Liu Siyan quickly reacted as well, not wanting to be outdone, and said:
"I also want to exchange contact information, Brother Lin... Brother Lin Ze..."
She wasn't as thick-skinned as Zhang Xiaoyun, and by the end, her cheeks were flushed.
Lin Ze was both amused and exasperated, and had no choice but to exchange contact information with them.
The internship assessment ended happily, and the four of them didn't linger, finding a place nearby to have lunch.
During the meal, Zhang Xiaoyun and Liu Siyan fetched water and served food to Lin Ze, showering him with such attentiveness that it made him feel ashamed.
Guan Ning, watching from the side, felt a little jealous.
She wasn't unaware of other girls fawning over Lin Ze.
After all, Lin Ze is quite handsome and is actually quite popular with girls.
I didn't feel anything when I watched it before, but now I feel a little unhappy for some reason.
My mouth felt sour, like I had just bitten into a green tangerine.
...
It was evening.
Lin Ze and Guan Ning returned to their residence.
As they parted ways at the door.
As Lin Ze took out his keys to open the door, he casually remarked:
"Go to bed early, you have to go back to school to register tomorrow."
Guan Ning glanced at him, hesitated, and finally just obediently responded.
Lin Ze didn't notice the girl's expression and went inside.
He sat down on the sofa in the living room and immediately brought up his personal panel.
Lin Ze
[Constitution 5.0 / Soul 8.8]
[Level: Trainee]
[Soul Power: 880/880]
[Soul Technique: None]
[Pet: Ice Crystal Soul]
[Achievement Points: 203]
He has already used up the Soul Crystals rewarded from the [Apprentice Beast Tamer] achievement.
Soul strength successfully increased to 8.8.
In addition, there is a reward of 200 achievement points.
"Ice Crystal Soul is only 16% away from reaching full growth, and only 80 achievement points are needed."
After thinking for a moment, Lin Ze decided not to raise the growth rate to 100% for the time being.
He mainly wanted to give it a try.
In reality, pets can grow stronger through battles.
In terms of system data, pets can increase their growth rate through battles.
Lin Ze wanted to test the actual effect of the system on the growth rate of pets in battle.
If it works well, you can save a lot of achievement points in the future, which can be used to unlock pet skills or improve physical and soul attributes.
"Unlock those two new skills first."
Lin Ze brought up the pet panel and looked at the skill list at the bottom.
[Ice Shield]: A defensive skill that manipulates ice elements to form an ice shield, allowing you to freely defend against attacks from any direction. Unlocking requires 60% growth and 50 achievement points.
[Frost Nova]: An area-of-effect damage skill that rapidly compresses a large amount of ice elements in a designated area into a single point, instantly releasing it to create explosive ice damage. Unlocking requires 80% growth and 100 achievement points.
The two skills together cost 150 achievement points.
Lin Ze unlocked them all without hesitation.
[Name]:Ice Crystal Soul
[Genus]: Ice
[Level]: Tier 3, Stage 1
Growth Rate: 84%
[Skills]: Ice Spike, Frost Breath, Ice Chains, Ice Shield, Frost Nova
[Empress Route, Next Evolution Form [Snow Woman], Requirements: 100% Growth Rate, 20 Intermediate Ice Element Essences, 1 Heart of Ice]
"Keep the remaining 50 achievement points for now."
"There are only 16% left to reach the maximum growth rate, it shouldn't take long to reach that."
"The next step is to figure out how to obtain the evolution materials."
Lin Ze rubbed his temples, looking somewhat troubled.
He checked the price online.
The price of a single Intermediate Ice Element Essence is 20,000 Credits.
20 of them would cost a whopping 400,000 credits.
The Heart of Ice and Snow is ridiculously expensive.
One costs 150,000 credits.
In total, it would take at least 550,000 credits to purchase the evolution materials for Qi Bing Crystal Soul.
He didn't even have a tenth of his savings.
"Buying a new pet also costs a lot of money."
Pet prices fluctuate wildly.
Depending on their potential rating and rank, the price of pets of the same tier can vary by more than ten times.
On average, a Tier 2 E-grade pet only requires 100,000 credits.
A B-grade Tier 2 pet with multiple evolutionary stages can fetch up to a million credits.
Of course.
With his cheat-like abilities, Lin Ze could easily target pets with hidden evolution paths and lower ratings.
The amount of money needed is greatly reduced.
Even so, you'll still need at least a few hundred thousand credits.
In this case, the combined amount would likely be close to one million credits.
For Lin Ze, who only had a little over 100,000 yuan in savings not long ago, this was undoubtedly an astronomical figure.
"This is only the apprentice beast tamer stage. As we go on, there will be more and more places where we need money, and the expenses will become larger and larger."
Lin Ze grimaced as if he had a toothache.
"A bottomless gold-swallowing cave."
Fortunately, while beast tamers are known for spending money like water, they are also famous for their ability to make money.
Lin Ze had already planned for this.
"I'll make time to go to the Beastmaster Association tomorrow and take on some bounty missions to earn some money!"
Apprentice and higher-level Beast Tamers can accept bounty missions from the Beast Tamer Association and receive a certain amount of reward upon completion.
The higher the mission level, the higher the reward.
Even the lowest-level missions usually reward tens of thousands of credits.
This is one of the quickest ways for beast tamers to make money.
After a moment's thought, Lin Ze had already formed a plan in his mind.
He turned off the control panel, summoned the Ice Crystal Soul, played with the pet for a while, then got up to wash and prepare to rest.
...
The next morning.
Guan Ning knocked on the door to wake Lin Ze and took him to the Guan family's house for breakfast.
The Guan Chongshan couple learned from Guan Ning last night that Lin Ze had been promoted to trainee beast tamer.
They were both surprised and delighted that he passed the extremely difficult assessment, and they couldn't stop smiling.
Guan's mother prepared a lavish breakfast, ostensibly to celebrate.
So much so that when she left for school, Guan Ning was still grumbling and complaining that Lin Ze was more like the two elders' son than she was.
"Isn't this also to celebrate for you? Don't forget that we passed the internship assessment together."
"Who said that? Mom only decided to have a big celebration after she heard that you passed the assessment."
The two joked around and soon arrived at Pinghai No. 1 Middle School.
As soon as Lin Ze stepped into the school gate, he sensed that something was wrong.
In the past, when I came to school with Guan Ning, although it would attract a lot of attention, most of the eyes were on Guan Ning.
After all, the girl was a famous genius and beauty at Pinghai No. 1 Middle School.
But today is different.
Lin Ze keenly noticed that most people's eyes were focused on him.
Many students around him were pointing and whispering.
Faint sounds of discussion could be heard.
"Look, Lin Ze is here!"
"Ah, he's the genius who passed the super-difficulty assessment?"
"Unbelievable! They actually managed to complete the Super Difficulty challenge!"
"I never knew our school had such a remarkable person hidden away!"
"Wow, he's quite handsome. Let's go get his contact information."
"You go if you want, I wouldn't dare. Didn't you see Guan Ning next to him?"
"..."
Lin Ze's lips twitched.
This news spread way too fast!
The news spread throughout the entire school in just one day!