96: Chapter 2 of Evolution
As all the deep black receded, what appeared before Luo Chen was a bird representing the mystery and elegance of the night.
Its entire body of dark blue feathers, having been eroded by the Shadow Erosion power just now, became even more dark and profound, but as it moved, a lonely deep blue flashed from its body when its feathers stirred.
On its back and broad wings, there were specks of white luminescence, like unextinguishable stars twinkling in the black night sky.
Especially the strange gem on the tip of the long plume on its forehead, bright as a star, firmly captivated Luo Chen's gaze.
Even the Starlight Stone Spirit next to him looked at its gem with great curiosity; the rich starlight power on it gave him a very familiar feeling.
race: Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird
Rank: Spirit Rank Six-star
Type: Dark-Type, Light-Type · Starlight
State: Curious, Inquisitive
Aptitude: Excellent
Skills: 1. Ming Ye (Earth Tier): Where the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird stands is Ming Ye. It can control a certain range around itself to form a night environment, prohibiting the appearance of Light-Type · Sunlight elements.
2. Darkest Hour (Profound Tier): The Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird causes all targets to fall into a blind State for a certain period, and this State can also affect the mind.
3. Shadow Erosion (Profound Tier): After the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird inflicts effective damage on a target, the resulting wound will retain Shadow Erosion power, continuing to cause persistent erosion to the target.
4. Exploding Star (Earth Tier): The Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird leaves stars in its wake or during attacks on targets. These stars will attach to contacted targets, continuously exposing them to the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird, and the stars will constantly extract spiritual power from the target's body, exploding once enough energy is accumulated.
5. Shadow Ring Blade (Profound Tier): The Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird can summon multiple Shadow Ring Blades formed from Shadow Erosion power to attack targets from afar.
Evolution Path: Not yet unlocked.
If the Dawn Bird leaned towards support and healing, the now evolved Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird has completely moved in the direction of crowd control and assassination.
It had gone in a completely opposite direction.
However, after reviewing all the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird's Skills, Luo Chen could only describe them as excellent, truly excellent; these Skills seemed much more powerful than some King-Ranked Beasts.
But it doesn't seem very suitable to be a mount-Type Beast either, and it doesn't fully meet Luo Yang's requirements.
He should evolve the remaining three Beasts and let him choose for himself.
This time, an old friend, the Silver Warhorse, came out.
Luo Chen looked at its information, which was basically no different from before.
He then selected the materials needed for its evolution:
First-tier spiritual item: Four-leaf clover;
Second-tier spiritual item: golden jade silk;
The remaining materials could barely be classified as second-tier spiritual items, as it surprisingly required a single feather from a hundred different Spirit Rank bird-Type Beasts.
In most cases, this probably wouldn't even count as a spiritual item; this evolution process felt like growing up on a hundred different families' meals.
Luo Chen used golden jade silk to string together all the feathers of varying sizes and colors, forming the shape of a wing.
He placed a large handful of four-leaf clovers in front of the Silver Warhorse, letting him eat them all.
To be honest, even if Luo Chen was a Breeder, he didn't know what role the four-leaf clover played here. Was it to increase luck?
Luo Chen controlled his mental power, letting it wander back and forth over the wing formed by the hundred feathers, and then he saw the feathers, originally of different shapes and sizes, quietly undergo a change.
Each feather turned into a rainbow of colors; the smaller feathers grew larger, and the excessively large feathers shrank.
It was as if the attributes of all the feathers had been evenly distributed.
Then this wing, not very large compared to the Silver Warhorse's body, landed on the Silver Warhorse's back.
At the joints of the wing, new bones and flesh seemed to grow, tightly connecting with the Silver Warhorse's body.
The wing, which had initially appeared small, slowly grew and expanded after absorbing power from the Silver Warhorse's body, gradually reaching a size that matched the Silver Warhorse's massive physique.
Compared to the original Silver Warhorse, it seemed to have only gained a pair of colorful, flying wings.
The Silver Warhorse twisted his neck back, curiously looking at the extra pair of wings.
Then, under his control, the wings gently flapped, and his entire body swayed as he flew upwards, but it seemed he couldn't control them very well at first.
After wobbling twice at a very low altitude, he 'thumped' sideways and fell sprawling.
Luo Chen was amused by his actions and laughed out loud before checking his current information.
race: Colorful Winged War Scale Horse
Rank: Spirit Rank Five-star
Type: Wind-type, Gold-Type, Martial-Type
State: Embarrassed, Longing to Fly High
Aptitude: Excellent
Skills: 1. Warhorse Charge (Profound Tier): The Colorful Winged War Scale Horse charges up, forming a silver shield in front of its head to protect itself, dealing impact damage to targets in its path.
2. Silver Scale Armor (Profound Tier): The Colorful Winged War Scale Horse's body is protected by silver metal scales, possessing excellent defensive power.
3. Colorful Wing Windwalk (Earth Tier): The Colorful Winged War Scale Horse flaps the wings on its back, capable of breaking through its own speed limit, and can choose whether or not to leave behind a rainbow bridge. Other Beasts or humans passing over this bridge will have their speed doubled, but cannot exceed the Colorful Winged War Scale Horse's current speed.
4. Silver Tail Sting (Profound Tier): The Colorful Winged War Scale Horse's tail resembles a scorpion's tail, capable of launching a sudden attack on targets during combat.
5. Wind Piercing Thorn (Profound Tier): Controls wind elements to form sharp wind cones that penetrate the target's body.
Evolution Path: Not yet unlocked.
Looking at this data, Luo Chen felt that the current Colorful Winged War Scale Horse was the most suitable mount Beast, not only possessing extreme speed but also having a certain amount of combat power.
Luo Chen sensed his remaining nearly half of his mental power and then looked at the two remaining Beasts.
The Wondrous Sound Spirit Sparrow and the Golden Winged Light Butterfly.
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Qingyang City First Middle School, after today's Beast Master combat instruction class.
Luo Yang slung his already packed small backpack over his shoulder. He had already requested half a month's leave from his teachers and the dean to prepare for the upcoming Qingyang City Youth Beast Master Competition.
Today, Luo Chen had sent him a message, telling him to return home to choose his second Beast, and now his desire to return home was extremely urgent.
However, not long after he left the classroom, he was surrounded by several young men and women, and the situation looked very much like they were looking for trouble.