"The level of this green silk worm is probably one."
The green silkworm is Shi Yu's most researched beast, it was related to his three-month internship experience.
After all, he has recorded several books about the growth data of the green silk worm!*
[Boss: The translation switches between cotton worm and silk worm often. Likely reason is that they have the same or similar characters. I'll keep it as silk worm for consistency, but if I slip up this is for reference. Let me know as well!]
Judging from the singular pattern on this silk worm, it had only awakened once. It is scum, so Shi Yu boldly touched it.
[Boss: ...Do I need to censor that...?]
The level of pet beasts is divided into growth level and race level.
Generally, the higher the growth level means the higher the overall strength of said beast.
As for race level, it indicates the growth potential of the pet beast.
The higher the race level, the higher the upper limit that the growth level can be.
The current growth level of this green cotton worm is the first level of awakening.
This level is when most pet beasts awaken racial skills.
Every time you awaken, you will be upgraded by one level. The pet's fitness will be improved, the energy limit of the body will increase, and there is a chance to awaken your own race skills.
After awakening ten times, they can try to reach the extraordinary level and become a real extraordinary creature.
Each awakening stage is basically represented by ten levels.
Like this cotton worm, it is level one, while Eleven is currently level three. Equivalent to awakening once and three times respectively.
But awakening a few times does not fully represent the strength of the pet beast.
The strength of the pet beast during the awakening period is mainly related to the racial skills.
In other words, at the same growth level, the higher the race level of the pet beast correlates with a stronger combat power. Unless, the low-race pet beast masters a powerful skill other than the basic racial abilities.
Therefore, even if a silk worm awakens ten times, due to it's only skill being the non-level silkworm skill, it is impossible for it to beat an iron-eater that has learned the hardening skill. Even when the growth level is lower. This is racial suppression.
The advantage of the green silk worm is that it grows faster than other high-race pet beasts. After all, a short life span makes them grow faster.
In short, this cotton worm is very weak. The ability to be "unable to control its own destiny" directly makes this cotton worm become Shi Yu's experimental object.
"Grumble-"
The silk worm was thrown to the ground. Because of its light body it wasn't injured.
However, the iron-eater's slap really frightened it, and after it daze came endless fear.
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It glared wide-eyed, looked at the giant in front of it in panic along with the iron-eater jumping from the tree, and turned its head to crawl away. It didn't even have the thought of resisting with its silkworm skill.
But Shi Yu moved faster, he stepped and grabbed it in his hand.
At this time it finally resisted.
Silkworm!
The snow-white insect silk spouted from its mouth, and white flowers wrapped around Shi Yu's hand...but it was directly torn apart when Shi Yu pulled.
He had an internship for three months, he was most proficient in pulling insects.
Your silk is too weak.
Do you think you are Don Quixote?
[Boss: Someone who may or may not have lost their mind to bring back knighthood and chivalry. Want to more? Google has the answers.]
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"Little guy, be good. Otherwise I'll feed you to the guy next to me."
(ˉ﹃ˉ*)
[Is this edible?]
Although it is an extraordinary creature, the worm is not very intelligent and only has instinctive emotional reactions.
Even so, Shi Yu's telepathy was somewhat useful. After all, it is dialogue that conveys between souls.
Although the silkworm can't understand what it means, it more or less understood.
[Skill]: Silkworm
[Skill Level]: None
[Introduction]: Insect-based skill. It may have a small effect when used to the extreme.
[Status]: Teachable
Shi Yu looked at the green silk worm in front of him, called his skill book, and turned to the second page.
The most useless insect skill among his six copied abilities.
The silk worm's racial skill, silkworm was inherited by them when they were born.
"Teach." Shi Yu whispered in his heart, under the bewildered gaze of the worm.
This is his first attempt, and he was very worried.
Shi Yu's hands started to flicker.
Immediately afterwards, a halo appeared on Shi Yu's hand which passed to the green silk worm like a stream of water.
