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As pitch-dark impurities were discharged, the silk threads emerging from the magic card gradually wrapped the entire card into a glowing cocoon.
Generally, reaching this step meant that the experiment had a very high probability of success.
Although a puddle of black water might gush out when the glowing cocoon was cut open, the probability of this occurrence was nevertheless very small.
At this time, Dark couldn't hold back his growing anticipation.
"What kind of magical spirit will be crafted after consuming a vial of [Soul Powder] and seven whole points of [Lust]?"
The basic crafting method had a very low lower limit and a relatively high upper limit.
Fine strands of golden light unwaveringly diffused from the edges of the dirtied card surface, signifying that it was a golden card!
……
Dark merely gave it a glance before he stopped paying anymore attention to that golden light.
The golden card, which was extremely rare and precious in the eyes of others, had become something that was very common for him.
He was more or less used to it.
Of course, he still felt the excitement that came from it, but it wasn't to the point where he would beam with happiness.
After using tweezers to pick up the magic card and rinse it clean, Dark finally started observing it in detail.
His eyes first fell on the stars displayed on top of the card—there were three stars!
It was a rank that fell below his expectations and seemed way too low.
A vampire soul with basic strength above rank 7 + 7 points of [Lust], yet the final result was a mere 3-star card?
This was something no one would believe if they heard it.
But the truth was right in front of his eyes.
"Perhaps this is the charm of the basic crafting method."
Dark let out a little sigh before proceeding to look down.
What appeared on the face of the card was a cute spirit that didn't match its gloomy aura.
Dark initially thought that the magical spirit who exuded this kind of aura would be some type of evil spirit, yet he never expected it to be a Misdreavus!
The name 'Misdreavus' was basically derived from the word 'misdread'.
Although it was a ghost-type Pokémon, its appearance wasn't the least bit threatening.
On the contrary, with a height of about 0.7 meters, a soft body, and an overall dark green color, the feeling it gave off was warm.
Its eyes were glowing red, and a string of red orbs hung conspicuously around its neck.
Those orbs were said to be able to absorb fear.
In the middle of the night, Misdreavus would creep from behind and let out a sobbing sound, using that string of red orbs to absorb the emotion of fear and turn it into its own nourishment.
……
[Card name: Misdreavus]
[Type: Spirit card]
[Level: ✪✪✪]
[Race: Undead-type]
[Attribute: Ghost-type]
[Magic energy: 1600]
[Attack: 1500]
[Defense: 800]
[Ultimate: Dream Eater, Astonish, Telekinesis, Dread Gem]
……
Just what kind of transformation took place to turn a vampire into a nightmare spirit?
Dark had no way to figure out the mystery.
But that the magical spirit that was crafted turned out not to be a vampire made him heave a sigh of relief.
If what came out was a little Vlad, he really wouldn't know how to deal with it.
He carefully tried recalling the Pokémon [Misdreavus], but only remembered that it should be a ghost-type Pokémon with a mischievous personality who could evolve into the relatively calm [Mismagius].
"Can the [Misdreavus] that was crafted from [Lust] go through evolution by using [Lust Ⅲ]?"
The idea instantly came to him, but he resisted the urge to try it out immediately and continued to study [Misdreavus]'s panel.
"More than 1500 points of magic energy and a top-rate attack power, is defense its weak point? But since it's a ghost-type of the undead race, it should be partially immune to physical attacks."
"The main point is the ultimate."
Dark quickly injected his magic energy and promptly received a feedback of information on the four ultimate skills.
"Dream Eater, Astonish, Telekinesis, Dread Gem?"
"What kind of skills are these?"
"And what on earth is Dread Gem?"
The onslaught of astonishment had Dark feeling a little at a loss.
Because excluding the unknown ultimate [Dread Gem], the remaining three were neither offensive nor defensive skills in the conventional sense.
Among them, [Dream Eater] was an ultimate with decent power, but it wasn't a skill of its own attribute and could only be used against a target in the state of 'sleep'.
[Astonish] was just as its name suggested. It was a skill with nearly zero damage and could only be used to scare and frighten off the target.
[Telekinesis] was a skill that, in the Pokémon game, could improve the rate of hits. It couldn't be said to be useless, but it was an undeniably poor skill.
However, Dark quickly collected and persuaded himself to further analyze the details.
As magic energy continued to pour in, more information came rushing into his brain.
[Dream Eater: Misdreavus can invade the dreamland, consume the target's dream, and transform it into its own magic energy, causing a huge mental trauma for the target.]
[Astonish: Scare the target with sudden screaming and other similar actions, more effectively putting the target in a state of fear.]
[Telekinesis: Move objects by using psychic power.]
[Dread Gem: Absorb the emotion of fear, convert it into magic energy and store it inside the Dread Gem. If the need arises, it can launch gem-like magic energy lights as an attack.]
"Entering the dreamland, consuming dreams, causing fear, telekinesis, absorbing fear, transforming magic energy, and storing magic energy…"
"So that's how it is. Those are standard nightmare-type skills."
Dark was momentarily lost in thought, as if realizing something.
The [Dread Gem] was that very string of red orbs hung around Misdreavus' neck.
And this ultimate seemed to be a derivative of [Power Gem].
"This entire set of ultimate skills basically constitutes Misdreavus' physiological needs."
"Magical spirits don't have the function of feeding and digesting, but an alternative 'stomach' for them could be created."
"How interesting."
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