Chapter 31: Golden Wheel, Mutation, Evolution!!
“Hoo~~~”
Standing on the boundless sea of clouds, the Giant Moonlight Rabbit exhaled slowly. Despite its unremarkable size and combat power among Mid-Tier pet beasts, for some reason, the Translucent Phantom Dragon opposite it instinctively retreated.
Seeing this, Wind God Academy #10 on Lian Xing’s side and Wind God Academy #2 on the opposite side frowned at Wind God Academy #4.
What was that?
Even for someone who had lost before, that was too embarrassing, wasn’t it?
Under the disapproving gazes of her captain and vice-captain, Wind God Academy #4’s expression beneath her mask was ashen. She knew she would be punished when they returned.
Pet beasts subconsciously learned from their Beast Tamers’ behavior and style. If a Beast Tamer was afraid of battle, even the strongest pet beast would eventually become useless.
However, the Giant Moonlight Rabbit didn’t even bother looking at the Translucent Phantom Dragon. It stared intently at the Cloud Chariot Wheel hundreds of meters away with intelligent eyes. A few seconds later, it instinctively lowered its ears to scoop up some rocks, but only grabbed a puff of cloud, which quickly dissipated.
The Moonlight Rabbit realized…
This map had no environmental objects!!!
“Boom!!!!”
With a cloud-bursting explosion, the Cloud Chariot Wheel on the opposite side made the first move. Its four cloud wheels spun rapidly, pulling a long trail of cloud vapor as it charged through the air.
Facing a Mid-Tier Giant Moonlight Rabbit, it didn’t bother testing the waters. No matter what path or enhancements the opponent had, it wouldn’t be a match!
“Bang!!!!!”
In the next second, under everyone’s bewildered gazes, the Giant Moonlight Rabbit suddenly swung its ears powerfully. The surrounding clouds churned.
Nothing happened.
But the force of that swing startled everyone…
What was it doing?
“Too bad, I can’t stack Combo with empty swings…?” Lian Xing sighed in disappointment after her test.
Empty swings didn’t stack Combo. She had to actually throw something to activate the Strength Arcane Art.
However, the fact that swinging each ear separately could stack Combo was already satisfying enough.
Meanwhile, having wasted precious time for a ranged attack…
As the Cloud Chariot Wheel closed in to within fifty meters, the Giant Moonlight Rabbit finally pulled its ears back.
[Golden Wheel]
In the next second, two golden lights flashed. Silver Dragon clearly saw two heavy, giant golden wheels hanging from the tips of the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s ears.
However, obscured by the Moonlight Rabbit’s massive body, the two opponents and their pet beasts didn’t notice a thing…
“This is…”
“Boom!!!!!!!!!!!”
Before the silver-haired girl could react, her hair and clothes were whipped up by a violent gust of wind.
[Sand Toss]
[Flurry]
[Heavy Metal]
The two exploding Golden Wheels, like concentrated beams of light, shot forward in straight arcs. The force of the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s throw caused the clouds behind it to collapse and dissipate.
Facing such incredible speed at such close range, the Cloud Chariot Wheel had no chance to react. It barely managed to twist its body at the last moment, narrowly avoiding the first golden beam.
But facing the second, unavoidable Golden Wheel, it could only brace for impact.
[Combat Skill: Skin Harden (Purple)]
[Combat Skill: All Attribute Enhancement (Purple)]
[First Defense Arcane Art: Fortify]
[Second Defense Arcane Art: Iron Wall]
[Third Defense Arcane Art: Shock Absorb]
“Boom!!!!!”
In the next second, the golden light pierced through, a deafening explosion obliterating the surrounding hundred-meter area.
Then…
Under everyone’s incredulous gazes, the defense-specialized Cloud Chariot Wheel, covered in blood, flew out of the dust cloud. After being knocked back over a hundred meters, it crashed onto the sea of clouds, tumbling and shedding parts like a broken machine, finally rolling past Wind God Academy #2 and collapsing, barely alive.
