Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 95 Why does this money disappear so quickly?

"Alright, that's enough. I'm going to use the equipment and skill book vouchers I won in the competition first, and then I'll go with Xiaoyu to choose a spirit pet." Lin Manman quickly changed the subject.

"Hehe, okay, let's go, let's go check out the equipment first." Knowing that she had tacitly agreed, Fang Yaqi led the way with a triumphant smile.

"This store has a more complete selection of equipment; you can start by choosing from here."

This equipment shop is one of the larger ones on this floor, and it has equipment for all different professions, making it seem very comprehensive.

Lin Manman touched her chin. She only had one voucher, which could only be used to choose one piece of equipment. How to choose a cost-effective and suitable piece of equipment was a problem.

The proprietress sitting behind the counter immediately greeted them warmly, "Looking for equipment? Who's using it? What's their class?"

"I am a beast tamer." Seeing the proprietress's gaze sweeping back and forth between her, Fang Yaqi, and Wu Jingyu, Lin Manman generously declared that she was the one who wanted to buy.

"Beastmaster, then I recommend you buy these gloves. You're still young, and your body will continue to grow. It's not worth it to buy armor like this because you'll have to replace it soon."

"These gloves are woven from the silk spun by a level 5 Snowfield Heavenly Silkworm, and they provide a spiritual boost to the wearer and all the spirit pets they are contracted with."

"At the same time, the areas covered by the gloves will be immune to poison and fire damage. Although the defense is a bit low, you can equip them with other armor."

Lin Manman looked at the pair of white, semi-transparent gloves displayed in the proprietress's hand, reached out and took them. Her hands felt cool to the touch, and at the same time, she felt refreshed and her senses sharpened.

It can increase the bonus to spirit attributes, which will also increase the power of the elemental skills released by the spirit pets. It is indeed a good thing.

"How much?"

When the proprietress heard her ask the price, she couldn't hide her smile. "Actually, this was custom-made for a customer, but the customer has been away on an adventure in a secret realm for over three months. According to the contract, we have the right to dispose of this item as we see fit."

"To meet the client's requirements, we spent a long time collecting the silk from the snow-covered silkworms, and then found the best artisans in the city center to hand-weave it. And that's why the price..."

Lin Manman blinked, knowing that the proprietress wanted to raise the price.

She didn't give the other person a chance to continue rambling and directly took out the equipment exchange voucher from the competition rewards.

Asking about the price was just a subconscious action; the voucher in her hand allowed her to choose anything!

The proprietress's expression darkened as soon as she saw the voucher in the woman's hand. "This...this can only be redeemed for regular equipment; these gloves are custom-made..."

Lin Manman raised an eyebrow. "You just said that the person who ordered it didn't come to pick it up within the deadline, so you could do whatever you wanted with it. What? You want to back out? Have you thought this through? The Junior Professional Competition isn't over yet. Are you trying to renege on the organizers' promised rewards?"

This is a slap in the face to the Jinling District Alliance branch. Even a small equipment shop owner like her wouldn't dare to be blinded by greed and disregard the Alliance's reputation.

The proprietress hesitated for a long time, but in the end, she didn't dare to disobey the alliance's rules. Finally, she stomped her foot, rolled her eyes at Lin Manman, took the voucher, turned around and went back to the cashier, thinking she had given Lin Manman a few more fierce glares when she wasn't looking.

Although the Alliance will compensate the shop owner for the exchanged equipment at the market price, she can sell it to others for at least 20% more.

Lin Manman took out Wu Jingfeng's black card and sighed dramatically, "Sigh, I was thinking of browsing some more, but it seems the proprietress isn't too keen on me continuing to shop here. Oh well, let's go to another store."

The proprietress initially rolled her eyes at her impatiently, but then her gaze was drawn to the black card in the proprietress's hand.

That's an amazing black card with an annual spending limit of ten million! And this card is issued in limited quantities each year; it's not something you can just get if you have money!!

The proprietress stared at Lin Manman with her mouth agape, unsure whether to laugh or not; her expression was incredibly varied and fascinating.

Fang Yaqi couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Wu Jingyu bit his lip, trying hard to suppress his laughter.

Without giving the proprietress a chance to stop her, Lin Manman, holding the pair of silk gloves, walked out of the store first. Fang Yaqi and Wu Jingyu followed closely behind.

Xu Yuemei and Xia Ming, who had been following behind them silently without interfering, couldn't help but exchange a glance. Xu Yuemei felt a little embarrassed, while Xia Ming's eyes seemed to be filled with amusement.

"You're so mean! You didn't even intend to buy anything, yet you said that on purpose. The shop owner must be furious." Fang Yaqi burst into laughter as soon as she stepped out of the store. Recalling the shop owner's hilarious expression, she laughed until tears streamed down her face.

As Lin Manman put on the Snowfield Silkworm Gloves and felt them, she rolled her eyes and replied, "The reward was directly awarded by the Alliance branch, and she still wants to refuse it? Doesn't she even know where her shop is located?"

Without the landlady's watchful eye, Wu Jingyu finally smiled. She used to avoid conflicts and problems, never imagining that confronting them head-on would be so satisfying!

Upon arriving at the skill book area on the second floor, Lin Manman was immediately dazzled. The equipment on the first floor was limited to a few types, offering little variety, but the skill books on the second floor were far more numerous.

