Chapter 284 It Had Come


    Truthfully speaking, the research on Rubygon only achieved two thirds of the target objectives.


    Because even though Rubygon obeyed his orders, it failed to connect with him on a spirit level like


    Uriah. This made it hard for Rocky to get into Rubygon''s thoughts and this made it impossible to


    establish a mutualmunication link between them. Rubygon even acted contrary to what Rocky


    asked it to do sometimes.


    But Rocky was determined toplete the research. He was resolved to find a way to control spirit-


    manipted beasts without owners. If he seeded in that endeavor, he would be able tomand


    an army of spirit-manipted beasts.


    Another research that Rocky worked on was additional information about the eggs of the Dark Heaven


    Insect Queen. There was no record in the Beast Encyclopedia regarding the time it took betweenying


    eggs as well as the time needed before the eggs hatched. The good news was that Rocky was able to


    proceed with this research as nned.


    During the three months of experimentation and research, Rocky found out that the Dark Heaven


    Insect Queenid regr eggs and the Dark Heaven Eggs from the same ovary. An ordinary three-star


    Dark Heaven Insect of the third grade needed four to six months to breed a Dark Heaven Egg. When


    the queen bred the Dark Heaven Eggs at the premium stage, it alsoid eggs. However, the two were


    different. Eggs were living entities while Dark Heaven Eggs were formed from the essence of the


    spiritual power of the Dark Heaven Insect Queen. Thus, their systems werepletely different. This


    observation provided Rocky with valuable information regarding his research.


    Unfortunately, this information was not enough. Neither the Radiance Evaluation Skill nor the Stroking


    Evaluation Skill couldpletely scan the interior of the Dark Heaven Insect Queen''s ovary.


    Fortunately, Rocky acquired a new technique in the Magical Evaluation Skill which could be of great


    help in the evaluations that he needed to do. Compared to the Radiance Evaluation Skill and the


    Stroking Evaluation Skill, this new technique was closer to being magical than a technique. It allowed


    Rocky toplete an evaluation of a spirit-manipted beast if he simply looked at it. Thus it was


    called the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill.


    If the Stroking Evaluation Skill used the magical hand, the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill used the


    magical eye.


    The operating principles of the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill were based on the spiritual sources


    of spirit-manipted beasts. To cure Uriah before, Rocky grasped the Spirit Possession. At that time,


    he was already aware of the significance of the spiritual sources of spirit-manipted beasts.


    Spiritual sources were equivalent to the second life of a spirit-manipted beast. They were intricately


    connected to the spirit-manipted beast like countless, thin silken threads that went deep into every


    fiber of its muscles, meridians and bones. The Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill made use of the


    spiritual sources to take a peek into the body of the spirit-manipted beast.


    When Rocky used the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill, he could see the cirction of the spiritual


    power throughout the body of the spirit-manipted beast. Like the Radiance Evaluation Skill, the


    spiritual sources represented the different bodily systems through colors and shapes. A close study of


    a beast using this technique provided Rocky a thorough understanding of the body of the beast he


    studied. This technique provided a more detailed picture of the internal structure of the spirit-


    manipted beast''s body than any of the other two techniques. And this evaluation included the eggs


    and the Dark Heaven Eggs in the ovary of the Dark Heaven Insect Queen.


    However, this skill could only be learned by one who had reached the third level of beast evaluation. In


    order to learn this skill, Rocky spent two months to enhance his beast evaluation level. After two


    months of intense work, Rocky seeded in improving his level to the required status. When he


    learned the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill, he tried it immediately to conduct an analysis of the


    Dark Heaven Insect Queen''s ovary.


    Rocky found out that eggs were formed within its body and it would give birth to them in a few months.


    This was great news for Rocky. Rocky''s problem was how to increase the egg hatching rate.


    Before he conducted his research on the Dark Heaven Insect Queen, he assumed that gic defects


    led to the low egg hatching rate. However, after a series of studies, he concluded that the reason was


    not as simple as he originally thought.


    Rocky found out that the Dark Heaven Insect Queen was a hermaphrodite. This allowed the queen to


    aplish asexual reproduction.


    This was one of the reasons why the egg hatching rate of the queen was very low. The eggs were


    unable to get enough nutrition from the ovary, which resulted in defects in some of the eggs that were


    mostly fatal.


    Both the Dark Heaven Insect Queen and its eggs had severe defects. When these defectsbined, it


    reduced the egg hatching rate.


    Thus, with the objective of increasing the egg hatching rate, Rocky decided that the only course of


    action was to repair the gic defects of the Dark Heaven Insect Queen as well as its eggs. And both


    of these tasks were no ordinary challenges. But Rocky loved challenges.


    Regarding Rocky''s other research tasks, they were all basic studies about spirit-manipted beasts


    that paved the way forter gic research. What Rocky intended to achieve was to establish a gene


    library of spirit-manipted beasts, a library that held the gic information of all spirit-manipted


    beasts in the world. He wanted to eventually be able to improve their genes to make them more


    powerful. He was aware that this was an enormous undertaking that was impossible toplete in a


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    Moreover, the events in the past three months ced Rocky in a situation where he had to conduct


    numerous surgeries on different spirit-manipted beasts. This provided him with much of the needed


    experience and skills. Before Sheridan left, he trained Rocky in all that he knew about the Beast Curing


    Skill and the knowledge that he had umted about the medical sciences. Taking what he had


    learned from Sheridan and the advanced modern surgical techniques, Rockybined both to gain


    new insights and techniques.


    This did not mean that Rocky was able to doplex surgeries. Complex surgeries required advanced


    medical equipment that was not avable in the current facility and situation. Moreover, Rocky was


    already fully upied with daily tasks, and he no longer had the time to build a moreplex


    operating room.


    When Rocky dragged himself into his room after a tiring day''s work, he was surprised to see Uriah,


    Rubygon and a third beast that enjoyed rxing as it rested on its stomach. This third beast, familiar to


    Rocky, sparkled with colorful lights that came from its body that made it look like its body was made of


    millions of tiny prisms that reflected light into an array of colors.


    The third beast was the Rainbow Glow Unicorn, a beast that got Rocky into several troublestely.