127: Chapter 127 Little Gold +10

< Mei's Wish >

Difficulty: Immeasurable

Mei's only wish is to restore her cursed, dying mother to health. If you can help Mei and play a decisive role in her mother's recovery, you will have a chance to become Mei's friend.

Task Completion Conditions

* Lift the curse from Mei's mother.

Task Rewards

* Increase Mei's favorability to [Trust].

* Obtain the title [Friend of the Dragon].

* Obtain the opportunity to change class to the hidden class [Dragon Knight].

"...She survived."

After reading the last line of the task information, Fu Hao's tense shoulders suddenly relaxed, and he exhaled a long breath of stagnant air that had been stuck in his chest. The iron law of the game rules gave him the answer: once Mei's favorability was raised to "Trust," obtaining the spirit would be as easy as taking something out of his pocket.

"Tsk, this reward is far too generous..." he muttered to himself.

Trust, the trust of a transcendent-level being! Not to mention the opportunity to change to a hidden class that made his blood boil just hearing its name. But this was by no means a free lunch. The difficulty of accepting and completing "Mei's Wish" was cruelly close to hellish.

A curse that even dragons could not solve; what could a mere player do?

For Fu Hao, however, the answer was at his fingertips—the key needed, the Golden Dragon to lift the curse, was quietly lying in his Summoned Beast inventory.

"Out of thousands of attributes, it just had to require a Golden Dragon... At the very end, the Goddess of Fate is certainly favoring me."

Strictly speaking, what was in his inventory was not an adult dragon, but a young dragon. Fortunately, Fu Hao had long since discerned the key to the path of the transcendent— "Enhancement to +10."

This plan had been lingering in his mind for a long time. At this moment, he only needed to use the "ring of the sage" to reset the cooldown of "Fates Luck," and then... he would wait for the bells of the finale to ring.

Before the countdown for "Fates Luck" hit zero, he took out the monster detector, preparing to collect materials to enhance his Summoned Beast.

Suddenly, a name flashed into his mind: Mr. Antinus, the Druid of the Seven Legends. Although his highest-level summoned creature was not as good as Little Gold, Mr. Antinus must possess a "divine skill" related to Summoned Beasts.

Fu Hao decided to visit this Son of Nature before heading to the hunting grounds to see if he could learn any relevant skills. This seemingly impulsive thought became the starting point of a turning point in fate—in Mr. Antinus's hands lay the very answer he craved.

< Druid's Wisdom >

Type: Passive

Grade: Mythical

* Efficiency of skills related to "Summoned Beast" increased by 10 times.

Mr. Antinus's "divine skills" were dazzling, numbering over a dozen. However, the only one that burned into Fu Hao's eyes was "Druid's Wisdom."

With this skill, the "You Are Mine!" skill, which was originally constrained by cooldowns and daily capture limits, would see its efficiency skyrocket; more importantly, the foundation of his class, which concerned all his schemes—the Enhancement Master's "Summon Enhancement" skill—would also experience a tenfold surge!

Legendary Summoned Beasts at the field BOSS level were always scarce, respawned slowly, and it was nearly impossible for them to appear in large numbers in a short time.

But the drastic reduction in consumption materials meant that the same number of Legendary Summoned Beasts would unleash ten times the light of enhancement!

Although this would exhaust the cooldown of "Teaching of the Strong" and inevitably waste precious time for "Fates Luck" while using these top-tier resources to sprint toward Little Gold's peak, the price was well worth it.

"Mr. Antinus, please teach me."

[Learn the 'Druid's Wisdom' skill from Mr. Antinus through 'Teaching of the Strong'. After learning the skill, you will not be able to learn new skills from Mr. Antinus. Continue?]

[Yes]

['Druid's Wisdom' skill learned.]

In just a few days, the Legendary BOSSes wandering in the wild were almost completely wiped out by him. Normally, such a large-scale "evaporation" event of exotic beasts would be enough to ignite community forums and dominate the trending topics list.

However, at this moment, news related to the World Tree was sweeping everything like a storm, and almost no one noticed this faint ripple.

"28,320... Ten times the efficiency, pushing it to +7 is rock solid."

Perhaps there were still some fish that slipped through the net, but continuing to capture them would be no different from wasting time. Having fought continuously until dawn, Fu Hao's eyes were bloodshot.

He tremblingly opened the skill bar, selected "Summon Enhancement," and locked onto Little Gold in the Summoned Beast inventory. His intent fell like a hammer, and in one breath, he pushed the enhancement straight to +7!

He took a deep breath, pressed his hands together, and activated the long-cooled "Fates Luck"!

"Gods above! Reina, Samirea, Most! And all the guardians of this world! Please protect this land, and bless my choice today!"

Fu Hao's knees hit the ground heavily, and like a devout priest, he clasped his hands and looked up to the sky, exhaling a heartfelt plea.

[Due to the effect of the 'ring of the sage', the cooldown time of the 'Fates Luck' skill has been reset.]

[Use the 'Fates Luck' skill to fix the success rate of the Summon Enhancement skill at 100%.]

"Charge!!!"

The moment the system prompt popped up, Fu Hao erupted with a roar almost like a beast, as if he were about to shatter his own throat.

After the hoarse outburst, the fatigue accumulated over the days engulfed him instantly like a tide.

With trembling, uncontrollable hands, Fu Hao tapped lightly— "Enhance to +10."

[Enhancement successful]

['Golden Young Dragon (+10)' has met all evolution conditions and can evolve to the next level. Proceed with evolution?]

Little Gold had long since broken through the level 300 mark in the Training Tower, and now that +10 was successfully achieved, all shackles were gone.

He summoned Little Gold without hesitation.

[Summon 'Golden Young Dragon'.]

"Awooo—!" The long-missed cry still carried a youthful crispness, but its size had already expanded by more than twice, though compared to Mei's enormity, it still seemed petite.

The lines were indeed those of a dragon, but the cub's form and the adult dragon's physique and detailed contours were clearly different.

"In the end... it's still a little one." Fu Hao's fingers stroked Little Gold's scales with a hint of affection, and then he clicked "Evolution" to confirm.

[Evolution in progress...]

The moment his fingertips touched it, a prompt box identical to the one during the Black Wolf's evolution popped up.

Little Gold was engulfed by a dazzling light. Fu Hao stared blankly at the light, and time seemed to stand still.

About a minute later, a trace of unease slowly crept into his mind—the Black Wolf's transformation had only taken thirty seconds, but the time Little Gold was wrapped in the cocoon of light had far exceeded this limit, with no sign of ending.

At first, he could still comfort himself. However, half an hour passed, and the peace he had expected was completely shattered. Just as he began to suspect whether the evolution process had gone wrong, the strong light suddenly receded—

['Golden Young Dragon (+10)' evolved into 'Golden Dragon (+10)'.]

[Successfully restored an extinct transcendent-level species for the first time.]

[Obtained the title 'Species Restorer'.]

< Species Restorer >

* For all species individuals successfully restored directly, they can be unconditionally added to Summoned Beasts.

* For all individuals of species successfully restored directly, the body and soul of that individual can be restored through the traces of the specific individual.