The Medallion novel Chapter 324

Three months before the competition began, Rocky had practiced very hard to learn the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill. With great efforts, he grasped the skill and also improved his beast evaluation skill to the third level. The moment he mastered the skill, he promptly performed a thorough evaluation of his two war beasts, Uriah and Rubygon.

His evaluation of Rubygon turned out to be smooth. It didn't take Rocky a long time before he had all the data related to its qualification. In contrast, he encountered a very strange problem when he evaluated Uriah. The qualification data he found out from Uriah was two times stronger than that of an ordinary spirit-manipulated beast. Common sense dictated that those kinds of values were impossible to obtain.

At that time, Rocky doubted the accuracy of his data. He thought that maybe because he had just mastered the Mysterious Visual Evaluation Skill, he still couldn't apply it properly. He thought that he might have done something wrong during the evaluation and decided to repeat the evaluation. To his surprise, it came out the same way. Later, he became preoccupied with other matters, so he temporarily put this problem aside. He thought that when he had free time later, he would take the time to analyze and find out the hidden problem.

As a result, three months went by without any progress.

If it weren't for Uriah's upgrade at this time, Rocky would have forgotten about the weird data completely. Now since Uriah had upgraded, it would be the best time for Rocky to carry out another evaluation.

This was why now he had Uriah squat down on the operating table and began collecting samples. He took samples of its hair, scales, blood and so on. He planned to test these samples one by one slowly to make sure there wouldn't be any mistakes. In his previous evaluations when Uriah was still at the second grade of the three-star level, Rocky had already collected similar samples. He also did the same tests and recorded and saved all the data. Therefore, if the two groups of test data were compared, he would get a lot of valuable information with guaranteed reliability. This would help him infer Uriah's specific genetic sequences. Figuring out its genetic sequences would be extremely important to study Uriah thoroughly.

He thought back to the modern world of his last life, when the people did not have specialized instruments to detect genetic data. They relied on data detected from every part of human bodies to collect various information. By such a way, they inferred the basic sequences of human's genomes. It was precisely because of these basic genetic sequences that the later very powerful genetic technology could be established. Rocky's current work was also based on the same principles.

During the last three months, Rocky, based on the information about the data of ordinary spirit-manipulated beasts he had gathered, inferred the different genetic sequences of a dozen kinds of spirit-manipulated beast species, including Rubygon. In his current world, there were hundreds of spirit-manipulated beast species. The dozen kinds of beasts he had studied were just like a drop in the bucket. At first glance, his current research on the genetic modification of spirit-manipulated beasts might not be that important, but he believed that it would be of great importance in the future!

Based on the present situation, Rocky was still unable to determine the basic sequences of all the genomes of the spirit-manipulated beasts. It was too early for him to carry out such a huge project of genetic modification. Despite that, he still carried out small attempts to collect more relevant data and information when he did surgeries on the spirit-manipulated beasts. In such a way, he was able to have a better understanding of the spirit-manipulated beasts.

Once Rocky completed gathering the information about the genetic sequences of all the spirit-manipulated beasts, he would be quite confident to carry out genetic modifications for any of the spirit-manipulated beasts. This would be a great asset as it would give him the ability to enhance the genetic beasts' abilities and strengths.

Of course, these were only dreams for the future. If Rocky's research failed, then everything about the genetic modifications would be empty talk!

Thus, Rocky needed to administer the tests on Uriah and compare the data he would obtain with its previous data. Then, he would be able to infer the approximate genetic sequences of Uriah. In consideration of Uriah's uniqueness, its data would be absolutely meaningful to his research.

With this in mind, Rocky immersed himself in the research of Uriah's data. Time flew by, and before he knew it, two days had passed.

In these two days, he finally completed the series of tests on the changes and evolution of Uriah after its improvement in its strength level. He then compared the data he obtained with the data he got before.

Just like before, the results shocked and amazed him. If he had not done it as carefully as he did, he would doubt the results once again. Uriah's genetic data this time had significantly improved compared to the previous data. This implied that the data he detected on Uriah's last evaluation was accurate after all. This proved that Uriah's own abilities had greatly improved after it grew up.

