Making Pets A Worldwide Phenomenon - Chapter 13

Chapter 13: The Age of Adorable Pets

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Fang Ziyu looked at the other four posts. Needless to say, these posts were all posted by someone who ran a pet store.

Three of the posts were all using the method to take advantage. They said that although they also knew this method, they weren’t as generous as Fang Ziyu to share it with the public.

Then, in order to express their apologies, they told people who needed mutated pets that they would get a 20% discount if they bought pets in their stores.

Fang Ziyu could only express his speechlessness towards these posts. There were people who took advantage of other people’s popularity everywhere, so it was impossible for him to stop them. Besides, after the rise of Spiritual Energy, the number of pets couldn’t meet the demand at all. It didn’t matter if those stores took a bit of the advantage.

After all, they were so far away from each other, so it wouldn’t affect him much.

However, there was another post that directly cut off the paths for these pet stores including Fang Ziyu’s.

This post directly provided a bunch of data, saying that using sleeping pills to contract pets would reduce the potential of the pets and it would be difficult for them to evolve.

Then, this post introduced a drug developed by the chain pet store, Love Pets. This drug had no side effects and wouldn’t reduce the evolution potential of pets.

Love Pets even said that this drug will be completely free. As long as customers bought a pet or got a membership card in their store, they would get it for free.

The drug would be on the market soon and there weren’t many of them in the first batch. Those who needed them had to go to their pet store to get a membership card as soon as possible. By then, each person would be able to get one for free with their membership.

Seeing this post, Fang Ziyu felt a bit speechless. This was the difference between a big company and a small store like his. They couldn’t compete at all.

However, sleeping pills indeed had side effects. Icy falling asleep on the couch right after evolving last night was a side effect of the sleeping pills, but this didn’t affect the pets much.

The post wasn’t as popular as expected. It was unexpected but also made sense.

However, Fang Ziyu’s main goal wasn’t to sell pets. Selling pets was just a side business.

His main purpose was to make Spirit Cards to Handbook Points. Then, he would use the Handbook Points for the evolution of his Spirit. When his pet was almost invincible, he would take it to wander around.

His ability was unmatched, not even those research institutes. After all, he only needed to touch a pet to know its evolution conditions, and those scientists had to slowly analyze and study the pet. They couldn’t possibly be faster than him.

Besides, pets were still mutating constantly. The number of types of mutated pets kept increasing. It was impossible to study all of them.

Overall, pets could be divided into three types right now.

The first type was similar to the Eye Butterflies used by the police. They were stably mutated and almost all of them had the same ability. Pets like this could be evolved with the same evolution method after the materials and conditions were discovered.

However, this kind of pet wouldn’t get new skills after evolving, but their original skills would continue to be strengthened.

The second type was like Icy and the Husky. The general direction of their evolution was almost fixed, but there was still uncertainty about the smaller pathways. They could obtain different abilities after evolving, but these abilities were generally related or similar to the general evolution direction.

Since the general evolution direction of the second type of pet was fixed, it could generally be certain that one of its main evolution materials would match its main property.

For example, Icy’s main property was ice, while its general evolution direction was the Young Frost Dragon. Every time it evolved, it could still gain some new abilities. It was almost certain that it would need a core or mutated plant with the ice property every time it evolved.

However, there were more than tens of thousands of cores and mutated plants with the ice property, not to mention other supplementary ingredients. There was a success rate for pet evolution and a slight deviation of the ingredients might cause the success rate to drop drastically.

It was possible for people to find out the evolution materials for this type of pet through scientific research, but it would already take a few years for scientists to experiment with the evolution materials for Level 2.

So, what scientists are researching right now was mainly the first type of pet. The second type of pet might take countless years for generations of scientists to succeed in their research.

The third type was the kind of mutated pets that had no pattern at all. Even if they were mutated from the same species, there would still be different mutation outcomes and the properties of the evolution materials might be different each time. There wasn’t a uniform pattern at all.

The third type of pet was extremely rare. The official website of the country didn’t give any detailed introduction. It only said that there was only one person in the world who had such a pet right now. This person was called Master Bei.

It was said that Master Bei’s pet had the fire property when it was at Level 1, while the water property when it was at Level 2, and another property when it was at Level 3. Now that it was at Level 5, this pet could release attacks of five properties and was immune to attacks of these five properties.

It was only Level 5 but already ranked tenth among the human pet champions, while the ninth and eleventh pets were pets at the peak of Level 6 which were about to advance to Level 7.

Right now, most pets couldn’t have two properties that counteracted each other in their bodies at the same time. For example, the Young Frost Dragon of the ice property, Icy, might have space and earth properties in its body, but it couldn’t possibly have fire property.

