Chapter 12 - Stuck

Chapter 12 - Stuck

[Fury's Roll skill improved. New effects added: Attack 7, Center]

Lucas's mood turned slightly better when he got the notification. "Finally, we did it," said Lucas while he slightly smiled. Lucas opened the system and checked on Fury's stats. After that, he went straight to the skill list and checked on the Roll skill.

Skill: Roll

Element: Ball

Rank: 1

Level: 10

Effect 1: Speed 14[1]

Effect 2: Attack 7

Effect 3: Center (Active) – When activated, the user will choose a target as a center to orbit while using the skill.

"The improvement Fury made by himself ends up being added as an effect too," said Lucas. He was satisfied with the result. His target was the attack stat but he got the center effect as extra.

[I think, this is the reason why it took quite a while for Roll to improve] Sery gave his opinion. [Other than the five basic stats (health, energy, attack, defense, and speed) other stats or effects are harder to get. I am surprised that it took Fury this long to add the attack stat. Turn out it is because another effect is added too]

"Fury, you did well," said Lucas to the dead tired Fury. Fury slumped on the ground because he was extremely tired from training the Roll skill for a few days. He did get many rests but it was still tiring.

Lucas picked Fury and found a tree to rest. He decided to let Fury rest for a day. He was going to continue training to improve his skills later. Lucas knew it would be tiring and gave Fury a longer rest time.

A day later, Fury was energized again and they continued training the skill. Lucas decided to add the speed stat on the Tackle skill. When they met a monster, Lucas would ask Fury to run as fast as possible while using tackle.

Two days later, [Fury's Tackle skill improved. Added effect: Speed 5]

After that, they decided to train Fur Guard but Lucas had no idea what he should do with the skill. In the end, he decided to try using the skill in battle. He would know what to do once he saw the effect of the skill in a battle.

Lucas chose a white sheep as Fury's opponent. The white sheep Wool Guard was quite similar to Fury's Fur Guard. Lucas suspected that Fury got the idea to create the skill from the white sheep. As they battle, Lucas could see the difference between the Wool Guard and Fur Guard.

The two skills were basically the same. When the user used the skill, the fur or wool on their body expanded and protected their body from an attack. However, Lucas could see that the Wool Guard was much more compact compared to the Fur Guard.

The white sheep's Wool Guard had fewer gaps on the wool wall and they were harder and thicker than normal wool. The Fur Guard, however, had many gaps in the fur wall and the fur was swaying around when the wind blew like a normal fur.

"…" Lucas was speechless. The Fur Guard was a flaw skill. Lucas was right when he thought that Fury got the inspiration from the white sheep because they looked the same. Even so, Fury's limited knowledge made him create a flaw in the Wool Guard.

"There are two things we need to solve first to improve the skill. First, the gaps. Second, the fur's hardness. Fury's Fur Guard had too many gaps like a man losing his hair. His Fur Guard is soft too… a comfortable kind of soft," Lucas listed out the problem he needed to solve to improve Fury's Fur Guard.

"… My knowledge is limited too. I need to find a method to increase the amount of fur and strengthen Fury's fur," said Lucas.

[The easiest way to increase the amount of fur is by eating good food. The one with high Fur element concentration. Other than that, using his energy to increase the fur count which is the hardest] Sery gave his opinion.

[If you want to increase the hardness or strengthen the fur, Fury needs to learn to control his energy properly and try to harden his fur when using Fur Guard] Sery added.

"Your second suggestion sounds good. We should try it. Energy control training is good training," Lucas decided to focus on training Fury in controlling his energy. After that, the training continued for a few more days.

Three days later, Fury succeeded in controlling his energy and ended up creating a new skill, Energy Control.

Skill: Energy Control

Element: Normal

Rank: 1

Level: 1

Effect 1: Control 10%

Getting the skill surprised everyone. Lucas and Fury were shocked and even the Pet Nursery System, Sery was shocked too. He had no idea that Fury would learn a new skill. Creating a new skill was hard but Fury created one in three days.

Based on Fury's potential, he couldn't create a skill in three days even with the help of the nursery dungeon. He could only say that Fury's luck was incredibly high. When he thought about it, Fury did not take long to create Fur Guard and Fur Ball too.

[If there is a luck stat, I can assure you this little guy will have super high luck] said Sery.

Thanks to the Energy Control skill, Fury had an easier time controlling his energy to strengthen his fur. Not only that, but Fury also used Energy Control while using Roll and Tackle and managed to lower the damage done to his opponent. Thanks to that, the monsters did not die in one shot.

Then, they started focusing back on improving Fur Guard. Another day passed but there was no progress. Fury managed to harden the fur but it was minuscule. When the wind blew, the fur was still swaying as usual as nothing happened.

[Master, it's time. Dinner is ready] Sery told Lucas that his training for the day had ended.

"… We will continue this tomorrow," said Lucas. After that, Lucas teleported back to Room No 3 and he brought Fury with him. He had decided that at night, he would put Fury in the nursing pen for a few hours before he would move him to the playground. In the day, he would put Fury in the dungeon for training.

Lucas got out of Room No 3 and entered Room No 4 – The Storeroom. Inside, he saw the tubes were filled with different kinds of pet foods. Some of them were edible to humans but some were not.

Most of the fruits and vegetables were edible but for the meat, only the white sheep meat was edible to humans. The white cat and white dog meat were not edible to humans. Pets like these two meat but humans could not eat them.

