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Jack Clark got home before Glenn Clark was let out from school.
He tossed his backpack onto the sofa and headed upstairs.
In his room, the Six-legged Salamander, which had eaten that morning and grown to seventy centimeters, lay on the ground, its black bean-like eyes quietly watching Jack Clark.
With anticipation, Jack Clark took a box out of the drawer, opened it, selected one of the three Iron Beetles, and placed it into the Six-legged Salamander's mouth.
"Let's begin," he said.
Boom!
As soon as Jack Clark gave the confirmation, the Six-legged Salamander, having already met the evolution requirements, burst forth with a torrent of violent heat within its body, like a flash flood.
This was the Evolution Energy that had been accumulating inside its body. It made every cell in the salamander's body divide and compress in a frenzy, becoming even more powerful.
Deep within the Avatar's body, the originally fixed Genetic Sequence, after absorbing the Iron Beetle, began evolving toward something more powerful and more perfect.
Crackle Crackle!!
The Avatar's smooth, tough exterior began to grow layers of pale black horny bones like scales, visible to the naked eye as they emerged.
At the same time, a current of heat appeared out of nowhere within Jack Clark's body.
However, compared to the faint sensation of his first time, the Evolution Energy this time was more than tenfold, terrifyingly enhancing the strength of his muscles and bones wherever it went.
This enhancement was systemic. The cells throughout his body, just like those in the Avatar, were constantly dividing, compressing, and becoming more explosive; his Internal Organs grew stronger...
This round of Evolution lasted for about an hour.
Whew!
Jack Clark exhaled, opening his eyes that were clear-cut and bright like black gems, subtly exuding an invisible pressure.
Feeling the surge of power within his body, a smile appeared on Jack Clark's face because this improvement exceeded his expectations.
In his excitement, Jack Clark summoned the attribute page with a thought.
Level: First Layer Heaven
Physique: 58
Strength: 60
Agility: 52
Spirit: 55
Talent: Soul Split
Cultivation Methods: Lotus Platform Meditation Skill [Complete], Dragon Elephant Power [First Layer], Mind's Eye Bright Knife [Sword Skill First Layer, Heart's Eye?]
Avatar Body: Hexagonal Armored Beast
Level: Low-level Unique Beast [An Extraordinary Creature that has evolved twice, adult body length limit 3 meters]
Talent: Strength [Strong muscle fibers and bones, capable of bursting with Hundred-fold Power relative to its own]
Defense [The special structure of the body surface, steel-hardness external armor capable of withstanding a hundred times the pressure of its volume, note, defense abilities are somewhat reduced in the weaker areas of the armor]
Evolution value: 0/300
"All four attributes have increased by 30 points, which is equivalent to a three-fold enhancement of a normal human's physique, and individual attributes have even surpassed the First Layer Heaven Limit."
Jack Clark's gaze swept over the changed attributes, then his attention shifted to the Avatar's data below.
The Avatar's name had changed to Hexagonal Armored Beast. It was no longer related to the salamander at all. Its level was a low-level exotic beast, with the growth limit of its body size at 3 meters.
However, none of that was important. What caught Jack Clark's eye was the Defensive Talent listed below.
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"Just as I thought, I acquired another talent this time," Jack Clark said with a smile on his face.
With the pressure defense of a hundredfold volume and a talent capable of bursting with hundredfold strength, as long as the Avatar is cautious when released, there should be no issue with safety.
After reviewing the detailed changes to his attributes, Jack finally closed the attribute page and looked down at his Heavy Armored Avatar.
The Avatar's body was still 70 centimeters long, the same as when it first evolved, with no change in body length, but its density and weight had increased several times, becoming even thicker horizontally.
The entire body was covered in a black exoskeleton resembling armor, including the abdomen, especially the back, which looked like interlocking pieces of armor.
Even the dorsal fin, which stretched from the head to the tail, had thickened, including the tail that took up a small part of the body, covered in black ring-shaped exoskeleton.
With evolution, its limbs had become stronger and were also covered in slightly smaller scale armor, with claws as sharp as small daggers.
The originally broad head was also enveloped in the black exoskeleton, with protruding eyebrow bones over the eyes for protection, resembling a helmet.
In addition, the upper and lower jaws had evolved to protrude forward more, revealing two rows of sharp teeth, even growing four canine teeth above and below.
On both sides of the head, three pairs of feather horns that looked like small wings completely turned into hard keratin, their color even more vividly red like blood, making the middle appear somewhat fierce.
At this moment, the Heavy Armored Beast Avatar looked entirely like a vicious Mutated Beast, hard to imagine it was initially a salamander smaller than the palm of a hand.
Just then, the sound of the door opening came from downstairs.
Seeing the backpack on the sofa, Glenn Clark shouted upstairs, "Bro, you're back."
Upstairs, Jack responded, "Yeah, left early today due to some business, start cooking, I need to step out for a bit."
"Oh."
Casually dealing with Glenn, Jack rummaged through the wardrobe, found a double-shoulder backpack, then controlled the Heavy Armored Beast carefully crawl into it with his consciousness.
Once the Heavy Armored Beast curled up properly, Jack zipped up the bag, lifted the straps, and immediately felt a heavy weight on his hand, the straps making a strained noise.
Based on the feeling in his hand, Jack estimated that the Heavy Armored Beast weighed at least over eighty kilograms, incredibly heavy.
However, this weight was nothing for him, whose physique was on average five times stronger than an ordinary person.
Carefully holding the backpack to avoid the Heavy Armored Beast damaging it, Jack stepped out into the sunlight and headed toward the riverside a few hundred meters away.
Following the usual trope, his act of releasing the Mutated Beast should have taken place at night, sneaking around, which would have suited the atmosphere.
Then, upon returning at night, encountering some unexpected events and having another adventure, like playing the hero in a rescue, would have been in keeping with the trope.
As his mind wandered with these thoughts, Jack soon reached the riverside, following the riverbank down to the water.
Jack looked around, no one in sight, good. He set the backpack down, unzipped it, and amidst the rustling sound, the black Unique Beast slipped through the weeds into the river.
Gurgle gurgle! After releasing a few bubbles, the Heavy Armored Beast swam away along the riverbed.
Suddenly, another underwater scene came into Jack's view.
Through the eyes of the Heavy Armored Beast, the surroundings blurred slightly, in the two-meter-deep water only about ten meters out could be seen clearly with the help of sunlight.
Here, waterweeds swayed, small fishes darted around, when suddenly a large fish weighing several pounds appeared, causing the small fishes to scatter in panic.
Just as that fish swam past the Heavy Armored Beast, the Beast suddenly attacked and bit it in half with a crunch due to its terrifying biting force.
Chewing on the fish meat, the Heavy Armored Beast proceeded down the small river toward the main flow of the Great River, several dozen miles away, under Jack's conscious control.
Big fish are found where the waters are deep, and the river is wide with abundant resources – from today onwards, it would indulge in unrestrained carnage and eat to its heart's content.
In this moment, a faint excitement filled the Heavy Armored Beast, as if the sky was high and birds could fly freely, the sea was vast for fish to leap through. It had been cooped up in the room for far too long.
It wasn't just the spatial confinement that was repressive, but also the insufficiency of food.
Had there been enough food, the Heavy Armored Beast Avatar could have evolved at least ten days sooner, but due to Jack's financial constraints, most of the nighttime had been wasted.