Chapter 157: Large animals
After overcoming the dizziness of the trip – at least it helped he was expecting it this time – Percy stood up, examining his surroundings. Lots of people were looking at him curiously again. Though he seemed to have been transported to a different location.
‘As I thought, it’s random each time…’
That flew in the face of their idea to sneak Gabe out through a portal. Not that they’d placed much hope in that plan to begin with.
More importantly, Percy noticed something else that gave him pause. These people were all shorter than him – other than the horned ones. Strange. Coming here in the body of a Red beast, he would have expected to barely reach their knees.
‘Don’t tell me these parrots are large animals?’
His heart skipped a beat at the implications. This was huge! Red beasts were essentially regular animals, mostly untouched by magic. They could still use Mana Sense, and possibly Circulation too, but their affinity had yet to start influencing their bodies at a deeper level.
That was why Red beasts had the greatest size disparity of all grades. One could be as small as a mouse, or as large as an elephant. It wasn’t until core advancements came into play that this began to change. The smallest creatures grew the most from each evolution, first to the size of a fox at Orange, then to about the size of a human at Yellow, and so on.
As for animals that were already bigger than that to begin with, they still grew larger and stronger with each promotion, but not by nearly as much. Supposedly, the two ends of the spectrum met up at some point between Green and Blue, when the smaller creatures managed to catch up, closing the gap.
However, Percy wasn’t thinking about the higher grades right now. The fact that his host was already about as large as a Yellow beast while only at Red was an amazing stroke of luck. Of course, it didn’t mean he was anywhere near as strong as a Yellow. Even an Orange opponent would probably be difficult to contend with. Still, Percy was willing to bet they’d have a massive advantage in the Red challenges.