[NR] Jason's Knight - Chapter 502 (Patreon)

Jason pulls up Lily’s status to give it a quick check.

{Basic Info

Name: Lily

Race: Rabbit Knight

Level: 25 - 0.00%

Legal Status: Local Companion

Title: Breaker of the Natural Order

Normal Stats

• ☆Strength 63 ( 63[Base] )
• ☆Toughness 78 ( 78[Base] )
• ☆Agility 121 ( 121[Base] )

Auxiliary Stats

• Defense 25 ( 25[Base] )
• HP  125
• Energy  6

Conceptual Energy

• Civilization 5%}

Right off the bat, Jason notices that she had once again evolved her race. Though this time nothing had really changed about her. Though her new race did point directly towards her evolutionary line was based on. Kit, serf, free, and finally knight? Lily was evolving along a feudal ranking system.

Jason wasn’t sure which direction it would go, mind you. He gave it a toss up between continuing down the noble line or it might go more martial. There was also the question of which step she would cap out at. After all, a rabbit without any power would stop evolving after their fifth break. Add Mana or Qi? Stretch that out one more break and Jason suspected that the regular Energy based evolutionary line would cap at the same place.

However, Lily’s line was different right from the start. After all, she ended up evolving towards it before the other lines would have. Normal rabbits would go from kit, to adolescent, and then evolve into their final line. However, Lily started early. She turned into a serf instead of an adolescent.

Would she cap out her line sooner because she started early? Would she instead be able to go further? Not that reaching the end of her line would stop her from leveling up. Though it would come with a decrease in leveling benefits. Except all things considered, she was following in his steps where levels didn’t particularly matter?

The problem is that evolution in and of itself improves a creature. For Lily, Jason had noticed that her Defense had skyrocketed with becoming a knight. Since this increase was a base increase, it meant this wasn’t just some leveling bonus.

Also, as Lily’s growth has shown, monsters can gain base stat increases with levels as well. Sure, it isn’t like she would stop gaining benefits with levels if she never became more than a knight. However, depending on what path her evolutionary line takes, some of the later stages could be astounding.

After all, the fact that rabbits were able to hold an entire plains area? One seemingly able to hold off that wasteland? There must have been some heavy hitters holding the line. You don't get to be the only critter in an area without enough power.

Most kingdoms don't even manage to remove most of the serious threats from their borders. Let alone the removal of all monsters. Sure, some of that is to have monsters for the new generation to fight. Not all of it though.

Jason shakes his head and clears his thoughts as he is about to rejoin the others. He already knew something was up with the rabbits after some of the hints he had noticed. To find out Lily was treading down a special path didn't shock him too much.

Now back with the others they all return to their inn and order a meal. Not that they expect to get too far without being interrupted. And what do you know, they aren't even half done when a Guild official enters the inn.

It seems they wanted a more in-depth breakdown of what happened during their dungeon run in reference to the oddity that had cropped up. None of the trio was particularly against it, though they did insist on finishing their meal. However, when the messenger stuck around, they rushed it a bit as having someone stand next to you waiting doesn't make for the best meal experience.

Once at the Guild the trio was separated and questioned individually. They didn't have to, the person guiding them gave the option to do a group debriefing as nothing was suspected of them. Except none of the three really believed that.

There was going to be at least a little suspicion. After all, they were a new group that happened to be one of the first to experience the change that had happened. Then they went on to not only face it again, but with only three people, defeat the dungeon. It would be stupid for the Guild to not suspect anything.

In the end though, since there wasn't anything to find, it isn't like interviewing them separately was going to find anything. Still, it made the local Guild officials feel better about the group. Sure, they didn't plan to stick around the area, but you never knew when being on their good side might come in handy.

Though they did end up interviewing Rosha twice as long. That, however, had more to do with her personal experience with the trap since it seemed to have become the standard set up. In fact, she ended up going in to the Guild the next day.

While others had reported on the traps specifics, every bit counts and so the Guild was willing to pay her 50 gold for a complete breakdown of how she disarmed it. The Guild didn't expect the trap to stick around after things got fixed up. However, they did predict that some elements of it would remain like the earlier trap the group had found in their last run.

So since the traps were out of reach for her to ever consider placing, Rosha was glad to pass on all the information she had. Not that she wouldn't ever be able to set up a similar trap. Rather, by the time she could manage it, she would have better options than to mimic the dungeon's trap.

Just getting proper tubing to replicate the trap would be hard since rubber isn't really a thing. You would need leather or some such and overall it would be easier to just make normal traps at a higher quality.