Chapter 522: Dark Demon’s Dual Dragons Unleashed (10,000)
“A finishing move that’s useless in a Mana Duel.”
“But indeed, essential for a glutton.”
Dark Demon’s forehead seemed to have three black lines drawn on it.
If Mana Spirits could replenish their Mana by eating, then as long as they kept eating, every Mana Spirit could take spontaneous trips.
This implied that this “Fruit Worm” already had the potential for spontaneous trips.
Of course, if its crawling speed, which was even slower than a caterpillar, could support it leaving home.
But after the jest, Dark Demon quickly composed himself.
Though the finishing move “Greed” lacked practical combat value, its academic significance was extremely high!
Assuming the information reflected from this Mana Spirit Card was accurate, it meant that a Mana Spirit with the “Greed” finishing move could convert any food into Mana!
And since food encompasses everything, it can almost include all substances.
This implies that this “Fruit Worm” has a special ability to convert all substances into Mana!
If such a special ability could be developed and utilized…
For instance, a Magus typically uses a Mana Pen with a mercury core, sometimes replacing it with a potion or blood, and writes with it.
But if the “Fruit Worm” could convert potions or blood used by the Mana Pen into pure Mana, and then write with it…
The meaning behind this would signify a revolution in Mana Technology.
However, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
If “Greed” could truly be developed and simulated, it means obtaining Mana would become extremely cheap.
And once obtaining Mana becomes cheap, there will be possibilities for widespread use.
Just like how electricity is used in countless households, one day, the world might become one where everyone can “use” Mana!
For Mana Technology, Mana is the “electricity” within it.
…
This idea, although theoretically possible, is overly idealistic and far from being feasible now.
Even if countless “Fruit Worms” were refined and connected like circuits, there’s no guarantee they could continuously provide stable and non-draining Mana.
…
Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Dark Demon continued to look at the subsequent finishing moves.
“Fruit Worm” has three finishing moves, besides “Greed,” there’s “Scare” and “Retreat.”
But these two finishing moves…
Dark Demon is very familiar with “Scare” because Little Dream Imp also uses this finishing move and often scares people with it.
Even without summoning the “Fruit Worm” for an experiment, he could actually guess the effect of this finishing move when used by the “Fruit Worm.”
That is, the shock of suddenly seeing a caterpillar emerge from a red apple.
The other finishing move, “Retreat,” might as well be called “Retreat into the Apple.”
However, among the three finishing moves of “Fruit Worm,” “Retreat” is undoubtedly the most powerful.
Its effect is basically equivalent to “rounding up,” increasing base defense by fifty percent!
This means that “Fruit Worm” can increase its already high defense, higher than one-star, to a full 1500 points through this finishing move!
Those accustomed to high-starred Mana Spirits might think 1500 points of defense isn’t high, but in reality, it’s already the top value a three-star Mana Spirit can achieve, unquestionably strong.
“In summary, while this ‘Fruit Worm’ lacks offensive capabilities, its survival abilities are not weak.”
“It possesses high defense comparable to a three-star Mana Spirit, alongside being a one-star Mana Spirit.”
“This characteristic makes it an indispensable role in a deck.”
In the system of Sacrificial Summoning, high-starred Mana Spirits require low-starred Mana Spirits whose stars add up correctly as sacrifices.
In other words, only two three-star Mana Spirits cannot summon a five-star Mana Spirit.
So if you want to improve the error rate tolerance, one-star, two-star, and three-star Mana Spirits are all indispensable.
Of course, some might choose to store only three-star, six-star, and nine-star Mana Spirits in their decks to cope with Mana Duels.
That is indeed a good choice.
But it’s only applicable to Magi who possess a large number of powerful Mana Spirit Cards.
In fact, very few Magi have that level of leeway.
…
“By the name of Dark Demon, Mana Summon — ‘Fruit Worm’!”
After gaining some understanding of “Fruit Worm,” Dark Demon chanted the usual summoning spell and summoned it first.
The appearance of “Fruit Worm” looks like a red apple, with the eyes and tail of the hidden worm showing through.
Its eyes look like the apple stem.
