"Take a very careful look at this."
The trader glanced at the item. All of a sudden, his face reddened and he glowered, pointing at Luci. "You didn't just bring your bad luck here, you dared to bring a rotten fish head to my store!? Lucifer, do I look easy to bully to y-you!?..."
The bio-instrument in his hands suddenly started reading coherently, making the trader stammer, confused as to what was happening.
His eyes suddenly flashed and In the next moment, the middle-aged trader grabbed the catfish head with urgency while agilely retreating deeper into his store where no one could see.
The measuring device was really only a special type of red worm fixed inside an already labeled tube.
If it senses a level-1 savage beast, it's body would elongate half an inch but if it senses a level-2 mutabeast, it's body would stretch, reaching a full inch.
And right now, it's body was more than a full inch tall, meaning the catfish head was actually a level-2 flesh and contains obvious more good stuffs in it!
The middle-aged trader glanced at Lucifer in surprise. Although level-1 flesh and level-2 flesh have only a difference of one level, the price of level-2 flesh was twenty times higher than that of level-1.
He didn't think Lucifer would be lucky enough to find a level-2 flesh.
"Ahem, you are really in luck today. I will take this piece of flesh and give you the red-eyed rabbit in exchange. If it weren't because I know how poor you are, I wouldn't make such a trade cause it's a lose for me!"
The cat fish was the one Lucifer had fed the shriveled finger to and had evolved to level-2 in the process.
Normally, the head of a catfish was very hard and durable, almost as hard as steel but with the evolution of the catfish, it's head was now even still stronger than steel, increasing its worth. With his knowledge of being here, Lucifer estimated its price should be even higher than regular level-2 flesh.
A level-2 piece of flesh that was even harder than some level-3 flesh for a beast that wasn't considered a level 1 beast?
"Four Red-eyed rabbit, one basic sniper, ten bullets, a refined Machete, and one jar of bone softening cream." The trader's face instantly turned dark.
By the time Lucifer left the market, an hour had already passed. While he didn't get all what he asked for, he was able to get the four things from the trader. A hand machete, the red-eyed rabbit and a jar of bone softening cream.
Purchasing a gun wasn't cheap and Lucifer knew he wasn't going to get it. But he had mentioned the sniper and bullets to ruffle the man before truly bargaining. He had also managed to collect a steel cage from the man in the process. It could be said this deal was profitable to him.
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Squeaking noises sounded from Lucifer's hut. Lucifer had brought out the shriveled finger, lifting it over the two cages.
Immediately, the eyes of the two red-eyed rabbits turned blood shot as it leapt upwards at the finger. Sadly, they were in a tight cage therefore their snort slammed heavily into the steel bar, dropping them back down.
But as though they had gone berserk, they continued to jump, squeaking like a maniac and slamming against the steel cages.
Lucifer's let lose of his grip on the object and gravity took its course. The finger went through a hole in the first cage. It hadn't even dropped to the ground when the red-eyed rabbit swallowed it in its entirety. After which, it retreated to a corner of the cage and then slept off.
The second rabbit suddenly turned quiet, also retreating further into its cage.
"As expected, the finger turns any beast berserk at sight. The red-eyed beast is evolving immediately."
Lucifer's eyes flashed in excitement but he couldn't just stay here all day and watch. He closed his eyes and concentrated into his body. Lucifer wanted to know the progress his developing evolution points.
Lucifer's face suddenly froze as he sensed his evolution progress.
[Evolution Progress: 274%]
[Genome Inherited: Golden Flesh
[Percent required for evolution = 100%]
The last time he checked he was at 70 percent evolution progress. Yet, the progress was 274 percent filled, what had actually happened?
Lucifer's couldn't even express joy at the moment because the situation was just extremely strange! . After a while did he calm down to think about the details.
From his point of view, he hadn't done anything special, neither had he eaten any meat therefore, how was it possible he gained 2 evolution points in overnight?
He then remembered something the base instructor has told them before "Pure life-threatening combat also increases evolution progress." He had explained it has the body squeezing out the potential hidden in the gene and turning it into evolution progress.
And the higher the differences in evolution levels, the more evolution progress would be gained.
Lucifer's had thought it was a scheme to force them to battle monsters out there but now thinking about, it seems to be true. The vile wolf was a level-3 beast and he Lucifer's wasn't even a genetic soldier yet but he had managed to kill a wolf three levels higher than him after struggling a while, this could only be referred to as luck!
He had almost died but he had managed to conquer death instead. However the product of his suffering had been reaped by someone else – Blain, leaving him with the crumbs.
Lucifer had been grumpy about it since morning, thinking he had truly suffered a loss. But now, that doesn't seem to be the case. He had really reaped a lot of benefits from killing the vile wolf, eating its flesh was just a bonus now to him.
Despite his nonchalant expression, his mind turned giddy thinking about how to place his evolution point. Just as he was thinking about it, he head a knock on his door.
"Knock! Knock!"
This was what he had been waiting for!