Chapter 3

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Grass.

Li Pu wasn’t cursing nor talking gibberish.

After all, the beast standing in front of him right now was genuine grass.

To be more precise, it was a straw doll.

Its entire body was made of green grass.

It had a pair of black eyes, a black mouth, and no nose or ears. There were also two conspicuous cowlicks on its head.

In short, it looked silly and did not seem to be very smart.

[ Grass! ]

With a loud and clear call, the straw doll flew over and hugged Li Pu.

This action made him feel a warm current in his heart.

It reminded him of his childhood when he would hug his grandfather like this.

This summoned beast was like a grandson.

[Ding!]

[Summoning successful. ]

A prompt that only he could hear sounded in his ear.

After the world had changed, every Summoner had their own system panel.

“Congratulations. From today onwards, you are an official member of the Summoner Army.”

The bald old man smiled when he saw Li Pu walking down the stage with the straw doll.

“Thank you, teacher.”

Li Pu bowed.

[ Grass! ]

The straw doll also thanked him, although it didn’t feel right.

[ Please name the summoned beast. ]

At this moment, the second prompt sounded.

A name was very important.

Li Pu cupped his chin in his hand and looked like he was in deep thought.

The bald old man knew that he was probably at the naming stage, so he didn’t disturb Li Pu.

After a while, Li Pu had an answer, “The lush grass on the plains withers and thrives once every year.”

When the bald old man heard this, he couldn’t help but smile and clap his hands as he praised, “Good poem.”

“So, I’ll call you Scarecrow,” Li Pu said.

The bald old man’s smile froze, and his actions froze.

“What…what a terrible name.”

Scarecrow raised its hands and cheered,

[ Grass! ]

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After walking out of Wind Listener Pavilion with the straw doll, Li Pu found a random place to sit down.

He opened the unfamiliar interface with his mind.

[Scarecrow: Level 1, Wind Listener]

[Strength: 6, F]

[Attribute: 10 Wood]

[Ability – Gratitude: provides an added bonus to the summoner’s feedback]

[LV1 fist of grass (F): The straw doll swung its fist with force, slightly more powerful than usual]

[Inscription tool: none]

“…”

After looking at the panel, Li Pu was silent for a while.

This straw doll of his seemed to be a little special.

It was especially weak.

[Ability – Gratitude] was an inherent ability of Scarecrow.

Every summoned beast had its own inherent ability.

Inherent abilities could not be upgraded, and the difficulty of obtaining them was much higher than skills. Most of them were closely related to the summoned beast’s race.

Due to certain reasons, the Federation restricted normal people, especially minors, from coming into contact with too much Summoner-related knowledge.

However, because his grandfather was a Summoner, he had been influenced since he was a child and more or less knew some common knowledge.

After a Summoner established a relationship with their summoned beast, their physical fitness would be enhanced to a certain extent.

This was also why the physical strength of Summoners was far beyond that of ordinary people.

However, the strength of this increase was based on the strength of the summoned beast.

Although [Ability – Gratitude] seemed to have a great effect, Li Pu didn’t feel any change in himself.

This meant that even with [Ability – Gratitude], the grass puppet could only provide very little feedback to him.

As a summoned beast, straw dolls were famous for being weak.

Therefore, a straw doll’s inherent ability was equivalent to none.

At that moment, Li Pu was in a terrible mood.

This was because the current situation seemed to be the worst.

His plan to be expelled was ruined. Not only that, but he had also summoned such a weak beast.

To put it bluntly, it was a huge loss.

He wanted to be expelled, become useless, and not have to go on blind dates.

However, he ended up not dropping out of school, became a waste, and even had to go on blind dates.

It was obvious that the latter was more unpleasant, and no one would be happy about it.

“Forget it, let’s look at the others first.”

Li Pu shook his head helplessly.

In fact, the straw doll wasn’t all that he had to verify. There was another piece of information waiting for him to confirm.

That was the Summoner’s talent that was awakened on the spot after becoming a Summoner.

Every awakened Summoner would obtain a unique talent.

There were many types of Summoner talents, and they could strengthen the summoned beast in various ways.

Therefore, the strength of a summoned beast often depended on the talent of the summoner.

Thus, he started searching the panel again. After a while, Li Pu finally found the relevant location.

“This…”

However, when a bunch of information flowed into his mind, he hesitated.

His Summoner talent seemed interesting!

[Friend of Magical Beasts: you can grant skills related to magical beasts to your summoned beast]

Based on the feedback from the information, Li Pu quickly grasped all the details of this talent.

The specifics could be summarized as follows:

1. By using items related to magical beasts and crystal coins, he can give his summoned beast a skill.

2. The skill granted can ignore the attributes, type, and race requirements of the summoned beast.

3. The bestowment methods are divided into three types: learning, integration, and sacrifice.

4. Only one bestowment opportunity is given to the same type of magical beast.

He analyzed them one by one and started with the first.

Li Pu didn’t know what items were related to magical beasts.

However, he recognized the crystal coin. It was a type of crystal that was purified and created through special means. It contained special energy and was the currency used for transactions between Summoners.

As for the second one, although it could ignore attribute, type, and race requirements, if the skill’s compatibility with the summoned beast was too low, it could not be used.

For example, he could teach Scarecrow a wing-type skill, but since it didn’t have wings, the skill was equivalent to 0.

As for the third in the list, [learn] allowed the straw doll to learn a new skill on the spot.

[Integration] was the fusion of the new skill and the straw doll’s original skill to form a new skill.

This function probably had to consider the compatibility between the new and old skills.

As for the final [Sacrifice], it was to directly feed the new skill to the straw doll itself, making it stronger quickly.

Li Pu didn’t quite understand the fourth condition. How did the concept of [The same kind of magical beast] be divided? It seemed that he would only be able to figure it out when he actually did it.

In any case, no matter how he interpreted the [Only one bestowment opportunity is given], he would not suffer a loss.

This was because there was a limit to the number of skills a summoned beast could have.

He wasn’t worried about the number of skills he could obtain being too few. He was only worried about Scarecrow not having enough skills to use.

“I seem to be a little strong now …”

After digesting the information, Li Pu couldn’t help but sigh.

With this Summoner’s talent, it felt like even a useless summoned beast like Scarecrow could become a powerful existence.

If Scarecrow became stronger, then wouldn’t he also become stronger?

After thinking for a while, his expression changed.

“As expected, people should be more open-minded.”

Li Pu tapped his temple with his finger.

A brand new plan was born.

As long as he became strong enough to defeat his grandfather, he would not have to go on blind dates anymore.

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