Chapter 101 - Lu Ran Team’s Full Power (Part 2)

Lu Ran moved on to the Rare resources.

[Name: Dragonblood Snake Gall]

[Grade: Rare]

[Description: The gallbladder of a snake that inherited a trace of Dragon-attribute blood. Taking it can greatly increase energy intensity, improve physical fitness, and greatly increase poison resistance.]

[Price: 12,000 crystal coins]

"Great, the cheapest Rare Dragon-attribute resource costs over 10,000 crystal coins." Lu Ran sighed. Checking his storage, he only had about 140,000 coins.

This dragonblood snake gallbladder was actually a really good item. If Sudden Death King wanted absolute defense, besides physical strength and energy intensity, poison resistance was also vital. After all, poison was the most wicked attribute and the hardest to defend against.

Buying two or three of these could greatly boost Sudden Death King's poison resistance. Taking into account Sudden Death King's talents, Lu Ran looked around and found a suitable resource.

[Name: Dragon Turtle Meat]

[Grade: Rare]

[Description: The meat of a turtle that inherited a trace of Dragon-attribute blood. Taking it can greatly increase life force, energy intensity, and hardness of scales.]

[Price: 15,000 crystal coins]

"I’ll take these two."

Ultimately, Lu Ran chose the Dragonblood Snake Gall and Dragon Turtle Meat, intending to use these two resources as the main components for strengthening Sudden Death King at the moment.

Of course, given how expensive these things were, Sudden Death King couldn’t treat them as a full meal. Its meals would still mainly consist of Advanced ingredients, which he was counting on the Green Sea City Association for. Lu Ran planned on asking Zhao Chen to prepare some Advanced Dragon-attribute meat for Sudden Death King every day.

Forty days' worth of food was worth about 100,000 crystal coins. They could just treat it as a training fee. Although it sounded like a lot, Zhao Chen was more than happy to invest in Lu Ran.

He didn’t want to put the Green Sea City Association in a tough spot and ask them for Rare resources. If he did, Sudden Death King would single-handedly eat up all the resources gathered by the association. Those resources were meant to be used for the development of the city’s new beastmaster force, so Lu Ran couldn’t monopolize them.

Lu Ran planned on preparing three portions of Dragonblood Snake Gall and Dragon Turtle Meat for Sudden Death King to help it get stronger over time. This would cost him about 80,000 crystal coins.

With the help of Advance rations, he refused to believe that Sudden Death King wouldn’t reach level 20! In reality, he needed to ask Zhao Chen to keep an eye on it, so that it wouldn’t exceed level 20. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to contract it.

A level 1 beastmaster could only contract creatures under level 20. He hoped to rely on Sudden Death King to dominate the freshman competition.

He planned to use the rest of his crystal coins plus what he earned in the next ten days on Captain Doofus and himself. The main task at hand was to clear the ascension realm.

For Captain Doofus, Lu Ran used mostly Rare ingredients, but those were still considered low-quality. After all, they were something he had to prepare every day, and Lu Ran couldn't afford to be more extravagant.

The food was designed to boost Wind-attribute energy intensity and physical strength. In other words, it was made to help it level up faster.

Lu Ran had nine portions of Rare dog food left, and now that he added twenty-one more portions on top of purchasing the Dragonblood Snake Gall and Dragon Turtle Meat, he was broke once again.

"The crystal coins I earn in the next ten days will be earmarked for Captain Doofus’ rations. The ascension realm will last for thirty days. When that time comes, we absolutely can’t be short on food. We need one portion a day for at least sixty days to avoid any unforeseen circumstances."

Lu Ran already found suitable resources for Captain Doofus. The great thing was that they weren’t useful just for Captain Doofus; he could use them as well. This allowed the beastmaster and familiar to grow at the same pace.

[Name: Soul Cleansing Fruit]

[Grade: Rare]

[Description: Can help clear the user's thoughts, and increase learning ability and comprehension.]

[Price: 10,000 crystal coins]

This resource was used to help familiars learn skills. The effect wasn’t actually that great, and wasn’t very cost-effective either. Lu Ran found some reviews from the previous generations of beastmasters that used it on their familiars in the forums, and many of them didn’t get any returns on their investment.

However, there were some beastmasters that contracted primate-type familiars that had positive results.

Learning ability and comprehension were very abstract concepts. Some familiars with lower intelligence wouldn’t improve no matter what you gave them. Essentially, the smarter the familiar was to begin with, the better the results.

Additionally, it also had a miraculous effect on beastmasters learning beastmaster skills or general comprehension. Captain Doofus already had a strong learning ability, so Lu Ran intended to strengthen it further.

Unlike Sudden Death King, Captain Doofus followed the techniques skill tree. Of course, it also had the reckless skill tree. Using the Divine Deer Pendant to help Captain Doofus use Energy Compression techniques was Lu Ran's trump card.

Lu Ran also planned to brush up on various beastmaster information, and he still needed to comprehend the blizzard sword momentum. Lu Ran felt that both of them needed a study aide, so the Soul Cleansing Fruit was the best choice.

***

After finishing up his shopping, Lu Ran was ready to go back, but just as he was leaving the square, his ID’s communication function beeped.

[Five Poisons Saintess: Lu Ran!!! My familiar has successfully fused with the trait and awakened its species talent! It is a perfect fusion! The name of its species is now Poison Healing Spider.

Because it's considered a support, its species rank is still Superior-Transcendent. It didn’t improve that much, but its physique and toxicity were significantly enhanced.

