Chapter 84 - Pets and Colisseum (1/2)
With the issue of the guild done, there was nothing that they could do for now. They would have to wait for daybreak or continue with trade professions. As he thought about the various things that he could do, he realized that he could also go to the Colosseum in the city.
It was the best place for PVP and there would also be fights against monsters and other NPC combatants. The only drawback was that if he fought with NPCs or monsters, he would have to bet with the system. For PVP fights, it was a very good place. It required a small sum to book an arena which would provide the person 10 combat points. If he won, he would get the combat points or anything else that he bet with his opponent, but a loss would make a player lose the bet along with a few points going back to the system.
The good part about the fights was that there would no loss of experience on death in this place. So, it was a good place to train players. Apart from that, it would also give combat points and other rewards for every win with the NPCs or monsters.
It used to be a very crowded place and a lot of players used to continuously come to the Colosseum to test their skills against one another. At that time, it was really hard to get a chance to fight against NPC or monsters as a lot of players used to compete for it. There would be a fixed number of fights with NPC or monsters per day. Now, he had all of it for himself.
”There is a Colosseum in the city where you can fight against other monsters or NPCs or you can try to learn engineering or inscription,” said Shadow immediately guiding him. If there was no way for them to level up or play the game other than trade professions, the game's popularity would surely go down.
”You can also try to get pets from the pet store,” he suggested. Though people couldn't tame wild beasts for pets, cities allowed for players who passed level 10 to have more docile already tamed pets. Taming a wild beast could only be done after gaining the tame beast skill book. Such skill books could still be found in the auction houses of cities held by the NPCs. These auctions were one of the ways of collecting money by the game managers and is common in most games.
But these tamed pets bought at stores wouldn't get popular as they usually didn't have the advantages, or the fighting skills of a wild beast tamed as a pet by a player. As the level of the players increased it would get easier to get tame beast skill books. Later upgrade would also introduce, Beast Taming as a trade profession which can be used to provide tamed beasts to others as pets.
Beast taming is one of the compound trade profession like engineering, trap disabling and field medic. It required the players to know a bit of other professions like alchemy. It required the player to create medicines which would help increase the level and strength of the pets. Engineering was also similar to this as it required a good knowledge of the forging profession.
The professions couldn't be done without the alchemy and forging. The players also had to use a lot of apparatus that was used in alchemy and forging. That is the reason, the professions such as engineering was only introduced in the cities when most players have made a decent attempt at professions like alchemy and forging.
They immediately checked the map and headed towards the direction of the Colisseum, but first decided to make a stop at the pet store in the market. This was the first time that Rudra had seen a pet store in the game. This was quite similar to the ones in real-life.
They store had three floors with each displaying a number of monsters for pets. The ground floor was filled with the smallest and harmless of pets. These were simple ones like slimes and small plushy cats, dogs and ferrets. They didn't even have any strong skills that could use in battle. These would all be pets that are just eye candy and would be good gifts or playthings.
The top floors had stronger beasts that have moderate skills. As they went up to the higher floors, one could see better and stronger monsters. There were quite a few ones including cougars, cats and even wolves. These all have few physical skills which can be used in combat. All these pets required food to increase in level and even needed potions and bandages to heal from injuries.
The behavior of these pets were also quite similar to how beasts and animal would behave in real-life. They had to be cared for and sometimes even pampered. To teach skills, one could use pet skill books or even use the tricks in real-life to train them.
They both went into the pet store and began to browse over the ones that are available. Shadow couldn't find anything that he would like. All the pets available were quite low level and had a low life rating.
Though the concept of having a pet would be very enticing to most people at this stage of the game, Shadow had no interest in it. He considered it to quite useless and it would hinder his progress than help him advance easier in the game.
It was an entirely different thing for Rudra. From the cute ones in the ground floor to the wolves and beasts on the other floors, he wanted to buy everything. Even if he didn't use it, he wanted to get them just so that he could show them off in the forums.
Shadow had to physically wrestle him down from doing something that stupid. He knew that he could simply get to feel out the pets and take pictures without buying them. They soon started to take pictures of themselves with a few pets.
At the end Crimson Power still had bought a pet. He actually bought the flashiest one of them all. It was a large white crown hawk. It was similar to a hawk and had light brown colored feathers with a white crown on its head made of bone plates.
White crown hawk (Elite flying pet)
Level: 10;
HP: 3000/3000;
Perception: 25;
Movement Speed: 100;
Attack Speed: 80;