After the experiment ended, Dark lifted the Curse Cage.
DemiDevimon felt the preciousness of freedom for the first time and flew out of the balcony as if fleeing, breathing the free air desperately.
After experiencing the cursed cage, compassion for the magical spirits arose in its heart.
This mentality lasted until Dark refined a [Zoo] card.
...
However, although [Curse Cage]'s experiment ended, Dark didn't stop.
He took out the [Phantom Magic Beast] material pack that he had saved two months ago from the drawer.
According to the original plan, he was going to use this pack for the restoration of [Phantom Magic Beast: Eevee] in the future.
After all, hair of a Phantom Magic Beast was very precious and rare.
But now it looked like these could be bought with enough credits.
Traveller Street in Saint Marian was an illusory place where students could buy many treasures that the outside world could hardly even see.
The unique credit system of the castle completely cut this place from the external economic system.
Many merchants on Traveller Street, especially the material merchants, were actually responsible for purchasing materials from students, processing them and then putting them in the store for resale.
As for the handling of some rare items, they were only allowed to bring the materials in and were not allowed to take any of the rare items out.
Every time the merchants entered and left Saint Marian, they would be strictly scrutinized to prevent smuggling.
There was always demand to be in traveller street as the significance of owning even a small shop on Traveller Street was by no means just financial.
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This time, Dark was preparing to refine another [Phantom Magic Beast]!
The refining of [Phantom Magic Beast] was very easy for him now.
A magister should never underestimate any refining process.
So Dark spent a few minutes concentrating, and then began to refine the second [Phantom Magic Beast].
His initial plan was to make another Eevee.
If there were two Eevees, the fault tolerance rate of the deck would become higher and the real combat power would be greatly improved.
But reason told him that the probability of refining another Eevee was very low, almost zero.
The final form of [Phantom Magic Beast] would be affected by various factors such as the materials, time, and climate during refining.
As for "the expectation of the magister", although it was an important factor, it was not the decisive factor.
Moreover, the thoughts of human beings would change almost every second.
Changes in mentality and experience would lead to differences in thinking during the two refining processes.
It was not like the final form of [Phantom Magic Beast] would become an Eevee just by him wanting an Eevee.
...
Such thoughts did not resurface in Dark's mind until the magic card on the table turned into a golden cocoon.
He began to look forward to seeing the form that this [Phantom Magic Beast] would take.
Half a minute later, Dark reached out and placed three fingers on the golden glowing cocoon.
Then he injected magic energy into it.
His thoughts flowed into the cocoon along with the magic energy, and immediately, he sensed the heartbeat inside.
It seemed that some life had opened its eyes in the cocoon.
The golden light shot out from the finely cracked gap. The light spread both sides as the crack widened and the cocoon was cut in half.
After the light gradually faded away, a magic card with a blurred face lay quietly on the table.
Around the magic card, there was a golden circle of light shining!
Dark stretched out two fingers and picked the card up carefully.
The originally blurred transparent outline on the card surface began to change immediately after his gaze fell on the card.
As the shape of the Phantom Magic Beast gradually became fixed, the surprise in Dark's eyes grew stronger.
"This is……"
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[Card name: Phantom Magic Beast (Ditto)]
[Type: spirit card]
[Level: ✪]
[Race: element-type]
[Attribute: normal]
[Magic energy: 100]
[Attack: 100]
[Defense:100]
[Ultimate: Imposter, Transform]
...
Not Eevee, but Ditto!
And among the [Phantom Magic Beast] that were basically white cards, this [Phantom Magic Beast: Ditto] had two ultimates!
Wait, two?
Doesn't it mean that this is a golden card?
After repeatedly confirming that the halo of the magic card was indeed golden, Dark couldn't help but be surprised.
But he held his surprise back in his heart for the time being and continued to check the card.
This golden [Ditto] had two ultimates.
Among them, [Imposter] was obviously a passive technique derived from Ditto's hidden characteristics.
The other ultimate, [Transform] was Ditto's only active skill.
