Chapter 125: Transformation

Chapter 125: Chapter 125: Transformation

Griffin cast a glance at Jeremy, not asking anything. Clearly having grasped the whole situation.

He shifted his gaze, lazily dropping himself into the magic chair, his voice flat and devoid of emotion: "Report your realms and number of skills."

As the captain, Jeremy opened the floor: "Intermediate Stage Two-Star. Six skills."

Sparring every day with Lomita over the past few days, coupled with the support of the Soul Crystal, his realm was not only significantly more solid but had also broken through to two stars.

Furthermore, this physical body had been nourished by divine power and various medicinal herbs for over a decade, so pure it didn’t even need marrow cleansing; the flexibility of its muscles also far exceeded an ordinary person’s.

Evelyn was instantly drawn by that number: "Six skills? Isn’t the maximum at the Intermediate Stage only able to awaken four?"

Jeremy: "The exclusive ability of Spirit Covenant 305, aside from the Sacred Weapon manifestation, is also accompanied by an extra layer of privilege — Twin Souls Covenant. Under that effect, my brother and I can share magic power and skills with each other."

All four present froze.

Sharing skills... This kind of ability had never been recorded before.

Leon: "Then couldn’t your limit reach up to forty skills?"

"You could say that." Jeremy added: "But currently my brother is in a coma. Before he wakes up, the skills on that side stop at the first three, so I can also only use those three."

He summoned the card: "Right now my skills are mainly in card form. When we have free time, let’s try sparring a few rounds."

"Alright." Leon gave an affirmative response before turning to answer Griffin: "I’m Intermediate Stage Two-Star, three skills."

Phoenix and Lucius: "Same here."

Evelyn spoke up last: "Intermediate Stage Three-Star, three skills."

The current realms of the five people were nearly leveled out.

Jeremy alone — the one who on the first day of enrollment still bore the title of starless — undoubtedly had the fastest climbing speed in the group.

"Not too utterly useless." Griffin’s gaze paused on the scribbled lines on the lesson plan, his demeanor lackadaisical: "The Demon race and the Beastkin race, which side are you guys interested in?"

Demon race and Beastkin?

That bad premonition Jeremy had earlier instantly surged up again.

He cast a glance at the other four. Everyone read each other’s thoughts.

After a silent exchange of eye contact, the five said in unison: "The Beastkin race."

Griffin stood up, casually grabbing a piece of chalk to draw a magic circle on the board, his voice faint: "Follow my steps exactly. If you fail, your next training location is the Demon Realm."

Jeremy: "..."

As expected, it was nothing good.

It seemed the training location for this term had been nailed down to the Beastkin territory from the start.

Grumbling was one thing, hands still had to work.

He pulled out paper and pen, copying the magic circle according to the instructions.

It couldn’t be considered difficult. Judging by the runic characters, this appeared to be a type of magic that inverted the caster’s own aura.

After drawing, Griffin wrote another complex line of ancient text.

The five followed suit.

Light flashed from the circle, and then... no special phenomenon occurred.

Griffin tossed the chalk into the box, taking out a few diamond-shaped, two-leafed grasses along with some bizarre red-and-black three-petaled flowers from his space, using magic power to push them in front of them.

"Drip blood onto the circle, then swallow these."

Jeremy had read the analysis for that type of grass in a book: Illusion Form Grass.

Combined with other spiritual herbs, it could turn a person into an ordinary animal form for a short period, but the result was random.

As for that flower, he had never seen it before.

Under Griffin’s gaze, Jeremy swallowed both.

In less than a second, both sides of the top of his head, the shoulder blade area, and even the end of his spine simultaneously throbbed with a burning, sharp pain, accompanied by an unbearable itching sensation.

Jeremy instinctively reached up to scratch, but his fingertips reaching the top of his head touched something hard and stiff.

Thinking of the Illusion Form Grass, he summoned a water mirror to look at himself.

His pupils had changed into vertical slits. On top of his head sprouted a pair of dragon horns.

The painful spot on his back also unfurled a pair of red-and-gold wings. Even his tailbone had spontaneously grown a tail.

Theoretically, the Illusion Form Grass could only turn someone into a complete animal form, and the duration was extremely short. Not a beastkin form.

But the thing in the mirror was clearly a beastkin state.

Jeremy tried controlling it with his mind, and the red-and-gold feathered wings instantly moved exactly according to the amplitude in his head.

Reaching out to touch them, the tactile sensation was realistic down to every single feather.

Could the overlapping effect of the Illusion Form Grass, the magic circle, and that three-petaled flower be a high-tier illusion?

Thinking of this, Jeremy turned to look at the others.

Leon right now was glaring intensely at the fur-covered black panther ears on his head, the black tail twitching wildly according to his emotions, his complexion gloomy to the point it could wring out water.

The black hat Phoenix was wearing was pushed up by two protruding ears forming a curve — a form similar to the Dark Shadow rabbit clan.

He clearly bitterly hated the feeling of suddenly growing extra ears, expressionlessly pressing his hand down hard on the bulges on his hat, trying to shove them down.

Evelyn’s form belonged to the Cyan Feather clan, her appearance close to the Cyan Luan Ice Phoenix. The feathers at her ears hung down into tassels, between her brows appeared an extra ice pattern mark, verdant feather patterns were vividly clear, and the six wings on her back radiated a mist-like white light, exquisite to an unbelievable degree.

As for Lucius, he bore the beastkin form of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan. The fox ears gradually transitioned from pure white to icy blue, the tail hanging down his back, so fluffy it made one’s hands itch to touch it.

Jeremy also saw the issue: this beastification form was influenced by the owner’s personality or attributes.

Judging solely by appearance, there was absolutely no deviation from real Beastkin.

But beastkin didn’t rely solely on appearance to recognize their own kind. What was more important was "aura".

Jeremy looked towards Griffin. He hadn’t eaten those two spiritual herbs so he didn’t transform at all.

"Teacher, what effect did that flower earlier have?"

Griffin spoke leisurely: "Spirit Aura Flower. Blended with the Illusion Form Grass and transformation magic, it causes both your aura and form to undergo a qualitative change for a short period. The attribute of the form after transformation depends on each person’s disposition. Right now, even standing in the middle of beast clan territory, beastkin below the seventh tier would find it hard to distinguish true from false."

That sentence perfectly confirmed Jeremy’s speculation.

However, it was his first time hearing of a spiritual herb named Spirit Aura Flower.

In other words, currently, aside from their external form, even their aura was exactly identical to beastkin...

Jeremy touched his ear: "Then when will this state end?"

Griffin spoke leisurely: "Seven days. For the next three months, your training location is the Land of Myriad Beasts. Objective: infiltrate the soon-to-open beastkin secret realm, and snatch the Ice Soul Nine Nether Immortal Herb at all costs."

Without waiting for the five to reply, he took out five golden spiritual pills from his space, casually using magic power to slide one onto each of their desks: "Take one of these pills every seven days; it has the effect of solidifying the beastification form. Inside beastkin territory, if you expose your human identity, I probably don’t need to say much about the consequences."

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