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In short, if the little guy waits until it's level 16 to devour the flesh and blood of the Flame Demon, its chances of successfully advancing to a Lord-level creature will decrease, and even if it does succeed in advancing, it won't be as thorough as if it had advanced from the beginning, and its potential might be significantly affected.
Although up to this point, they still don't know what this so-called potential is for or what it represents, they have an intuition that potential and such will definitely be very important later on.
After all, there's a common saying that those who don't show off their abilities early on often turn out to be the most important later.
Because of this, the group decided to let the Wasteland Salamander directly consume it.
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Apart from the changes in level and size, the Wasteland Salamander's appearance also underwent a massive transformation, to the extent that it could no longer be called a salamander.
