Passive Evolution

Chapter 52 Passive Evolution

After the outburst from Raffi, the Bloodsail Alliance meeting regarding Green was considered to have come to an end.

Rather than wasting time on trivial matters, Green preferred to enrich himself by studying profound and wonderful knowledge on his own. Therefore, as soon as the Bloodsail Alliance gathering ended, Green said a brief goodbye to Raffi and quickly headed toward Black Tower.

There are still a few days before the agreement is made for Master Peranos to formally teach Green about witchcraft. In these few days, Green still needs to conduct some experimental research.

Just as he was about to leave alone, Joklis called out to Green with a witch apprentice.

"Um?"

When Green saw Ilarty Wen beside Joklis, he immediately understood their purpose and a smile appeared beneath his pale mask.

During the newbie trial, when Green was competing for the first secret realm reward, he did unintentionally save this witch apprentice once, and she probably came for that reason.

Ilartyn wasn't particularly beautiful; she had flat chests and rough skin—all the flaws of a beautiful girl. Yet, somehow, Yoris and she had a special relationship.

While Green was lost in thought, Ilartywen, standing next to Joklis, was equally uneasy. She still couldn't forget the scene from the trial, and whenever she thought of it, the man with the pale mask would inevitably appear in her nightmares, lingering for a long time.

This seemingly unknown man in the alliance actually possesses such formidable power, and is slaughtering competing wizard apprentices in the secret realm.

Even just now, he actually rejected the nomination of the Alliance Elder.

Joklis laughed and said, "Green, this is Ilartywen. You should have met her a few times. I brought her here this time mainly to express my gratitude for you saving her during the trial."

Ilardiwen took a deep breath, calming her racing thoughts. After all, without the suppression of the mark from the trial, the powerful aura between wizard apprentices would no longer be present.

"Green, thank you."

Ilartywen is a bit older than Green and has a more mature and rational mind.

With Chris by his side, Green naturally displayed the appropriate smile and demeanor.

"Don't be so polite. Whether from the perspective of the league personnel or from the perspective of Joklis being my best friend, I had no reason not to help at the time, especially... a unique and outstanding girl like you."

Green, of course, wouldn't say that he was grateful to Ilartywen for "luring the monster" back then.

After a brief and pleasant conversation, both sides exchanged crystal ball imprints and then Green walked towards the Black Tower again.

On the first floor of the Black Tower, Fat Degan's expression changed upon seeing Green.

"Green! You have no idea, it scared me to death back then. Going into that interrogation room is no joke, it can kill you! Even formal wizards who go in usually don't come out, let alone me. That interrogation room is notorious as a gallows."

It's clear that the interrogation left a deep psychological scar on the fat man.

Green gave a wry smile. How could he have known he would get into such big trouble?

Fortunately, he has now turned misfortune into blessing and has been recognized by the wizard Peranos, which can be considered a great opportunity.

"Hmph."

After grunting twice, the fat man said, "Tell me, what materials do you need this time? As for the microscope, I should have news within the next two months. I'll ask that wizard for details."

"Um."

Green nodded and said softly, "I need a potion that can enhance the soul connection between a wizard and his companion, materials that can temporarily improve one's bodily awareness, two leaves of life, and a live monkey for biological experiments."

The fat man simply took out two leaves of the Tree of Life without explaining anything.

This material is consumed in large quantities in wizarding academies, and is usually priced at five hundred magic stones per piece. It is an essential life-saving item for top-tier wizarding apprentices.

"A medication to enhance the connection with symbiotic parasites... how about this one?"

After saying that, the fat man rummaged around in the counter in the distance and took out a small, seemingly ordinary grass. He chuckled and said, "This is the Heart-to-Heart Grass. It's usually used as a sex toy by wizard couples when they're looking for excitement, but it's also effective on companion insects. It only costs one hundred magic stones."

Green nodded indifferently and accepted the Heart-to-Heart Grass.

Then, the fat man thought for a moment, took out a black crystal ball from under the counter, and then took out a crown-like magical artifact from the warehouse.

The fat man pointed to the black crystal ball and said, "This is a crystal ball used by underground wizards. The wizards there are different from us. Most wizards on our Wizarding Continent are elemental wizards, while most wizards underground are dragon-training wizards. Wizards on the Wizarding Continent focus on developing their spiritual power, while underground wizards focus on their physical body and the aptitude of their companion dragons. They are two different directions of development."

The fat man paused.

"Uh... For the wizards over there, the companion dragon is like our companion insect, and this black crystal ball is the wizard's crystal ball over there. It's more advanced than ours. In addition to mental power, it can also detect the wizard's physique."

Green was somewhat surprised.

As far as the wizarding world is concerned, Grimm does know that in addition to the largest wizarding continent, there are several other wizarding regions that have developed different wizarding civilizations, and this underground wizarding world is one of them.

However, Green had only seen some general information in books and had never heard anyone talk about the specifics. Now that he saw this crystal ball used by underground wizards, he couldn't help but pick it up and examine it, trying to sense his condition with his mental power.

