Click, click, click

Click, click, click

There are professional dark attribute detection equipment in the laboratory on the second floor. The three of them left Xie Qingwei's office and came to the testing room set up for extraordinary creatures.

Of Mu Chuyue's two pets, Bai Ya often undergoes various physical examinations and is very familiar with human testing equipment.

There is a complete set of measurement standards for Xiaoyun Dogs with different attributes in the Xiaoyun Dog breeding base. When Mu Chuyue returned to Changning City before, he also took Bai Ya there.

White Fang's current physical data is far ahead of its peers in the breeding base. There are few individuals like it who have mastered B-level skills during the growth period of the warrior race.

Ellen, however, had never undergone any such test.

As a beastmaster, Mu Huoyue didn't know what data needed to be measured in the physical examination of the card soldiers, and what standards were required to be considered healthy and excellent.

Normally, Mu Huoyue would pay attention to his bone health and the condition of the black fog, and make sure that the Pai Ya Bing was not hungry.

Xie Qingwei let the tall skeleton lie on a metallic flat device, attached sensing magnetic poles to his ribs and leg bones, and then took samples of the blue flames burning in his eye sockets and the black mist around him.

Because he has a contract with a guardian spirit, Professor Xie is very familiar with undead creatures, and his movements are professional and skillful.

Mu Chuyue looked at the tooth soldier lying on the inspection table, with various tubes and wires hanging all over his body.

The scene at this moment was just like an emoticon package that Wen Li had sent her before, a meme from an action movie, where an injured character was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The atmosphere was tense and heated, but he was already a skeleton.

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Mu Huiyue couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips, feeling the slightly teasing mood of the beastmaster, the flames in Allen's eyes jumped and made a few helpless clicking sounds.

The physical examination device made a crisp beeping sound and quickly displayed the readings.

There were three huge LCD screens next to the testing table, on which rows of numbers appeared rapidly. In addition to the normal latent energy values, there were also many measurement units and counts that Mu Huiyue could not understand.

Xie Qingwei slowly opened her eyes wide as the readings kept jumping, revealing an expression of amazement.

"really……"

Mu Yuyue also looked at the readings and asked, "Is there anything unusual about Allen, Professor Xie?"

She was actually very curious as to why Xie Qingwei reacted so strongly to Ellen.

It is indeed amazing that Eren can cross the racial level from a small skeleton to evolve into a card tooth soldier of the monarch race, but in essence he is just a monarch race.

In the eyes of a researcher of Xie Qingwei's level, it should not be enough to cause astonishment.

After all, there are at least hundreds of research projects and topics on monarch races at Jingzhou University, and quite a few of them are on imperial races.

"..." Xie Qingwei was silent for a moment, realizing that this was not a problem that could be explained in a few words.

"Let me start from the beginning and give a brief description." The female researcher in a white coat looked at her students.

"What do you think the hidden energy of the dark attribute is, Hiiragi?"

This question is a bit beyond the knowledge scope of freshmen.

Mu Shuyue thought about it and answered hesitantly: "It's about the night... and the energy of the shadow space?"

Xie Qingwei did not comment and continued, "Light and Dark, it sounds like the connection between the sun and the moon, light and darkness. The skills of these two attributes and extraordinary creatures do show similar characteristics."

"However, these two categories are different from other attributes. They do not have distinct appearances such as [Flame], [Lightning], [Water], or [Plants]. Therefore, the ancient beastmasters could only name them based on the most obvious appearances, which is how we got [Light] and [Darkness]."

"In modern scientific research, we have gradually discovered the original power that is closer to the light and dark systems."

"The hidden energy of the light system is the power of [order] and [rules], and will be released and maintained according to special laws."

"So, most of the light-related skills and pet characteristics have the effects of [purification] and [healing]."

"These two types of effects are essentially manifestations of hidden energy following a certain [order] - returning things to their original state."

Hearing this, Mu Chuyue suddenly understood.

