Chapter 1316: Selecting the Candidate(3)
While Laney was going through the repeated scenes of failing, coughing up blood, eating the blood replenishing pills, and then restarting, Gret reached his turn of summoning the beast.
Gret had come directly to the second device. He chose to buy the beast first to enhance his power immediately, so there was no point in purchasing a low-level beast and waiting for it to grow.
As for why Gret was in a hurry to enhance his power, it had to do with the upcoming meeting seven months later. His family had a tradition of meeting every one hundred years, and no child could skip that meeting unless they were stranded in a ruin.
During that meeting, the children would also show their growth over the past century to their parents. Gret couldn't impress his father with the external help of a beast, but the same couldn't be said for his mother.
