Chapter 228: Wight's Evolution

Name：Reincarnated as a Dragon's Egg Author：Nekoko
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228 – Wight’s Evolution

The wight’s level has increased slower than I’d expected. In my case, I levelled so fast through the support of my title skill. I didn’t expect it to be this difficult to just raise its level by 3 without it.

After the wight defeated its sixth little treant, its level finally rose to 4. With its increase in stats, I’ve become able to comfortably send it out to fight them.

Since then, it’s defeated three more, but its level still hasn’t maxed out yet. The next one should be enough though.

Together with the wight, I search for another young tree, then ask my partner to transform it.

【Normal skill [Soul AppendmentFake Life] has risen from level 3 to 4. 】

… This has been used a lot too, so it’s been sucking up xp.

By the way, I tried using [Soul AppendmentFake Life] on the remains of a little treant that had lost all its HP, but it wasn’t revived. It’s not like it can’t work on corpses, seeing as the wight’s made entirely of bone. Maybe there’s some rule about the quality of the materials. It’s not like there was no response at all, so I get the feeling that it might work at higher levels.

“Higi, higiiii!”

The uprooted little treant leaps at the wight. With a relaxed movement, the wight dodges and grapples its back, snapping its limbs and gnawing at its body.

“Higii…”

The little treant stops moving and collapses on the spot. With this, the wight’s level should have gone up.

It would be great if it could evolve into a more human-like form.

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Species: Wight

Status: Cursed

Lv: 5/5

HP: 14/14

MP: 1/6

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Alright, it’s levelled up. It should be able to evolve now.

“Guuo…”

With my cry, the wight looks up at me. Making a clacking sound, it nods at me. I anticipate its evolution, but… its form doesn’t seem to change. It just stares at me with its empty eye sockets.

Maybe there’s something I need to do? The only thing I can do for undead is to use [Soul AppendmentFake Life].

Hey partner, could you give it one more shot. With as much magic power as you can.

“Guah!”

With my partner’s cry, a black light envelops the wight. When the light clears away, the wight is visible

Some of its bones have become blue, and it’s got a cross-shaped mark on its forehead. It’s also got some patterns around its eyes and on some of its ribs… Other than that, it’s not really changed much. Rather than becoming more human-like, I get the feeling that it’s becoming more monster-like… As expected, it looks like it’s impossible for it to regain its living body.

Anyway, I’d like to see what it’s evolved into. I’ll check out it’s status.

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Race: Skull Lowmage

Status: Cursed

Lv: 1/13

HP: 15/15

MP: 1/10

Attack: 5

Defense: 4

Magic: 6

Speed: 3

Rank: E

Characteristic Skills:

[Grisha Language: Lv 1] [Undead: Lv -] [Dark Attribute: Lv -]

Resistance Skills:

[Status Condition Nullification: Lv -] [Physical Resistance: Lv 3] [Magic Resistance: Lv 1]

Normal Skills:

[Gale: Lv 2] [Death Curse: Lv 2] [Life Drain: Lv 1] [Clay: Lv 1]

Title Skills:

[Servant of the Evil Dragon: Lv -]

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[Skull Lowmage]… In short, a low-ranking bone magic-user? So next would be a skull mage? Th-this, is it even able to gain flesh? Won’t it be spending its whole life as bone. I mean, even though it’s dead.

It should be able to choose its evolution path like me though… Well, its MP has increased, so the number of times it can attack from a safe distance has gone up. If the wight… ah, it’s evolved so its name has changed. If the skull lowmage provides covering fire while I fight upfront, it shouldn’t be too difficult to power level it.

The experience points might be reduced because there’s less risk, but it’s got to be more efficient than slowly grinding through monsters of the same rank. That was how the ball rabbit suddenly rose to D rank. Plus, I don’t want to use [Soul AppendmentFake Life] like that if I can help it. Making living things for the purpose of killing them is not a pleasant experience.

Wondering what to do if it’ll always be stuck as bone, I watch the skull lowmage’s face. After examining its body thoughtfully, it stands up while staring at its hand. It’s not pleased about this development, is it? That’s as I expected. I wish it could tell me how much it remembers, but it hasn’t got a tongue. It’s all bone after all.

Come to think of it, it’s name from when it was alive isn’t displayed. Changing the way I call it every time it evolve feels weird, so ought to think of a good name for it.

But then I have no idea if it’s male or female. Is it a he-skeleton or a she-skeleton? Male and female skeletons differ, but it’s a child so…

It might have it’s habits from when it was a human, but that’s no guarantee it remembers its name. I get the feeling that if it knew, it would be displayed in its status. Until its name is decided, I guess I’ll keep calling it wight. Though it’s not like I’ll be saying it out loud.

For the rest of today, I’ll let the wight rest and regain MP… We’ll probably go hunting again tomorrow. For dinner, let’s eat the tribute. I’m also wondering if the Lithovar people will come again.