Mental strength: 24, Magical strength: 238~247

体质：4，体力：34~55，力量：15~60，活性22~24

Green's face darkened. His physique was indeed very low, which was an inevitable result of not practicing magic to enhance his physique. If Yocris had come, his physique would have been above 15 points.

As for physical strength, power, and vitality that follow physical constitution, these should all be external attributes influenced by physical constitution, just like magic power and mental power.

The physical strength and power attributes are self-explanatory. The vitality attribute should be an attribute related to the biological body's resistance to impact and regeneration strength.

Based on this calculation, my physical strength should be able to unleash attacks of level 1 to 6, and defend against attacks of level 2 to 3. As for stamina...

Green's only thought was that he would never have to be out of breath after climbing to the 79th floor of the Black Tower again.

Seeing Green's interest in the black crystal ball, the fat man chuckled, "This crystal ball itself isn't expensive, it's just that the journey to get it was too long, so I'm selling it for 1000 magic stones. Of course, those magic stones aren't much to you now."

Green's current net worth is indeed astonishingly high, partly due to the monthly income from the perfume brought by the fat man, which will increase as the perfume is gradually promoted.

In addition, when he removed the trial mark value earlier, Green received more than 20,000 magic stones in one go.

Without making a sound, Green accepted the black crystal ball and then looked at the crown-like artifact.

The fat man cautiously explained, "This magical artifact is a high-end tool that only formal wizards occasionally use. Its function is similar to a microscope, both being tools used to assist wizards in experiments. However, the true function of this 'Analyzing Crown' is to consume the caster's soul power to observe their internal body from all angles. Therefore, users strictly control the frequency and duration of its use. For us wizard apprentices, it's used at most once a month, and for a maximum of half a minute each time; otherwise, it will damage the soul. We must treat it with extreme caution!"

After a pause, the fat man added, "The Crown of Dialysis is generally used by most wizards to detect abnormalities in their bodies, i.e., the points where the curse was cast, after the Screaming Branch has temporarily solidified the curse on themselves. Of course, many wizards also use it for physical evolution research and potion quality assessment."

Green's eyes lit up. This dialysis crown was indeed the most suitable tool for him at this moment. The only troublesome thing was the usage restriction.

After accepting the dialysis crown, Green didn't even ask about the specific price.

As for the live monkey that Green ultimately needed, that was given away for free.

In a short while, the fat man brought over a cage, inside which a monkey was peeking around, holding a bunch of bananas in its hand.

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Back in the lab cabin, Green first checked the explosive mushrooms he had cultivated. After confirming that the transplantation had been successful, he carefully extracted some of the powdery particles attached to them as experimental material.

It is these particles that give the exploding mushroom its olfactory hallucinogenic properties.

After a while, Green took out a carefully preserved bottle from the lab table. It contained about half a bottle of yellow, cloudy liquid, which Green had filtered from the stomach pouches of several wild cranes three months ago.

According to Green's in-depth research and observation, the function of this liquid is the key to the wild crane's ability to resist the "mutation" of its body caused by horseflies.

With excitement, Green once again began his experiments with complete absorption in the laboratory.

Three days later, Green, sporting dark circles under his eyes and physically exhausted but mentally excited, exclaimed, "After becoming a companion insect, the horsefly can actually combine with the host's life force to adapt to nature, helping the host to passively evolve significantly? And the price for this is consuming the food energy needed to support the body's evolution?"

Green's previous research has confirmed that the fly larvae do indeed have the ability to actively influence the host's biocode.

This research has surprisingly discovered that after the horsefly became a companion insect of the wizard, it also had a passive evolutionary ability that helped the wizard adapt to nature!

Passive evolution is the slow, long-term evolutionary ability of an organism to adapt to its surrounding natural environment in order to survive better. This is a characteristic possessed by all living organisms.

For example, when people walk continuously, thick calluses will naturally appear on their feet, and their thigh muscles will develop.

The ability of the grub to help the wizard host passively evolve is to greatly shorten the time of this passive evolution and greatly enhance its function.

Of course, the speed of passive evolution cannot be compared with that of active evolution. For example, the advancement of a wizard apprentice to a full wizard is an example of active evolution in humans.

Green discovered that after two passive evolutions by the gadfly—one by the exploding mushroom psychedelic powder and the other by being burned by the fire element of the Son of the Sun—his physical condition had improved, increasing his resistance to inhaled psychedelic powder and fire element.

In his excitement, the first thing Green thought of was to buy a magic wand from the fat man that could seal various elemental attributes so that he could harm himself!

Even if the resistance is only increased slightly each time, over decades, this resistance will be enough for Green to become immune to some elemental magic spells with low energy levels and which the body already has resistance to.

Oh, right, there are also many specific foods that the body needs to absorb and replenish, which also need to be purchased in large quantities to replenish what it consumes.

With a "thud," an overworked Green collapsed and fell asleep on the laboratory floor.

(End of this chapter)