Chapter 13: Big Bear, Bear Two, Bear Three
The three bear cubs lay in the cot, cuddling each other with their eyes closed as if wanting to find the warmest place to sleep.
However, the largest Big Bear had squeezed forcefully into the most comfortable, warmest and most central position. Bear Two and Bear Three couldn't beat their older brother, so they had no choice but to fall into deep dreams as they snored softly where they were.
William had just fed them some lamb milk. He caressed their fur softly. These three babies were not normal.
He had checked them just now.
Big Bear possessed the bloodline of a high leveled magical beast while Bear Two and Bear Three both had the bloodline of a middle leveled magical beast.
At the start of the game, even if they couldn't get a high leveled magical beast, any player that could get the help of a middle leveled magical beast and slowly grow, would be the most popular in their guild. They could even speak in front of the nation's nobilities.
It was simple, their sense of superiority was extremely strong.
Although growth was slower the stronger a bloodline level was, as long as they could be fed properly, magical beasts always grew faster than intelligent beings.
William picked up a furry blanket, covering the three cubs, only exposing their small heads for them to breath before he left the room quietly.
"Take good care of them, I don't want to hear any accidents!" William said to the servants guarding outside of the door.
"Yes, my Lord. I swear I will take good care of these adorable cubs every second!" The female servant glanced at the three bear cubs. She would have never thought that they would become those scary giant wild bears when they grew up, but they were really cute right now...
"Hm, I'll give you an additional silver coin as a reward every month from now on." As the Lord, it was unavoidable for William Blackleaf to have servants. There were even many starving peasants that desperately wanted to become his servants.
Sia stood quietly at the side, looking down in deep thought as if she was very troubled with how this boy seemed to have changed so much.
They had reaped so many things after this trip.
They had wiped out an Orc tribe and taken the chance to obtain an iron mine and three magical beast bear cubs as well.
They just had to wait for the cubs to open their eyes in three days and acknowledge their owner as the first person they see.
Of course.
The cubs were extremely sensitive to smells too.
The servants had to take care to prevent any accidents from happening to the cubs and to clean their excretion at the same time. At other times, both feeding and cleaning would be done by William personally.
"Sia, do you like those cubs?" William walked in front of her and asked.
"I do, they're so cute..." Sia answered indifferently.
"How about I give one to you?"
"Really? No, no, never mind, I cannot afford to raise a giant wild bear..." Sia hurriedly shook her head. With her meager income, she basically threw all of it into magical ingredients, so how could she afford to raise a magical beast?
William Blackleaf chuckled. "Even so, you can come over and visit them! Bear-type magical beasts won't attack people with scents that they are familiar with. Besides, I can even order them."
"Can I come over every day? What if they accidentally opened their eyes and saw me?" Sia asked with widened eyes.
"It's alright. I would have to help you raise them!" William said generously.
"Then... thank you, my Lord!" Sia didn't know what to say, so she left hurriedly.
William stared at Sia who was running away, rubbing his hands. "A mage with Epic bloodline... There will be an enchanter then. Mother, you really gave me quite a few talented people, as well as various equipment..."
Name: Sia
Race: Blackleaf Elf
Occupation: Middle-leveled Water Elemental Mage
Level: 41
Bloodline Potential: Epic (Basic attributes +28%)
Endowment: Middle-leveled life, with every physical strength equivalent to 40 health points.
Endowment: Light of Water. The effect of using any water elemental magic will increase by 30%. 100 intelligence points will decrease the cooldown time for water elemental skills by 20%.
Endowment: Middle-leveled magic, 1 intelligence points = 1.2 magic attack points
Health: 8800
Stamina: ...
Magic: ...
Something worth noting was that both battle energy and magic was something only level 10 characters could have after they had chosen their occupation.
At that time, no matter if it was a player or NPC, they would be able to learn the secret books of battle energy or meditation.
The levels differed between beginner, middle, high, master, epic, legendary, etc.
Ultimately, the higher the level of secret books, the more the magic or battle energy was increased. At the same time, there were some special effects.
Such as increasing the strength of a skill or activating a certain battle energy shield.
When a player is looking for the occupation NPC, they would usually only be able to learn a beginner-level or middle-level secret book.
A high leveled secret book required the finishing of a harder mission, but a player would be able to get it if they were patient enough.
However, the master and higher leveled secret books required special meetings, an auction, a special NPC, the black market, a mysterious merchant or even an occupation mentor's private collection.
Besides, the price of a secret book was scarily expensive.
A beginner-level secret book only required 10 silver coins. Basically, if a player who could walk out of a beginner village could save money, they would be able to get the secret book and learn all the skills they could when they chose an occupation.
However, a middle-leveled secret book required at least 1 gold coin...
1 gold coin didn't seem expensive, but it was a crazy blow to a player that had just started the game. If they didn't find it accidentally or didn't want to use their real money, they just had to carefully save money.
However, even if you used real money in this game, you wouldn't be able to change it into gold coins...
Unless they sold their clothes or used the monthly subscription excuse to sell their attributes. However, at such a time, which gaming company would dare to use this?
How did Wangyi go bankrupt?
Because their monthly subscribed game allowed the selling of attributes, it caused the 23rd-century players to spend until they went bankrupt and rejected all of the games under them!
On the other hand, it was clear that additional attributes couldn't be added to the clothes. The only special thing about clothes was that they were pretty and could be worn together with their equipment.
However, the cheapest outfit required a hundred dollars. Of course, the outfits could be sold to certain NPC nobilities too.
However, this required a certain level of friendship with the NPC and seeing if the NPC was interested in it.
If there really was an NPC who wanted to buy the outfit, they could earn quite a few gold coins.
The merchant shop didn't sell re-spawn coins. This game didn't have a resuscitating occupation either. Once the player reached level 30, they only had 6 re-spawning times. They would lose some experience points every time they died. They could even drop a level or randomly lose their equipment. After they died more than 6 times, they would enter a stage where they couldn't log into the game for 10 hours.
Of course, this sort of restriction was only in place when the majority of the players were middle-leveled professionals.
This was also to make the fight more balanced between players, and to make the world between the players and NPC more balanced.
However, this was a game after all.
The gaming company wanted to earn, but they also wanted to earn in a nice manner and didn't want to lose money so they allowed a trading system to allow players to use real money to buy equipment and gold coins.
The only remaining part was the clubhouse. Because every clubhouse would have a subsidiary guild, players would congregate in the guilds for their idols.
Usually, professional players who were sponsored were able to become strong very quickly because they were willing to spend on their equipment and gold coins.
However, the prerequisite was that the professional players had to receive honor!
It wasn't just playing, if they lost, they would become lower than dogs.