The lower half of the apple has yellow patterns resembling a mouth, with two small fang-like protrusions.
Compared to a regular apple, it is larger and weighs about one pound.
“Kari?”
Dark held the “Fruit Worm” with both hands and observed it closely.
The newly born Mana Spirit tilted its head immediately, revealing curiosity in its eyes.
Then, like a baby bird opening its eyes to see its mother, it rubbed its cold apple against his palm.
It’s hard to imagine that its physical body is actually a worm inside the apple just by looking at it.
Dark held it with his left hand, freeing one hand to poke the apple shell, finding it reacted.
If gently stroked on the apple skin, it would close its eyes in enjoyment.
Clearly, the apple has become part of its body.
Even in its current form, it couldn’t hold a pen, let alone learn and take exams.
Compared to the Trash Slime that can extrude tentacles from its body, its learning journey might be even more difficult.
“Never mind, when the car reaches the mountain, there must be a road; when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally straighten out. There must be a way. Besides, not all Mana Spirits are suitable for learning.”
Although Dark insisted on having all Mana Spirits master basic knowledge as a parent, he wouldn’t force them if they couldn’t learn.
The “Fruit Worm” lacks limbs and telekinesis, even unable to flip a book, making learning extremely difficult.
Of course, he would consider further observation before making a decision. Perhaps this “Greedy” “Fruit Worm” might have a thirst for knowledge?
Although it’s more likely to crave apples.
Dark showed a genuine smile and rubbed the surface of the “Fruit Worm” for a while.
Just in terms of appearance, the “Fruit Worm” is indeed cute!
As long as you forget that its physical body is a worm, you won’t tire of rubbing it.
But now is not the time to dote on it. Dark finally rubbed the “Fruit Worm’s” tiny tail and took out the “Gluttony III” he had prepared earlier, waving it in front of it and asking, “Do you know what this is?”
“Kari?” The “Fruit Worm” shook the apple stem that served as its eyes, pushed the apple toward “Gluttony III” with its tail, and greedily looked at it.
Perhaps it doesn’t know what the Mana Spirit Card is for, but instinctively wants to possess it.
Dark placed “Gluttony III” on its apple and slowly chanted the usual summoning spell.
“Let me see what you’ll evolve into!”
…
The body of the “Fruit Worm” was soon enveloped in a blue-violet “greed” light.
Dark watched its transformation with great anticipation.
As the light released by “Gluttony III” was fully absorbed by the “Fruit Worm,” the apple revealed the glow of the “greed” emblem.
But the emblem of “greed” wasn’t imprinted on the apple; clearly, it was imprinted on its physical body.
Then, the light of evolution burst forth from its body, enveloping the entire body again.
The life form of the “Fruit Worm” underwent a dramatic change!
Dark clearly saw cracks appear on the surface of the apple—like an eggshell cracking open—as the Mana Spirit transformed from a “worm” to a “dragon,” pushing apart the fragmented apple shell.
In Dark’s palm appeared a green, lizard-like creature whose body fused with the apple shell.
Its front claws merged with part of the apple’s outer skin to form wings, its eyes were thin yellow plates—like apple flesh, but with green eyelids that could open and close.
On top of its head, horns emerged from the position of the apple stem, like wearing a hat, with a piece of apple skin attached.
Its tail was connected to a larger, egg-shaped piece of apple.
It looked somewhat like a dragon.
However, its size didn’t change, still only as big as an apple.
When it curled up its body and reassembled the broken apple skin on itself, it could completely disguise itself as a whole apple.
This “slender” Mana Spirit was undoubtedly one of the evolution forms of “Fruit Worm” — “Apple Dragon”!
“Apple Dragon” is the evolved form of “Fruit Worm” after using “Sour Apple.” Compared to the round “Plump Dragon,” it has a slender body, storing highly corrosive acid in its cheek pouches.
“It turned out to be ‘Apple Dragon’? I originally thought the evolution form after using ‘Gluttony III’ would be the plumper ‘Plump Dragon.'”
Dark couldn’t help but stroke his chin in thought.
Until the “Apple Dragon” spread its wings and flew away from his palm, he suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly caught it again.
