Chapter 37: A Skill That Made Him Yearn For

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Different from the store, which would be restocked at any time, the warehouse was used for storage, to begin with. Hence, when rows and rows of filled shelves appeared in front of him, it was a strong visual impact on Li Pu.

“Alright, please feel free to take a look,” Under Xiao Liu’s instructions, Li Pu walked to the nearest shelf.

“These are inscription tools…” He looked at the palm-sized hard shells.

“No, more accurately, these are the inscriptions in the inscription tools,” Xiao Liu corrected him. Inscription tools were inscriptions and tools that could be integrated into the summoned beast’s body. The former would come into effect directly, while the latter could be taken out from the beast’s body and used at any time.

Compared to tools with physical bodies, inscriptions were more functional.

The inscriptions in front of him were of different shapes. Some were round, some were square, some were triangular, and so on. The patterns on them were also different.

Li Pu randomly picked up a purple diamond-shaped inscription, and an information panel immediately popped up.

[Western Capital No. 15 (F): Slight increase in strength]

These purple inscriptions occupied more than half of the shelf. From the name, it could be seen that they were mass-produced inscriptions made by the University.

It had been 200 years since the world had changed, and mankind couldn’t possibly have made no progress in new technology. As early as about a hundred years ago, they had completely mastered the technology of inscription mass production.

However, limited by the source of materials, high-quality inscriptions were still relatively difficult to make. The powerful inscriptions of a Summoner were still mainly obtained through magical beasts.

“Western Capital No. 15 is considered a popular product among first-year students. The price is 100 crystal coins, so a 10% discount would be 90 crystal coins,” Seeing Li Pu pick up the inscription, Xiao Liu introduced it.

For many summoned beasts, an increase in strength was a very good buff. Sometimes, a small difference in power could cause a different result.

However, Li Pu wasn’t interested in Western Capital No. 15. He put it down after a glance.

Unless it was a summoned beast with special abilities, each summoned beast could only carry two inscription tools at a time under normal circumstances.

Moreover, when a summoned beast removed its inscriptions, it would be repelled by the inscriptions for a short time. Therefore, it was unrealistic to change inscriptions to create different effects in battle.

Compared to inscriptions that purely enhanced one’s physical fitness, he was more inclined to functionality.

As he continued walking, Li Pu picked up another inscription that was produced in batches. The inscription was round, and its translucent sky-blue color gave people the feeling of the sea.

[Western Capital No. 7 (E): Block a fire-type attack below E grade.]

The information on the interface made Li Pu’s eyes light up. The fire attribute as written here was different from the magnetic field of a summoned beast. It was the genuine fire attacks.

The Scarecrow was obviously afraid of fire attacks, so Western Capital No. 7 was quite suitable for it.

“No. 7 is a consumable item, but it’s more expensive than No. 15. It costs two hundred crystal coins,” Xiao Liu’s introduction was timely.

Such a price made Li Pu give up immediately, for now. He didn’t have the capital to buy anything yet, so he could only look around.

He spent about ten minutes looking through the entire shelf of inscriptions. In addition to the mass-produced inscriptions, there were also some wild inscriptions, which were dropped by magical beasts.

All in all, the various functions allowed Li Pu to gain quite some knowledge. However, based on the Scarecrow’s situation, he still valued Western Capital No. 7 the most.

It was a pity that although he had half the bloodline of a summoned beast, he was not a real summoned beast.

He had tried it just now, but the inscription was useless to him. He couldn’t merge it into his body at all.

However, he felt that he could try merging tools instead, whether the tool was for Summoners or summoned beasts.

Unfortunately, after looking at all the tools, Li Pu was a little disappointed. This was because they were all cold weapons such as swords, whips, and sticks, which were too ordinary.

There were relatively fewer gun and cannon tools because unless it was a special mechanical summoned beast, ordinary summoned beasts could not use gun and cannon tools.

As for the cane or scissor weapons that he was looking for, there were none.

As such, Li Pu paid more attention to the nurturing materials. After discovering the effects of Sacrifice, he no longer had to consider using nurturing materials for the Scarecrow.

However, a small portion of the nurturing materials came from the remains of magical beasts. So what he was concerned about was this point as well.

Unfortunately, the nurturing materials in this warehouse were all ordinary goods. Even the remains of magical beasts available here did not come from any powerful magical beasts.

Judging from his current experience, only the remains of powerful magic beasts could preserve a satisfactory amount of life force even after a long time.

He didn’t find any related items on the shelves.

The only remaining products he had not looked at were the skill orbs. These were

different from the random skill orbs given by the school. These orbs all contained specific skills. And there were not many of them, only a dozen in total.

Li Pu picked up the first ball of light expectantly, but his expression immediately turned ugly. Never mind the skill contained in it, the most important thing was the words [cannot be learned] as shown in the feedback message. These words simply cut off any chances he had of learning skills.

“Are you more interested in skills?” Seeing that Li Pu’s expression was different, Xiao Liu reminded him from the side, “Skill orbs are quite expensive because most people like to keep the orbs they obtain in their hands and wait for an opportunity to trade them. Unless they lack money, they rarely sell them.”

Li Pu didn’t pay attention to the other’s words. He quickly picked up the second ball of light.

[Cannot be learned]

[Cannot be learned]

[Cannot be learned]

The same words made him feel a little helpless. After ten rounds of investigation, he concluded: As long as these skills had attribute, type, or race requirements, he would not be able to learn them.

Li Pu’s eyes finally lit up when he touched the last skill orb.

[Level 1 – Imitate (A)]

[Active Effect: Copy a companion’s passive skill.]

[Attribute Requirement: None]

[Type Requirement: Balanced]

[Race Requirement: None]

“This is a good skill!” He had to admit that this skill was great.

As expected, an A-grade skill was extraordinary.

The most important thing was that the prompt of [Cannot be learned] did not pop up again! In other words, he could possess this skill.

The “companions” here should refer to the different summoned beasts under the same Summoner. In other words, a Summoner had to have at least two summoned beasts for Imitate to work for the beasts.

However, if Li Pu learned it, it would allow him to copy the Scarecrow’s passive abilities. As for what passive abilities the Scarecrow had, wasn’t it all up to him?

“Of course it’s a good skill. It’s currently the most expensive item in our trading station. We just took it into the warehouse yesterday. It’s a consignment sale, so there’s no discount. The price is 500000 crystal coins.”

However, the price that Xiao Liu told him made Li Pu’s hands tremble.