"What kind of skill books do you need?" a young woman in uniform politely asked as she approached.

"Are there any skill books for spirit beasts here?" Lin Manman casually flipped through the displayed skill books.

Although it's called a skill book, it's only the size of an A4 sheet of paper. The contents are made of special leather with an additional cover that shows the skill name and effect.

"Yes, the skill books for spirit pets are over here." The young lady gestured for them to proceed.

Following the direction of her hand, Lin Manman saw another booth, which was labeled with spirit beast skill books.

She touched her nose sheepishly, nodded, and turned to walk towards the booth.

Fang Yaqi leaned closer and asked, "Why don't you pick a few skills to learn? You don't even know a single skill for your profession yet, do you?"

Lin Manman blinked. "Let's look at the spirit pets first. Improving them is more cost-effective than me learning."

Anyway, she came here today just to shop, and she'll buy whatever she sees that looks good!

When she arrived at the booth displaying pet skill books, she realized how naive her earlier thoughts had been.

At the very top of the booth was a skill book called "Heavy Water Domain," priced at 1200 million, even with a discount.

Lin Manman subtly pinched her philtrum, realizing for the first time how little ten million really was!

However, this price is actually quite fair. Legend has it that when a domain technique is cultivated to a certain level, one can control specific laws within the area covered by the domain technique.

Such an overpowered skill, even if you can't fully master it from the skill book, there are still plenty of people willing to pay for it.

Fang Yaqi saw her pinching her philtrum while looking at skill prices, so she curiously came over to take a look, only to be startled and exclaim in surprise.

"It's a Domain Skill!! What are you waiting for? Exchange it with your vouchers! Domain Skills are incredibly rare! We didn't have any when we came before, otherwise, even if we couldn't use them ourselves, we could sell them for money!"

That's true. Skill books for domain techniques are really hard to come by. If she hesitates for even a second, someone might come up and take it away the next. Lin Manman quickly took the skill book down and put it in her pocket.

It's a pity there's only one copy of this skill book. That means the chance to learn the Heavy Water Domain skill is only once. Lin Manman sighed softly.

This ridiculously expensive domain skill book can be redeemed with vouchers, but you'll have to pay for the rest yourself...

If you're paying for something yourself, you definitely need to look carefully and only buy it if it suits your needs.

I don't know how these skill books are made; the price is outrageously high. Many common, basic skills like Claw and Impact can sell for 70,000 to 80,000 or even over 100,000.

Shouldn't this kind of skill be something that any spirit beast can learn?

While internally ranting and raving, Lin Manman began searching through various skill books like panning for gold in the ocean.

Skill Book Wind Drill: Utilizes wind attribute energy to form a drill-shaped attack point, concentrating the attack power at a single point, and dealing more than five times the damage of a normal wind blade.

This is good; it can be used by Ah-Dai.

The price is 500,000 Chinese Yuan. Two items get a 10% discount, and three items get a 20% discount.

Lin Manman couldn't help but gasp. To be on the safe side, buying three books to increase the probability of comprehension would cost 120 million.

If the same skill book could be mass-produced, wouldn't that be incredibly profitable? Lin Manman was already imagining what it would be like if she could make these skill books herself…

"Don't just stand there, hurry up, we haven't even looked at Xiaoyu's spirit pet yet." Fang Yaqi poked her shoulder, reminding her that time was limited.

"Okay, okay." Lin Manman nodded perfunctorily and buried her head in the rummaging again.

Finally, they found two more decent skill books: one for Ice Arrow Formation priced at 60 and another for Grass and Tree Growth priced at 100 million.

Ice Arrow Formation is a wide-range, high-damage ice-type area-of-effect skill that Silvermoon can learn. Grass and Tree Growth is a wood-type healing skill, an area-of-effect healing skill, suitable for Little Seven.

To increase the chances of mastering the skill and improve its cost-effectiveness, she chose to buy three copies of each skill, spending a total of 504 million on the three skills.

I also said I'd buy Xiaoqi lots of skill books, but it seems I can't keep my promise. These skill books... are just too expensive!!

When I paid by card, even though it was the card Wu Jingfeng gave me, I still felt a pang of pain.

"Let's go, let's go to the fourth floor to see the spirit pets!" Lin Manman forced herself to forget about the money she had just spent, so as not to affect her mood for spending money later, after all, she had promised to pay for Wu Jingyu's first spirit pet.

The entire fourth floor belongs to a spirit beast shop. Apart from a small shop selling spirit food, the rest of the space is used to house spirit pets.

This spirit beast shop located in a shopping mall sells about fifty or sixty spirit beasts of various sizes.

However, after Lin Manman led Wu Jingyu around, they only found three spirit beasts that met the awakening requirements.

A low-level Silver-rank Thunder Rat can evolve into a mid-level Gold-rank Swift Rat with advanced awakening. A mid-level Bronze-rank Red-striped Cat can evolve into a high-level Gold-rank Red Three-tailed Cat with advanced awakening. Finally, a mid-level Silver-rank Long-armed Monkey can evolve into a high-level Gold-rank Golden-eyed Monkey with advanced awakening.

Lin Manman picked out three spirit beasts for Wu Jingyu to choose from. Perhaps because of their appearance, Wu Jingyu ultimately chose the Red-striped Cat.

(End of this chapter)