Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God-Chapter 2050 - 949: Overwhelming Fortune—Can You Handle It? (Part 3)
Although without those unique armaments, the power of the armed cloud manta will be greatly discounted.
However, if equipped with magical ballista carriages, it becomes a powerful armed transport aircraft, coveted by all factions.
But the number of such super giant magical beasts is always scarce, with extremely strong camouflage abilities, and their whereabouts are elusive.
Finding them is a very headache-inducing problem, highly dependent on luck.
"Three?" Gaven couldn’t help but be taken aback.
He certainly knew the difficulty of searching for such super giant magical beasts. Until now, he only had three adults in his hands, plus eight cloud manta eggs still incubating.
Surprisingly, Palado found three at once.
How lucky can one be?
Could it be that I’ve misjudged him? Is he secretly the Chosen of the Goddess of Luck, Tymora?
"A family of three, one adult cloud manta and two little cloud mantas," Palado added, "According to our previous agreement, as long as the Commander helps me control the adult cloud manta, the two little cloud mantas can be counted as one, as compensation for the Commander."
Gaven offered these Seth merchants an exchange rate of one for one.
Swapping the ownership of one adult cloud manta for the control of one adult cloud manta.
No other payment methods can replace it; it can only be first money, then goods.
That is, the first ownership belongs to Gaven, and only then will it be the Seth merchant’s.
The conditions were nothing short of overbearing.
But those Seth merchants could only accept it begrudgingly because Gaven held a monopoly on this.
If you can find a way to control the adult cloud manta, there’s no need to seek him out.
Thus, Lord Palado’s proposal came about now.
In the long run, it might indeed be a loss, as they are two potential adult cloud mantas after all.
But as a merchant, Lord Palado is more concerned about short-term benefits.
He will be the second power to master the cloud manta, with many opportunities to shine in the upcoming wars, earning him substantial profits and allowing him to enter commercial fields previously out of reach.
Gaven glanced at his dimensional space, confirmed he had enough fairy bracelets, and said outright, "Lead the way."
He did not give a direct answer.
Who knows exactly how small are the little cloud mantas Palado mentioned.
If they are the kind that is half-grown, and could mature in a few years, then the deal might be worthwhile.
If they had just hatched not long ago, it would be a huge loss for him.
Though these super giant magical beasts do not grow as slowly as giant dragons, they still take a long time, needing twenty to thirty years to reach adulthood.
This also means they have a long lifespan, reaching up to hundreds of years.
Lord Palado didn’t waste any words either, directly rotating the teleportation ring with Gaven and Duis.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Immediately, the familiar sound of wind howling reached Gaven’s ears, the cry of a cloud manta.
Looking around, the surroundings were an open plain, stretching as far as the eye could see.
Not far away, two heavily scarred half-grown cloud mantas were bound to the ground, silent by magic and ropes.
Overhead, an adult cloud manta kept circling, letting out angry wind howls, repeatedly attempting to swoop down to rescue the trapped little cloud mantas, but being blocked by invisible magical barriers each time.
Lord Palado’s chubby face bore undisguised embarrassment, "The difficulty of capturing this adult cloud manta far exceeded our estimates, so we could only use this clever tactic to tether it. I wonder if the Commander is willing to do this deal."
In his previous shipyard trade terms, he was prepared to include all three cloud mantas.
He hoped to use this to make Gaven help tame all of them, one large and two small.
To his surprise, Gaven did not follow the usual path, offering terms that directly made him swallow his words.
He could only proceed with the previous trade method.
"Deal," Gaven readily agreed upon seeing the size of the two little cloud mantas.
Their smallness was relative to the adult cloud manta.
In reality, their wingspans were twelve or thirteen meters.
They could mature in three to five years.
Moreover, they weren’t unusable now, only they had a smaller carrying capacity, just a few dozen tons.
In some special missions with not much transport volume, they were still very useful, such as deploying special operations units.
Being small had its advantages; this meant they were more maneuverable in the air, had less exhaust during ascent and descent, and naturally had faster ascent and descent speeds.
In the same vein, the cloud manta eggs being incubated were in a similar situation.
After hatching, immediate use couldn’t be guaranteed.
A year or so of nurturing would suffice for them to serve as a special flying mount—the size of the cloud manta eggs themselves is astonishing, and they hatch into at least medium-sized forms.
"You all stand back, I won’t be able to look after you in a moment." Gaven dropped a sentence and unfolded his energy dragon wings to take off.
Taming cloud mantas, he was very experienced with it.
There were only three steps he needed to take.
The first step, mount the back.
For Gaven, this used to be the hardest part.
These cloud mantas were more agile in the air than imagined, and their psychic control abilities were meant to prepare for this.
Anything they remotely controlled would typically be whisked away easily, the fear being they’d either fling Gaven as an object or send him into their mouths.
In the first three attempts, Gaven had the Flying Dragon Legion cover him to create opportunities to mount their backs.
However, he now had better choices.
When that anxious cloud manta attempted to use its psychic control ability to manipulate Gaven, intending to hurl this annoying human away.
Gaven’s body abruptly shone with a radiant blue light.
Boom!
Invisible energy collided fiercely in the air, directly creating a psychic explosion.
Possessing psychic energy was not limited to the cloud manta; Gaven was also now a Psychic Sorcerer with considerable power.
With the advancement of his professional level.
Gaven had a deeper understanding of spellcasting.
Both spells and psychic abilities.
Were just a type of skill.
Unveiling magic power or psychic power in a certain fixed form.
Fundamentally, it was about the mastery of one’s energy itself, particularly with psychic power.
The essence of psychic power wasn’t confined to psychic abilities; as long as he wished, it could be infinitely variable, forming new skills or simply utilizing the psychic energy itself.
What had just occurred was one form of utilizing psychic energy.
Using his psychic energy to intercept and disrupt the enemy’s, thereby reaching the goal of destroying the enemy’s psychic abilities.
This, in a sense, could be referred to as a new psychic ability—psychic ability interception, abbreviated as the Intercepting Spirit Technique.
