Chapter 502: The Little Cubone Baby Just Wants to Lie Down (5k)
The evolution of the Little Cubone was indeed expected.
But when DArk truly saw the Cubone, which had a strong presence in the first part of the Pokémon series, Unova chapter, appear before him, he couldn’t help but show an excited expression.
Compared to the “childhood stage” Little Cubone, the Cubone was clearly more mature and softer.
Even before doing anything, DArk directly pressed his whole body against its stomach and let out a sigh of contentment as if his wish had been fulfilled.
The Cubone’s body color was close to blue or navy, with a white belly, and its eyes were always squinted, as if no one had ever seen them open.
It was clearly much sleepier than during the Little Cubone stage. Just after evolving, it began swaying unsteadily.
If it weren’t for its owner, DArk, enjoying its belly, it would have already lain on its back and slept soundly.
Cubone was naturally gentle, just like its appearance suggested.
When it lay on its back, its fat belly became a playground for small animals.
But do not wake it up when it’s sleeping; it will rarely get angry to express its displeasure.
In short, it eats until it’s full, then sleeps, and wakes up to eat again. With a powerful stomach, it can digest almost anything, even toxic or rotten food.
Due to its weight increasing from 105 kilograms to 460 kilograms, its food intake also increased to 460 kilograms—nearly 920 pounds!
If it doesn’t eat 460 kilograms of food in a day, the Cubone will feel sad.
Unlike “Greed,” DArk has always thought that “Gluttony” and “Sloth” suited it better.
However, at present, “Greed” fits it quite well.
…
After a long while, remembering that the Cubone’s evolution lasted only about fifteen minutes, DArk reluctantly pulled himself away from the Cubone’s belly trap.
His facial features seemed softer, and his gaze was also soft, as if he had been infected by the “Cubone Factor.”
When the Cubone noticed its owner had left, it finally couldn’t help but sit down and then lie on its back, snoring loudly—it had fallen asleep!
“What happened to eating first and then sleeping?”
DArk took the opportunity to check its paw, and then picked up the Mana Card to inject mana and view its data.
[Card Name: Cubone]
[Type: Elemental Card]
[Level: ????]
[Race: Avian-beast Kin]
[Attribute: Normal Type]
[Mana: 4000]
[Attack: 2000]
[Defense: 2500]
[Ultimate Skills: Pick Up, Sleep, Stomp, Earthquake]
“It’s even higher than the Mana Nightmare Demon!”
“A six-star Mana Elemental has reached the level of a Baby Blue-Eye Dragon.”
“It’s just right to make up for the shortcomings of high-star Mana Elementals.”
DArk was slightly delighted.
This Cubone brought him a pleasant surprise from the start.
On the basis of six stars, Cubone also possessed high stats matching its star rating.
Mana, attack, and defense, compared to the Little Cubone period, had significantly increased, especially defense.
Although 2500 points of base defense wasn’t top-tier among six-star Mana Elementals, it was still very good.
Its mana even reached a terrifying 4000 points, which was the peak value for an eight-star Mana Elemental!
Unfortunately, after evolving from Little Cubone to Cubone, it lost the crucial “Charge” skill.
This meant its defense could no longer receive a 1.5x boost and remained at 2500 points.
Among its four ultimate skills, the first one was clearly the symbol of “Greed”—”Pick Up”!
The retention of the “Pick Up” ultimate skill slightly eased DArk’s mind.
Though “Charge” was extremely powerful, the core ultimate skill of Little Cubone was indeed this “Pick Up,” indispensable.
The second ultimate skill—”Sleep”—slightly made up for the lack of “Charge.”
[Sleep: After use, enters a continuous sleep state for one round. Recovers one-third of its mana every ten seconds and cures all abnormal status effects.]
“The sleep state was shortened from two rounds to one, and mana recovers in stages, but it can still cure all abnormal status effects.”
“In essence, a Cubone with ‘Sleep’ has double mana within a short period.”
“In a Mana Duel, the Cubone can hug the Mana Guidance Ball and use ‘Sleep,’ adopting a defensive strategy.”
“Let me see how long the cooldown for ‘Sleep’ is; it shouldn’t be too short, otherwise it would be too outrageous.”
DArk thought, and then gave the order directly to Cubone: “Cubone, use ‘Sleep’!”
Cubone: (-﹃-)-zZ;
DArk: “Cubone?”
Cubone: (-﹃-)-zZ;
DArk: “…”
So the question arises, how does a sleeping Cubone know whether it has used “Sleep”?
Should someone shoot at it to lower its health?
DArk patted his head and whispered to its ear, “Vinegar Fish Slices Crystal Elbow Sugar Vinegar Spare Ribs Braised Meat Fish-flavored Shredded Pork Plum Meat Slices…”
“Click!”
The Cubone seemed stimulated and suddenly bounced, its belly rippling like waves.
But it did not awaken.
Thus, DArk knew it had indeed used the “Sleep” ultimate skill.
Afterward, DArk continued to look at the third ultimate skill—”Stomp”!
