Rising in the ranks to 27 in the gallery was pretty cool. I had also leveled up to level 92 for my troubles. For level 90, I was able to add two more forms. I knew what I was going to do. When nightfall fell, I went to the aquarium and snuck in. Finding the shark tank was pretty easy. I liquified and entered the tank. There was a lemon shark in there swimming around. I caught it and absorbed it. I made that my sixth form. When I exited the tank, I was taller and heavier. I was now 7 foot 8. That was a growth spot of a foot and a half. I was a very ripped and toned anthropomorphic shark. The back was the same yellow as my ooze. The front was a nice eggshell white. The best thing was that it was pretty light considering how big I was. It was equivalent to two humans. I had leathery skin and a powerful 10 pound tail that almost reached the ground from my tailbone. Back at my house, there was no reason not to make them switch. I made sure that the Foundation Establishment clones were the ones that got bigger. That meant there were three left: two with the jammers and one with the speedos.
I had to think on my feet on where to go next. Things were only going to ramp up with the manhunt for me. I looked at the country map on the menu. In the medium sized landlocked country of Engkep, there were three lakes. There was Lake Heart, Lake Period, and Lake Central. Lake Period was a small and circular lake to the southwest of the country. Lake Central was a rhombus shaped lake and in the center of the country. The third lake, Lake Heart, was to the east of the country. I thought that it would be perfect for my new form. I could swim and play on the beach. With the new wall spells, there was nothing keeping me from making my own beach home and lair. The only thing to decide was which one of the beaches was I going to go to. Or, maybe I could go and spread out to more than one. As it stood, there were four sharkmen, a drider, and two R8s. That was not counting all the suits and the mask. Speaking of, I still had one of the R8s at the safehouse. I made up my mind. The three crammed in the car and drove down to Lake Heart. As for me, I went to the house and waited for the second R8.
The morning came before the R8. When I got in the car, I remembered that this clone in particular did not have the Qi needed to make its own lair. That meant that it was going to have to be Lake Heart. It took more that a day to get to the lake. There was a spot that was not too far off from the sand on the right side of the V shape of the heart. The two sharkmen wearing jammers made giant wooden walls. They were a meter thick and 15 feet high each. I thought that would be big enough. The rectangle was 100 yards by 125 yards. After allowing them to rest and replenish some of their Qi, they used metal walls to partition the space into rooms. There were several for sleeping and a large living and dining room. I made sure there was space for a kitchen as well. I was really going to have to get some furniture and other amenities inside before even I could call it a lair. It was not even a suitable home at the moment. I had them add a roof. It was not vey impressive as it was more like the lid to a box than anything. A dull grey, cold, metal box to be completely accurate. It could still work out though.
Luckily, I had a payout for the last heist. I was able to order some furniture on the internet to my location. When they arrived, they got to work installing everything. All the tables and chairs were really good on the sand of the floor under our feet. I had even gotten in some flower vases and paintings put up. I had to order some cots and candelabras. That way people could sleep when combined with a container to put belongings. That is why each of the five bedrooms had a dresser and night table. This brought the up the class of the place. There were three gaps in the walls. One was facing the shoreline. That was the back door. The front door was on the opposite side of the house and the third was on the right side. There was no door, so I used shackles as if they were the beads one would hand in a doorway. Now that that was out of the way. It was time to swim. The ones wearing swimwear were fine. The body I was currently using had to go nude. It was not like there was nothing to show. The two dicks were inside the genital slit. Hardly obscene or explicit in any way. We all went for a swim.
