Evolution from Carp to Divine Dragon - Chapter 15

Chapter 15: New Skill – Fire Scales

TL: Etude

Lin Hao’s mind clicked on the icon that was flashing with a golden light.

“Difficult Task: Devour one mutant creature. Would you like to claim the reward now?”

The task was indeed completed! This snake turned out to be a mutant snake.

“Yes!”

Without any hesitation, Lin Hao directly chose to claim the reward!

In the next moment, countless cards were projected before his eyes.

Each card was categorized into white, blue, purple, pink, and gold colors!

“Are these the five skill levels?” Lin Hao thought, feeling a bit excited as he looked at the colors of the cards.

There were so many skills! And some of them appeared to be very powerful.

The system prompt showed that the skill was being extracted.

As the cards spun crazily, white skills were the most abundant, while the chances of drawing a good skill were very low.

“Judging by the system’s usual stinginess, it’ll probably give me a white one, right?”

“This is just like playing a gacha mobile game,” Lin Hao muttered, watching the scene before him.

Soon, the spinning cards began to slow down.

One card floated and jumped in front of him.

Fire Scales

“Huh!?”

“It’s actually blue!”

Seeing this skill card, Lin Hao’s eyes lit up with surprise.

He originally thought he would draw some trash skill, like in those stingy mobile games.

Getting a skill that wasn’t white was quite unexpected.

As Lin Hao focused on the card, he could clearly see a line of information:

Fire Scales: All scales emit burning flames for five seconds (cooldown time fifteen seconds)

“This seems pretty decent?”

“Just hope the flames won’t roast me alive,” Lin Hao thought, feeling a bit uneasy.

But it shouldn’t be that bad.

“Would you like to learn this skill now?”

“Yes!”

With Lin Hao’s choice, the card flew towards him, touched his body, and disappeared.

At that moment, his entire body of scales felt a strange, scorching sensation!

“Damn, it’s not like the Seven Wounds Fist, hurting oneself before hurting others, right?” Lin Hao joked.

Meanwhile, another scavenger’s corpse began to float up from the pond water.

A faintly glowing golden creature started to wriggle out of the scavenger’s body.

When the mutant snake was torn in half, a lot of blood flowed out. This creature, emitting a golden light from its back like a loach, seemed to have smelled the blood and started to become agitated.

Swimming quickly around the area, it seemed to be searching for something.

Soon, its small eyes spotted a black figure not far away.

Swoosh!

In an instant, it burst forth with extreme speed, rushing towards the figure!

Skill Learned Successfully

“Have I already mastered it?”

Seeing the system prompt, Lin Hao couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

“Should I give it a try?”

Just as he was contemplating this, he suddenly noticed a creature emitting a faint golden light rushing towards him at an incredible speed!

What is that!?

Lin Hao’s night vision was quite good, allowing him to clearly see the creature.

It was a… loach!?

A loach with a golden glowing back?

A mutant creature!

After his encounter with the mutant snake, he quickly realized this was indeed a mutant creature!

Bang!

It was too fast for Lin Hao to react, and the loach-like creature bit down on his scales!

Crunch!

Its teeth seemed incredibly sharp, as Lin Hao distinctly heard a crisp sound, and his scales showed signs of cracking!

“Courting death!”

As pain shot through him, Lin Hao became enraged.

It was one thing for a mutant snake to cause trouble, but now even a tiny loach dared to attack him!?

“I’m one meter long, and you’re barely ten centimeters!”

In that instant, flames erupted from his entire body.

Hissss!

The surrounding pond water evaporated furiously!

The loach, which had been clinging tightly to Lin Hao, had its head scorched and instantly let go.

A great opportunity!

Lin Hao seized the chance, opened his mouth wide, and bit down on its head!

Bang!

The head of the mutant loach was bitten off completely!

Bite!

He bit down repeatedly, and in a short time, he had devoured the entire mutant creature.

Devoured mutant steel loach, gained 350 evolution points

“Only three hundred fifty points?”

Seeing the system prompt, Lin Hao couldn’t help but complain.

The mutant snake had given him five hundred evolution points, but this mutant steel loach only gave so few.

“Well, better than nothing.”

“I’d better finish off all those scavengers first.”

Lin Hao continued searching for scavengers and found another corpse floating to the shore.

“These scavenger corpses must have been devoured by that mutant steel loach, right?”

Crunch, crunch!

While contemplating, he continued biting down on the scavenger corpses.

Before long, he had devoured all the scavengers in the pond.

Host: Lin Hao
Species: Black Carp
Level: 6
Body Length: 1.1 meters
Weight: 45 jin
Combat Power: 61
Skills: Powerful Bite, Powerful Tail Slap, Steel Scales
Divine Abilities: Auspicious Guardian Lv2
Evolution Points: 1680/1000

“Hehe.”

“With over sixteen hundred evolution points, I can level up again.”

“Not bad at all.”

After eating the scavengers, Lin Hao felt a sense of satisfaction.

Although scavengers tasted awful, having something to eat was better than being picky.

“I wonder if people will continue to throw scavengers down here.”

Releasing invasive species like this was disgusting, but since he was in the Hualong Pond, he could devour all of them!

An adult scavenger was worth thirty evolution points, which was quite decent.

After all, even devouring a mutant creature didn’t yield many evolution points!

He vaguely remembered hearing Boss Peng mention that his stocks had skyrocketed.

Could it be due to the influence of his Auspicious Guardian divine ability…

As long as one was in this small area, everything’s fortune would improve.

However, the fortune enhancement probably wasn’t always effective, right?

Task Refreshed

As he pondered this, the system prompt appeared again!