Chapter 18 – Cat Dad’s Cat ve
After Xiaomao left the building, he rushed to thebor guild.
Xiaomao found a manor, which was surrounded by tall fences. The front entrance was guarded by a squad of ten level 20 town guards. Everyone red at the visitors and the NPCs that passed through the gate as if they were warning them with their eyes not to cause trouble here.
Xiaomao waltzed to the manor. The guards only nced at the premium icon of a chocker and a leash. Then, they ignored Xiaomao.
Not many yers visited here as this ce didn’t provide quests. On the other hand, rich yers often came here for business.
Xiaomao entered the building and went to a counter. He pulled out a tinum token from his game menu and put it on the counter.
The tinum token was none other than the materialized PACT. Xiaomao still had 1,812 tokens in his game ount.
As soon as the front counter receptionist saw the token, she smiled at Xiaomao.
“What can I do for you, sir?”
“I’m here for a license to own a ve, munya!”
The receptionist nced at Xiaomao’s Labor Guild Premium Pass icon and nodded at him, “Is your Contribution Level one or higher?”
“Yes, munya.”
After his Contribution Level had reached level 1, he could begin creating hisbor forces or possess a ve. Xiaomao now could capture a monster in the wild or purchase a ve here to apany him.
But that was not his intention. He had a better way to earn PACT through thebor guild.
“Please wait a moment, sir. We shall issue you a license right now. Issuing a license doesn’t cost a token. You can keep it.”
“No, munya. I’m purchasing a private lodging slot with this token. Get me a room for my ve, munya.”
In order to have a ve or a worker, a yer needed a ce for them to live or rest. The cheapest way was to rent a house or book a room from an inn. However, items of the ve or worker could be stolen by another yer or thief NPCs.
However, Labor Guild provided secured apartments for ves and workers for yers with a ve master license and a Labor Premium Pass. yers could purchase a room here with PACT, and the belongings and items of their workers or ves could not be stolen by any means.
Secondly, by owning a permanent lodging here, yers could create their ves by using their unused NFT characters!
That was when Xiaomao’s unused NFT characters came into y!
In this game, not only yers could use the NFT characters as their primary in-game characters, but they could also be used as support characters.
ves andborers worked differently.
ves were NPCs. Captured monsters, prisoners of war NPCs, criminal ve NPCs, and debt ve NPCs fell into this category. Owners of such ves only needed to provide them food and necessity for living, and they would move or act ording to their preset behavior and personality. Lazy ves were always reluctant to act or follow orders while stubborn NPCs might try to flee or escape from yers if their loyalty value was low.
As forborers, yers did not need to worry about their loyalty as they were fixed at 100%. After all, they were created from NFTs of yers.
Support characters were also different from alt characters or secondary characters, which yers used as shuttles, extra storage, or yable characters. Instead, the support characters acted as semi-NPC characters that would wholeheartedly support the assigned primary character.
For example, Xiaomao could create a new character as a semi-NPC, who would work for Xiaomao without the need for a sry. He could assign specific tasks to the supporters and let them work automatically while his main character was doing something else in-game.
Moreover, support characters continued to work even though the yers were offline! They could continue to collect resources, hunt monsters, tend the farms, or even increase their levels!<sub>.</sub>
In short, they were game bots that yers could use!
The contribution level was also a major factor. As Xiaomao’s current Contribution Level was one, he could unlock one permanent lodging slot for one bot. But once his Contribution reached level 10, he could unlock 10 permanent slots for 10 bots and so on!
For now, Xiaomao only needed one slot for his worker empire.
The guild receptionist nodded and took the tinum coin from Xiaomao. She picked a key from her drawer and put it on the counter in front of Xiaomao.
“Your ve’s lodging room is on the second floor, sir. Since you have the premium warehouse pass, we have chosen a room with a magic chest for you.”
“Thanks, munya!”
Xiaomao grabbed the key and hopped toward the stairs to the second floor.
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The Labor Guild’s building offered apartment-like studio rooms for support characters and ves. Xiaomao got a room on the second floor, and his key was written 201.
‘The first room on the second floor?’
Xiaomao immediately found his room. He used the key to get inside.
Inside was a small 10 square-meter room with no bathroom. However, a metal chest was preinstalled at the corner of the room.
Xiaomao opened the chest. Then, a new system menu appeared.
Ding
<Wee to your premium warehouse. You may store 1,000 types of items here, and all premium warehouses in every city are linked.>
1,000 slots for premium storage were too small for a veteran yer like Xiaomao. He clicked his tongue as he knew that it wouldn’t be enough after a month of gaming.
Xiaomao checked his in-game inventory.
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Newbie Healing Potion (20 HP) 100
Cat Food Package 951
Cat Food Cans 405
Smelly Seaweed 1000
Stalk of Seaweed 1000
MSG Seaweed 900
Premium MSG 1000
Niece Seaweed Card 250<sub></sub>
Nephew Seaweed Card 250
MSG-Seasoned Baby Ayu 320
MSG-Seasoned Baby Mackerel 320
Goldfish 353
Sardine 801
Tuna 110
Betta 476
Koi 500
Seaweed Rice Sag 100
Fuiyoh MSG Package 10
Fuiyoh Rice Cooker 1
Fuiyoh Wok Shield (DEF 10) 1
Fuiyoh Cleaver (ATK 10) 1
MSG Seaweed Sd Recipe 1
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Xiaomao put the unnecessary Fuiyoh Rice sags, Rice cooker, Fuiyoh MSG packages, Premium MSG, the recipe, and MSG seaweeds in the chest. He kept the rest to himself as he might need them.
