When I said we would need twelve days before, it was because I had planned to only feed Jade the purified mana from the river.
I did not account for the bird to be naughty and took every piece of purified mana I produce for training for the past few days. While I was busy being frustrated and focused on the guns, I forgot to calculate how much energy this little bird had ingested.
And so it actually made sense that Jade was ready to evolve now. It had been overeating for the past few days, after all.
But I also had a feeling that it wasn't just because of the mana consumption. The bird had different condition and reaction now compared to the first time. I remembered seeing Jade rolling around inside the ball of energy cheerfully inside the clearing during the first time.