[Imposter: Use [Transform] without consuming magic energy. ]
[Transform: Transforming into the look of an opponent, can copy part of the data up to the magical spirit of the same tier, and can use the exact same ultimate as the opponent. ]
...
Surprise or shock?
In short, Dark felt that his emotions were out of control.
It took him a while to calm down and then he immediately summoned [Phantom Magic Beast: Ditto]!
Ditto, who appeared in the light, looked like a soft jelly. It was like a slightly oversized [Trash Slime]. Its body color was a shade of light purple, its eyes were as small as buttons, and its mouth was curved like a half moon.
Just when Dark was about to reach out (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ, Ditto started [Transform] all of sudden.
With the support of the [Imposter] skill, Ditto simply used the [Transform] skill without consuming magic energy.
So under Dark's gaze, it turned into Dark's appearance little by little.
"Mon, mon~"
The 0.5-meter-high miniature Dark reached out to Dark. Dark, startled, took a step back subconsciously.
Ditto seemed to be frightened, suddenly began to melt and soon returned to the original 0.3-meter-high slimy mass.
Dark hurriedly picked it up and coaxed it for a long time before it smiled again. Then he took out the [Pride Ⅰ], ready to "enlighten" it!
Dark always felt that the most buggy feature of the deadly sin series magic cards was the "enlightenment".
But he still didn't know whether this effect was limited to the magical spirit he refined himself.
In short.
As the dark golden ball of light went into Ditto's body, its body rippled slightly and then exuded a pleasant feeling.
Then it squirmed and transformed, turning into a mini Dark again: "baba?"
Dark showed a faint smile.
Then he was surprised!
Although Ditto couldn't speak clearly, there was no doubt that it could speak.
"Is it because its vocal organ is also transformed to look like humans?"
Dark patted its forehead, asking it to change back quickly.
After all, it was still very awkward to see a miniature figure of himself standing in front of him.
In short, this Ditto was obviously very different from the real Ditto in Pokémon.
This could be seen from the information returned by this magic card.
If it was a real Ditto, the effect of its [Imposter] feature would actually be "Transform upon meeting", and [Transform] would also not have a level limit.
But this Ditto made by Dark could only copy part of the data up to the magical spirit of the same tier.
This "partial data" was also very tricky.
A real Ditto would copy all data except HP.
...
In short, an experiment needed to be carried out.
The experimental subject was also readily available.
Dark immediately called DemiDevimon back.
As soon as DemiDevimon came back, it found that it just had a new family member, so it was immediately relieved.
"Mon, mon~"
Ditto beckoned to DemiDevimon, and immediately turned into DemiDevimon.
They really looked exactly the same!
Even the height and weight were no different.
This was obviously different from what it looked like when it transformed into Dark.
"It seems that Ditto's Transform also has two modes, one is a normal shape change, and the other is the [Transform] skill, which could only be used on magical spirits."
"A familiar spirit is more or less a special type of magical spirit."
Dark picked up [Ditto]'s magic card and injected magic energy.
The image on the card had changed to the appearance of DemiDevimon.
But the name on the card had not changed.
The three values of magic energy, attack, and defense temporarily showed no changes because the two were originally the same, but its skill had become [Demi Dart].
Dark waved to the terrified DemiDevimon, signalling that it could go play on its own.
Then he summoned the only 3-star magical spirit in his hand - Shuckle!
Ditto's [Transform] skill could be removed at any time. If it was just a normal transformation, there would be no CD. But if it was a skill [Transform], the CD would be 3 minutes.
Taking it back to the magic card would cause the [Transform] to be lifted.
For a magical spirit, the three-minute ultimate CD was already very long.
But for skills like [Transform], it was very short.
Three minutes later, Ditto transformed into Shuckle.
Then Dark suddenly realized that the number of "juicers" had doubled!
This was obviously good news and meant that the same amount of juice could be made in half the time.
He then looked at [Ditto]'s magic card again.
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[Card name: Phantom Magic Beast (Ditto)]
[Type: spirit card]
[Level: ✪]
[Race: Insect-type]
[Attribute: Rock-type]
[Magic energy: 100]
[Attack: 0]
[Defense: 2200]
[Ultimate: Sturdy, Power Split, Guard Split, Power Trick]
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Sure enough, all data except the card name, star rank and magic energy had changed!
