My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 218 - 215 Second Evolution

Lu Wu immediately took action after deciding on the evolution scheme and tasked Li Kai with procuring all the necessary materials.

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Right, before the company existed, Lu Wu used to get everything through the internal network channel.

Now that he had a company, he naturally delegated these trivial matters to it.

Procuring materials on his own was about ten to twenty percent cheaper than the internal network.

Plus, it spared Lu Wu the headache.

Saving time, saving money, of course, Lu Wu would use his company.

Li Kai was quite efficient, and in less than half a day, he had all the materials Lu Wu needed ready.

Materials for evolving two Steel Armor Wild Boars totaled 6000 points.

And the fusion material was more expensive, costing Lu Wu over ten thousand for just one set.

Fortunately, Lu Wu was now well-off and didn't care about spending ten or twenty thousand.

Once the materials were in place, Lu Wu started with the pigs.

After boiling the pigs' soup, Lu Wu hurried to stew the pigs.

Then, Lu Wu took the rare opportunity to relax and went to sleep nearby, leaving Dudu to keep watch for him.

To say Lu Wu was carefree would be an understatement.

He slept and asked Dudu to keep an eye out, but Dudu said she was only used to watching Lu Wu and would doze off seeing anything else.

So, Lu Wu called Little Skeleton over to watch for him.

Little Skeleton wondered what was so interesting about watching a pot of soup?

It said it usually watched its phone and would fall asleep watching the soup, and then it called silly Han over.

It told Han that two formidable creatures would jump out of the soup to attack it, so Han should watch closely and not let them escape.

Well, after passing the buck around a few times, the task eventually landed on Han.

Still gullible and young,

Han took it seriously and intently watched over the pot for more than five hours without blinking.

Finally, when the soup's lid opened, Han perked up with excitement, stood up, and warmed up, ready for the formidable creatures to come out and fight it.

But the formidable creatures didn't come out; instead, Tuantuan from Dudu's family ran in.

Han had also been eyeing the pot hungrily for over five hours and couldn't resist when the lid finally opened.

Decidedly not, 'swoosh' it leapt right into the pot.

With a "splash," it jumped into the soup and squealed as it was scalded out, coming out looking bright red and thoroughly overcooked.

That made sense since Tuantuan, without being gigantic, naturally had low defense.

And its miserable squeal woke Lu Wu, who found himself lying on Dudu's legs.

He was a bit dazed but didn't pay too much attention to these details.

After all, Dudu was in its cute form, and this form's allure obviously couldn't compete with that of a pig.

After a moment of confusion, Lu Wu got up and headed to the Cultivation Room.

By the time he arrived at the scene, the pot of soup was surrounded by Summoned Beasts.

Little Skeleton crouched down and curiously poked Tuantuan with his bone finger, eliciting squeals from the pig every time.

Green Cub was dutifully casting healing spells on Tuantuan, and a dog was sneakily watching from behind.

Both Tuantuan and Han still had their eyes glued to the soup.

The former couldn't bear to part with the soup, while the latter was obviously entertaining a bold idea.

All the Summoned Beasts of 042 were there except for Lin Jianying's goblin.

But at the moment, Lu Wu's attention wasn't on that; he came over and chased the little ones away, then instructed Little Skeleton to pull the pigs out of the soup.

At Little Skeleton's command, the pigs climbed out of the pot.

Yep, Lu Wu didn't need to check their attributes to know just by their appearance that they had successfully evolved.

These two pigs had shrunk slightly in size after they evolved, each about two meters long and 90 centimeters tall, with the black skeletons that used to possess a metallic sheen now taking on the color of steel.

Additionally, the skeletons were now covered with steel scales.

They looked more like mechanical pigs than Undead Pigs, rather fierce and brimming with power and a sense of explosiveness. Just by their appearance alone, Lu Wu was very satisfied. What pleased him even more were their attributes.

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Name: Steel Armor Wild Boar (Second Evolution)

Power: 2 stars (Boss) (Maximum Leader 3 stars)

Quality: Ordinary

Attributes: Metal, Undead

State: Swollen (This pig is very strong)

Weakness: Light (Strong), Thunder (Weak), Flames (Weak)

Advanced Skill: Steel Roar (Entry-level), Wild Boar Trampling (Skilled)

Talent: Steel Armor (Passive) Increases Physical Defense by 40% and Magic Defense by 20%, has a slight reflective effect against physical attacks.

Steel Armor Defense (Active) Upon activation, movement is not possible, but Defense is increased tenfold.

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After checking the Steel Armor Wild Boar, Lu Wu nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm, quite good."

The data in all aspects was acceptable, their Talent evolved from two to one, and their power's upper limit had increased to Leader Level.

Still clunky, but truly quite good.

"Such pigs can not only help Little Skeleton but should also net me a handsome profit."

These pigs, if released to the market, would likely be very popular.

However, Lu Wu currently had no intention of disclosing the Iron Armor Wild Boar's evolution plan.

The main reason was that the materials needed for the Iron Armor Wild Boar's evolution were milk from a once-evolved Iron Armor Bull, which wasn't available on Lu Wu's farm.

So, if he released them to the market now, he wouldn't be the one profiting. He'd wait until he had completed the bull's evolution.

"It seems I need to prioritize the research of the Iron Armor Bull."

But that was a matter for the future. The focus today was on evolution, with the pig's evolution completed, and the Wild Boar Knight's evolution was yet to begin.

This was the crux of the day.

Lu Wu had specifically slept for five hours for the evolution of the Wild Boar Knight.

After the pig had evolved, he even ate a meal.

Thoroughly refreshed from his rest,

Lu Wu began the second round of evolution for the day.

Quickly, Lu Wu concocted another potion, submerging the final pig and the Skeleton Gun Warrior together in it.

However this time, after submerging them, Lu Wuke didn't go back to sleep.

How could he dare sleep with only a 17% success rate for this evolution?

If he went to sleep now, Lu Wu could guarantee the pot would be ruined.

Once it began, Lu Wu's eyes remained fixed on the bubbling concoction, his focus absolute, constantly monitoring the soup, the Skeleton Gun Warrior, and the Iron Bone Wild Boar for any changes in attributes.

Yes, this was why Lu Wu had slept for five hours just before, and why he felt confident to take this gamble even with only a 17% chance.

It wasn't that he was staking his hopes on luck, but rather on an exploit.

As long as he kept a vigilant eye,

The moment he noticed anything amiss, he could intervene immediately; if it couldn't be corrected, he could stop the process altogether, thereby ensuring the evolution would never fail.

A 17% success rate could become a 100% success rate.

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Short, I know, it's 2000 words short. I'll make it up tomorrow.