… the safest place in Kain city…

Finding a few hotels with powerful backgrounds that offer a safe accommodation, Max’s restless heart felt at ease.

On his head, Lucy was completely carefree, watching the scenery.

Remembering something, Lucy flew to the train, and gently patted this metal beast a few times, bidding it farewell.

.......... '

Using his phone, Max booked a room at the prestigious White Python Hotel.

Despite its high cost, he knew it was a secure choice.

The hotel had the support of a powerful A-rank entity, ensuring that no one would dare cause trouble within its walls.

“Let’s go, Lu,” Max said, determined not to wander around like a tourist.

Kain city was notorious for its dangers, and Max had no intention of risking his life unnecessarily. Truth be told, he didn’t really want to stay in the city at all.

He wanted to leave for the mountains, but unfortunately, the area outside the city was classified as an E-rank danger zone.

Max had made a firm decision that he would only leave the city once Lucy had gained the capability to take full control over a mountain within a short time.

Because only then she can protect him while he made the final preparation for activating his talent.

‘Now that she reached the E-rank, that process should have become faster, maybe less than one year?.’

And based on Lucy's statistics, Max could guess that after Lucy's (mountain ruler) reaches the Primary mastery, the duration Lucy takes to control a normal mountain will be shortened to weeks or even days.

..… …

The White Python Hotel is not too far from the train station, so Max decided to walk there.

As they arrived, Max was taken aback by the shabby appearance of the building.

Actually, the hotel isn't too bad looking, but considering the exorbitant price he had paid, it didn’t make sense.

Max entered the hotel and approached the receptionist.

a young man who looked like a hooligan, absorbed in reading an old comic book.

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“hello, is this the white python hotel?”

The lazy young man just nodded. While completely disregarding Max, not even glancing at him.

“My name is Max. I have a reservation.”

The receptionist lazily rummaged through the desk, eventually producing a key and tossing it at Max.

“room 07, upstairs.”

Max took the key and made his way upstairs, entering room 07.

Despite the receptionist’s attitude and the room’s shabbiness, Max didn’t mind. Safety was his priority for now, not luxury.

Lucy, however, seemed displeased with their new surroundings. She inspected the room, clearly unhappy with her new accommodation.

“don't worry, Lucy, we won't stay for long.”

Max just open the laptop for her to watch something while he fell deep in thought.

‘as long as Lucy survives to 1000 years, she should be able to reach the primary mastery in her (Mountain ruler).

But while she is almost unbeatable in her mountain form, her real body is too weak. Survival is an issue ’

...... After spending a lot of time considering Lucy's situation, Max found Two Solutions.

First get Lucy an invisibility skill or maybe some Escape skill, but Max only had one channel to acquire skills which is Phantom Titan, but he didn't want to approach their shops while he was still a normal human.

Things can turn out really bad for him if they wanted to talk to him about the train accident or something.

Max didn't want to risk it.

The second option is much simpler.

Put Lucy next to a mountain-chain in the simulation. That way, Lucy won't need to travel in her normal form for long.

However, the planet of the martial world is going through geographical changes, so Max can just put her next to a mountain chain and hope for the best.

“Sigh, first let's try the mountain-chain. If that doesn't work, let's risk it and check the Phantom Titan shops, or just lift the lock on the martial world and try our luck somewhere else.”

…….

Next, Max switched his focus to his new pet.

Opening his phone, he checked the pet shops around, since the pet he wants is only sold in border cities like Kain city.

At the same time, he couldn't help but think about the origin of his new pet.

Every profession has its own hardships and requirements.

Cultivators and martial artists rely too much on talent. Hard work is also needed, but without talent.

Even if you had the wealth of the entire world, you are destined for mediocrity.

As for mages, they require some amount of talent with a little bit of wealth and the mind of a researcher, and most importantly, knowledge.

But for pet masters, a little bit of talent is enough, but what they really need is an enormous amount of wealth.

to obtain pets, provide for their food, and growth resources, buy skills, pay for facilities that offer specific training.

Don't forget evolution plans and evolution resources.

But In the past, having money didn’t guarantee getting a pet due to their scarcity.

Because of this, even though the pet master profession has low requirements for the lower ranks, not enough pet masters were raised to fight against the emerging dungeons and dungeon brakes.

So to fix this problem, the higher ups of the star continent started researching into genetically modified pets with a high birth rate and a high growth speed.

and although the initial potential is very low, they can be evolved multiple times because of the extensive research that was done into them.

Basically, every genetically modified pet has at least nine different evolution routes.

This kind of pet was made for the common population to give birth to new pet masters in order to deal with the huge number of dungeons opened every year.

Thus, obtaining such a pet isn't difficult. It doesn't require anything like star mark or signing a contractor or such, at the same time it's very cheap.

The ash crow is one of the results of that research, and the pet Max chose to use his talent on.