Chapter 4: chapter 4
As the both of them got outside the store, Su Ping explained to Su Yanying all the skills Lightning Rat learned. Some through demonstration and others theoretically.
"Aside from these skills I have trained it enough in combat so it wouldn't fall short even when compared to the best of elite astral pets so in case you don't have confidence in your instruction just tell it what to do and it will take care of everything," said Su ping finally finishing the explanation.
"Now if you could come inside to settle the payment, that would be great miss"
Su Yanying came out of her numb state that she only experienced the first time she attended her battle pet warrior class and just as quickly was plunged into the abbeys similar to the one that she felt herself during her first ever cosmic studies exam because unless she sold herself or she doubted she could afford the services given after all even without counting the priceless Thunder Essence Lotus, just teaching those skills externally would need to pay millions upon millions of astral coins to master trainers with no guarantee. She wondered if she should ask the owner to let her work in the store to repay the debt.
As she entered the store, she almost burst into tears seeing SU Ping preparing the bill, she had only left Lightning Rat for foster care and not for this, though she had full intention of paying for the service provided and her Lightning rat became amazing she still felt it was a bit one-sided or unfair in this case as she wasn't the one to order Such high-end services. She would have to most likely ask her best friend for help.
"Minus the deposit you paid, you have to pay another 108 astral coins that will be all," said Su Ping in a neutral tone and an eye smile as if he hadn't just dropped another bomb on the poor girl and although he didn't show anything on the outside but on the inside he was really enjoying all the misery and all the expression the girl showed up till now, he wondered if this is how trolls felt or maybe he loved this kind of sadistic pleasure.
"Eh?"
"Come on, Pay up"
"B..bu..but, the services and the lotus" stammered Su Yanying completely thrown off.
"What?, You don't wanna pay?" said SU Ping in a fake angry tone and pressed forward getting too close to her without giving Su Yanying any chance to properly process the situation making her too nervous but before the joke got too far he suddenly stepped back.
"Don't worry, I am just messing with you, the bill really is 108 astral coins, in light of your beauty the rest will be on the house" said Su Ping chuckling making Su Yanying's face go red with blush.
"No, you don't have to give any discount I will pay properly"
"What? Is it wrong to admire a beauty?"
Although Su Yanying didn't reply to that but She really didn't want the owner to have any misunderstanding regarding her so instead of replying she took a deep breath to calm down and looked at Su Ping seriously.
Su Ping wanted to tease her a bit more but upon seeing her serious expression he also dropped his joking attitude.
"Listen, miss, seriously you don't have to worry about it, although I won't deny that I find you beautiful but the main reason is that you didn't order any of those services, if that wasn't the case then I would even take full payment from my little sister"
"If you really want to repay then when you become famous or even without it just recommend my store to others for me and tell them that the store has more things such as Thunder Essence Lotus and high-quality pet food on sale and that would be more than enough," said Su Ping giving her the bill slip of 108 astral coins.
Su Yanying was in dilemma now, although she wanted to pay but didn't really have the money to pay millions which might be the actual price, she could borrow but didn't want to burden her best friend and along with Su Ping's words, she finally decided to relent, if some issue crops up later she would handle it then.
In the end, Su Yanying paid 108 astral coins and left the store with Lightning Rat after Su Ping said goodbye to the Lightning Rat as even without a contract the bond he developed fighting by Lightning Rat's side was still there.
[ Detecting money entering the account. [Shop] opened. ]
[ Money has been converted into energy points. ]
[Quest: [Chaos Spirit Pool for Incubation] is ready. The host must breed a pet that belongs to himself within a week.]
[ Reward for quest accomplished: a random skill book for battle pet warriors. ]
[ Punishment for quest failed: downgrade the host's rate. When the rate is below the passing line, the host will be erased. ]
[The host can purchase 'Awakening Potion' in the shop to be qualified as a battle pet warrior and start your journey toward making this store the best pet store. ]
The awakening potion was something that he was looking forward to as it would be the start of his journey.
In the world even considering his current universe only a tiny minority could become Astral pet warriors naturally with some being late bloomers.
Most of the warriors are awakened by taking potions that are made from special plants found in space and developed by the federation, and such potions were priced at a level that only the rich could afford. Anyone without millions upon millions would not even get a chance.
"Open the shop"
All of a sudden, a dark gray shop interface appeared in his mind, like the cabinet of a storage unit. Only three items could be found in there.
[Awakening Potion—100 energy points.]
[ Elementary beast-catching ring—100 energy points.]
[ Low-rank Astral Pet food—10 energy points. ]
Information on all three items came up at the same time. With the money-to-energy point conversion ratio being 100:1 he needed 10000 astral coins for the awakening potion and they had to be earned through the store that was the system's rule, another thing was that the system decides the price of everything in the store and he can't do anything about it but it wasn't really a problem as after reaching certain strength money for either energy point.
