If he wanted to risk changing Red Thorn’s evolution path to evolving its ortet, then its evolution potential would have been wasted. Naturally, he would not do that.
The second evolution path that Red Thorn had transmitted was maintaining its ortet’s and child ramets’ co-evolution.
While enhancing the ortet’s attack ability, it would also enhance the sea of flowers’ combat ability. This evolution path was also the one Lin Yuan had been letting Red Thorn choose so far.
This evolution method maintained part of Red Thorn’s ortet’s combat ability while enhancing the spawned sea of flowers spawned.
However, Lin Yuan hesitated when he saw Red Thorn’s third evolution request. It was what he had been thinking about in the past few days.
It could be said that Red Thorn would give up on its ortet’s combat ability for the third evolution request. The combat ability of the spawned child ramets and ramets would be increased instead. This would greatly enhance their strength and the speed at which the sea of flowers spread.
If Red Thorn chose this third evolution path when it became a Fantasy Breed, it would greatly weaken the ortet’s combat ability.
This would let the ortet change from being a unit with combat ability to a purely producing unit.
Such an evolution method could be said to be like the first one—They were evolving toward the extreme. It was just that it would turn from an extreme single-target to multi-target attacker for the first one.
However, this third evolution path also coincided with the evolution path that Lin Yuan had always let Red Thorn evolve toward.
The Acid Corrosion Queen Bee that parasitized in Red Thorn’s body could completely take up the role of a single-target attacker.
In fact, Red Thorn’s ortet did not need to have an extremely strong defense either. Lin Yuan’s Source Sand could protect Red Thorn’s ortet, and so could the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee.
More importantly, based on Red Thorn’s recent performance in battles, its ortet single-target combat ability was hardly effective, regardless of whether it was on Star Web or the battles in the dimensional rift.
Instead, Red Thorn’s child ramets’ and ramets’ sea of flowers had played a role.
Although the second evolution path did not appear to be a mistake and was evolving in an all-rounded manner, it was too average and even mediocre.
Red Thorn was not Lin Yuan’s only fey. Thus, he did not need it to take care of everything. There were times when a specific contracted fey excelled in a specific area, often better than its overall development.
Although it seemed that Lin Yuan’s Red Thorn and Source Sand were similar in the way they developed, they had different positions in his heart.
The Source Sand was an elemental lifeform, so it was destined to develop in different directions.
Lin Yuan focused on the development of its defense while nurturing it. However, he also made use of the fact that the Source Sand’s control, output, and defense advantages could fill some gaps in the battlefield.
Powerful single-target feys like Chimey and the Acid Corrosion Queen Bee were sharp swords. Feys that could play a control role, just like Red Thorn and the Blue Flash Purple Butterfly, were twisting vines while healing feys like the Jasmine Lily and Spirit-Gather Goldfish were replenishing springs.
The Source Sand was his core fey that connected all of them together.
If Lin Yuan let Red Thorn take the third evolution path, it would be akin to changing the twisting vines into twisting snakes, turning the thorns on the vines into the poisonous teeth on a snake’s head. While increasing the sea of flowers’ control, it would also increase its lethality. This would allow him to reach another level on multi-target control and output.
More importantly, Red Thorn’s multi-target path was different from other feys, like Chen Hongfeng’s Huge-Tailed Swamp Lizard.
An elemental magic-type multi-target attack method like the one the Huge-Tailed Swamp Lizard used certainly could immediately create a wave of output.
However, it consumed a large amount of spiritual power and would stop without a spiritual power supply.
On the other hand, as long as Red Thorn’s ortet was not killed, it could rely on the sea of flowers to kill the target and gain flesh energy. As such, its sea of flowers would always have the ability to fight.
Furthermore, Red Thorn’s true strength did not lie in the inherent mode of duels on an elevated stage on Star Tower.
It could absorb a huge amount of flesh energy and rapidly spread out the sea of flowers when facing numerous dimensional lifeforms. Then, it could play a decisive suppressive role.
Therefore, in a way, any multi-target attacks without strong power were just weak before Red Thorn.
Finally, Lin Yuan made up his mind and let Red Thorn choose the third evolution path.
At that moment, Red Thorn awakened from its seven days of enlightenment. Lin Yuan looked at it and found that it had been promoted from Epic to Legend. Its ortet’s size was much bigger, and its vines much thicker than before.
Lin Yuan suddenly found that Red Thorn really felt like a single-target attack fey as he looked at it. After Red Thorn became a Fantasy Breed, it would welcome the biggest metamorphosis ever since it had hatched.
Endless Summer and the Mother of Bloodbath, which had been guarding outside, now saw that Red Thorn had been promoted from Epic to Legend.
Endless Summer wanted to go forward to congratulate, but it realized that the Mother of Bloodbath stopped it and shook its head before saying, “Sister Xia, let’s keep watch at a farther place. That plant in the tree hole that had evolved from a Source Seed is going to become a Fantasy Breed.”
Upon hearing that, Endless Summer could not help but recall how difficult it had been to rely on herself to comprehend her Willpower Rune.
The Mother of Bloodbath and Endless Summer were very determined on the path they had taken. If they had not been determined, they could not have become the experts they were now.
“Alright. I was just about to leave this place. I’ll look around again.”
Endless Summer also understood what the Mother of Bloodbath meant. For spirit qi professionals, fusing the Willpower Rune with their contracted feys and promoting them to a Fantasy Breed was a very private matter. It was something that no one should be around to disturb.
Even though Lin Yuan did not say anything, the Mother of Bloodbath and Endless Summer understood this.