"What skills?!"

As Director Lin Hongnian spoke, everyone was stunned, and then quickly asked.

Good heavens.

Besides the intimidation skill that would inevitably awaken when the growth level reached the King tier, it actually awakened three new skills in one go. It seemed that this evolution greatly improved the Iron-eating Beast's race!

The key now was the level of these three new racial skills.

After a pet evolved, one of the most direct ways to judge the potential of the pet's new form was to see how powerful its newly awakened racial skills were!

"I..."

As he received feedback from the Iron-eating Beast, Director Lin Hongnian was too excited to speak.

"Three new skills, one Intermediate, one Advanced, and one Super!"

What a take-off!

"Stop beating around the bush! Just say it!" Lin Xiuzhu couldn't help but glare at her old man.

"The Intermediate skill is Gigantification!"

[Skill]: Gigantification

[Skill Level]: Intermediate

[Introduction]: A special ability that can enlarge the body. In a Gigantified state, energy consumption increases, and strength increases.

Everyone: ???

Shi Yu: ???

This Intermediate skill was actually not bad, and Lin Hongnian was initially very satisfied.

However, as he saw the strange expressions on everyone's faces, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

He looked at Eleven, who was in a shrunk state on Shi Yu's shoulder, and fell into deep thought.

Eleven: Eh (￢‸￢)?

"Wait a minute!!"

Director Lin Hongnian suddenly said, "Why can the Iron-eating Beast that awakened the ancient evolution bloodline learn the higher-level skill of Gigantification, while the truly evolved Iron-eating Beast can only awaken Gigantification??"

He had found the blind spot.

Everyone also looked at Shi Yu and Eleven, causing Shi Yu to fall into deep thought.

Absolutely...

The skill Gigantification, Panda Senior and others had been thinking about the ancient evolution form, but after the Iron-eating Beast evolved, it really awakened a similar skill?

If you're going to awaken it, awaken the whole thing. Is awakening half of it even reasonable?

"Maybe Eleven has better talent? Director Lin can take the Iron-eating Beast to soak in the evolution holy spring more often when you have time," Shi Yu suggested.

If Auntie Ancient Tree of Life allowed it.

Lin Hongnian was silent.

"What about the Advanced and Super skills???" Lin Xiuzhu asked.

Director Lin Hongnian stopped thinking about the troubling matter of Gigantification versus Gigantification. He took a deep breath and said, "The Advanced skill is the metal-type Impregnable Fortress, and the Super skill is the metal-type Concealed Edge!"

[Skill]: Impregnable Fortress

[Skill Level]: Advanced

[Introduction]: A metal-type skill where the user is guarded by metal-type power, increasing resistance to all types of skills.

This was the higher-level skill of Harden.

Harden generally only had a good resistance effect against physical attacks, but Impregnable Fortress had extremely high resistance effects against all kinds of elemental attacks, control skills, and even skills targeting the mind and soul.

It could be said that it was a comprehensive skill that increased the Iron-eating Beast's ability to withstand beatings.

[Skill]: Concealed Edge

[Skill Level]: Super

[Introduction]: A metal-type skill where the user enters a concealed state, which can create a source of physical strength, accumulate power beyond its own limits, and not affect its own state. In the Edge state, the accumulated power can be released exponentially, increasing attack power several times, but it will put a certain burden on the body.

"Damn."

After Director Lin finished speaking, Dean Hao, Director Li, and Instructor Ding were fine, but the Seven Heroes were immediately shocked.

"It actually awakened the skill Concealed Edge?" Zheng Yingjie opened his mouth wide.

This skill could be said to be a divine skill of the metal type.

First of all, this skill could maximize the physical strength of a pet!

Generally, a pet would be full after eating a piece of energy crystal, and couldn't eat anymore, but after mastering the skill Concealed Edge, the pet could eat ten or a hundred energy crystals without any problem.

Moreover, the pet wouldn't be unable to digest the energy, nor would it waste the power of the energy crystals. Instead, it would store this energy stably in its body.

In battle, whether it was slowly mobilizing this stored power or bursting it out in one go, it could be done.

This was the most typical combat skill. It not only allowed the pet to have hidden physical strength far exceeding that of creatures of the same level, but also gave the pet the power to fight beyond its level!

