Chapter 184 - 184 166 Taming the Cat

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184: Chapter 166: Taming the Cat 184: Chapter 166: Taming the Cat “Meow, meow, meow!” As soon as Lu Ping’an returned to his hotel room in the Secret Realm, he encountered Meow demanding a debt. It wasn’t the silly cat that was so tired its soul had left its body. It was lying there panting; its body was fine, but its heart was too tired, too tired. It was the little white cat brought in by Lei Shuiyun, meowing nonstop around Lu Ping’an. Lu Ping’an tried to stroke it but almost got bitten. The little white cat’s meows grew more urgent, and seeing that Lu Ping’an still couldn’t understand, it began to arch its back and raise its tail, seemingly ready to attack. “Meow!” Lei Shuiyun, with her tired face, grabbed the jumping cat mid-air and said to Lu Ping’an. “She’s saying, ‘Where’s mine?'” The little white cat had said so much just to repeat this meaning. Now, Lu Ping’an understood. He had given presents such as potions, weapons, and javelins to Meow, but he hadn’t brought any canned food for this little cat. The awakened cat was furious. Lu Ping’an thought for a moment and then took out a bag of catnip. “Meow!” The little white cat grabbed it, tearing open the bag while still meowing. “She’s not asking for this meow!” The cat’s owner helped translate and then added her comment. “Why do you even have this meow?” “It’s for you? I’ve always been curious if it works…” Lu Ping’an casually replied, not even sure if it was true. Upon hearing this, the cat’s owner looked at him as if he were a pervert and then kept her distance. But her “little sister” continued to call out, so she had no choice but to help translate. As it turned out, Little White’s intelligence had greatly increased after the soul awakening, and seeing her owner training hard, she felt a desire to join in. Also, Miss Chris had promised to help her train and had already started the preliminary preparations. So, when Lu Ping’an gave Lei Shuiyun a bunch of equipment, Little White Cat thought it was for her and got anxious. Looking at the meowing cat, Lu Ping’an’s expression was rather awkward. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to spend money, but he really had no money left. Helplessly, he could only lower his head, play with the cat using a cat toy, and appease it with a smile. Surprisingly, the cat now had the intelligence of a child and was easily cheered up after playing for a while. “…I always feel like you treat Little White so well, even better than me…” The cat in the corner had a subtle look on its face and even sounded a bit sour. “…Now you know? A fake cat can’t compare to a real one.” Instantly, the cat didn’t want to talk anymore. It had gotten so many “gifts” and wanted to thank him. But Lu Ping’an still had something to say. “You are my employee. I can provide you with equipment, but for your Little White… You need to be sensible, Meow!” Immediately, Meow got annoyed, but on second thought, it was indeed true. The other party had hired her as a Beast Tamer in exchange for payment for her services. Providing a basic set of equipment before starting work was already quite generous. It wasn’t reasonable for her to demand more to fill the bottomless pit of “taming.” “…Fine, I’ll prepare the ‘Return to Ancestry’ magic potion for Little White when I have money, meow…” Meow’s ears drooped, not confident, and she didn’t know when she would have money. Somehow, her progress had been much faster than expected, depleting her already modest savings. “Actually, I can provide loans here, with a low interest rate…” Lu Ping’an hadn’t even finished speaking when Meow glared at him. She didn’t understand the “-121 Life-points” debt she had now but instinctively felt it was very bad. Lu Ping’an shrugged, he was just teasing the cat, and he had nothing himself anyway. Actually, the training and investment in Meow were more about increasing its own combat strength and raising the upper limit of its Talent Abilities. But the main career path for Meow was actually a Beast Tamer…which was a profession in the Logistics Department. “As for Magic Potions, there’s no way right now, but maybe in the future we’ll train a Magic Alchemist. However, you can’t wait, so if it doesn’t work out, you’ll just have to go to your brother again… Don’t rush to argue with me. The situation is special now, and he’ll probably agree if you ask him. But once the opportunity passes, there won’t be another good deal like this.” The core ability of a Beast Tamer as a logistics profession lay in nurturing