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

　【grade:】

　[Race: Bird-Beast]

　[Type: Fighting/Flying]

　【Magic Power: 1100】

　[Attack: 1500]

　[Defense: 1200]

　[Special Move: Feather Dance]

　……

　"A very standard three-star blue card, with a full 1500 attack power, which is a plus. Its ultimate skill is Feather Dance, which in the original work is a skill that can directly reduce the opponent's attack power by 2 levels, but it is obviously different here."

　[Feather Dance: Scatter feathers to surround the opponent, hindering their attacks.]

　In short, it's a great skill similar to a "smoke bomb".

　This ultimate move is clearly not limited to just throwing it at the opponent.

　If used well, it can be a crowd control technique used to block vision.

　……

　By now, Dark has become quite accustomed to the fact that the magical spirits he creates tend to resemble Pokémon.

　Instead of being surprised, he began to look forward to the next magical spirit.

　"In the world of Pokémon, what Pokémon would be based on a mermaid? Milotic? No, its prototype seems to be the oarfish..."

　Of course, he didn't immediately start crafting the next magical spirit. Instead, he first summoned the Wrestling Eagleman and conducted some experiments.

　"Pride I", "Pride II", "Ecstasy III".

　After using the three Sin cards in turn, Dark put the Wrestling Hawkman back into the cards.

　I wouldn't say I was disappointed.

　Hawlucha was originally a Pokémon with no evolutionary potential. Perhaps using more precious materials could create a higher-star Hawlucha. However, using the Sin Card clearly wouldn't allow for any further improvement.

　However, this is exactly what Dark had initially hoped for.

　Samsung's magical spirit, capable of direct combat!

　Get it!

　……

　The second experiment began in earnest.

　Dak quickly completed the preliminary steps and moved on to the final material delivery step.

　The key material used this time is naturally "mermaid scales"!

　Dark carefully placed the "mermaid scales" into the light emanating from the first transmutation array.

　As the scale was swallowed by the light, he withdrew his hand, examined it carefully, and then added his own saliva.

　But this time, the light of the transmutation array was still flashing.

　If there were any "jealousy" involved, Dark would definitely have put it in.

　But he only had a little "arrogance" left, and it was still inside the insect branch.

　What?

　Dark's gaze began to wander.

　That "teddy bear button-shaped eye" is definitely not acceptable; putting in more than two cores is a major taboo in basic crafting.

　Then we can only add some auxiliary materials.

　And he actually had readily available auxiliary materials around him!

　"Ding!"

　Dark had a sudden inspiration and his gaze fell on the three cat-like creatures that were eagerly waiting to be petted!

　Of these three different kinds of cat grass, one produced the Pride Fruit, and two produced the Bliss Fruit.

　After the fruit ripens but is not picked, thin stems of the fruit remain on top of them.

　Those three thin stems, resembling cowlicks, became flesh in Dak's eyes!

　"Speaking of mermaids, besides 'jealousy,' there's 'ecstasy,' and here happen to be two roots of the 'Fruit of Ecstasy.'"

　Dark immediately went over, first picked up the first cat grass that pounced on him and took it back, then caught the second fox grass that pounced on him and stretched out his evil scissors towards the thin stem on its head!

　"Crack!"

　"Hey?"

　Foxgrass let out a soft cry, feeling as if it had lost something important, and a sense of emptiness washed over it.

　So it snuggled even closer into Dark's arms.

　But the cruel and ruthless Dark discarded it after using it and turned his attention to cow grass!

　"Crack!"

　"Moo?"

　The cowgrass was at a loss.

　Having obtained two "Bliss" roots, Dark quickly traveled back and forth, throwing one of them into the light of the first transmutation array.

　As the transmutation array engulfed the thin stem, the light gradually stabilized.

　But not enough!

　Dak then inserted the second thin stem!

　The light indeed became much stronger!

　The entire alchemy array then began to operate at high speed.

　The materials put into it are fused and digested by the alchemy array, and the process of "extracting the essence and discarding the dross" begins.

　Some black and green impurities were discharged.