Both the Light and Wood Element have many healing skills, but the healing effects of the two energies are actually very different.

Wood-type skills are to stimulate the energy of the organism itself, accelerate healing, and make up for damage through growth. Therefore, most of the wood-type healing skills can only work on living organisms. The additional effect is to stimulate the potential in the body and accelerate its own growth.

Light-based skills are more inclined towards [Recovery], allowing injured individuals to return to their pre-injury health state. It can not only heal living organisms, but also be effective for some objects with hidden energy.

Therefore, the additional effect brought by light skills is [Purification], which removes all unnecessary impurities and restores the target to its original state.

If the light system represents rules and order, then what about the dark system that contradicts it?

Xie Qingwei quickly answered her doubts: "The hidden energy of the dark system is the embodiment of [disorder] and [chaos]."

"Disorder..." Mu Liuyue frowned slightly, finding it difficult to understand.

In her opinion, the characteristics of dark hidden energy are more reflected in the perception of emotions.

Dark pets like Eren can directly feed on the emotions of the contractor, and White Fang also has obvious emotional preferences.

Even after her dark-strengthened beast-taming talent was raised to level 3, her ability to perceive other people's emotions became much sharper, and she could directly judge the true state of mind of the person she met.

Mu Liuyue told Xie Qingwei about her doubts.

Professor Xie couldn't help but smile and asked, "How do you think the hidden energy representing disorder is presented in the world we know?"

"It is the night and shadows that are not illuminated by light, the subspace that is reflected out of the laws of reality, and the huge amount of emotions that humans, as creatures, generate through their thoughts and spirits."

Xie Qingwei slowed down her voice.

“The birth of emotions varies from individual to individual. There is no standard for measurement, and it is difficult to trace the law of cause and effect… Even the humans who generate emotions themselves cannot define what they are.”

"For the extraordinary creatures born from hidden energy, this inexplicable force is the opposite of order, disorder, and the embodiment of the dark attribute."

I see……

Mu Huoyue suddenly understood something, and she recalled the widely circulated story of the Original Elf and the Count Star Dragon.

It was precisely because of the interest in the special [emotions] between humans and supernatural creatures that the Origin Elves handed over the prototype of the [Contract], and a new era began in the relationship between beastmasters and their pets.

Count Star Dragon's partner, [Dark Night Star Dragon], judging from the name, should also be a dark-type extraordinary creature.

The emotion that makes the high-dimensional creatures [Origin Elves] who are the source of hidden energy also feel interested... This is the power of dark attribute.

Professor Xie paused, giving Mu Chuyue some time to digest what he said, and then continued.

"Now that we understand this, let's get back to our original topic, Eren...what kind of existence are the card teeth soldiers of the monarch race?"

"In our past research, we found that among the extraordinary creatures of the dark system, high-level races rarely appear, especially those formed through acquired evolution."

"High-level dark-type extraordinary creatures above the monarch race are mostly found in A-level and S-level secret realms. Even in dark-attribute secret realms, the wild extraordinary creatures born after entering the fusion period are mostly below the warrior race."

"In contrast, among the dark pets, there are high-level species like the Guardian Spirit, which can only evolve after a contract and have no wild individuals."

Mu Yuyue pondered for a while and said, "...It's not because of the limitation of the core skills of the talent, but because the wild environment, or the secret realm of the fusion period, does not have enough emotional concentration to support the evolution of wild dark extraordinary creatures to a high level?"

Xie Qingwei showed a look of surprise. Although Mu Chuyue was a freshman, he had a solid theoretical foundation and immediately discovered the key point.

"Yes, this is the research result of our group last year. The evolution of dark supernatural creatures requires not only the foundation of innate core skills, but also a certain degree of emotional energy - or in other words, the two complement each other."

"Almost without exception, all high-level dark races that evolved have had strong emotional resonances with beastmasters during the evolution process, and your Eren... you have even surpassed the limitations of your innate core skills."

