Chapter 340: Insect Swarm × Bird cries × Magical beasts!
Perhaps because they were still on the continent's outskirts, although they saw all sorts of strange animals over the next few days, they encountered no real danger overall.
Joey's work progressed slowly. He was still feeling his way through learning God Script, and even with Piyon on the team to help him, finding suitable combinations among the vast number of possibilities required a great deal of experimentation.
Fortunately, Fierce Beasts with these special scales were not uncommon on this continent. Or rather, monsters with similar scales had become the predominant life-forms here.
This truly showed Joey the Black Dragon's reproductive prowess. Its ability to mate and reproduce across species was practically a cheat!
Yet these Fierce Beasts with Black Dragon blood seemed to have a genetic lock placed on them. Because of their scales, the heights they could reach were already determined at birth.
However, while this restriction capped their potential, it also gave these Fierce Beasts an extremely high baseline.
As long as they grew normally, these Fierce Beasts would inevitably become extremely powerful, because any that failed to reach a certain level of strength would long since have had their life energy sucked dry by their own scales.
While granting the Fierce Beasts exceptionally strong defenses, the scales also drew nourishment from them like parasites.
On their third day on the Imaginary Continent, Joey took the Wallet from inside his clothes. As he looked at the scales before him, an idea suddenly formed in his mind.
The scales absorbed the Fierce Beasts' life force, and Ming's skin likewise absorbed Ming's life force.
Although the abilities they displayed differed, their underlying nature was much the same. The scales simply seemed to be at the stage of accumulating power, whereas