Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Black Iron Scales

TL: Etude

At that moment, he quickly turned around and saw a pair of eyes emitting a blood-red light!

These eyes, although not large, shone like flashlights with a blood-red glow.

Lin Hao vaguely made out the shape of the creature.

A snake!

It was a snake!

Ssss!

In an instant, the snake opened its mouth and lunged towards Lin Hao’s body with great speed!

Iron Scales!

Lin Hao reacted swiftly, immediately using the system’s skill!

In that moment, his entire body’s scales hardened like iron!

Bang!

The snake’s sharp fangs bit into Lin Hao’s scales but were instantly deflected.

Powerful Tail Slap!

Next, Lin Hao’s tail struck forcefully, hitting the snake directly on the head!

It knocked the snake out cold.

Warning!

Target’s combat power exceeds the host’s!

The system’s alert quickly appeared.

Its combat power is higher than mine!?

Lin Hao was startled and swam away as fast as he could!

This creature couldn’t be an ordinary snake; it must be one of those mutated beings!

Run!

Run quickly!

Now wasn’t the time to fight head-on, especially since his Iron Scales skill had a cooldown period.

Once his scales reverted to their normal state and if the snake bit him again, it could easily pierce through his body.

Thinking this, Lin Hao felt a chill.

His body moved rapidly, and he darted back to the center of Hualong Pond, hiding behind a rock.

“That was really dangerous.”

He carefully observed his surroundings and let out a sigh of relief.

Recalling the earlier situation still made him a bit scared.

He hadn’t expected to encounter a mutated creature so soon.

Even more unexpected was that the creature turned out to be a snake!

“That snake was long and thick, with a dark red body, and its eyes emitted light like flashlights.”

Lin Hao continued to recall the scenes he had just witnessed.

If he could devour that creature, how many evolution points would he gain?

Thinking about this, his eyes sparkled slightly.

“But right now, my strength isn’t enough.”

“Far from it.”

The system had just issued a danger warning.

“This damn system, can’t it at least tell me how much combat power that monster has?”

“It just said it’s higher than mine. Even if it’s just 0.1 point higher, it’s still higher.”

Lin Hao grumbled inwardly.

Under a long bridge in Hualong Pond, he waited for a long time but didn’t see any sign of the snake.

It seemed the snake hadn’t followed him.

“It seems like the snake hasn’t come near here for a while.”

“Could it be because there are more people here, and the snake doesn’t dare to show up easily?”

Lin Hao pondered.

He had been so focused on hunting scavengers that he had let his guard down a bit, which now seemed quite frightening in retrospect.

“This place should be safe, so let’s evolve first.”

“I can’t deal with it unless I evolve!”

After calming down, Lin Hao observed the koi scrambling for food thrown by tourists and found a very hidden spot to begin his evolution.

After all, with so many koi around, if the creature wanted to eat something, it would first find these koi.

This also provided an extra layer of protection for himself.

Not evolving was not an option; he simply couldn’t win otherwise!

Soon, with a momentary blackout, Lin Hao once again entered the state of evolution.

However, this time the evolution process was quicker. When he regained consciousness, it seemed that not much time had passed.

“It should have been around three hours of evolution time, not bad!”

Host: Lin Hao
Species: Black Carp
Level: 5
Body Length: 91 cm
Weight: 204 jin
Combat Power: 45
Skills: Powerful Bite, Powerful Tail Slap, Iron Scales
Divine Abilities: Auspicious Guardian
Evolution Points: 410/400

“This time, only my body size and weight changed; everything else seems the same.”

Upon awakening, Lin Hao examined his current state and murmured to himself.

However, his body length was now almost a meter!

His combat power had significantly increased to 45!

Congratulations to the host for successfully upgrading to Level 5 and obtaining a common treasure chest.

Just as he was preparing to continue leveling up, the system notification sounded again!

“A treasure chest!?”

“A treasure chest as a reward again!”

Hearing the system’s notification, Lin Hao was thrilled.

Would you like to open the treasure chest now?

The system’s prompt appeared again like a pop-up window.

“Yes!”

Lin Hao immediately chose yes!

The snake gave him a strong sense of oppression!

If he didn’t get stronger quickly, it would be a big problem if the snake caught him next time!

“Let me evolve one more time, and see if I don’t eat you.”

He muttered to himself.

At that moment, a phantom of a treasure chest appeared before him.

Soon, the white treasure chest began to open slowly on its own.

Thump, thump!

Lin Hao felt a bit nervous this time.

The process of opening the treasure chest was akin to the excitement he felt when drawing cards in games back in the day.

Creak—

Lin Hao even seemed to hear the sound effect of the treasure chest opening.

Quickly, he saw many rotating text entries inside the open treasure chest.

Enhanced Reactions, Enhanced Speed, Sturdy Fins, Waggling Tail…

Various entries spun rapidly.

“Similar entries to last time.”

Lin Hao watched the spinning entries and couldn’t help but complain.

Most of the entries were white, with only a few blue ones flashing by.

Blue entries were clearly better abilities, while white were the most common.

In a common treasure chest, getting a blue entry was almost a joke.

“A typical trick in pay-to-win games, like opening jars in Dungeon Fighter.”

Lin Hao watched the scene and grumbled.

Soon, the spinning entries began to slow down and finally landed on one.

Black Iron Scales

“Razor teeth!?”

Seeing this entry, Lin Hao was slightly taken aback.

“I actually got a blue entry!?”

He was a bit stunned.

“But this entry seems somewhat similar to my ability.”

His skill was Iron Scales, and this was Black Iron Scales.

Looking closely, he saw the ability description:

Black Iron Scales: Body scales as hard as black iron!

In that instant, Lin Hao could clearly feel his scales undergoing a transformation.

It didn’t hurt; instead, it felt slightly itchy.