“Kari-ri—”
The “Apple Dragon” made a friendly call and extended its long tongue to lick his face.
Dark, enjoying it, tapped its little head lightly and examined its attributes.
Compared to the “Fruit Worm” baby, which is more cute than practical, the evolved “Apple Dragon” should have better stats and finishing moves.
[Image: Apple Dragon]
[Card Name: Apple Dragon]
[Type: Elemental Card]
[Level: ????]
[Race: Dragon Type]
[Attributes: Grass / Dragon]
[Mana: 1600]
[Attack: 2000]
[Defense: 1000]
[Finishing Moves: Vitality, Universal Gravity, Dragon Dive, Substitution]
Undoubtedly, this is a Gold Card!
The evolution from “Fruit Worm” to “Apple Dragon” has transformed this Orange Card into an evolution.
Moreover, its stats and finishing moves have undergone significant changes!
Dark picked up the Mana Spirit Card that had become “Apple Dragon” and examined it deeply.
The star rating of “Apple Dragon” is merely four stars, the same as Eevee and Imp Beast after evolving.
However, its race changed from Plant Type to Dragon Type after evolving!
Although such a racial change is not unprecedented, it is still extremely rare.
This indicates that after evolving into “Apple Dragon,” the plant component of “Fruit Worm” has become minimal.
Although it is small, it is indeed a genuine Dragon Type!
Its attributes have not changed, combining Grass and Dragon elements.
In other words, it needs to withstand dual weaknesses to Ice!
Sure, here is the translated passage:
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It is weak against grass types and dragon types.
In front of an ice-type golem, “Pleoworm” will be very vulnerable.
After its evolution, its three main attributes finally saw significant growth.
Firstly, its mana value increased from 500 to 1600.
This was still somewhat manageable for a four-star golem.
But its attack instantly jumped from 0 to 2000!
Such a huge leap indicated that this must be a strong offensive golem!
This could be seen from its defense, which remained at 1000 points, just like when it was “Fruit Worm.”
However, the true nature of a golem usually lies hidden within its ultimate skill.
Thus, Dark immediately checked its ultimate skills.
He first noticed that “Pleoworm” no longer had the “Gobbling Ghost” ultimate skill, then focused on checking its other ultimate skills.
The first ultimate skill was “Vigor!”
This was undoubtedly a legitimate ultimate skill.
[Vigor: A golem with the Vigor trait has its attack power increase by 1.5 times when in an excited state, but the accuracy of physical moves decreases.]
“Reducing accuracy while increasing attack power is clearly a very violent passive skill.”
Dark furrowed his brows, carefully reading it.
Then he sensed the “excited state” was more about “greed.”
“It’s likely that this ultimate skill only triggers when this ‘Pleoworm’ is driven by greed.”
“A golem with greedy traits can unlock potential and significantly boost attack power.”
“That looks much better.”
Dark couldn’t help but contemplate.
“Vigor” was originally a hidden trait of “Pleoworm,” now appearing as a passive skill, making it an extremely powerful ultimate skill.
With “Pleoworm’s” attack reaching 2000 points, once boosted to 1.5 times, it would become 3000 points.
3000 points of attack is already the top level for a six-star golem.
And this four-star “Pleoworm” could maintain 3000 points of attack when driven by greed!
Compared to another four-star “Deoxys,” this is akin to the effect of the “Sacred Ring,” though their focuses differ.
Seeing this, Dark couldn’t help but feel delighted.
It was unimaginable that a Pleoworm, standing only 30 centimeters tall, could possess such powerful attack capabilities.
If it were to accelerate, it would be as terrifying as a missile!
Its ultimate skill list also included “Dragon Dive!”
[Vigor: A golem with the Vigor trait has its attack power increase by 1.5 times when in an excited state, but the accuracy of physical moves decreases.]
“Dragon Dive” is a decent Dragon-type ultimate skill.
Whenever a dragon uses this ultimate skill, it can temporarily enhance its natural aura, thereby overwhelming opponents mentally and causing them to shrink back out of fear.
Therefore, using this ultimate skill to execute a 3000-point attack is quite appropriate and even excellent.