Like this kind of non-descript move, Dak’s impression was very vague. He injected mana into the Magic Card and carefully examined it.
[Stomp: Stomp forcefully on the ground, creating a circular shockwave that attacks all opponents around you, causing them to be stunned.]
[Stomp (Additional Effect): When used with (Earthquake) simultaneously, there is a chance to trigger (Rift).]
“A skill with ordinary power but can cause a large area stun effect? Control-type ultimate skill?”
After reading it, Dak’s eyes immediately lit up.
In his current lineup, there were quite a few Magic Golems with single-target control-type ultimate skills, although many had restrictions.
But a group control ultimate skill, this seemed to be the first?
Furthermore, more group controls were never too much!
And this “Stomp” seemed to have additional ultimate skill effects!
“When used with “Earthquake” simultaneously, there is a chance to trigger “Rift”, what exactly is “Rift”?”
Dak continued to look at the last ultimate skill with a hint of doubt — “Earthquake”!
[Earthquake: Make the earth tremble, producing terrifying shockwaves that attack all opponents around you.]
[Earthquake (Additional Effect): When used with (Stomp) simultaneously, there is a chance to trigger (Rift).]
Since Kabiroumon was only a Normal-type Magic Golem, and both “Stomp” and “Earthquake” were Ground-type ultimate skills, they could not enjoy the attribute bonus, making the power of these two ultimate skills somewhat lacking.
But the power of “Earthquake” seemed to have been adjusted, even using the word “terrifying”.
However, thinking carefully, an ultimate skill that could create an “Earthquake” would definitely not be weak in power.
And the additional effect of “Earthquake”…
“So what exactly is this “Rift”?”
Dak couldn’t help but continue to pour mana into the Magic Card.
After a while, when he noticed that “Sleep” was about to be ready again, he finally found information related to “Rift” deep within the Magic Card.
Then, he felt terrible!
[Rift: Make the opponent fall into the rift for an attack; if it hits, it will instantly kill them.]
(The damage caused by Rift is fixed and equivalent to the opponent’s current HP. As long as the immunity to skills is not 100%, it can instantly cause death. If your level is lower than the opponent, the move fails.)
“A seemingly powerful ultimate skill… but indeed very powerful…”
“Just the coverage of the skill is a bit low, and it doesn’t seem to have a high hit rate.”
Dak imagined the scene of “Rift” appearing.
The Kabiroumon, who had just woken up wanting to eat, suddenly found that the food in its plate had turned into stones — still swallowing it down in one gulp.
No, let’s think differently.
The Kabiroumon, who had just eaten and wanted to sleep, was suddenly awakened by noise — then rolled over and continued sleeping =.=!
…
The Kabiroumon, which had been hungry all day, suddenly found the Imp Beast eating alone, and immediately stood up angrily, delivering a “Stomp” to the Imp Beast!
The resulting circular shockwave instantly hit the Imp Beast, causing brain震荡and dizziness.
Then, the Kabiroumon immediately used “Earthquake,” and the force seeping from its feet made the ground tremble, producing increasingly terrifying impacts that sent the Imp Beast flying.
In the midst of cries…
“Rift” was triggered.
The ground suddenly cracked open a terrifying fissure, extending from the Kabiroumon’s foot to under the Imp Beast, swallowing it inside.
Then, that terrifying fissure suddenly closed, crushing the Imp Beast into a meat pie, before spitting it out.
The Kabiroumon happily hopped over, picked up the Imp Beast meat pie on the ground, and swallowed it in one bite.
No, the normal situation should be that the pre-attack of “Rift” was too long, and after waking up, the Imp Beast would suddenly flap its wings and fly away to escape the fissure.
MISS!
…
“Setting aside the issue of hit rate, the triggering probability of “Rift” also doesn’t seem to be very high, possibly similar to the ignore defense probability of “Holy Sword”. And it cannot affect Magic Golems higher than its own level.”
“But for Magic Golems not higher than its own level, even without triggering “Rift”, Kabiroumon can deal with them calmly, so the actual significance is not great.”
“In summary, it might just be an ultimate skill with greater style value than practical value.”
“Kabiroumon’s movement speed was already not fast, and adding such a low triggering probability and hit rate ultimate skill makes it really meaningless.”
After confirming everything, Dak recorded down the cooldown time of Kabiroumon’s “Sleep”.
Three minutes, which was actually not long, but in the Mana Duel where every second counted, it was basically impossible to use a second time.
But if Kabiroumon could freely control “Sleep”, perhaps it could adopt a method of sleeping for half a minute every three minutes to gain endurance for going out — that would be really stupid!
Thinking of that scene, Dak couldn’t help but laugh.
He turned his head towards Kabiroumon’s snow-white belly and suddenly chuckled twice, then pounced on it!
“Puchiyu—”
…
Overall, this Magic Card formation, though slightly off, was good, wonderful, and excellent!
Moreover, Dak actually had two “Dragon Worm Fruits” in hand, one green apple and one red apple, which could still be used to form “Fruit-eating Worm”.
However, the reserve of “Greed” was only 4 points, and today was the tenth day of July, leaving only one draw opportunity, so there was no chance to gather seven points this month.
