Chapter 7

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

This trip to the library could be said to have gained something, but it could also be said he had gained nothing.

Of course, he gained a deeper understanding of the relevant information about his straw doll.

As for the lack of results, it was because he had not found the answer he wanted.

Next, it was time to go to Wind Listener Pavilion.

[Grass!]

As soon as he walked out of the library, Li Pu was welcomed by Scarecrow.

To be more precise, this guy was here to claim credit.

Even from far away, it raised the coin it had picked up high.

[Scarecrow: Summoner! Quickly look at the money!]

The coin was covered in mud. He didn’t know which flowerbed or tree it had been dug out from.

“…”

After thinking about it, Li Pu decided not to stop this.

As he had just finished looking up the relevant information, this guy needed to do as many outdoor activities as possible in order to absorb the essence of the sun and moon.

However, just in case, he repeatedly told it that it could only pick up ownerless coins. It was not allowed to rob or destroy the facilities.

Also, it shouldn’t throw the finished Coke bottle around.

After repeated confirmations and having the straw doll repeat the three rules several times, Li Pu brought it to Wind Listener Pavilion.

The library wasn’t far from Wind Listener Pavilion. It would take about 20 minutes for him to walk there slowly, or rather, limping.

As soon as he entered, Li Pu realized that there were more people in the pavilion than yesterday.

Many summoned beasts were either sparring with each other under the command of their Summoners, or they were training with the equipment in the pavilion.

He had also noticed that some summoned beasts seemed rather out of place here.

For example, the blue hedgehog that was running around the stadium, the long snake that had wings and was flying back and forth in the air, and the dog-eared woman with a tongue out and pointed ears. Judging from its appearance, it didn’t seem like the style of Wind Listener Type.

Based on what he had seen before, the freshmen would basically only stay in the venue where their summoned beasts were.

After all, every pavilion had suitable training equipment specifically for a respective type of summoned beast.

Although Li Pu didn’t know why this happened, he didn’t care.

He only had one purpose for coming here.

That was to let Scarecrow experience a battle.

Li Pu strolled around the arena and watched the ongoing battles.

It was probably because the level of everyone’s summoned beasts was very low, so their strength seemed average to him.

In addition, everyone was a newbie and was not very familiar with the command of summoned beasts, so these battles were not really worth watching.

It was even a little boring, like chickens pecking at each other.

However, if these summoned beasts were newbies, then Scarecrow was the true newbie.

This newbie of his might not be good at other things, but it could still learn from experience.

After all, the straw doll race had already lost at the starting line from the beginning.

According to Li Pu’s observation, the summoned beasts in the ring basically had skills between two to three, and some of the more powerful ones even had four.

Since he had taken the skill light orb, Scarecrow only had a useless [Fist of Grass].

He had tested it yesterday, and it could not even break a glass window.

On the contrary, Li Pu felt that if he was to fight with these summoned beasts in the ring by himself, he would have a higher chance of winning.

[Roar!]

At this moment, he heard a cry of pain from the nearest ring.

A large lizard with red scales was hit by the opponent, and one of its scales flew off.

Clang clang clang!

The scale made a metallic sound when it fell to the ground. It was obvious that it was really hard.

Coincidentally, the scale landed right in front of Li Pu.

A second later, the scale began to turn into blue light particles that drifted away like dust.

Even though summoned beasts were similar to magical beasts in many ways, they were fundamentally different.

After establishing a contract with the summoner, the summoned beast’s physique would change.

They could be resurrected by the resurrection talisman, but they would not leave behind a physical body after death. Instead, they would disappear in the form of blue light.

Similarly, items that were dropped from summoned beasts would disappear as well.

In fact, it was very difficult to change their physical body under normal circumstances. This was also the reason why the research on the transformation of summoned beasts’ bodies had been difficult to make progress.

Their physical body would transform into blue light before any research could take place, making the transformation project difficult to begin.

Even if it was forcefully modified, it would return to its original appearance after a resurrection talisman was used in the face of death.

Other than a few individuals who were naturally adapted to the transformation, if a summoned beast wanted to change its physical body, it could only reincarnate and evolve or master a special transformation-type skill.

In general, it was impossible to pick up a physical item from a summoned beast.

As for the magical beasts that had not established a contract, it was a completely different story.

Their remains were valuable because they would not turn into blue light.

They were used for scientific research, and for the creation of inscription equipment. Some of the nurturing materials also came from magical beasts.

This was why Li Pu’s [Friend of Magical Beasts] only worked on magical beasts and not summoned beasts.

However, the problem now was that they were on the campus of Western Capital University. It was impossible for a magical beast to appear.

Therefore, Li Pu couldn’t find an opportunity to use [Friend of Magical Beasts] for the time being.

“No, wait.”

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

Magical beast-related items didn’t seem to require the target magical beast to be dead or alive, right?

Thinking of this, Li Pu turned his gaze to the huge empty snail shell in the center of the stadium.

Wasn’t this a genuine magical beast-related item?

“I didn’t think of this before. Maybe I can give it a try.”

Thus, he quickly brought Scarecrow and arrived at the side of the snail shell.

The remains of this A-grade Wind Listener beast, the Taiji snail, were said to be the spoils of war from the academy’s teachers.

Now that it was placed here for people to visit at will, it served more as a symbolic meaning.

As early as the moment it was brought back, the relevant Scientific Research Department of the University had carried out a very detailed analysis.

The parts that could be used or had greater research value had already been dismantled.

The empty shell left here was basically only for exhibition purposes.

Knock, knock.

Li Pu used the back of his hand to hit the empty shell and found that it was incredibly hard.

As he had a lot of experience in fighting shell-like beasts, his hands were very sensitive when it came to the hardness of a beast’s shell.

None of the wild beasts could compare to this one in terms of hardness, and the difference was quite large.

“As expected of an A-Class magical beast.”

He sighed as he circled the snail shell and examined it.

After walking around, he found that the empty shell was actually not very complete. He could see that there were many holes dug out by special molding tools.

The edge of the gap was quite old, which seemed to have been left behind during the analysis and research.

[Grass?]

Scarecrow followed Li Pu and touched the shell. However, it didn’t understand Li Pu’s actions and got tired of touching it after a while.

It looked at its Summoner in confusion.

“Let’s give it a try.”

Li Pu put his hand on the shell after he finished his observation.

Many new students would be more or less curious about the remains of the snail of Taiji when they first came to Wind Listener Pavilion.

Therefore, his actions did not attract anyone’s attention.

With a thought, he activated the [Friend of Magical Beasts].

“It’s here, it’s indeed a related item!”

Li Pu’s eyes lit up.

“But…”

However, he soon hesitated.

It was just that the skills contained in it seemed to be far from being compatible with his straw doll.

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