Chapter 61: Fruit of Pregnancy (1/2)
“Level 1, it’s a Level 1 mob!”
Lin Yixin couldn’t control her own excitement. Her delicate shoulders were shaking slightly, and her beautiful eyes were shining with pleasant surprise.
I hurriedly fished out a Sealing Card from my inventory and smiled. “Beauty Yi, this is a competition of luck! Let’s see who can capture this Cyan Skeleton first!”
“Sure!”
Lin Yixin gripped the Creature Holding Stone with one hand and brought out her own Sealing Card with the other. It looked like she had come prepared, and thanks to the Creature Holding Stone she had sold me earlier I too could capture a second pet.
After selecting the Creature Holding Stone as the sealing space, I tossed out the Sealing Card and watched it spin in a circle in midair. It transformed into a hexagram, wrapping around Cyan Skeleton’s head.
Lin Yixin also tossed out her own Sealing Card, its six-pointed star formation overlapping with my own. It really was a competition of luck!
The hexagram formations spun swiftly as the Level 1 Cyan Skeleton became locked in a struggle of power against the formations. It kept growing and shrinking repeatedly.
Suddenly, my heart skipped a beat.
It was because the Level 1 Cyan Skeleton disappeared. It worked? On the very first try?
I looked at my Creature Holding Stone and saw nothing!
I turned around to check Lin Yixin, and the girl was staring blankly at her own Creature Holding stone with her mouth agape. I saw a shrunken Cyan Skeleton trapped inside the translucent crystalline walls, looking curiously at its surroundings!
“Fuck!”
I gritted my teeth for a second. She was already blessed by the goddess of beauty, but apparently the goddess of luck was watching over her as well! Is she trying to kill me with envy!?
“Well, what are you waiting for? Let’s see its stats!” I urged.
Lin Yixin finally broke out of her reverie and nodded. She waved her hand, and a stat window appeared from inside the Creature Holding Stone.
Cyan Skeleton
Level: 1
Attack: 7
Defense: 10
HP: 10
Agility: 9
Growth——
Attack ★★★
Defense ★★★★★
Agility ★☆
……
My god, its Defense scaling is 5 stars. No wonder it was so difficult to kill. It even has 4.5 stars under HP. This Cyan Skeleton is seriously tanky.
“It even has 36 BN! This is a top-tier pet!” Lin Yixin smiled.
I nodded. “Do you plan to level this Cyan Skeleton? You’ll have to give up on your Fire Blade though.”
It was a sharp and accurate analysis. I nodded and smiled at her. “In that case, let’s sell it and make a killing after we return to the city!”
“Mhm!”
Lin Yixin looked down at my empty Creature Holding Stone before smiling. “Lu Chen, if we’re lucky enough to run into another Level 1 mob before we head back, I won’t try to compete with you.”
“Mn, thanks!”
“Hehe, you’re welcome~”
……
We went back to killing mobs after that. The poisonous plants growing in the valley should be a terrifying sight to most people, but to Lin Yixin this place was a paradise. She was a herbalist, and her Herbalism was now Rank 4 thanks to all the precious herbs growing in this Ghost Valley.
“Lu Chen, protect me while I collect this Seven-star Flower…”
“Okay!”
“Lu Chen, help me collect these Four-leaf Lotuses...”
“Fuck, I don’t have the skill!”
“Geez, you’re so useless…”
“Fuck…”
A few minutes later, Lin Yixin took me to a short plant with verdant leaves and said, “Here, this is a legendary Rank 4 Herb, the Ashless Wood!”
“Ashless Wood? What is that?” I asked a little curiously.
Lin Yixin gave me a smile before collecting the wood. “There’s a passage in the Compendium of Magic that goes like this: ‘To the south of Flame Mountain lies a plant called the Ashless Wood. Growing up in a fiery environment, it cannot be blown down by any storm.’ This is the plant the passage was referring to. If you burn it, it won’t leave behind any ash at all. Magical, isn’t it?”
I nodded. “Let’s burn it!”
“Do you have a fire?” She smiled at me.
I glanced at her. The girl was bending downward to collect the plants, and I noticed that the way her armor wrapped around her smooth white chest and the ravine in the middle was truly amazing.
So yeah, I did have a fire, burning inside of me. Too bad I couldn’t bring it outside.
Lin Yixin turned red when she saw my dazed reaction. She scolded, “I’m hungry, go find something to eat!”
Surprised, I asked, “Food? I haven’t bought any. Didn’t you bring any bread with you? I’m pretty sure Floating Ice City sells it.”
“I never carry those things unless they drop from another player…”
“Fuck!”
I checked my own Satiety and noted that it was only at 35 points. I wouldn’t last more than 3 hours at this rate, and Lin Yixin was faring no better than I was. We both needed to find something to eat as soon as possible.
When Lin Yixin was done collecting the herbs, she looked at the forest around her and smiled. “There is a fruit in the plant called the Flora Fruit. Sweet and rich in water, it—”