363 Train and Level Up ? (2/2)
”What's going on? Two levels at once?” Zhao Yao wondered urgently, ”Jesus Christ, it must be the Royal Catmint.”
He headed straight for the catmint's secret location.
Sure enough, Dust Ball was there, the bag of Royal Catmint dangling from her mouth.
”Zhao...Zhao Yao?” she uttered.
She was too shocked by his sudden appearance to conceal the crime she had committed.
Zhao Yao snatched the bag from her.
It had been emptied.
”Huh, so it is the catmint. I thought it could level up the consumer once, not twice,” he wondered aloud.
Something clicked into place in his mind.
”It must be the Light of Creation,” he said, looking up.
The Light was to the extradimensional belly what the sun was to the earth. It illuminated the space and helped the plants and vegetables planted in it to flourish. Anything grown here was imbued with special properties. That was why they could be used to make legendary cat food, which came with 100 experience points upon consumption.
”Even the Royal Catmint was fortified after being under the Light of Creation,” Zhao Yao sighed, shaking the empty bag.
The remaining flakes were rustled against the plastic quietly.
”Wait, there's a bit more.”
Zhao Yao barged into the cafe and fed the remnants to Matcha and the other cats.
It might be a minute amount, but it still tasted excellent. Delicious as it might be, it did not bring about any level-ups or increases in experience points.
He returned to the belly, thoroughly disappointed.
Dust Ball curled into a literal ball when she spotted Zhao Yao.
”Dust Ball, didn't I ask you to guard the catmint? How could you end up eating it yourself?” he scolded.
She replied quietly, ”You won't believe this, but the bag was already opened when I was here.”
”Come on, get up,” Zhao Yao said through gritted teeth, ”Go clean the cafe. I want it to be spotless!”
Dust Ball heaved a sigh of relief and scurried out of sight. She thought she had escaped Zhao Yao's wrath, but he followed up with another punishment.
”For the next year, you're responsible for cleaning the cafe. And yes, that includes clearing everyone's poop. Understand?”
”Yes, I understand,” she complied, her face scrunched up.
Toilet duty was going to be disgusting, but it was a fair deal. Anything would been worth a taste of that Royal Catmint.
”It was just…perfect,” she sighed dreamily.
Zhao Yao was not happy with Rice Cake, but he took comfort in the fact that the catmint did not go to waste. She had leveled up twice after all.
He took a seat and unlocked two new branches on her skill tree, his eyes lighting up as he read through their descriptions.
He picked Space Expansion as her level 7 skill and Dimension Doorway for level 8.
Space Expansion was a dynamic skill. It would grow with Dust Ball's level. To be specific, it would expand the area within the belly to be her level multiplied by 100 square meters.
That meant that at level 7, the space would hit 700 square meters and now, at level 8, it would be 800.
Dimension Doorway, as its name suggested, allowed Zhao Yao to place three doorways to the belly anywhere in the real world.
The skills were both insanely useful and that made Zhao Yao ridiculously happy.
He could now enlarge the cats' living space continuously. That would be crucial for his mission to develop the Cat Nation. It would also mean that he could adopt more supercats.
The doorways transformed the extradimensional belly into a supercat transit. He could put one in the cafe and another in his house, rendering the dozens of kilometers between the two locations to nothing.
Apart from travel, the doorways would be useful in combat as well.
Zhao Yao could not help but wonder what the other cats' level 8 skills would bring.