“It…didn’t block it…” Wind God Academy #2’s pupils constricted beneath her mask, her world view shattering.
The defense-focused Cloud Chariot Wheel, the renowned meat shield of Wind God Academy that had given countless academies headaches…
Couldn’t even withstand a single attack from the Giant Moonlight Rabbit!?
“Clack!”
Only when the Golden Wheels returned to the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s ears, tracing a crescent moon trajectory in the cloud sea, did everyone clearly see their form.
This was…
The Mid-Tier Weapon Species Golden Wheel!?
A ring-shaped Weapon Species…used like this?
“An agility-focused main battle pet beast…” At this moment, only the silver-haired girl on Lian Xing’s side saw through the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s trick, her eyes widening in disbelief.
An agility-focused main battle pet beast? What kind of new-age Beast Taming strategy was this? Even for throwing-type attacks, most Beast Tamers focused on Strength!
“…”
“…”
“Too bad I can’t stack Combo with empty swings. Otherwise, that would have been the end…” Lian Xing shook her head regretfully, looking at the barely alive Cloud Chariot Wheel.
Then, she glanced at the Golden Wheels on the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s ears. After colliding with the High-Tier Cloud Chariot Wheel, the smooth blades not only showed no signs of damage but also gleamed with a dazzling golden light.
“Wait, this durability…”
“Something’s not right?”
Lian Xing suddenly realized that the Golden Wheel’s hardness seemed abnormal. After all, as a Mid-Tier Weapon Species under level 10, after clashing with a defense-specialized High-Tier pet beast, the greater its power, the greater the wear and tear should be.
But…
The Golden Wheel was completely unscathed. It was powerful, but it didn’t have any defensive properties.
This gave Lian Xing a bad feeling.
Could someone have tampered with her chip?
Would she be banned by the system…?
She quickly opened the pet status panel. After defeating the High-Tier Cloud Chariot Wheel, the Golden Wheel had gained 3 training levels.
Following her gut feeling, Lian Xing tentatively allocated 1 training point to Speed.
[Speed: 9→10]
[Golden Wheel’s Speed attribute has reached 10 points. You can choose one Speed Arcane Art]
[Randomly generating Arcane Arts…]
[Diamond: Slightly increases hardness when moving faster (Cannot be selected)]
[Topaz (Mutation): Greatly increases rotation speed when moving faster]
[Amber (Mutation): Greatly increases weight when moving faster]
[Please choose two of the above Speed Arcane Arts]
At this moment, in the virtual battle, under the bewildered gazes of the other three, the stocking-clad, golden-haired girl stared blankly at her panel. This wasn’t an anime. The world wouldn’t pause while she was thinking.
So, Lian Xing had been standing there, frozen, for two whole minutes.
“Something’s wrong…” she finally muttered.
No wonder the Golden Wheel, at just level 9, could defeat the High-Tier Cloud Chariot Wheel with a single blow and remain undamaged…
It had unintentionally entered a mutated evolution path…
Mutated evolution occurred when a pet beast simultaneously fulfilled the final evolution requirements for two different paths at a specific stage. As a result, the pet beast would gain the power of both evolution paths.
Mutated evolution sounded wonderful, powerful, and dominant.
But the reality was tragic…
Because mutated evolution was actually a flawed path!
After the Golden Wheel evolved to High-Tier, there was a high probability…
That it would never be able to evolve again!!!
“…”
“…”
Something that was inherently flawed, an existence that shouldn’t have been born, how could it be allowed to evolve further? It was like being stuck between two evolution paths, trapped in a dead end, unable to move forward.
Countless mutated pet beasts had been stuck at their mutated state, watching their future evolution paths blocked, their progress forever halted.
“But, why?”
“Which two evolution paths did the Golden Wheel fulfill to become like this???”
“As far as I know, it only fulfilled one…” Lian Xing searched her memories but couldn’t find any clues.
However, if the requirements were already met, she could find out by checking the Golden Wheel’s information.
