Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 43 High Hopes On Basil

While Rocky was practicing the skills listed in the Beast Encyclopedia at the depths of the bamboogrove as usual, he suddenly sensed a strong breath. Someone was approaching. Alarmed, heimmediately ceased his practice and controlled his spiritual power. Almost at the same time, adelicate shadow appeared in front of him.

"Master Mia! What a pleasant surprise to see you here!" Rocky was slightly shocked because it wasMia who came to visit him. He didn't expect her to replace out about that place, which was supposedto be his secret practice spot. He was certain no one would even know that they could replace himthere. "How did she replace out about my secret place?" Rocky wondered stealthily.

"What? Are you surprised to see me?" Mia pretended to be mad at him and asked him as if shecould read his mind.

Just then, a shadow of a beast darted out of the bamboo grove. In the blink of an eye, itapproached Mia. It was Rocky's war beast Uriah.

"Uriah, stop!" Rocky ordered his war beast at once. He was afraid that it might hurt Mia.

Rocky's surprise was boundless when he saw Uriah reach closer to Mia, because it didn't attack herat all. Instead, it was meekly walking around Mia like a pet sheep, and kept licking her jade-likebeautiful hand. Thinking that licking was not enough to show its affection to Mia, Uriah even beganto rub its head against Mia's legs and arms. Mia, on the other hand, did not seem to be irritated byits intimate behavior and simply allowed it to do as it wished. Rather she was patting it softly."Wow, Uriah, you are unbelievable! When you see a beauty, you become so excited that you forgeteven your own master!” Rocky grumbled, but deep inside, he envied his war beast as it could be soclose to Mia. He kept thinking that if only he had been treated by Mia like that.

"It looks like what I have heard is true. I didn't expect that your war beast would grow to this extentin such a short time," Mia remarked, narrowing her eyes. Some time ago, she had met Priest Dean.While returning, she accidentally heard a few young men talking about what had happened toRocky recently. It was at that moment that she got to know about the conflict which happened inprivate two days ago between Rocky and Bear. Rocky even had a fierce fight with Bear's three-starwar beast Lion Eagle. It was surprising that in the end, the Lion Eagle was brutally defeated by amore powerful war beast. Towards the end, Lion Eagle was supposed to have got so intimidatedthat it didn't have the slightest courage to fight back. After overhearing the young men, shecouldn't help but ask them specifically whose war beast had the power to defeat Lion Eagle. Theyinformed her that it was Rocky's. Mia was surprised and she came to Rocky to confirm thatinformation. She also had to talk to him about another important matter.

Rocky got a feeling that Mia knew about what Uriah had done recently. He knew he couldn't hide itfrom her anymore, so he smiled and said, "I can't believe that even Master Mia has come to knowabout it. If I am guessing right, by now, what Uriah has done is known to people all over the world.”"Although I am not a beast evaluator, I can tell that your war beast could be a three-star war beast. Ithink its original potential was not evaluated correctly by the first beast evaluator, right? It's nowonder that Bear's three-star Lion Eagle was beaten hard by your war beast. But, how could youmake its potential increase by such a large extent only within a month? Did you ever feed itanything special to improve its power?" Mia asked Rocky as she was filled with curiosity. She lookedat him with a puzzled expression. She had enough reason to be baffled. Being inferior to a one-starwar beast, the Uriah she had seen earlier was like a weak, ordinary pet. Within a month, somehow, itmade great improvement and became a three-star war beast!

Such a shocking improvement was usually impossible unless Uriah actually had the potential to be athree-star war beast, which had not been found out for some reason. That was probably the reasonwhy it was regarded as a war beast that was weaker than even a one-star beast. Since it had madesuch an abrupt and quick improvement in its power, Mia had a hunch that Uriah must have eatensomething special that stimulated the potential hidden in its body, but Mia was not sure about that.Only Rocky knew the real reason for Uriah’s development.

"I have my own way. Don't ask as it's a secret and I will never tell you," Rocky said, adding to themystery. He would not tell Mia that the reason for Uriah’s improvement was because it hadswallowed a yellow spiritual crystal. He knew that if Mia got to know about the yellow spiritualcrystal, she would certainly ask him where it came from. He did not want to reveal to anyone thatthe other day, he got it from Marcia. He had promised Marcia that he would keep everything thathappened on that day as a secret. He had to keep his promise. Therefore, to stop Mia from diggingdeep into the topic, he immediately changed the subject and asked, "Master Mia, may I ask why youwere looking for me? And how did you know that I am here?"

"Well, the dragon field is a small place, after all. It is easy for me to replace anyone in this place!” Miahad a rare smile and said. "As for why I was looking for you, have you forgotten that I gave you onlya month off? Your holiday ended yesterday. Today, you were supposed to show up at the trainingplace, but you didn't.

