Starting With Contract Pets

Chapter 158: Mutation, Contract Book of Life

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

In the Bloodthirsty Vine Bazaar at 12:30 p.m., the sky was obliqued by fine snow which fell to the ground with a slight rustling noise.

Su Bai and Chen Ruoxue put on their thick coats before sitting on the cub and slowly approaching the bazaar.

When they arrived at the market, he booked a hotel room to rest for a few days.

“Are you alright? Do you want me to buy you some medicine?” He helped his girlfriend sit down on the bed, her hands still a bit icy-cold.

A Pet Tamer’s body was stronger than ordinary people, but they were not immune to sickness. Su Bai felt very distressed upon seeing how pale Chen Ruoxue was.

Generally speaking, the Pet Tamer’s backfeeding by pets showed an exponential increase, so the physical condition in the early stages was not much better than that of ordinary people.

“My stomach still hurts a bit; I will be fine after sleeping for a while,” said Chen Ruoxue weakly.

“Take a good rest. The dino will stay here with you. I’ll go out and buy you some medicine and supplements.”

He helped her to the bed and covered her with the quilt.

“Alright. Come back soon.”

Chen Ruoxue nodded gently and said with her bare hand dragging Su Bai’s hand.

“Don’t worry; I will be back soon.”

Nodding, he instructed the dino to take good care of her and then put on his backpack to go out with the cub.

As a junior trainer, although most of his contact was on pet knowledge, he could still handle common situations like other humans. Hence, he knew what medicine to purchase.

After buying some medicine at the pharmacy, he went to buy supplements as well. Instead of going back immediately, he went to a relatively lousy incubation house to borrow equipment for concocting medicine.

“You used it for half an hour; it’s a total of 3,000 yuan.” The owner of the incubation house looked at his watch and said.

“There you go.”

Su Bai threw three spirit crystals to the person and left without looking back. The rental fee in the Scarlet Wilderness was too outrageous.

When he returned to the hotel, Chen Ruoxue was still lying in bed, looking up at the ceiling. When Su Bai entered, she smiled at him. “Didn’t you say that you’d be back soon? I feel like you have been outside for a long time.”

“I went to get something done along the way, so I got delayed by a bit, but it can help make you feel better soon.”

He put his purchases to the side and walked up to his girlfriend.

“What did you do?” asked Chen Ruoxue curiously, reaching out from the bed to hold his hand. “Actually, I’m almost better now; I want to hold you to sleep so that it’ll be alright.”

“Do you really think I’m your pillow? Your hands are still so cold. Hold me later; let me do something first.”

Su Bai squeezed her hand worriedly.

He put her hand in the quilt and then turned to Big Demon, which was floating in the distance helplessly. “Xiao Bai, come over. I’ll give you a chance to heal your master.”

Big Demon felt very entangled and lost. It knew that Chen Ruoxue was sick and wanted to help her, but it happened to be a ghost pet with a cold and gloomy aura. It was not only useless even if it got close to her but would also make her feel more uncomfortable.

“Hehe?”

It looked up at Su Bai with its big round eyes, seemingly asking if he was telling the truth?

“Of course. As long as you drink this potion and evolve successfully, the backfeeding you give to Ruoxue can heal her.”

Su Bai took a bottle of dark purple potion and said. This was the potion he had just gone out to prepare. This catalytic agent was formulated with raw materials such as the Dragon Soul Fruit on top of the high-level commander Devil Fruit.

Its catalytic success rate could be said to be close to 100%, for the raw material grades were too high.

Big Demon reached the peak warlord in August and had been on the verge of breaking through for the past few months.

“It took you half an hour to prepare this potion.” Chen Ruoxue came to a realization. Su Bai had actually thought of such a different way to treat her.

“Hehe!(∩▽∩)”

Big Demon felt that Su Bai’s words were extremely reliable. It ran over to hug him affectionately, indicating that he was so smart.

“Come and drink this.” He opened the potion.

“Hehe!”

It opened its mouth wide, waiting for him to pour the potion’s content inside.

Su Bai raised his hand and poured the potion’s content into its mouth, which Big Demon swallowed with a loud gurgling sound.

As soon as it swallowed the potion, a real cold and gloomy power burst forth on its body. At the same time, its body shape slowly grew, though its skin color remained the same.

