Raising Ducks for Daily Rewards-Chapter 28: Planning a Lineage
Fengyu asked the duck to try it several times before he finally understood.
The innate ability of this duck was like an ability it hadn’t yet mastered.
On the other hand, he gained an extremely refined version capable of shooting enemies from a hundred metres away. And looking at the damage of the formation, he could guess that ten feathers would damage it slightly.
Such damage would be enough to pierce the protective light of a low-grade defensive item! 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
The only difference between him and the duck was that the cost of casting it was a lot cheaper. With his current spiritual power, he could cast the spells thirty times before being exhausted.
On the other hand, the duck had its materials ready right on its body, and the cost of the spell was extremely low.
In addition, it was slightly stronger.
After all, a physical body is stronger than a manifested body.
"This is why innate spells are so powerful. Factually a beast doesn’t need to learn it to use it, the cost is low and it’s stronger than normal spells.
We humans are only able to contend with this by refining our spells many times."
He nodded and then looked at the spell again...
"How do I continue learning it?
The spell somehow made me able to understand the motions and everything, but this knowledge is superficial. It’s as if I just memorised it and didn’t really understand it.
To advance on my own, I’d have to learn the spell anew!
Is there another way?"
He looked at the duck and saw the text above it – using 12 cores, he could upgrade its bloodline.
Maybe if the duck reached the mid-grade he could get another boost in comprehension?
"Never mind, the cost is so high. It would be better to just give birth to a few offspring and hope they inherit this function!"
It’s common for lineages to inherit the same innate powers, so he didn’t worry about not being able to raise another duck with the same lineage.
What he was worried about was whether he would get the reward again!
If he could, then...
"One hundred expertise, raising ten ducks will allow me to reach Minor Accomplishment, a hundred ducks for Major Accomplishment and a thousand for Perfection!
This, isn’t this too easy?"
But just then, he remembered.
How was this easy?
Ten ducks a month, by this speed he’d need one month to reach Minor Accomplishment, ten for Major Accomplishment and a hundred for Perfection!
"Wait, no, isn’t this rather easy compared to learning spells normally?
Even with my high talent in vitality spells, I still needed over a month just to reach the Entry stage of Wood Recovery, and this is under the consideration that I already have the Vitality Recovery Spell!
I don’t even know how long it would take me to reach the next comprehension stage!"
He looked confused.
Was it easy or difficult?
He didn’t know.
But what he knew was that using the maxed out spell seemed easy, but in fact, he didn’t connect with it as deeply as he did with the other spells he learned.
It was truly the difference between answering a question because you know the answer, and answering the question because you understand it and can formulate an answer easily.
Although the difference didn’t seem great, he could subtly feel a difference.
In the end, he simply sighed and was thankful.
Why think so much?
Out of nowhere he got an attack spell!
"Now that I think about it, wouldn’t it be greater to get other spells?" –
But then he looked around and saw that most ducks had extremely low bloodline.
Pushing it further would be too costly!
"Oh right, the difference in advancements... since I only need 12 cores, it seems to be a gamble? Though while it might be a gamble, it seems the growth wasn’t large, still remaining in the same minor stage.
Could it be that forcing the breakthrough would result in a ’lower’ gamble?
Hmm... to get definite information, I will need to try things out more deeply.
For now, my plan should be –
Raise another male duck to the low-grade first stage Spiritual Duck and make it pair up with this Spiritual Duck.
A Wild Beast mating with a Spiritual Beast... this is the usual method beast tamers use to allow the dominant lineage of Spiritual Beasts to be passed down, right?
In the case of ducks, they only choose one partner for their lifetime. So even if the main lineage wasn’t from the female duck, I still wouldn’t be able to spread the lineage faster.
After all, not everyone is like dragons...
Then again, dragons have cursed the lineage pool quite a lot, forcing too many beasts to follow the path of becoming a dragon.
It directly lowers the probabilities of more unique mutations or reversions to former bloodlines..."
Although dragons were great, technically every lineage had its own characteristics.
The dragon lineage confused too many lineages, making it factually a dominant characteristic, but this didn’t make it better.
Shaking his head, he pushed away these thoughts and instead continued to formulate his plan –
"Besides mating these, I could try to see whether any of the offspring of the first duck have higher talent.
In the future, I can check how many cores they need to advance their bloodline at birth. Based on that, I can try to see how much influence my Bloodline Enhancement spell has, and how much other factors have.
Compiling a lot of information should allow me to quickly understand the specifics of how to create new lineages!
In addition... I should try to see whether I can sell these silver feathers for a higher price."
Fengyu remembered that duck feathers were usually too short to be used in various things, which is why they’re discarded or recycled, their value too low to have a separate price.
But these silver feathers should be more unique, right?
At least they were sharper and flew easier through the wind – with minimal refinement, they could be transformed into flying darts!
