Wassup. I am, uh, admittedly quite tired-? The reason is that, uh, okay, so, writing close to 8000 words in a single day might not have been the best idea. Fun? Yes. Exhausting? Hghebdhvz, yes. But! Even so, I somehow pulled it together and wrote that chapter earlier today, and this thing also, but this one is mostly cuz I really wanted to do this, y'know?

  Quick confession time. This entire fic I just one big boiling stew of self-indulgence. Quick evolutions that go high fast? Indulgence. Morally sound main character? Indulgence. Things all working out in the end? Indulgence. And, well, as a writer I absolutely love putting my main character in terrible situations and making them suffer, but...

  This evolution was indulgence. I said to myself, he deserves it. Should the Faerie really have a ranking of C+? Yes. He deserved it. Should it really be magic focused? Yes. Even the skill trading thing? Y e s. For once, for fuckn once, I just wanna be a bit nice to him. Some indulgence.

  Anyhoo, onto the fuckn dog!

  Why did I have a dog among a bunch of insects? Very good question! Onto the skills.

  Yes, sadly, our guy simply wouldn't get the advanced fire magic if he picked this guy. Sad times, sad times. But, he would get bite, so, uh, this makes up for that, right-?

  So, now you're looking at telepathy, and you're thinking "if our guy only knew", and, well, yeah and nah. Y'see, telepathy is damn cool and a damn good skill, don't even get me started on Greater Telepathy! But, Lesser Telepathy... it's basically just a transference of feelings. In the case of a normal Pharaoh Dog, this would allow them to alert their master, like... "Danger! Scared! Fight!", but it wouldn't be very useful for actual conversation.

  Damage Transference is, however, a really good skill for a bodyguard, which the dog is. It only works on a single target, but, as the name implies, it lets the user take on the damage that the target would otherwise sustain. Very useful. As you might understand, the Pharaoh Dog is a tank.

  Together with Stilleben, a skill that grants the user higher defence is they sit still, the Pharaoh Dog can take a damn lot of damage just by sitting.

  Strength of the Sun allows the user to gain higher strength the sunnier it is. So, they get weaker on cloudy days or at night (I know the moon is reflective sHUt iT). All about sun.

  Frightening Howl induces fear in any enemies that hear it.

  So, yeah, lot of cool evolutions there, especially the Anubis. Oh, right! Appearance!

  Almost forgot about it... Okay, so, when sitting, the dog can be between the size of a great dane and, well, an entire damn human. Sitting. These guys are big, yeh? Size aside, they are very cool. Thick, robust hairs like a shiba, and with a sandy yellow colour. Long, bird-like feathered tail connecting to a fair of small wings on the lower back of the dog.

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  They have three eyes, and long, long ears, like a dachshund but even longer, pointing straight up. They don't connect or anything, but an orb of light hangs between them perpetually, looking very very cool.

  By the bye, no "what will happen in the future?" for this part. Maybe in like ten chapters, when the village part of the story is over with? We'll see.

  Oh. Oh yeah. This one. O h bo y,,,

  Oho, ohohoho, here we are again with the way too many skills. I told you, the C rank is where shit starts going down, and this is... Yeah.

  The first couple I've already explained or are self-explanatory, so... You might be wondering, "what's the Life magic for?" well, as I wrote somewhere sometime (I think?) Life and Death magic are the very same thing, only applied differently. Life magic is just the power over life, and therefore, death. So, this guy would only know death-y skills. Icky.

  The second thing you might be wondering, what's up with the dragon's breath and spore miasma? What's up with that? Well, I thought to myself... you see a bear-sized snow-white praying mantis out in the woods, what do you do? You run. But, what you don't know, is that he had Perpetual Fog and Spore Miasma running on high. Your lungs are already home to a million tiny fungi, ready to burrow their mycorrhizal into your alveoli. You run and you run but your breath keeps getting caught in your throat and your strength is leaving your bones.

  Long story short, you're absolutely fucked. Much like if you see a polar bear, if you see the White Death, you are already dead.

  The only skill left explaining is the Reaper's Scythe, but, well, it's kind of simple. It's kind of like a fatality skill. If it kills you in one hit using it, it gets bonus Exp for it :)

  So, yeah! Our first look at a monster in the A range!! Don't tell our guy since he isn't supposed to know how strong he is yet, but... B is on the level where the monster can take out a city. A is where they can decimate a nation.

  Nasty creature, really, but knowing our guy, I bet he'd become a White Orchin Nun cuz like, cuz he don't wanna be a walkin' talkin' disaster. Lel.

  Yeh, uh, I was kind of thinking of skipping this one, but... Just a quickie, yeh?

  Yeah, not much, is it? That is because, as much of a monster as the moth is, it is really very human. It only has this high of a ranking because it can deceive humanoids so damn well. If this guy tried, he could probably topple a kingdom.

  Now, what the heck is Greater Shapeshift? Well, it lets the moth transform into any humanoid at all with minor restrictions. They gain a bunch of race-specific skills including language, and unlike the Ballgown Butterfly, the only proof that they are not a human is the tattoo on their back, looking like a pair of wings. The only other restriction is the whole "only daytime" thing but I mean, fair price.

  The next one would be telekinesis, but, I mean, lift things with mind. We know that. Camoflage, in order to blend in, Disguise(humanoid)... Oh yeah, this is the real kicker! Using this skill, they can look however they please in their humanoid form. In other words, they can look at a kind, assume his form, and by using the Illusion skill, which lets them cause auditory or visual hallucinations and illusions, simply usurp the throne.

  Most moths don't do shit like this though, but if they did... Y'know. Dangerous.

  And here we come to the first dead-end. Sort of. The Masquerade Moth can evolve, but only into a humanoid. Which humanoid? Any humanoid! If the system recognized Anubis as a humanoid, the Masquerade Moth would be able to permanently evolve into it.

  Appearence? Fluffy and big like face of man. mm. fluff.

  And now, the very last one! I feel very tired and I am surrounded by candes feeling very booky and I wish I had a hand-written letter to write to someone about some current events or how the plague has affected me but I ruehivkjn

  Onto skills!

  It might be because I wrote it, but I feel like this entire creature is just, very self-explanatory as a species. It's like the Will 'o Whisperer, but evolved! Language lets it speak any humanoid language, Soothing Voice makes the voice tempting, calming and alluring all at once, people can't help but investigate it, mesmerizing light makes the luminous bulb at the end of the spider look very very interesting and I just have to get closer, all the magics are magic, Illusion strengthens the previous skills, Calm causes all who see the spider to feel calm (aka the cooler Fear), and thread, venom and acid are all just capture-and-kill methods.

  A charming creature, wouldn't you say?

  Okay, so, before we go onto the whole evolutions part, I just want to describe the looks of this guy cuz, heh, I'm kind of proud.

  So, there's this spider, right? Has a chrome, mirror-like sheen on his abdomen, looking all cracked. I've seen it a thousand times, but only now have I thought of a use for it.

  This spider is about the size of a man's head, so a bowling ball. Its entire body is black with some dark blue details, but that isn't important. No, the abdomen, which it always has sticking right up so as to be seen from all directions, is holey. It has holes in it. Uneven, like a basket. Inside this holey abdomen floats a ball of mana. Normal, yes, but... despite the outside of the abdomen being black, the inside seems mirrored, causing the light of the mana to bounce and rebound like a disco-ball, looking very very cool.

  Onto evolutions!

  -Right, that's it for this time! I'll see you all tomorrow, and then, I'll hopefully have a more permanent cover compared to this one. As before, sorry. It isn't very good.

  See ya! I'm off to write on my wildly successful side-chick!