Suddenly, a black spiritual vortex appeared beside it, consuming the spiritual power in the void rapidly.

In the end, all the surrounding spiritual vortex integrated into its body and then its aura completely stabilized at lower-level commander.

“Hehe!”

Big Demon let out a joyous laughter. Not only had it evolved, it had also broken through smoothly. The potion formulated by Su Bai was very effective, indeed.

Nodding in satisfaction, he examined the ghost pet’s specific data.

[Name|Race]: Super Big Demon|Monster

[Gender]: Male

[Level]: Low-level commander

[Attribute]: Ghost

[Features|Passive]: Void (This allows the Super Big Demon to ignore any real objects. It can shuttle freely and, at the same time, ignore physical attacks.)

[Skills]: Scary Ghost Shadow, Ghost Claw, Concealment, Hypnosis, Shadow Energy Ball, Hidden Shadow, Shadow Curse, Deception, Spear of Darkness, Phantom Clone

[Restrained]: All physical attacks

[Weakness]: Spirit attribute

[Evolution direction]: Little Devil — Big Demon — Super Big Demon — Night Devil King

[Introduction]: As the lord of the night, it loves scaring people the most. Sometimes ,it is even scared of its own reflection in the mirror. It has a scary face but is actually a softie inside...

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Su Bai glanced at Super Big Demon’s evolution and promotion. It had only awakened one skill instead of two: the Phantom Clone.

However, this was normal once he thought about it. Super Big Demon only had four evolutionary types, and its potential was also much lower than that of the cub, so it was only natural.

Generally speaking, pet evolution would awaken a skill, but the advancement was not a given. It only happened sometimes, and not only had a certain relationship with the potential of a pet but also depended on luck.

Of course, he did not care about Super Big Demon’s situation and was most concerned about Chen Ruoxue’s. The feedback from the evolution of Super Big Demon and the success of the advancement should be enough to cure and improve her physique.

“How are you? Feeling much better?” Su Bai walked over and asked with concern.

“I feel much better. My stomach no longer hurts, and my body no longer feels weak. I just feel a little sleepy; I should be fine after sleeping,” said Chen Ruoxue with a smile.

“Good. Let me feed the pets first.” He finally felt relieved.

He took off his coat after feeding the pets with their lunch and snuggled with her in bed.

“Okay, go to sleep.” He hugged his girlfriend and spoke softly.

Chen Ruoxue hugged him back with a happy smile on her face. “I don’t want to get better now that you’re taking such good care of me. With the backfeeding from Super Big Demon, I feel like I will have fewer chances of being sick in the future. It feels like I have lost so many things at once.”

“Good girl, go to sleep.” Su Bai patted her back. “Don’t worry; I’ll definitely take care of you forever.”

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When the two opened their eyes again, it was already night.

“How do you feel? Do you feel better?” asked Su Bai, looking at the pretty face in his arms.

“I feel alright now; just a little hungry.” Chen Ruoxue turned over and lay on her boyfriend’s chest, smiling sweetly. “I feel so blessed now. Thank you.”

She lowered her head and kissed the boy.

Su Bai responded with a gentle and deep kiss, savoring her sweetness and softness.

After the kiss, the two stopped where it should. Su Bai then arranged Chen Ruoxue’s clothes which had been messed up by him. He grinned and asked gently, “What do you want to eat tonight, my precious lady?”

While still lying in his arms, Chen Ruoxue looked up and thought for a while. She then said, “I want to eat beef tripe. I wonder if there’s any in the market...”

“Yes, I saw it when I went out earlier, but you must take your medicine before eating that. After all, you’ve just recovered.”

Su Bai hugged her slender and soft willowy waist over the sweater and sat up.

“Then feed me,” Chen Ruoxue said coquettishly.

“No problem; I’m happy to serve my little cutie.” Chuckling, he put a coat on her first before he got up from the bed and prepared medicine for her.

After drinking the medicine, Chen Ruoxue walked to the dressing table and said, “Wait for me; I will tidy up and comb my hair. Then we can go out to eat.”

“Okay, I also have something to do.” Su Bai nodded.

