Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 674 A Babysitter-Level Tutorial on Eating Dragon Eggs

From a purely strength perspective, the Crystal Wyvern, which has already advanced to a tempered individual, is not actually very strong. As a wingless bird wyvern, its bloodline already determines that it cannot compare with brute wyverns in melee combat, nor does it have the ability of flying wyverns to freely soar and breathe fire.

Even with the greatest enhancements, there are limits.

However, the Aether Crystal from another world granted the Crystal Shrike a series of unique abilities, among which "immunity to negative attributes and trap control" was the most significant. This is the fundamental reason why hunters would find it very difficult to hunt it in the original quest.

The Leshen has a strong ability to dominate beasts; almost no dragon below the level of a dominant individual can stop it. Species with relatively low combat power, such as the Slug, can only be dominated.

As long as the Crystal Bird maintains the posture of holding the Crystal of Ether, the effect of domination is forcibly reduced to a stage of communication and higher initial affinity.

Similarly, Cheng Tian's "Beast Taming Master" skill, which is effective against other beasts, couldn't really fool the Crystal Bird. However, compared to the Deer-Headed Spirit, Cheng, as a "fellow clansman," offered a substantial reward.

Although the Crystal Bird's intelligence was enhanced to some extent by the crystal, its animal instincts still prevailed most of the time. It's estimated that only three things were on its mind right now—

Eating dragon eggs, smashing deer heads, and the song of the chocobo.

As a leader template, the Leshen shouldn't have been so easily stunned. However, while the Ether Crystal grants the Leshen a strong shield effect, it also grants an extremely high stun value. Even a hunter of Azure Star's caliber only needs one hit to knock it out on the spot.

And whether it's a figment of a meme or not, the Crystal of Light is also acting as a speaker, continuously playing the Chocobo Song, which dilutes the eerie and terrifying feeling of the current environment.

So, what about the deer-headed spirit who fell into a daze?

Naturally, they were surrounded and targeted by concentrated fire!

Given that the Leshen's body is essentially made of trees, its weakness is undoubtedly fire. Only fire can cause considerable damage and disrupt its combat rhythm. Therefore, the main damage dealers are Cheng Tian's spiritual fire and Geralt's Igni sign.

After successfully striking, the Crystal Bird, which was also quite afraid of fire, retreated to Cheng Tian's vicinity and, like a woodpecker, plunged its peck into a fire dragon egg.

Then, unsurprisingly, he crushed the dragon egg!
The bird, probably still adjusting to its sudden increase in size, was startled by its own actions and let out a wail at the egg yolk scattered all over the ground.

At its original standard size of 5 meters, the ostrich could hold a dragon egg, peck open the shell, and stick its head inside to suck out the yolk. To use a human analogy, it would be like holding an ostrich egg the size of a basketball.

However, after their size has increased dramatically, the dragon eggs, which were originally the size of basketballs, have now become the size of regular chicken eggs. This violent method of opening the eggs naturally leads to this tragic result.

It was suffering the pain of its broken egg, and the deer-headed spirit was not faring any better.

As the leader template unit, the Deer-Headed Spirit's health dropped rapidly under the siege of multiple enemies. It took about one round of attacks to reduce its health by 33%, and it had not even recovered from being knocked unconscious while being attacked relentlessly.

But when its health dropped from 1.5 to just over 1, its body exploded on the spot, turning into a large number of crows that scattered in all directions.

The guide bugs in the jars around Erin's and Geralt's waists also changed directly from red, symbolizing a state of combat, to green.

Geralt, who was extremely skilled at tracking, immediately realized the problem before him. With a flick of his wrist, he opened the scoutbug canister, and the green glowing scoutbugs inside scattered in all directions. After circling in the air once, they ignored the flight paths of crows, which were clearly meant to be used to place smoke bombs, and all rushed towards the same direction.

"Chase!" Geralt took the lead, drawing his sword and charging forward.

Others followed suit immediately.

In Monster Hunter terminology, this means that the Leshen's health dropped to a certain level, triggering a "forced area relocation" event.

Bosses always have a few special phases that can stump players.

Before leaving, Cheng Tian didn't forget to clink his teeth twice, giving the Crystal Bird, which was trying to eat, a hint. But upon hearing the hint, the Crystal Bird immediately turned its head and sent out a distress signal.

This is a distress signal regarding food.

The shrew's beak structure, which is highly similar to that of birds, means that it is difficult for it to eat by licking or chewing like mammals. So it usually eats by sucking up liquids at a certain depth, like a straw. Dragon eggs themselves are natural containers, which makes it very convenient for shrews to eat.

However, the Ether Crystal's enhancement of the Shrike's size caused it to have problems eating its beloved dragon eggs.

Before my body size increased to this extent, I didn't realize it, but by the time I realized it, it was too late.

"You go first, I'll follow later."

Cheng Tian gestured for Eileen and the others to follow first, while he himself darted over to the Crystal Bird in a few steps.

With just a glance at the broken eggs on the ground, the egg liquid and eggshell fragments stuck to the bird's beak, and the light crystal that refused to let go no matter what, Cheng Tian guessed pretty much what was wrong with the shrewish bird and immediately gave a solution.

Cheng Tian's fingertips began to radiate heat. He drew a circle on the pointed end of one of the remaining dragon eggs, and with a slight effort, he pried off the rather thick eggshell, revealing a large egg white and yolk inside, which reeked of a strong wild animal smell.

Then, as if demonstrating, Cheng Tian picked up the dragon egg and made a gesture of pouring it into his mouth.

"Understand?"

Cheng Tian put down the dragon egg and looked at the sassy bird, which nodded frantically and rapidly like a woodpecker.

The Light Crystal's enhancement to the bird also includes its brain; as long as the demonstration is done properly, learning Cheng Tian's techniques shouldn't be a problem.

So it carefully lowered its head, gently pecked at the last egg with its already quite powerful beak, and crushed a hole of moderate size. Then it picked up the whole dragon egg, tilted its head back to the sky, and used the hole it had made to pour all the egg liquid into its throat.

For a bird of this size, a standard dragon egg is equivalent to a human eating a raw chicken egg, which is not enough to satisfy its needs. After eating two dragon eggs in a row, its appetite was further aroused.

The Crystal Bird watched its kinsman, Little Golden Crown, leave, tilted its head, and then, holding the crystal, followed after him.

(End of this chapter)