　The most essential elements were retained.

　It's a familiar scene again.

　As these impurities, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, were expelled, the entire refining process proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

　Dark couldn't help but show a look of anticipation.

　The basic alchemy method actually has a failure rate, and it's quite high.

　He succeeded three times in the process, but it's unclear whether it was due to the "saliva" or simply his innate good fortune!

　……

　Once the magic card was completed, Dark cleaned it and discovered that it was actually a two-star purple card!

　The card depicts an exceptionally cute little sea lion!

　This sea lion has smooth, blue skin, a pure white mouth, trembling whiskers, and a pink, ball-shaped nose.

　It has a light blue collar around its neck, and a pair of forelimbs and a tail fin at the front and back of its body.

　In short, it's super cute!

　……

　Card Name: Ball Ball Sea Lion

　[Type: Spirit Card]

　【grade:】

　[Race: Bird-Beast]

　【属性：water type】

　【Magic Power: 500】

　[Attack: 700]

　[Defense: 300]

　【Ultimate Skills: Moist Voice, Alluring Voice】

　……

　Dark clearly prefers the ball-shaped sea lion to the wrestling eagleman.

　Despite having only two stars, Popplio, as one of the starter Pokémon in Pokémon Sun and Moon, possesses enormous evolutionary potential!

　[Pokkuri Sea Lion → Flowery Sea Lion → Lionhead Sea Lion]

　The final evolved form, Primarina, is a Pokémon modeled after a mermaid.

　Looking at the data panel, "Balloon Sea Lion's" stats are only average among two-star Pokémon, very similar to Eevee.

　However, as a purple card, it has two skills: a passive skill evolved from the hidden trait "Moist Voice" and the fairy-type skill "Charming Voice".

　[Moist Voice: All sound-based moves become Water-type.]

　[Enchanting Voice: Emits a seductive cry, inflicting psychological damage on the opponent.]

　Each magical spirit possesses its own attribute, and under normal circumstances, the power of special moves using other attributes will be greatly reduced.

　Only by using its own special move can it be fully utilized.

　Like "Fairy Skin" in "Sylveon: Sylveon," "Wet Voice" is a passive move that converts other types into its own type. However, "Wet Voice" does not have any additional power boost.

　Unfortunately, his only ultimate move, "Enchanting Voice," is not very powerful.

　Even after being converted into a skill specific to this skill category, it is still unremarkable.

　Because Sylveon possesses the "Enchanting Voice," Dark is no stranger to it.

　However, without the "charming body" as a foundation, the "Ball-Ball Sea Lion" cannot exert the charm effect of the "charming voice".

　This is, undeniably, a great pity.

　……

　In the evolutionary chain of Popplio, both Popplio and Sprite are pure Water-type, while only the final evolution form, Primarina, has the additional Fairy-type!

　This means that the evolution of "Lionia" will likely use the "Paradise" series of magic cards!

　But that was already the second stage of evolution.

　Before that, Dark needs to figure out how to evolve "Ball-Ball Sea Lion" into "Flower-Colored Sea Lion".

　The "Pride" card series is clearly not suitable.

　There's a good chance it will be part of the "Paradise" card series.

　But indeed, "jealousy" was the first choice.

　The symbol of "jealousy" is Mercury, whose element is water, which is the great sin that perfectly matches the mermaid.

　However, Dark still summoned "Ball-Ball Sea Lion" and then used three Great Sin cards in turn, as if to "awaken its intelligence"!

　And sure enough.

　The first two "Pride" cards had little effect, and although the last "Elysium III" card caused some phenomena, it did not lead to the evolution of "Balloon Sea Lion".

　There was no star-up phenomenon like in "Eevee: Monster Hunter".

　Clearly, "Eevee" is special; like "Ditto," it can be affected by any type of "Sin Card."

　"Momo!"

　"Okay, touch it, touch it."

　Dark reluctantly dealt with the ecstatically transformed Ball-Ball Sea Lion, temporarily setting aside his intention to start cleaning up immediately.

　……

　Today's experiment has come to an end, and we have learned a great deal.