John Wicked: Endlessly Evolving My Pet Monsters-Chapter 23: Ranking Up!

John roamed around for hours and even entered a neighboring area eventually while wandering to find a Bronze-rank resource.

In the end, he found it in the afternoon, at roughly four o'clock.

Alfred absorbed over thirty Soul Cores and finally grew to Adult-stage, unlocking one more skill.

But the main perk of Silver-rank Monsters was awakening a talent.

Silver-rank Monsters would awaken at least one innate talent during their training period, and that would make their power a notch higher.

It usually happened after the Pet reached Adult-stage. Most of the time, the talent would awaken before the pet reached Prime-stage or immediately after reaching Prime-stage.

"Let's go back, buddy. We finally got what we wanted," John grinned as he put the flower inside a makeshift wooden pot filled with mud he created like the previous two and hung it at his waist with solid and thin vines of Paleviris Plants.

However, John's eyes narrowed as he heard rustling while Alfred also began growling in a particular direction upon sensing not-so-kind intent from there.

"Not so fast, man. How about you leave that plant for us and then go back?"

"Indeed. Listen to my friend here, and you can continue to stay here. If we fight, you would have to get eliminated from this event, you know?"

Two boys, one blond-haired and one dark-brown-haired, approached John before stopping fifteen meters away.

The blond-haired boy had a Bronze-rank Prime-stage Venom Titan Centipede (Poison).

The dark-brown-haired boy had a Bronze-rank Prime-stage Tidecrusher Beaver (Water, Earth).

The Centipede was three meters tall with a solid carapace and was very poisonous.

Tidecrusher Beaver was a tough monster with a solid all-rounder skill-set of Water and Earth-attributed skills. It could burrow and travel underground and also swim underwater for a long time, making it one of the ideal first Monster Pet choices of young Tamers.

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"So you want this flower?" John asked as he pointed at the pot at his waist.

He knew these two also wanted to settle it peacefully and get the flower without having to fight him because of his Silver-rank Netherlord Glassblaze Lupine.

Alfred's stats were between 75 to 80 after reaching the Adult-stage, so he was twice as strong as these Bronze-rank Prime-stage Monsters, not to mention that he could become stronger than Alfred for one minute after using Soul Synergy.

In short, these two idiots were courting death, but since killing wasn't allowed, they were courting elimination from the event.

"Hurry up, man. We don't want to gang up and injure you," the blond-haired boy spoke with a dismissive attitude, waving his hand.

"You dumbasses! You think you can fucking defeat me?! Are you mental?"

Both boys were stunned at John's response.

"Awoo!" Alfred howled at them powerfully, with blood particles streaming around him as he only used Blood Mastery for some showoff effect, but Alfred's Silver-rank aura on top of his ruthless killing intent caused both Bronze-rank Monsters to cower as their heads bent down.

Alfred at Adult-stage was roughly 2.5 meters tall and over three meters long with a thick, fluffy tail that had wispy blue sparks.

John walked towards them calmly as he snapped his index finger, his eyes narrowing, "Get the fuck out of my sight in three seconds or I'll take a limb each from you two before you can even use the wristband to leave."

The dark-brown-haired boy instantly used his Pet Monster's skill as well as commanded his Beaver to make a move. "Go!"

In the next second, both of them vanished into the ground, leaving out of John's sight while cursing internally, 'Damn Luca, I told you we shouldn't mess with someone who has a Silver-rank Pet that big and I don't even have a second pet like you yet! I'm dipping.'

Luca took some steps back in fear, but also summoned his second Pet, a Prime-stage Silverwind Eagle.

He first commanded Silverwind Eagle to dive attack John while telling his Centipede to shoot Poison Cloud, an area-of-effect poison-type attack to paralyze and injure both John and Alfred.

But either this guy was an idiot, or he was severely underestimating John.

He was both.

Alfred jumped like a gust of wind before swinging his tail that suddenly extended and hardened with crystals turning red and burning with Frostfire, a light purple flame resulting from the mixing of Frostfire with Blood and Darkness attributes.

This was Alfred's 4th skill—Shattering Tail Smash.

Rolling mid-air, Alfred's big tail struck Silverwind Eagle, instantly killing it as it turned into a light and went inside the blond-haired boy.

John dodged the poison with Umbral Drift and stood on a tree's branch while Alfred landed beside the centipede, his head towering above both the Monster and Tamer.

"Grrr..."

Luca, tremblingly, looked up at the Netherlord Glassblaze Lupine staring down at him, while the Centipede was frozen with fear, without any command from Luca.

John shook his head. 'What a poor level of taming.'

"Use your wristband and get out."

Luca looked up at John and quickly nodded as he put the Centipede inside his soul back before using the wristband to leave.

Before exiting, Luca regretted not escaping like his friend when John gave him the chance. Not only did he get his Eagle killed, which would require the spirit energy of 100 Bronze Essence Coins to revive in his soul space, but he also had to leave the event.

...

Meanwhile, John leisurely made his way back to the camp and began preparing.

He crushed the Edgebloom Flower, Lifebud Ulcriel Flower, and Luminis Thorne together to make it easier for him to gulp.

After he was done, John didn't wait a second longer and devoured it all before sitting cross-legged, his back straight, and eyes focused.

In just a few seconds, the pain began to flood into his body as he grunted, a cold and sharp aura oozing out of him as the energies of the plants unveiled with him.

'Focus!'

The goal was to use his soul energy to redirect the energies of the plants into his soul core.

Although he knew it would be difficult, he didn't expect it to be this painful and hard to control.

'Fuck!'

John was consuming his soul energy faster, so he quickly told Alfred to give him some soul energy as he continued to redirect the energies into his soul core.

He wanted to stop everything and get rid of this pain, but he knew doing that would make things worse.

John felt his entire body burning from inside, and he was also injured as blood trails oozed out from his nose and mouth.

'Calm down and focus!'

Panic and anxiety surged as he felt blood on top of the pain, but John's mental fortitude was tough, and he managed to retain control.

Nearby, Alfred winced and strode around John anxiously while giving soul energy to John.

Pymon arrived and cried, circling around the duo as he asked Alfred what happened.

"Woof, woof!"

*Clank....*

Yuna's shack opened a minute later as she emerged with her Rayray, rubbing her eyes. "What's the commotion about?"

But as soon as she saw John, her eyes widened. "What the fuck?"

"T-This...don't tell me he is ranking up using that old method?" Yuna's teeth clunked because she had heard it was an utterly painful and hellish experience, and she had seen one person failing in it—her arrogant cousin.

Meanwhile, John was succeeding in redirecting all the energy into his soul core despite the pain and just as he was done sending all of the energy into his soul core, the level of pain decreased drastically.

The internal injuries were not serious since he managed to stay in control from the start to the end.

And just as he opened his eyes, his soul core shattered, beginning the process of evolution.

'I did it. We did it, buddy!' John grinned, showing his teeth painted with blood, and opened his eyes.

"Oh, you woke? Good morning."

"Good morning my ass!"

"Well, good morning to your ass too."

"..."