Chapter 20: Chapter 20 [Insect Bites], Awakening from Bloodline Genes
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With one point increase, not only did he obtain three derivative skills of [Impact Training Method], but the Caterpillar also obtained three derivative skills of [Impact], for a total of six abilities.
The only downside is that the process is a bit uncomfortable.
In that extremely real dream world, he never found out how to return to nature until his death, which made him feel extremely sad and at the same time produced an extremely strong sense of frustration.
In that world, he didn't remember having a Spirit Master System Panel. There were no living creatures other than him and the Caterpillar, not even the Cowardly Bug Pokémon Egg in his backpack.
There is no Qingxi Village there, only endless forests.
Even among the books that the village chief gave him from Qingxi Village School, only the two books he had read, "Encyclopedia of Pokemons in the Shia Kingdom (I)" and "Encyclopedia of Pokemons in the Shia Kingdom (II)", retained some pages.
Mark opened his backpack and was about to flip through a few books, but suddenly he felt a cramp in his abdomen.
The aftereffects of adding points appeared again, and an extremely strong feeling of hunger came over me.
Soon, the man and the insect began to wolf down the sweet chestnuts that had been prepared earlier.
After dozens of minutes.
Mark was basically full and although he still felt a little empty, it was not serious.
The green caterpillar next to it is still eating, but the frequency of eating has decreased a lot. It is estimated that it will be full soon.
Mark opened the Spirit Master panel.
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[Mark]
[Occupation: Spirit Master]
[Experience: 8%]
[Points: None]
[Royal Spirit: Green Caterpillar]
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Compared to the 12% experience gained last time after being full, this time the experience is a little less. After the Caterpillar is full, the experience bar will reach about 9%.
Mark estimated that this might be related to the growth in the size of the caterpillar.
After the first addition, the caterpillar's body size grew from 40 cm to 65 cm, so it consumed more food.
This time, although the Caterpillar gained more, its size did not grow much, so it consumed less food and naturally accumulated less experience.
While thinking, Mark spread his fingers to measure the length of the caterpillar.
After a simple measurement, Mark found that the caterpillar grew from about 65 cm to about 73 cm.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss."
"Oh? You mean, your body won't continue to grow?"
"Hiss, hiss."
The caterpillar nodded continuously.
As it continued to eat, its body grew a little more.
Then in the process of development, it produced a sense of abrupt stop, as if his body had grown to its limit.
To describe it concretely, it is a bit like pouring water into a bottle that is full of water, which is naturally useless.
The caterpillar was still thinking when he saw Mark pinching his chin and said, "It seems that you have fully realized your potential and grown to the limit of your body, so you feel the bottleneck.
If you want to continue growing, you can only add points to your five-dimensional potential, or as the book says, take some feed or fruit that can enhance your potential.
By the way, I remember that the caterpillar leader was over one meter tall, and there seemed to be no one in the entire caterpillar group that was close to its size. Do you know why the caterpillar leader was able to be so big? "
"Hiss."
The Caterpillar shook its head. It didn't know why the Caterpillar leader was so big, nor did it know what the Caterpillar leader's talent was.
The Caterpillar wanted to continue describing it, but suddenly he felt something and stretched out his forelimbs to touch his teeth.
"What happened to your teeth?"
Mark looked worried, thinking that the caterpillar had got something stuck in its teeth while eating the fruit, but he found that after the caterpillar covered its teeth, it suddenly curled up on the ground and kept twisting.
"hiss?"
The caterpillar didn't know what was wrong with him.
Its teeth neither hurt nor itched, and it couldn't describe the exact feeling; it was amazing.
Crunch——
In a trance, the Caterpillar seemed to hear the sound of a door opening, or the sound of shackles breaking.
Something flowed into its teeth, making them stronger. At the same time, something indescribable emerged in its mind, as if it was the technique of using a move.
Just like it was born knowing how to [Strike] and [Spin Silk], it also learned a new skill...
"[Insect bite]?"
Mark discovered that the Caterpillar was not in the right state, so he opened the Spirit Master panel and saw a new skill, [Insect Bite], appeared after [Impact] and [Silking] in the Caterpillar's skill column.
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[Insect Bite: Use sharp and strong teeth to bite the opponent, which has the effect of sucking nutrients from plant fruits]
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In the Pokémon games, the moves that Caterpillar can master are very limited. Apart from [Smash] and [Silk Spin], which are the moves it is born with, only [Insect Bite] and [Electric Grid] can be learned later.
Among them, [Power Grid] cannot be obtained through upgrading, and must be learned by using the move learning device.
Mark remembered that in the game, the effect of [Bug Bite] was to bite the opponent with teeth and eat the berries carried by the opponent at the same time.
In the real world, [Bug Bite] is definitely not exactly the same as in the game.
According to the description on the system panel, [Insect Bites] have the effect of sucking nutrients from plant fruits.
But this description is very confusing, and Mark cannot imagine what the specific effect is.
Mark looked at the Caterpillar and saw it fiddling with its teeth, seemingly confused by its sudden realization of the [Insect Bite] skill.
Mark patted the caterpillar's head gently. "Don't be so surprised. This is a characteristic of elves. As the body grows, it will learn some skills from its own blood genes, just like the [Impact] and [Silk Spinning] that you mastered when you were born.
Caterpillar is a completely metamorphosed Pokémon, and its true bloodline gene will be formed when you evolve Butterfree.
You have only mastered [Insect Bite] now. When you evolve into Butterfree, you will master many more skills from your bloodline genes, such as [Hypnotic Powder], [Paralysis Powder], [Poison Powder], and [Butterfly Dance]. "
"Ss ...
