Chapter 31 – Getting More Pets
"Anyway, I don't think I need to do much for Main Mission 1. As long as people use our nursery, they will become stronger and when they gain some kind of achievement, we will get the rewards," said Lucas.
Strengthening the pets was the nursery's job. The nursery's power. Lucas was only the holder of the Pet Nursery System. He did not contribute anything to the system and thus, he was right when he thought about that.
[Hmm? What are you talking about Master? This nursery's effectiveness depends on you. If you are not completing missions and buy things from the system's shop, this nursery will not be stronger] said Sery
[My job is managing the nursery's operation on the system side. Madam's job is managing the nursery on the human side. Your job is working hard completing a mission to power me up so that the nursery will become stronger and you need to stay alive so that the nursery will stay functional] said Sery.
[The system's experience points you get from completing the mission is not from me but the law of the universe. The experience points are needed if you want to better the system which in turn will better the nursery] Sery explained.
"Oo. Then give me more missions later and I will try to complete them," said Sery. "Stop going too soft with me. The Guardian had warned you. We don't want him to seal your power," Lucas reminded Sery.
[Yes~] said Sery lazily.
"How about Main Mission 2? Why is the enemy's name blocked like that?" Lucas asked.
[I don't know who is the enemy so, I don't know what to say to you. If we want to know who our enemies are, we will need to find more information about them. Once we get their information, the name of our enemies will be shown to us] said Sery.
"Main Mission 3 needs some time too. Creating a sect is not easy. I need to recruit a few families to join us and then, there will be the number of members needed for a clan. I don't know anyone and I need to find families that I can trust. This will take years to complete," said Lucas.
[That is why they are called 'Main Mission'. They are a mission that will need a lot of time to complete. Do you think the Guardian will give us a simple mission? He is the Guardian and the missions from him will not be easy] said Sery.
He added [Except Main Mission 1. Since we are close to the end of the year, there will be lots of competition and we can only hope that some of them will achieve something and give us experience points]
Lucas nodded. "Hah~" Lucas sighed. "Let's go. I need more pets," said Lucas. He got up from the sofa but suddenly, *Ting~* the system's notification bell rang. He checked his system and a new mission appeared.
[Mission: Full-Fledge Tamer
Description: A real tamer needs pets but a full-fledge tamer needs at least three pets.
Details: Buy or catch three pets.
Completion: 1/3
Rewards:
Pet's average Potential S – 100 E Grade Potential Pill, 50 System's experience
Pet's average Potential A – 50 E Grade Potential Pill, 30 System's experience
Pet's average Potential B - 10 E Grade Potential Pill, 20 System's experience
Pet's average Potential C – 15 System's experience
Pet's average Potential D – 10 System's experience
Pet's average Potential E – 5 System's experience
If one of the pets are caught, the rewards will double]
[This will do, right?] Sery asked.
"Uhuh. This is good enough. Let's cross the S rewards. I will never get that because Sery has D Potential," said Lucas. "This will be a good start. Do give me more missions to complete," said Lucas while smiling. He did not mind having more missions. Training most of the time was tiring and boring too. The missions would help him a lot to get some rest from training.
[Ok, I will give you more when I see something worth a mission] said Sery. Since his master wanted more missions, he did not mind giving him more.
Lucas was suddenly in daze and stared blankly at the wall.
[… Is something wrong?] Sery asked.
"…" Lucas was silent for a bit before he decided to ask. "You know… what happen earlier? When I got the panic attack?" Lucas asked.
[Hmm? What do you mean?] Sery asked in confusion.
"The buzzing sound, space distortion and that unclear conversation," Lucas mentioned what he saw and heard.
[Huh? What are you talking about?] Sery was more confused.
"Try read my memory and you will know what I am talking about," Lucas was dissatisfied.
[Okay…] Reluctantly, Sery read Lucas's memory when he got the panic attack. […] Sery was silent.
"So?" Lucas asked.
[Urm… I don't find anything that you mention in your memory] Sery replied.
"What?!" Lucas was shocked. He was 100% sure that what he saw and heard was real. 'Am I hallucinating? But… Sery will be able to see that too,' thought Lucas. After thinking about it for a few minutes, he decided to accept it as his imagination.
Lucas went downstairs and saw many customers sitting in the waiting area waiting for their number. All of them came to use the nursery's service. "The nursery is thriving," thought Lucas. He went to Katheryn and said, "Mom, I am going out to buy more pets."
"Ok. Be careful," reminded Katheryn. Lucas nodded and he left the nursery. "Where should we go?" Lucas asked for suggestions. "Should we go to the same pet shop as before?"
[Yeah. That shop is the best in this shopping district. There are other better pet shops but they are further from here] said Sery when suddenly *Ting~* a new mission notification appeared.
Lucas checked on the mission.
[Continuous Mission: Skills
Description: A Tamer needs pets but they also need skills to assist their pets as well as themselves.
Details: Collect more skills data and let Sery produce and deduce more skills
Rewards: Better skills will be available in the bookshelf]
"… You want me to steal more skills?" Lucas was speechless.
[You want more missions. So, I give you another one. Also, this will be helpful if we want to create a clan. You should know that each clan has their specialties. Not only in pets but skills too. They have special skills that can assist the pet that they specialized in. We need something like that too. Creating a clan is not easy] said Sery.
"…" Lucas was silent for a bit and said, "You make sense," Lucas agreed with Sery. He was too simple-minded and needed to think through more things properly.
"We stole everything from this shop before. Let's go to other shops," said Lucas.
[Let's enter this shop again. They may have new skills] suggested Sery and Lucas nodded. A few minutes later, they came out of the shop disappointed. All the skills there were the same as before. They wasted their time and gained nothing.
