Rules

The slime core was priced by the system at twenty crystals since it could improve the cultivation a little bit. The Oroshia herb was priced at ten crystals since it helped heal small hidden injuries of the contracted beast. As for the Algae moss, it was priced at fifty crystals since it gave an incredible effect. Cleaning impurities in the body and strengthening the cultivation foundation was an effect that gave the contracted beasts more hopes for a breakthrough in the future. Furthermore, while it could clean impurities for all levels of contracted beasts, the effect was not great but the effect of strengthening was incredible. Even if the contracted beast was gold rank which entered the mid-class beast, the resource could strengthen the foundation of when he was bronze rank.

When a contracted beast ranks up, they create a new crystal in their body which helps them collect more energy in fights and have a longer lifespan. However, from the moment they ranked up, they can no longer strengthen their first crystal and can only work on the second. As such, if they ranked up without compacting and forming their crystal perfectly, they will be weaker than one who did. Finally, when a beast ranked up from bronze, iron, silver, gold and dark gold, they have a chance to break through the level of mortals and the strength between a dark gold rank beast and one which broke through is not comparable at all, not to mention their longer lifespan. And to breakthrough, the more perfect all of the crystals, the higher the chance of success.

So, while the Algae moss only works for the first three crystals which is the bronze, iron and silver crystals, it is an incredible resource to be able to help the beasts fully perfect their three first crystals. In the opinion of the middle-aged man, if this resource works as said, the power of the contracted beasts would soar which would also help the Hunters when they wanted to breakthrough.

With three of each resource, the price was 240 crystals and the man immediately paid as he summoned his contracted beast in the shop. The beast was an Ifeon.

Taking a quick look with his identification skill which he hadn't used in a while, he received some basic information about this beast.

[Ifeon: This Ifeon is a contracted beast. This beast is known for its high agility and weak control over the earth's element.]

Looking at this information, he was quite surprised since he seemed to be getting more details back in the world of Ernia. Closing the little information he got, the middle-aged man started giving the resources to his contract beast.

First giving the Oroshia herb which helped the contracted beast heal its injuries, it was easy to see the small beast which was as high as his tight relax greatly. There didn't seem to be any changes but the man's eyes could see the changes in his contracted beast as it felt as if it was freer in his movement and could move more easily.

After taking the three Oroshia herbs, at this point, even Aurus could see the difference in the contracted beast. After that, the man gave the three green slimes cores to the beast. In reality, whether he gave the cores of the Algae moss first didn't matter since the moss would start reinforcing from the beginning and in this case, like in most beasts, it would start from the first crystal. However, he didn't stop him since it didn't change anything.

When the Ifeon finished taking the three green cores, an improvement in strength had been made and it was apparent that while he didn't breakthrough or anything, the contracted beasts cultivation had improved a bit. At this point, the middle-aged man was extremely surprised. He had doubted whether the effects would be as good as it was described but now he knew that the effects were even better.

Quite excited since his contracted beast had increased in strength, he finally gave the Algae moss one after another. Each time, the beast took a moss, there would be small fluctuations on the skin and one could see some black liquid squeeze out of the beast's body. Thankful for the system cleaning effect in the shop, the black liquid immediately disappeared upon touching the ground. While the man saw that happening, he didn't say anything as it wasn't necessarily rare but more expensive. On the contrary, if the shop didn't possess this function, he would be doubting how come he couldn't afford a self-cleaning floor when he sold monster cultivation resources.

Finally, when the third Algae moss was taken, the contracted beast was completely dirty and the man had to bring it to clean itself. However, even if there was such a task ahead of them, Aurus could feel the happiness of both the contracted beast and the man. Slightly surprised at such a reaction between the two of them, it increased his wish to get his own contracted beast.

The man after having his contracted beast eat the resources left his number on the counter in case he needed to contact either of the two nobles' families. Honestly, he didn't plan on doing so but he still kept it just in case. At the same time when he was leaving with his contracted beast, he mentioned he would be telling his friends and probably also the nobles in the family he served about his shop.

Quite happy, Aurus went back to his seat and since there were still around half an hour before Laia came back from school, he immediately bought the board from the point icon for thirty points and told the rules while the board was automatically writing the rules on it.

Finishing spelling every rule there was in his shop, he looked at the board wondering if he missed anything.

Rules:

1- The shop opens at 9h00 in the morning and closes at 5h00 in the evening.

2- The shop will be closed for lunch from 12h00 to 13h00.

3- The customer must use the monster cultivation resources bought, in the shop.

4- No loans available, if you cannot pay do not buy.

5- No fights in the store.