[Topaz Double Wheel, evolution requirements met]
[Defeat 2 High-Tier pet beasts before level 15]
Lian Xing first looked at the first line of text on the Golden Wheel’s information panel. This was indeed the answer she had in mind, the evolution path she had originally planned for the Golden Wheel. Although this condition was difficult for other Beast Tamers, it was perfect for Lian Xing, without any overly complex requirements.
But the other one…
What was it!?
Lian Xing anxiously scrolled through the Golden Wheel’s panel. A few seconds later, as lines of text filled the screen, the star patterns in her eyes froze.
[Rare — Amber Palace, evolution requirements met]
[Cannot equip any combat skills before High-Tier evolution]
[Defeat 2 High-Tier pet beasts before level 10]
[Cannot be defeated after battling before level 10, and must battle at least 3 times]
[The Beast Tamer must know the correct way to use ring-shaped weapons and must have instilled great fear in an enemy]
[The Beast Tamer’s resource investment in the Golden Wheel must exceed that of their main battle pet beast]
[The Beast Tamer must not have engaged in…selling or buying…themselves]
[The Beast Tamer’s hair and body hair must be golden]
[The Beast Tamer’s appearance must reach a certain level]
High-Tier — Weapon Species — Amber Palace!!
This didn’t exist in the Pet Beast Evolution Battle game.
So, it wasn’t that Lian Xing had forgotten, but that she simply didn’t know about it!!!
What kind of bizarre requirements were these?
What did the color of her body hair have to do with anything!!!
“Well, it’s mutated…”
“But at least one of the paths is a rare evolution. I’ll have to make do.” After much deliberation, Lian Xing let out a long sigh.
Once a pet beast entered a mutated evolution path, there was no turning back. Not only could the evolution path not be reset, but the contract with the pet beast couldn’t be terminated either. And the moment it reached level 30, it would be forcibly evolved into its true mutated form.
This meant…
Even if Lian Xing’s Giant Moonlight Rabbit reached Royal-Tier, the Golden Wheel would likely be stuck at High-Tier, forever—
[Topaz (Mutation): Greatly increases rotation speed when moving faster]
[Amber (Mutation): Greatly increases weight when moving faster]
Lian Xing stopped overthinking and chose both mutated Arcane Arts. Since it had already mutated, she might as well make the most of it, enjoying the benefits in the early game.
This way, the Golden Wheel would gain two Arcane Arts each time it activated…
At level 30, it would have 6 Arcane Arts.
At level 40, it would have 8!!
The claim that mutated evolutions could crush opponents of the same tier wasn’t an exaggeration.
Moreover, judging by the stringent requirements for the rare High-Tier evolution called “Amber Palace,” it clearly possessed a certain…powerful beauty.
In fact…
The reason Lian Xing could accept this so easily was because of a secret only she knew. Perhaps no one in this world, not even in Pet Beast Evolution Battle, knew this.
Mutated evolution…
Wasn’t truly a flawed path.
It was actually a pre-evolution requirement for one of the three special evolutions.
Alongside Ancient Species and Shining Species…
The Fallen Species!!!
Primordial, perfect, and…
The flawed, forbidden existence.
[Cloudtop Arena]
While the opponent was frozen for over five minutes, Wind God Academy #2 had healed the Cloud Chariot Wheel’s injuries with the help of another support-type Mechanical Species pet beast. The centaur with four wheels struggled to its feet, staring warily at the Giant Moonlight Rabbit.
Lian Xing didn’t move, and neither did her pet beast.
Just then, Lian Xing’s seemingly lifeless, dimmed starry eyes suddenly lit up. She looked around in a daze, gradually remembering what she was doing. Although she herself didn’t show any outward changes, Silver Dragon beside her clearly saw…
Without warning, the two Golden Wheels on the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s ears changed color. One turned into a black and yellow jade-like hue, while the other gradually took on a dark red glow.
The mutation…had begun…
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