Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 16: Mastery Level
On the first day, Shi Yu's contracted pet, the Iron-eating Beast Eleven, awakened the Hardening skill and ushered in its first battle victory, defeating the most widely distributed and numerous pet, the Green Silkworm.
On the second day, Shi Yu used the Skill Encyclopedia to upgrade Eleven's entry-level Hardening skill to the proficient level.
On the third day, Eleven routinely trained its Hardening ability.
On the fourth day, the Iron-eating Beast Eleven's growth level reached level four, and through the Skill Encyclopedia, it learned the intermediate skill High-Speed Healing and began drop training...
Drop training was a good training method. If the steel plate at the landing point didn't break, it meant that Eleven's Hardening strength was not up to par and it could continue practicing.
If the steel plate broke, it meant that the training had been fruitful. At this time, there was no need to worry about the broken steel plate being wasted, because it could also be fed to the Iron-eating Beast as food.
At that time, it should have the ability to gnaw and digest metal substances.
Therefore, Shi Yu not only bought training equipment, but also bought Eleven's spare food. This cost performance was too high, and Shi Yu felt suffocated by his own wisdom.
In the following fifth and sixth days, Shi Yu began to recuperate and recover from the weakness brought by teaching High-Speed Healing.
In these two days, Eleven's food intake doubled again. The frequent use of the two skills made it consume a lot and rely more on the Beast Taming Space to quickly digest the nutrients in the food.
On the seventh day, a week after becoming a Beast Tamer, Shi Yu surprisingly discovered that the consumption brought by using the Skill Encyclopedia was not only the disadvantage of weakness, but also a hidden benefit.
As long as the nutrition was kept up, his physique seemed to increase slightly every time he recovered, as if the consumption brought by using the Encyclopedia was equal to the consumption brought by exercise.
This discovery suddenly made Shi Yu feel that it was not so bad to frequently teach skills and enter a state of weakness, after all, the body was the capital of Beast Taming.
On the same day, Shi Yu used the Skill Encyclopedia again and taught Eleven the Hardening skill once more.
After this teaching, the proficiency of the Hardening skill did not reach the expert level, but compared to before the teaching, Eleven was indeed more proficient in using Hardening.
At this time, it could skillfully harden multiple body parts at the same time in various states without affecting its actions.
This improvement made Eleven very uneasy, so it trained even harder. For the first time, clear marks were smashed into the alloy steel plate.
On the eighth day, Shi Yu recuperated.
On the ninth day, Shi Yu continued to teach Eleven the Hardening skill. This time, Eleven's Hardening skill proficiency reached the expert level.
The sign of expert-level Hardening was that the Iron-eating Beast could fight extremely smoothly in a state of hardening its whole body without affecting its actions!
After the skill proficiency was improved, Eleven's growth level was also driven again and improved, reaching Awakening Level Five.
Little Iron-eating Beast: ๐·°(৹˃̵﹏˂̵৹)°·๐ I really didn't cheat!
The unease in Eleven's heart became stronger, and the marks on the alloy steel plate became deeper.
"If the proficient level of Hardening requires the Iron-eating Beast to practice hard for nearly a month under superior training conditions."
"Then the expert level of Hardening skill requires the Iron-eating Beast to practice hard for nearly a year under superior training conditions."
Right now, they only spent a week to complete such an achievement.
In the yard, Shi Yu, leaning on the chair, analyzed Eleven's growth and felt more and more that becoming a professional Beast Tamer seemed to be a very stable thing.
Whether it was him or Eleven, they were completely promising in the future.
On the tenth day, recuperation.
Next, Shi Yu did not use the Skill Encyclopedia to continue increasing Eleven's Hardening skill proficiency.
From entry to proficient, one teaching was enough. From proficient to expert, it seemed to require two teachings... Then what about from expert to perfect level proficiency?
The sign of perfect level proficiency in Hardening skill is "flow".
Expert-level Hardening already allowed the Iron-eating Beast to harden its whole body, while perfect-level proficiency in Hardening allowed the hardened substance to flow quickly on the Iron-eating Beast's body like liquid, superimposed to form a stronger effect.
When attacking was needed, all the hardened substances would flow to the claws, forming a weapon with stronger attack power.