All fish and cat food were stored in his premium inventory slots. Tradable monster cards, healing potions, and equipment went to his character inventory slots.
Just like that, Xiaomao got rid of useless items. Then, he sorted his inventory to make his character inventory and premium inventory more orderly.
Xiaomao nced at the small icon of a trash bin next to the premium warehouse.
This icon was a quick exchange bin, which converted the value of items into gold coins automatically.
Xiaomao moved the 1,000 smelly seaweeds and 1,000 stalks of seaweed to the trash bin right away as they could only be used as food for low-grade monsters, which Xiaomao didn’t need.
Ding
<You have exchanged 1,000 smelly seaweeds and 1,000 stalks of seaweed for gold coins.>
<You have gained 2,000 gold coins.>
“It ain’t much, but it’s an honest work, munya!”
Once everything was ready, Xiaomao closed the warehouse and navigated to the Contribution Menu, where more details were shown here.<sub></sub>
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Contribution Level: 1
PACT Weekly Ie: 1/100
EXP: 10/160,000
Active Support Characters: 0 / 1
Lodging Slot Used: 0 / 1
Authorized essible Trade Routes: 0 / 0
Authorized essible Regions: 0 / 0
Authorized essible Cities: 0 / 0
Avable NFT characters: 961
Avable NFT fragments: 38
Avable PACT: 1,811
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Xiaomao ignored the detail of essible regions and cities as they were irrelevant at his current stage. He pressed the bottom button – [Create New Support Character].
After pressing it, the cards of Xiaomao’s NFT characters appeared.
800 Common NFT characters
100 Umon NFT characters
45 Rare NFT characters
25 Rare NFT fragments
15 Super Rare NFT characters
10 Super Rare NFT fragments
1 Ultra Rare NFT character
3 Ultra Rare NFT fragments
Everything was sorted and arranged by rarity. Xiaomao could see the portrait of a pretty Oni Samurai, aka the Ultra Rare NFT character that Xiaomao had gotten from the gacha machine.
Xiaomao swiped the menu and filtered the list and selected several names and tags that he needed.
Soon, less than a hundred NFT characters showed in the menu. The rest was hidden.
Xiaomao scanned the list and picked one of the NFT cards.
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Rarity: Common
Race: Human
Job: Fisherman
Unique Skills: Fishing Spot Finder
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This NFT was an average lifeskill character. Aside from the ability to find a good fishing spot, he was not worth investing in.
Still, Xiaomao selected the Asian-looking character NFT portrait and pressed the confirm button to finalize the character creation process.
Ding
“ve One, munya.”
<ve Number One has been named.>
<Creating the new support character…>
<Error… Reinitializing…>
“…”
Xiaomao sensed a déjà vu. He immediately opened the game menu and looked at the logout button.
It was still clickable. Xiaomao let out a sigh of relief.
“I got scared for a second, munya.”
Ding
<Reinitializingpleted!>
<Creating the new support character…>
<Detecting your character’s unique bloodline ability. Will you bestow your bloodline to your new character?>
<Note: You can only bestow one character without your bloodline every month.>
“What the butthole of a cat, munya?”
Xiaomao was confused. The game was toying with him again.
What bloodline?
What bestowing bloodline?
There was no such thing in his previous life. What happened here?
Again, Xiaomao nced at his mysterious skill, [???].
As the onlyprehensible detail was its brief description as a Passive Bloodline, Xiaomao could only rte this error to this skill.
Since Xiaomao didn’t know what it could do other than giving the 100% drop rate to the user, Xiaomao allowed the game to bestow the unknown bloodline to the new character.
There was nothing to lose anyway.
“Go ahead, munya! Make this trashy ve of mine OP, munya!”
Ding
<Creationpleted!>
WHOOSH
In the 10-square meter room, a thin dark-skin Asian man appeared. He looked at Xiaomao with bright eyes.
Xiaomao rechecked the supporter’s status and skill again.
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Rarity: Common
Race: Human (Evolvable)
Job: Fisherman (Evolvable)
Unique Skill: Fishing Spot Finder
Racial Skill: [???]
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It really appeared.
Also, the character’s detail changed. It was now an evolvable character.
Unfortunately, after this NFT had been activated, it was bound to the user. Xiaomao couldn’t sell this character to the market anymore. Otherwise, he could have started a new business by bestowing the bugged skill to the NFTs.
Xiaomao had so many ideas about how he could exploit this supporter because of the bugged 100% drop rate. He began to jot down the thoughts.
Soon, he came up with a brilliant n.
A bot with a passive skill? This might work.
“I was nning to make you auto-fish somewhere around here, but I change my mind, munya. Come with me! I’ll make you the legendary fisherman, munya!”