"Oh! Is that so? Master Mia, you have such a good memory. Why do you care about me so much?Maybe, you do have some feelings for me!" Rocky flirted boldly and laughed. How could he notknow that his one month holiday had come to an end! The fact was that he didn't want to start thetraining right away and wanted to take a few more days off. But he hadn't expected Mia to look forhim in his absence.

"I'm not in the mood to hear your jokes. From tomorrow onwards, your training will be doubled.Next month, the Dragon Birth Festival will be held in our empire. That time you and other royalspirit manipulators will have to communicate and compete with the phoenix spirit manipulators ofthe Magic Phoenix Empire. I don't want you to be the one who will weaken our overall powerbecause you're a month short of training,” Mia said sternly.

Rocky listened, smiled, and looked at Mia, but spoke nothing. Actually, his mind was racing fast. “If Itold you that I was already at the fourth grade of Mortal Stage, I'm sure that you wouldn't have saidthose words to me. But at present, I prefer not to let you know about that. Just wait and watch.When you finally learn the fact by yourself, you'll be pleasantly surprised! Not just you! Everyone willbe surprised!" Rocky was lost in his thoughts.

"Why are you smiling?" Mia asked suspiciously, when she saw an odd smile on Rocky's face."Nothing! Never mind. Master Mia, if you have nothing else to order or tell me, I'd like to go back tomy room now." Without waiting for Mia's reply, Rocky turned to his war beast, who was still rubbingagainst Mia's hands, and said, "Uriah, you lady-killer! Let's go now!" After that, he roared to Uriah, asif he was giving it the signal to leave.

Uriah roared a few times and seemed to be very reluctant to leave Mia, but as a war beast, it wasalso aware that it should obey its master's orders. Thus, unwillingly, it began to follow Rocky andleft.

"Originally, I had some hopes on him. I was hoping that he would make big improvements in hisspiritual power. Yet, even after a month, his spiritual power does not seem to have improved much,Though he has a three-star war beast now, if as a royal spirit manipulator, he is not strong enough,it will be very difficult for him to manipulate his own war beast!" Mia looked at the back of Rockywhile he walked away and whispered in disappointment.

Rocky took Uriah back to his room, and saw his roommate Flint. He immediately greeted him.

Flint's eyes fell upon Uriah. With eyes wide open, he looked back at Rocky and then again at Uriah.He looked surprised and stammered, "Is it really your Uriah?"

"Yes, it is. Is there a problem?" Rocky replied, raising his eyebrows.

"So, all those rumors about your war beast are true! Everyone is talking about your war beast," Flintadded and still couldn't believe his eyes. As a result, he couldn't stop himself as he had a few morelooks at Uriah. A month ago, it was as small and weak as a puppy. Now, it was half as tall as an adultand looked so beefy. Flint thought it was as large as his war beast Cloud Tiger.

"It turns out that I'm a celebrity now," Rocky murmured to himself with a smile. "By the way, I hopeyou remember the promise you made yesterday. So, can I borrow your Cloud Tiger now?" He askedFlint.

"All right! But just for three days,” Flint stressed on the number, as he replied to Rocky.

"Then we start from tonight!" Rocky exclaimed at once and nodded his head. He would be able todo what he had planned.

When the evening fell, Rocky took Uriah and Flint's Cloud Tiger to the bamboo grove and began touse Cloud Tiger to practice the Magical Evaluation Skill. Rocky immediately felt that using a spirit-manipulated beast for practice was quite different from practicing without it.

"Evaluate!" Rocky said as he began to exercise his Magical Evaluation Skill. After making Cloud Tigersit well, he sat down in front of it with his legs crossed and slowly began to work on the MagicalEvaluation Skill. As time passed, a triangular mark appeared at the foot of Cloud Tiger. The nextmoment, the mark began to shine brightly and its light got reflected on it. Meanwhile, its bodyprojected a cluster of light with different sizes and different wavelengths, which were arranged in aunique sequence. These were all the qualities of Cloud Tiger, which it had from the time when it wasborn.

Although Cloud Tiger was a two-star war beast, its strength didn't even reach the power of a one-star war beast. Therefore, Rocky's Magical Evaluation Skill could easily evaluate all its qualities.Suddenly Rocky noticed that among all the rays of light which were reflected on Cloud Tiger, thebrightest and thickest of them was a cloud of silver-white light. It immediately caught his attention.He clearly remembered that Flint had once told him that Cloud Tiger was a war beast whose specialquality was its strong power, but the silver-white light didn't represent the power. Only red lightrepresented. If Cloud Tiger's special quality was power indeed, the brightest and biggest lightshould be the red light. Based on the above deductions, Rocky felt that there must be somethingwrong with Flint's knowledge about his Cloud Tiger. Probably Flint wasn't fully aware of the strengthof his own war beast!