The light flowed and covered the entire green silk worm, making it sparkle.
Hum-!
After everything was completed, Shi Yu only felt a part of his strength was taken away. Almost as if his mental state had dropped sharply, he was hungry and tired.
However, the changes that followed quickly made him feel pleasantly surprised, because Shi Yu could see the worm's body beginning to develop.
The green silk worm was in its second awakening, and the second pattern on its body slowly appeared. Shi Yu quickly put it down an observed carefully.
-Silk worm's perspective-
The silk worm was dazed.
Due to the halo that melted into its body, its physical fitness and the energy in its body had improved drastically.
At the same time, it vaguely felt like it had used the silkworm skill countless times.
The experience made the silk worm feel much more proficient in the skill.
[Although I am unsure what happened, but I have become stronger!]
With the questionable IQ of the silk worm, it was impossible to understand how it got stronger. It could only judge what it should be doing now.
Escape from Shi Yu's claws!
It didn't realize that Shi Yu was a thick thigh to latch on to, and that the changes on its body were brought about by Shi Yu. It just wanted to slip away and find a safe place to continue cooling off.
The green silk worm turned around and ran away, but was stopped by Shi Yu again.
"Grumble-"
The white silkworm was spit out from its mouth and it launched a second round of resistance, but the silk was still ruthlessly torn apart.
In the desperate gaze of the silk worm, Shi Yu grabbed it again. This time, it simply gave up the struggle and curled up to the side.
"The strength of skill has increased..."
"It was used better than before..."
Shi Yu judged while fighting with the worm in front of him.
He glanced at the mark on his hand, and then at the silk worm.
This is the proficiency of insect silk, from the entry level to the proficiency level?
This kind of intensity of silk was comparable to high-quality linoleum worms that had been cultivated with Lingzhi in the base of Icefield City.
It may not be as good as the growth level, but the silk proficiency is definitely the highest.
The silkworm skill proficiency of the silk worm increasing was within Shi Yu's expectation, but the growth level of the silk worm increasing was something he did no expect.
Is it because they have a deeper understanding of their own racial skills, which drives their own strength to grow and undergo a second awakening?
No matter what, these changes made Shi Yu very satisfied with the effect of the skill book.
And the result of the experiment...
Shi Yu's complexion suddenly changed.
Because...
Opening the skill book he found that the color of all pages had dimmed.
Under the status bar of all skills, there was a cooldown time.
[Cooldown]: 8 hours
"???"
There was still a cooldown time?
Shi Yu was startled.
But it seems normal.
In this experiment, although the consumption was within the range he could bear, it wasn't a to a point where he could ignore it.
This cooldown time is actually like a protection mechanism preventing oneself from misusing the skill chart and causing it to be drained.
8 hours...it probably takes a meal and then a sleep to recover. If he wanted to decrease he would need to increase his physical fitness to have more energy.
A non-level skill requires an 8 hour recovery period, and a low-level skill may take one or two days.
What about intermediate, high, and super skills?
Shi Yu suddenly found that the skill manual was not so good. The one who was comfortable was the pet beast, and the one who was tired was him.
I wonder if eating some foods with higher nutritional value can speed up recovery?
Maybe he could quickly replenish the state after the teaching is over. Pet beasts must have nourishment, and the beast tamer must have it too.
Shi Yu looked at the iron-eater who was bewildered next to him. At this time, She didn't even know what her master had done this time.
"I brought back some bamboo shoots from the breeding base. In the evening we will eat bamboo shoots with shredded pork and white rice."
Iron bamboo poles are hard, but bamboo shoots can be eaten by humans, and they are very nutritious. They are much more nutritious than common vegetables. Shi Yu felt that he had to make up for it, so that he can fully teach the Iron-Eater hardening skills tomorrow.
Eating bamboo shoots?
The eyes of the iron-eater shined.
But soon, it realized a serious problem.
Why are you eating the bamboo shoots too???