Chapter 16: The Pagoda Is Home, Adrian’s Hope

[Pagoda LV1]: The beast uses its body as a pagoda, and the pagoda as a home. Beings it recognizes as family gain a series of small boosts within its vicinity, including growth speed, recovery speed, learning speed, and more.

The pagoda is nourished by emotion. The more abundant the beast’s emotions, and the more they align with its true self, the higher the chance of condensing a [Treasure Fruit]. Its quality depends on gestation time and emotional concentration.

Adrian looked at the description of this “bond trait” on the panel.

In a way, he also understood the characteristic of traits brought by the [Bond Awakening Art]—the influence of the beast’s personality.

Different beast species, in their unique forms, generally had fixed traits. In rare cases, special bloodlines or attribute mutations produced new traits.

But overall, they still stayed within a certain range. The Kingdom of Draconis had official books describing traits, and they were part of the general curriculum for upper grades.

So even when Adrian had seen some “different” traits before, he was not surprised. He knew such traits existed.

But “bond traits” were too unique, too personal. Adrian had every reason to believe that every individual’s bond trait would be different—even traits that had never appeared before.

Not to mention, it had growth potential.

No wonder it was marked in a special color in the [Traits] column.

This scene could not help but remind Adrian of an image. His mother had once stood in this plant room, facing Violet, facing him and his father, and said: “Where you are is home.”

“Pagoda” seemed to be the inheritance of that spirit, and the manifestation of the unique character his mother had cultivated in Violet.

It made Adrian gently stroke Violet’s petals and say, “Violet, where you are is home.”

Hearing that, Violet’s emotions condensed.

The pagoda phantom behind her seemed, in that instant, to become more solid.

The joy brought by Violet’s evolution still lingered.

But there were still things to do.

Roxy had stayed with Adrian for over an hour and had not finished her work, so she hurried out of the plant room to continue.

Violet had just evolved. She needed to adapt to the energy, the changes in her body, and the proper use of her new traits.

She had always known her importance to this home and to Vale’s Beast Feed.

The impact those two failed evolutions had on the family’s finances was engraved in her memory. This evolution must have cost her young master a great deal of money.

Fortunately, her abilities had improved too. She had to use her power to help her young master earn that money back quickly, and continue to protect this home with her ability.

Lionel was no longer so listless. He stayed by Violet’s side, but many images began jumping through his little head.

He also began chewing over a few things Adrian had said today.

“You want to become a lion? I’ll help you.”

“Violet, I’m still here.”

“Violet, where you are is home.”

He was half a year old, yet still the size of a newborn kitten. This time, he seemed to have finally been brought to a place with warmth. Was it really okay to keep lying flat like before?

His heart began to burn. He could not help swinging his claws and starting to train.

Although his body was still a little frail, for some reason, this time he felt unusually strong.

At this moment, Adrian was also busy in his room.

Successfully evolving Violet was only the first step in his plan.

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There were still many official procedures to handle.

She originally produced Common—Upper [Violet Dew]. Now it was Exceptional—Upper [Spirit Dew], with much better effects. Naturally, it could command a better price.

However, if a graded product was to be sold through the Kingdom of Draconis’s official store channels, it had to be certified.

They would arrange professional certification staff to analyze, evaluate, and price the product. The merchant’s final selling price could only fluctuate within ten percent above or below their pricing. That was the Beast Tamers’ League’s rule, and one of their means of maintaining market balance.

Moreover, the Beast Tamers’ League had to retest samples every month and re-evaluate prices to prevent quality decline.

This was also the fastest channel Adrian could rely on right now, and he basically did not have to worry about unfairness.

Previously, [Violet Dew] was listed in the store at 1,500 crowns for thirty drops. That was roughly Violet’s weekly output.

In most cases, [Violet Dew] sold out every month, guaranteeing Vale’s Beast Feed a fixed monthly income of 6,000 crowns.

Adding [Purple Starvine] and other ordinary beast food sales, Vale’s Beast Feed’s monthly sales were generally between eight thousand and ten thousand.

After deducting daily expenses, cultivation costs for Violet and Roxy, Arthur’s wages, Adrian’s school expenses, and the cost of training spiritual power, he could still save about two thousand a month.

That was also why he had saved forty thousand crowns over the past two years.

But Exceptional—Upper dew was completely different.

