Chapter 431: Goldie, The Golden Crow.
[Does host want to access Celestial Beast status?]
On seeing this, Sebastian was surprised as he paid a little more attention to his status. On looking at it the first time, he mostly only focused on his increased attributes, he didn’t pay more attention to the rest.
On looking again, this was when he noticed the new tab for bonded Celestial Beast, which displayed the Golden Crow as his bonded Celestial Beast.
On seeing this, Sebastian finally remembered Goldie, and instantly, he tried to pry into his mind in search of the Celestial Beast.
He only had to look for less than a second before he saw Goldie perched in a corner of his mind. At this moment, Goldie’s eyes were glowing with curiosity as he looked through the perception of his master for the first time.
At this moment, to Sebastian, Goldie no longer seemed as big, towering, and intimidating as it looked when he first met it, Goldie was his companion now.
Seeing the glowing eyes of Golden Crow, his heart melted. He instinctively gave Goldie a mental pat before retreating out of his mind.
This was when Sebastian finally gave his system his consent.
"Give me Goldie’s status!"
[Affirmative!]
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Name: Goldie
Level: 30
Stats:
Power: 860
Speed: 576
Mind: 323
Constitution: 122
Luck: 300
HP: ???
MP: ???
[Basic Skills: Mana Manipulation; Warping Mana Swim; Perfect Mana Control; Golden Crow Form; War Crow Form; Support Form.]
[Advanced Skills: Mana Golden Crow Form; Beast-Master Integration; Primordial Magic Empowerment; Dimensional Gate Summoning.]
[Primordial Origin Blessing- Passive Skill: Advanced Luck Glow!]
[Bonded Master: Sebastian- Megalodon!]
[Species: Golden Crow!]
[System Remark: A perfect companion for a budding Ocean Master!]
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After going through the status, Sebastian was amazed as much as he was excited. Goldie was strong, and this was a great boon to his ministry.
Goldie’s status was nowhere as elaborate as his status, but the sheer depth and quality were in a league of their own entirely.
Goldie was a fragment of the primordial origin magic; he did not need to level up and evolve like Sebastian and was the reason why his level was written as level 30 which corresponded with Sebastian’s own level.
On bonding with Sebastian, Goldie had to lower itself from its exalted fragment of the primordial origin magic status to accommodate its master.
If Goldie accepted Sebastian without adjusting to fit him, Sebastian would literally explode due to the sheer power contained in the Celestial Beast alone.
This was why Goldie adapted, lowering himself to Sebastian’s level to accommodate him. He was level 30, and also had the strength of a purple tier predator just like his master.
His attributes varied from his master’s though, while his strength and speed were higher, his mind and constitution stat were lower.
Even though Goldie was a fragment of the primordial origin magic, adapting to Sebastia reduced it a lot, and the fact that it lived its half a millennium life stuck in the core of this Manapedia said that its mind was not too developed.
Goldie was like a 500-year-old baby.
Goldie was a Celestial Beast, and like was displayed by the Red tier Mana Lord, Celestial Beasts were mostly incorporeal existences.
The line blurring reality between them was very thin.
When called out by his master, Goldie would emerge as a Golden Crow that was partly corporeal and partly incorporeal. Due to its form, its constitution was bound to suffer which was the reason for it being lower than Sebastian’s.
As for its health, Goldie could never die so long as the primordial origin magic was present. It could remain fighting forever, and would only die when its master who at this moment was Sebastian died.
As for his luck, this was the real deal. Goldie had an outstanding 300 points for his luck stat, which completely dwarfed Sebastain’s despite his recent upgrade.
Sebastian could not fantom how lucky Goldie was with all that, he felt fortunate for getting a Celestial Beast when the odds were so low.
About Goldie’s skills, though Sebastian asked and Goldie tried to explain them to him, Sebastian could not understand it very much.
The explanation was impaired further by the fact that Goldie had never used most of these skills, he just lived with them peacefully for 500+ years.
To really know their effects, Sebastian had to see Goldie in action. He couldn’t wait to see them in action, most especially the advanced skills, their names were so alluringly tyrannical that he dreaded and felt excited to see them.
What really attracted his attention the most in Goldie’s status was the Primordial Origin Blessing which was in the form of a passive skill.
Sebastian already expected to see something like this, and he actively searched for it. On seeing it, he was not disappointed.
Sebastian had no idea what an advanced luck glow was, but he knew that anything related to luck was OP. Having experienced the effects of luck firsthand, both bad and Goodluck, he had respect for this intangible power of nature.
Sebastian could not wait to see Goldie in action. "I can’t wait!"
After exploring Goldie’s status thoroughly, savoring it, admiring it, and thanking his luck for shining to get something like this, he moved on.
Sebastian didn’t just move on, since Monolith and the other lucky Mana Lord were still immersed in observing the changes in their bodies, Sebastian felt that there was time to also carefully observe his changes.
After his last battle encounter with the Leviathon, Sebastian leveled up twice, which officially took his overall level to level 30.
After hitting this point, the requirements to level up again seemed to have increased as despite killing so many Chaos Mongers, he could not level up once.
Even if the requirements increased, Sebastian still felt that not leveling up once after killing so many Space Beasts was dubious. He could only attribute this anomaly to the special nature of Manapedia.
Sebastian felt excited as after bonding with Goldie, the benefits just kept on stacking as all his attributes increased by different margins.
His power experienced the greatest increase, but Sebastian appreciated the 60-stat increase in his luck stat more. In his opinion, this was a god-tier benefit.
The importance of luck was so much that it could not be overemphasized.
Apart from his luck, Sebastian’s increase in his constitution stat affected his health stat as his health also increased by over a thousand points.
Of all these changes to his stat points, none of them was as impactful as the change to his Mana Points. Sebastian couldn’t see this change as just a change, this was an evolution of his mana.
According to his system, after bonding with the Golden Crow, he acquired the Legendary Infinite Mana Attribute. This achievement was just for his Megalodon body, but this was already more than he ever bargained for.
Now, he didn’t even need to use his mana control skill to get more, his mana was now boundless, Sebastian felt like a bug in Oceania now.
This achievement opened doors to more advanced fighting styles for him.
After going through his attributes, Sebastian jumped to the new skills that he acquired after the bond was established. While the Mega Mana Control was an advanced version of his pivotal mana control skill, the other 2 were much more.
Sebastian didn’t know by how much yet, but the Mana Extraction skill enabled him to actively attack predators by draining their mana.
Before, through his mana control skill, he could only pick scraps that these predators dropped while attacking or defending, but with this new skill, he could actively attack them by draining their mana.
As for the Celestial Beast Integration skill, this skill enabled him to combine with Goldie to temporarily become one in a battle situation.
He still didn’t understand it in detail yet, to really understand and gauge its effects, he needed to fight a real battle, Sebastian was stoked for it.
The last of his gains from his successful bonding with Goldie was the new passive skill that he got, the Charisma of a Mana Lord.
According to his system, this passive skill gave him a rare magical Charisma that would make him more alluring and convincing to people close to him or when he was negotiating with a stranger.
As for when faced with enemies, if he was against a weaker opponent, the predator would suffer suppression of his power depending on his mental resilience.
The same applied to stronger enemies, so long as he could set the right mood, this passive skill could easily become a game-changer in future battles.
Overall, Sebastian was satisfied with the acknowledgment test, the speed test, all the tests, and in fact, he was satisfied with Manapedia as a whole.
Coming here was a life-changing encounter.