As for the values of the data on Uriah, Rocky had no explanation for why they were ridiculously high. Although he felt puzzled about that, he was also jubilant about the enormous improvement that his spirit-manipulated beast had undergone.

He quickly thought of the only possibility for such an improvement—Uriah was really a spiritual beast. Only a spiritual beast could have that exponential growth and improvement. All the data Rocky had now was from the general war beasts. He wasn't able to gather any data on a spiritual beast. Therefore, the only sound explanation for such a large data difference between Uriah and the other war beasts might be that Uriah was a spiritual beast.

This also explained why a spiritual beast was more powerful than a common beast.

Although Rocky worked hard to prove that Uriah was special in his researches, he truly believed that Uriah was a very rare spiritual beast, research backed or not. As a researcher, he still felt that he needed to collect more data from other spiritual beasts for comparison. He wanted to be cautious in his research and to make sure that not only was his data reliable but it also needed to be unquestionably valid. After all, science was a very rigorous subject. All his results must be accurate and based on actual data, not just conjecture.

The only spiritual beast that Rocky could think of was the Rainbow Glow Unicorn. It actually stayed with him and wouldn't leave due to the fact that it was greatly attracted to Uriah's magical saliva. However, he also knew that the Rainbow Glow Unicorn wouldn't be as well-behaved as Uriah. It would not cooperate with him if he wanted to collect any of its samples. If he wanted to push through with that, it would need a lot of effort and determination.

Yet, as long as he had Uriah's magical saliva, Rocky was not too worried that he wouldn't be able to collect the genetic data from the greedy Rainbow Glow Unicorn. It was difficult but not entirely impossible.

He let out a sigh when he realized that he hadn't returned to his military camp for two days. He had been too caught up in his research. He thought that Marin, who had jumped to her feet because he refused to be promoted to Frontline Commander, could be looking for him desperately. If he didn't show up again, he was afraid that Marin would find him and the secret lab he had built. That would be more trouble than it was worth. With this in mind, he stood up and stretched slowly. He put his research on pause and left his lab to go back to the northeast military camp.

Just as he entered the northeast military camp, Rocky was greeted with the entire northeast military camp in an uproar. All the soldiers and spirit manipulators were either busy packing or carrying what looked like heavy boxes.

"Hey, what's going on?" Rocky grabbed a passing soldier in an effort to know what was going on.

"You still don't know? Our whole northeast military camp is going to be relocated." Rocky gaped at the soldier's response.

"Relocated?" Rocky was stunned. He couldn't help but wonder why the whole camp needed to be relocated so abruptly when nothing special had happened. 'If the military camp is relocated, then I will have to follow as well. What should I do? What about my lab?' Rocky's mind raced with questions.

"Where are we going to move?" Rocky asked the soldier who looked like he was ready to bolt. Unfortunately for him, this was a critical concern and Rocky needed answers desperately.

"We will be moving to the front line. Our northeast military camp has now been appointed as the major force by the Commander in Chief, and our camp will temporarily become the main camp. I can't believe I will be able to see our Deputy Commander in Chief every day at the main camp!" Rocky narrowed his eyes at the solider, who seemed to be drooling. The latter even had a strange manic glint in his eyes, his excitement palpable. When Rocky seemed to be satisfied, he continued to move forward enthusiastically.

Rocky's heart lurched and he furrowed his brows in thought. Things were going to get really tricky for him.

After a slight hesitation, Rocky immediately went to Commander Marin's camp. He knew it was impossible to decide the relocation of a military camp so abruptly, and yet Marin had not said anything to him before he left the headquarters. The only possibility was that the relocation had been decided a long time ago. It meant that Marin had hidden that from him on purpose.

Once the northeast military camp moved to the front line, he had to move as well. But at the moment, it was impossible for him to move so abruptly. One reason was that he had no way to move those Dark Heaven Insects and the Dark Heaven Insect Queen. Another concern for him was that it would be very tricky and troublesome for him to build another lab. In short, if the northeast military camp was really going to be relocated, it would be equivalent to killing him! He just couldn't leave his treasures and his lab behind.