Chapter 8: Evolve, Moonlight Fox
“The Gela Monster has only just pa.s.sed through, and already this soul pet dares to come here, let’s hope it’s not another ferocious fellow.” Thought Chu Mu.
The Gela Monster is still nearby and since these types of creatures have a unique smell, weaker soul pets generally do not come near them.
The bush continued to rustle and moments later, a small soul pet emerged from within.
The little soul pet cautiously looked at the writhing plump figure in front of it, and slowly approached the food……
“Blue Star Fox, another little fox……” Looking at the little guy, Chu Mu felt a little speechless.
The Blue Star Fox on the trap is even smaller than the previous fox. Including its tail, it is barely forty centimetres long.
And judging from its thin fur, it should be just a cub. By human standards, it is only an infant which has just learned how to walk.
“The Blue Star Fox should have a slightly higher grade than the Red Cloud Fox. A pity it’s still only suitable as pets for girls……”Chu Mu smiled bitterly and shook his head, helplessly looking as the little guy took his bait.
After taking the bait, it carefully observed its surroundings. Clearly, this is a clever soul pet.
“They’re either too strong or too weak, sigh……” Chu Mu felt discouraged. Breaking a piece of ration, he fed it to the little green worm on his shoulder.
The little blue worm happily accepted it, and laid down on his shoulder to eat.
Waiting in antic.i.p.ation is tough. Chu Mu did not chase away the little green worm, instead keeping it as a companion. Furthermore, even though this little green worm cannot even be considered a soul pet, it has very high wariness. It is able to warn Chu Mu when there is a strong soul pet approaching.
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Another three days of antic.i.p.ation, and still nothing. Chu Mu had no choice but to change his location again.
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“What……what’s this? Did I stumble across a fox’s nest? Why is it another fox cub?!”
On the fifteenth day, Chu Mu once again saw a fox cub stealing his food!!
The bait Chu Mu used are soul core fragments. The soul cores come from within soul pets’ bodies. Generally, most pets use these as food.
The soul core fragments Chu Mu have is limited, and he cannot afford to have these fox cubs repeatedly stealing them.
At last, Chu Mu was fed up, and as the Moonlight Fox cub tried to steal his soul core fragment, he decisively activated the trap!
“Wu~~~~~” The Moonlight Fox cub immediately sensed danger, and reacted unexpectedly quickly. At the moment that the trap sunk, it used its small claws to grab a root buried in the earth, its body hanging fifty centimetres into the trap.
“Sou sou!!!” The young Moonlight Fox moved nimbly. Using the corners of the trap, it jumped back and forth, and skipped towards the surface!
Chu Mu stared blankly. This Moonlight Fox cub, an infant at only stage 1, unexpectedly displayed such nimbleness. This was a trap meant for stage 3 soul pets!
“Sha sha sha!!!”
Just as Chu Mu thought the little guy was going to escape, the little worm on Chu Mu’s shoulder suddenly let out a sound, and immediately shot a string of white silk from its mouth!
The white silk accurately ensnared the jumping Moonlight Fox. It panicked as it has barely escaped the trap, but was tied down by the white silk.
“Pu~~~~~~~”the green worm continued to spit out white, sticky silk, tightly wrapping the Moonlight Fox in several layers, preventing it from escaping.
The fox cub struggled tirelessly, attempting to escape the bindings of the silk. But even though it’s fast, its strength is still too weak, and was unable to break free, gradually losing its strength.
Chu Mu looked blankly at the big, round eyed blue worm, and the trapped little fox cub. He laughed, and patted his little partner, saying: “Good job, never knew you could spit silk, you really did bring me good luck.”
The blue worm writhed its body on Chu Mu’s shoulder, looking pleased with itself.
Chu Mu rewarded the blue worm with some ration, and walked towards the Moonlight Fox. He picked up the fox and climbed back up the tree.
Strong soul pets often appear on the surface, and Chu Mu naturally did not dare to stay there.
The little fox cub lay in front of him, its eyes turning tirelessly, revealing an expression of unwillingness, looking as if it might escape anytime.
“Strange, why does this fellow’s forehead also have a silver crescent mark?” Chu Mu quickly noticed the mark on the Moonlight Fox’s head.
Within the Demon Beast circle, Beast type, Fox family, only the Silver Moon Fox has a silver crescent mark on its forehead.
And the reason Moonlight Fox got its name, is because these soul pets possesses the special ability to absorb moonlight and convert it to strength.
Chu Mu recalled that the first time he met a fox cub, it was a low grade mixed blood between the Red Cloud Fox and the Silver Moon fox.
The second time he met the Blue Star Fox, which also has a low grade, but is slightly higher than the Red Cloud Fox. Chu Mu faintly recall noticing a silver crescent mark on the Blue Star Fox’s forehead, but did not pay much attention at the time.
The third time he met this Moonlight Fox, which has a medium grade. And the most incredible thing is, this little guy also has a silver crescent mark on its forehead.
“The silver crescent mark should only appear on the Silver Moon Fox, why did all three fox cub have it? Could it be that the three cubs are the same one? Chu Mu stared at the fox cub, muttering to himself.
“The same cub……impossible, the three fox cubs are of different species, there’s no way they can be the same cub……”
Chu Mu was just casually rambling. In fact, even though the Red Cloud Fox, Blue Star Fox, and the Moonlight fox all belong in the Fox family, they belong to different subfamilies, so there is no way they are the same cub.
Soul pet species is decided at birth, and can never change…….
Even though, there is an exception……
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A soul pet value is determined by its racial grade. And the racial grade is determined from its race, which naturally cannot change.
But in the world of soul pets, there is one special and very rare situation – Evolution!
In theory, every soul pet can grow stronger. For example a high grade Hunting Wolf can grow from stage 1 to a higher stage.
However, every soul pet eventually encounters a bottleneck. Even if its stage is still increasing, due to the limitation of its race, its overall power might not increase much.
But at this time, some soul pets which possess the evolution bloodline, have a very small chance to evolve to a higher grade race!
In the past, Chu Mu heard stories of a Hunting Wolf with great potential evolving into the stronger Dire Wolf.
The Dire Wolf has a much higher grade than the Hunting Wolf, a stage 6 Dire Wolf can defeat at least three stage 6 Hunting Wolf!
Evolution can be considered a rare occurrence, and definitely the biggest pleasant surprise for soul masters!
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