Fey Evolution Merchant (Web Novel)
chapter-2003

2003 Gaea Begin River’s Ending!

The Gaea Begin River’s body was constantly being reformed inside the river.

At that moment, the Gaea Begin River still retained its original appearance.

However, its pink hair had become crystalline, and nine different moving golden patterns appeared in its eyes.

It was now wearing an exquisite pink and golden garment. It looked exceptionally pristine on the Gaea Begin River.

The Gaea Begin River came up to Lin Yuan and said softly, “My name is Begin Lady. I gave myself this name when I gained intelligence.”

Lin Yuan did not feel much when he heard what Begin Lady said. Nonetheless, Morbius knew that Begin Lady had acknowledged Lin Yuan. Otherwise, a high-level lifeform would not tell its name to others without being asked, but only to those it deemed important to it.

It would not tell its name to anyone else besides Lin Yuan for the rest of its life.

Thus, even without swearing, Begin Lady would go on to follow Lin Yuan after the Heaven’s Trial and protect him like it would family.

A contract was the greatest insult to a high-rank lifeform.

Mutual sincerity was the only acceptable medium of lifelong bonding.

Lin Yuan did not know what the significance of Begin Lady telling him its real name was.

But since Begin Lady had introduced itself, Lin Yuan smiled and reached his hand out to Begin Lady as he said, “I’m Lin Yuan.”

Faced with Lin Yuan’s smile, Begin Lady’s lips turned up, and it clasped Lin Yuan’s hands.

At that moment, 26 golden eyes suddenly appeared in the sky. They were lined up in the shape of a snake.

The 26 eyes appeared bone-chilling to anyone who saw them.

After the 26 eyes appeared, they focused on Begin Lady and were instantly filled with fury.

The eyes turned to slits.

The first eye turned into a beam of light and shot out at Begin Lady.

In order to ensure that the first attack from the test did not affect Lin Yuan, Begin Lady stepped on the tide and kicked up a gold and red wave that charged at the sky to take on the attack.

After the 26 eyes appeared, Morbius sighed, “Partner, Begin Lady isn’t a lower faerie but an intermediate one. It will be difficult for it to pass the Heaven’s Trial! If it can truly pass the Heaven’s Trial, you have to ask how it gained intelligence. It would be difficult to produce a lower faerie in the main world, even with spirit qi that is ten times more concentrated. How was an intermediate one produced here?”

Lin Yuan had already heard Morbius say that faeries needed to take the test from the heavens.

The Heaven’s Trial was just like the Trial of World Creation and World Cleansing in that the attacks only became increasingly powerful. Every attack had to be sustained in order to pass.

A lower faerie only had to sustain 16 attacks from the Heaven’s Trial, while the intermediate faerie needed to sustain 26. This meant that an intermediate faerie had to sustain ten more attacks than a lower faerie.

Morbius previously was not worried because it assumed that Begin Lady was a lower faerie, and it knew how many resources Lin Yuan had accumulated in the Spirit Lock spatial zone.

It would be easy to help a lower faerie pass the Heaven’s Trial, but this would not be the case for an intermediate faerie.

“Partner, your opportunity is bigger than what I expected. However, it is rather challenging. We now have two choices. Firstly, we can leave the Sacred Wood Mystic Realm this instant. This small world exists because the Gaea Begin River produced it. If Begin Lady rips open a hole, we’ll be able to leave.”

When he heard what Morbius said, Lin Yuan asked seriously, “Will we stand a chance if we take the second choice?”

Since Lin Yuan was asking about the second choice even before it said anything about it, Morbius knew that Lin Yuan’s mind was already made up.

“We will stand a chance, but it will be a gamble. Partner, a gamble means that there’s also the possibility of losing. Begin Lady should be able to handle the first 16 attacks easily, but it should reach its limit by the 22nd attack. What we need to do is ensure that Begin Lady won’t die over the course of the remaining four attacks.”

Morbius liked how Lin Yuan looked when he was resolute, and it would not interfere with his feelings.

For some reason, Morbius found Lin Yuan’s current expression to be familiar.

It was a feeling that left Morbius sentimental.

Things indeed progressed as per Morbius’ expectations—Begin Lady handled the first 16 attacks smoothly.

But when the 17th attack arrived, Lin Yuan could clearly sense that Begin Lady was struggling.

Each of the attacks was more intense than the last one.

From the way that Begin Lady handled the first 16 attacks, Lin Yuan knew that the power of each subsequent attack did not multiply from the previous one, but the power would increase by at least 30% each time.

If things continued like this, the power of the 26th attack would be at least five times more powerful than the 17th attack.

There was no way that Begin Lady would be able to handle an attack of such power.

When he saw how difficult it was for Begin Lady to handle the 17th attack, Lin Yuan thought, Begin Lady might not even make it to the 22nd attack. No one understands Begin Lady’s current situation better than itself.

It was likely that Begin Lady was already starting to feel the twinges of despair.

Lin Yuan was right. Begin Lady could already feel that its time on this earth was coming to an end.