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The Night Demon Scarecrow stared at the human girl walking towards him.

Mu Huoyue was the first human it saw when it was born, and also the first human who could truly understand it. She identified with the emotions and beliefs of a scarecrow, gave it a name that represents [Harvest], and gave it a precious prop that could enable it to master the [Harvest] skills.

The racial characteristics of the Night Demon Scarecrow give it a dangerous and treacherous appearance. It is actually difficult for a dark pet like it to meet a human beastmaster who can understand it.

Humans are always used to judging the habits of extraordinary creatures by their appearance. Who would have thought that a dark scarecrow born from the "barren wasteland" would yearn for the joy of a good harvest?

Originally, it was impossible for it to independently comprehend any wood-related skills that contained growth-related energy.

Fortunately...it met the most suitable partner in the early stage of its life.

Its life form and racial characteristics are very special. Compared with other contracted companions, it seems much more taciturn, and even lacks the vitality that some extraordinary creatures should have. It is more like a plant that stays in the fields all year round.

It does not have the same fighting spirit and competitiveness as Seniors Ellen and White Fang to win victory for the Beast Tamers. It was not able to meet Hiiragi earlier and accompany her through the initial difficulties. It is also not like Chaoxi and Xiaomeng who joined later, and has a bond with Hiiragi that transcends time and space.

It is a relatively inconspicuous one among Hiiragizuki's many contracted pets.

But Hiiragi has never neglected to pay attention to it. The beastmaster fully respects the characteristics and preferences of each pet and will never force them to achieve goals that they are not interested in.

So Hiiragi probably couldn't imagine how important and precious she was to Harvey, and that she was the only starlight that he was willing to give everything to protect.

Just like every night in the fields, it was difficult for it to lift its head made of dry straw, so it let the crows fly high into the sky to serve as its eyes, and see the scene at the moment when the stars were falling.

Just like the night when she was first born, she stopped the human beastmasters and contracted pets who were about to launch a second round of attack and stretched out her hands.

Just like the day when it returned to the Beast Taming Space, it learned about [Harvest], saw the crops in the fields growing thrivingly, and saw the human girl smiling at it.

Just like at this moment, she held in her hand the memories of countless harvest scenes, the weapon embryo that represented all the efforts she had made along the way to the contract, and she walked towards it and looked into its eyes.

Letting Mu Huoyue hand the weapon to it personally was an unspoken agreement between Harvey and the Beastmaster, a small [Evolution Ritual].

The crows of the dark night took the scythe from the human girl. When they touched the still vague embryo of the weapon, the clear light of evolution bloomed around the Night Demon Scarecrow.

Harvey felt that all his emotions and feelings, all his contractual bonds, were condensed and sublimated at this moment, bursting out with vast hidden energy, pulling him to leap to a higher level of life form.

Every detail that makes up the essence of life seemed to be constantly changing in the burst of evolutionary energy. Harvey felt like he had fallen into a deep ocean of consciousness and could only see the light of amazement in the human girl's eyes.

It recalled the in-depth conversation it had with the Beastmaster long ago.

[What kind of extraordinary creature does Harvey want to evolve into? 】

In fact, the answer was clear from the beginning.

The Scarecrow is the silent guardian in the wheat field, and Harvey wants to be the one who can truly protect the most important person and bring her the most magnificent harvest in the world.

The light of evolution was extremely dazzling. The shape of the Night Demon Scarecrow kept changing in the flickering light, and gradually merged into one with the long sickle.

Then a sharp beam of light suddenly cut through the shining light curtain, leaving star-like spots of light.

After the light faded, the extraordinary creature that appeared in the original place was completely different from the figure of the Night Demon Scarecrow.

Its main body is a rough crimson cloak floating in the air. Its real body is hidden under the cloak and cannot be seen clearly. There is nothing under the cloak, and the end of the empty space is endless. It is faintly glowing with a dark purple glow, just like the deep starry sky in the universe.

A pair of withered arms stretched out from the cuffs of the cloak. They were not human bones, but more like human figures made of withered straw and wheat straw. The shape was very delicate, and one could even see the unique texture of fascia and muscle simulated by the straw.

In its right hand, it held a huge pitch-black sickle that was more than three meters long. The blade was curved downward, like a black crescent hanging high in the night sky, emitting a cold and sharp light that could cut through anything in the world.

Pitch-black chains extended from the middle and end of the sickle, binding the cloak layer by layer, and finally disappeared into the left cuff and entangled with the withered wrist.

Its head was also hidden deep in the hood of the cloak, and only a deep and empty scarlet eye could be seen, like a red star in the endless darkness, flickering slightly as it stared.

Countless crows fluttered and landed behind it, some of them turned into black mist and poured into the empty cloak, while others pulled up the end of the cloak that was fluttering in the wind and dropped black feathers.

