"Well, I understand about the growth and hunger bar, but what do we do about the happiness, health, and training?" Jack asked the girls.
"Happiness is increased by continuing to give her our attention. There is a function to pet it," Viral said as she pointed to a button with a hand icon. "We can also activate so of the Sky Garden Peak's facility, such as the whirlpool on the lake, the waterfall, giving her ball toys to play with. Anything, as long as we keep interacting with her regularly, she will be happy."
"I say you all got that covered. If she can get annoyed from being constantly handled, now that will be a problem," Jack comnted, which earned him side-eyes from the girls. "What about the health bar? Can she get sick?"
"We haven't gotten into such a condition," Viral replied. "Hopefully, never," she added.
"She will have a chance to get ill if you feed it low-quality food," Peniel explained.
"Nothing to worry about then. We are giving her the best-grade food our cooks can make," Jeanny said. "Those food required rare ingredients but we don't mind using them for this sweety."
"She can also get ill if you force her to eat too much," Peniel said.
"Hahaha," Jack laughed, which earned him intense glares from the girls.
"Environnt also affects, but I see that this Sky Garden Peak should have no problem. You got a good base mountain when you constructed this structure. There is even a cave which is a lava dragonet's natural resting nest. You just need to make sure she takes enough rest. Don't work her too hard, and the health bar should be fine."
"Work her too hard? I guess that's where the training bar is for?" Jack asked.
"Yes, we can get him to do so exercises to increase that training bar," viral said. "It's sorts of like a mini-ga. There are several exercises available. Here, I show you one of them."
"This really reminds
of those ancient pocket digital pets," Jack remarked.
Viral worked on the interface. Soon, the screen changed. It zood out and marked a circular track. Penny started running along this track. There were so obstacles on the track, when Penny was about to run into one of these obstacles, Viral pressed a button and Penny jumped over the obstacle.
'She can fly, right?' Jack wanted to comnt but decided to just keep quiet.
Once Penny arrived at the end of the track, the mini-ga ended. Scores were tallied, a report then appeared informing them that they had acquired a Good assessnt. The training bar increased so more, to the maximum now.
"You can know that you work her too hard if you continue asking her to exercise even after the training bar is full," Peniel said.
"Oh…" Was the five girls' reply.
"I bet you have been playing with her non-stop. It is a miracle that she is still healthy," Jack criticized, which earned him another round of glares.
"Still, if you can continue keeping the training bar full but not having her overwork. She will have the maximum stats possible once she matured. Keep up the good work!" Peniel encouraged, which prompted the girls to do high-fives with each other.
"I can understand now why John is not here, but why are you here?" Jack asked Bowler.
"What do you an why? It is fun taking care of Penny," Bowler replied.
"Oh… Well, ok then. I will leave you gals to it. Jeanny, don't stay up too late. Rember that tomorrow we have to leave for the World Tournant," Jack said.
"Got it. I have also sent ssages to remind Domon and Giant Steve," Jeanny replied. "We will gather outside this Guild Hall first thing tomorrow morning."
Jack nodded before leaving. He visited the warehouse again to get the ore stock. There were not too many yet, but it was enough for him to level up his equipnt by two levels. All his equipnt was currently level 51, he could equip to the maximum of level 53 due to his Blade Dancer class which was level 43.
He went into the Ti Chamber to save ti on the upgrading since it was rather late already. He wanted a full rest for tomorrow.
Inside the ti chamber, he used the Transformation Box to fuse a sufficient amount of copper and silver ores, before using his rare blacksmith tool to upgrade his equipnt.
Even when it was only two levels for each equipnt, it still cost him a large number of ores. By the end of his work, his magic staff and all his armors were at level 53. He didn't upgrade his Storm Breaker. It felt like a huge waste to sacrifice one super rare sword just for a two-level increase.
He went to rest after coming out of the Ti Chamber.
*
The next morning, the four who were qualified to the World Tournant gathered outside the Guild Hall. There were others as well who ca to send them off.
John was among them. He went and peeked into the Guild Hall first when he ca. When he saw the girls were still crowding around the guild platform, he didn't go in, he ca to Jack instead and wish him luck on the world tournant.
"It must be depressing to have your toy taken over by others, doesn't it?" Jack said to him.
"It does," he replied.
"Well, we will be going now. You take good care of the guild."
"Of course. Don't you trust ?"
Jack's eyes narrowed to a slit. "You know, the last ti after you said that phrase, I ended up hunting you to your father's guild. You are not going to try anything funny again now, are you?"
"Haha, you are funny. I'm not low enough to use the sa ploy twice. Nor do I think our enemy stupid enough to fall for the sa trickery."
"Whatever, just don't do anything that gives everyone a heart attack," Jack said.
"Where is the fun then?" John replied. "That being said. Maybe I should clear this up before you people left, lest you think I'm doing sothing behind your back."
"Hm?" Jeanny who was still talking to Trinity turned to John after hearing it.
"I'm eting my father again later today," John announced.
"What?!"
"The hell?"
"Are you trying sothing again?"
Bowler, The Man, and the others who were here to wish Jack and the others luck were instantly agitated hearing John's words.
"I have expected strong reactions. You people truly don't disappoint," John said.
"Why are you eting him?" Jack asked.
"He asked for a eting. He had been asking for quite so ti now, to be honest. I simply ignored him. But I guess I can't keep on doing that. He is still my father, after all."
"What does he want?" Jeanny asked.
"He didn't say. I have so guesses, but most likely he will be trying to negotiate for us to release Saint Edge's guild hostage token."
"Will you?" Jack asked.
"Oh? You let
decide? I thought you would have yelled that the guild hostage token is guild's property, under no circumstances that I have the right to let it go."
"You are right! You have no right!" Bowler exclaid.
Jack, on the other hand, said, "The way I see it, that guild hostage token is all your effort, so I don't see the reason to object to what you decide to do with it."
Jack turned to Jeanny after his words. Jeanny nodded, "I have no problem with that. Do what you want with Saint Edge's guild hostage token. But mark my words, we will not let you off if you do anything that harms the guild. Jason and Michelle will follow you to the eting."
"You people are too cautious of ," John complained, shaking his head.
"Well, can you bla us?" Jack said.
"I suppose I can't. But you have my words, I am absolutely loyal to this guild. Heck, I practically own one-third of this guild, so why do I want to betray it? Anyway, I won't be throwing the guild hostage token away. The bonus resources they provided are too good to pass up. I don't believe my father has anything that can persuade
to give up that token. I'm just eting him to give him face."
"Well, whatever it is. I don't think family mbers should fight one another. You should try to reconcile with your father if possible," Jack said.
"Hm… difficult. The dude is too stubborn," John mumbled.
"Then he is the sa as you," Jack said.
Jack then turned to Jeanny. "What about you? Have you talked to your mother? Maybe we will see her in the world tournant. She could probably be representing the Aurebor Dynasty."
"If she does. We will beat her without rcy," Jeanny declared.
Jack scratched his head. His two partners' familial relationship seed to be much more complicated than he thought. He only had one remaining relative, his grandfather, and their relationship had always been simple. Although they sotis bickered, they respected and cared for one another. So, he didn't understand his two friends' struggles enough to offer any advice.. Hence, he decided to be mum about the subject.
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