4 First Monster - Psychic Sparrow
As soon as he walks in, he was introduced by Thak:
"And this is the new owner of this Happy Tree Farm, Alten Heheh!"
"Hello, Alten Heheh. I'm Chunyang" said a tall lanky man wearing dark rimmed glasses with oriental feature.
'Sigh... not again...' thought Alten.
"Actually... you know what, nevermind. Hello mister Chunyang." said Alten with a wry smile.
"Ahem. As I told you before, Chunyang here is the monster wholesaler around these parts who I have been trading with for many years. He has the information you seek. Now, will you kindly give Alten an info dump while I prepare breakfast for everyone?"
"Sure will! Now Alten, first, let me give you this monster information stub for free."
Chunyang hands Alten a piece of parchment. On it is a picture of a bird with some notes written on it.
"Every monster trader, farmer, or hunter will have a set of tools to help with their job. The first one is the Monsteropedia, a collection of information about monsters. It could be a book, like a grimoire, or in your case, a bag with a bunch of paper stubs inside it. Richer folks may have it specially made into a wand, or staff, or robes which will magically display the information when activated. Yeah, rich people are crazy like that."
Alten frowned slightly and smiled awkwardly, thinking 'sounds like the Pokedex'.
"Monsteropedia information stub can be bought and traded with other people or from the Monster Library, though it will come with a cost. You can find a Monster Library in almost every city and they share and update their information among themselves so you will always get the latest information from them. Also, if you discovered new monsters, you can create a monster information stub and submit it to the Monster Library and earn gold as well as fame. Although the case of this happening is rare as many monsters have been studied... you'll need to go deep into the wilds to find new ones."
"Un!" Alten nodded attentively while thinking 'yup, definitely this world's version of the Pokedex'.
"The Monsteropedia is very useful and has many functions like the ability to know the strength and weakness of a monster, its feeding habits, as well as information like how to capture a monster. Speaking of capturing monster, here, take this. This is a tool that you can use to catch small sized monsters, the Monster Capture Pearl."
Chunyang handed Alten a dozen baseball sized sphere that is split in half with the color red and white and a small button in the middle.
"Isn't this... a Pokeball? Shit, am I going to get sued for copyright infringement?!!"
Seeing the worried look on Alten's face Chunyang immediately soothed
"No no no, this is not a Pokeball! It is a Monster Capture Pearl! Say it with me now, MoCap Pearl!"
"Monster Capture Pearl... MoCap Pearl... haiz..."
"There are other important tools but these are the only one's I brought with me so, yeah..." said Chunyang, while thinking 'besides, these things aren't cheap, hurhur'.
"Anyways, moving on. Your farm is special because it is located in monster central. If you walk out of here you will practically trip over all kinds of monsters. You should try it now! But don't go too far from the farm... the further you go, the more dangerous and powerful the monster become. Anyways, that's it."
Chunyang started chowing down on the breakfast that Thak had just brought out from the oven.
"Uhhh, okay..." said Alten apprehensively, while taking a look at the note.
Name: Psychic Sparrow (Small)
Type : Air
HP : 6
MP : 15
Skill : Vision Link
Notes : These small purple colored birds are extremely popular with children, and these flying monster can establish a psychic link to share vision with it's contracted owner. Some owners use this skill for nefarious aims like spying on female bathing, spying for unattended foodstuff to steal, scouts for band of thieves, etc. Beware if you see a large flock of them!
Habitat: Lives in nest made out of wooden branches, straw, and grasses.
Food: Eats any kind of grain and insects.
Price: 10 Gold
'WTF? Spying on female bathing? This... may be actually useful later hur hur' thought Alten.
Ding! *Monster Added*
'Huh? What was that? Did my Monsteropedia got updated?'
"Menu!"
Pik!
Happy Tree Farm AR Menu
Farm Level : 1
Exp: 10/500
Monster Pen : 2 Small Earth-Type (0/3 Monsters)
Special Tools : Never-Ending Silo (Can store unlimited amount of feed)
Magic Points : 10/10 (Regenerate 1 per day)
Special Skills : World Transfer - 5 MP (Teleport between world)
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Monsteropedia - (Touch the name of monsters to learn more)
Curent Monster : Psychic Sparrow
Pffffftttt!