Adrian had looked into it. Currently, the two most precious types on the market were [Green Dew], a specialty of the Exceptional—Upper plant beast [Green Water Star Lotus].

And [Butterfly Fragrance], a specialty of another Exceptional—Upper plant, [Butterfly Feather Tulip].

But their effects were different from Violet’s [Spirit Dew]. One could say that in the Exceptional—Upper market, [Spirit Dew] could stand on its own.

Those two cost ten thousand crowns for ten drops.

Yes. Higher price, fewer drops.

Violet now had eight flowers. The dew she had casually flicked to him, Roxy, and Lionel just now was already twelve drops.

That meant her current output was definitely much higher than before evolution.

Before evolving her, Adrian knew that once she succeeded, he would quickly reap the return on everything he had invested.

That was also why, despite having little savings, he had bought Lionel today.

His next goal was to save two hundred thousand crowns in a short time and buy the “medicine” Roxy and Lionel needed.

In a way, [Spirit Dew] was an upgraded product of [Violet Dew].

And only the incredibly rare one-in-a-hundred [Violet Orchid], and its evolved Exceptional—Mid form [Violet Rain Orchid], could produce [Violet Dew].

So Adrian also had to put some effort into the product’s application and paperwork.

After all, before Violet evolved, the [Violet Spirit Treasure Orchid] species had never appeared in this world.

At this moment, Adrian’s application form on the official page was already filled out.

He had made two simple optimizations or annotations.

For the product name, he wrote [Spirit Dew] (Exceptional—Upper) ([Violet Dew] variant product), quality Exceptional—Upper.

The producing beast was [Violet Rain Orchid] (attribute and trait mutation).

In this world, special attributes and traits were not uncommon. Cases were reported from time to time.

Once the application was sent, as long as it passed review, a [Swiftwing Courier] would come to collect samples within about two hours.

Based on Adrian’s past experience, he would receive a response within one business day.

The fastest time, he had even received an official reply two hours after sending the sample.

Official certification of [Spirit Dew]’s quality and the certified price was only the first step.

Once a beast feed shop’s sales reached five hundred thousand crowns and it possessed at least one Exceptional—Upper, or three Exceptional—Mid, or five Exceptional—Lower beast products, it could be officially certified as a [Two-Star Beast Feed Shop].

Once that certification was reached, Vale’s Beast Feed could have more permissions and channels to purchase more special products.

Everything was only just beginning…

Adrian went to the plant room and gently took two drops of [Spirit Dew] from the pot beside Violet, putting them in a water bottle.

He had roughly understood Violet’s situation. Now, she could condense about twenty drops of [Spirit Dew] a day. But today, having just evolved, with the boost from the [Spirit Energy Burst], she had condensed a full fifty-four drops. Minus the twelve she gave them earlier, plus these two test drops, there were still forty drops in stock.

Adrian was very satisfied.

Less than an hour later.

The [Swiftwing Courier] arrived.

Like the one he had seen yesterday, it still dragged its tired body, but its eyes were full of drive.

Every [Swiftwing Courier] in the Beast Tamers’ League had its own main area.

So Adrian and it were familiar “strangers.”

As usual, he stood at the door with a cup of water and the sample to be delivered, waiting.

Today seemed a little different.

[Swiftwing Couriers] were extremely dedicated beasts. Their only mission was to pick up and deliver goods. They would not waste time doing too many unnecessary things during the process.

But today, this [Swiftwing Courier], after drinking the water, actually stood in front of Adrian and spaced out for a full five seconds.

For a beast like the [Swiftwing Courier], their thoughts were simple: if one courier wastes five seconds, then sixty couriers waste a full five minutes. Cherish that time, and you could deliver half a package more.

So this extra five seconds of “waste” was something Adrian had never seen.

He looked at its panel.

[Status]: The good-looking human in front of me seems a little different today. What exactly is different?

Adrian had felt this kind of emotion several times today.

What was the root cause? Was it that he had learned the [Bond Awakening Art], or that he had received the [Gift of All Spirits] today?

The Swiftwing Courier put the sample into its [Pouch] and hurriedly flew away.

Even it felt a little strange.

Moonlight fell on the departing [Swiftwing Courier], drawing a faint arc. Adrian’s gaze followed it into the distance, and the hope in his heart merged into this romantic moonlight.

How much would the League price Violet’s [Spirit Dew]?

Was Vale’s Beast Feed finally about to start getting better…