The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

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　The castle's unique credit system completely isolates it from the outside economic system.

　The merchants in Traveler's Street, especially the material merchants, are actually responsible for buying materials from students, processing them, and then reselling them in their shops.

　When dealing with rare items, they must adhere to the principle of "only taking in, not giving out".

　Merchants had to undergo strict checks every time they entered or left Sainte Marian in order to prevent smuggling.

　The significance of owning a small shop in Traveler's Street goes far beyond monetary value.

　……

　This time, Dark is preparing to create another "magical beast"!

　For him now, crafting "magical beasts" is very simple.

　But before starting a forging process, the archmage always reminds himself that he must never take any forging attempt lightly.

　It took Dak several minutes of focused concentration before he began crafting the second "magical beast".

　His initial hope was to train another Eevee.

　Having two Eevee cards would increase the deck's margin for error and significantly boost its actual combat power.

　But reason told him that the probability of training another Eevee was extremely low, almost zero.

　The final form of a "magical beast" is affected by a variety of factors, including the materials used in its creation, the time involved, and the climate.

　As for the idealistic interpretation of "depending on the expectations deep within the mage's heart".

　Although it accounts for a large proportion, it is not actually the decisive factor.

　Furthermore.

　Human thoughts can change even within a fraction of a second.

　Changes in mindset and self-cultivation can lead to differences in thinking during the two refining processes.

　It's not like you can just yell that you want to train an Eevee and it will turn into one.

　……

　Such thoughts resurfaced in Dark's mind only after the magic card on the lab table transformed into a golden cocoon.

　He began to look forward to seeing what form this "magical beast" would take after it was forged.

　Half a minute later, Dark reached out and gently touched the golden cocoon of light with three fingers.

　Then infuse it with magic.

　Thoughts then flowed into the cocoon through the magic.

　Immediately afterwards, a rhythmic sound came.

　It seemed as if some life had opened its eyes inside the cocoon.

　Golden light burst forth from the tiny cracks, spreading outwards and slicing the cocoon of light in two.

　The light faded, and a blurry magic card lay quietly on the table.

　A golden halo was shimmering around the magic card!

　Dak extended two fingers and carefully picked it up.

　The originally blurry transparent outline on the card began to change immediately after it came into his view.

　As the magical beast's form gradually solidified, the astonishment in Dark's eyes grew stronger.

　"This is……"

　……

　Card Name: Ditto (Magic Beast)

　[Type: Spirit Card]

　【grade:】

　[Race: Elemental]

　【属性：一般系】

　【Magic Power: 100】

　[Attack: 100]

　[Defense: 100]

　[Ultimate Move: Transformer, Transformation]

　……

　It's not Eevee, it's Ditto!

　Moreover, among the "Fantasy Beasts" that are mostly white cards, this "Fantasy Beast: Ditto" surprisingly has two special moves!

　Wait, two?

　Isn't this a gold card?

　Dark repeatedly confirmed that the halo around the magic card was indeed golden, and a sense of doubt began to creep in.

　But for the time being, he could only keep it in his mind and continue to examine it. This golden "Ditto" only had two special moves.

　The "Transformer" special move is clearly derived from Ditto's hidden passive ability.

　"Transformation" is Ditto's only skill.

　[Transformer: Using (transformation) does not consume magic power.]

　[Transformation: Transforms into the opponent's appearance, capable of copying up to a portion of the data of a magical spirit of the same tier, and can use the exact same special move as the opponent.]

　……

　Is it a pleasant surprise or a shock?

　In short, Dark felt that his emotions were somewhat out of control.

　He took a while to calm down, and then immediately summoned "Ditto"!

　The Ditto that appeared in the light looked limp and squishy. It was like a slightly larger "trash slime", with a lighter purple color, tiny eyes like buttons, and a mouth curved into a small crescent moon.

　Dark was about to reach out (づ)づ when Ditto appeared and started "transforming".

　With the support of the "Transformer" skill, Ditto can use the "Transform" skill without consuming magic power.

　And so, under Dark's watchful gaze, it gradually transformed into Dark's likeness.

　"Busy, busy—"

　The 0.5-meter-tall miniature Dark reached out its hand towards Dark himself, and Dark instinctively took a step back.

　Ditto seemed startled and suddenly began to melt, quickly returning to its original 0.3-meter-tall slime form.

　Dak quickly picked it up and coaxed it for a long time until it smiled again. Then he took out "Pride I" and prepared to "awaken its intelligence"!

　Dark has always believed that the most broken aspect of the Sin series of magic cards is "awakening intelligence".

　However, he does not yet know whether this effect is limited to the magical spirits he himself has created.

　In short.

　As the dark golden orb entered Ditto's body, its body swayed slightly, emitting a pleasant aura.

　Then it wriggled and transformed, turning into a miniature Darkrai, and its first words were: "BaBa?"

　Dak smiled like an aunt in a daze.

　Then came a shock!

　Although its speech was unclear, Ditto unmistakably spoke.

　Is it because the vocal organs are also modeled after humans?

　Dak patted its forehead, urging it to change back quickly.

　After all, it's still very awkward to see a tiny version of yourself standing in front of you.

　In short, this Ditto is clearly very different from the real Ditto in Pokémon.

　This can already be seen from the information about the ultimate move returned by this magic card.

　The true Ditto's "Transformer" ability actually transforms upon first meeting the user, and there are no level restrictions on this transformation.

　However, the Ditto that Dark created could only copy a portion of the data of magical spirits of the same tier.

　There's a reason behind this "partial data".

　A true Ditto will copy all data except for HP.

　……

　In short, an experiment needs to be conducted.

　The experimental subjects were also readily available.

　Dark immediately summoned Devimon back.

　As soon as Little Devimon returned, he found that he had just gained a new family member, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

　"Busy, busy—"

　Ditto waved to Devimon and then transformed into Devimon's appearance.

　They are exactly the same!

　They are exactly the same in height and weight.

　This is significantly different from its appearance when it transforms into Dark.

　"It seems Ditto's transformation has two modes: one is a normal shape change, and the other is a 'Transformation' skill, which should only be used on Magical Spirits."

　"Familiars can be considered a special type of magical spirit."

　Dark picked up the Ditto card and infused it with magic.

　The card art has been changed to resemble Devimon.

　However, the card name remained unchanged.

　The three stats of magic attack and defense are not immediately apparent because they were originally the same, but the skill has been changed to "small dart".

　Dark waved to the terrified little devil, indicating that it could go play by itself.

　Then he summoned his only three-star magical spirit—Jug!

　Ditto's "Transform" ability can be canceled at any time. There is no cooldown for a normal transformation, but the cooldown for the "Transform" ability is 3 minutes.

　Retrieving the magic card will cause the "transformation" to be canceled.

　For the ultimate skill cooldown of a magical spirit, a three-minute cooldown is already considered very long.

　However, for a skill like "transformation," it seems to be very short.

　Three minutes later, Ditto transformed into Potpot.

　Then Dak suddenly realized that the number of "juicers" had doubled!

　This is obviously good news, meaning that the same amount of juice can be made in half the time.

　He looked at the Ditto card again.

　Card Name: Ditto (Magic Beast)

　[Type: Spirit Card]

　【grade:】

　[Species: Insect]

　[Attribute: Rock]