Please be my partner.

"Roar!~"

A low roar was heard. The sound was not violent, but strangely enough, it could make anyone who heard it understand the firm will contained in it.

The blood cocoon shattered silently, and a graceful and agile figure slowly stepped out from it.

Mellen felt relieved and fell backwards immediately.

Before he fell into a coma, he heard the anxious barking of two dogs.

After an unknown amount of time, Mellen woke up from his coma and immediately felt a pink little tongue licking his cheek.

I lowered my head slightly and saw that it was indeed Xiao Honglian's little head leaning over.

The soft feeling beneath him told him that he had been placed on the bed in the training room.

He patted the little guy's head gently, then turned around and saw Spike squatting beside the bed with a look of reproach in his eyes.

Mellen smiled slightly, not caring at all, and looked at Spike carefully.

At first glance, I immediately noticed many differences.

The first is the body shape. Spike is now much smaller than before, and his height is only about 130CM.

Then there's the appearance. When it was a [Fighting Dog], it more or less inherited the appearance of a [Bulldog].

And now, it's like a beauty filter has been turned on. The fat on her face has shrunk a little. Although she still looks fierce, it is much better than before.

In addition, Spike's original body could be described as fat. Of course, those were not fat, but powerful muscles. Now his body lines are more symmetrical and his limbs are thicker.

Looking at the whole thing, Melen clearly had a feeling, that is...

Spike is now more fit for battle!

Without further delay, open Spike's attribute panel directly...

【Name】：Spike

[Race]: Fighting Dog (Dark Blue)

[Racial Level]: Level 1

[Occupation]: Branded Knight

[Professional Level]: Level 2

[Racial Skills]: Strong Physique, Flesh and Blood Explosion, Iron Bones, Bone Armor, Hidden Edge, Warlike, Battle Formation

[Knight Skills]: Life Force, Heavy Mountain

【Evolution direction】：→???

The attribute panel viewed by the wolf-shaped pendant is generated based on Mellen's cognition. When his cognition changes, the display of the attribute panel will naturally change.

Among the knight skills, although the appearance of [Chongshan] covers [Earth Element Control], [Earth Pulse] and [Earthquake], the latter three abilities can still be used, and they will continue to improve with the improvement of [Chongshan].

Melen focused his attention on the new racial skills...

[Hide your Edge]: Hold your breath and conceal your energy, actively putting yourself into the Hidden Edge state. Your strength will decrease to a certain extent. As energy is replenished, your strength in the Hidden Edge state will gradually recover to its original peak level. When the Hidden Edge state is released, you will gain a very long-lasting strength-boosting state.

Note: When the Hidden Edge state is activated, it can be released at any time, but the amount of increased strength and duration will vary with the accumulated energy.

There is no doubt that this is a magical skill. By accumulating energy by reducing strength in daily life and then bursting it out during battle, one can greatly increase strength and maintain it for an extremely long time.

Of course, the specific data still needs further testing.

[Battle-loving]: Crazy about fighting! After entering combat mode, all of your attributes will continue to improve as the battle continues.

The improvement speed and upper limit will be determined by the fighting will of oneself and all surrounding lives. The stronger the fighting will, the faster the improvement speed and the higher the upper limit.

When the battle is over, a portion of all attributes improved in this battle will be permanently retained. The stronger your fighting spirit during the battle, the higher the retained proportion.

Seeing this skill, Melen was silenced.

He looked at his dog and said seriously: "You are not a fighting dog, you are a Saiyan dog!"

Spike: ?

Good guy! Mellen exclaimed, "Good guy!"

This ability of increasing strength the more fiercely you fight is something that even Saiyans would give a thumbs up to.

It truly lives up to the saying, "Born for battle! Crazy about battle!"

[Battle Formation]: Use your own life, spirit, soul, and fighting spirit to completely lock onto the target, forcing them to fight against you. During the battle, you will slowly devour the target's life essence and suppress it. After the battle, the winner will plunder part of the loser's life essence.

