ctnovel Chapter 7 Evolution, Spirit Breath Chrysalis!
Chapter 7 Evolution, Spirit Breath Chrysalis!
Before Xi Yong could respond, Jiang Yong waved his hand, instantly depleting the 12,000 experience points he had just acquired, allowing Xi Yong to level up five times in a row.
Upon reaching level 25, a layer of constantly flashing white light suddenly shone on the outer shell of the pupa, and the energy flames within Jiang Yong's body were also drawn out involuntarily, echoing the light on the pupa's body.
(Full), (Swelling), (Unfamiliar), (Familiar), (Excited), (Instinctive restlessness)!
The pupa brandished its scythe, emitting a series of mental signals. At the same time, a strange feeling arose in Jiang Yong's mind—he felt that as long as he had a thought and slightly manipulated the vacuum energy according to some kind of law, he could make the pupa begin to evolve.
[The prerequisite for the evolution of the Chrysalis lv25 (Necromancer branch) has been met!]
Thanks to that fragment, the pupa had already started its evolutionary path in the cave, and now there are no barriers to it!
"evolution!"
Without hesitation, Jiang Yong activated his vacuum energy, causing the white flames on his body to extend outwards and connect with the light emanating from the chrysanthemum. The light on the chrysanthemum grew even brighter, until the entire chrysanthemum transformed into a white sphere of light, suspended in mid-air, like a harmless light bulb.
But Jiang Yong could sense that a slightly oppressive aura was gradually reviving within this sphere of light!
As that aura reached its peak, the light representing evolution flashed once more before finally dissipating, revealing its complete form. This marked the first time the evolved form of the Breath Chrysalis on the Necromancer path was displayed between the heavens and earth of Planet Carlo.
The evolved form of the pupa... is still a pupa!
Although it didn't transform into the much-anticipated giant moth in one step, both its appearance and its internal structure have undergone a truly dramatic change.
Its originally dark brown body turned gray, its exposed mouthparts disappeared, and the ring of light-sensitive spots around the mouthparts gathered on its head, forming a pair of true compound eyes. The scythe-shaped forelimbs curled up on its abdomen became longer and were coated with a metallic sheen, like the weapon of death.
The biggest change compared to before is that it now has a translucent white cocoon woven from insect silk, faintly emitting a hazy luster. The shape of this cocoon is surprisingly similar to a white ghost, and the classic eye and mouth holes are faintly visible in the position corresponding to the pupa's head. From a distance, it looks as if the original pupa has been swallowed by a ghost.
Within the ghosts that symbolize the dead lies slumbering life and infinite possibilities.
This is the Necromancer-type evolved form of the Breath Chrysalis—the Spirit Breath Chrysalis!
(It probably looks like this)
(According to unofficial historical records, the pupa inside the spirit pupa is actually dead, and the true form is the ghost cocoon outside. However, this is definitely false, otherwise how would it turn into a giant fluttering moth later?)
Your "Breath Cocoon" has evolved into a "Spirit Breath Cocoon" lv25!
The Spirit Cocoon has learned a new skill: "Spirit Silk"!
The Spirit Chrysalis has learned a new skill: "Guardian Cocoon"!
The Spirit Chrysalis has learned a new skill: "Insect Scythe Harvest"!
[The Spirit Breath Chrysalis has awakened its racial traits!]
The vacuum energy connected to the Spirit Breath Cocoon seemed to cheer and rejoice, transmitting an unprecedented sense of fullness and power, as well as information about the new skill, back to Jiang Yong's heart. In his subjective perception, it was as if a normally normal arm had suddenly become a Qilin arm. Although it was only a partial change, it gave him a vague feeling of rebirth.
"Waaah—"
The scythe of the Spirit Breath Pupa moved, seemingly having just adapted to its evolved body. Then, it floated up with its ghostly cocoon, circling around Jiang Yong and emitting a sound like a howling wind, appearing unusually excited—this thing could actually make noise after losing its mouth.
(I can see)
(I am flying)
(I've become stronger)
After evolution, the concept of "I" appeared in the spiritual information of the Spirit Breath Cocoon for the first time!
Jiang Yong wasn't surprised by this. Elf evolution inherently involves a certain increase in intelligence, and evolutionary methods like the Spirit Breath Cocoon, which accept higher-level external forces, essentially create a new species, naturally having a greater impact on intelligence. However, the content of its thought process left him speechless—why didn't it just say, "I came, I saw, I conquered"?
(I came, I saw, I...)
"...Alright, you can go back now."
Jiang Yong's lips twitched, and he quickly retrieved the Spirit Breath Cocoon. After gaining self-awareness, this thing was like a newly awakened infant, full of curiosity and trying to imitate everything. It needed careful guidance during this period; he couldn't let it learn anything strange and have it ingrained in its DNA.
After retrieving the Spirit Breath Cocoon, he immediately focused his mind and had the original Hardening, Silk Spinning, and Severing skills replaced by the three new ones, allowing the Spirit Breath Cocoon to master them.
According to the game's setting, the essence of "skills" is actually the energy circuits that a Pokémon constructs within its body. Moves released without activating these circuits are merely basic attacks, and their power is greatly reduced. Most Pokémon can construct a maximum of four such "circuits" simultaneously to carry different elemental attributes and release skills in different ways; any more than that will cause conflicts and chaos.
Blah blah blah, but frankly, it's all just pointless nonsense in an attempt to keep up with the tradition of four skills in Pokémon games.
Forced tributes are the most fatal.
【Name: Spirit Breath Chrysalis】
[Attributes: Insect, Necromancer]
[Level: 25]
【Trait: Each time a skill is used, it randomly reduces one of the enemy's currently active Pokémon's attributes by 1】
[Race: Mid-Rare]
[Skills: Necromantic Aura, Spirit Silk, Guardian Cocoon, Insect Scythe Harvest]
"Spirit Silk" (New): Attribute skill. Upon hit, reduces the opponent's speed and accuracy by 1.
"Guardian Cocoon" (New): Attribute Skill. Increases own Defense and Special Defense by 1.
"Insect Scythe Harvest" (New): Insect Necromancer type physical attack. Deals an additional 10 points of fixed damage for each point of stat debuff the opponent has.
The three new skills and traits learned after the Spirit Breath Pupa evolves synergize well, making its combat style quite mindless. Simply keep using the two attribute skills to maintain an almost invincible position. Then, once the opponent's debuffs are stacked high, you can unleash a single Insect Scythe to finish them off with a lethal fixed damage. The fixed damage of 10 points of debuff per level may not seem like much, but in the early game when most opponents only have a couple hundred health points, a couple of hits with Spirit Silk can wipe out most of their health in one strike.
Although, from Jiang Yong's perspective, the weaknesses of the Spirit Cocoon are quite obvious, such as the lack of sustain skills, vulnerability to high-speed crowd control, vulnerability to type-advantageous attackers, vulnerability to evasion, vulnerability to debuff removal skills, and the fact that the opponent can easily wipe out all the debuffs he has painstakingly stacked by switching Pokémon, etc.
However, everyone here is a weak F-rank Pokémon who can only use one Pokémon at a time, leaving no room for coordinated defense. Battles are basically all about type advantages and stats. Meanwhile, the "Rare Mid-Rank" stat already makes it a near-monster on Kalo Star, and its fixed damage mechanism allows Spirit Cocoon to deal damage against any type. Add to that the sustain provided by its home base, and Jiang Yong is confident he can hold his own against anyone at the same level!
"The advantage is in my hands!"
(I come, I see, I have the advantage!)
"Shut up."