When defense was needed, all the hardened substances would flow to the defensive parts, stacking the thickest armor and taking the lightest hits.
In essence, it was an improvement in the efficiency of using power, which could concentrate all the power at one point in order to pursue extreme output and defense.
Perfect-level proficiency was already the ultimate skill proficiency for ordinary pets, and it definitely required more teachings... Shi Yu planned to experiment with the Green Silkworm first, after all, the cooldown time for teaching Silk Thread was relatively short.
Moreover, he had been raising this Green Silkworm for ten days, and he had clearly promised to cultivate Silk Thread, but he had not taken action... He couldn't delay any longer.
On the eleventh day, Shi Yu took down the birdcage from the tree. The Green Silkworm inside felt that it needed to do something, so it calmly turned over and changed to a lying position.
If it had a little resistance when Shi Yu first caught it, now, listening to the sound of Eleven and the steel plate colliding every day, it had no resistance at all.
Besides, it didn't have to do anything now. Shi Yu would put food in the birdcage every day. Where could it find such a perfect living environment before?
In addition, Shi Yu had been practicing telepathy with this not-so-smart Green Silkworm for the past ten days, so it had no offensive awareness towards Shi Yu and was particularly obedient.
On this day, Shi Yu taught the Green Silkworm Silk Thread again. After the teaching, the Green Silkworm underwent its third awakening transformation, reaching Awakening Level Three.
However, the proficiency of Silk Thread should still be at the proficient level.
On the twelfth day, Shi Yu taught the Green Silkworm the third skill. As expected, the Green Silkworm underwent its fourth awakening transformation, reaching Awakening Level Four.
The growth rate of insect-type pets... was indeed fast enough.
At the same time, there was a qualitative change in the strength of the Silk Thread. At this time, the strength of the Silk Thread was comparable to that of fishing line, and it could be used as flexibly as human hands and feet.
For example, tying a knot with Silk Thread was no longer a difficult thing for the Green Silkworm at this time. Obviously, the Green Silkworm's Silk Thread proficiency had reached the expert level from the proficient level.
As Shi Yu, who had watched hundreds of episodes of Detective Conan, understood, Silk Thread could be considered to have preliminary power.
However, it was still limited in power. The reason was very simple. The Green Silkworm was too weak. The effect of an adult using fishing line as a tool was very different from that of a bug less than the size of a palm using fishing line.
But it was undeniable that the quality of the Green Silkworm's Silk Thread was already very good at this time. Generally speaking, even a level ten Green Silkworm about to pupate rarely reached this level of Silk Thread proficiency.
With this Silk Thread proficiency, as long as its growth level kept up, turning into a butterfly was almost a 100% certainty.
At that time, it could not only sell Silk Thread, but also scrape the crystal powder of the Wind Crystal Butterfly to sell...
If the Silk Thread reached perfect level proficiency or even higher before pupation, the phenomenon during evolution would only be more magical.
According to different cultivation methods, special evolution may even occur.
In a total of twelve days, the teaching of the two pets temporarily allowed Shi Yu to determine the teaching effect of the Skill Encyclopedia.
If the pet had not mastered a certain skill before, after the first teaching, the pet would master the skill at the entry-level proficiency.
The second teaching would upgrade entry-level to proficient level.
The fourth teaching would upgrade proficient level to expert level.
Shi Yu planned to go all out to see how many teachings it would take to upgrade expert-level Silk Thread to perfect level proficiency.
But before that, they had really been at home for too long. Shi Yu planned to go for a real battle.
Eleven, who had mastered expert-level Hardening, reached growth level five, and had undergone a week of hard drop training, should have perfectly completed this round of training. Its combat power should not be underestimated.
The time had come to test the results.
Shi Yu opened the birdcage. The Green Silkworm voluntarily crawled in, because it was much safer inside than outside, at least it didn't have to worry about becoming food for birds.
After Shi Yu rested for a morning, he called up the little Iron-eating Beast in training.
"Eleven, suspend training this afternoon. You should rest well at noon, eat more, and then we will go for a real battle!"
"Awu?"
Eleven: ✪w✪ Real battle?!
The young and weak little Iron-eating Beast hugged the steel plate and knocked on it, instantly becoming excited.