86 Symbiotic Skill
Su Wan was still in shock because of the change in Xu Yuan’s form. As for Xu Yuan, he discovered that he had obtained another special ability.
[Demon Dragon Symbiosis: Select a creature and bind them as a symbiotic host. When the symbiont gains experience, the attributes can be increased drastically for both. The symbiont’s attribute will increase tenfold. They will also undergo a change in appearance and obtain some of the Demon Dragon’s ability. As a form of repayment, any experience and attributes gained by the symbiont will be returned to the Demon Dragon X100. The Demon Dragon can bestow abilities on the symbiont.]
Xu Yuan didn’t care about anything else except the fact that any attributes or experience points gained by the symbiont could be returned to the Demon Dragon a hundredfold!
Xu Yuan was happy. His worries always got solved when he leveled up. Now that he was at the level of a High-Level Lord, every level up would require an immense amount of experience points. Relying on the Night Shift ability and killing monsters would only help so much.
However, this new ability could help him. A X100 increase in attributes! Even with an upgraded Night Shift of Level 3, he only gained X10 experience points.
Xu Yuan compared the two abilities and found that the Demon Dragon Symbiosis ability far exceeded the Night Shift in terms of benefits. However, both skills had their own advantages.
The advantage of the Night Shift ability was that Xu Yuan didn’t need anyone to gain experience. He could keep gaining experience points as long as he slept.
The Demon Dragon Symbiosis ability needed someone to be his tool. Xu Yuan then had to urge that creature to gain experience.
Xu Yuan considered it once more. Night Shift would allow him to gain experience while doing nothing. However, Demon Dragon Symbiosis would require him to supervise, arrange for someone to be his tool, and help that someone to gain experience points. That was a lot of work but X100 experience points were still a whopping amount.
Xu Yuan chose the Demon Dragon Symbiosis ability. Although the ability was a little too bothersome, he could not only gain X100 experience points but also a hundred times increase in other attributes!
Xu Yuan looked at Su Wan. He felt that she was capable enough to be his symbiont. Su Wan didn’t know what was going on in his mind. She noticed that he kept staring at her. So, she felt shy.
She didn’t dare look at him directly. Her heart pounded. She couldn’t stay calm.
Little did she know that Xu Yuan was secretly planning something which involved her.
[Do you wish to bind a creature as your symbiont?]
[Please note that, with the current skill level, only one symbiont can be bound. Please choose carefully.]
‘Bind Su Wan,’ thought Xu Yuan, making his decision. He didn’t hesitate. Su Wan was the only person he knew and understood the most in this Overlord Plane. Besides, as a Lord and hero pair, they both had common interests.
[Symbiont has been bound.]
Su Wan discovered a mysterious energy pouring into her body. “What is this power?” she mumbled.
Her hands clenched into fists as she felt a surge of strength. She had always been a composed person. If not for that, she would have punched a wall on the spot to test her new strength.
To Su Wan’s astonishment, her whole body burned with dark flames. She was encased in the flames. As the flames surged, she felt her attributes increasing exponentially.
She felt a little uncomfortable. Her back felt strange. There was a sound of something tearing, and a pair of Dark Dragon Wings emerged from her back.
“I have wings?!” She flew around happily. “I can fly now!” She chuckled. “Scammer Xu, I can transform like the troops!”
Su Wan flew in front of Xu Yuan and hovered, with her hand on her hips. Su Wan had been envious of her troops. The Skeleton Soldiers could transform into dark Skeleton Knights, and Golden Behemoths could turn into Black Gold Behemoths.
All her troops had transformational skills. However, as a Lord, she did not have such a unique skill. It was such a pity.
Su Wan constantly thought about that. However, today, she was able to transform!
“Let’s see who dares to look down on me now!” she said happily. “If they do, I will transform and beat them up.”
Su Wan circled the air for a while, and then landed on the ground with a regretful face. Her attributes increased drastically, but the effect lasted only for ten minutes.
“What a pity,” she said. “The transformation lasts only for ten minutes.”
“Scammer Xu, do you think I was rewarded with this ability because I upgraded the Territory Core to Level 3?”
Su Wan had only felt the wings on her back, but she had failed to see that it was a pair of pitch-black dragon wings. So, she hadn’t connected the ability to Xu Yuan yet. She simply thought this was a reward for upgrading the Territory Core.
However, Su Wan was also slightly doubtful because she had not heard about any such rewards before.
It was her first time receiving wings of her own, so she was too excited to figure out the cause. If she had seen the wings for herself, she might have been able to connect that to Xu Yuan.
Ten minutes later, when her transformation was over, she realized that she had never seen her wings properly. It was too late to think about it now.
Xu Yuan smiled and nodded. “Maybe it is a reward in acknowledgment of your hard work?”
When Xu Yuan turned into a human, he looked cold and aloof. However, he now smiled at her. Su Wan felt happy. Who knew Xu Yuan could turn into such an amiable man?
Su Wan’s heart raced as her imagination ran wild. She didn’t know that his smile had nothing to do with her progress. He was smiling because he now knew that his ability worked well. He had found a tool he could use!
Xu Yuan realized that only sending troops to fight monsters was not enough. He had to find a way to make Su Wan stronger, so she could fight monsters as well.
After all, the Demon Dragon Symbiosis was a limited skill. It required Su Wan, as a symbiont, to defeat monsters personally for Xu Yuan to gain a hundred times more experience points.
He understood that he couldn’t use his previous strategy, where he used to send the underlings to fight the monsters. In the future, if they encountered an enemy, he needed to let Su Wan fight.
He wondered how he could trick Su Wan into fighting. Both of them were deep in thought.
One was thinking about the new ability with relish, while the other thought of ways to trick his Lord once again.
After a while, more information regarding the Inter-Campus Tournament was released.