Birthing Legends: My Womb Creates SSS Monsters-Chapter 42: Natural Evolution Via Elemental Possession.

The Fire Elemental Soul seems to hear her. With its last ounce of strength, it surged through the water, a tiny streak of red light diving into the Field Frog’s chest. The frog froze, its eyes wide. Suddenly, the water around it began to hiss and steam.

"Look, Lucy! It’s happening!"

Maddy leaned over the water, her wings buzzing in excitement. The frog’s green skin began to darken into a deep, charred black. Glowing orange veins, like flowing lava, spread across its back. Its feet grew long and clawed, and its throat sac pulsed with the rhythm of a coal burning furnace.

[Response: This is natural evolution through elemental possession. Unlike trait absorption, this is a symbiotic advancement. You are witnessing a live evolutionary phenomenon.]

"So this is how it happens naturally? Not through eating. Not through force. Just... out of luck?"

Maddy stood still, watching the newly evolved monster hop onto a rock as if nothing extraordinary had happened.

"It’s incredible. On Earth, a frog starts as an egg, then a tadpole. It takes weeks of slow growth. Here, a soul just hits ’upgrade’ and skips a hundred years of biology."

Her eyes narrowed slightly, not in jealousy but in calculation.

"So evolution here isn’t just survival of the fittest... it’s survival of the fortunate. LMAO!"

[Elemental Souls appear in most regions. Many originate from fallen monsters or fallen users. If left without hosts, they dissipate permanently.]

Maddy’s expression shifted.

"So there are more of them? Just... floating around, waiting?"

[Correct. If you encounter one, it is advisable to secure it before it fades.]

Maddy looked back at the Flame Frog, now happily flicking a tiny flame from its mouth like it had always done it.

[New Monsterpedia Entry: Flame Frog]

[Flame Frog (Evolved Form) - Habitat: Caves / Volcanoes / Swamps]

[A highly aggressive amphibian adapted to extreme heat and volatile environments. Its skin is hot enough to boil the water it swims in, and it can launch explosive fireballs by compressing heat in its throat.]

Maddy read the first words...

"Highly aggressive... HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE!?"

Just as she repeated the words, a fireball thrice her size hurtled toward her face.

BOOM!

Flames licked past her as she shook her head, coughing. The fireball didn’t even leave a scratch, she looked completely unharmed, still pristine.

"Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me! I literally evolved you into a fire breathing amphibian!!"

The frog didn’t care about gratitude. Its throat sac ballooned to three times its size, glowing like a furnace.

POOF!

Another fireball shot toward her. Maddy tilted her head just in time, the blazing orb whistled past her ear and slammed into the cave wall with the force of a grenade.

"Okay! So we’re doing this! Fine! Let’s check the stats of yours then!"

She appraised it.

[Magic: 400,000 | Might: 300,000]

Maddy went completely still.

"...Four hundred thousand magic?! That’s ridiculously high. I just witnessed the birth of the strongest variant of a wizard type carnivorous amphibian. Not some fire spitting hopper... this one’s a true caster!"

Suddenly, the water behind the Flame Frog started bubbling. Five more Field Frogs spawned from the green mana galaxy at the river’s bottom. They didn’t have fire, but they seemed to recognize the Flame Frog as their leader. They leaped into the air, their tongues shooting out like pink harpoons.

"Oops, licking me will get you fried frogs."

As their tongue stick to Maddy’s body and wings they instantly got shocked by her Static Discharge. They were totally fried instantly, and the vibration shook their tiny brains so hard they fell back into the river like limp noodles.

"Next time, maybe I’ll write to my body... DANGER: High Voltage."

The five fried frogs was instantly defeated, and her hellmouth flared at the riverbed when their body is.

The Flame Frog roared... well, it was more of a high pitched, steaming hiss and launched a rapid fire volley of three fireballs. Maddy didn’t dodge this time. She activated her Instant Mud Armor from the Tremor Toad, coating her front in a thick, protective layer of earth.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The fireballs hit the mud, baking it into hard ceramic but leaving Maddy unharmed.

"I won’t let you smoke me again!"

This time, she was angry. Maddy dove into the earth, manifesting her Sword Spider chitin along her head. Moving like a predator through the soil, she "swam" with Rapid Burrowing and Earth Mobility, her Improved Reflexes guiding every twist and turn.

Her momentum carried her straight toward the Flame Frog, a perfect mix of shark like speed and bull like force.

"SWORD RUSH!"

Her chitin tipped head slammed into the Frog, piercing its chest with surgical precision. The amphibian thrashed, trying to spit a fireball, but Maddy twisted slightly in the ground, slicing along its throat and puncturing vital organs. Sparks of heat hissed as her reinforced chitin cut through muscle and bone.

"That... that was clean. Didn’t even give it a chance to react."

[System Notice]

[Congratulations! You acquired a skill: Sword Rush]

[Sword Rush: Propel your body forward at extreme speed, using hardened bladed parts to deliver a piercing charge attack. Can burrow through terrain, break enemy defenses, and strike vital points before the target can react. Effect scales with the user’s momentum and the sharpness and durability of the bladed body parts.]

The hellmouth icon flared at the flame frog and those field frogs who were at the riverbed, Maddy instantly activated it.

"INGEST!"

CHOMP!

[System Notice]

[You have ingested multiple objects containing traits.]

[Flame Frog]

[Trait Acquired: Thermal Skin]

[Body surface maintains extreme heat, capable of boiling surrounding water and deterring close-range attackers.]

[Trait Acquired: Fireball Projection]

[Compresses heat in the throat to launch explosive fire projectiles at targets.]

[Trait Acquired: Heat Resistance]

[Endures extreme temperatures without injury, including lava, hot steam, and intense ambient heat.]

[Trait Acquired: Combustive Aura]

[Emits residual heat around the body, creating a short-range deterrent effect and slightly raising ambient temperature.]

[Trait Acquired: Fire Element (Basic)]

[Grants natural affinity with Fire, enhancing control over Fire based abilities and increasing resistance to Fire aligned attacks.]

[Trait Acquired: Flame Frog Body Parts]

[You may now manifest any portion of the Flame Frog’s anatomy—arms, legs, or the entire physical form with perfect precision. These examples are not limiting; any part can be used.]

[Field Frog]

[Trait Acquired: Elastic Tongue]

[Tongue composed of highly elastic muscle fibers capable of rapid extension and retraction, allowing long-range grasping and precise prey capture.]

[Trait Acquired: Sticky Tongue]

[Long, adhesive tongue allows for rapid prey capture within close range.]

[Trait Acquired: Moist Skin]