…
After confirming the effect of “Dragon Dive,” Dark looked back at the second ultimate skill—”Universal Gravity!”
This ultimate skill, named with high prestige, is unique to “Pleoworm.”
But there is a significant difference between its name and actual effect.
It is not a gravity control skill as many might think; it is merely a summoning apple skill!
Undoubtedly, it adopted the “Newton’s discovery of universal gravitation” pun, hence the name.
[Universal Gravity: Pleoworm can summon apples, causing them to fall rapidly from above. If they hit the target, they reduce the target’s defense by 50%.]
Though “Universal Gravity” is not as powerful as “Dragon Dive,” it is still quite good, especially considering its additional effect of reducing defense!
More frighteningly, it reduces defense by a full 50%!
This means 4000 points of defense can be reduced to 2000 points, essentially neutralizing most tanks’ defenses.
Reducing defense, combined with a 3000-point attack from “Dragon Dive,” makes “Pleoworm” a deadly threat when given the chance!
Clearly, despite its small size, “Pleoworm” can pin down targets like a nail!
From Dark’s perspective, however, he still harbored unrealistic fantasies.
For example, could “Pleoworm” ever learn to control gravity?
Perhaps enhancing its knowledge level offers a tiny chance?
Remember, even a slight change in gravity requires a magician to dedicate half their life to learning and accumulating before they qualify.
Yet, “Pleoworm” is born with the ability to recognize gravity,可谓天赋点满…
“I wonder if the apples summoned by “Pleoworm” are edible?”
Dark watched the flapping Pleoworm, unable to ask this question.
…
Next, he looked at the final ultimate skill—”Substitute!”
“Substitute” got its name because it creates a clone identical to itself.
In the Pokémon system, it holds great importance.
[Substitute: Separates one-quarter of the maximum mana (life force) to create a quarter-life-force clone, which can absorb some damage and effects of ultimate skills. If the current life force does not exceed one-quarter of the maximum, it cannot be used.]
The so-called “Substitute” is like a wooden stake in ninjutsu, used to take hits and protect oneself, allowing the clone to absorb all damage while the user retreats safely.
If mastered to perfection, it can even manipulate the clone to act and attack like a real body!
Although the “Substitute” is certainly not as powerful as the original body and cannot use ultimate skills, if it can inherit the original body’s attack and defense…
In practical combat, it can fully serve as an attack auxiliary.
Among “Pleoworm’s” four ultimate skills, “Substitute” is no less than “Vigor”!
“The applicability of ‘Substitute’ needs to be tested in terms of its attack and defense capabilities, as well as duration.”
After careful consideration, Dark began testing the effects of the four ultimate skills right away.
Starting with “Vigor.”
Stirring up “Pleoworm’s” greed is as simple as it doesn’t require any deliberate effort.
As the attack value on the Magic Card rose from 2000 to 3000, Dark couldn’t help but take a breath, then ordered “Pleoworm” to use the ultimate skill “Universal Gravity,” summoning an apple!
When the apple fell from the sky, Dark immediately realized it relied solely on gravitational acceleration, meaning dodging it wouldn’t be difficult.
No one would stand still waiting for an apple to fall.
The damage caused by the apple clearly depended on how high it was dropped.
If summoned directly overhead, it could easily hit but wouldn’t cause much damage.
But if the goal was to utilize the special effect of lowering defense by hitting the head, sacrificing some damage while ensuring accuracy would suffice.
…
Once the apple hit the ground, Dark bent down to pick it up.
Given that the apple remained undamaged upon impact, it was clearly inedible.
Its appearance mirrored that of “Fruit Worm,” obviously a magical construct.
Within half a minute, the apple dissipated into mana.
“If ‘Substitute’ also lasts this short, that would be troublesome.”
Dark frowned slightly and ordered “Pleoworm” to use the ultimate skill—”Substitute.”
“Pleoworm’s” body immediately glowed faintly white, followed by a drop in mana value by 400 points. Then, its form flickered and vanished from its original spot, reappearing nearby.
A wooden-like clone appeared where it was previously standing.
Visually, the clone was identical to the original body.