It was clearly a sunny day, but everyone present felt as if night had fallen. The scythe like a black moon hung high above the night sky, making the single scarlet eye under the cloak look dangerous and eerie, just like the god of death in myth and legend who reaps all life and connects the world with the Styx.

But Mu Huoyue did not feel any sense of oppression from death.

She took two steps forward, stretched out her hand to the red god of death floating in the air, and called softly: "... Harvey?"

The single scarlet eye beneath the cloak revealed a gentle look, and then he stretched out his withered hand holding the sickle and held the hand of the human beastmaster.

A vitality that was completely contrary to its appearance lingered, and a kind of vigorous energy field suddenly unfolded, like a nutrient-rich rainstorm, giving all living things in the entire area new vitality.

Even the farmers who were driving harvesters in the distance stopped and looked towards the center of the energy field.

The ears of wheat in the field seemed to become heavier in an instant. This is an effect that only appears in the wood emperor domain of the higher imperial race!

Harvey did not deliberately deploy the imperial domain. The movement just now was more like the energy fluctuations that naturally poured out after evolution, which just happened to benefit the surrounding areas.

Its withered wrist also changed in the vital energy field. When the dead branches and straw returned to life, they took on a still-growing emerald green color, and a small white flower bloomed on the lines on the wrist.

Harvey retracted his wrist, gently plucked the small flower, and gave it to his beastmaster.

Mu Huoyue couldn't help but smile.

Her investigator bracelet detected a new extraordinary creature and displayed the corresponding illustration information.

[Name]: Harvey (Crescent Moon Reaper)

[Attributes]: Dark, Wood

[Racial Level]: High Emperor

[Growth Level]: Complete Level 2

[Talent Core]: Shadow Vortex (Dark S-level)

[Skills]: Withering and Flourishing (Wood Element S-level), Harvest of Despair (Dark Element S-level), Crimson Tide (Dark Element A-level), Black Feather Shadow (Dark Element A-level), Life (Wood Element A-level)

[Normal implicit energy value]: 2265432P

In addition to the regular detection information about the contracted pet, the bracelet illustration also shows the introduction of the corresponding new race in the Bureau's database.

[Race Introduction]: One of the theoretically existing evolutionary forms of Scarecrow. Since it is possible for a Dark-type expert to evolve into a Fear Executioner, then a Wood-type expert should also have a corresponding evolutionary form. This institute named it the Crescent Moon Reaper... No, there is no record of even the first evolutionary form. Can anyone really cultivate the second evolutionary form?

It is followed by a string of contact numbers of the research institute, asking that if you have managed to cultivate the [Crescent Moon Harvester] or encounter a suspected individual supernatural creature in the wild, please be sure to contact us. The research institute will reward the researcher who helped complete the task handsomely as a thank you.

The data in this atlas was entered rather sloppily, and it seemed that even the people who conducted the corresponding research did not really believe that such extraordinary creatures really existed, so they gave up on the content of the introduction of the race.

But why does this institute's phone number look familiar?

Mu Chuyue was stunned for two seconds, and suddenly realized that this was the landline phone number of Jingzhou University's Dark Attribute Research Institute!

It seems that this unreliable introduction to the race might have been written by one of the senior brothers and sisters.

She couldn't help but burst out laughing, wondering whether she should contact Professor Xie Qingwei to ask later.

At least the information in the race introduction is not accurate. The theoretical second evolution of Scarecrow is not the result of specializing in the wood element, but the result of [Resonance Alchemy] after the dark element and the wood element have developed in a balanced manner.

However, the race name [Crescent Moon Reaper] is quite consistent with Harvey's current image, so there is no need to update the name in the database.

She closed the illustrated information on the bracelet and, based on her perception in the Beast Taming Contract, gained a deeper understanding of Harvey's situation after his evolution.

The change in appearance is the most obvious. The sickle made of [Scale Iron Ingot] has become a part of Harvey's body. Mu Huoyue can feel the power of the contract from the dark crescent moon. The chains and cloak extending downwards constitute the main body of the "Crescent Moon Reaper".

The growth level was successfully broken through during the evolution process, allowing Harvey to reach the second stage of complete form, with a normal latent energy value of more than two million P.

The last is the change in the skill list. Compared with the Scarecrow period, the skills Harvey mastered have almost completely changed. Not only have they been integrated and condensed, but they have also reached the point where there is no trace of the past at all.

She started by analyzing the most critical core skills of her talent.

Harvey's original core talent skill was the B-level wood skill [Straw Substitute], but now it has become the S-level dark skill [Shadow Vortex].

Mu Huoyue had never seen any relevant information about this skill anywhere, including the school curriculum and the affairs bureau database.

However, the skill information was successfully identified in the atlas, which means that this is a skill that has been recorded, or at least theoretically speculated to exist.

It is not recorded in the database of the Great Yan Affairs Bureau, and may be a unique skill discovered in another area.

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