Xie Qingwei looked at the detection data of Pai Yabing, and her eyes stayed on the core talent skill [Shadow Stealth].

"It is impossible for the Skeleton and the Pai Ya Bing to comprehend shadow space skills on their own. In the case of Eren... I guess you used a special method to let it learn [Hide] when it was a Skeleton, and when it evolved, the skill was also advanced to [Shadow Stealth], right?"

Mu Huiyue nodded. Just by looking at the physical examination data, Professor Xie had already figured out Allen's condition almost perfectly.

She briefly described the process of Eren's evolution. In addition to his proficiency in stealth, there was something special: Eren completed his evolution in a cemetery.

After listening to this, Xie Qingwei fell into a brief contemplation, and then switched the test data on the display screen to another item.

This is a measure of the strength of the contract between the beastmaster and his pet. The intensity of the emotion is difficult to measure, but the fluctuations in dark energy caused by it can be sensed.

"Not only that, the biggest difference between Eren and other members of his tribe is that he is intentionally expanding his appetite."

"Expand appetite?" Mu Liuyue was slightly stunned.

Xie Qingwei's eyes reflected these special sensory data, and she said, "Dark and Undead pets are very special. They can completely rely on emotional energy to eat. The eating preference of the Little Skeleton family is human [sense of identity], and it has not changed after evolving into a Pai Ya Bing."

"But Hiiragi, you should have given Eren emotional energy far exceeding [Sense of Recognition], and he probably didn't want to waste any of it, and even changed the shape and structure of part of his body to ensure that he could fully absorb all the emotions given by the Beastmaster."

“Click, click…”

Not expecting that his hidden little thoughts would be exposed in this way, Allen made a stuttering clicking sound, the whole skeleton was a little flustered, and the black mist on the side gradually surged up.

His appetite is indeed different from that of his peers, and this becomes more obvious after evolution.

But this is not intentional expansion, but innate.

No matter what kind of emotion Hiiragi gave him, he would carefully swallow it all bit by bit.

This is the instinct of the dark supernatural creature, and also the desire deep in his soul.

"I see... No wonder Eren's Death Mist developed so well." Mu Huiyue touched his chin, not quite surprised.

Judging from the appearance quality alone, Ellen's Death Mist is even on par with the Guardian Spirit of the Perfect Form of the Intermediate Monarch Race. She thought it was due to the absorption of the [Blue Eternal Flower], but now she thinks it is also related to Ellen's appetite.

Seeing that the Beastmaster had no other reaction, the nervous Skeleton slowly relaxed, and the rising black mist slowly sank back to its original place.

Hiiragi was not frightened by his abnormal appetite, and the emotions transmitted through the connected contract did not diminish at all.

At least for now... he didn't want Hiiragi to see these ungraceful and indecent desires too soon.

Xie Qingwei on the side continued: "Our main research direction now is [Research on the evolutionary drive of dark supernatural creatures]."

"The mainstream view in the academic community is that the driving force behind the evolution of extraordinary creatures comes from their innate core skills. The evolution of this key skill can drive extraordinary creatures to complete the transition of life forms."

“But I think that the opposite might happen with dark supernatural beings.”

"It is the irrepressible energy of evolution that drives the evolution of the core skills of the talent in reverse."

Xie Qingwei finished speaking and shrugged helplessly: "Although the current research has completely reached a bottleneck and there has been no breakthrough for several months."

"But your situation with Eren...is a perfect answer in a way."

"How can a talent core skill that is difficult to evolve across levels be driven by evolutionary energy?"

She smiled slightly and said, "Just change your talent core skill."

"As long as we can figure out what factors affected Eren's evolution and caused the changes in his core talents, and reproduce them, we will be able to get results and conclusions that will shock the academic community... and beastmasters around the world."

Professor Xie looked at the young freshman, her eyes twinkling with stars, and she stretched out her hand.

"Welcome to my research team, Hiiragi."

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