98: Beastmaster's Choice
race: Thousand-Eyed Butterfly.
Rank: Spirit Rank Five-Star
Type: Mental Type, Light Type
State: Dispersed
Aptitude: Excellent
Skills: 1. Spiritual Eye (Earth Tier): Breaks illusions and discerns truth, capable of seeing through illusions cast by other Beasts, and more easily identifying their weaknesses.
2. Bewitching Eye (Earth Tier): The Thousand-Eyed Butterfly's wings are covered with numerous special patterns forming eyes. When needed, these eyes will open before the target, causing the target's mind to fall into a cyclical illusion, making it difficult to awaken.
3. Phosphor Powder (Profound Tier): The Thousand-Eyed Butterfly flaps its wings, producing a large quantity of phosphor powder that can adhere to the target's body surface, causing corrosive damage.
4. Psionic Beam (Profound Tier): The Thousand-Eyed Butterfly emits energy beams from the central pupils of the 'eyes' on its wings.
5. Glimmer (Yellow Tier): The Thousand-Eyed Butterfly controls light element energy, emitting a faint glow from its body surface.
Evolution Path: Not yet unlocked.
The Thousand-Eyed Butterfly, true to its name, has its wings densely covered with 'eyes' formed by eerie patterns.
Even without using its Skills, merely gazing at its wings for an extended period feels as if one's mind would be drawn into a world of illusion by those 'eyes'.
Its body appeared much smaller when contrasted with the other Beasts; even with its wings spread, it was only about the size of Luo Chen's entire upper body.
After introducing the Thousand-Eyed Butterfly, Luo Chen looked at Luo Yang, “Which one do you prefer? Any thoughts?”
Compared to Luo Chen, who now had a relaxed expression, Luo Yang’s face was currently complex, caught in a struggle of indecision.
Each Beast was excellent; he truly wanted all of them.
Watching Luo Yang's gaze linger among the Beasts before him, occasionally falling into a State of deep thought, he took a long time to make a decision.
Luo Chen did not rush him; after all, a Beast was a companion he would fight alongside in the future, so taking more time to consider was always fine.
However, compared to powerful Skills, Luo Chen still hoped he would choose a Beast with a better personality, especially since, with him, it was quite easy for a Beast to improve.
“Xiao Yang, why don’t you spend some individual time with each Beast, and then tell me your decision.”
Luo Yang looked towards the four Beasts, then nodded and said, “Okay.”
Leaving him to interact with the Beasts, Luo Chen comfortably leaned against the soft flesh on Chi Yan’s belly, choosing to claim the completed quest rewards.
Quest 1: Cause three Spirit Rank Beasts to evolve (Completed). Reward: 200 points (Received), two Skill Crystals (Claimable).
Seeing his points go from a barren zero to two hundred, Luo Chen smiled with satisfaction, then claimed the other two Skill Crystals.
Two Skill Crystals of different colors were dropped onto the ground through a spatial rift that appeared, and Luo Chen used his mental power to pick them up.
Upon receiving them, two entirely different streams of information entered his mind.
Golden Light Shield (Profound Tier): Gathers the energy of gold and light elements to form a shield, absorbing damage dealt by the target. When the shield's damage absorption reaches its upper limit, it explodes, dealing damage to surrounding targets.
Learning Conditions: Beasts of Spirit Rank or above that possess both gold and light attributes simultaneously.
Time Stop (Earth Tier): Pre-anchors an area (Earth Tier limit: 1,000 square meters), then, within a subsequent period, can stop the flow of time in that area for half an hour, with the duration increasing or decreasing based on the strength of the energy fluctuations in the target area.
Learning Conditions: Time Type King Rank Beasts or above.
Seeing the information for the second Skill Crystal, Luo Chen was pleasantly surprised. Had he gotten lucky?
It gave him a Time Type Skill Crystal? But currently, he hadn't seen any Time Type Beasts in his shop.
He was only excited for a moment; although Time Type Skills were good, they were of no use to him right now. He would just put it in the warehouse to gather dust.
Luo Chen looked at the two remaining quests in the system:
Quest 2: Sell ten Spirit Rank Beasts. Reward: 150 points, ten Energy Stones.
Quest 4: Sell one King-Ranked Beast. Reward: 500 points, one Bloodline Enhancement Stone.
Before going to Liuguang City for the competition, he had to complete all of them.
Luo Chen lay half-reclined like that, his mind wandering through thoughts, and unknowingly fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes again, he found Luo Yang lying beside him, his head resting against Chi Yan's soft belly, just like him.
However, he wasn't sleeping; instead, his eyes were gazing at the deep and vast starry sky within the Stone Spirit Secret Realm.
“Have you made your choice?”
Luo Chen's voice startled Luo Yang from his deep contemplation. He turned his head to look at Luo Chen, his eyes regaining clarity.
“Mhm, I’ve chosen.”
“What did you choose?” Luo Chen’s eyes showed a hint of curiosity; he really wanted to know Luo Yang’s choice.
Luo Yang waved his hand towards the starry sky, and then it was as if a star point descended from above in the vast, boundless night.
As it drew closer, Luo Chen saw its full appearance.
Its entire body was dark blue, adorned with star-like speckles on its back feathers and wings. At the end of the long plume on its head, a gem as brilliant as a star gently floated in mid-air.
It was none other than the first Beast he had evolved, the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird.
Thinking back to the conditions Luo Yang had initially proposed: it could fly, could serve as a mount, had high combat power, and looked cool.
The Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird indeed met all of these. Flying was the most basic; all four Beasts could fly.
As for serving as a mount, although the Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird was not as good as the Colorful Winged War Scale Horse in this regard, its size was more than sufficient to carry Luo Yang alone.
Moreover, the most important thing was that its combat power should be the highest among these four Beasts, boasting two attack-Type Earth Tier Skills.
Regarding looking cool, it could only be said that each Beast had its own unique charm.
The Nightshade Dark Spirit Bird was mysterious and elegant, the Colorful Winged War Scale Horse was cool and handsome, the Miyan Silent Sound Finch was quiet and graceful, and the Thousand-Eyed Butterfly was alluring and dangerous.
Actually, no matter which one, purely from an appearance standpoint, they all conformed well to human aesthetics.
Watching Luo Yang make his choice, Luo Chen stood up from his half-reclined position.
“Since you’ve made your choice, I’ll give you that Colorful Winged War Scale Horse as your exclusive mount.”
“Ah?” Luo Yang sprang up from the ground in surprise, “That horse is also for me?”
Luo Chen looked at Luo Yang’s surprised expression, clapped his hands, and said with certainty:
“Of course it’s real. Anyway, if you don’t form a contract with it, merely using it as a Beast for travel, controlling it with a Beast Ring is completely sufficient.”
The next second, Luo Yang gave Luo Chen a bear hug, “I love you so much, brother.”
Luo Chen’s hands stiffened, and he slowly patted Luo Yang’s back.
Although he found this more open way of expressing affection a bit hard to accept,
He was quite relieved to see that over the past few months, Luo Yang had truly become as bright and sunny as a little sun.