"Harden, Gigantification, Impregnable Fortress, Concealed Edge..."

"After evolution, the Iron-eating Beast is simply a super war beast born for battle, no, for war," Dean Hao said with emotion. Director Li and Instructor Ding deeply agreed.

At this time, the Seven Archeological Heroes rubbed their little hands enviously.

Panda Senior was also a little excited, her body trembling constantly.

Awakening a Super skill after evolution meant that the current potential level of the Iron-eating Beast's race must be above the King tier.

Could her Iron-eating Beast become so strong in the future?

"Roar!!!" Lin Hongnian's Iron-eating Beast was also very excited, feeling that there was endless power erupting in its body!

It glanced at Eleven, wanting to feel the envious eyes of its fellow race...

"Eh." However, Eleven shook its head.

So what if it had three more skills, Eleven had plenty of skills!

Iron-eating Beast: ...

At this time, the happiest person was Director Lin Hongnian himself.

"Concealed."

He looked at the Iron-eating Beast with a smile.

The Iron-eating Beast nodded.

Then, under everyone's gaze, it returned to its pre-evolution appearance.

All the armor on its body disappeared, and its size instantly returned to normal.

This was the Concealed effect of the Super skill Concealed Edge, which was to hide one's edge.

"It can even return to its pre-evolution state in the Concealed state??!"

Shi Yu hadn't expressed anything all along, but at this moment, he suddenly froze and his eyes widened.

"Yes, this is the magic of this Super skill," Director Li said with a chuckle.

"It's simply a divine skill for playing dumb to get the better of someone. Speaking of which, if it's used in conjunction with your Iron-eating Beast's Shrink, will there be any miraculous effects?"

Shi Yu was stunned, and finally, his emotions fluctuated greatly.

Damn, this Concealed state can even degenerate?

That's so cool.

"That's great!" At the same time, Lin Xiuzhu couldn't help but shout.

In this way, wouldn't the Iron-eating Beast have two forms??

It seemed that she could let the Iron-eating Beast evolve without any worries in the future.

The only pity was that the evolved Iron-eating Beast could only Gigantify and not Shrink. She was very envious of Eleven's Gigantification skill.

"It seems that we don't have any worries either..."

Shi Yu had the same thoughts as Lin Xiuzhu.

Now, even if it evolved, the panda pendant and panda bed would still be there!

It was indeed a divine skill!

Shi Yu hinted at Eleven on his shoulder, feeling that he still had to spend money and add points...

Eleven: Eh.

At this time, everyone looked at Director Lin's Iron-eating Beast with emotion.

This was probably the first evolved form of the Iron-eating Beast in this era?

Director Lin Hongnian was going to be famous, and Shi Yu, who discovered the Iron-eating Beast's evolution route, was also going to be famous!

Everyone was filled with emotion, but at this moment, Shi Yu suddenly thought of something and felt that things were not over yet.

"Wait a minute!"

Shi Yu suddenly looked at Director Lin and said, "Do you want to try engraving a special symbol on a metal plate on the Iron-eating Beast's body?"

"I still feel that that inscription symbol is the key to the Iron-eating Beast's further transformation, and not as simple as a tribal mark."

Director Lin was stunned, then nodded and chose to believe Shi Yu.

"But what should we use to engrave it?"

Shi Yu suggested, "Harden's claws."

Seeing Shi Yu's firm attitude, everyone couldn't help but perk up again.

Could it be that the symbol really had something special about it?

"Then let's try it according to what Shi Yu said."

Now that the evolution method determined by Shi Yu had been confirmed, it didn't seem like a big deal to believe Shi Yu once more.

Dean Hao brought over the metal plate.

The Iron-eating Beast also returned to its huge armored form.

At this time, the Iron-eating Beast looked at the special symbol on the metal plate, then looked at its own armor and fell into deep thought.

Was it really going to engrave this thing?

"Let's try it," Director Lin Hongnian said with a laugh, not caring whether it succeeded or not. It wouldn't matter if it was engraved.

"Roar!!"

The Iron-eating Beast nodded, then Hardened its claws, imitating the special symbol on the metal plate, and began to engrave the symbol on its armor—

Squeak!

