Small Incident

A loud explosion ensued in the small home of Lucas' family.

 Cough! Cough!

 Lucas coughed out the smoke and dust he accidentally inhaled as he heard hurried footsteps coming outside of his room.

 "Luke, are you okay? What's going on?"

 "Is there an enemy?"

 Both parents smashed his door open. Worried looks were apparent on their faces as they waved their hands in the air, clearing the dust and billows that wafted around Lucas' small room.

 Behind each of them were their respective summons: the Squirt Turtle of his mother, Rosana, and the Strong Ape of his father, Lumbert. Although both parents don't have great combat capabilities, they still stormed to Lucas' room after hearing the commotion, worried for their child.

 The Squirt Turtle was held by Rosana on her chest. It was pretty small and had a gentle-looking face. Upon a closer look, one would notice a hose-like structure located at the center of its fore flippers, at the top of the plastron, hence its name. It was with the help of this Squirt Turtle that Rosana was considered a good laundry maid by the neighborhood.

 The Strong Ape of Lumbert, on the other hand, was standing in front of Lumbert. It has muscular and long arms that extend all the way to its knees. If not for its shuddering jaw, the Strong Ape would have been a good fighter with its strength and stature. Unfortunately, the Strong Ape was born to be cowardly and does not dare to fight. It can only do menial carrying jobs with Lumbert on the construction site.

 Seeing his parents storm into his room with worried faces, a wry smile blossomed in Lucas' face. 

 "Mom, Dad, don't worry about it. It was just an accident. I accidentally ordered my beast to release its skill," Lucas explained hurriedly.

 In truth, he himself was surprised about the outcome of his little 'experiment' and curiosity.

 'So big!' He thought to himself, recalling the scene earlier.

 The small-sized Gentle Dog directly transformed into the size of a sedan car. It was a sight to behold. He was amazed and, at the same time, felt scared for his life. His room was just that small. It only has a bed and a little space beside it to roam around. 

 With the Gentle Dog's transformation, his bed was directly destroyed, and it almost pierced through the wall of their house. One piece of the broken bed shot toward him, making him feel the presence of death before him. It was fortunate that the Gentle Dog reacted in time and swatted the piece of wood away. Lucas was also quick in ordering the Gentle Dog to retract its transformation.

 Hearing his words, his parents looked around and finally noticed the Gentle Dog sitting beside Lucas.

 A warm light emitted from the Gentle Dog's eyes as his parents tout nerves immediately eased. In fact, even the turtle and the ape's expressions also softened after seeing the gentle light.

 "Ahhh, what a cute dog! Luke, what's the name of this little guy?" Rosana's eyes and heart melted as she saw the Gentle Dog. She even forgot about the commotion earlier as she went forward and squatted in front of the Gentle Dog to pat its head.

 The Gentle Dog replied with a woof and even tried to lick Rosana's hands that were petting it.

 Compared to Rosana, Lumbert was more calm. Although his nerves had relaxed due to the Gentle Gaze, he was still a little vigilant of his surroundings. It was only when he confirmed that there was no enemy that he finally let his guard down.

 Recalling the words of Lucas earlier, Lumbert could not help but ask, "Is your dog's skill that powerful?"

 For a newly awakened beast, this kind of damage was very absurd.

 It must be noted that even his Strong Ape, an Iron Grade beast with its Iron Star 3 rank, would not be able to do this damage. 

 Well, mainly because it was afraid of damaging properties. But still, Lumbert was still amazed that Lucas' small dog could do so much damage with it being just an Unranked Grade beast.

 Lucas nodded his head slightly. The skill was indeed powerful. In fact, the term 'powerful' was downplaying its abilities; it's overpowered.

 Lumbert smiled and nodded his head. He did not press further, but he was very happy for his son.

 There were indeed cases of low-grade beasts having powerful starting skills. Perhaps Lucas and his beast indeed have the potential to grow stronger.

 He smiled from ear to ear, clearly happy that Lucas would not follow the path they had taken.

 However, after recalling that Lucas only has an Unranked grimoire, his mood could not help but sink down: 'Sigh! What a pity, my boy.'

 Anyway, this was just a minor incident for the small family. It was normal for a newly awakened to not be able to control their beast's skills.

After helping Lucas tidy up his room, his parents finally returned to their own room with a satisfied smile on their faces.

 As Rosana had said, the Gentle Dog was irresistible, so she requested that Lucas summon it more often in the future and not hide the dog from her. 

 Lucas had no problem with it, so he agreed without much thought. His father, on the other hand, felt stifled, not knowing how to react. 

 He would not be jealous of a dog, but why was she sweeter to the dog than toward him? This was not scientific.

 Lucas still had school tomorrow. And as new awakeners, tomorrow would be one of their moments as they would finally enter a dungeon for the first time and earn experience points to level up.

 Summoners or grimoire users can increase their rank by gaining experience points obtained from killing uncontracted beasts found inside the dungeon or in the wild. The experience points earned differed from person to person for a lot of reasons.

After a hundred years of studies, it was noted that the experience points that a person can gain from killing a beast will be influenced by a lot of factors.

 The participation rate, the grimoire grade, the enemy beast's rank and grade, as well as the grimoire user's rank, will be considered before they gain the experience points.

 One must note that it was pretty difficult fighting a wild beast head-on solo, so you must always act in a group and work together to kill a beast of the same level.

 This was also why the teachers would always remind the students not to look down on others, as everyone needs a team to move forward.

 Unfortunately, among all the influencing factors, grimoire grade carries the heaviest weight in experience point calculation, making it a significant element that determines a person's growth potential.

 Bronze Grade and even Iron Grade were still acceptable; however, when it comes to Unranked Grade grimoire, the experience acquisition was truly pitifully low. Not to mention that since they have weak beasts, they could only contribute little during a fight, making their experience point acquisition rate drop even further.

 It could be said that low-grade grimoires had it worse in this world, especially for the Unranked Grade grimoire users like Lucas.

 Anyway, tomorrow was a big day for Lucas. He needs to be at full energy tomorrow to make a good performance. 

 After he stored the Gentle Dog inside his grimoire, he lay on the makeshift bed as he closed his eyes to sleep.

 Morning came in the blink of an eye.

 Lucas, due to his excitement, was not able to sleep even a single wink.

He arrived at the school with huge eye bags and dropped his shoulders. It was as if he were at the end of his life and might fall at any moment.

His classmates, seeing him, could not help but snicker in delight. Even those who awakened Iron Grade grimoires joined in the fun by insulting him.

Although he preferred to keep silent during such situations as he was not strong enough to confront all of them yet, one insult still made him burst into fury.

"Well, as they say, only apples fall on an apple tree. We could not expect a genius coming out of trash parents, right?"

Lucas turned around and glared at the person who said the insulting words.

"What did you just say?"

Upon turning around, Lucas realized that it was actually an acquaintance who said such words.

Rage boiled up inside as he muttered, "Anjie!"

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