Chapter 199 — The Bugs Finally Evolve
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Dream Stealing, here it comes!
Spatial Pocket? That must come from the Cave-Heaven Tree's roots.
Would it conflict with the effect of the Relic Ring?
Not in the least. It lets Buggy store enormous crystalized energy inside its body. With top-tier resources like Ice Dragon Whisker, Buggy can possess the most perfect materialized phantom ability whenever it likes—it is as if this was tailor-made for it!
In effect, it gives Buggy a whole rack of equipment slots, letting it wear gear without limit!
Beside Shi Jin, Miao Dongdong had been suspicious of this strange insect cocoon all along. Seeing Shi Jin break into a smile now, he shuddered from head to toe. Mother of god.
The evolution and awakening continued.
Soon, Shi Jin received feedback on the first super-tier skill.
[Skill]: Domain of Reverie
[Grade]: Super-Tier
[Description]: A mental and spatial skill that overlays the world of dreams and illusions onto reality. Within the Domain of Reverie, the user commands the power of reverie; all factors—environment, space, transformation, and more—change according to the user's will, and inside the domain the user's mental power undergoes a qualitative transformation.
Shi Jin: !!!!!
"That's my girl!"
He wanted to shout Buggy's praises to the heavens right now. This super-tier skill… this super-tier skill was the perfect upgrade of Phantom of Truth and Illusion—a power worthy of a creator god, one that even encompassed every kind of weather skill and field skill.
And even this was not the end.
"ROAR!!!!"
Just then, dragon might bloomed across the sky—not from the cocoon, but because during evolution Buggy's Domain of Reverie had unconsciously spread outward. The heavens had already darkened, wreathed in black clouds, and under the influence of its intimidation and the power of reverie, rain began to fall.
Everyone stared in shock at the changing weather.
Even Eleven, Ginseng Baby, Crimson Eye, and the rest could not help but look at Buggy. Just what kind of monster was Buggy evolving into?
At that moment, within the black clouds, the phantom of a body flickered in and out of view, gradually taking shape as a dragon-shaped apparition.
Shi Jin was struck dumb, because this was not the ice dragon Buggy had once conjured—it was an unknown dragon species.
Even Shi Jin himself, the beastmaster, was a little dazed now, but soon he thought of the mysterious dragon pearl Buggy had absorbed.
Could it be… the pearl's original owner?
The apparition in the sky was a colossal Eastern divine dragon, its serpentine body covered in blue-white scales.
It drifted and coiled endlessly across the heavens, its scales glittering so brilliantly that onlookers were dazzled; gazing at it was like being pulled into another world.
Countless people felt the vast dragon might and terrifying magic power of this divine dragon, and could not help but freeze in place.
What in the world was this evolution phenomenon?!
Was this still the evolution of a Greenfluff Worm?
Had something gone wrong?!
"ROAR!!!"
Moments later, with a great roar from the divine dragon, the light of evolution blazing from Buggy's true body—the cocoon—reached its absolute peak, incomparable and immense. Seeing this, the divine dragon's apparition flew straight into the radiance, as if becoming nourishment for the evolution and merging into it.
Scales and claws gilded, it pierced the nine heavens; coiling and writhing, it rode the clouds away.
As the divine dragon merged in, the information for the final super-tier skill appeared in Shi Jin's mind.
[Skill]: Dragon of Reverie
[Grade]: Super-Tier
[Description]: A mental, spatial, and dragon-type skill. Through the power of reverie, one transforms one's own constitution into the body of a divine dragon, gaining true attributes, physique, energy, life force, and dragon might on par with the dragon race—an ability meant to rival and surpass dragons.
Trained to perfection, one may evolve into a dragon; breaking through the skill's limits, one surpasses the dragon; reaching the utmost, one walks a path of one's own.
This was… a super-tier evolution skill!
At this moment Shi Jin was utterly stunned. He had never imagined Buggy could be this impressive; he had never even heard of such a skill.
BOOM!!
Just as Shi Jin was beside himself with delight, Buggy's true body finally burst out of the cocoon.
Its massive frame was no smaller than the Ice Phoenix Moth from before, reaching three or four meters—a giant butterfly. After evolution, Buggy bore the same blue-white body as the divine dragon just now, its form dreamlike and illusory.
It was large and gorgeous, gleaming with a metallic blue luster and a white sheen, breathtakingly beautiful. The entire surface of its wings was like white foam surging up from a vast blue sea; its colors and patterns were magnificent, utterly surpassing any previous evolution form.
The enormous wing surface was like a blue sky inlaid with a string of brilliant white halos—resplendent beyond words, its bearing elegant. When it spread its wings it was like a peacock displaying its tail, yet its colossal frame seemed to hold the mighty magic of a divine dragon, stirring the heart.
BOOM!!!!
After evolving, Buggy's aura erupted once more, stunning all the butterflies; every beastmaster stared at it in disbelief, and before Shi Jin's eyes Buggy's energy value leaped crazily.
[Energy Value]: 141112
And this was with four newly awakened racial skills whose levels had not yet been raised. It was a full hundred thousand more than before, already surpassing the energy values of Eleven and Ginseng Baby at present. A bona fide Overlord race, and absolutely not something as simple as a low-tier Overlord race.
Spirit, space, dragon, three such powerful attributes combined together...
Buggy's combat power now could not possibly be weak.
"I'll call you the Butterfly of Fantasy," Shi Jin said to himself as he gazed at the enormous evolved form.
Eleven, Ginseng Baby, and Little Red Eye stared blankly at Buggy, and felt that it worked!
Off to the side, watching Shi Jin, Miao Dongdong's eyes nearly burst, and his arm and fingers trembled as he pointed at Shi Jin.
At this moment, nearly a hundred thousand Beastmasters present all went mad, staring at this gigantic butterfly, stripped of the ability to think.
Wha, what is this?!
And what race of butterfly is this now?
Who, who is its Beastmaster???
Countless people stared at the Butterfly of Fantasy in bewilderment.
At this moment, Hua Che was likewise utterly astonished. Looking at the Butterfly of Fantasy, she swallowed hard, feeling that this Beastmaster's potential had completely surpassed her own King of Ten Thousand Flowers Butterfly Spirit.
And this was before it had even received the Butterfly God's boon. There was absolutely no doubt now: at this Metamorphosis Butterfly Convention, Shi Jin and his beasts were the true protagonists!
"Come with me." At this point the Metamorphosis Butterfly Convention was thoroughly over. The Guardian God-tier, or one might say Totem-tier, Divine Feather Phoenix Butterfly looked silently at Buggy and at Hua Che, its gaze even crossing the sea of people to land on Shi Jin, instantly locking onto the Butterfly of Fantasy's Beastmaster.
It sent out a telepathic message.
Telling Shi Jin, the Butterfly of Fantasy, Hua Che and the others to leave this place with it.
At this moment, Shi Jin patted Miao Dongdong on the shoulder and raised a finger before his face, shushing him.
"I'm heading off for a bit. Don't sell my information. We'll talk after I finish my paper." Shi Jin had no wish to be disturbed without being prepared.
Then he broke into a smile, and his figure slowly vanished, instantly teleported by Buggy onto its body, leaving only a dumbfounded Miao Dongdong behind.
He regretted ever following Shi Jin. This Beastmaster was simply inhuman!!!