The difference was that the clone had a blank expression, stiff movements, and lacked any intelligence, more rigid than a general golem with an intelligence level of 2.0.
This meant that using the clone as a “decoy” would require “Pleoworm” to control it manually.
Dark conveyed his intentions to it.
Then, after careful thought, “Pleoworm” stared intently at the clone.
Soon, the clone started flapping its wings and gradually took flight!
This indicated that controlling the clone for attacks was feasible!
However, mastering it during battle would be extremely challenging.
…
“Hold on!”
Dark looked at the clone, suddenly having an idea.
Though using “Substitute” consumes one-quarter of the maximum life force—mana for golems—the one-quarter is a minimum. What if more life force were separated?
Apart from not being able to use ultimate skills, “Substitute” seems lacking only in life force.
If enough life force were separated, could it convincingly deceive opponents?
“Theoretically, it should be possible. Unfortunately, the cooldown for ‘Substitute’ is very long, requiring a full hour to reuse.”
As he thought, Dark noticed that “Substitute” showed no signs of disappearing…
Until “Pleoworm” regressed to “Fruit Worm,” “Substitute” still hadn’t disappeared!
“Could it be…”
While commanding “Fruit Worm” to try controlling the “Pleoworm”-shaped clone, Dark calculated the time.
Indeed, after waiting for an hour for the cooldown to end, “Substitute” suddenly dissipated.
Before dissipating, it maintained strong mana concentration, consuming mana only when moving.
If stationary, it barely consumed mana.
“With this ultimate skill… even ‘Fruit Worm’ can take the exam!” Dark exclaimed excitedly.
“Kurikuri!”
Unaware of the owner’s intent, “Fruit Worm” chirped happily in response.
…
In summary, Dark was extremely satisfied with the abilities gained by “Pleoworm” after evolving from “Fruit Worm.”
After tidying up the lab, he brought “Fruit Worm” to the dining room, introducing the new little cutie to the golems during lunch.
Then, he entrusted the little cutie to the designated childcare provider—Ditto.
Perhaps due to “Fruit Worm’s” grass type affinity, it naturally got along with Trash Slime, quickly playing together.
“This is the golem you created using Dragon Worm Fruit?” Ms. Plant asked in surprise during the meal.
Given “Fruit Worm’s” unusual appearance, she recognized it at first glance.
Dark nodded with a smile, “Yes, it went very smoothly. It is exactly the golem I wanted to create.”
“It is a grass type,” Ms. Plant sniffed.
Liao Xiu said, “There’s a fresh and sweet scent of grass.”
Dak顺势 replied, “I want to allocate the啃果虫to your study group. Is that possible?”
Ms. Plant smiled after a moment of hesitation, “Of course. However, it seems difficult for it to even flip through a textbook, and with only a month left until the end of the month, you will be going out…”
Dak chuckled, “The education of啃果虫is beyond our current goals.”
“That’s good,” Ms. Plant immediately nodded, “I also want to see how similar this Golem made from the Dragonfruit is to the Dragonfruit itself.”
Dak smiled but remained silent.
After waiting for lunch to finish, he returned to the room with the Golems, and while preparing to introduce啃果虫further, he planned to use “Gluttony III” to evolve啃果虫into “Apple Wrap Dragon.”
He also intended to let “Apple Wrap Dragon” try to separate more life force into the “Proxy.”
However, an unexpected situation occurred during this evolution!
啃果虫did not evolve into “Apple Wrap Dragon,” but instead evolved into another form—”Plentiful Honey Dragon!”
…
Looking at the “Plentiful Honey Dragon” in front of him, Dak couldn’t help but show a look of great surprise.
The Golems also noticed his expression.
The Ditto, given the responsibility of “raising,” transformed into the form of “Little Dak” with remarkable skill and asked naively, “What’s the problem?”
Dak looked at the concerned Golems and explained that啃果虫could use two types of apples to evolve into two different forms.
“Gugu?”
Lil’Eevee immediately let out a surprised cry, looking at “Plentiful Honey Dragon” with much more familiarity.
