Chapter 69 - Progress
Sery led her out of the safe zone to the Rank 1 zone. All the monsters available in this zone were Rank 1. Hailey could handle all of them. Hailey walked slowly and searched for a monster. After a few minutes of walking, she found a White Furball.
The White Furball was bouncing around happily without a care of the world. Hailey stared at it without moving.
Hailey's eyes were shaking. It could be seen that she feared that White Furball. 'No! I cannot keep being scared!' Hailey shut her eyes tightly. She touched her chest and took a few deep breaths to calm her mind.
A minute later, she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes once in a while shook but she held it in. "Blue! Let's go!" Hailey's voice was filled with determination.
She pointed her finger at the White Furball and shouted, "Blue! Use Roll and then, Tackle that monster!!"
Blue received the command and it started rolling towards the White Furball. The White Furball saw the incoming Blue and it started rolling too to get away from him. After that, it became a chasing scene where the White Furball ran away while Blue was chasing behind.
Ten minutes later, both of them stopped and they gasped for air. The two furballs had been rolling non-stop for the past ten minutes. Due to their low-rank, they got tired easily after that.
Hailey looked at them weirdly. "Err…" She was speechless and she remembered something, "That's right… Blue has not yet increased his speed stat. He is still as slow as common Furball. There is no way he can outrun his opponent," Hailey facepalm.
"I should not have shouted that loud. Since Blue is slow, we need to do a sneak attack. Not a front attack like this," she realized her mistake. She looked at the tired Blue and felt bad. "Blue~ come back. No need to rush," Hailey called Blue back.
Blue glanced at his tamer and sighed. He rolled slowly towards Hailey.
Hailey sighed too. She realized how inexperienced she was. She was a total beginner without any knowledge of fighting. All the guidance she got from Sery was about training and not fighting.
"I should have studied more about pet battling before I tried one," Hailey sighed once more. She suddenly felt something was at her side. She looked to her left and a cute White Slime was staring at her.
Their eyes met and the White Slime, "Kyu~" smiled brightly and happily at Hailey.
However, Hailey's face turned dark, "KYA!!!!" she screamed in fear and ran away immediately to hide at a tree nearby. The White Slime was shocked and stared at her running figure with a confused face.
Blue saw it too and sighed. He slowly rolled towards Hailey.
[It will take a while longer before she can face any monster face-to-face] Sery said. He always kept an eye on everyone in the nursery. So, anything that happened in the nursery was known to him. There is no secret in the nursery. So, he knew everything about Hailey.
While Hailey was trying to conquer her fear, Lucas was inside the Nursery Snowflake Dungeon by himself. Fury, Foody, and Glaide were not by his side. He was alone in the dungeon.
Since he decided to focus on training, he had been staying in the dungeon all the time. He only went home for one hour every day. If they were going to discuss something related to the nursery, Sery would be the middleman.
Lucas had been focusing himself to get to rank up. Thanks to his constant training, he was now a Stage 1 Rank 9 Tamer. At the beginning of his training, he focused on raising his stats and broke through each rank without training any of his skills.
After he reached Stage 1 Rank 9, he decided to focus on his skills. Since everyone would look at his cultivation, he focused on that first rather than his skills.
Lucas was resting below a big tree. He decided to check on his stats.
Name: Lucas
Age: 15
Lifespan: 190 years
Potential: D
Capture Power: Tier 1
Status
Health: 80[+15] (Max 90)
Energy: 80[+7] (Max 90)
Soul: 80[+4] (Max 90)
Physical
Attack: 80[+13] (Max 90)
Defense: 80[+9] (Max 90)
Speed: 80[+8] (Max 90)
Mental
Will: 80[+3] (Max 90)
Comprehension: 80[+1] (Max 90)
Elemental
Normal: 80 (Max 90)
Cultivation – Universe Body
Stage – 1
Rank – 9
"The new Normal Stat is really helping me," Lucas mumbled. He got the Normal Stat from the Normal Nursery Dungeon (the free dungeon). After spending a lot of time inside that dungeon, he got the Normal Stat.
"All of my Normal element skills get a power-up thanks to this stat," he smiled. While he rested, Sery informed him that the Nursery's Events had ended. He felt bad that he was not there to help.
Lucas wanted to help with the events but Katheryn insisted that he should focus on training. She knew herself that Lucas would be in a lot of trouble if he had low cultivation at school. Even if his pets were strong, if he was weak, he would still get bullied.
"Sery, make sure mom gets a lot of rest," Lucas reminded Sery. He had said that many times since Katheryn insisted on him not helping. Because he could not be there, he let Sery help.
[Don't worry, Master. All is handled] Sery reassured Lucas.
"Okay," Lucas nodded. He stood up and decided to continue his training. He took out a bow and a quiver of arrows from his storage ring.
Lucas thought that learning the Fist of The Stone Golem skill was enough for offensive skill but he realized that he was pretty much useless while battling in the wild because he could not get close to the enemy.
Not only that but when he was with his pets, he had nothing to do. His pets were not normal and thus, everything could be resolved without his help.
After thinking about it, he decided to learn archery. He had not thought about it before but he found Archery: Beginner skill from the bookshelf. The skill was Normal element. Added with his normal element stat, the skill would contain a lot of power.
Archery: Beginner was not the only Normal element skill he learned. Lucas knew that he would be vulnerable to enemy attack while he shot his arrows and thus, he learned Barrier.
He had Rock Skin for defense but the skill was only effective with physical damage. For energy damage, the skill was pretty much useless.
On the other hand, Barrier was useful for both physical and energy damage. Not only that but Barrier was Grade B while Rock Skin was Grade D. So, it was easy to see which one was better.
More to that, Barrier was Normal Element skill while Rock Skin was Rock element skill. The barrier would be strengthened with Normal element stat but not Rock Skin.
Lucas did not abandon Rock Skin but he would focus on that skill later. At the moment, he wanted to focus on Archery: Beginner and Barrier.
Both of these skills were not normal Archery: Beginner and Barrier. They were the improved version of both original skills. Sery made sure that Lucas got the best.
[Are you going to continue?] Sery asked.
"Yes, we have many days left. I don't want to waste time," Lucas went to search for a monster to kill.