"Second Carp, stop for a moment."
Mu Yun flew over to Second Carp and spoke.
"Karoo?"
Second Carp froze at the sight of Mu Yun, as though he didn't recognize him.
Only after glancing at Bold in the distance did a spark of recognition appear in his vacant eyes.
It was his boss's boss!
Did this kid trade his brains for stamina with all that Mighty Brick training?
Second Carp floated on the water, blowing bubbles. It took him a while to swim over, and Mu Yun couldn't help thinking that.
Lack of strength could be fixed with training. Lack of brains was another matter.
"This is for you."
Mu Yun wasted no words. He spent three hundred Points on a Gyarados Horn Bone.
Then he thought it over and spent another 9,300 Points on thirty-one more.
Since he was here, he might as well give one to every Magikarp.
As the Gyarados Horn Bones appeared one after another, the Magikarp, tired from training moments ago, perked up like sharks catching the scent of blood.
Every one of them surged toward Mu Yun as if sprinting a hundred meters.
They might have been just a school of Magikarp, but in those numbers, they made quite a sight.
"One each. When you're finished, tell Bold."
Using his authority as master of the space, Mu Yun held the approaching Magikarp in place.
With a wave of his hand, he set all thirty-two horn bones precisely beside their mouths.
The moment he released them, the Magikarp eagerly clamped onto the bones, their little red mouths sucking at the smooth surfaces.
In an instant, every Magikarp, Second Carp included, swelled up just as Little Gold had.
They grew nowhere near as quickly as Little Gold had, though their final sizes were much the same.