However, the next second, an unexpected scene appeared.

The Iron-eating Beast's claws, which had been strengthened by Transcendent Harden, couldn't leave any marks on the armor at all!

One had to know that the current armor had not been strengthened by Harden yet.

"It's so hard," Director Li said in slight shock.

This defense...

Without using any skills, its body strength surpassed Transcendent Harden?

Was it trying to compare its physical fitness with that of a dragon?

Squeak!

"Roar!!"

The Iron-eating Beast's expression changed, and it tried again, but it still couldn't engrave it.

"It seems that we need to use something harder to engrave it," Dean Hao said with a slight frown.

While everyone was shocked by the Iron-eating Beast's armor defense, only the Iron-eating Beast, Lin Hongnian, and Shi Yu had different expressions.

"No, that's not right," Director Lin Hongnian said with a solemn expression.

"No, the strength of the Transcendent Harden claws is clearly above the armor."

"The Iron-eating Beast said that there seems to be a repulsive force between its claws and the armor, preventing it from leaving any marks on the armor!"

"What?"

Everyone was stunned by Director Lin's words.

What was this, a self-protection mechanism?

"Could this inscription really have some kind of mysterious magic?"

If everyone had previously felt that the special symbol didn't have any special meaning, then now, with the discovery of this strange phenomenon, anyone who wasn't an idiot could sense the strangeness.

This wasn't a matter of whether the claws were hard enough.

But why was there a repulsive reaction between the Hardened claws and the armor?

Everyone frowned. Could it be that Shi Yu was right?

Did that inscription have some special power?

Otherwise, if it was just a simple inscription, why couldn't the Iron-eating Beast engrave it!

Shi Yu was even more lost in thought.

That shouldn't be the case.

In the historical image he saw, those Iron-eating Beasts used Transcendent Harden claws to engrave inscriptions on their body armor. There was absolutely no mistake!

The Iron-eating Beasts' smooth engraving movements didn't look like they were being hindered at all.

At this time, Shi Yu felt that he had not noticed the key point. What was wrong... Slowly, as Shi Yu looked at Director Lin Hongnian's Iron-eating Beast, he suddenly froze.

[Skill]: Harden

[State]: Teachable

Like with the Transcendent Silkworm Silk of the Green Silkworm, even though Director Lin Hongnian's Iron-eating Beast had mastered the Transcendent racial skill, the skill index still showed that it was in a teachable state!

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then he said clearly, "Speaking of which, could it be that the proficiency of Harden is not enough?"

"Is there any higher proficiency above Transcendent Harden..."

"I feel that breaking through the racial skill again and producing a qualitative change might be the key to the Iron-eating Beast's further transformation! Maybe there will be no repulsive reaction when engraving the inscription at that time."

This time, Shi Yu's mind was open, and he had a feeling of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. He felt that his deduction must be correct!

Harden, which surpassed the Transcendent proficiency, and those inscriptions might be the key to the Iron-eating Beast's further evolution!

King tier was just the starting point!

The future was truly promising for mythology!

Everyone's expression was strange after Shi Yu finished speaking.

Dean Hao explained, "Beginner, Proficient, Expert, Perfect, Transcendent. Although the names of each level are different in each era, the abilities of pets have always been these five levels. Perfect represents the peak of skill, and Transcendent represents breaking through the original limit of the skill."

"As for higher, there is no such thing. There has been no record of it throughout history... and no Beast Tamer's pet has ever reached it."

"That's not realistic. Why don't we try engraving with other tools?"

Director Lin Hongnian also twitched his mouth, not knowing whether to believe Shi Yu or not.

Why didn't you say that the Iron-eating Beast could evolve again by eating the planet Venus?

Even if it was true, there was no way to achieve it.

Using such unscientific evolution conditions to tempt his old man to have expectations for the evolved form of the Iron-eating Beast's evolved form, wasn't that going to take his life and make him and the Iron-eating Beast train Harden 24 hours a day for the rest of their lives?

As everyone retorted that it was unscientific, Shi Yu fell silent.

He still stubbornly believed that his deduction was correct.

Moreover, was it difficult to go above Transcendent?