"Ah!!"
As soon as the evolution began, the vast magic essence contained within Bai Luo's body became restless.
The next moment, an unimaginable excruciating pain instantly spread throughout Bai Luo's body, causing him to involuntarily let out a cry of agony.
"Bai Luo!!"
Egui Peng was startled.
The young girl wanted to go forward and check, but a voice in her heart told her not to disturb Bai Luo.
These were all normal phenomena, a unique transformation belonging solely to Bai Luo.
Bai Luo was not a pure human or demon; he was a hybrid of the two.
The intense reaction was a symbol of the awakening of his monster bloodline!
"Bloodline Appraisal beginning..."
Before this, Bai Luo had always been unclear about his demon bloodline.
It wasn't until this moment, with the echoing of the world's voice, that his demon bloodline was truly activated.
"Appraisal complete, Pseudo-Dragon Kind bloodline activated."
"Obtained exclusive skill: Stardust Manipulation."
"Evolution successful, individual 'Bai Luo' has obtained the race 'Dragonkin (Pseudo)'."
"Skill 'Appraisal' has been sublimated, advancing to extra skill 'Dragon Eye'."
"..."
As the physical pain receded, a series of prompts from the world's voice echoed in Bai Luo's mind, causing him, who had just managed to recover, to once again suffer the torment of information overload.
Only this time, Bai Luo not only didn't feel uncomfortable but was incredibly excited.
'Stardust Manipulation!'
'It's Stardust Manipulation!!'
And Dragonkin, Bai Luo never expected that the part of the demon bloodline hidden within his body would actually be Dragon Kind.
And it was from the Star Dragon King, the pinnacle of the Cardinal World!
One must know that 'Dragonkin' in Reincarnated as a Slime was not a race, but referred to a specific individual, namely Milim, one of the three oldest Demon Lords.
Milim was the daughter of the Star Dragon King and the human Lucia, inheriting her father's infinite magic essence and Dragon Kind bloodline, thus becoming the unique 'Dragonkin'.
However, now, Bai Luo had also been granted the 'Dragonkin' race by the world's voice.
Pseudo-Dragonkin, that's still Dragonkin!
'But...'
After the surprise, Bai Luo couldn't help but start thinking, 'Where did the Dragon Kind bloodline in the original body come from?'
First, Milim could be ruled out.
Milim was just a little loli; it was impossible for her to combine with any human and have offspring.
And after excluding the possibility of natural reproduction, the only explanation Bai Luo could think of was 'magic essence infection'.
In the original work, after the Storm Dragon Veldora's magic essence dissipated, the Storm Great Ogre was born.
From this, it can be seen that powerful magic essence itself can give birth to independent life forms, so it is understandable that it could infect an existing being and grant them partial power.
"In other words, my body's ancestors were once eroded by the magic essence of the Star Dragon King, or Milim."
"Then, they were lucky enough to survive and pass on this magic essence factor through their bloodline."
However, considering the uniqueness of Milim's Dragonkin.
Bai Luo felt that none of his ancestors had probably truly awakened this power.
This perfectly aligned with the original body's memory that his ancestors were all ordinary people.
"Because the Star Dragon King's bloodline rank was too high, those ancestors of the original body who were infected by his magic power were simply unable to awaken this power."
Bai Luo: "Then why did I awaken the power of the Star Dragon King?"
Recalling his unique characteristics, Bai Luo thought of a possibility: the broken-level talent, 'Traveler'.
The power to traverse to other worlds was the key to activating the Dragon Kind bloodline.
The faint Dragon Kind bloodline, combined with the Traveler's world-hopping ability, and the magic essence of the Cardinal World.
The combination of these three factors made such a miracle possible.
Hmm, although 'Dragonkin' still had a 'Pseudo' annotation after it.
According to Bai Luo's estimation, he might need to become a Demon Lord Seed or even fully awaken as a True Demon Lord to remove that 'Pseudo' prefix.
"But, it doesn't matter, it's going to happen sooner or later anyway."
"Obtaining the Dragonkin bloodline is equivalent to opening an evolution path with an extremely high upper limit."
"Most importantly, I also gained the ability of 'Star Particle Manipulation' in advance."
Even after reading the original novel, Bai Luo's understanding of star particles remained very one-sided.
