Sean clicks his tongue upon hearing this. "Why should you do something so counterproductive? Limit yourself at bronze rank for countless years, only to stop at silver rank?"
He laughs in a mocking manner. "What's the use of our long lifespan of that's the case? I know that everyone is hot-blooded when young but, if growing old and dying without even reaching a higher is the result of recklessly training, then it's all pointless."
His presence suddenly rises. "I can reach silver rank quickly if I wanted to but my vision isn't restricted to only gold rank."
"My dream is to always uncover this world, the unknown is calling for me! I want strength! Power to change this world! I want to reach for the stars!" He roars.
This is the first time he said his dream, it was too insane in everyone's mind.
BOOM! His presence increases and large amount of spiritual energy converges in his direction.
Perfection Stage Muscle Tempering Realm.
The wild and untamed presence of Sean sets off the alarm, he quickly reels it in.
"I never thought that I would break through one final tier before reaching our intended destination." Sean sighs.
[Breakthrough to Silver Rank: (1) 3 peak bronze rank mystique creatures; or 1 silver rank, 1 peak bronze rank, and 1 peak iron rank; (2) Perfection Stage Muscle Tempering Realm; (3); Combination of both Skin and Muscles Tempering Realm; (4) Adequate vitality; (5) Turns spiritual energy inside the host's core into spiritual essence.]
He can complete the first requirement easily, with the two bunnies training inside Beast World, the of them can reach peak of iron rank with ease.
The second condition is already achieved, the fourth condition can be completed by consuming pills and mystique creatures flesh, the fifth condition is too easy for him.
It's the third condition that stumps him, how can he achieve this, even after asking the system, it didn't give him any answer.
Snapping out from his daze, everyone was looking at him with speechless expressions but they aren't overly surprised.
"Can you break through silver rank before the competition starts?" Asks the principal.
"I don't know but since I'm already in this stage, I think I just need to accumulate more strength to reach silver rank."
"Dxmn dude." Jericho complains.
"Wait! I actually forgot to tell you this but after my research, I found a way for your pet beast to evolve but I still can't call myself a true evolution planner with my idea." Sean sighs.
"Evolve? You mean Golden!?" Jericho's eyes lights up, no owner wants his pet beasts to stay at his current rank.
"Yes, after my extensive research, I realized that your pet beast is sitting upon an awkward spot, the Uncommon Grade, it still hasn't reached Rare Grade not because of its strength is lacking but it's variation is actually incomplete." Sean shares.
"Can I watch?" Suddenly, another person joins the discussion.
It was old man Johnson together with his students, they volunteered to join this expedition even though it would cost them valuable research time and the reward they'll receive is not that substantial, it's because they wanted to broaden their horizons.
"Yes, you can watch but I don't think that you can replicate what I'll do because my experiment involves Wuk's Golden Qi." Sean shares.
"No matter, seeing a variant evolution is still as exciting as ever for me, even if it's just rare grade."
His students agrees, variant evolution is always filled with surprise, they never know what would the change caused by the variation.
Sometimes it would be a small change like the eyes, color of skin, fur or hair but there's also great change like size shape, additional traits like wings and arms.
There are so many probabilities, that's why variant evolution is considered the most detested and also the most exciting evolution for planners.
"With this, Missel and Jericho will be equal in strength, if they fight in the wilderness, this idiot will probably even overwhelms her." Sean pats the head of his friend.
Missel clicks her tongue, she can't refute his words, she realizes that someone like Jericho was born to be a hunter.
Jericho chuckles. "Unfortunately, if we fight in an arena, eight out of ten, I would lose."
Everyone agrees to his words, they had seen just how strong Missel is, the only person they know that can stand toe to toe against her in sparring was Jericho.
The rest are either suppressed by her own techniques, experience or strength since she's now at the mid tier of iron rank.
This is her trying to preserver her foundation, if she has taken a lot of pills, she might had reached bronze rank already.
They decided to convened to the planner's research room, they had their own designated area other than their own personal room.
Sean went back to his room to get Jasmine and Wuk, he also brought everyone else to witness Golden's evolution.
Upon seeing Chika and Ganko, everyone was stunned, Fabuki asks. "Since when did the two of you been here with us?"
Sean glares at her. "Since the beginning, when I tried to inform everyone, you cut me off and told us to hurry."
Fabuki chuckles awkwardly, she didn't expect that she would be responsible for these two castaways.
"Okay, Golden stays there." Sean points at the evolution circle.
He then grabs his neck and pushes him to the ground as he activates Titan Body, increasing his strength.
"Jasmine, trap him in a Nightmare, Wuk, infuse your Golden Qi inside of him, Jericho, you come here and use your spiritual link to support his mind and feed him basic vitality pill."
Intermediate Cultivation Technique!
Once Jericho feeds him pills and mystique flesh, together with one blood crystal from Sean, he infuses him with spiritual energy using Intermediate Cultivation Technique.
Jasmine's form suddenly changes, becoming more demonic, this shocked everyone.
Demonic Transformation!
She then uses her Illusion but it turns into Nightmare affected by her current form.
Golden suddenly reacts violently but because the person suppressing him was Sean, he can't escape but he struggles as much as he can.