Note: If the target tries to break away while being locked, you can ignore any restrictions and quickly devour the opponent's life essence until the opponent dies!

Another magical skill!

When Melen first heard the name of the skill [Fighting Formation], he thought it was some kind of "fair and just" ability, but when he saw that it could slowly devour the target's life essence and suppress the target's strength while locking onto the target, he felt relieved.

Suddenly, Melen seemed to think of something, and a trace of doubt flashed across his face. After he carefully read these skills again, he became even more confused.

In addition to the status-enhancing skill [Hide the Edge], [War-loving] and [Fighting Formation] are both of the type that greatly enhance combat effectiveness and quickly improve strength.

It can be said that it is completely worthy of the many prefixes he set when exploring the bloodline.

But, if I remember correctly, the last option Spike chose was "Protection"?!

These skills, from this perspective, have nothing to do with guarding?!

If I had to say, [Battle Formation] could barely be considered a skill, as it forced the enemy to attack Spike. However, this only limited one enemy. If there were multiple enemies, wouldn't it be a complete mess?!

Melen, puzzled, asked this question.

Spike's answer is... to grow quickly, increase his strength, and kill all of the boy's enemies. This is his protection!

The corners of Mellen's mouth twitched, but he roughly understood it.

It's like me saying...***Foot massage shop is good. The technician No. 7 there is not only beautiful and sweet, but also very skilled in various techniques.

Look, the same ordinary sentence can be used by innocent people and experienced people to immediately hear different meanings in it.

Of course, I'm talking about massage techniques here, so no one would think of anything else, right?!

It is the same now. The protection that Spike mentioned is completely different from the kind of taunting, support, and shield wall protection that Melen imagined.

He thought at the time that a name like [Fighting Dog] had nothing to do with protection!

However, there was once a monkey named "Qitian". With his unstoppable strength, he escorted an ordinary monk for 18,000 miles, crushing all the monsters and demons along the way, thus always keeping his position as the chief bodyguard.

If you think about it this way, Spike's choice doesn't seem bad!

Chapter 80 Miraculous Things and Forbidden Things (One Hundred Monthly Tickets Plus)

Clear all these unnecessary things out of your mind.

Mellen moved his body a little. Apart from his head feeling a little dizzy due to mental exhaustion, he did not feel any discomfort in his body.

So he immediately started testing the newly acquired racial skills with Spike.

The first is [Hide the Edge]. This is very simple. Spike is now in the [Hide the Edge] state, and its strength is only 70% of the original.

At Mellen's signal, Spike released the [Hidden Edge] state, and instantly his size and strength returned to their original heights without any delay in the process.

From Spike's explanation, Melen understood that when the [Hide Edge] state was activated, there was another hidden ability, which was that the body size could be controlled freely to a certain extent.

Moreover, the smaller the body size is, the less consumption will be. Whether it is recovering peak strength or accumulating energy, it will be faster.

According to Spike's own estimation, without using other methods to speed up, the energy accumulated naturally every day can restore about 5% of his strength, and he can recover to his peak strength in the [Hide the Edge] state in about six days.

After releasing the [Hide Edge] state, the strength can be directly increased by 30%, and the duration is at least one hour.

This duration can be restored to its peak in the [Hide Edge] state, and will continue to accumulate as energy continues to accumulate.

Of course, due to Spike's own physical condition, this duration has an upper limit.

To cancel the [Hide Edge] state, as long as you activate it again before the stored energy is exhausted, the remaining energy can still be preserved, and there is no need to drop to 70% strength and start from the beginning.

If used well, this is simply a permanent explosive state.

The most important thing is that [Hidden Edge] is still in its initial stage. With Spike's training, its strength will continue to increase.

50%!

70%!

100%!

And more!

The following [War-loving] and [Fighting Formation] require finding an opponent.

So Melen took his two dogs and rushed to the arena without stopping.