The Plentiful Honey Dragon, surrounded by many Golems, was nearly forty centimeters tall, clearly larger than when it was still a啃果虫or Apple Wrap Dragon.
Dak reached out to weigh it and found it extremely heavy, at least ten times heavier than啃果虫.
The Plentiful Honey Dragon had a turtle-like shape, its back covered with woven fruit lace, with eye lids from the啃果虫period still present at the top. However, the part hanging down like ears was actually its true eyes.
Compared to the sour Apple Wrap Dragon, the Plentiful Honey Dragon, originally requiring the “Sweet Apple” to evolve, was completely enveloped by sweet honey, emitting a tempting sweet aroma.
Especially on its back, it looked like a fruit pie with honey—assuming Dak’s memory was correct, it could indeed be edible!
Thinking about it, Dak’s appetite surged.
But considering the “impact,” he quickly abandoned the tempting idea of tasting it.
In accepting the reality that啃果虫had inexplicably evolved into a Plentiful Honey Dragon, Dak began actively searching for the cause. He injected Mana into the already changed Mana Card and delved into a deeper analysis.
[Image: Plentiful Honey Dragon]
[Card Name: Plentiful Honey Dragon]
[Type: Elemental Card]
[Level: ????]
[Race: Dragon]
[Attribute: Grass/Dragon]
[Mana: 1600]
[Attack: 1400]
[Defense: 1600]
[Ultimate Skills: Apple Acid, Growth, Iron Wall, Gyro Ball]
Compared to the overly offensive Apple Wrap Dragon, the stats of the Plentiful Honey Dragon were more balanced.
However, Dak actually preferred the attribute distribution of the Apple Wrap Dragon.
Too balanced meant no distinct features.
He originally thought the Plentiful Honey Dragon would have full defense, but it did not meet expectations.
Moreover, both Mana and Attack were mediocre.
The only consolation was that it was still a gold card with four ultimate skills!
Among the four ultimate skills of the Plentiful Honey Dragon, the first one was similar to the Apple Wrap Dragon’s “Universal Gravity,” which was a unique ultimate skill exclusive to the Plentiful Honey Dragon—the “Apple Acid!”
[Apple Acid: Attacks with acidic liquid extracted from sour apples, reducing the opponent’s defense by fifty percent upon hitting.]
Similarly reducing defense, Apple Acid was more practical than Universal Gravity.
It was generally like a water jet, shooting out from the mouth of the Plentiful Honey Dragon, with higher accuracy than Universal Gravity.
Depending on the acid reserves within, it could achieve continuous or multiple shots.
Compared to reducing defense by fifty percent, the power of Apple Acid was just slightly better.
Its second ultimate skill was “Growth!”
[Growth: Instantly grows the body, gaining stronger constitution; attack and defense increase by fifty percent!]
“Plentiful Honey Dragon, Growth!”
Dak suddenly issued the command.
“Lii?”
After turning its head and emitting a puzzled sound, the Plentiful Honey Dragon obediently executed its innate ultimate skill—Growth!
Then, despite being only forty centimeters tall, even larger than the啃果虫and Apple Wrap Dragon, its body suddenly inflated!
When it stopped growing, it had become a two-meter-tall mountable dragon!
Dak couldn’t help but open his mouth.
This ultimate skill, both in effect and presentation, was incredibly surprising.
The visual impact of a two-meter-tall Plentiful Honey Dragon was far greater than its original form.
With a fifty percent increase in attack and defense, the Plentiful Honey Dragon’s attack reached 2100 points, and defense reached 2400 points!
And this high value obtained through Growth was foundational, like the Sacred Ring.
This meant that after using the third ultimate skill “Iron Wall,” it could obtain an extremely terrifying increase in defense!
[Iron Wall: Makes the skin as hard as iron, greatly increasing defense! Increases by one hundred percent of base defense.]
The defensive boost from Iron Wall was even more terrifying than “Rolling Up” and “Retreating into Shell,” allowing the Plentiful Honey Dragon to reach 4200 defense points in Growth state, surpassing even Angus Jeffrey’s proud Fat Penguin!
However, this overpowered boost came at the cost of reduced duration.
