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Chapter 4 : Pet Contract

Chapter 4 : Pet Contract

Pet Contract

Returning to the town, Antonidas and Jiu Mei head to the academy. Inside the academy hall, a board detailed the results and corresponding class assignments. 190+ were given 1A, 150-190 1B, 100-150 1C, 50-100 1E and 0-100 1F. 

There were also 2 others board showing the results and corresponding class assignments of the second year (2A to 2F) and the third year (3A to 3F).

Looking at the board, the results showed that most students who suceed the written exam Antonidas saw his name at the top of the board.

Zhao Yuhan 1st 210/200 points Class 1-A Fei Junbei 2nd 200/200 points Class 1-A Fan Yun 2nd 200/200 points Class 1-A Ryu Bufei 3rd 199/200 points Class 1-A Guo Mu 4th 198/200 points Class 1-A Xiang Ru 5th 197/200 points Class 1-A Shan Ru 6th 196/200 points Class 1-A Yun Qi 7th 195/200 points Class 1-A Zhong Jie 8th 194/200 points Class 1-A Lei Lan 9th 193/200 points Class 1-A ... ... ... ...

"Woah, the first guy succeed to get 210 points! Amazing!" A young boy next to him shouted while pointing the board. 

"I'm on the B-class... Aargh! I was only 1 point away from the A class. I should have studied more thoroughly." A young boy next to Antonidas was pulling his hair while complaining. 

"Lucky! I got enough points to get on the C class." Another boy was shouting in joy. 

"You can do better to the next written exam don't worry." A girl was comforting her friend. 

"Seems like we are in the same class..." Another boy was pointing the board in relief. 

 Since Antonidas already saw his class assignment, he was going to leave the main hall with Jiu Mei until that a feminine voice called him. 

"Hey, you wait a minute." 

He turned around and looked at the girl who called her.  

She was a petite girl with long curly red hair looking at him with her beautiful red eyes she asked. 

"You bought that sword this morning right?" 

The girl was pointing the sword on Antonidas' waist.  

Antonidas was slightly surprised by her cute face and seeing the girl who nodded her head while looking at her with eyes that says "As I thought" The girl continued. 

"My father was the merchant who sold you the sword, I heard the story after coming back home. I'm sorry for his behaviour... Since our family is poor, he was trying to rip money from foreigner to pay the school's fees. I also heard that your maid scolded him? I wanted to thank her since he was doing too much anyway. Do you have some times right now? Let me buy you some drinks." 

Seeing Jiu Mei next to him who waved her hand with an embarrassed face saying that she doesn't mind about it, the young girl sighed in relief. 

"Thank you for your offer, but I have something to do." 

Antonidas refused her offer. Right now, he need wanted to return to the rabbits' plain to earn money.  

Since the sun was about to set, he didn't wanted to hunt during night time because it was actually too dangerous because of the D-rank and C-rank monsters that roam near the rabbits plain. 

The girl who heard Antonidas was slightly amazed but she paid no mind and said. 

"Then let's do that another time, by the way what is your class assignment? Are you perhaps also in the class A?" 

She was curious about the boy, since he was a noble, he should be at least in the class A or B because of his huge pride, nobles didn't want to become a laughing stock or getting scolded by their parents, they were studying seriously to get to a good class. 

Antonidas didn't mind telling him about his class assignment, right now he wanted to earn money so he tried to end the conversation. 

"Yes, I'm also in the class A, I hope we'll get along. I don't have much time so I'll be leaving now." 

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Right after he finished his sentence, Antonidas left the Academy with Jiu Mei leaving the young red-haired girl alone deep in thought. 

'Such a strange boy...Normally most of the boys won't refuse to take a drink or talk to me. I wonder why he was so in a hurry.' 

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The first way: Use regularly magic everyday to increase the magic pool. 

The second way: Learn a good cultivating technique. 

The third way: Read a lot of books. 

The fourth way: Train regularly your body. 

The fifth way: Meditate at least an hour or two everyday. 

The sixth way: Strengthen your magic weapon with runes and magic stones. 

The seventh way: Strengthen your magic equipment with runes and magic stones. 

The eighth way: Get a Pet Contract with a magical beast. 

The ninth way: Get a Spirit Contract with a Spirit Lord. 

The Tenth way: Use regularly magic power pills, the magic power pills are...and the ingredients are... 

Director MuTang was having a hard time trying to found out the way to create the so-called magic power pills.  

MuTang couldn't understand half of the method to increase magic power from the young boy who wrote the "10 ways to increase magic power". He understood the meaning of first, third, and tenth ways but he still couldn’t understand the meaning of the others ways.  

MuTang knows that reading books help to increase the imagination of the magician, increasing the imagination of the magician also increase his way to imagine the fireball while casting it and it was something that all the teachers knows, it was the second method discovered in the world.  

The first method was to use regularly magic everyday as the young boy wrote, using all of its magic reserve could increase the reserve of the magic power, thus, increasing the magic reserve also increase the magic power.  

it was the reason why MuTang thought that the others ways must be right but he couldn't understand the meaning of the others ways such as training his body, meditating or strengthening magic equipment or magic weapon.  

