After James left the building, he wandered aimlessly through the streets, searching for an inn.
After a while, he finally found a massive inn with available rooms. He had visited a few inns earlier, but they were all fully booked.
The reason for the scarcity of rooms was the upcoming auction by the Luo Heng Chamber of Commerce, which had drawn many visitors to the city.
If not for the fact that the inn James had found was one of the best and most expensive in the city, it likely would have been fully booked as well, forcing James to continue his search.
When James wanted to book a room, he was surprised to find that the only available ones were the best rooms, and they were quite expensive, costing a peak rank 6 beast core for a single day.
Fortunately, he had sold some items earlier at the Luo Heng Chamber of Commerce. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to afford even a day's stay.
James decided to book the room for 10 days, as he planned to stay here for a bit, and paid with a peak rank 8 beast core with the fire attribute.
A beautiful receptionist then led James to his room. When they arrived in front of his room, she smiled and said,
"This is your room. You can activate the formations using this token." She handed him a simple blue token made of rank 6 material, carved with the symbol of the inn, which was a lotus, as this inn was named Blue Lotus Inn.
"Thank you." James accepted the token and smiled.
"No problem, you can also contact me through this token if you need anything. I mean, literally anything." The beautiful receptionist winked at James before leaving to continue her work.
James shook his head with a bitter smile, activated the formation with the token, and stepped inside the room.
To his surprise, the room was quite large, around 400 square meters, with a separate backyard about ⅔ of the room.
The room itself had two 20-square-meter bedrooms, a similarly sized training room, a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen.
One of the main reasons this room was so expensive was the training room, which contained a spirit-gathering formation that concentrated world energy, allowing someone to cultivate faster.
However, since James didn't cultivate through normal means, this training room was essentially useless to him.
After looking around the room for a while, James decided to chat with his little sister before informing her that he wanted to upgrade Little Snow's rank.
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[Ding! Do you want to upgrade Little Snow's rank to the Peak-level Gold Rank Beast?]
"Yes." James replied.
[Ding! 1 peak rank 8 beast core with fire attributes has been deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 5k platinum points.]
[Ding! 500 billion coppers have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Snow has broken through to the Low-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 2,5 trillion coppers / 2,5 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Snow has broken through to the Mid-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 6 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Snow has broken through to the High-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 15 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Snow has broken through to the Peak-level Gold Rank Beast.]
A few notifications rang in his mind, and James immediately felt the familiar yet unknown energy start pouring into his body, just as it did every time he upgraded his or his contracted beast's rank.
'I finally managed to afford upgrading Little Snow's rank.' James sighed and decided to take a nap before heading outside the city to hunt beasts to fill up his experience so that he could continue upgrading his own rank.
As for upgrading Little Lion's rank, he wasn't in a hurry, as Little Lion was still with the two siblings. He couldn't risk anyone other than Minji knowing that he could instantly upgrade his contracted beasts's ranks, as this could bring endless trouble and endanger both his and Minji's lives if the secret was leaked to the outside world.
...
James slowly opened his eyes, sat up on the bed, yawned, and looked left and right at the room, his eyes just barely open because he was still sleepy.
"Little Fluffy, what time is it?" James called out.
"Hmmph, it's already a few hours past midnight." Little Fluffy snorted, feeling annoyed as he cursed inwardly,
'Fck, do you really need to call me out for something as simple as that?'
'Shit, I really slept soundly this time.' James raised his eyebrows to fully wake himself up, as he felt that he wanted to sleep a little longer.
After dozing off for a minute, James got up and took a hot shower to refresh himself.
After that, he asked Little Lion about the two siblings, and after confirming that they had been sleeping for a while, James instructed Little Lion to prepare himself because James intended to upgrade his rank to the Peak-level Gold Rank Beast.
[Ding! Do you want to upgrade Little Lion's rank to the Peak-level Gold Rank Beast?]
"Yes." James replied.
[Ding! 500 billion coppers have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Lion has broken through to the Low-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 2,5 trillion coppers / 2,5 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Lion has broken through to the Mid-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 6 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Lion has broken through to the High-level Gold Rank Beast.]
[Ding! 15 platinum points have been successfully deducted.]
[Ding! Congratulations to the host! Your pet, Little Lion has broken through to the Peak-level Gold Rank Beast.]
A few notifications rang in his mind, and James felt that he had become stronger once again as he got another 20% of the strength and mana of the peak rank 4 beast.
Feeling happy, James then looked at his personal information and inventory.
[Personal Information]
[System points: 4.952 platinum, 1.699 gold, 2.446.076 silver, 26.001.750 copper.]
"I am rich… I only converted 1 peak rank 8 beast core into system points, and I still have plenty left after upgrading Little Snow and Little Lion to Peak-level Gold Rank Beast."
James laughed happily when he saw his points, but then sighed as he thought,
'However, with all of the beast cores that I have in my inventory, I could only upgrade two individuals to mid rank 7 and one individual to low rank 7 at most.'
The reason James had only converted 1 peak rank 8 beast core was that he decided not to convert all of the beast cores at once, just in case he needed them to buy something in the future.
[Name: James Wayne]
[Age: 18]
[Race: Human]
[Attribute: Perfect Level Fire Element, Mid-Level Ice Element]
[Cultivation Rank: Peak Rank 3 Martial Warrior (35%)]
[Cultivation Technique: Peak Rank 7 Fire Cultivation Technique]
[Martial Skills: Flame Splitting Slash (Peak Rank 7 Fire Sword Skill), Fiery Sword (Peak Rank 4 Fire Sword Skill)]
[Beast Master Level: Peak-level Gold Rank Beast Master]
[Pets: Snow Wolf (Peak-level Gold Rank Beast), Fire Lion (Peak-level Gold Rank Beast)]
[Skills: Fire Vortex (Peak Rank 7 Fire Skill), Mid-level Ice Spike (Peak Rank 4 Ice Skill), Mid-level Fireball (Peak Rank 4 Fire Skill)]
[Inventory]
Beast Cores
- 1,790 Peak Rank 8 Beast Cores.
- 9,990 Peak Rank 6 Beast Cores.
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Items
- Peak rank 8 Sword with fire attribute.
- Peak rank 8 Armor with fire attribute.
- 2 Peak Rank 8 Breakthrough Pill with Pill Clouds.
- 1 Peak Rank 8 Breakthrough Pill with Pill Veins.
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Books
- Peak rank 7 Fire Breathing Technique
- Peak rank 7 Fire Sword Skill
- Peak rank 7 Fire Magic Skill
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Others
- Silver Canyon Wine (2x)
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