9 Bottleneck (2/2)
Evolution condition: Slay 200 (0 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 61 (5 left) days
Special evolution: Consume 1 (1 left) Poison type monster Sphere, Consume 10 (0 left) Poison type monster core
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Jet-Black jumping Spider (Xiao Yue)
Type: Ice / Dark
Level: 8th stage Bronze
Status: Healthy
Abilities: Ice Trail, Advance Ice Attack, Advance Dark Attack, Dark Stealth
Evolution condition: Slay 300 (132 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 61 (57 left) days
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Photophobic Orc (Jinao)
Type: Earth / Dark
Level: 7th stage Bronze
Status: Healthy
Abilities: Dark Trail, Advanced Earth Attack, Dark Attack
Evolution condition: Slay 500 (0 left) Bronze or higher level monsters, Survive for 183 (17 left) days
Special evolution: Slay 5 (1 left) Silver or higher level monsters, Consume 1 (1 left) Water-type monster sphere
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Swamp Meganeura (Ting Ting)
Type: Dark / Earth / Poison
Level: 9th stage Bronze
Status: Healthy
Abilities: Wind Trail, Advanced Earth Attack, Poison Attack, Advanced Eyesight
Evolution condition: Slay 250 (250 left) Mortal or higher level monsters, Survive for 45 (45 left) days
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Seeing their status, Ji Liu made a plan. Since tomorrow is Sunday, early morning they'll first go to the southern forest to hunt for a Silver Level Poison type monster for its 'monster sphere' for Xiao Su then head further south to the beach for a Silver level water type monster's 'monster sphere' for Jinao.
These monster spheres, and also monster cores, are organs usually found within a monster's heart. If the heart's job is to circulate the blood, then the monster core circulates the absorbed element. Training it by using the element has the same as training muscles. If muscles grow bigger when trained, then a monster core gets denser. The denser a core is, the higher the level of the monster.
These organs starts out as just a part of the blood in mortal monsters, it would then harden into monster core once reaching Bronze level, as a monster reach silver level, it is further compressed and becomes a monster sphere, then monster nucleus at Gold level, elemental core at Legend level and elemental Sphere at Divine level.
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Sunday afternoon, Ji Liu and his monsters were fighting a 9th stage Bronze Electric Jellyfish and 1st stage silver leveled Lightning Jellyfish. These monster may be jellyfish, but they use 'Electrostatic levitation' to float and move above ground whenever they want to.
The two Jellyfish monsters are coordinating with each other giving Ji Liu's 5 monsters a hard time. There were also no covers to use [Stealth] with to give Xiao Cike and Xiao Yue a chance to sneak attack and the Silver level monster have the ability [Lighting Overcharge] that envelopes the monster with lightning.
Xiao Cike mainly uses its [Advanced Poison Attack] by spitting as it can't get near, but its damage is almost negligible. Xiao Yue's long-range Webs are good control but only accounts to being a nuisance as it is frequently cleared by the [Lighting Overcharge] and a tentacle with [Lightning Trail] used by the Bronze level monster.
Jinao was using its spear and [Advanced Earth Attack] to fight the Silver level Jellyfish while Xiao Su provides support by shooting blades of wind enhanced with [Advanced Metal Attack] with its wings. Jinao has the type advantage but is weaker in level thus creating a tough situation. Although fighting 2v1, the Silver level Jellyfish still has time to provide support to its partner from time to time.
Ting Ting also have an intense battle with the Bronze level Electric Jellyfish. Having the type advantage with equal level, It would be a won battle if not for the constant support from the Silver level Jellyfish.
Realizing that the situation would worsen if the fighting continued this way, Ting Ting proposed a risky strategy. After all, it inherited Beedrill's bravery.