Foodstuff fly out of the mouth of Chunyang whose eyes is bigger than a saucer in shock.
"You-you have a magic menu?!! Wow!"
Chunyang's mind suddenly starts working faster than the speed of light.
'this guy is no simple guy. To have a magic menu, he must be a royalty... or a crazy rich guy! I must make good friendly relationship with him!'
Alten press the x to close the menu, stood up and exclaimed "Right, time to go catch me some Psychic Sparrow!"
Chunyang quickly washed downed the rest of his breakfast with some Longjing tea and said "Wait! I have an idea! Follow me!"
He then walked out of the farmhouse towards his wagon parked in the yard with Alten in tow. Chunyang got up into the wagon while Alten waited outside, rummaged through some containers, exclaimed "Aha!", and excitedly got down from his wagon and stood in front of Alten. In his hand, is a box, with 5 purple eggs inside, the size of chicken eggs.
"Here, take this. These are Psychic Sparrow's eggs. I got them from some passing monster hunters a few days back. If you manage to hatch and raise them, I will buy it from you for 5 gold coin each."
"That's actually a very good deal!" said Thak as he walk closer towards the wagon.
"Alright, I'll take it!" Alten takes the box with the eggs, and then stopped and looked at the old goblin.
"Uhhh, what do I do now?"
"Ohohoho! Follow me!" said Thak while walking out of the yard.
The three of them walked towards an open area of the farm beside the Never-Ending Silo. They reached a small plot of fenced land that is glowing with a soft yellow light, which the old goblin pointed.
"This here plot of lands is where the monster pens, or paddock, or whatever it's called, are the pens for you to raise your monsters. If the old stories are true, you can manipulate the type from the menu, changing it at will. Why don't you try it now?"
Alten then summon the menu, and changed one of the Small Earth-Type Monster Pen to Air-Type.
Happy Tree Farm AR Menu
Farm Level : 1
Exp: 15/500
Monster Pen : 1 Small Earth-Type (0/3 Monsters), 1 Small Air-Type (0/3 Monsters)
Special Tools : Never-Ending Silo (Can store unlimited amount of feed)
Magic Points : 9/10 (Regenerate 1 per day)
Special Skills : World Transfer - 5 MP (Teleport between world)
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Monsteropedia - (Touch the name of monsters to learn more)
Curent Monster : Psychic Sparrow
"Whoa, I got exp points for doing that! But... it took a magic point to change it though. Guess there is no free lunch in this world."
He took a look at the fenced pen, and noticed that one of it seems to have some light fog and occasional gust of wind blowing within it, spreading the fog across the pastureland.
Alten pointed at it and said "I guess thats the Air-type pen? And I can only put in 3 eggs in there at the most? Meh, I'll just put them all in."
As Alten started to take all the eggs out of the box to put into the slot, Thak suddenly warned.
"Wait! Don't just put the eggs in there! You need to put it in the proper habitat. Since Psychic Sparrow lives in nest made out of wooden branches, you should build that first, and then putting the eggs inside the nest."
"Owh! Got it".
Alten immediately picked up some wooden branches from a nearby tree and built a nest before putting 3 eggs inside it. 'I wonder what happens if I put in more than 3..."
"Don't put in more than 3 or else the extra eggs will break!" warned Thak.
"Ah, got it! Erm, now what?"
"Now we just wait for it to hatch. Ohohoho, monsters eggs are special; all they need is enough sunlight and open air and they will hatch by themselves. After they're hatched, you just take care of the monsters by feeding them and tending to their needs, like cleaning their crap and playing with them. Since they're small monsters, it will take a week for them to mature once they're hatched."
"I see..."
"We-well, I guess it's time for me to make a move" said Chunyang as he look at the sky. His jaw had dropped in shock the whole time the two monster farmer were working the magical Monster Pen.
"Oh? Not staying for lunch?"
"Nah, I need to make some more deals, more gold, all that."
"Ohohoho, I won't keep you then."
"Right, let us go back into the farm house. Staring at the eggs won't make it hatch any faster."
"Un!"
