No one in this world had discovered Basculin's evolved form yet. In fact, no one had discovered Basculegion at all.
And since everyone had long treated Basculin as fish raised for meat, no one had even considered that they might evolve.
But Mu Yun was different. The Pokédex from his previous life had clearly recorded how they evolved.
They had to take a certain amount of recoil damage from their own moves. After evolving, their forms would also differ according to sex.
Males had white fins and vivid red tails, like wrathful guardians with fire in their eyes. Females had white fins and pale blue tails, like compassionate bodhisattvas with sorrow in their gaze.
Of course, those descriptions came from a game Pokédex in his previous world.
Whether they would be exactly the same here was another question.
Mu Yun was only offering a possible approach. It would be great if it worked, and fine if it didn't.
After all, the rewards from daily tasks alone were enough to support them.
"I've heard that your kind can only evolve by coming close to death and surviving. In other words, you need to keep using moves like Take Down, Aqua Jet, and Double-Edge, using pain to awaken the power sleeping inside you," Mu Yun said after a moment's thought, putting it in more appealing terms.
"Shi~~"
Youlan fell into thought.
She wasn't doubting Mu Yun. She was simply trying to remember which of those moves she knew and when she had learned them.
She didn't know Double-Edge. She seemed to have learned Aqua Jet in the middle of Elite Level. She had learned Take Down earlier, but even that had been in the Professional Level Late Stage.
Besides, only Manzi knew both moves apart from her.
The rest of their kind