Chapter 190 – Agni Evolves into…

‘There aren’t as many options available as before.’

Roland looked at the choices of monster evolutions for his Mystical Ruby Wolf. While there were four options that he could see, there was only one that was realistic. More time had passed this time and Agni’s skills were all leveled up. Monsters had an easier time getting their skills maxed out than people of the many races, thus Roland didn’t need to wait like the last time.

“I guess you’re becoming a Dire Wolf Agni.”

“Awoo!”

At this point in time, Roland and Agni were out on the porch. After finishing up his business at the Church it was time to help his beast friend to reach the new form. He hoped to get another new rare variant but it didn’t seem that Agni would be progressing over the Mystical variant. This wasn’t bad but after getting rare classes left and right it was strange to not get anything new this time around.

“Have you decided?”

Asked a womanly voice from afar that belonged to Elodia.

“Hah, I wonder how he will look now!”

Said Bernir that was there as well, his wife was back at her own shop so she would miss this metamorphosis.

“Yes, I think he will get a bit bigger but won’t look that much different, okay everyone just stand back, for now, I’m going to activate the evolution.”

The shop Elodia was in had a window opening towards the inside of Roland’s walled-off home. From there she would be able to see how the house wolf reached a new form. While she had seen some beast tamers working at the adventurer guild she was still quite interested in seeing how Agni turned out.

After Roland activated the evolution option in his system Agni’s body started glowing brightly. The light was contained in one spot which allowed them to see most of the change. His mane expanded and the gem on his forehead started to get longer.

“If this continues he won’t fit in the house anymore…”

The transformation was a success and now everyone was looking at the Dire Wolf version of Agni. His size increased by about twenty-five percent, the mane was covered in even more rubies and his musculature had been enhanced even further.

“AWOOOO!”

Agni howled out which caused Bernir along with Elodia to flinch. This was a level hundred monster with its second-tier 2 evolution now. Even down in the current dungeon Agni would not find many monsters that could keep up with him.

Roland glanced over Agni’s new stats and he could see that his tamed beast wouldn’t have any problems taking out gold-ranked adventurers. Then there was the elongated horn that was supposed to be able to fling spells at people. Previously he only had a smaller gem that could absorb mana, now it was supposed to be some kind of release point.

“Woah, calm down Agni… what did I tell you about licking my face?”

While he was trying to look over Agni’s new status page his Dire Wolf decided to jump on him. If it was Elodia or Bernir they would certainly buckle under the weight but Roland was able to dig his feet in and take it.

“You’re getting heavy even for me…”

His size had increased even more but it also didn’t tell the whole truth. The rubies that were on his body increased his weight even more. His skeletal structure had also been enhanced and the chompers that he had were now even larger and sharper.

Some of the skills had evolved and changed names, for instance, the old Fiery Bite changed into Flame Bite, Ruby Tail Whip became an Enhanced Ruby Tail Whip. There were also some new skills and improvements that he spotted after the evolution finished.

Agni’s Mystical tier had increased which gave him even more mana to use. This would probably come in handy, all the mana-related skills like Mana Shaping, Mana Regulation were there along with something new that he brought up.

Instead of a list of spells, he was given a passive skill that was similar to a trait instead. Monsters cast spells in various ways, some used incantations just like humans but for beasts like Agni that would be impossible. Most of the time the monsters would be given various spells to choose from in the form of spell skills.