Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1230 - 335: The Clay-footed Giant of Gebul_2

Chapter 1230: Chapter 335: The Clay-footed Giant of Gebul_2

The magic ability known as "Lucent Gold," like Golinny’s magical pet, the Mercury Giant Snail, and its Mercury Element magic, was an extremely unconventional form of magic. Its sole purpose was freeform mimicry. If the Seven-Colored Dragon were imprisoned in a cage, it could use the power of Lucent Gold to transform itself into a long earthworm and effortlessly escape. However, the combat strength of the Seven-Colored Dragon was so terrifying that no one had ever managed to push them to such a point.

"Our Mudfoot Giants captured a Magical Beast and used ’Doppler Rays’ to transform this Magical Beast into one of the Lucent Gold Element. Then we had it morph into thigh-high boots, so that our Mudfoot Giants wouldn’t have to fear the rain anymore," Chief Kien said with a laugh.

"Then you guys would be invincible!" Liu exclaimed in shock, "Even if the Mulan Empire’s Imam and their Flying Lizards were hit by your ’Doppler Rays,’ no matter what kind of Magical Power they have, they’d have to obediently transform into Lucent Gold Element Mana. They’d be doomed! With their magic changed, they wouldn’t even know how to release it!"

"It’s not as exaggerated as you say! Our ’Doppler Rays’ can only be used effectively at close range, face to face," Chief Kien said with a wry smile and a shrug, "Of course, if some foolish Imam really gets hit by our rays at close range, they’d definitely be done for. As for Magical Beasts, there’s no need to worry. Even if transformed, they can at least preserve one instant magic spell of the same form. As for the Flying Lizards, we Mudfoot Giants aren’t afraid of them but also have no way of subduing them——the ’Doppler Rays’ must be used at close range. To transform a Magical Beast, we must first subdue it. Without subduing, there can be no transformation, so being invincible is far from the truth."

Liu suddenly realized that these peculiar rays were very similar to his "Shadow Assault" or Medusa’s "Gaze Petrification Technique," both requiring short-range to be effective. They were strong but also quite limited.

"Strange! Rommel captured you and locked you up here, what for? To make Magical Beast boots for him?" Liu wondered.

"He wants us to help him create Phantom Beast armor," Chief Kien said, snorting with disdain, "A Magical Beast transformed by our ’Doppler Rays’ is what we Mudfoot Giants call a Phantom Beast, a Magical Beast that can magically mimic shapes. Look at our height. A Phantom Beast that we make into thigh-high boots could very well serve as Phantom Beast armor for the Mulanese!"

"Phantom Beast armor? Does this have something to do with the Phantom Beast Knights in the Mulan Imperial Guard?" Liu seemed to have caught onto something, but couldn’t quite piece together the puzzle in his mind.

"Yes! The Mulan Empire’s Phantom Beast Knights—their mounts are actually the offspring of the discarded Phantom Beast boots of our Mudfoot Giant ancestors over millions of years," Chief Kien said, wiping his nose and speaking in a deep nasal voice, "We Mudfoot Giants can’t possibly wear the same pair of Phantom Beast boots our whole lives; after all, we live for two thousand years."

"What kind of Magical Beast do you Mudfoot Giants typically use to transform into Phantom Beast boots?" Liu eagerly asked.

"The large Magical Beasts in the desert are rare, and the larger their size, the higher their level, as you’ve seen. Our Mudfoot Giant feet aren’t small, so to make thigh-high boots, the Magical Beast chosen for transformation can’t be too small. Generally, we use the ’Petrification Tortoise,’ a Magical Beast with a large enough body and no offensive abilities, making it very safe to capture and perfect for transformation into Phantom Beast boots," Chief Kien said, scratching his head and rubbing his large feet together, giving Liu an embarrassed smile.

Liu closed his eyes and exhaled deeply, coming to realize that the origin of the Phantom Beast Knights was linked with these Mudfoot Giants—a fact unimaginable in his wildest dreams.

"Wait a minute!" Liu suddenly opened his eyes wide, "I clearly saw Mulan’s Phantom Beast Knights flying in the sky! Where does a ’Petrification Tortoise’ get wings?"

"Phantom Beasts can freely shape-shift using Lucent Gold magic. If we make a Phantom Beast mimic the appearance of Vulture People on the warriors’ bodies, wouldn’t they then have wings to fly with? The carrying capacity of a Phantom Beast remains the same regardless of its form," the Mudfoot Giant chieftain chuckled, "Mudfoot Giants are too heavy, but how heavy could a Mulanese be?"

Liu slapped his forehead, cursing himself for being an idiot!

Golinny used her magical pet, the Mercury Giant Snail, to morph into armor for her followers, creating a novel way of using Magical Beasts. He had thought it was an innovation, but now it seemed his thinking had not been broad enough. Mercury Element Beasts and Lucent Gold Element Beasts operated on the same principle—they were both liquid metal magic, entirely capable of freeform mimicry. If they transformed into heavily armored Biao people’s sky knights, they could just as well soar into the sky!

Taming a wild Magical Beast into a mount was similar to taming a wild horse; though a mount subdued by brute force could not match the connection between a priest and their magical pet, the rapport between a Knight and their Magical Beast mount could be quite impressive. No wonder Rommel claimed that two hundred Phantom Beast Knights could compete with a Giant Dragon! Those discarded Phantom Beast boots of the Mudfoot Giants, all transformed from ’Petrification Tortoises’—a Magical Beast that is implied to only have a ’Petrification Spell’—maintained the same instant magic form after transformation with Doppler Rays. This meant they could still apply metallic layers to their bodies fifteen to twenty times instantaneously. With their magical resistance surpassing even their petrified state, the Mulan Knights wrapped in such Phantom Beast armor in their groups of two hundred could indeed match a Giant Dragon.