Lucas was happy to see his collection of pet foods. [Check the mission tab. Master has completed quite a few gathering missions] Lucas checked the mission tab and found out that he had completed three gathering missions. He got three experience points to level up the system to level 2.

After that, he got upstairs with Fury in tow. Katheryn was at the dining room arranging the foods on the table. Hailey was at the dining table waiting eagerly for dinner. Red and Blue were in the living room eating their dinner.

Fury saw them and joined them immediately. He was happy to finally see his friends. He had been surrounded by enemies for many days and had been dying many times.

"Mom, I am back," said Lucas.

Hailey glanced at Lucas and said, "Brother, you stink," Hailey pinched his nose. Lucas was stunned. He smelled himself but he felt like it was not that bad. Looking at Lucas's trying to smell his body scent, Hailey frowned and said, "You feel your body smells good because that is your own body but other people smell differently."

[Master, you stink. You sweat a lot while training Fury. Go take a shower first] said Sery.

"… Okay," said Lucas. Katheryn appeared at the dining table and said, "Clean yourself properly. Sery made a really good soap. Use that. You should come out of the dungeon earlier after this."

Lucas went to his room and took a quick shower. He used the soap Sery made and he agreed it smelled good. A few minutes later, he got out of the room and went to the dining table.

Now that he was not stinking, Hailey was staring at Lucas. Katheryn was staring at him too. Lucas felt their stare and asked, "Is something wrong??"

"Brother, you look different," said Hailey and she patted Lucas's arm and was shocked. "You really train your body! It is not soft and flabby like before!" Hailey was shocked.

"Yeah. Training in the nursery dungeon is effective. I have improved a lot. All of my stats have maxed and I will train my skills more before I try to break through to Rank 2," said Lucas. "Hailey, before school starts, you should train in the dungeon too," Lucas suggested but Hailey dropped her head.

"Don't force her," said Katheryn.

"How about you mom? You are not going to train in the nursery dungeon?" Lucas asked.

"After the nursery is stable, I will start training," said Katheryn.

"When should we open the nursery?" Lucas asked. Although he was the owner of the nursery, he did not know much about business. Katheryn seemed to know more than he did and decided to let Katheryn manage everything.

Katheryn also did not mind managing the nursery. She was happy she could help her family.

"In a few days. I want to promote our nursery first and set up an opening ceremony," said Katheryn and she added, "Also, I will need you to buy more nursing pens. I will give you the money."

"Do we have money to spare??" Lucas was worried. He knew they were tight on money and the nursery was their best way to make money at the moment.

"This is an investment. We will be fine. Besides, if we don't have food to eat, there are those fruits and vegetables you collect in the dungeon we can eat. Sery had told me that many of them are edible," said Katheryn while smiling.

"… Well, if you say so mom," said Lucas with a worried face.

They talked a bit more after that while eating their dinner. Mostly about Lucas's experience in the nursery dungeon. Hailey seemed interested in entering too but she was still traumatized by the monsters.

After that, Lucas brought Fury to the nursing pen and healed him. According to the data on the nursing pen, Fury did not need much healing. Thus, Lucas put him in the nursing pen for an hour. After that, he transferred Fury to the pet playground and Fury seemed happy running on the vast grassland.

Katheryn came to the pet playground and saw Fury happily playing around there. She paid for Red and Blue to play in the playground too and the trio played happily in the grassland.

Lucas went back to his room and searched for a method to train pets effectively. There were a lot of articles with tips and tricks in training pets. Although some of them sounded unreliable, he still read them attentively. With his 10 comprehension points, he could easily understand most of the content in the articles he read.

Lucas also went to forums and many other websites to find out more about pet training. He spent the whole night searching online for a method to improve the Fur Guard. A few hours later, it was midnight and Lucas decided to end the day.

36th Winter, Month 2, Year 3400.

It was six in the morning and it was still dark outside. Lucas woke up on his bed and mumbled, "I have been having a weird dream last night."

[What dream?] Sery asked.

"My father was killed by a monster and my family moved to another city. I get a cheat system and open a pet nursery. I train hard and stop becoming a weakling," said Lucas.

[… Master, I don't think that is a dream] Sery was speechless.

"…" Lucas was silent for a few seconds. "Yeah, that is not a dream. I am just talking nonsense because I have yet to fully wake up," said Lucas.

[Are you stressed with something?] Sery felt that Lucas was troubled with something.

"… Urm… I am worried about how to improve Fury's Fur Guard. I searched online and there was nothing useful I can use for his Fur Guard's training," said Lucas dejectedly.

"Any idea? Something that I am not aware of yet?" Lucas asked. Sery had been giving a lot of good advice. So, Lucas expected him to give another good advice.

[Hmm~ Although I have the cheat power, I am not almighty. I also don't know what to do] said Sery. Lucas was disappointed. [How about you look at the skill differently?] Sery suggested.

"??? What do you mean?" Lucas asked.

[Something like not looking at the Fur Guard as a defensive skill?] Sery gave his suggestion.

"…" Lucas fell silent and he was thinking deeply. Lucas put his hand on his chin and in deep thought. He frowned and shook his head from time to time. He also nodded his head a few times which he immediately shook a second later.

[His Will and Comprehension stat is helping him a lot right now. That is good. I choose the right cultivation method for him] thought Sery while looking at Lucas.

An hour later, Lucas smiled. "Thank you, Sery. I have an idea now," said Lucas.