"It makes sense. We are in a C-Grade city. This is the outer layer too. We will not be able to find many new things," Lucas pursed his lips. He went to other skill shops and most of them were not that much different than each other. Some of the skills had small differences but it was nothing amazing.
Even so, Sery still scanned all of them. They might be insignificant now. However, once he had gathered all these insignificant data, it could become significant enough. They did not gain much but they did gain something.
While they were walking through the shopping district, everywhere, they showed the news of Shenty City. Some of the channels managed to get their hands on the footage recorded by people during the fights and Lucas saw how powerful all the monsters and pets were fighting in the battle.
There were supposed to be five monsters but only two were shown properly in the footage. Most of the footage had low quality because the recorders were running for their lives while recording the battle. Accordingly, most of the footage was gained at the scene of the disaster. The recorder had died.
How the news channel got the footage was unknown but it was a world where superpower existed. So, there must be some powerful tamers among the news channels that manage to find the footage and use them as exclusively for their channel.
The two monsters that were shown in the footage were snake monsters. One was a white snake with white feathered wings. The other was a green snake with a whirlwind circulating its body. Both of the monsters were massive and both could fly and both were powerful.
[I will get these footage for you] said Sery. Lucas nodded but he still looked at the footage listlessly.
"I think our pets need to use the stat breaker pills too. These monsters are much more powerful than their grades," said Lucas in his mind. He was in public and he could not let people see him talking by himself.
[Not necessarily. Maybe their stats are breaking the stage barrier but there is also a possibility that they have maximum stats like Fury. As you know, it is hard to raise a pet's stats especially when their stages are high. So, the power of the pet we knew today might not be their maximum power. Maybe these… weird and powerful creatures have maximum stat rather than breaking the stage limit] said Sery.
"We will know it when Fury is at the same stage as them," said Lucas. He looked on the road and left the screen showing the footage. A few minutes later, he arrived at the Pet Shop where he bought Fury.
He got inside and it was the same as before but since it was almost the last month of the year, they had a lot of discounts. Unfortunately, Lucas would not gain much from the discount because he could only use Tier 1 pets.
There was a lot of selection of Tier 1 pets but most of them were of the same species. Not only that, but most that were shown there also had low potential. Only one or two of the same species were having A-grade potential. None were S grade potential.
"There is no S potential here. Should we look at the other pet shop?" Lucas asked in his mind.
[Hmm… They are S grade potential. The highest potential a pet could have. I don't think they will put them in a display like this?] Sery said.
"They are Tier 1 pets. They are not that valuable compared to Tier 2 and above pets. Even if their potential is S, they are not valuable. They are still the weakest," said Lucas.
[Not necessarily. You need to know that not all tamers have their pets for battle. Some of them have pets as their house pets. Some used them to help with their work. Some did not even buy them for use but for collection] Sery explained.
[Even if the pet is Tier 1 when they have S potential, they are rare. These collectors will for sure buy them for collection or maybe those that want a house pet wants to be glamour and buy the S grade potential Tier 1 pet to show off] said Sery.
"… You are right. They are useless in battle but they have their uses in other things," Lucas agreed. He walked towards the counter and asked the employee there.
"Welcome~ How can I help you?" The cute, blue hair female employee asked while smiling sweetly.
"I am looking for Tier 1 S potential pets. I don't see any on display there. Does this shop have any of them?" Lucas asked while slightly smiled.
'A collector?' thought the cute female employee. "Please wait for a moment. Let me check it first," said the employee while smiling. She moved her view to the computer screen. She typed in something and the list of Tier 1 S grade potential pets appeared.
"We do have three of them,��� said the employee while smiling. She typed in something on the computer and the counter's glass surfaced lit up and showed the three Tier 1 S grade potential pet cards.
The first card was yellow slime. The yellow slime was similar to the white slime found inside the nursery dungeon. The only difference was their color. He looked at the Yellow Slime's stat and nothing special about the slime. The price was 1600 Peto. An E grade potential slime would cost 50 Peto but this yellow's slime price far exceeded that price thanks to its S grade potential
The second card was the red rabbit. The red rabbit looked exactly like a normal rabbit. Other than the red fur, nothing special about it. The skill it had was similar to other rabbit monsters. An E grade potential rabbit pet would usually cost about 120 Peto. The red rabbit cost 3840 Peto.
"Whoa~ This is quite expensive for a Tier 1 pet," thought Lucas when he saw the red rabbit's price.
[This is normal, master. All pets will start at a certain price at E grade potential. When the potential increased, the price would be twice of the previous grade price. The higher the potential the higher the price. The price of an S grade potential pet will usually be sold at 32 times the price of their E grade counterpart] explained Sery and Lucas nodded.
He looked at the third card and he was surprised. "Iron Plate Monkey???" said Lucas and he looked at the female employee and asked, "Why is this here? Isn't Iron Plate Monkey a Tier 2 pet? The Leaf Plate Monkey and the Rattan Plate Monkey are usually the ones in Tier 1. Why is this Plate Monkey Tier 1? What happens?"
While smiling, the female employee explained, "This Plate Monkey is the Rattan Plate Monkey. However, by some pure luck, when it was caught, it suddenly evolved to Iron Plate Monkey. Perhaps, it was too desperate to get away, and thus, it underwent evolution."
"Even so, due to some weird circumstances, its Tier did not increase and it stays at Tier 1 when it was turned to the card. Perhaps, the catching power is too strong that it blocks the Tier advancement for this Plate Monkey," said the female employee.
Lucas looked at the Iron Plate Monkey card and he nodded at the explanation by the female employee.