Chapter 656 “Request for Subscription” Dark Demon’s Challenge
Due to the late hour and the significant disturbance caused by the “Magical Beast: Fairy Eevee’s” ultimate skills, it was unsuitable for experimentation.
Dark only tested its belly’s softness before preparing for the next evolution experiment.
Once the “Magical Beast: Fairy Eevee” regressed back to “Magical Beast: Eevee,” he immediately used “Bliss III Moon.”
The power of “Bliss” derived from the Moon Goddess allowed the “Magical Beast: Eevee” to smoothly evolve into the pitch-black-furred “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee.”
Compared to the “Magical Beast: Fairy Eevee,” the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee” clearly harmonized better with the night.
Gentle moonlight was attracted through the window, circling around its body like flowing water.
Dark injected mana into the mana card and carefully examined it.
[Card Name: Magical Beast (Moon Eevee)]
[Type: Elemental Card]
[Level: ????]
[Race: Avian-beast Kin]
[Attribute: Dark]
[Mana: 3000]
[Attack: 2500]
[Defense: 3500]
[Ultimate Skills: Moonlight, Evil Fluctuation, Black Gaze, Deception]
Although the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee” appeared small, it was actually a defense-specialized mana spirit.
After evolving through the use of “Bliss III Moon,” its defense broke through the top value of six stars.
Its ultimate skills also underwent significant changes.
Instead of the Ghost-type “Shadow Ball,” it gained the Normal-type “Black Gaze” and the Dark-type “Deception!”
As a hallmark of “Bliss,” “Moonlight” remained, but its numerical value increased.
[Moonlight: Restores 1/4 of maximum mana. If under moonlight, it can restore up to 1/2 of maximum mana and provides 12 mana regeneration per second!]
Compared to the previous 4 mana per second regeneration under moonlight, the six-star “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee” now had a continuous regeneration of 12 mana per second.
This allowed it to walk under the moonlight without worrying about mana depletion.
Another retained ultimate skill was “Evil Fluctuation.”
[Evil Fluctuation: Emits a terrifying aura filled with malice from within, sometimes causing opponents to freeze.]
“Evil Fluctuation” as a high-power, wide-range ultimate skill with an additional status effect, has always been highly practical, retaining its luck.
In comparison, “Shadow Ball,” a single-target burst ultimate skill, did not surpass “Evil Fluctuation” in terms of power.
Moreover, it was an attribute-less Ghost-type ultimate skill, which indeed did not fit well with the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee.”
Replacing it, “Black Gaze” underwent significant changes compared to the original version.
First, it transformed from Normal-type to Dark-type.
Second, its skill effects were adjusted.
[Black Gaze (Bliss): Stares at the opponent with a black gaze that seems to captivate, immobilizing them between joy and terror.]
The original “Black Gaze” was a functional skill that restricted the opponent from escaping the battlefield.
However, the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee’s” “Black Gaze” became a single-target strong control!
Targets caught by its gaze would forever sink into the conflict between fear and bliss.
The downside was that when using “Black Gaze,” the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee” needed to remain still.
The newly added fourth ultimate skill was not the ultimate skill obtained through the “Moon Goddess Stone”—”Hell Thrust,” but rather the core ultimate skill of “Meow”—”Deception!”
[Deception: Counterattacks by borrowing the opponent’s strength. The higher the opponent’s attack, the greater the power!]
It was indeed a great surprise.
The practicality of “Deception” did not need elaboration.
This made the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee,” with its exceptional defense and top-tier mana, gain powerful counterattack capabilities.
…
Fifteen minutes later.
When the “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee” regressed back to “Magical Beast: Eevee,” Dark picked up “Greed II” and summoned it.
“Greed II” worked as expected, transforming the last two ultimate skills of “Magical Beast: Eevee” into “Desire” and “Sandstorm.”
Then Dark used a regular summoning spell to activate “Greed III.”
Bathed in blue-purple light, “Magical Beast: Eevee” gradually evolved into “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee!”
Dark rarely summoned “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee” during mana duels, but it was actually very useful.
Especially its ultimate skill “Mirror Reflection,” which was practically a nemesis for mages!
Additionally, the four-star “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee” had two other ultimate skills— “Ice Shard” and “Blizzard.”
After evolving into a six-star, it retained only “Mirror Reflection” and “Blizzard.”
[Card Name: Magical Beast (Ice Eevee)]
[Type: Elemental Card]
[Level: ????]
[Race: Avian-beast Kin]
[Attribute: Ice]
[Mana: 3500]
[Attack: 2000]
[Defense: 3500]
[Ultimate Skills: Mirror Reflection, Frost Beam, Hail, Blizzard.]
The cold night air intensified further with the appearance of the “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee.”
Dark quickly injected mana and checked the information.
Like “Magical Beast: Moon Eevee,” “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee” was a defense-specialized mana spirit.
But unlike the former, its mana was also exceptional, though its attack decreased further.
With just 2000 points of attack, its basic damage was mediocre.
Dark turned to examine the ultimate skills, which were the soul of the mana spirit.
The first ultimate skill was the core “Mirror Reflection!”
[Mirror Reflection: Absorbs damage and doubles it back to the attacker!]
The second ultimate skill was “Frost Beam.”
[Frost Beam: Fires an ice beam at the opponent, sometimes freezing them. In (Hail) or extremely cold weather, the freezing probability doubles.]
