Chapter 382 Methods (1/2)
”… I think that the monsters you have over here are rather odd. What do you think?” The Desolate Frost Lion was staring at the over two-thousand-foot-tall behemoth in front of it, its face twitching.
The carcasses of the Labyrinth Watchers were piled outside the rift and were being guarded by Goldie. Gao Peng had offered a daily rate of three hundred dollars a day, and this had Goldie overjoyed. Goldie had immediately patted its chest and ensured Gao Peng that the eight red-furred fish would never fall into the hands of others.
After going through the rift, Gao Peng brought the Desolate Frost Lion home and immediately went back to the mountains to visit Stripey. The lion finally realized why its master's power was so great.
”Stripey is actually a very good child. It's very gentle,” said Gao Peng while looking adoringly at Stripey.
Upon hearing Gao Peng, Stripey excitedly nodded. ”Yup! Yup! Stripey is the goodest.” Once again, the earth shook and the mountain began to rock… It was a wonder that the Desolate Frost Lion didn't fall from Gao Peng's shoulders.
”So what did you mean just now? Are monsters the size of Stripey uncommon in the Black Fog World?” Gao Peng was confused. He had seen that the Labyrinth Watchers were huge as well, and he had thought that such large body sizes were common in the Black Fog World.
”… No sh*t. Monsters that are over a few thousand feet tall would usually be at least Emperor-tier or above.”
”Don't the bodies of monsters get bigger and bigger? I thought the Emperor and Overlord-tier monsters in the Black Fog World would be thousands or tens of thousands of feet tall…” Gao Peng laughed, embarrassed.
”It's not possible to be that large. Even if it was, it would be very rare. If something grew that big, what would it eat, and what would it use to sustain its own internal balance? Just the consumption needed to maintain such a large body would be an astronomical amount. That's why the larger a monster is, the lazier it gets.”
Gao Peng drew in a breath and asked the Desolate Frost Lion in a voice full of expectation, ”Then do you have any method to shrink a monster's body size?”
”Actually, it's not as though methods to allow your familiar to shrink don't exist,” the lion started after ruminating for a moment. Its little face was scrunched up in a serious expression.
”What methods are there?” Gao Peng was slightly worked up. He hadn't thought that there really was a way to shrink down Stripey's body size.
”According to what I know, there's more than one method.” The lion cleared its throat and crossed its paws, with one paw supporting its chin.
”The first is to let your familiar evolve and obtain an ability that can control its body size. It's just that such abilities are rare, and how exactly to obtain these abilities, I'm not sure…” At this point, the Desolate Frost Lion was beginning to lose confidence.
But then it bounced back and retorted, ”I'm not that large anyway! And I don't need such an ability, so not knowing is normal.”
”So what's the second method?”
”There's a kind of fruit called a Guise Fruit. It allows a monster to shrink up to a thousand times smaller than its original size. If you can shrink by a thousand times, then your Familiar will only be 20 feet tall!” the lion said, pleased with itself.
”You didn't learn your math properly, did you?” Gao Peng was speechless, but then he remembered that this was a lion that never even gone through nursery education. He couldn't expect that much.
”I know, I know, it's two feet,” Da Zi said loudly as it popped up.
”All right, you can stop embarrassing yourself now.” Gao Peng pushed the excited Da Zi back down.
Stripey stood up and chimed in, ”It's 200 feet… Two hundred feet should be enough for me to go and play with Gao Peng again.”
”Mm, Stripey's math hasn't fallen behind.” Gao Peng nodded his head in satisfaction.
Da Zi was in shock. Could it have calculated wrong? Darn it! In order to get Gao Peng's praise, Da ZI had actually secretly gone to Stripey for extra lessons.
”Do you know which places have Guise Fruits?”