34 Chapter 33 - The Food Lover

Chapter 33 – The Food Lover

"Then, I will call you Foody," said Lucas while smiling. Foody heard his name and nodded happily. Lucas saw he was happy and asked, "Do you like the name? If you dislike it, I can change to another name."

Foody raised his arm and clenched his fist. He raised his thumb and gave Lucas a thumbs up. He seemed to love the name. Lucas nodded and patted Foody's head while smiling.

"I want to introduce your senior but he is not with me now. He is busy training. I will introduce him to you later," said Lucas. Fury was busy training and thus, he could not meet Foody. Foody nodded. He did not seem to mind not meeting his senior.

"As a present for our first meeting, I will give you this," said Lucas and he took out a red bean bread from his storage ring. When Foody saw the bread, his eyes lit up. In the wild, all he could eat was unprocessed and uncooked food. This was his first time seeing a cooked food and he looked interested.

Even if he was interested in the bread, he did not grab it from Lucas's hand. He waited for Lucas to tell him to take it. When Lucas saw Foody's attitude, he was pleased. "Here you go. You can eat it or store it. Whatever you want to do with it. I will give you more food during breakfast, lunch, and dinner," Lucas gave the red bean bread to Foody.

Foody politely took the red bean bread and examined it with curiosity. He first checked the top of the bread, the bottom, and the side of the bread. He nodded after he checked on them for a few minutes.

After that, he lightly pressed his index finger on the bread to test the softness of the bread. Once his index finger pressed on the bread, the bread caved in easily indicating the softness it had. "Kii~~" Foody seemed happy to see it. He pressed a few more times before he was satisfied.

Then, he brought the bread to his nose and took a deep sniff of the bread scent. Foody closed his eyes and he seemed to enjoy the bread's scent. He started salivating. Foody opened his eyes and stared at the bread. He seemed to find the bread interesting.

Lucas and Sery silently watched Foody examining the red bean bread.

[Is it okay to make this guy involved in a fight? He seems to be more suitable for Madam. Madam learns a lot of cooking skills and with Foody's love of food, they will be a good pair] Sery said.

"Hmm… You are right," Lucas agreed. He thought that Foody would be a highly potential pet to be trained as his main offensive pet but seeing his love for food, he felt bad about involving Foody with fighting. The Plate Monkey was well-known to not be interested in fighting too. He felt like he made the wrong decision.

"Foody," While Foody was busy examining the red bean bread, Lucas called him. Foodie immediately stopped and looked towards Lucas. "I want to know if you want to follow me in fighting training or do you want to follow my mom in cooking?" Lucas asked.

He added, "It looks like you love food. I feel bad dragging you to fight others. If you stay with me, you will need to fight a lot of monsters and pets. If you follow my mom, you can eat a lot of delicious food, that is if mom is cooking something," Lucas explained to Foody.

Foody looked happy examining the bread and Lucas felt like he would rob that happiness from Foody if Foody followed him. He did not want to do that. Lucas felt bad for him.

Foody stared at Lucas for a few seconds before he pointed his index finger at Lucas. Then, he made a big circle above his head using both of his arms but he still held the bread firmly. Foody smiled. It looked like he wanted to follow Lucas.

"Is it because of the system? All the pets that enter the pet slot will be loyal towards their tamer, so, is that the reason Foody wants to follow me?" Lucas wondered. Foody saw Lucas's expression as if he did not believe Foody.

"Kiik~ Kiik~ Kii Kii Kii," Foody started saying something. He made some gestures as if explaining something but Lucas and Sery had no idea what he was talking about.

'You are the Pet Nursery System, you must know what Foody is saying,' Lucas thought in his mind.

[… I don't know. I will need to analyze the monkey language before I can understand anything. I never tried to learn or understand any of the monster's language. So, I have no clue] said Sery.

'…' Lucas was speechless. His cheat system that was supposed to be related to all pets could not understand pet language. Lucas stared at Foody explaining everything to him and he just nodded as if he understood everything. In truth, he had no idea. He just took it that Foody liked him a lot and wanted to follow him to the end of the world.

"Thank you for choosing me. Let's work together with your senior and future juniors to become the strongest," said Lucas while smiling. Foody clenched his fist showing his determination to become stronger. He only clenched one fist, the other was still holding the bread and he did not want to ruin the bread.

"You can eat your bread," said Lucas but Foody shook his head. He pulled up the iron plate on his back and put the bread on top of the plate. After that, the plate shone lightly and the bread slowly entered the plate. 'Food storage,' thought Lucas.

Once he had stored the bread, Foody looked at Lucas and patted his stomach lightly. After that, he made an 'X' with his arm. Lucas understood what Foody was saying. "So, you are not hungry," said Lucas and he took out more bread for Foody to store them.

Once Foody saw the pieces of bread, his eyes were wide opened in shock. He never thought he would see that many pieces of bread in front of him. Lucas had bought the bread before he came back earlier. He knew that the Plate Monkey loved food and thus, he prepared a lot of them just in case.

Lucas gestured and said to Foody, "You can eat or store them in your storage. No need to worry that you will run out of food." Foody stared at Lucas with gleaming eyes. He had the look of 'it is not wrong following you'.