Because it was almost noon, there weren't many people here.

After a moment of selection, Melen locked on a Como monitor as the 'lucky winner' this time.

The Como monitor, with a body length of over three meters, is known for its strength and physique. Its eyes can also emit petrifying rays. Among the first-level extraordinary life forms, it is considered extremely difficult to deal with.

After the Como monitor entered the arena, it appeared extremely manic and rushed directly towards Spike who was gazing at it calmly.

When it came within ten meters of Spike, the dog raised its head slightly, and [Heavy Mountains] was immediately activated.

The sudden gravity caused the Komo monitor to stagger.

However, this gravity is just a drizzle for the Komo monitor, which is known for its strength and physique. Although it affects its movements, that's all.

The Como monitor was not to be outdone, and it condensed gray rays from its eyes and shot them towards Spike.

Because the speed was too fast, Spike had no way to dodge. Of course, there was no need to dodge. The petrification ray fell on it, but before it could take effect, it was suppressed and expelled by the force of life.

Next, the two ferocious beasts started a close combat with fists and flesh.

After fighting for a while and collecting enough data, Spike directly activated the [Fighting Formation]. At this moment, Mellen, who was standing outside the field, could feel that there was a clear increase and decrease in the strength of both sides.

Spike's aura increased dramatically, while the Como dragon's aura was not only suppressed, but its strength also showed a significant decline. Its originally ferocious arrogance was suppressed, and it seemed to be more panicked.

In this case, it didn't take long for Spike to easily hunt the Komo monitor.

After returning to the training room, Melen began to summarize this battle.

Overall, the effect was not as good as he had imagined.

Of course, this isn't because [War Lover] and [Fighting Formation] have any problems, but... the opponent is too weak!

For example, [Fighting Formation] will use Spike's life, spirit, soul, and fighting spirit to completely lock the target and force it to fight against itself.

Life, spirit and soul are not a big deal, the key problem lies in the will to fight.

Spike could easily hunt down a mid-level opponent like the Komo monitor, so without being able to deceive himself, he couldn't muster much fighting spirit.

This means that [Fighting Formation] is far from achieving its true effect.

The same goes for [War-loving].

The racial skills possessed by the [Fighting Dog] are not meant to deal with the weak, but to become stronger when facing stronger opponents. Only when facing opponents of the same level or even higher levels can the real effect be exerted!

Mellen fell into deep thought. This problem might not be difficult to solve. He just needed to find some suitable opponents for Spike.

Of course, this is difficult to do in the academy, because there are only first-level extraordinary lives in the arena at most.

However, Mellen quickly thought of three options...

Uncle Garno and Lennon Gourlay.

Gano owns Gano Farm and the Gourmet Association, so it should not be difficult for him to get high-level extraordinary life forms.

Although the extraordinary lives at Gano Farm are basically used for auction and cannot be killed at will, it should be no problem to just arrange a fight.

As a big businessman in Florence, Lennon Gu Lei owns the resources of the Southern Wilderness, so it should not be difficult for him to hunt high-level extraordinary life forms.

However, Mellen had no relationship with the other party, and if he asked the other party to do something for him, he would have to pay an equal amount of compensation. This expense was probably not something he could afford.

The third way is the simplest, which is for him to go deep into the wilderness to challenge and hunt those extraordinary lives.

However, the last point is not within his consideration for the time being. After all, he is not without resources. At present, it is far from the point where he needs to fight for his life in exchange for strength.

Even if we really have to choose the third path, we should at least wait until he reaches the second level and contracts with Little Red Lotus.

After Spike's sudden increase in strength, the geometric structure in Mellen's spiritual world has become unprecedentedly active. If he continues to improve at this rate, perhaps he can reach the second level before the end of this semester.

When the time comes, I'll go back to Vero City for a few days to rest up. Then, maybe I can actually go out and have some fun during the remaining time?!

He shook his head and suppressed the urge to try it out for the time being.