Chapter 154-3: Version Update, Pet Shop (3) |
He tapped the demo function in the scene with his consciousness.
A player model covered in injuries appeared in the scene. Lightfeather flapped its wings and flew into the sky. A green glow diffused from its body, shooting out and connecting to the injured player.
At once, the injuries on the player’s body scabbed over and fell away at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the health bar displayed on the screen quickly refilled.
Although it was unclear what level of Lightfeather was shown in the demo, this powerful single-target connection healing ability made Pei Yun see this pet’s potential.
Flight plus healing. With these two traits combined, this pet’s strength goes without saying.
This also gave him strong interest in the subsequent pets.
Compared to health recovery, as a spellcaster player, what he wanted more was a mana-recovery type pet.
If there really were this type of functional pet, he could modify his Star Vein combination and achieve the envisioned spell-turret mode.
He swiped the scene. The fourth scene was on a vast plain.
Analysis information surfaced at this moment.
[Colorfruit]
Initial Level: 1
Pet Type: functional support
Pet Introduction: A parasitic lifeform that can combine with the player to increase the player’s physical aptitude strength (vitality strength) or mental power strength. You can choose a single-mode cultivation or a dual-mode cultivation.
Cultivation Mode 1: Blood – Colorfruit.
Introduction: Cultivate with vitality as the core attribute. After fusion, it primarily increases base vitality strength, along with a slight increase to mental power strength.
Cultivation Mode 2: Magic – Colorfruit.
Introduction: Cultivate with mental strength as the core attribute. After fusion, it primarily increases base mental power strength, along with a slight increase to vitality strength.
Pet Personality: none (no intelligence yet; commands can be issued directly via consciousness)
Adoption Price: 12,500 sacrificial power.
(Note: After fusing with Colorfruit, the damage the player receives can be shared with Colorfruit, or set to be borne alone. The damage sharing ratio can be adjusted. If Colorfruit dies, the attribute amplification effect disappears.)
He tapped the demo. A template player was generated in the scene, and the Colorfruit rapidly wriggled toward the player.
Upon touching the player’s heel, it merged into the body through the pores.
At once a blood-colored mark appeared on the player’s forehead, and the values shown on the attributes panel were amplified.
The demo played twice.
The first time was a fusion with Blood Colorfruit, which granted an attribute boost to physical strength. The other time was a fusion with Magic Colorfruit. After the fusion, a blue mark formed on the player’s forehead, granting an increase to the mental power attribute.
After reading the introduction and watching the demo, Pei Yun realized this was an attribute-amplifying pet, like a piece of portable equipment.
But from the introduction, Colorfruit had another powerful attribute, namely damage sharing.
Whether for squishy spellcaster players or for melee tank players who bear damage, a pet that can share damage is extremely valuable.
If a spellcaster player chose Blood Colorfruit, it would be equivalent to having an extra life at a critical moment.
He swiped the scene. The fifth demo scene was in a Gobi desert environment.
All that could be seen was a boundless sea of sand and an ocean of gravel spread by the wind, stretching to the horizon.
The creature in the scene was a scorpion-like pet with two enormous pincers. Its body was encased in a layer of bronzed carapace, segment by segment tightly connected with a metallic sheen. The massive head pincers were not ordinary keratin but a pitch-black crystalline texture, their tips etched with complex patterns, like two sharp blades when raised.
Analysis information appeared.
[Pollution]
Initial Level: 1
Pet Type: aura domain.
Pet Introduction: Upon using its ability, it can generate a ranged pollution domain. All lifeforms within the domain suffer continuous corruption, dealing both spiritual and vitality damage.
Pet Personality: quiet, foodie, alert.
Adoption Price: 9,500 sacrificial power.
The fifth pet made Pei Yun think of the terrifying Black Tide’s plague-series units.
This was also one of the most troublesome system units when players fought the Black Tide. Upon encountering them, they must be focused down as quickly as possible.
Otherwise they would continuously damage the tank players at the very front and even weaken the defenses of the frontline players, greatly reducing their damage-bearing capacity.
He tapped the demo. The spirit patterns on Pollution lit up, and black smoke spewed and spread from its surface.
The plants refreshed around it withered rapidly, and small animals were poisoned and fell one after another, their bodies coated with a layer of black substance. Before long, they breathed their last.
After understanding all five of the initial pets, Pei Yun watched the demo scenes again, modifying the refreshed template player’s attributes to conduct a more detailed test of each pet’s abilities.
It could be confirmed that pet cultivation would absolutely be a considerable expense.
A high amount of sacrificial power was required at purchase, and subsequent cultivation was an even deeper pit.
Pei Yun even felt that the consumption for pet cultivation was more severe than for Armed Vehicles.
Armed Vehicles only needed to be adequate. There was no need to pursue fancy top-tier configurations.
But the pet system was different.
Once you chose to raise a pet, the pet’s abilities had to keep pace with the player’s growth progress, requiring continuous resource investment.
It could be understood that choosing to cultivate a pet meant adding a new channel for sacrificial power consumption on top of the two major expenses of Star Veins and Body Tempering.
After glancing at his stock of sacrificial power, Pei Yun decisively chose to take the Chubby Peach priced at 2,350 points, which was also the cheapest of the five growth-type pets.
Although Chubby Peach had no combat ability at all, it could continuously produce returns.
The sustained profit later on could fully cover the cultivation outlay.
After the sacrificial power was deducted, the Challenger Notification sounded in his mind, and Pei Yun exited the simulation interface at that moment.
He saw a glass cabinet not far away open, and a pink-and-white cotton candy shot toward him. Pei Yun instinctively reached out to catch it.
Bang.
Chubby Peach crashed into his arms, rolled around in his embrace, then raised its head and looked at him with big, watery eyes.
Chirp.
Their gazes met. Chubby Peach let out an excited chirp, then pressed its head against his chest and rubbed repeatedly, making Pei Yun burst into hearty laughter.
[Challenger Notification: Would you like to rename the pet, or use the pet species name.]
After brief thought, Pei Yun gave his pet a new name: Cotton Candy.
After adopting the pet, Pei Yun followed Guide’s prompt and opened a pet space 2.5 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 2 meters high.
This cost 1,500 points of sacrificial power. The interior of the space would be automatically set to an environment suitable for the pet’s survival.
On this, Pei Yun also asked Guide why the pet could not be placed into the personal inventory slots.
Guide’s answer was that the inventory space contained no energy elements or various world substances. Pets could not even breathe inside it.
But the pet space was different. It was an independent space interfaced with the outside world and could draw in material energy from outside.
This ensured the pet could survive and grow inside.
Although this expense was a one-time cost, it still made Pei Yun feel intense pain in his wallet.
As a civilian player, the sacrificial power he earned was not even enough to improve his strength. The sacrificial power he had painstakingly saved had not yet opened a new Star Vein slot, and with the new function going online, it was almost all spent again.
The only thing worth being happy about was that Cotton Candy’s future resource output would be enough to cover this expense and bring continuous, stable sacrificial power income.
After completing the pet adoption, Pei Yun was not in a hurry to leave.
He called up the forum function and began writing a pet cultivation strategy guide, during which he also needed to view the pet demo scenes and write out in detail the pros and cons of each pet.
This was his hobby, and also a way for him to earn sacrificial power.
Every time he posted a strategy thread, players would tip him. It could be said he earned money and had fun at the same time.