and training Magical Beasts, with a different approach from a Gardener’s in various aspects. Gardeners try their best to cultivate better Magic Plant species, while Beast Tamers, apart from nurturing, consume a terrifying amount of resources in training. Can’t understand? It can be explained in one sentence: Meow could also have a profession! “What path are you planning for Little White? Solo battle beast or a pack of wolves?” Among the career paths available to small animals, these two are the most common. Being a Beast Tamer is actually a very hard job. The professional path requires training in professional skills and abnormal abilities to improve, so how can you expect a cat to actively train and summarize? In this case, Spirit Awakening Skill is especially important, but what’s even more important is actually the “Beastification Ability”, which can only be obtained through active negotiation with Meow to make it seriously train. But that is still not enough. Cats are different from humans; they can’t deal with overly complex professions. Therefore, there are special career paths prepared for “beasts”, but unlike humans, whose ultimate goal is to become gods, the endpoint of a Magical Beast’s exclusive path is often a Powerful Demon. The two paths mentioned by Lu Ping’an are suitable for solo fights and group battles, respectively. Even just choosing the path is still not enough; a bunch of magic potions is needed to make up for the various shortcomings of the beasts, which is undoubtedly a bottomless pit. The “Return to Ancestry” magic potion that Meow mentioned earlier was a universal magic potion that small-sized animals on the battle beast path had to take, which allowed them to temporarily revert to an ancestral giant form and gain a medium to large battle form. “No, it’s Meow, a Fighter, and an Awakener…” Meow said this with disbelief. Fighter was the path she had originally planned to follow herself, but now she had unwittingly drifted onto another path. And Miss Chris had actually said that she could let her cat take the Fighter path, which only humans could take. How? What kind of cooperation is needed? Meow didn’t understand it at all, but the teacher’s confident attitude when she spoke made it seem as simple as drinking water. She had heard that some highly intelligent Magical Beasts could follow the normal professional path, but could she really achieve that? Little White used to be just an ordinary house cat. “An Awakener? Forget it, she’s an expert, believe in her.” Lu Ping’an couldn’t understand either, how could an Awakener, who required inner cultivation, be suitable for a cat to follow. Of course, the premise for all of this was still Meow’s “Beastification Talent”. She could communicate with her cat better than other Beast Tamers, and after the other party’s intelligence increased, she would constantly transfer knowledge and wisdom through communication. “So, you’re taking the Solo Beast path?” This was also the choice given by Chris. Beast Tamer’s schools and pathways are actually more diverse than those of Gardeners, and are divided into two major schools based on the focus on “taming” or “breeding”; there are even two major branches for breeding: innate breeding and postnatal modification. Normal Beast Tamers also have to choose between raising large amounts of beasts at once or focusing on one. At the same time, they also had to specialize in battlefield management, backstage beast taming, breeding combinations, and so on. And these chaotic “conceptual differences” led to unlimited branches in various paths and battle beasts, making it impossible for anyone to explain clearly. Bits and pieces, casually there could be five or six academic schools and hundreds of branches. Each faction also had its own secret techniques, which created chaos. “No, Sister Chris said that we should follow all schools! Breeding, modification, solo beasts, pack beasts, Healing Beasts— we have to learn all of them!” Meow seemed proud, as if feeling that she had made a great deal. Lu Ping’an looked at her sympathetically, this kid had no idea what lay ahead of her. Through this period of studying, he had come to know just how terrifying the so-called “logistics department” professions were—they consumed three times the time and energy of a battle-profession. “Keep up the hard work, and if you can’t hold on anymore, you can come and talk to me…” “Will you help me plead meow?!” “No, I’ll make my way over to watch the fun as soon as possible!”

Chapter 184 - 184 166 Taming the Cat

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