6- First come, first served.

7- Be polite to the owner or you may leave and never come back.

Looking at the seven rules, he nodded his head. The first rule was about when he was opening and closing the shop. He didn't want some customers to come to the store at 4h55 and stay after closure because they didn't buy their items yet. At 5:00 it was closed and everyone had to leave.

The second rule was in case the store became popular. He still had to eat and the customers would have to wait. The third rule was because he didn't want to repeat it every time the customers came and well, for those who had come in his shop, they were already aware of the reason.

The fourth rule was honestly just because he didn't do charity and the resources were already very cheap. In that case, there were no reasons not to buy. The fifth rule was to protect the customers and the shop from being damaged. The sixth rule was to prevent rich people from abusing others just because they had money and at the same time, it was a basic etiquette in his country back on Earth.

For the seventh rule, it was specifically created for the nobles and the arrogant people. Up to now, the two customers he had received had a pretty good attitude but in the end, he didn't know if everyone would have the same attitude.

For those rules, he didn't think he missed anything but he figured he could just add them in the future if he thought about it.

By the time he was done with the rules, his cute younger sister had just arrived at the shop. Getting up to meet her, he noticed that she was in a bad mood. Approaching quickly, he asked her: "How was school today? Why are you in a bad mood?"

Upon hearing Aurus's question, a small smile came back to her face and when Aurus put his hand on her shoulder bringing her to the second floor of the house, her cheeky smile had already come back. Looking at her, he lifted a brow showing he was waiting for her answer.

"I've told my friends that you had opened a monster cultivation resource store. My girlfriends were very happy and said they would come and visit when they had the time." At this point, she had a very happy smile but then it disappeared from her face as she continued, "however, there were a few guys in my class who were making fun of me because, in their opinion, we weren't even able to prepare me a contracted beast for when I turned sixteen. So, they said it was impossible that you opened such a store." At this point, she had tears starting to come out of her eyes.

Hearing this, Aurus came to her and hugged her. "You know, those guys who were bothering you, they were just looking for attention and probably a few of them like you. That's why they are bothering you, they want to get your attention. Don't bother about those guys, instead, we will go and prepare a contracted beast for you in the weekend okay?"

Talking about the weekend, he thought of adding a new rule, saying that the store would be closed every Saturday. He had previously thought about it but had forgotten. He had a few things to do as well but if he spent all his time in the store, he would never have the chance to do things such as visiting his mother, accompanying his sister shopping or going to capture a contracted beast for his sister.

"Okay now go wash your hands, I'll prepare food for you. In the evening, I'll have to leave again for around half an hour to an hour. I need to prepare new materials for the shop tomorrow. Alright?"

Nodding her head, she went to the bathroom to clean herself and when she came back, the food was ready.

As they ate, Laia told him about her day at school, what they had done and what they had learned. She also talked about her friends who still believed her and helped her when the boys were bothering her.

Listening attentively with a smile, Aurus confirmed that indeed this was the type of life he wanted. A life where he could live with his family. But at the same time, the words of the middle-aged man came back to his mind. His determination to become more powerful in strength and making connections became more and more urgent as he didn't want to lose anyone in this life.

As he thought of this and watched as his sister was eating with a delighted face, he unconsciously became determined in improving himself faster.

Thinking about using the point icon to buy the bronze rank stage 1 cultivation before leaving for the world of Ernia, he was curious about the effects. He faintly understood the goal of the system after selling the Algae moss to the previous customer. Having him restart his cultivation by having him buy bronze rank stage 1 was most likely to have him possess perfect cultivation. While humans didn't possess a crystal in their bodies, they could also achieve perfect cultivation by refining their bodies and energy to the maximum.

Normally, iron rank should have come before bronze rank but in reality, bronze was used as the first rank to represent the colour of the skin once the first rank was perfected. Bronze rank stage 1 refined the skin, bronze rank stage 2 refined the muscles and bones and finally stage 3 refined the organs. Once the first stage was perfect, it was said that the skin would turn in bronze colour and be extremely resistant which is why humanity called the first rank bronze rank. The second stage refining made the muscles elastic and the bones hard. Finally, the third stage improved the various organs making the body extremely tough and the blood would flow easily across the entire body. In addition, when refining the third stage, the senses would become sharper the more perfect the refining.

Each stage was important and it seemed that the previous him wasn't aware of it since the body was fit only because he trained himself and neglected his cultivation by breaking through as soon as possible.

Coming out of his contemplation, he saw that his sister had just finished eating and he went to do the dishes while Laia went upstairs to do her homework.

Now, it was time to upgrade his cultivation properly using the system.