In the evening, Dao Wen, the owner of the processing shop, who had received the news, led a group of apprentices to the Dragon Palace Ancient City.
Having lived in the Flame Village since childhood and suffered from the threat of the Hundred Dragon Night Walk, coupled with his increasingly refined equipment crafting skills.
Dao Wen had long envisioned using ancient dragon materials to craft equipment and enhance the village's defense capabilities.
However, due to the Guild's monopoly on ancient dragon materials and the absence of ancient dragon corpses to collect in the Flame Village's management area, his idea had to be put on hold.
Puxian understood Dao Wen's thoughts, which is why he helped to take on the crafting task at the meeting.
"I drew the design manuscript for the Wind God Dragon equipment a long time ago, but I never expected to have the chance to participate in its creation in my lifetime."
At the bottom of the giant pit, Dao Wen looked at the two ancient dragon corpses and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Hearing that the design manuscript had been ready for a long time, Li Fan was convinced that he had chosen the right person this time.
The Dragon Calendar Institute also had the ability to process ancient dragon materials, but due to the lack of standard design blueprints, the abilities triggered by the crafted equipment were unknown.
Only the Ming Shen and Feng Juan sets crafted by the Flame Village processors had abilities that appeared in the game.
The extremely dispersed and numerous types of triggered abilities were not what Li Fan cared about.
Wind patterns are consistent, lightning patterns are consistent, and wind and lightning are unified.
These three skills, along with the assimilation and triggering abilities of the Wind God Dragon and Thunder God Dragon, were what he truly wanted to obtain.
As for the crafting of weapons and Palico equipment, it had already been discussed and completed at the meeting during the day.
This included a katana crafted from Thunder God Dragon materials and a Palico set, a great sword crafted from Wind God Dragon materials and a boar armor.
The shield surface of the Iron Tower Heavy Shield Melted Burn could be reshaped and repaired with any kind of material.
After discussing his requirements with Dao Wen, Li Fan returned to the tent.
This battle had permanently resolved the threat of the Hundred Dragon Night Walk, and the Magnamalo had been successfully captured.
With ancient dragon-level weapons and armor about to be acquired, it was a complete success.
However, a major hidden danger remained: the Steel Dragon, which had swallowed the Wind God's Dragonite.
If the enhancement to Kuku from the Rathian's Ruby was any indication, the Steel Dragon, once its mutation was achieved, could become a monstrous threat.
The thought of mutated ancient dragons gave him a headache...
Li Fan, lying on the bed, couldn't think of a solution for prevention, so he decided to take out his portable game console to check the Magnamalo's status and the rewards for achieving the five-star encyclopedia.
[Magnamalo of Resentment, Shaking the Heavens, Male (Unnamed)]
HP: 609/9087↑ (Continuously increasing)
Status: Severely Wounded, Frenzied, Sense of Duty, Shocked, Permanently Damaged Horns, Permanently Blind Left Eye, Gluttonous, Abnormal Muscle Hypertrophy, Carapace Cracked, Ecological Admiration, Hunger Without Reason activated.
Level: 79↑
Strength: 621↑
Agility: 724↑
Intelligence: 1↓
Skills: [Resentment of the Heavens · Grudge Fulfilled] This Magnamalo has achieved peak realm through combat experience and the fulfillment of its grudges.
[Sense of Duty] This monster is driven by a sense of duty.
[Reverence] This monster holds a high degree of admiration for a certain creature.
[Carnivore Detection] Particularly sensitive to the smell of meat.
[King of Hunters] Hunting is effortless for this monster.
[Leader] This monster excels at leading other monsters.
[Unicorn] Due to permanent damage to its horns, this Magnamalo has permanently lost its attractiveness to females.
[Petty] This monster is very vengeful.
[Gigantic] A massively sized individual that provides significant assistance in deterrence and close-quarters combat.
[Hunger Without Reason] When the sense of duty intensifies to a certain degree, the Magnamalo will enter a berserk feeding mode, devouring monsters and incorporating them into its metabolism, thereby significantly enhancing its Strength and Agility attributes, while its Intelligence attribute will continuously decrease.
After the enhancement period ends, the Magnamalo will enter a weakened state, with 50% of the temporarily gained enhanced attributes permanently retained.
[Ghost Fire Dust] Scales and dust derived from the monster's flesh and bones that explode upon brief contact with air or form ghost fire clusters.
[Ghost Fire Assault] The Magnamalo stomps and detonates ghost fire clusters to perform aerial attacks.
[Ghost Fire Orb Shatter] In areas with a high concentration of [Ghost Fire Dust], the tail scythe is swung and twirled to ignite the dust, causing a continuous ring of explosions.
Description: A Fanged Wyvern monster.