After Dak commanded the Plentiful Honey Dragon to use Iron Wall, he noticed that before Iron Wall disappeared, its body rapidly contracted, exiting the Growth state.
The effect of Iron Wall also didn’t last long.
These two ultimate skills had different durations.
Growth lasted for only one round, thirty seconds.
While Iron Wall lasted for two rounds, sixty seconds.
After the Plentiful Honey Dragon exited the Growth state, its defense still increased to 3200 points solely due to Iron Wall.
“Although it is a bit faster, compared to its peak defense in a short time, it is acceptable.”
Dak felt good, so he immediately looked at the last ultimate skill—Gyro Ball!
[Gyro Ball: Spins rapidly and collides with the opponent. The slower the speed, the greater the power. Maximum power increases to 1.5 times the base power.]
The base power of Gyro Ball was 100 points.
As long as the Mana Spirit’s speed was slow enough, the power could be boosted to 150 points.
A 150-point ultimate skill was most famously known as “Destructive Death Beam.”
This super ultimate skill had a one-round stun effect after release.
But Gyro Ball did not have this one-round stun side effect.
Given the Plentiful Honey Dragon’s size and weight ratio, its original speed was already slow.
If it grew larger with Growth, its speed would be even slower.
This meant that in most cases, it could maximize the power of Gyro Ball!
…
The attribute allocation and ultimate skill types of Apple Wrap Dragon and Plentiful Honey Dragon could be considered各有千秋 (each having their strengths).
Compared to the Apple Wrap Dragon with the “Proxy” ultimate skill, the Plentiful Honey Dragon had excellent attack capabilities and far superior defense.
The only issue was its short duration.
Mana Spirits lacking durability were not very suitable for actual combat.
But they often shone in Mana Duels where decisive outcomes were achieved quickly.
However, without the “Proxy” ultimate skill, the Plentiful Honey Dragon could not allow啃果虫to gain “exam ability” after training.
This was somewhat regrettable.
To enable the Apple Wrap Dragon to gain “exam ability” at critical moments, it was necessary to thoroughly understand its evolution mechanism.
What exactly caused it to evolve into Apple Wrap Dragon and Plentiful Honey Dragon?
Considering the different contexts of the two evolutions, Dak fell into deep thought.
…
Before the lunch break ended, he gradually gained some insights.
Comparing the evolution scenario of Apple Wrap Dragon, there was a significant difference when啃果虫evolved into Plentiful Honey Dragon.
That was also a point easily associated with the ultimate skill “Greed.”
When evolving into Plentiful Honey Dragon,啃果虫was in a state of “Greed.”
But could the deciding factor simply be whether it was in a state of “Greed”?
“It’s not a Greed Mana Spirit, so this probability is actually quite small.”
“But if we deny that, what could be the reason for the difference?”
Dak continued to ponder.
“Perhaps greed is not the ultimate reason for evolution, but rather a cause leading to a certain state.”
“Because of greed,啃果虫obtained the corresponding state and then evolved into ‘Plentiful Honey Dragon’!”
“Yes, it should be like that!”
Dak’s mind flashed, realizing he was getting closer to the truth.
“So, what would it feel like after being full? The most common feeling would naturally be satisfaction.”
“The Mana Spirit啃果虫was created from the Greed Fruit, so it is usually in a state of greed, never satisfied.”
“But after being full, at least for a short time, it must have obtained a certain level of satisfaction.”
“And it was that sense of satisfaction that allowed it to evolve into ‘Plentiful Honey Dragon’ under the influence of ‘Gluttony III’!”
“That must be the reason!”
Dak felt a surge of excitement.
After careful reflection, he became increasingly convinced that his guess was correct.
Just after being created,啃果虫was in a very hungry state, though difficult to express due to its appearance. It certainly had a strong desire for most things.
Thus, after using “Gluttony III,”啃果虫evolved into “Apple Wrap Dragon.”
And after being full at noon,啃果虫briefly experienced satisfaction, temporarily suppressing its greed, thus evolving into “Plentiful Honey Dragon.”
If this were true, it would mean these two evolution forms were relatively controllable!
That is, get the exam ability!
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