MMORPG: Birth of the World's Luckiest Player

Chapter 536: The Demon Cat’s Evolution

Without warning, the Twin Winged Water Demon Cat, which had remained perfectly still until now, let out a sharp cry.

Its wings immediately spread wide, and the mark on its forehead flared to life. Like a projector casting light through the sea, it released a brilliant dark-blue radiance that expanded in every direction. The glowing symbol rapidly grew larger, becoming a five-meter-wide magical sigil that pulsed with shimmering light while enveloping the cat’s housecat-sized body. The charge was complete, and its evolution had begun.

For a heartbeat, everything around it seemed to fall strangely quiet, as though even the restless sea had suddenly paused in anticipation. Every pair of eyes remained fixed on the small figure at the center of the growing light, unwilling to look away for even an instant.

The seawater surrounding the cat began to rotate, forming an enormous vortex. The ocean churned violently as immense water element energy was drawn from the surrounding sea by an invisible force, streaming endlessly into the swirling current before being absorbed by the cat at its center.

It was absorbing water-element energy directly from the ocean itself, something even many deep-sea Mythic Beasts couldn’t accomplish. Yet this little demon cat was doing it effortlessly, as though drawing strength from the ocean itself was the most natural thing in the world. If it was already capable of this much after a single evolution, Marcus could only imagine what it might become in the future.

And it wasn’t limited to the sea, either; originally, it had been a Soul-Mist Water Demon Cat that preferred darkness. After devouring the soul of the Twin-Winged Ice Owl, a Mythic Beast, it had grown a pair of wings and gained the ability to fly. And, after staying for a thousand years within one of the Five Sacred Springs, the legendary Spring of Purity, it had accumulated an enormous reserve of water-element energy, making life both underwater and on land feel completely natural.

Land, sky, and sea; for this absurdly fortunate little demon cat, mastering all three almost felt inevitable.

The evolution entered its final stage, and the vortex spun faster and faster until it became a roaring whirlpool. Wrapped in a blazing dark-blue aura that flickered like ghostly flames, the cat continued absorbing water-element energy from the ocean until, at last, the accumulation reached its limit.

"Meow!"

With another triumphant cry, the cat spread its wings and stopped absorbing energy.

The enormous water sigil dissolved into countless streams of blue light before collapsing back into its body. At the same moment, the gigantic vortex imploded, sending a violent shockwave racing through the surrounding water and nearly throwing everyone off balance.

As the turbulent currents raged around them, a burst of pitch-black light suddenly erupted from within the dark-blue glow. Countless shadowy spirits spiraled around the cat, dancing through the water like wandering phantoms.

Then its body began to grow, from the size of a housecat to the size of a full-grown tiger.

Its increase in size wasn’t entirely unexpected. Marcus had already noticed from the pet egg’s projection that this species would mature into a much larger beast. Even so, its proportions remained sleek and graceful rather than bulky.