48: Super Poop Monster

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Feeling sleepy, and then a pillow is offered?

It's practically the pet of my dreams; if I use it properly, it could rival a time-type pet.

If, and I mean if, I could increase Ya Bao's growth level, it would be a divine pet!

"Senior Brother, I've made my choice."

"That pet beast has caught your eye?" Seeing Li Wen frown and deliberate for so long, he was now curious about the prize winner.

Following the direction of Li Wen's finger, he suddenly saw a lump of green poop monster.

"A Slime?"

"Wood attribute, that's indeed quite uncommon."

Lin Bufan: Didn't you say you wanted to contract a pet beast with a known evolution path? Come on, tell me what a Slime can evolve into.

Forget it, he must have his own ideas.

Low-level elemental beings like Slimes generally have an intelligence infinitely close to none, so there will be no resistance to contracting them.

Things indeed went as smoothly as Li Wen had imagined, but during the process, he received some strange information.

"Person of Destiny, you have finally arrived."

"I am the future King of Slimes; assist me in ascending the throne, and you will not lack benefits."

What is this? A Slime with thoughts?

And what's with this 'Person of Destiny' script? Did I contract a chuunibyou?

"I, Yuan Emperor, am sleepy now and want to return to my bedchambers to rest. You understand what I mean, right?"

Li Wen: ?

(๑•̌.•̑๑) ˀ̣ˀ̣

It seems necessary to correct his thinking. As expected, early education for pet beasts is very necessary.

"Ya Bao, go give it two slaps."

Ya Bao: Scummy Beastmaster, exploiting pet beasts again.

Although grumbling, it still came down from Li Wen's head, returned to its normal size, walked in front of it, and prepared to perfunctorily hit it twice.

"You are the subordinate of the Person of Destiny, so you are all my, Yuan Emperor's, subjects. Tell me what abilities you have!"

Ya Bao: (▼へ▼メ)

"I wouldn't dare to make Ya Bao angry; it's practically already been sentenced to death."

Li Wen spread his hands, "Heh, it's over."

"Farewell, but as a Beastmaster, I will burn some offerings for you regularly every year."

"Moo~"

"Stop hitting, I, Yuan Emperor, can bestow some rewards upon you."

"Ya?"

"Still 'I, Yuan Emperor'? Still 'bestow rewards'?"

"Ya~"

"Qing Yan, come down and join the fight, I'm a bit tired."

This kind of combat, entirely physical without Skills, was pure torture for Qing Yan, but Qing Yan didn't dare to refuse!

If it refused, then it would be in for it; this beating would include it too.

"Ying~"

"Coming, coming."

Making a slacker work overtime is really too much.

So, it's time to test my training results. Darn it, Li Wen exploits Da Jie Tou, Da Jie Tou exploits me, and I have no one to exploit, so I can only exploit the Insect Silk.

An unusual Insect Silk flew directly in front of the Slime, transforming into an insect-shaped puppet, its resemblance to "Insect Silk Ya Bao" was indeed much higher.

At this moment, the world-famous painting "Mixed Doubles" was achieved.

"Li Wen, why are your pet beasts fighting right after being contracted?"

"It's nothing, this is just a special welcome ceremony."

In ancient times, there was 'Brother Jie closes the door'; today, there is 'Li Wen pulls the switch.'

"Ya?"

"Is that your ability?"

Suddenly, feeling that its Energy Value had indeed increased by a tiny bit, Ya Bao had Qing Yan stop their actions together.

"Moo~"

"Yes, this is the ability I, Yuan Emperor, am proud of." Its voice now had an obvious sense of weakness.

"Ya?"

"Still 'I, Yuan Emperor'?"

"Moo~"

"I, I, I, was wrong, truly wrong, it won't happen again."

"How about it? King of Slimes?"

"No, no, no, actually I came to assist you in becoming king, my lord."

Although the words were still chuunibyou, at least the attitude was good. Ideological outline 3.0 completed.

"Since you are so sensible, I'll give you a name. No objections, right?"

"You want to become king so much, and you're an elemental being... I've got it."

"Calling you 'Yuan Emperor' is too grand, calling you 'Yuan Shen' is too presumptuous, so let's call you 'Yuan Wang,' shall we?"

"Moo~"

"My lord, this name is quite good, but when you call me, could you please not add 'shall we?'"

"Good point, I'll try to call you Yuan Wang less often in the future."

Yuan Wang: ... Li Wen directly summoned it back to the Beastmaster Space. He had already seen that after using [Lush], its Energy Value plummeted.

The main reason was the huge level difference between Ya Bao and it; just a slight increase in Energy Value could consume most of Yuan Wang's energy.

The reason Yuan Wang, with such a personality, could live so comfortably here was due to its special trait. Many commander-level pet beasts here had received its blessing.

Although it had little effect after surpassing its growth level, it didn't prevent them from supporting it.

If they knew its Catalysis ability could increase with its growth level, they would eagerly collectively support it... Lin Yan, who had finished a day of inspection, returned to the hotel and fell into deep thought after seeing the email and link sent by Master Chen.

Email content:

Go check out your new student's debut work quickly. You didn't even know your own student wrote a paper, typical of you, kid...???

It's unlike this old geezer to send me something like this as a prank. New student... Lu Chen? Unlikely, the assignments I gave him aren't enough for a paper yet.

Li Wen? Wait, could it be that he's researched a brand new evolution for the Little Green Worm?!

Lin Yan frantically scrolled down the email to the link: "Research on the Third Path of Evil Dog Evolution and Conjecture on the Demon Dog Path."

Is this right? This isn't right!

Did I assign a topic about the Evil Dog? No, I didn't.

Does this old geezer mean that one of these two wants to threaten my position in the education sector?

Double-click, pay.

Payment failed? Oh, I've never bought anyone else's articles before.

Recharge.

Now Lin Yan was in a great hurry. He wanted to see exactly which unfilial student it was.

"Li Wen? Why isn't this kid researching the Little Green Worm, and instead messing with the Evil Dog for no reason?"

"Who cares, I'll know after reading it."

After reading it, Lin Yan had only one thing to say.

"Damn it, this kid's goal isn't the education sector, he's aiming for the academic world!"

What stung him the most was the acknowledgments section.

He thanked himself, Lin Bufan, Old Li, and even the Beginner Breeder assessment questions?

Lin Yan now understood. It turned out he participated in the Beginner Breeder assessment and incidentally completed a contribution-level paper.

Putting everything else aside, Lin Yan was genuinely worried that Li Wen would enter the Sixth Bureau before him. Wouldn't he lose face then?

He wasn't an old geezer like Master Chen; he and Li Wen were only about a generation apart... Li Wen didn't know any of this. In front of the computer, he looked at the rewards, thinking about how to handle them for maximum profit.