Extremely skilled at hunting, with flexible and varied attack methods.
Known as the Magnamalo for its ability to control ghost fire.
Magnamalo groups were extremely active during the Hundred Dragon Night Walk in Flame Village.
This monster holds a high degree of admiration for a certain creature?
Magnamalo is clearly defiant towards everyone, so who would it admire?
Aside from the description of [Reverence], the fact that Magnamalo was marked as a six-star special individual in the portable game console also exceeded Li Fan's expectations.
Next was the reward section.
The upgrade to a Gold Crown Ball was as expected, and unlocking the encyclopedia for seven six-star monsters was the same as the previous conditions.
The biggest difference still lay in the latest types of Poké Balls.
This time, a blue and white Recoil Ball and a pure red translucent Outbreak Ball were unlocked.
The Recoil Ball's effect was to allow remote retrieval of monsters within a 1000-meter radius.
The Outbreak Ball allowed monsters to build up momentum within the ball and launch directly in an attack formation when released.
Li Fan carefully read the descriptions and felt that these two new balls could bring significant improvements in practical combat.
However, the Outbreak Ball would require extensive training to gradually adapt to its usage.
As for the seven monsters that met the six-star standard, currently only Magnamalo and Huihui were among them, making an upgrade a distant prospect.
For six-star monsters, Li Fan currently had two options.
One was to directly attempt to capture six-star monsters such as Brachydios, Gold Rathian, or special individuals.
The second was to mutate and upgrade the existing lineup.
After thinking for a long time, Li Fan decided to do both, as mutation required an opportunity.
He glanced at the status of other monsters, and many of them needed attention.
Brother Lei's Magnamalo was severely lacking and needed replenishment.
Naughty was missing the little fool and needed to be reunited with his mate as soon as possible.
Puff was feeling depressed and seemed to need some heart-to-heart talks.
Xixi... was extremely fatigued!
Hadn't returned yet, but thankfully it was relatively close.
Li Fan clicked to claim the Recoil Ball and Outbreak Ball and quickly ran out of the tent.
A few minutes later, seeing Xixi flying erratically in the sky, Li Fan raised the Recoil Ball.
Whoosh! Xixi turned into a faint blue beam and flew into the Recoil Ball.
The next day at noon, the team took an airship over Flame Village and arrived at the edge of the Abandoned Shrine.
Xixi ate while shaking its crest and wings, constantly recounting its encounters.
The general meaning was that it had never encountered such resilient prey.
Furthermore, its small size and sensitivity to electricity made its electrical attacks difficult to land.
If it tried to capture the opponent with an accelerated aerial assault, the wind pressure generated upon approach would immediately blow the opponent away.
Fortunately, other monsters were also hostile towards this egg, and under their pursuit, the egg was eventually injured and unable to maintain flight, falling into a stream.
When they found it again, three Great Maccao were devouring it.
"That was indeed a convoluted experience, and the only remaining egg of the Thunder God Dragon was eaten by Great Maccao... That's quite unexpected."
After listening, Li Fan threw another large piece of meat.
"By the way, did the Great Maccao have any reaction after eating the Thunder God Dragon's egg?"
"Roar..."
"Ah!"
Li Fan was stunned.
"What did Xixi say, meow?"
Dill, who had been listening, asked.
"Xixi said it ate too quickly at the time and didn't see any reaction from the Great Maccao," Li Fan said helplessly.
"Xixi just finished a long flight, meow. It's hard to fly back to the ancient city without sufficient food," Dill speculated.
"In any case, it's good that it returned safely. Let me see... Brother Lei's Magnamalo is being replenished, Naughty and the little fool have been reunited, and the only one left is Puff."
Li Fan looked at the issues that needed to be resolved with the monsters and then walked towards the riverbank with Dill.
At this moment, Puff was blowing bubbles in the shallow water.
As the seven-colored dust from the giant Ghost Fire Bird had been mostly expelled from its body, the iridescent juice was scarce, and the bubbles gradually became transparent.
Seeing this, Puff's gaze sank, and it buried its fox head in the river, looking as if it had lost all will to live.
At this moment, a yellow Ghost Fire Bird flew past, and Puff's neck quickly lifted.
Chirp! Chirp!
The Ghost Fire Bird hovered in the air and met Puff's gaze.
"Roar..."
Puff let out a gentle cry.
Chirp~
The Ghost Fire Bird, startled, flew away quickly.
Plop! The fox head was once again buried in the river, letting the water wash over it.
"Puff looks very dejected, meow," Dill said with concern.
"I guess it might have fallen in love with the Ghost Fire Bird's seven-colored dust, or perhaps the enhanced rainbow bubbles it can generate after inhaling a large amount of it," Li Fan speculated.
"What a peculiar pursuit, meow," Dill said with surprise.