First, the concept of star particles.
To put it simply, star particles are highly concentrated magic essence that has undergone extreme compression.
Just as matter is composed of atoms and molecules, magic essence also has its basic unit, which is 'spiritons'.
Previously, Bai Luo had some doubts about magic essence values.
For example, 9999 magic essence and 10000 magic essence; even though there was only a 1-point difference, why was the former B-rank while the latter was A-rank?
It's important to know that an A-rank Pokémon with 10000 magic essence could easily defeat a B-rank Pokémon with 9999 magic essence.
So, was this 1-point difference really that significant?
Shouldn't it be that upon breaking through from B-rank to A-rank, magic essence would instantly surge by several or even dozens of times?
However, now Bai Luo understood a bit more.
This seemingly small 1-point difference was, in fact, a complete qualitative change.
If magic essence below 10000 used spiritons as its basic unit, then 9999 magic essence could actually be broken down into 99.99 million spiritons.
In contrast, when a Pokémon breaks through to A-rank, their magic essence becomes a unified whole.
The basic unit for A-rank is no longer spiritons, but simply magic essence.
10,000 magic essence is 10,000 magic essence.
They are inseparable; unless the A-rank Pokémon itself wills it, outsiders cannot disassemble or separate it from the perspective of spiritons.
This miraculous change significantly increased the weight of A-rank Pokémon in the Cardinal World.
It's no exaggeration to say that in a clash between an A-rank and anything below A-rank, the latter would be instantly pulverized.
Of course, the control an A-rank possesses is also beyond what a B-rank can imagine.
They can transform 1 unit of magic essence into millions of spiritons, then perform incredibly precise manipulations, thereby achieving effects far exceeding those during their B-rank period.
This is what was mentioned above: the active separation of A-rank Pokémon.
In this way, others can't harm you, while you can better control yourself.
With this give and take, the A-rank watershed was formed.
"Perhaps, this is the difference between skills, inherent skills, and Unique Skills."
"Only Special A-Rank Pokémon possess Unique Skills..."
Bai Luo: "Conversely, a Reincarnator who possesses a Unique Skill in advance, as long as they develop well, will eventually reach Special A-Rank."
And Unique Skills are very likely the product of refined magic essence.
They are only given the name Unique Skill after being recognized by the world's voice.
"In other words, the transition from A-rank to Special A-Rank is actually a process of finding one's own path."
"Once you find your path, you can be promoted to Special A-Rank and gain the title of Demon Lord Seed."
Bai Luo had pretty much figured out the entire evolution process from Pokémon to Demon Lord Seed: "I currently have four Unique Skills: Traveler, Leader, Capturer, and Learner."
Among them, Capturer and Leader, neither of these two, taken individually, can be considered powerful skills.
At least, they are incomparable to Rimuru's almost omnipotent Predator.
These two Unique Skills, individually.
Capturer can form contracts with individuals possessing potential, then wait for them to grow stronger, and then allow the world's voice to make a reverse judgment, enabling the Capturer to reach a higher realm.
The outcome of this process seems beautiful, but in reality, it is extremely difficult.
Because the Capturer itself has little to no combat power.
It's very easy to be eliminated while still weak.
Unless the Capturer possesses a high-ranking identity like a noble or a lord, which can make people willingly serve them.
Otherwise, this ability truly has no future.
Compared to that, Leader is even easier.
Theoretically, anyone willing to follow the Leader can provide a portion of magic essence to the Leader.
However, the magic essence provided by such followers would definitely not reach the terrifying 50% level of Egui Peng.
Each person can provide a maximum of 3% of magic essence.
How many subordinates would Bai Luo need to accumulate to gather enough magic essence for him to break through to Demon Lord Seed?
"Without at least ten or twenty years, it would be impossible to develop such a vast force, right?"
Fortunately, Bai Luo's Leader and Capturer can complement each other's abilities.
Combined, Bai Luo felt their effect was in no way inferior to Rimuru's Predator.
The Traveler ability, due to its broken-level nature, has an incalculable upper limit, so it will not be discussed for now.
Finally, Bai Luo felt that Learner was not much inferior to Rimuru's Predator.
Continuously copying abilities and strengthening oneself.
Such an ability, in any light novel set in another world, would be a definite cheat skill.