He also didn't know about the Pet Contract or Spirit Contract, he wanted to ask to the boy about it when he was going to meet him, but he wanted to try producing the so called magic power pills on his own with the ingredients the boy wrote but couldn’t succeed it.  

The boy didn't wrote any process or details in the paper which make him really depressed. He thought that the boy was quite shameless to purposely wrote the method without any process or details. 

In front of MuTang, a table with medicinal herbs, magic stones and magic gear was scattered on the table.  

Since the boy didn't wrote any process to create those so-called "magic power pills" so he was really having trouble finding out the way to create those magic pills.  

He tried several method to produce it but all failed until now. He wanted to ask to the boy the meaning behind the others ways and looked after the boy called Zhao Yuhan after collecting the materials but the boy already left the Magic Academy.  

He even thought about looking for him during the afternoon but since he was busy with the administration of the Magic Academy, in the end, didn't had the time to look for the boy.  

Once he finished all the paperwork of the new students, he tried looking for the boy again, but he once again found out that he already left the academy... 

MuTang couldn't wait tomorrow so he went around the town looking for the young boy called. 

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Antonidas left the Stone Jade City and directed towards the rabbits plain. He wanted to hunt weak monsters to earn money. As always, Jiu Mei was following him from behind but it didn't really help Antonidas.  

He was afraid to put her in danger once again, so he was extremely careful towards its surrounding compared to a while ago.  

After about an hour of hunting the sun started to disappear so he decided to end the hunt. Turning around Jiu Mei once again disappeared.  

Worried that something might happened to her once again he started shouting her name.  

Fortunately, he heard "I'm over there" from Jiu Mei's voice and directed towards her. Jiu Mei was sitting next to a baby Shadow Star-Wolf who was hiding behind a tree. She was trying to give him rabbits meat but the baby was afraid of approaching her.  

"He must be the baby of the two wolves we killed...I wonder if he can survive on his own without its parents..." 

Jiu Mei was showing a worried expression while trying give the baby Shadow Star-Wolf rabbits meat. 

'We were attacked by their parents but she still showed compassion towards its baby... She's really compassionate.' Antonidas thought. She has been attacked by one of his parent during midday but still show pity to the baby. He hesitated for a little bit then spoke. 

"Jiu Mei, do you want to make a Pet Contract with this baby? He'll become your protector but you need to take care of him until he become adult." 

Jiu Mei turned her head towards her master while showing a surprised expression, it was the first time she heard a magical beast becoming a pet but since it was her master words, she believed him and said in a regretful tone.  

"But... the guards won't accept a magical beast inside the town and I can't go outside the town everyday to look for him..." 

'So if it was possible, you indeed want to take care of him.' He thought. Then he spoke with a smile on his face.  

"That's not a problem, after contracting with the magical beast, you can summon him wherever you are and even if you can't take him to the town, Shadow Star-Wolf can hide in your shadow." 

He recalled the fight against the Shadow Star-Wolf who jumped on its own shadow.  

Jiu Mei who heard Antonidas became astonished but asked in a joyful expression. 

"Can I really take care of him? Do master allow me to keep him?" 

"Yeah, sure. You just need to be careful inside the town since people would be scared once they saw him, but if he's hiding in your shadow it won't be a problem." 

Antonidas took out a blank scroll and started writing complex formulas, after a short moment he gave the scroll to Jiu Mei and said. 

"Once you sign the contract with your blood, this baby Shadow Star-Wolf is going to test you, if the baby truly accept you as its master, then the contract is sealed and he'll become your pet." 

Jiu Mei didn't hesitated and sign the contract with her blood. 

The scroll suddenly shined and a light flew towards the baby Shadow Star-Wolf entering inside its body.  

After that the light entered inside the baby Shadow Star-Wolf's body, the baby first growled at her but Jiu Mei didn't mind, she suddenly showed a painful expression but then smiled at him. 

"You must have gone through a lot of things... I'm the same too, that's why I want to bring you happiness instead of letting you there alone." 

Right after she finished her sentence, the baby Shadow Star-Wolf suddenly stopped howling and instead came close to her biting her arm.  

Blood started to flow from her arm but Jiu Mei didn't care and took the baby Shadow Star-Wolf in her embrace.  

The wolf trying and failing to escape out of her embrace stopped biting and instead looked at her compassionate eyes. It was as if he could see Jiu Mei's past memories with his own eyes, tears slowly begin to drop from his eyes and right after then, the scroll shined once again and disappeared.

'So it worked.' Antonidas who saw the scene happening in front of him sighed in relief. He honestly didn't want to leave the baby Shadow Star-Wolf alone. It was also his fault if he lost its parents and he wanted to somehow atone for his crime and this was the solution he found. 

The baby Shadow Star-Wolf suddenly jumped out of Jiu Mei's embrace and landed on the ground entering on Jiu Mei's shadow, he seems to have accepted Jiu Mei as her master. 

Jiu Mei giggles and said, "Starting from today, your name is Bai Lin!" 

Thus, Antonidas and Jiu Mei returned to the inn with a new companion, Bai Lin the baby Shadow Star-Wolf.

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