothered him after reading through everything more than once.

'System, what is the ??? that you kept showing in the text during the explanation? What does that mean?' Randy carefully asked.

…That is related to a certain event that the host had yet to complete in order to be privy to such information. However, with your current strength, it may be impossible, but you never know since one could not accurately predict the future

The system answered in ambiguousness, eliciting a reaction from Randy.

At this moment, Randy displayed a frown on his face as he read the last lines of text.

'What does that mean? That did not answer my question and instead made me more confused.'

At this point, Randy suddenly had a strange feeling as he noticed something odd about the system.

For a while now, he noticed that the system had been acting strange ever since it upgraded, but now that he thought about it, his system seemed different from when he first had it when he awakened.

At the time, he did not want to think about it too much, but now he could tell that perhaps, the system itself had undergone a change and not its features alone.

A notable reason for that was the fact that there were no mechanical voices from the system and only texts displayed on his system's screen.

With the exception of the notification sounds from time to time, there was no mechanical voice after its upgrade.

But Randy soon ignored this matter and instead asked something that was more important to him right now.

'System, is it possible to record and store the ability stones at the same time? Since I am not sure whether I should absorb these abilities or comprehend them.' Randy doubtfully asked.

That is indeed possible The system confirmed.

"That's great, then please do so.

" Randy urged right away as he was pleased by this response.

Acknowledged!

Beginning The Extraction of Crystallized Ability Stones

The system displayed these texts and a supernatural phenomenon suddenly occurred around three of the bodies that Randy laid next to each other.

At this moment, Randy saw three round crystal-like substances in different colors departing the glowing bodies of the sunglasses man, and two of his subordinate's bodies.

When Randy observed one of them, he noticed that they might be the one that had those support-type abilities, that was able to hide his presence and even hide his comrades' appearance.

But Randy also recalled this person being capable of detection as even though he was hidden like the other party, they still managed to find his whereabouts through some technique or perhaps one of their abilities.

Randy stopped thinking about this and focused on what was going on instead.

The three orbs that seemed glass-like as they displayed different shapes inside them, hovered on top of the three corpses: a tiny yellow cube, a tiny dark-blue sphere, an uneven green-yellow tiny sphere.

Soon a notification popped up in front of Randy's eyes.

Currently Recording Abilities.

About a minute later, the abilities were fully recorded, surprising Randy slightly that it took less time than he had imagined.

After all, when he first recorded those techniques and hidden special abilities together, it took more time than this…

'No, I think it only took about 30 seconds to record that derived hidden skill palm of double return skill from that mirror artifact, so I think this time is reasonable.' Randy silently thought in conclusion.

Now storing the crystallized ability stones in the system's storage space The system stated.

The moment it stated this, the three luminescent orbs disappeared somewhere, shocking Randy but he soon calmed down as the system had already clarified what was happening before the three orbs disappeared.

After that was done, Randy did not bother to check the system as he needed to get out of here as soon as possible since he had already wasted his time fighting these people.

With that thought in mind, he urged the system to appraise the bottle of fluid that he obtained earlier from the sunglasses man and his subordinates by holding onto it.

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⟪Decomposing Fluid⟫

⟪Grade: C⟫

⟪Type: Potion⟫

⟪Description: Using this concocted potion on any dead living being will completely decompose them; their skin and flesh would gradually turn into nothing but sand. It is highly effective when getting rid of corpses of some monsters and or beasts whose bodies were useless to process⟫

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Warning: The content of this potion is highly flammable. Beware to not let it come into contact with heat substances, otherwise, it would immediately cause the potion to catch on fire

The system stated after displaying the information about the content in the bottle.

"What the **! It is this wicked potion again like I thought. Do these people carry this with them everywhere or whenever they go to commit crimes or something?

"

Randy suddenly cursed after reading through the lines of text that seemed very familiar to him.