"Are you asking what a complete pervert is, and what bloodline genes are? How do you explain that... You definitely won't understand if I tell you about the bloodline inheritance in the world of swords and magic, right..."
Mark thought of something and took out the "Encyclopedia of Pokemons of the Shia Kingdom (II)" from his backpack and opened it. He turned to the chapter on pokemons' skills and moves, which contained a page with an illustration of a double helix structure.
Like humans, the genes of elves also have a double helix structure.
"This double helix structure represents your bloodline genes. If you use an electron microscope to observe your flesh and blood, you can see a similar double helix structure. The ability you just comprehended, [Insect Bite], is hidden in this double helix structure."
"In fact, this double helix structure not only contains abilities and moves, but also contains a variety of information, such as your skin is green, and the shape of the tentacles on your forehead is Y-shaped..."
"You ask what an electron microscope is? It's something that can magnify objects. Look at this grain of sand in my hand. What do you think it would look like if you magnified it tens of thousands of times..."
"Hiss?"
"How much is tens of thousands times? I'll teach you math later. You don't have to think about how much tens of thousands times is. Imagine magnifying this grain of sand to my size. An electron microscope is something that can visually magnify an object."
"Okay, let me continue to explain the complete metamorphosis you just asked about. In the world before I traveled through time, the complete metamorphosis was used to describe insects, but in this world, the complete metamorphosis..."
Mark said as he opened several other textbooks and kept flipping through them.
After searching for a while, Mark shook his head slightly.
"Only this book, 'Encyclopedia of Shia Kingdom Pokemons (II)', mentions completely metamorphosed pokemons. It says that the Caterpillar, Beedrill, and Magikarp in Shia Kingdom are all completely metamorphosed elves. Before evolving into their final form, they can only master very few skills and moves."
"As for the classification criteria and specific characteristics of completely abnormal pokemons, I guess we can only find the answer by asking the teachers at school or in the library of the Pokemon Academy. Maybe the village chief also knows. We can ask him when we go back."
Mark put the book down and looked at the Caterpillar. He saw that the Caterpillar tilted its head and looked dizzy.
It can be seen that the Caterpillar has tried very hard to understand his answer, but he is unable to do so.
Mark rubbed the caterpillar's head and said, "Your intelligence is actually good enough, but you don't understand many words, and you haven't learned knowledge systematically. Just take your time. Let's take a look at the [Insect Bite] you just learned from your bloodline gene. Can you use [Insect Bite] on this tree?"
The caterpillar nodded, and immediately rushed to the tree that Mark pointed to, leaving a very obvious tooth mark.
Compared to the initial [Impact] move, the attack power of [Insect Bite] is obviously much stronger.
You should know that the [Impact] that the Caterpillar used at the beginning could not leave any marks on the trees, it could only make the trees tremble slightly.
Mark took a quick look and found that the teeth marks at the place where the caterpillar had bitten were very deep. If the caterpillar had used more force, it might have been able to bite off a piece of wood.
The power is acceptable, but the effect of absorbing nutrients from plant fruits in the [Insect Bite] skill is not reflected.
Mark pinched his chin lightly, picked up a sweet chestnut fruit and placed it in front of the caterpillar and said, "Caterpillar, use [Insect Bite] on this fruit."
The caterpillar nodded and gently bit the sweet chestnut, leaving two inconspicuous tooth marks.
However, compared to the inconspicuous tooth marks, the fruit in Mark's hand has undergone a drastic change - the fruit has become lighter.
Mark broke the fruit open and saw that the flesh inside had been hollowed out, leaving only a few dry impurities.
The caterpillar looked at the empty fruit shell in Mark's hand with surprise.
After all, it was the first time that the special effect of [Insect Bite] was used, and it felt very novel.
Mark was thoughtful, and suddenly thought of something and said, "Green Caterpillar, can you use [Bug Bite] without touching the fruit?"
The green caterpillar was puzzled, but did as he was told, nibbling the air at another sweet chestnut berry that Mark picked up.
After biting the air for more than ten times, just when the caterpillar thought it was of no use, it suddenly felt a full feeling in its abdomen, and some nutrients flowed into its stomach.
Mark raised his brows slightly and broke the fruit open.
There were no marks on the surface of the sweet chestnut fruit, but just like the previous one that had been bitten, the inside had been hollowed out.
"It really broadens my horizons. I never thought that the [Bug Bite] in the Pokémon game, which can eat the berries carried by the opponent, can be perfectly replicated in reality..." Mark sighed secretly.
Without thinking too much, Mark changed the subject and said, "Green Caterpillar, after adding points, you have learned new skills such as instant attack, hard and soft penetrating attack, and multi-stage combo, but you haven't used them yet. Let's go to the green caterpillar group and test them in actual combat!"
As Mark spoke, the Caterpillar looked up suddenly and suddenly realized something.
Yes, it was just busy thinking about the mess of things its master said that it didn't quite understand, and because of the newly realized [Insect Bites], it felt dazed and completely forgot the power it had acquired through constant practice in that long dream.
Compared with its [Impact (Instant Attack)], [Impact (Hard and Soft Penetrating Attack)], and [Impact (Multi-stage Combo)], the [Insect Bite] that it awakened and comprehended from that gene is just a dispensable little garbage.
Although it is fun to use, and you can even eat fruits from a distance, it is completely useless in actual combat.
Forty-seven years of practice flashed through Caterpillar's mind like a revolving lantern...
If it were the current one, it should be able to charge through the layers of blockades of the green caterpillars head-on and fight the green caterpillar leader for real, right?
The green caterpillar clenched its forelimbs, revealing an expression that was eager to try.
Before Mark could speak, it could not wait to move towards the territory of the green caterpillars, and urged Mark who was left behind...