Jericho turns pale as he sits in a meditative stance, trying to help his pet beast tide through this.
Everyone watches with worry, Golden wants to bite the hand holding him but his body can't get out of the hold.
ROAR!
Suddenly, his bones starts cracking and his skin starts to seep with blood, the white fur becomes red.
Sean's eyes lights up, it seems that the personality of Golden is different from he first expected.
He's not a defense oriented mystique creature like Wuk, the environment shaped his variation but it seems that without the effect of metal elemental energy around him, the only thing it can rely on to gain strength is its own blood and strength.
Sean roars. "Bring me more mystique flesh! Basic vitality pills!"
His classmates scrambles but the people that managed to bring what he asked for were old man Johnson's students.
They were quick and efficient, Sean finally recognized that compared to martial artists, evolution planners are much more well educated.
He didn't let go of Golden, Jericho's the one who fed his pet beast.
This state lasts for an hour before Sean senses that Golden was no longer absorbing spiritual energy.
Letting him go, he nods at Jasmine to turn off her Illusions.
She slumps to the floor, if it weren't for her fluff, she might be sweating right now, if she wasn't a spirit-type mystique creature, she wouldn't been able to achieve such a long illusion.
Sean rubs her head, telling her that she had done a great job via their spiritual link.
Letting her go, he taps the forehead of Golden and scans his status.
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Name: Golden
Race: (New)
Grade: Excellent
Rank: Vital Realm (Iron Rank-5)
Type: Metal
Innate Trait: Sharpness, Greater Strength, Enhanced Speed, Bloodlust
Skills: Piercing Bite, Piercing Tackle, Roar, Slash
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He's quite happy to see that his system can work on other mystique creature as long as they had absorbed his spiritual energy in their own accord.
Sharpness (Basic): Claws, teeth and fangs are sharpened by metal element, increasing their piercing power. Attacks also has sharpness effect added to them.
Piercing Fangs (Active): Fangs that can grow thrice their size as long as the user's will it.
Sharpness Effect (Passive): Increase speed and power.
Greater Strength (Basic): Increase the physical strength of the user.
Megamorph (Active): Increase size by 25%.
Enhanced Speed (Basic): When in motion, increases speed.
Bloodlust (Basic): Increases senses in blood, gains passive regeneration when bathe or consumption of blood, skin and fur can now absorb blood.
Berserk (Active): Enters a state of madness in which physical prowess is enhanced by 100%. Becomes immune on direct mental attacks.
Piercing Bite (Unique): Teeth is hardened by metal element and empowered by vital force, bypassing armour and barrier.
Piercing Tackle (Unique): A dash empowered by vital force and metal elemental energy, charge towards a direction, piercing through obstacle.
Roar (Basic): Release a roar that does mental and sound damage.
Slash (Basic): Slash empowered by vital force.
Sean reads the description of his skills and can't deny that they're pretty amazing.
Golden can no longer be seen as a defensive type mystique creature, he shed it during his evolution and optimizes his offensive output.
With Bloodlust to help him grow stronger as the fight continues, he becomes a reliable frontliner.
Sean then shares the description of the skills and abilities to Jericho.
Old man Johnson snatches the paper he had written and his eyes widens in disbelief.
"You're capable of knowing it's abilities just after it's evolution!?"
Variant evolution is something all martial artists desperate sought after because it contains certain laws making it easier for them to generate auras or awaken elemental types.
"What the hell!? Bloodlust!? The fabled innate ability that can grow stronger with every kill!? Those who have this almost guarantees to manifest the legendary Slaughter Aura!" Old man Johnson shouts seeing the name and effect of the skill.
"I think that you're focusing too much on that skill with a massive drawback, I'm more interested in Sharpness." Sean suddenly stops old man Johnson.
"I manifested multiple auras and I know for sure that Sharpness can actually manifest an aura, metal elements are known for their large variety of uses but it's two main traits are toughness and sharpness." Sean added.
Old man Johnson was looking at Golden with shimmering eyes, with it's potential, he can see it reaching at least gold rank in the future.
"Is there any training method to help Golden manifest his aura?" Asks Jericho.
"Yes, you just need to let him fight, by killing enemy with slashes, you can train the two simultaneously but this would be too greedy, so I suggest that you only train one first." Sean advises.
The other agrees with his words, except for Landon, he can't help but speak. "If I were given such a prodigious pet beast, I would train it simultaneously to manifest two auras at the same time."
Sean looks at him strangely while old man Johnson slaps his forehead.
He shakes his head and asks. "Has any of your pet manifested their auras?"
Landon's expression falters.
"As expected, as evolution planners you guys are more important than normal martial artists but in terms of value, you can't compare to monstrous genius."
The expression of Johnson's students becomes ugly, this was the most insulting thing anyone had said to them in their entire lives.
"Do you know the reason why? The most important thing in this world is strength, innate rankers can shape cities as they see fit, evolution planners spends most of their time researching evolution that they don't have any time to train."
"Only through combat and rigorous training can one manifest an aura and not many evolution planners has time to train, you guys will never reach Innate Realm because of this, that's why the Federation gives you importance but once it involves the future of your city, the place your family grew, your hometown, it's us martial artists that would decide the result of their decision."