"This is very similar to the real Ditto with a very few differences and the skills are exactly the same."
"The defense of 2200 is more than enough as an early sacrifice."
"But every ultimate of Shuckle would cost 100 magic energy, while Ditto has only 100 magic energy."
"It's the same as [Phantom Magic Beast: Eevee]'s ultimate Copycat, which means that after using the skill, it would disappear."
"If I need to guarantee its survival while using the skills, I need to configure an energy card like [Energy Potion]."
“This wouldn't be a problem in actual combat."
"But in a duel, it would be cumbersome."
Dark thought hard about the versatility of [Ditto], then took out [Pride II] and [Lust III].
Magic cards of the Pride and Lust series had been proven to be of little use for [Trash Slime], [Shuckle] and [Miltank].
But Dark believed that Ditto, as a Phantom Magic Beast, had the possibility of being different from magical spirits such as [Trash Slime] and [Shuckle].
So before the experiment started, he held some hope for it.
He used [Pride II] first.
Ditto's personality suddenly changed, becoming less clingy.
But after checking the magic card, Dark found that only its magic energy had become 200.
"Wait, it's still in the transformation state!"
Dark suddenly realised what was going on, and immediately ordered Ditto to cancel the transformation.
After the transformation was lifted, Ditto's data really had an obvious change!
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[Card name: Phantom Magic Beast (Ditto)]
[Type: spirit card]
[Level: ✪✪]
[Race: element-type]
[Attribute: normal]
[Magic energy: 200]
[Attack: 200]
[Defense: 200]
[Ultimate: Imposter, Transform]
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"Like Eevee, under the action of [Pride II], Ditto has become a two star magical spirit, and the three stats of magic energy, attack and defense have all become 200!"
For a two-star magical spirit, although it was unusual to have 200 points in every stats, it was twice as high as Ditto's original data.
This meant that it could release at least one ultimate after it transformed into [Shuckle]!
And the change in star rank also made Dark think of a possibility!
"Could it be..."
He was suddenly excited.
...
In order not to let [Pride II] affect the observation of [Lust III], Dark specially waited until the effect of [Pride II] disappeared.
Immediately after that, he activated [Lust III]!
Under the pink light, the insignia of [Lust] appeared in the center of Ditto's abdomen, and then its panel data began to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye!
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[Card name: Phantom Magic Beast (Ditto)]
[Type: Spirit card]
[Level: ✪✪✪✪]
[Race: Element-type]
[Attribute: normal]
[Magic energy: 400]
[Attack: 400]
[Defense:400]
[Ultimate: Imposter, Transform]
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"Four stars, 400 magic energy!"
Of course, that was not the point.
Dark immediately injected some magic energy into the card to check the card information.
"Sure enough, the target range of the [Transform] skill is still the highest magical spirit of the same tier! This means that after using [Lust III], Ditto can already transform into the magical spirit of four to six stars!"
"Although the magic energy value of 400 does not seem to be much, it is enough to use multiple skills!"
Immediately afterwards, Dark summoned [Sylveon] to experiment, and found that it was indeed the case!
In addition to being excited, he was also a little regretful.
If he had used [Lust III·Moon] before, he could enjoy [Sylveon] x3.
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In conclusion, as the third golden card in Dark's hands, [Phantom Magic Beast: Ditto] may have huge flaws in the card itself, but with the assistance of the deadly sin series of magic cards, it was indeed a golden card.
So this could be considered a great gain!
It was a pity that although [Phantom Magic Beast: Ditto] and [DemiDevimon] were both magical spirit cards of the first tier, they were all one-star cards. Although they had more potential, their attributes were not very good. Sometimes they were still inferior to 2-star or 3-star magical spirit cards.
Anyway, Dark still lacked 2-star and 3-star cards that would allow him to fight his opponents head-on.
So, how could he make the 2-star or 3-star cards he needed?
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