After obtaining the Pure Gold, Karl's four great dreams were basically all realized.
He only needed to wait until next year, then overthrow those standing in his way at the world's highest peak, to become the true, singular highest peak in the world.
Karl felt that it would be time to make way for the younger generation.
The last day of December, Sea Circle Calendar 1521.
Karl used the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's electrometallurgy to craft the Pure Gold on hand into dozens of sets of jewelry. He then gave a batch of this jewelry to Carina and the other girls, excluding Tama.
This included Shirahoshi, who was fifteen this year and would turn sixteen in a few months.
Shirahoshi's current appearance was no different from the original story.
Compared to the mature and beautiful Hancock, Shirahoshi's physical age, appearance, and temperament made her absolutely the number one pure girl in this world.
Karl was determined to use Pure Gold to freeze this purity in time.
That day, after Karl gave the Pure Gold jewelry to Carina, he was ruthlessly "ravaged" once before he, exhausted, managed to break out of the encirclement.
He found the Little Dragon, who had been protecting the Country of Gold while he was away.
Holding the Little Dragon who flew into his arms, Karl smiled and took out the remaining bit of Pure Gold left after making the jewelry. He handed it to the Little Dragon and said, "Xiao Bai, here is your share."
"Although your soul is bound to mine, and you won't die unless I die, you are still my family. If they have some, you must have some too."
"Just like me, you have two forms. This is electrometallurgy Pure Gold; I didn't help you make it into jewelry."
"Just turn it into whatever you like!"
"Wu... Awooo..."
The Little Dragon took the Pure Gold Karl handed over, then licked Karl's face with joy.
Shwa—
At this moment, a blinding white light suddenly radiated from the Little Dragon's body.
At the same time, inside Karl's body... or rather, deep in his soul, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon card that was bound to Karl, just like the Spear of Longinus, also emitted a dazzling light.
The next second, the card flew out of Karl's body, just like when he had first drawn it from the egg smashing.
It flew out and absorbed the Little Dragon, who was emitting white light, back into the blank card.
After the Little Dragon returned to the card after a long absence, the white light covering the card gradually dissipated.
Immediately, a dazzling star slowly appeared on the card, lining up behind the seven existing stars.
8-Star Level — Blue-Eyes White Dragon!
Shwa—
With the appearance of the eighth star, the card once again emitted a blinding white light.
A few seconds later, the card, which looked like a ball of light, suddenly split into five parts.
Each part was a card.
Radiating dazzling light, they floated in front of Karl.
Looking at the five cards covered in white light, Karl could faintly see patterns flickering constantly on the card faces.
The pattern was different every second. The creatures in the patterns looked very similar to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, yet they were not the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
The Little Dragon's pattern was not among the five cards.
Before Karl could look confused, a stream of unfamiliar information instantly flooded his mind.
After absorbing this information, Karl came to a slight realization.
So that's how it is...
Just as Karl had a premonition.
As the Little Dragon's star level rose to 8-Star.
Just like Karl's monster constitution, it welcomed an evolution called "Leveling Up."
The five cards in front of him, with those looming, extremely blurry patterns hidden in the white light, were the new forms into which the Little Dragon could evolve.
These white lights and constantly flickering patterns were just like Karl's egg smashing system, allowing Karl to randomly select one card.
The pattern that stopped flashing on that card would be the Little Dragon's second form, aside from the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
This evolution method was somewhat similar to the slot machine draws in his previous life.
"A new form? How truly clear and expectant!"
Looking at the constantly changing patterns on the five cards.
Karl, who had mostly forgotten Yu-Gi-Oh, could faintly recognize the names of these patterns through the constantly flickering text beneath them.
Dragon Spirit of White, Blue-Eyes Jet Dragon, Deep-Eyes White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Solid Dragon, Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon, Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon, Blue-Eyes Tyrant Dragon, and so on...
These forms were basically all from the 8-Star Blue-Eyes deck.
In addition, there were some patterns below 8-Star; those were special cards within the Blue-Eyes deck.
"These forms... if I'm not mistaken, many of them have the Dark attribute, opposite to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's Light attribute, right?!"
Karl rubbed his hands together, muttering to himself with a look of anticipation: "If I draw a new form with a Dark attribute, wouldn't that mean Xiao Bai will be a Dragon-type with three attributes: Light, Thunder, and Dark from now on?!"
According to the information transmitted by the cards, after the Little Dragon evolved, it would remain in its whelp form.
But aside from the whelp form, the Little Dragon could transform into the giant dragon form, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, as well as the appearance of the new form.
Meaning, the Little Dragon could freely evolve and devolve.
This random evolution had only benefits and no downsides.
Thinking of this, Karl immediately reached out and tapped a card at random.
When Karl's finger passed through the white light and landed on the card.
The other four cards instantly turned into even more dazzling light and returned into the white light Karl had selected.
The five cards turned back into one.
The pattern on the card flickered at a dazzling speed.
Seconds later, a pattern froze on the card and stopped changing.
A line of text slowly appeared beneath the pattern.
Its name was—
"...Maiden with Eyes of Blue?"
Karl read the name of this card with a slightly surprised tone.
Karl hadn't expected that among so many 8-Star decks, he would happen to draw a low-star special card.
Maiden with Eyes of Blue, also known as the Blue-Eyed Maiden, was a card with only 1 Star.
However, for this card to appear in the random evolution alongside 8-Star new forms like Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon, it was obviously not an ordinary card.
Because this was a Special Card!
What is a Special Card?
It is one that doesn't have powerful combat strength, but possesses special abilities that far exceed its star rating, completely unreasonable abilities just like the rule-based powers in Paramecia Devil Fruits.
Maiden with Eyes of Blue was exactly such a special card.
Her special ability was impressively—Magician.
Furthermore, it was a human form.
That meant...
The Little Dragon could turn into a human!
Catching the Maiden with Eyes of Blue card and absorbing the new information from it, a look of intense surprise and joy instantly appeared on Karl's face.
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