Or money in general won't be a problem for him and for right now as long as the news of Thunder Essence Lotus being on sale gets out people would be flocking to his store.
Su Ping got back to the counter and laid his upper body on it and started overlooking all the functions currently available in the store.
There was an incubation chamber that could let him get a random pet for a certain amount of energy points, the higher the chamber level the higher the chances of getting the better pets. It was like gacha but in this gacha, the increased chances were a holy truth and not a myth of olden times.
The second was the Nursing pens, which were special pens made by the system for pet boarding services in which a pet is staying in them they will receive different kinds of buffs, the higher the level of pens the better buffs the pets will receive.
According to the system the store currently only have elementary nursing pens which were made with spirit stones and the pets inside will be nurtured by pure anima that can improve the power of understanding and better the constitution of the pets. In that way, the pets can pick up powerful special skills more easily.
The third was the cultivation ground which allowed Su Ping to visit different cultivation sites or different worlds in the easy sense to train pets. Every cultivation plane requires varying amounts of energy points to visit based on the level of the site and every revival in a cultivation site requires Su Ping to pay 1/10th of the entrance amount, though it only applied for Su Ping's revival and not the pets.
For this month he was under the beginner period and will get 30 free revival chances but after one month he will be required to pay.
Aside from that currently store provided three services
Pet Training and Boarding
Pet Renting
Pet food
The first one was something he already did, that is training Lightning Rat
While the boarding part was simply letting the pet stay in the pens and providing the pet with proper care. The cost of Boarding mainly depended on the level of nursing pens, for the current Elementary Pen which according to the system is flawed the cost was 10 astral coins per hour while maintaining them cost 1 point per day to maintain. Both the Boarding cost and mentainence cost will increase along with the nursing Pens level.
Renting services price was dependent on the pet being rented and the food price was decided by the system. The easiest way to get the food was from the cultivation site and this was the reason he first asked the system for support when he entered the Thunder Cloud Plane, now he has already gathered a lot of food that he could sell and all of it was currently being displayed on the shelf. Though only one Lotus was being displayed at the moment.
Meanwhile, Su Yanying returned to the academy, her fourth match was scheduled in the late afternoon around 16:00 but depending on how the other matches go it could happen early.
Soon, Su Yanjing arrived at the Astral Pet combat stadium.
Su Yanying did not wear the academy uniform but the guard recognized her. He let her in before she presented her student card.
A lot of shouting on the spectator seats on the sides of the entrance corridor could be heard, people seemed to be thrilled with the match that just ended. She turned around and saw that her Lightning Rat seems unaffected by all the hubbub even though a Lightning Rat is supposed to be a timid creature.
Usually, she could maintain her calm in situations such as these but today ever since she entered that store her thought had been a mess even now it was hard for her to believe all the things that had happened to her, if not for Lightning Rat by her side and the fact she herself watched it use multiple advance skills she would have thought she was dreaming.
She looked around and found the seats of her class, class Two, Grade Three, she hurried over.
"Ying Ying, here"
"Ying Ying"
"Hey, can't you hear me?"
"hm?, Lan Lele?" Su Yanying heard a voice and once again focused on her surroundings.
"Ying Ying, where have you been? I couldn't find you anywhere. You frightened me there and why are you so absent-minded?"
Lan Lele, Su Yanying's friend, had spotted her as soon as she arrived at her class seats. The former ran over at once.
" It's nothing, anyway I went to pick up my Lightning Rat," Su Yanying said as she followed Lan Lele to the seats of their class. Su Yanying threw a glance at the games and asked, "Which one is it now?"
"It's the fifth one, Ice Jiang's, you are up next, that's why I was so worried" Lan Lele pouted her lips and pointed at the person with black hair currently having the match. Both that person and Su Yanying were the center of attention in the class. Over time, due to the influence of such an environment, those two students had grown to be quite competitive.
"Oh." Su Yanying nodded and started watching the match carefully.
Then, Lan Lele noticed the Lightning Rat that was behind Su Yan Ying at the moment and was astonished when she felt its Rank.
. "This is the Lightning Rat I that you sent out for pet boarding, right? Why does it seem so different? And how did it reach Rank 2, heck it almost seemed to have reached Rank 3, isn't Lightning Rat's limit Rank 1? "
" It's a long story, I will tell you after the match," said Su Yanying finally relieved to see her best friend's astonishment, it seems her reaction wasn't weird after all, it was the store that weird.
As they were about to continue Su Yanying's name was called, the girl named Jiang's match had ended with her victory.
"That girl sure is lucky. All her opponents are rookies!" Lan Lele said, resentfully.
As Su Yanying stood up to get to the arena
She felt Jiang glance at her which spoke volumes, as if Ice Jiang was telling Su Yanying to not to let her down making Su Yanying frown a bit but still proceeded toward the stage with Lightning Rat in tow.
"See You Later, Lele"
"Umu, Good Luck, I know you can win."
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