After leaving Gao Peng's tent, Da Zi saw Flamy standing on a tree branch on one leg . The crane was pulling insects out of a hole in the tree with its beak .
Something worth mentioning here was the fact that despite having undergone mutations, some monsters saw no drastic changes in size .
Insects in particular hadn't changed much in terms of size .
Flamy was straining its eyes at the tree hole as it searched for food . Suddenly, the centipede below it let out a bitter laugh . "Still eating, eh, fatty?"
Flamy stared at Da Zi in surprise .
Feeling somewhat attacked, Flamy looked down, only to see the back of a centipede crawling away .
When night came, a silverback millipede emerged from the trees in the distance . It was carrying bundles of roots and saplings on its back . It saw that its den was currently being occupied by someone else .
Panicking, it shook its load off of its back and scuttled hurriedly towards its den . Such a damp and dark place hadn't been easy to find . It had no intention of moving out .
Most monsters would become extremely territorial when they found out that their territories had been invaded by an intruder .
At that moment, the Adamantine Duck, who had been staring blankly at nothing near a tree hollow, suddenly felt a sharp pain in its rear .
Its passive effect was immediately triggered . With a flash of purple light, its body expanded .
Turning around, it saw a ten-foot-long silverback millipede viciously biting its rear . The millipede had pulled some of the duck's feathers off its tail . A few yellow feathers were now sticking out of the millipede's mouth .
"Quack?" questioned the Adamantine Duck strangely . Why did it bite me?
The millipede ignored it and sank its fangs deeper into the duck's buttocks . There was another flash of purple light, and the Adamantine Duck's body expanded even more .
Looking at the millipede in confusion, the duck kicked it away .
Though its body had expanded twice, the Adamantine Duck was still smaller than the millipede . Its normal size was around five feet tall . Now, it had grown to be seven feet tall .
The millipede opened its mouth wide and released a red vapor . The Adamantine Duck cried out in pain when the red vapor came into contact with its eyes . Tears were now rolling out of its eyes .
The millipede grinned triumphantly . The duck had no idea how many of the millipede's enemies had fallen victim to this attack .
Anyone affected by its acrid vapor attack would be blinded . Every enemy the millipede had encountered had been susceptible to this attack .
The Adamantine Duck's Gui power allowed it to inflate its own body while it was being attacked . Its own strength, defense, speed, and other stats would increase drastically as well .
Its passive effect would only activate once if the millipede's red vapor was a one-time attack .
However, the vapor was inflicting continuous pain on the Adamantine Duck . Every two seconds, it would feel an intense pain in its eyes, where the red vapor still remained .
Then, something terrifying happened .
The Adamantine Duck in front of the millipede began expanding its body with each breath .
The millipede raised its head and saw that it couldn't even see past its chest .
When it blinked, the only thing it could see was the duck's legs .
The flashes of purple light didn't stop . The duck had grown 20 feet tall, and its growth was showing no sign of stopping .
"Quack!" The duck's quack resounded loudly in the forest .
A 23-foot-tall yellow duck now stood in the middle of the forest . As it grew, the red vapor that had initially affected its eyes began losing effect .
The Adamantine Duck finally stopped growing .
Startled by the commotion outside, Gao Peng came out of his tent and saw a 23-foot-tall duck towering over a trembling millipede .
Gao Peng finally understood why this simple-minded duck had been able to live for so long on its own .
At first, he had assumed that the duck's Gui power would only allow it to expand its body size to a certain extent, and that this effect couldn't be layered .
He now realized how terribly wrong he had been .
Gui power was the first passive ability Gao Peng had ever seen with only one effect . He had thought that it was a useless ability, when in truth, it was an ability that surpassed all others .
Truly, fortune favored the dull-witted .
No matter how dim-witted and good-natured the Adamantine might have seemed, it still had a temper .
After being tormented by the red vapor for so long, the Adamantine Duck was now extremely angry . It raised a leg and viciously stamped its foot on the ground .
The millipede tried to run, but a shadow fell over it, and the duck's foot soon fell upon it .
Squish!
It was crushed into the ground .
The duck lifted its foot up to reveal a deep impression on the ground . In it, the millipede's body writhed about, struggling to escape . However, the duck's foot fell on it once more!
Finally, the Adamantine duck swallowed the millipede alive .
Half an hour later, the duck's body began to shrink until it returned to its normal size .
Da Zi swallowed and turned away when it saw the duck walking towards it .
Gao Peng was impressed by this, thinking that maybe he could sign a blood contract with the duck . He called it over .
The Adamantine Duck waddled towards Gao Peng, its head bobbing up and down .
Gao Peng brought it into his tent and took out his blood processing equipment . Placing his right hand on the duck's head, Gao Peng felt a blurry consciousness seeping into his body .
Gao Peng was now communicating with the Adamantine Duck in its mindscape .
The duck's consciousness was feeble, like a child's . It would look Gao Peng up and down curiously for a moment before running off to look at something else in the corner .
A living being's mindscape was where its emotions reigned supreme, where its thoughts were most active .
All of its emotions were revealed there .
The Adamantine Duck's emotional spectrum could be described as a colorful candy wrapper . Happy feelings were in full bloom in its mindscape .
Here, a tree could suddenly sprout a pair of wings and fly off, while the grass beneath the duck's feet could begin chatting happily with it at any moment .
Suddenly, Gao Peng noticed the Adamantine Duck's world was gradually growing darker, until finally all the colors around him turned a dull gray .
He then heard two Adamantine Ducks softly whispering to each other somewhere else .
For some reason, Gao Peng could understand what they were talking about .
Chapter end
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