The metal-edged door to the room gently squeaked open,
In a simple and unadorned blue robe, Mu Suyin stepped inside. Then, she chuckled teasingly, "What is this? I was so busy, and here you are eating without me? Now I'm sad."
"Huh?
"Ah, grandma, you are finally back!" Surprised, Myah waved the half-eaten chicken leg, brownish gravy smeared the corner of his mouth, "I have been waiting for so long and get a little hungry, hehe. There is still so much food here. We can eat together. They are delicious."
"Really? Is the food here better than my cooking?" Adjusting the chair, Mu Suyin sat down and cleaned his face with a handkerchief. "It looked like someone fancied these than the things I cooked, causing such a mess, huh?"
"No, of course not!" Shaking his head left and right, Myah denied the accusation quickly, "Your cooking is very, very delicious, so I never waste them. I never make any mess or leaving leftovers."
"Believe me!"
"Alright, alright, I believe you, so stop shaking me. Arg, now my robe is stained with the chicken grease."
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While having their dinner together, Mu Suyin stopped and placed her bowl on the table. Her brows then creasing together slightly, she pondered and pondered.
After a moment later, she said, "Myah, summon Bumpkin out of your bracelet."
"Err... Is something the matter?" He asked out of curiosity.
The inn lady prohibited all War Souls of Bumpkin's size or larger from entering the Inn. Does she want them to get kicked out?
Nevertheless, despite not knowing the reason, Myah still did as his grandma told him.
A faint shimmering light flashed, Bumpkin appeared within the room. Hurriedly stood up on its four feet, Bumpkin seemed somewhat confused but happy to be outside.
"Nehuff!"
Gawking at Mu Suyin, Bumpkin makes a dumb expression as if to say, 'So, what is going on?'
Amid its confusion, Bumpkin's eyes suddenly burned up brightly, large and round—seeing Mu Suyin taking out an awesome looking deep rust golden color fruit, it gets incomparably excited and started drooling profusely.
Naturally, it is none other than the Rank 3 Thousand Year Old
Noticing Mu Suyin's intention, Bumpkin's whole body suddenly stiffened and showed a bashful expression like a pure jade maiden about to hold hand with her lover for the first time.
"What?" She shrugged, amused at its silly horse face. "What is with that weird look? Are you going to eat it or not? Don't leave me hanging."
What?
She is serious!?
'Is she giving it to me? This is not a dream, right?'
Looking at Mu Suyin, Bumpkin began to question its life as if everything happened before this was a lie.
How kind of her!
Previously, in Bumpkin's eyes, Mu Suyin's image was no different from a wicked devil! Tyrannically force it into doing tiring labor and strenuous exercises. But that was no longer the case. At this moment, her image was akin to that of the most loving angel.
Bumpkin suddenly felt like it was in the wrong and looked at her with guilt.
'Oh, how dazzling, lovely and beautiful!'
While feeling thoroughly touched, Bumpkin couldn't help but shed a tear of heartfelt emotion.
Back in the village, Bumpkin has a lot of dog friends.
According to their words of wisdom after living with hooman through generations, this much be the so-called 'tough love!'
Sniff!
Tearfully munching on the
Bumpkin felt deeply ashamed to think that it has misunderstood her loving intention all these times and converted them into resentment.
Silently, it swore in its mind to wholeheartedly listen to her in the future and would not sneak away to slack off anymore!
'I Bumpkin have finally know the truth!'
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"Grandma, what is wrong with Bumpkin?" Myah asked in puzzlement and is concerned.
Even with their spiritual bond, he couldn't comprehend what Bumpkin was going through at the moment. However, he could only feel that there is a confounding change occurring in its body.
As for Bumpkin's emotional breakthrough...
Well, even if the little guy wants to describe it, it was simply indescribable!
"Don't worry. I just fed it with the
"Mystic...Mystic Earth Fruit?" Myah questioned.
Isn't that the thing he gave her this morning? Why did she feed it to Bumpkin? Is it going to be alright?
"Right, the
"It could grant one the affinity to the earth element. The higher its rank, the higher the benefit and the change it will give upon consumption.
"As it was a Rank 3
Looking at Myah's inquiring expression, Mu Suyin continued,
"Just gave Bumpkin some time to digest what it has eaten. Except for its extraordinary effect, the
Regarding the matter of feeding Bumpkin the
As Myah's War Soul, once Bumpkin possesses an element affinity, Myah will undoubtedly receive a weaker version of it. In this case, it's the earth element!
However, it couldn't be said otherwise.
If Mu Suyin were to feed Myah the fruit, even if he obtains the earth elemental affinity, Bumpkin won't receive anything. As for the specific reason— there are many unfounded theories, but no one truly comprehends why.
Perhaps, it was all due to Spirit Beasts' endless potential that such law existed to bind them, but even Mu Suyin doesn't understand.
Nevertheless, with the already extracted essence, she could use it to improve both Myah and Bumpkin's earth elemental affinity to a higher level later.
Hence, feeding the
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It was noisy at night, and from time to time, the wailings of lingering spirit rang out beyond the sealed window.
The next day's morning, Myah suddenly woke up with a start. In just a few seconds, all his sleepiness quickly faded while he explored the mysterious change happening inside him.
New prompts silently appeared on the crystalline screen.
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