However, the third type of pet could break this restriction and allow water and fire to merge in one body.

Fang Ziyu got this information from the government website. He had never encountered a pet of the third type and he didn’t know if his stupid game could detect information about such pets.

For Fang Ziyu, it didn’t matter even if the game couldn’t detect it. The most common pets in nature were those of the second type, which were enough for him to make Spirit Cards to earn Handbook Points to increase his pet’s level.

This world was too mysterious. Not to mention that pets were full of endless mysteries, Fang Ziyu even couldn’t understand the country.

As if the country knew about the rise of Spiritual Energy ahead of time, it easily suppressed the chaos and restored order. The information released on the government website didn’t seem like the results of research in just two months either.

Fang Ziyu wasn’t interested in understanding these things. He was just a commoner. He was already busy enough with his own things.

Generally speaking, the second type of pet had the highest number and was the most popular.

Since every time they evolved, they got new skills apart from their main ones. So, they did not only surprise their masters, but other people would never know what kind of skills those pets had either.

The first type of mutated pet were normally trained by the country or some organizations as their symbol.

What Fang Ziyu wanted was a pet that he had never seen before, so he could make a Spirit Card. He wouldn’t be able to continue getting new Spirit Cards with pets with exactly the same direction of mutation.

If there was already a Spirit Card in the library, he would definitely not be able to make a new one.

The few hamsters in his store which had all awakened their ability to breathe out fire could only be made into one Spirit Card.

There were nearly ten thousand replies to Fang Ziyu’s post, which was already enough for him.

He didn’t need to argue with these pet stores. His first post had already won the favor of many people, and there were too many people who needed pets right now. The supply couldn’t meet the demand at all.

“Icy, come closer.” Fang Ziyu yelled.

“Awhoo?”

After finishing the ice cream, Icy, who was confused, jumped on Fang Ziyu’s shoulder and looked at him.

Snap.

Fang Ziyu took a clear photo and sent it to his post.

“Contracting pets with sleeping pills is just the last resort. A contract approved by the pet is the most solid companion relationship. I hope everyone stays on the right side of it. This is me and my pet dragon. It’s already at Level 2 under my nurture. I’ve awakened the ability of detecting the skills of pets. Feel free to come to our store to ask questions about your pets.”

After adding this paragraph, Fang Ziyu left the forum. He didn’t talk about the other posts, as if he didn’t see them.

Slap!

Fang Ziyu’s head was suddenly slapped by a claw.

He turned around and met a pair of big, ice-blue eyes.

“Why did you hit me?”

“Fang Ziyu, you must remember that you’re my servant. Pay attention to your language and actions.” Icy glared at Fang Ziyu and was very dissatisfied with Fang Ziyu taking photos of it without permission.

“If you want to take a picture, the main focus should be my handsome face and you will be the background.” Icy raised its tail and said.

Fang Ziyu: “…”

Fine, why should he bother to argue with a dragon?

After a while, they arrived at the door of Fang Ziyu’s store.

“I’m starving. I’m going to eat first.” Fang Ziyu got out of the car with Icy.

Xiao Bai nodded and drove away.

“It’s time to prepare to buy a new batch of pets,” Fang Ziyu said. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the pet detector had not been released on the market yet and that people had no good way of detecting the potential of pets to earn some benefits with his own ability.

Fang Ziyu had even decided which pet cultivation base he would go to. He would go to the Ocean Pet Cultivation Base.

Not only was this cultivation base unprofessional, but it also tricked him harshly when he first entered the pet industry.

Even though it had been two years, time had not made Fang Ziyu forget about this incident. If he didn’t take revenge now when he had the chance, he wouldn’t be Fang Ziyu anymore.

Two months since the rise of Spiritual Energy, only two pets had been sold in his pet store. Most people chose to go on the streets to look for mutated stray cats and dogs.

After all, these pets were free and they were much stronger than those in the pet stores after mutating, so they were sought after by many people.

However, the monsters in the wilderness had all grown up now. People wouldn’t dare to go out without the protection of high-level pets. Besides, most of the stray cats and dogs in the city had been contracted.

So, many people without pets could only put their attention on the pet store again.

As the mutated pets integrated into people’s life, the focus of society would shift to the pets. The country was already setting up summoner schools, and the registration of the license of various pet research institutes and companies were all open.

When pets were destined to become the center, people without one would always come to the pet store after some hesitation, no matter how painful it was.

This was such a huge opportunity to make money. Fang Ziyu would definitely not let the dazzling money slip away from him..