Ringo didn't leave the Floating Dragon to advance this time.
Instead, when Ames discovered that Ringo was ready to advance, she simply told him to go ahead in her training room.
He accepted. The room was of average size, but its walls were completely covered in white, made from the toughest bones of Void Dragons. Ames barely used that room, it couldn't withstand her full strength, serving only to prevent her residual energy from causing damage to the rest of the Floating Dragon.
But for Ringo, the room was perfect.
He sat down calmly and took a deep breath, the next moment, his cells, which had been accumulating energy for a long time, were freed from their shackles.
All the energy flowed forcefully as Ringo reached that star-filled void again, advancing towards the evolutionary tree of the Nightmares. He saw that he was almost at the end of this race's evolution, one or two more evolutions and he would reach the top. At that moment, he could simply choose another evolutionary line, complementing his Nightmare evolution.
For now, he considered the options he had, there weren't many. Few creatures could reach such a high level of strength, regardless of type, but he found something interesting among the choices: a Nightmare being with a physical form!
This was extremely rare in that evolutionary line, but upon seeing this race, he became thoughtful.
The breed was called the Demonic Nightmare Wolf, possessing a certain affinity with demons, it was probably a hybrid created by chance.
Ringo was thoughtful, perhaps he could use this connection to evolve into a high-level demonic being in the future without having to go through the lower-level races.
The most striking characteristic of this wolf was its extreme defensiveness, its tough fur and robust physique made it particularly resistant to beatings.
Ringo smiled, in the next instant, he made his decision. An extremely heavy black aura mixed with a fiery red emanated from his body immediately after he chose his evolution.
Ringo groaned in pain as the fur all over his body began to grow in an extreme shade of black. Not only that, but a pair of horns slowly began to emerge from his forehead, his face lengthened and his coccyx seemed to expand outward from his body, ready to form a tail.
His eyes remained as black as ever, but the stars had vanished, instead, veins as red as burning magma began to spread from behind his eyes until they reached the center and transformed into a red as flames iris.
Ringo sensed the increasing changes, this time, as it was a physical race, its changes were even more pronounced, but as the name suggests, the Demonic Nightmare Wolf was a type of wolf, not humanoid.
Ringo didn't want to transform into a wolf, so his whitish evolutionary energy quickly blossomed with force, the changes around his body stopped, not only that, they began to rapidly regress back inward.
The elongated face and tail were the first to disappear, the black fur all over his body also receded, while his skin didn't return to its purple color, but became a dark gray, until the lines around its body turned magma-red.
The horns didn't disappear, but grew back, completely black, as was the hair on his head, his canines lengthened and sharpened like those of a wolf and his claws became sharp and completely black.
Looking at his hybrid form, Ringo liked it quite a bit, feeling that something was missing, he let his evolutionary energy restore his tail, but this time the tail was like that of a demon, with sparse black fur, extremely long and thin with a bident at the tip.
Yes, Ringo looked completely like a demon now, feeling the energy coursing through his body, Ringo discovered his new powers.
First, his defense had increased considerably, he would be able to withstand even more beatings from Ames in the future.
The second ability was... Ringo opened his mouth and took a deep breath, the red veins around his body and eyes throbbing with a sinister heat.
The next moment, Ringo opened his mouth and a jet of concentrated black flames was forcefully expelled directly onto the wall.
The jet started thin, but stretched into a sea of flames, the room was soon engulfed in black fire, when all the fire died down, the whole room was charred, but Ringo wasn't worried about damaging the room, it was just a dark layer over the bones.
This was a breath of black flames, extremely deadly to anyone below Grade A and very harmful even at that level. Due to his nightmare powers, these flames burn to the soul.
The third ability was a surprise to Ringo, the revelation of his real name.
He acquired an extremely long name because of this, completely demonic, his name started with Ringo Jones, but continued with several strange names. However, this didn't mean he had gained any weakness that someone could exploit, such as knowing a demon's true name and thus gaining power over him.
Instead, when the demon says its full name, as if incanting, they receive an extreme enhancement, becoming much stronger, it's a very magical ability, except for the delay in saying the full name, it was a good ability.
Of course, maintaining all that power consumes energy, so without enough energy, that ability can't last very long.
The fourth and final ability was, in Ringo's opinion, the best ability, its name is Broken Reality.
If he had to explain it in one word, he would say Izanagi. Yes, that broken ability of Naruto's that rewrites death.
The ability's true effect is based on the powers of nightmares, it transforms dreams into reality and reality into dreams, reversing causality in a short period of time. Any injury sustained while the ability is active becomes a "dream" and the body returns to the point where it was real, as if "waking up".
Of course, compared to the true Izanagi it still has flaws. During the use of this ability, the user and everything they did becomes a "dream", so technically not only would he return to the point where he used Broken Reality, but even the enemy's injuries caused during the "dream" would be healed.
Ultimately, this ability is a great one for saving one's own life, so even with this flaw, he is still very satisfied.
His four new skills made him extremely happy.
Defense, attack, general improvement and saving live. Very complete and useful.
Primarily the black flames, since Ringo doesn't have many direct attack methods.