Reincarnated As A Chameleon And Eating Everything To Evolve

Even before Matthew asked the system about his jumping prowess, he had already figured out to some extent that with the added weight on his torso, he would lose some distance from his jumping distance. He doubts that with his new body, he would be able to jump 10 meters away as easily as before if he didn't use his aura to boost and enhance his leg strength.

And besides, his current body didn't look proportional in size with a large and broad torso and slim and thin-looking legs holding up his hulking ċhėst and arms.

Although there's no way that Matthew could have thought of a way to make his body lighter again without losing the great boost to his strength, Matthew still got an idea that might be feasible for him to alleviate the penalty of having a huge body. 

'It might not be possible to lighten my body weight to retain my jumping capabilities, but can I just strengthen my leg muscles instead to make up for it?'

The monkey's natural muscle structure is naturally not as thick and dense as the bear's and according to the system's explanation, if he just enlarged the monkey's leg muscles to proportionally fit the bear's muscles up on his torso, it still wouldn't be as effective to get back his jumping prowess. His leg strength will definitely increase if he did that, but it still won't be as strong when compared to his body before getting the added weight.

Fortunately, with an almost zero sense of knowledge in biology, unrestrained creativity, and mainly the prowess of the system, Matthew was able to come up with a solution to this problem.

Matthew remembered earlier when the system explained to him that the bear's muscles were considered as fast-twitching muscles that were capable of doing very powerful, explosive movements. Going by that simple line of thinking, Matthew got an idea about how to increase his jumping power.

The act of jumping itself is considered an explosive movement where you pour out your strength onto your legs in a short amount of time, resulting in your body lifting off the ground. And what else is better at doing explosive movement rather than a dense, fast-twitching muscle that was built to do powerful and a short burst of power in a short amount of time. 

So then, without a care for the rules of how biology worked, Matthew asked the system,

'System, can you somehow transplant the bear's muscle to my leg and make it so that the bear muscle acts as auxiliary support to boost the original monkey's muscle so that they will have more explosive power to boost my jumping power?'

The system seems to have remained silent for a moment and Matthew added,

'It's like they were connected with each other and the bear's muscle acts similar to an exoskeleton in futuristic movies where cyborgs had metal parts that boosted their overall strength. Is that possible…?'

The system once again stayed silent for quite a while before the list on the evolution tab moved on its own again and it went to the bear's section before the system automatically added some parts that Matthew didn't know before then showing Matthew the changes that happened on his 3D hologram body.

When he looked at the 3D hologram, Matthew noticed that his unproportional body had become more aesthetic as his thin legs had gained a few inches thick muscles around them. And Matthew, who still had zero ideas about how the system managed to do it, but his leg muscles still shaped more similar to buffed monkey's legs compared to the bear's muscle legs and even his abdomen muscle was also adjusted by the system so that it could properly support all the burst of power his limbs capable of exerting. If he kept his initial abdominal muscle, then it's only a matter of time before it received more stress than it could handle from all the power he could exert from the bear's muscle on his hands and legs and tore apart from it.

And speaking of aesthetics, the lean and dense bear muscles that now covered his whole body from his hands to his legs gave Matthew's body an aesthetically pleasing look from the muscle perspective because even though the top-side part of his body was covered by the crocodile's scutes, the bottom-side part still looked refined with muscle lines here and there, telling anyone who looked at him that he got packing muscle underneath those bottom scales.

Matthew nodded in satisfaction as he solved the problem with his strength and jumping power, but still, even with all the modifications, upgrades, and new body parts added to his body, Matthew still hasn't done with his fourth evolution.

He then scrolled to the last available monster data on the available monster data list and clicked on the Forest Troll section. 

The forest troll was also considered a creature that had a considerably powerful strength that seemed to be on par with the bear, but why did Matthew still choose to add the bear's muscles onto his body instead of the trolls? 

As someone who had fought both the bear and the trolls, Matthew knew which one of them is actually physically stronger than the other. He might not have a tool to accurately measure both of their strength, but Matthew could use other methods to determine their strength. 

For example, the method he used to know that the bear's attacks were stronger than the trolls was by using the solid aura constructs.

By seeing the damage done to his solid aura constructs when he blocked their attacks and feeling the amount of aura it took to repair the damages done to them, Matthew knew that the bear had significantly stronger attacks that made his aura core pour out more aura to repair the damage his solid aura constructs received from blocking the bear's attacks compared to when he blocked the troll's attacks.

'I guess it's true when they say that the beasts are naturally stronger than other creatures.'

However, that doesn't mean that the troll monster data would be useless for him. There's a reason why he insisted on getting the troll's monster data even if he had to risk himself getting caught by the trolls and sneaking back to their village in the middle of the night, killing two of the troll guards secretly. What he wanted is not their strength, but rather…

'System, can you add the troll's rapid regeneration ability to my body?'

Just like before, the system didn't say anything and got right to work as it added the troll's unique rapid regeneration trait onto Matthew's body, making Matthew have the same capabilities of healing a cut or broken bones in his body in a matter of seconds. 

Matthew's actual fighting style was significantly different from the trolls as he had used to his considerably fragile body and his fighting method revolved in focusing on blocking the attacks that he could block while mostly dodging attacks that might injure his body if he decided to block them. His earlier fighting style was even more in contrast with the troll's fighting style since he basically hit his enemies once or twice to register his venom before hiding and waited until they were weak enough that they couldn't even put up a fight as Matthew bit their necks.

However, he now had a larger and stronger body that might also affect his fighting style tremendously. It's not like Matthew would change drastically and suddenly become a vicious beast that just ran head-on, destroying everything in his path with brute strength and completely neglecting his defense, his ex-human mind won't let him do such a savage method of fighting. 

Having a bigger and stronger body means that Matthew could now approach things more head-on compared to before and the rapid regeneration ability acts as his insurance just in case he miscalculated and had to receive a powerful attack directly. 

Although Matthew had seen before that the system had a regeneration function that works automatically when his body received a large amount of wound by consuming the stored bionutrients, Matthew still didn't know how it worked and from his experience before, it only works when he is asleep and not while he was awake and still fighting.

But with the troll's rapid regeneration ability, he had seen them in action before. And seeing a broken troll's bone snapped right back into place and healed completely right in front of his face is the only proof that Matthew needed to know that this regeneration ability would be very helpful for him.

Regarding his fighting style, Matthew wasn't constricted by only one particular style or method. 

First of all, he got his solid aura constructs that could literally become many things as long as Matthew was able to shape and control them. They could boost his overall body strength or even significantly boost a certain part of his body however he wanted. He could make an aura blade and fight like he was fighting before or he could make a solid aura construct that will make use of his bear's muscle strength and have a slap as strong as the bear's that could chip off a large chunk of a tree trunk.

Second, he now also has the venom option glands that produced enhanced, stronger, and customizable venom that he could use along with his basic chameleon aura ability to return to his first fighting style or he could even use the illusion aura element to create a tricky fighting style that confuses his enemy.

He could just choose one fighting style depending on the enemy he is facing.