All the bread Lucas brought out had plastic wrapper. Foody grabbed the bread in the plastic wrapper and he was confused. "Follow me," said Lucas as he reached one of the bread and grabbed the side of the plastic wrapper and tore it open.

"Ooo!" Foody was fascinated by that. He did the same thing on the bread he was holding and tore the plastic wrapper. His eyes were shining. He seemed to be interested in the plastic wrapper too. Foody examined the plastic wrapper for a bit and found out it was not food. He loses interest immediately.

'Maybe his potential is high that he can learn something easier,' thought Lucas while he was looking at Foody happily opened the wrappers and stuffed the bread inside the storage.

[Agree. Your training with him will be easier than Fury] said Sery.

As Foody was busy with the bread, Lucas decided to check on his other new pet, the Green Condor. He switched on his system and checked the Green Condor's stat. He had seen the stats in the pet shop but he still checked on it once more.

Name:

Species: Green Condor

Gender: Female

Tier: 1

Stage: 1 – Newborn

Rank: 2

Potential: B

Element

1. Normal (50% talent)

Status

Health: 7 (Max 20)

Energy: 7 (Max 20)

Attack: 9 (Max 16)

Defense: 3 (Max 4)

Speed: 15 (Max 40)

Skills

1. Peck (Normal) – Rank 1, Level 3 – Attack 6

2. Scratch (Normal) – Rank 1, Level 6 – Speed 10

Green Condor was a normal condor with a green color variant. Nothing was special about them. They looked the same as normal condors except the color. Not only the Green Condor, but most of the Tier 1 monsters or pets were the same.

Tier 1 monsters were the most basic monsters available. They would either look exactly like their normal animal counterpart or had one small change. The most common changes would be color. It would either be the whole body's color or some small part of their body like their eyes, fur or tongue was in a different color.

The changes in color did not mean much to them. No matter what color they had, all of them were the same. They would not gain some kind of new element of something. If they had a new element from the color, they would not be Tier 1.

This rule only applied to those who looked like normal animals. As those monsters that had no animal counterparts, they would usually have other elements.

For example, Furball had three elements. They were the normal element, fur element, and ball element. The normal element was the default element for all monsters and pets. So, most monsters would have them. Some of them would lose the element once other elements dominate everything in the monster.

Due to their most similar to normal animals, Tier 1 monsters or pets would rarely have a powerful or unique default skill. If they needed stronger skills, they needed to gain them by training hard. The Plate Monkey was a bit special but the Green Condor was not and thus, it only had the basic weak skill similar to Fury in the beginning.

Lucas summoned the Green Condor and a big green bird appeared in front of him. Condor was naturally a big bird and the Green Condor was a monster and thus, it was slightly bigger than a normal condor.

"She is bigger than I thought," spurted Lucas. He was quite surprised to see the Green Condor filled in half of his room. Foody who was busy ripped off the bread's wrapper, stopped and glanced at the Green Condor.

The Green Condor opened her eyes and glanced at Lucas and he could feel how majestic she was. Once the Green Condor saw Lucas, she did not do anything as she knew Lucas was her master. She felt another presence in the room and turned her head towards Foody.

Foody and the Green Condor's eyes met. The Green Condor's eyes were coldly gazing at Foody. Foody frowned. He extended his arm and hugged all the bread on the floor. He looked at the Green Condor and he had a face that said 'This is all mine'

[Pfft! Hahaha. Foody is a Plate Monkey after all!] Sery was amused. The Green Condor ignored Foody's action and looked back towards Lucas. She lowered her head at Lucas and Lucas petted her head.

"I will call you Glaide," Lucas gave a name to the Green Condor. The Green Condor seemed to not mind the name. Since the room was small, Lucas turned Glaide to cards again. As for Foody, he continued with his bread.

"Glaide is big but I don't think I can ride her at the moment. If she is a bit bigger, it will be possible," said Lucas. Lucas could not ride Glaide at the moment but once Glaide raised her rank and stage, she would get bigger and he could ride her.

[Agree. That is why I said get the wolf, tiger, or lion] said Sery. He seemed to love those three pets and still did not want to give up on them.

"I told you that I will get them later. Be patient. I don't have enough slots for them," said Lucas. "Anyway, let's raise Foody and Glaide's tier. I hope they can evolve and get to Tier 3 in one go," Lucas hoped that they would go through the same thing as Fury.

[Don't put your hopes too high. Fury has high luck. As for these two, I am not sure. They might have normal luck. Bad luck for Foody because he failed to get to Tier 2 even when he evolved] said Sery.

"Don't jinx them," Lucas reprimanded Sery. Lucas switched on the system and chose the shop. After that, he bought two Tier 1 Breaker. He summoned Glaide again and used the Tier 1 Breaker on her. Glaide shone lightly and the system announced that Glaide's Tier increased to Tier 2. After that, nothing else happened. No evolution.

Lucas did not mind it. He turned Glaide back to the card and wanted to use the item on Foody but Foody was too 'busy' with the bread. Lucas decided to use it later. As there was nothing left, he decided to train in the dungeon but he needed to wait for Foody to finish his 'job'.

While Lucas was waiting, a system notification appeared.

[Mission Complete: Full Fledge Tamer]