To quote the big guys from the forums, it went from being an ordinary Superior-Transcendent to a Quasi-Champion species.

Of course, this isn’t even the most important thing. Its species talent is very powerful, and it’s capable of fighting higher-ranked species!

The species talent is also called Poison Healing, and the effect is that its toxicity permanently increases every time it detoxifies a poison from itself.

Although it is difficult for it to get poisoned, with all of Green Sea City's toxins as a resource bank, I should be able to find new venoms to poison it with at any time. With this species talent, I should be able to quickly increase its toxicity to an even more terrifying level!]

Lu Ran was slightly stunned for a moment before he managed to reply.

[Pedestrian A: Take it easy. Don't poison it to death. I hope it won't become the first venomous spider to be poisoned by its own beastmaster.]

[Five Poisons Saintess: What are you talking about? I have a plan in mind and will test the toxicity beforehand.]

Lu Ran didn't really understand so he stopped asking. Seeing Fang Lan's excitement, it seemed that she was very satisfied with this talent. She can poison away. If something unexpected happened, Dr. Gu could send over an Undead Resurrection skill to turn it into an Undead-attribute poisonous spider.

The Poison Healing talent felt very similar to the effect of the Red-Lightning trait which improved physique using electricity.

I don't know what species talent Sudden Death King will awaken after fusing with the Red-Lightning trait.

***

Over the next few days, Lu Ran led the team to clear secret realms as usual. After Fang Lan was fully powered up, it took only three days for her to rise from fifth place on the Divine Familiar Rankings to third place.

The team witnessed how the toxicity of the Great Xia wolf spider gradually increased. It was a pity that it hadn’t learned an Energy Compression technique yet. Otherwise, with the Poison Healing trait, its strength would definitely be higher.

Other than Fang Lan, Lu Ran also helped Pig Farmer get his Rock-attribute Amplifying skill and Rock-Eating trait.

Pig Farmer's familiar, Goldie, also awakened a species talent: Gluttony. This talent greatly increased its appetite, which made Pig Farmer complain.

God, I wanted the Rock-Eating trait to save some money on food. Why did you give it the Gluttony talent?

He felt betrayed by his familiar.

Admittedly, with the Gluttony talent, if it had enough Advanced Rock-attribute resources to eat, its strength would improve rapidly. Besides pay-to-win, there was another method, which was to frequently enter secret realms with rocky terrains and eat the mountains.

Finally, Lu Ran also successively pulled Lu Bing's Ice-attribute Amplifying skill and the Permafrost trait, as well as Lu Yi's Lightning-attribute Amplifying skill and Golden Lightning trait like Pluto had.

Lu Bing's familiar awakened the species talent, Eternal Ice, which increased its fire resistance, while Lu Yi's mastiff awakened the species talent, Paralysis Immunity, which made it immune to the paralysis effect of Lightning-attribute attacks.

In comparison, Lu Ran became increasingly aware of the true power of Captain Doofus’ Sword Sovereign talent. No wonder Dr. Gu was so surprised back then and said that it was a top-tier talent.

In the past ten days, Lu Ran single-handedly brought up Pig Farmer and the Lu villagers. However, because their foundations were relatively weak, they have not been able to make the rankings even after fusing with a trait like Fang Lan. Even though they weren’t on the Heavenly Familiar Rankings, they should be able to rank in the top hundred beastmasters in Limitless City #3.

Having benefited from Lu Ran, everyone gave all the miscellaneous resources to him. Even so, they still felt that they owed Lu Ran. After all, although the other resources were high in quantity, they were nothing compared to the value of trait crystals.

Lu Ran didn’t actually care that much himself. He wouldn’t have been able to profit as much if he had gone solo. Now, not only did he train a team of experts, he didn’t suffer that much of a financial loss so he wasn’t greedy for more.

Unlike Lu Ran and Fang Lan, Pig Farmer, Lu Bing and Lu Yi didn’t want to rush into the ascension realm.

Lu Bing and Lu Yi were now the strongest fourth-generation beastmasters in Lu Village. They planned to use what they learned from Lu Ran about suppressing Beginner secret realms with the beastmasters from the village to clear secret realms for a few months.

According to them, the Lu Village Guild must become bigger and stronger, so that in the future, with the power of the entire village, they could be of more help to Lu Ran one day. Especially since, without Lu Ran, the two of them would not have been able to become stronger so quickly.

As for Pig Farmer, he planned to take Goldie to Beginner-level secret realms to eat for a few months. After getting to know Lu Bing and Lu Yi better, he also joined the Lu Village team.

This meant that only Lu Ran and Fang Lan were going to challenge the ascension realm.

"Have you decided? You’re entering the ascension realm tomorrow morning, right?" Fang Lan messaged Lu Ran in the middle of the night to ask about his plans.

"Yes."

"I just heard some gossip that many powerful Apprentice beastmasters are entering the ascension realm over the next two days. This means that we’re much more likely to get matched with powerful opponents!"

Lu Ran and Fang Lan weren’t the only ones who wanted to enter the ascension realm before enrolling in Beastmaster University. In fact, it appeared that a lot of people were doing this!

"Don't be afraid."

In the living room, Lu Ran stared at Captain Doofus, who was shakily standing on his floating Frosty Sky Sword.

"Whoever runs into us is really unlucky. Damn it Captain Doofus, hold still. Don't hit the TV!!!"