Therefore, Dak decided to save those two “Dragon Worm Fruits” for August.
Again.
If all goes well, at least one “啃果虫” (啃 fruit worm) should be able to be refined from these two apple-shaped “龙虫果” (dragon bug fruit).
The upgrade plan for “Paradise” would then only be missing the last golem.
For the last golem, Dak actually wanted to use the crystallized blood of a water dragon lizard combined with the “Greed Fruit (Dragon)” to refine a water attribute dragon breed.
However, so far, he hasn’t figured out what water attribute dragon breeds would fit with “Greed”.
And if the magus himself doesn’t have a relatively clear goal, the success rate of refining a golem is difficult to guarantee.
Dak had always been particularly high in the success rate of refining golems.
It was precisely because every time he refined a golem, he had a clear goal.
And in his heart, he had a relatively profound understanding of the golem he wanted.
…
About fifteen minutes later, the cubone regressed back into a little cubone.
Seeing the little cubone wake up again after regressing and lie down, Dak casually said, “Don’t blame the master for not warning you; dinner is about to start.”
“Cubone!”
The little cubone suddenly perked up, its triangular ears standing erect.
Then it immediately stood up straight and followed Dak, biting its finger as it walked behind him.
Dak smiled and quickly cleaned up the remains of the experiment and recorded the results.
Once everything was done, it was indeed close to mealtime.
But the golems that should have left school long ago hadn’t returned to their rooms yet.
“Left after class again?”
“It seems we need to give the tutors a raise.”
Dak laughed heartily and headed towards the classroom with the little cubone.
Although it had just come into being, learning couldn’t wait. It was perfect timing to take it to meet the teachers while the tutors were still on duty.
The little cubone had no idea what kind of hell it was about to face, still looking cute as it followed Dak, eyeing the decorations along the corridor.
Dak soon arrived at the tutors’ office.
There were three tutors in the office: “Silent Sage” Cyrus, “Silver Wolf Knight” Camilla, and “Princess Tutor” Cook.
Dak looked at Ms. Cook with some surprise and asked curiously, “Is Ms. Plant responsible for the last class today?”
Ms. Cook nodded and said, “Ms. Plant will make up for the class she missed this morning in this final lesson.”
Dak nodded and stepped aside to let the little cubone be seen by the tutors.
“This is the golem you want to refine?” Sage Cyrus asked directly, feeling a stir in his heart.
Dak chuckled and said, “I went off track.”
Then he turned and pushed the little cubone forward, saying, “Come and meet everyone; they are your teachers going forward.”
“Cubone?” The little cubone raised its head, looking puzzled.
Dak began introducing it…
The tutors quickly realized that the golem named “Little Cubone” was a lazy, inexperienced thing.
“It has zero foundation and cannot attend classes with other golems.”
Ms. Cook pondered for a moment and said, “But I can stay late to tutor it individually. What do you think?”
Dak frowned slightly, looking closely at Ms. Cook, and suddenly had an idea: “How about this? I’ll arrange a room for you in the duke’s mansion. Would you consider moving in? This way, students could ask you questions when they encounter difficulties at night.”
“Move into the duke’s mansion?” Ms. Cook didn’t think much about it and nodded. “That’s not a problem. I live alone, so there’s nothing inconvenient.”
“Good.” Dak’s frown relaxed. “Then Little Cubone will join your study group first. But if you want it to learn seriously, we might need to address its excessive sleepiness first.”
“That’s not hard.” Sage Cyrus, who was interested in observing the little cubone, said… “Just a bit of stimulant.”
“The second person taking drugs to school?” Dak couldn’t help but stroke the little cubone’s head, moved by its determination to learn.
Little Cubone: “Cubone??”
…
When the final class of the afternoon finally ended, Dak brought Little Cubone to Ms. Plant to get acquainted.
Then he directly invited the tutors to dinner.
Perhaps because it was quite late and the owner of the mansion was absent, the tutors didn’t decline this time.
Dak introduced Little Cubone to the golems and entrusted Deoxys to look after it temporarily. Then he sat down with the tutors, discussing the progress of their studies and the upcoming monthly collective test.
At this point, Diana and Aurora couldn’t find a place to interject.
In the end, Diana’s eyes lit up, and she dragged Aurora over to the golems’ table, joining the cute little things in the food scramble.
Diana immediately took a liking to Little Cubone and forcefully squeezed next to it, constantly feeding it.
The affection level of Little Cubone towards her skyrocketed.
Diana’s eyes curved like crescent moons as she got closer and closer to it.
Completely unaware that its “beauty” had caught someone’s attention, Little Cubone was dazzled by the abundance of delicious food on the table.
…
Meanwhile, within the duke’s mansion, the atmosphere was lively due to the new member. However, events were unfolding frequently in various parts of the capital city.
Alvaraite and Claire didn’t return to the mansion until late at night, their eyes showing signs of fatigue.
After extracting the last “Pride” of the month, Dak started working on “Mathematics II.”
Time flew swiftly.