He glanced down at the pets to see what they were doing. The cub was playing the single-player game Minecraft with the baby fox. The dino was sitting on the ground, gnawing on an ore as it read the ‘Encyclopedia of 10,000 Ways to Eat Ore’ in front of him. It would nod its head from time to time, indicating its approval of the book’s content.

Su Bai originally thought that they would be bored, but they were all having a great time by themselves.

As for when the Little Tyrant had learned to recognize characters, it was a month ago when he was preparing for the professional Pet Tamer licensure exam.

During that time, because of the dragon and his own reasons, they had temporarily been unable to take risks in the wilderness. Hence, seeing how bored the pets were at home, Su Bai taught the dragon, fox, and dino how to read and write, transforming them from illiterate pets to literate ones.

In fact, it was a good thing that they learned to read. Su Bai had heard of some pet learning institutions in the Alliance, and there was even a gymnasium built entirely by pets.

He planned to send all his pets there to study once he had time.

Seeing that they were busying themselves, he did not bother them. Instead, he took out the Tears of Life from his backpack and intended to upgrade his contract book.

“Are you going to promote your contract book?” Chen Ruoxue asked while combing her hair.

“Yes, this Tears of Life is quite useless if we just leave it.”

He nodded.

Upon raising his hand to summon the contract book, the emerald pages opened for him and he put the Tears of Life inside. As the contract book flashed with green light, the Tears of Life turned into green energy and erased the contract book.

Su Bai’s contract book released a strong green light and the aura of law. At the same time, it emitted four light groups which melded into the four pets’ bodies.

The light slowly dissipated and Su Bai’s contract book appeared once again. Its aura had now completely changed now that it was a one-star golden contract book.

The aura it exuded was no longer the original wood attribute but a similar, more advanced breath.

Upon taking a closer look, a line of fireflies appeared in front of his eyes: [Introduction]: The contract book of life has been promoted from wood type. It is more advanced than the wood contract book, and the laws of contract are also much stronger.

Unless voluntarily, the pets in this contract book cannot be taken away by others. At the same time, it has a stronger recovery ability than the original wood contract book and can help wood pets understand the law faster.

Every time this contract book is promoted by a major level, it will have one extra page compared to the regular contract book.

At the same time, its promotion difficulty will be more difficult than when it was still a wood contract book, but when it reaches the top level, the perfection of the law of life will undergo amazing changes...

This change was completely out of his expectations. He originally wanted to promote the contract book to a gold level and did not expect this to happen.

Moreover, this book of life was much more impressive than the previous contract book. The simple fact that one extra contract page would be added every time it was promoted was already powerful enough.

This was an extra page under normal circumstances, not an extra page from swallowing others’ contract book.

Generally speaking, the promotion of a bronze and silver contract book by one star would only open one contract page, and when it was promoted to a three-star silver contract book, it only had six contract pages.

After reaching the gold level, every one-star promotion would add two contract pages to the book. Su Bai’s current contract book was one-star gold, so under normal circumstances, he should have eight pages, but he now had nine.

Although this was rather useless, it still showed that his contract book was unique and stronger than ordinary people.

The higher the level of a contract book, the more effects it had, and the higher the strength of the summoner skills.

“Your contract book has mutated?” Chen Ruoxue’s eyes widened.

“It seems to have mutated into the contract book of life because of the Tears of Life. Its law of contract has become stronger as well.” Su Bai nodded.

“Wow, then going into the Sleeping Dragon Abyss was worth it this time. The reward is amazing,” she said happily.

She lifted her chin and asked, “How is it? The suggestion I made was correct, wasn’t it?”

“It’s very good.” He kept the contract book and nodded fiercely.

“Howl!” Ah Bai, quickly put me into the contract book! I want to feel my new home.

The cub raised its head and looked up at him. As a wood pet, it would feel the greatest change in the new contract book.

“Roar!”

The dino also wanted to see its new home.

The other three pets expressed their will to see their new home via a telepathic message.

“Hehe!”

Big Demon also wanted to see!

It flew over to join in on the fun.

Su Bai: “...”

Why was it joining in?

“Alright, alright.”

Nodding, he kept all four into his contract book. He also wanted to see the changes in the pet space.

As for Big Demon that was just joining in on the fun, it could naturally only watch. The contract book could not keep a pet without a contract, at least not for the gold contract book.