Chapter 43: Venomous Wasp Fores (2/2)
Agility ★★★☆
Slightly astonished by what I saw, I replied, “Its attack and HP are amazing!”
Lin Yixin must be snickering to herself right now. “Yeah, it’d be nice if I could catch one that has a base number of 70!”
“Yeah, how nice it would be if you run into it and accidentally killed it…”
“How about I kill you, you Little Cheat!”
I laughed loudly at her response and closed the chat window. Then, I looked around me and froze up like a statue. It’s here! God fucking dammit it’s finally here!
Just a few steps away in front of me, a Wasp with a beautiful number floating above its head flew slowly across the clearing: Wasp LV-1.
A Level 1 Wasp had finally shown up!
Overwhelmed by joy, I put away even the Weeping Fire Blade and sneaked toward my target with silent steps. I took out a Sealing Card, locked onto the Wasp and threw the card at it!
Swoosh!
The Sealing Card suddenly transformed into a giant, magical formation and trapped the little Wasp. It then began the taming process!
A green progress bar slowly filled up until it stopped suddenly—
Ding~!
System Notice: Sealing failed. Process can be repeated 4 more times!
My heart clenched painfully. I only had four chances left. If I failed to capture this Wasp by then, it would automatically level up, and all my efforts would have been for nothing! Heavens, please grant me your blessing! Please let me be extraordinarily lucky today!
I threw out another Sealing Card at the Wasp, but the little insect continued to buzz around without a care at all.
Fail!
I gritted my teeth and tried again. Third time’s the charm!
Fail!
Four time’s the charm?
Fail…
My resolve was failing as I let out a desperate wail, “Please don’t toy with me like this!”
I threw out the fifth Sealing Card, wrapping the Wasp in a six-pointed star array. The monster shrank, grew bigger, shrank, and grew bigger again before disappearing in the last moment. A beam of yellow light flew toward me and entered my pet space, taking up my one and only pet slot. I could never obtain another pet unless I released this Wasp.
Ding~!
System Notice: Congratulations, you have successfully tamed Wasp!
I hurriedly opened my bag and checked its stats.
Wasp
Level: 1
Attack: 5
Agility: 6
Stamina: 3
HP: 5
Growth—
Attack ★★★★☆
Defense ★★★☆
HP ★★★☆
Agility ★★★★☆
I calculated briefly in my head and concluded that the total base number of this Wasp was 19, the legendary 19. The strength of a pet was determined by two things: growth scaling and base number, BN. Different types of pets had different growth scaling and vice versa, but the BN of a pet was completely random. The higher the pet’s BN, the stronger it would become in the future. That was how the term came to be coined.
Unfortunately, the Wasp I caught only had BN of 19. I didn’t know what to think, so I sent Lin Yixin a message. “Yiyi, what’s your opinion on a 19 BN Wasp?”
Lin Yixin replied, “Sounds amazing. Raise it…”
Slightly worried, I asked, “Amazing how, exactly?”
Lin Yixin sent me a smiley face emoji before replying, “I say it’s amazing because it’ll be so much easier for me to kick your ass if you really decide to raise such a shitty pet…”
“Fuck!”
I turned off the chat window. Dammit, this Wasp is complete trash! What should I do? I had invested too much effort to toss it without a thought, but if I truly wanted to become a super pro then raising a trash like this was completely out of the question. As Lin Yixin had warned me earlier, it would be easy for her to destroy me if I chose to stick with a pet like this.
In Heavenblessed, a player could obtain their first pet after reaching Level 30. Once they reached the next level threshold, they would be able to unlock their second pet slot. If I wasn’t mistaken, a player could have only up to three pets at the most, but only one could be active at any given time. If a pet died, it couldn’t be resummoned for 10 minutes. Long story short, demand for high-BN pets was greater now than it would be in the future.
Meanwhile, the Wasp I caught flapped its wings and flew in circles in front of me. The little thing looked like it was incredibly happy.
Troubled, I was just about to leave when a voice came from my right side.
“Fuck! He caught a Level 1 Wasp!”
I turned around and saw none other than Dominating Knight God and Dominating Warrior God. The way they stared at my pet greedily reminded me of the story Dong Zhuo and Diaochan.