“A decent attack skill with a chance of control. Not bad.”
Dark couldn’t help but smile.
Watching the “Pokémon” anime, he remembered vividly the scene where “Dragonite” released “Frost Beam.”
An icy blue beam shot out, freezing the opponent solid. It was quite impressive.
Unfortunately, as an ultimate skill, its freezing probability was not one hundred percent.
Even in special climates, it reached a maximum of twenty percent.
“Let’s see the third ultimate skill, ‘Hail!'”
“Hail” was different from the short-duration “Blizzard”; it was undoubtedly a genuine field spell.
[Hail (Greed): Summons hail, causing a sudden drop in temperature. Each hailstone carries life-draining power, dealing continuous damage to all non-Ice-type mana spirits.
The duration of Hail is five rounds. Ice-type ultimate skills’ power increases by 50%, while Fire-type ultimate skills’ power decreases by 20%.]
“Both ‘Hail (Greed)’ and ‘Sandstorm (Greed)’ are field spells with killing effects, but their damage calculation methods differ.”
“Besides the physical damage from falling hail, each hailstone can deal 0-100 true damage.”
“If you don’t block or counter with an ultimate skill, a barrage of hail could kill you.”
“Moreover, ‘Frost Beam’ increases its freezing probability and power by 50% in ‘Hail’ weather, making it a very powerful ultimate skill.”
Dark pondered for a moment and then looked at the fourth ultimate skill—”Blizzard!”
[Blizzard: Blasts a fierce blizzard at the opponent, sometimes freezing them. In (Hail) or extremely cold weather, the freezing probability doubles, and the duration extends until the extreme weather ends, with each round producing a blizzard.
“Blizzard” five-round combo?
Dark was stunned.
“Blizzard” was already a high-power ultimate skill, and in “Hail” weather, its power increased by fifty percent, making it a wide-area attack. Even standing alone, it was extremely powerful.
Now combined with “Hail,” it could last up to five rounds… This was too exaggerated!
If the opponent didn’t have an ultimate skill to dispel “Hail,” they would be at a complete disadvantage.
The strength of this “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee” seemed to suddenly jump a level!
…
After spending some time recording and analyzing, Dark terminated the experiment after testing the effects of “Wrath II” once the “Magical Beast: Ice Eevee” regressed back to “Magical Beast: Eevee.”
The experiments for the whole day gave him a profound sense of “accumulating and then bursting forth.”
There were many new mana spirits planned for creation.
“Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is the ‘Golden Cup,’ I should get some sleep!”
But after washing up, Dark insisted on practicing “Technique of the Shadow God” for half an hour before quickly going to sleep.
The next day, the second Saturday since the “Golden Cup” began,
he received the schedule for the week on Tuesday morning and also received a challenge invitation for the following week on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the rules, he needed to respond by Sunday evening, otherwise, it would be considered a refusal.
However, due to his busy schedule over the past two days, Dark hadn’t looked at it closely.
Fortunately, there was a duel scheduled for this morning, so he paused his research and took out the “Selection Card” during breakfast to check.
Considering it was a challenge from a second-year student, few people would take it seriously.
Apart from the indignant third-years, only a few fourth and fifth-years accepted.
Dark glanced briefly at the third-year challenge applications and recognized a few familiar names, but they passed quickly.
What caught his attention more were the challenges from fourth and fifth-years.
Overall, there were three challenge invitations from fourth-years and one from fifth-years.
Among the four who challenged him, two names stood out.
“Fourth year, Mana Academy, Patricia Boline…”
“Isn’t she the senior who wore the sixth-year noble school uniform at the masquerade?”
“What did she say again? Fifth year, Mana Academy, Patricia Boline?”
“She’s a fourth-year student?”
Dark couldn’t hide his surprise.
“There are other roles besides Senior Scarlet in the fourth-year Mana Academy?”
“And this genuine fifth-year student…”
Dark couldn’t help but flip open the challenge invitation from the fifth-year student again.
The name written on the standard challenge invitation was none other than the fifth-year Fool’s Academy—Fern Morse!
His impression of this fifth-year Fool’s Academy student was equally deep.
Even now, he still remembered the words the senior left behind when he left: “Remember my name—Fern Morse, a name destined to shock the world.”
Regardless of whether he was overly arrogant, the senior who could say such things was certainly not an easy opponent.
“Which senior should I choose?”
“Senior Morse is a fifth-year student, and I might not be ready yet.”
“Though Senior Boline is only a fourth-year, she might be tougher than Senior Harryman.”
“Oh well, let’s accept both!”
“The ‘Golden Cup’ is about experiencing every aspect, even failures.”
“If the schedule remains like this week, the purpose of participating in the ‘Golden Cup’ would be lost.”
Dark tapped the “Selection Card,” and two names appeared on the surface.
These two names were his opponents for today and tomorrow.
They were both third-years, and he had no particular impression of them.
Ordinary third-years, whether in terms of mana card strength or deck composition, were far inferior to Senior Kevin.
Fighting against them would yield little benefit.
“Thinking about it, there’s no other way.”
“From the perspective of the Dueling Club, they wouldn’t keep arranging duels against a second-year student with fourth and fifth-year duelists.”
“If I don’t do something, the opponents I face next might all be of this caliber.”
“In any case, first head to the Dueling Club and accept Senior Boline and Senior Morse’s challenge invitations.”
“Then go to the Outdoor Duel Arena and face today’s opponent…”
“Ah!”
Meow sighed.
