Chapter 10: Information Exchange And Levelling Speculation
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
"Of course it's related!"
"I killed about 20 wild beasts before I obtained a drop. Even my Golden Lion leveled up during this period of time. Why is your troop only at tier 1?"
It seemed that the other party felt that Gray's good luck was unbelievable, or that they were uncomfortable with Gray's indifference after obtaining his drops.
All in all, Gray's words had clearly provoked Aikasha.
Gray nodded to himself. It seemed that his deduction was correct. The value of drops was indeed very high.
This once again refreshed Gray's understanding of the special existence of his dragon egg.
The existence of the dragon egg and its special abilities were obviously not something that could be revealed to the other party, so Gray could only say:
"My troop and I only killed two tier 2 wild beasts before getting the drops. We don't know what's going on either."
As soon as he said this, the other party instantly fell into a longer silence than before.
His explanation seemed to have backfired instead.
Gray felt a little helpless, but this was already very close to the truth.
Gray was worried that if he said that the first beast he killed had drops, it would be too big of a news. He even specially added an additional beast to his kill count.
However, since the other side wasn't saying anything, he might as well continue the conversation:
"Friend, are you still there?"
Gray's message was sent over and over again, and the other side finally replied:
"I'm here."
It seemed that the other party had also recovered her mood. She replied:
"How about this? Let's exchange information. As Guardians who can go out to hunt on the first day, cooperating or exchanging information is more beneficial for us to maintain our advantage, right?"
Exchanging information. This was exactly what Gray wanted.
It was just that Gray did not understand why she suddenly wanted to exchange information with him. He did not feel that other than the dragon egg, his information was still of value to her.
Perhaps being able to walk out of the safe house and hunt wild beasts on the first day of transmigration itself was a kind of value?
"Sure, what do you want to know?"
Gray replied with a message.
This time, the other party's reply speed was much faster than before:
"Was the wild beast that you obtained the drops from much stronger than the other one?"
What kind of strange question was this? Without understanding the other party's intention to ask, Gray didn't have any experience dealing with wild beasts other than the gnawing rabbit.
He could only brace himself and answer:
"Yes, it's just as you said."
The other party replied:
"As expected."
It seemed as though she had confirmed something. She explained.
"This is actually a guess of mine."
"The beast that I obtained the drops from was ridiculously stronger than other beasts of the same level and species. From this, I infer that the stronger the beast is, the more likely it will have drops."
So that was the case. Gray understood what the other party wanted to verify.
The stronger the beast, the easier it was to obtain items. This sounded like a certain definition of whether the beast was strong or not. Could it also be that powerful beasts had undergone some sort of change?
The other party continued to say:
"Since you've already killed beasts and know how to level up, then you should be able to understand what I'm going to say next."
Gray recalled the scene when he killed the gnawing rabbit and suddenly had an idea. He was shocked by his own idea.
And what the other party said next was exactly his guess.
"I suspect that those wild beasts are also levelling up!"
This was really inconceivable, or perhaps it was more reasonable this way!
This news gave Gray quite a shock.
The horror of this guess was that it undoubtedly announced to all the Guardians that they had never even been a special existence in this jungle, or even in this world.
Although they had some special mission, they were now like the weakest and lowest beasts in this world. They needed to compete not only for the resources to survive, but also for the qualifications to become stronger!
This was enough to crush the inexplicable sense of superiority that the Guardians generally held.
At this moment, Gray even had a terrifying thought. If the Guardians were the same existence as the beasts, then did it mean that the beasts could obtain life energy by killing the Guardians?
And the same could be said... between the Guardians themselves?
Gray didn't want to think about it anymore.
The survival laws of this world were far crueler than what everyone had thought!
Aikasha definitely didn't expect that Gray would be able to think of so many things with just a single sentence. Her words didn't seem to be finished:
"They continuously obtain life energy from within the same level and continuously become stronger. This is also in line with my previous deduction."
"And the decisive evidence is that when tier 2 existences successfully advance to tier 3, they will produce a qualitative change in their bodies!"
"They will possess a supernatural ability similar to the one we had in the old world. Although it might not be as exaggerated as various books or movies, that inconceivable use of nature is undoubtedly beyond our understanding of the world."
Gray thought of the mana crystal he had obtained from killing the gnawing rabbit.
If he continued to think according to Aikasha's deduction, then were mana crystals also one of the proofs of the evolution process of beasts?
But strangely, Aikasha didn't know about the existence of mana crystals at all.
Either Aikasha was lying, or mana crystals only existed at a certain stage of beast evolution.
At this point, Gray thought of a problem. He interrupted:
"Friend, so you've seen a tier 3 beast?"
Aikasha paused for a moment before replying:
"That's what I'm going to say next."
"My Golden Lion has already advanced to tier 3. Because of that, he learned his first ability -- the Purgatory True Flame!"
Gray was astonished. As expected of a top-tier troop, it had actually evolved to tier 3 on the first day.
Aikasha hadn't finished speaking:
"At the same time, as a troop reaches tier 3, I also know one thing. From at least tier 3, as long as a troop acquires an ability, the Guardian will obtain a corresponding ability."
"It's also because of this that I obtained an ability corresponding to the Golden Lion's ability -- Purgatory Forging!"
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