However, recalling Puff's past behavior, it did indeed like iridescent things.
"Ghost Fire Bird..."
Li Fan murmured, thinking of the flower chain bracelet that could attract Ghost Fire Birds.
However, for monsters, such a flower chain was too small; it would be better to find the flower's growth area and directly absorb large amounts of the core substance that could attract Ghost Fire Birds.
Once this substance could be incorporated into Puff's metabolism, many Ghost Fire Birds would actively provide pollen.
Perhaps it could generate super bubbles containing many buffs.
However, Ghost Fire Birds were unique to the ecosystem of Flame Village, and it was unclear if they would be ineffective in other regions.
Never mind, he had plenty of time anyway, and giving Puff something to do could also alleviate its depression.
Li Fan felt that this adaptive mutation path had a low probability of success, but there was no harm in trying, so he walked to the riverbank and began to communicate with Puff.
"Roar!"
After listening to Li Fan's explanation, Puff suddenly raised its neck, indicating its great interest.
"Don't get too excited yet. I still need to find more information in Flame Village for the specific steps. If you're willing, you can start exploring the Abandoned Shrine area now."
"Roar! Splash! Splash!..."
Puff let out a cheerful roar and slid across the river in a serpentine motion to begin its exploration.
A week passed quickly.
At noon, an apprentice Palico from the processing shop came to the airship Flame to deliver news.
It was said that the equipment had all been crafted and asked Lieyan to come for inspection.
"Thank you. May I ask why the villagers call me and Li Fan 'Lieyan'?" Eudora asked in confusion.
"I don't know, meow. The village chief told me," the apprentice Palico shook its head.
"Alright, we'll be there immediately."
After Eudora finished speaking, she informed Li Fan in the cabin.
The team tidied up briefly and went to the processing shop.
The closed red lacquered door opened a crack as the team arrived.
In order to dedicate all their efforts to crafting ancient dragon equipment, the processing shop had announced an indefinite closure.
However, completing the crafting in just one week exceeded Li Fan's expectations.
As the team entered, they felt a different aura in the courtyard.
More than a dozen human and Palico apprentices stood at attention on both sides.
Puxian and Dao Wen stood at the end, their faces solemn and serious.
"Two Lieyan, the equipment has been crafted according to your requirements. However, due to Guild regulations, we cannot publicize it widely, so we can only conduct the inspection in the courtyard." Puxian said loudly.
"Village Chief! Dao Wen! Thank you!" Li Fan's tone became formal due to the grand occasion.
"Before the inspection, there are some abnormal situations that I need to emphasize," Dao Wen, with dark circles under his eyes, stepped forward.
"Please elaborate."
"I have been crafting equipment for so many years, and I have never... never been so smooth." Dao Wen sighed.
"Thank you for your hard work. The difficulty of crafting ancient dragon materials is indeed very high... Wait, you said the process was very smooth?" Li Fan had not delved deeply into the field of equipment crafting, but he couldn't imagine the processing of ancient dragon materials being easy.
Moreover, these were two nearly unknown ancient dragons, and simply familiarizing themselves with the properties of the materials would be a huge challenge.
"Yes, every idea on the manuscript was easily realized. I initially thought this was a guess about the Wind God Dragon and it happened to match the reality, but the Thunder God Dragon, which I had never seen before, was also crafted exceptionally smoothly, without any mistakes or omissions. It was nothing like a first-time craft... In short, it's very strange," Dao Wen stated his opinion.
Could it be the strong luck effect of the consistent wind and lightning patterns activating?
But this was metaphysics, and during the crafting process, the equipment hadn't even been completed yet, so there was no reason for the ability to activate...
Li Fan suddenly realized he had fallen into a misconception.
That is, the equipment did not activate its abilities only after it was completed.
Instead, materials that inherently contained abilities were crafted into equipment.
This meant that this ability was already present when the monster was alive.
However, considering the entire ecosystem, the monsters least likely to possess strong luck abilities were these.
Thinking of this, Li Fan suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
"Whether to destroy and bury the equipment or continue to accept it is up to your decision, two Lieyan," Puxian said seriously.
"I'm not afraid of the strange, I want to continue accepting it!" Eudora stepped forward and said.
She had witnessed the Steel Dragon with her own eyes and had gathered a lot of information.
However, learning of its potential for mutation immediately increased the pressure on her.
Although the Zinogre armor set, after being worn in, was very suitable for her, Eudora felt that the improvement gained through training was no longer enough to satisfy her before the next encounter.
"I'm not afraid either, meow!" Dill stepped forward and said.
"I'm okay," Li Fan hesitated for a moment and then also agreed to continue accepting it.
After all, even if there were problems, it wouldn't be too late to destroy and bury it after trying it on.