Chapter 9 - Bottleneck

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Swamp Meganeura + Sunset Silver Duprasi

Result:

Citrine-Shelled Fading Doedicurus

Type: Crystal / Illusion

Level: 1st stage Silver

Abilities: Fade, Advanced Illusion Attack, Advanced Poison Attack, Advanced Augment Sense

Fusing Duration: 21 days

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Swamp Meganeura + Silver Edge Eaglesong

Result:

Swamp Tiger Hornet

Type: Swamp / Steel

Level: 1st stage Silver

Abilities: Swamp Attack, Advanced Eyesight, Advanced Metal Trail

Fusing Duration: 17 days

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Although he found out that he can also get Crystal type from Earth + Metal + Light and that Swamp type can be achieved by fusing Dark + Earth + Poison, and perhaps even Water, Ji Liu was still disappointed.

The disappointment comes from what he observed that Silver level fusions would take at least two weeks, and also the fact that the monsters he has right now are good, but he researched and found out that that the fusing monster results are subpar even if they are Silver level. He thought that perhaps he should have thought more about the fusion process.

These were only his thoughts though because, in reality, he can still create an even better monster using these subpar monsters. In his mind, fusing monsters should only result in stronger monsters, anything else is a failure.

Just when Ji Liu was considering if he should start fusing for the Citrine-Shelled Fading Doedicuru or not, Jinao arrived and saw that the fusion was finished. It then quietly sat at the side along with the other monsters.

Seeing his monsters line up like that, Ji Liu remembered he should name the Swamp Meganeura, he thought hard for two seconds and concluded that 'Ting Ting' would suit it best.

Looking at its status window, he then saw and recalled that he can evolve the monsters instead to push them to Silver level when they reach peak stage. So he quickly checked their status to take a look at the evolution conditions.

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Sunset Silver Duprasi (Xiao Cike)

Type: Illusion / Light / Metal

Level: Peak stage Bronze

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Stealth, Advanced Illusion Attack, Advanced Poison Attack, Flash, Augment Sense

Evolution condition: Slay 300 (97 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 31 (23 left) days

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Silver Edge Eaglesong (Xiao Su)

Type: Metal

Level: Peak stage Bronze

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Advanced Metal Attack, Metal Trail

Evolution condition: Slay 200 (0 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 61 (5 left) days

Special evolution: Consume 1 (1 left) Poison type monster Sphere, Consume 10 (0 left) Poison type monster core

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Jet-Black jumping Spider (Xiao Yue)

Type: Ice / Dark

Level: 8th stage Bronze

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Ice Trail, Advance Ice Attack, Advance Dark Attack, Dark Stealth

Evolution condition: Slay 300 (132 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 61 (57 left) days

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Photophobic Orc (Jinao)

Type: Earth / Dark

Level: 7th stage Bronze

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Dark Trail, Advanced Earth Attack, Dark Attack

Evolution condition: Slay 500 (0 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 183 (17 left) days

Special evolution: Slay 5 (1 left) Silver or higher level monsters, Consume 1 (1 left) Water-type monster sphere

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Swamp Meganeura (Ting Ting)

Type: Dark / Earth / Poison

Level: 9th stage Bronze

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Wind Trail, Advanced Earth Attack, Poison Attack, Advanced Eyesight

Evolution condition: Slay 250 (250 left) Mortal or higher level monsters, Survive for 45 (45 left) days

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Seeing their status, Ji Liu made a plan. Since tomorrow is Sunday, early morning they'll first go to the southern forest to hunt for a Silver Level Poison type monster for its 'monster sphere' for Xiao Su then head further south to the beach for a Silver level water type monster's 'monster sphere' for Jinao.

These monster spheres, and also monster cores, are organs usually found within a monster's heart. If the heart's job is to circulate the blood, then the monster core circulates the absorbed element. Training it by using the element has the same as training muscles. If muscles grow bigger when trained, then a monster core gets denser. The denser a core is, the higher the level of the monster.

These organs starts out as just a part of the blood in mortal monsters, it would then harden into monster core once reaching Bronze level, as a monster reach silver level, it is further compressed and becomes a monster sphere, then monster nucleus at Gold level, elemental core at Legend level and elemental Sphere at Divine level.

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Sunday afternoon, Ji Liu and his monsters were fighting a 9th stage Bronze Electric Jellyfish and 1st stage silver leveled Lightning Jellyfish. These monster may be jellyfish, but they use 'Electrostatic levitation' to float and move above ground whenever they want to.

The two Jellyfish monsters are coordinating with each other giving Ji Liu's 5 monsters a hard time. There were also no covers to use [Stealth] with to give Xiao Cike and Xiao Yue a chance to sneak attack and the Silver level monster have the ability [Lighting Overcharge] that envelopes the monster with lightning.

Xiao Cike mainly uses its [Advanced Poison Attack] by spitting as it can't get near, but its damage is almost negligible. Xiao Yue's long-range Webs are good control but only accounts to being a nuisance as it is frequently cleared by the [Lighting Overcharge] and a tentacle with [Lightning Trail] used by the Bronze level monster.

Jinao was using its spear and [Advanced Earth Attack] to fight the Silver level Jellyfish while Xiao Su provides support by shooting blades of wind enhanced with [Advanced Metal Attack] with its wings. Jinao has the type advantage but is weaker in level thus creating a tough situation. Although fighting 2v1, the Silver level Jellyfish still has time to provide support to its partner from time to time.

Ting Ting also have an intense battle with the Bronze level Electric Jellyfish. Having the type advantage with equal level, It would be a won battle if not for the constant support from the Silver level Jellyfish.

Realizing that the situation would worsen if the fighting continued this way, Ting Ting proposed a risky strategy. After all, it inherited Beedrill's bravery.