Beast Taming Begins with Inheriting a Legacy.

Chapter 4: Touching but not buying, what a scumbag!

Before Gu Ling could react, the ancient book turned the page again, and a few different lines of text appeared on the next page.

[Pet]: Boom Boom Mouse

[Attribute]: Fire

【Characteristic】: Escape (In battle, ignores any obstruction from the opponent and escapes successfully once activated)

[Qualification]: 202 (Intermediate)

[Level]: Unhatched

【Skill】:

[Normal-type moves]: Charge, Tail Wag

[Description]: A rodent-like pet that enjoys living near volcanoes and is adept at digging burrows in high-temperature conditions.

Gu Ling was utterly shocked. Looking at the Exploding Rat pet egg in her hand, an unbelievable thought flashed through her mind—

The data displayed in the ancient book is the data of the Exploding Rat pet egg in her hand?

To verify this hypothesis, Gu Ling put the pet egg back into the incubation machine and picked up a new Explosive Rat pet egg.

The ancient book in the Beast Taming Space turned another page, revealing information about the second Explosive Rat pet egg:

[Pet]: Boom Boom Mouse

[Attribute]: Fire

【Characteristic】: Escape (In battle, ignores any obstruction from the opponent and escapes successfully once activated)

[Qualification]: 222 (Intermediate)

[Level]: Unhatched

【Skill】:

[Normal-type moves]: Tackle, Tail Wag, Earshot

[Description]: A rodent-like pet that enjoys living near volcanoes and is adept at digging burrows in high-temperature conditions.

The second Boom Mouse has 20 more aptitude points, and its skill bar has an additional skill called "Screech".

Gu Ling frowned slightly.

In China, the current assessment of pet qualifications is divided into: low, medium, high...

The first Exploding Rat Egg only had two initial skills, while the second Exploding Rat Egg had three initial skills. That's why the ancient book judged the second one to have higher potential.

Thinking of this, Gu Ling suppressed her surprise and asked Jiang Jun beside her, "Which of these two pet eggs has higher potential?"

Jiang Jun replied, "It's just a pet egg right now, so we can't detect any specific data yet. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be of medium quality."

"The pet eggs over there should have higher aptitude than the two pet eggs Miss Gu has."

Upon hearing this, Gu Ling immediately put down the pet egg in her hand and took one from the row of pet eggs that Jiang Jun was pointing to.

This time, the ancient book shows that the Boom Mouse's aptitude has reached 260 (medium), and it also has an additional Ground-type Dig move.

Gu Ling quickly grabbed several Exploding Rat Eggs and compared them one by one. The aptitude of these eggs was between 250 and 350.

Just after Gu Ling put down the tenth Exploding Rat Egg, the ancient book in the Beast Taming Space changed again.

The pages that originally contained information about ten exploding rat eggs were merged into one page:

[Pet]: Boom Boom Mouse

[Attribute]: Fire

[Characteristic]: Escape

[Qualification]: 202350 (Intermediate)

[Level]: Unhatched (Highest level included)

[Skills]: Charge, Tail Wag, Piercing Sound, Dig, Sand Splash, Gaze, Spark

[Description]: A rodent-like pet that enjoys living near volcanoes and is adept at digging burrows in high-temperature conditions.

The newly appeared page information records the aptitude and skills of the previous ten Exploding Rat Eggs.

Gu Ling thought to herself, "This feels a bit like collecting data..."

"Huh? There's new text on the second page..."

[Skills that can be taught]:

[Normal Type]: Charge, Tail Wag

[Number of places available for skills instruction]: 0

Available Points: 14

Upon seeing the contents of this page, Gu Ling's spirits lifted!

No way, no way, no way... Could it be what she meant?

Wait! Why are there only two skills?

Gu Ling recalled the information on the ten Boom Rats he had collected. All of them possessed the skills of Charge and Tail Wagging, while the other skills were only possessed by a few Boom Rats.

"Could it be that the skills all ten pets in the collection possess can be made teachable?"

Gu Ling was beginning to understand the meaning of the ancient book.

To put it simply, the first part is about collecting pet data, while the later teachable skills are a kind of "reward mechanism"? Can they be directly taught to pets?

But what are these numbers below?

Suppressing her excitement, Gu Ling pointed to the rows of pet eggs and looked at Jiang Jun: "May I look at all these pet eggs?"

"Can."

After obtaining Jiang Jun's permission, Gu Ling directly reached out his "claws" towards the rows of pet eggs in front of him!

[Included Skill]: Spark

[Included Skill]: Digging

[Included Skill]: Stare

【...】

Gu Ling, like a fervent enthusiast, "touched" all the pet eggs in the incubation room.

Jiang Jun, who had a professional smile on her face, gradually realized that something seemed wrong... and finally became completely dumbfounded.

"Alright, let's go to the next incubation room."

Gu Ling withdrew her claws, still feeling unsatisfied.

[Skills that can be taught]:

[Normal Type]: Charge, Tail Wag, Sand Splash, Glare

[Fire]: Spark

[Ground System]: Dig

[Number of places available for skills instruction]: 0

Available Points: 68

Gu Ling thought of the other pet eggs waiting for her "loving caresses," so she urged Jiang Jun to lead the way quickly.

There are only 60 fire-type pet eggs here, not enough for her to pet.

Jiang Jun asked uncertainly, "Miss Gu...you didn't find a suitable pet egg among all these?"

Although Jiang Jun had made preparations in advance and would make several trips in a row.

But even after touching all the pets like Gu Ling, none of them were to her liking... Jiang Jun felt a strange unease.

It's like... after being groped and thoroughly ravaged, the person not only doesn't appreciate it, but also pulls up their pants and excitedly goes to find other little vixens!

Is it that I can't satisfy you? Cough cough...

"Cough...yes, none of them were to my liking."

Although Gu Ling felt a little guilty, she wasn't lying.

Gu Ling touched every single pet egg in the entire incubation room, and also learned about the pets' aptitude stats.

In this incubation room, the highest-quality pet only reached 365 (medium).

Gu Ling had done her homework beforehand; the base stats of a medium-quality pet are between 201 and 400.

A mere 365 racial stat points—that's not even the limit!

"Next, I'd like to look at Water and Grass types, and of course, Flying and Bug types would also be fine..." Gu Ling added without batting an eye.

Although the Beast Taming Manual includes information on new pets, for some reason the number of available skill slots is still 0.

Therefore, Gu Ling secretly made some deductions: Was it because the pets she was petting were too limited in variety? Did they have too few skills?

Jiang Jun felt her smile stiffen, but she had no choice but to oblige Gu Ling: "Yes, Miss Gu, please come with me."

So, led by Jiang Jun, Gu Ling explored all the water, grass, flying, and insect-type pet eggs in the hatchery before finally asking to go to the pet park to see the electric-type pet cubs.

(End of this chapter)