A transformation!

Xinhua Community.

In the living room of Mu Yun's home.

Bright lights drove back the darkness outside the windows, while stirring music and the commentator's cries rang out from the television.

Now and then, the calm voice of a video narrator mingled with them.

The former came from the battle matches Xiao Du was watching, while the latter came from Bingbing scrolling through TikTok.

At the kitchen table.

Namikaze stood quietly before Mu Yun with his wings folded. His head was lowered, his expression solemn, like a knight awaiting his investiture.

Only, the one bestowing the honor was not a king, but Mu Yun, and what he was about to receive was not some intangible glory, but a tangible increase in base stats.

After confirming how Evolution Essence determined its effects, Mu Yun decisively fused the remaining fifteen pieces of Evolution Essence into Namikaze's body, one after another.

As those sacred, ethereal notes from the heavens sounded once more, a series of system notifications rang out.

[Ding! Pidgeotto (Namikaze) is using Evolution Essence. Based on the base stat distribution of his species' final form, his two highest stats are special attack and speed. Enhancing base stats...]

[Ding! Evolution Essence fusion complete. Pidgeotto (Namikaze): Special attack +5, speed +5!]

[Ding! Pidgeotto (Namikaze) is using Evolution Essence...]

Only after the last piece of Evolution Essence merged into Namikaze's body did Mu Yun activate the Data Eye to look at him.

[Pokémon: Pidgeotto (Namikaze)]

His special attack and speed had each increased by eighty points, bringing his base stat total to 509—thirty points higher than even an ordinary Pidgeot.

That meant once Namikaze evolved into Pidgeot, his base stat total would reach an astonishing 639!

That surpassed almost all Pokémon, and was