Northern Village Secret Realm, Part Three

Cyclizar bit into the Terastal Crystal with great gusto. Each bite came with a crisp crunch, like biting straight through candy with its teeth.

Thump, thump—

Metagross watched curiously from the side. It secretly picked up a fragment and tapped it with one of its arms—hard as steel.

A trace of surprise flashed through Metagross's eyes. It could not understand how Cyclizar had bitten through the crystal. Could these crystals resist blunt impacts but fare poorly against sharp objects, allowing teeth to break them apart?

Naturally, Metagross's little stunt could not escape Cyclizar's notice. Cyclizar merely gave it an inscrutable half-smile before continuing to devour the crystals.

Overwhelmed by curiosity, Metagross tried taking a bite out of a Terastal Crystal fragment, just as it would with ore or metal—

It nearly shattered its teeth.

Metagross was completely dumbfounded. Its steel teeth could normally crush even the toughest ores and metals, so why had it met its downfall on this crystal?

Struggling to hold back his laughter, Su Hao conjured a metal-smelted apple and handed it to Metagross. "Pfft... You should eat this instead."

Metagross dejectedly took the metal apple with Confusion, then squatted nearby and started gnawing on it.

Yeah, this one was edible.

"Iron Dummy."

The term suddenly surfaced in Su Hao's mind. He withdrew his gaze, then looked toward Cyclizar again. As it ate the Terastal Crystals containing faint energy, its body had inexplicably turned slightly red, like a boiled lobster, with steam rising from it.

This was probably a phenomenon that only appeared when Cyclizar's muscle strength was increasing.

However, Metagross's attempt had raised the same question in Su Hao's mind.

Why could Cyclizar crush extraordinarily hard Terastal Crystals with nothing but its teeth?

After all, the source of Terastal Energy was Terapagos, the Third Deity from