Fantasy Lord: I Have a Moving Castle

Perched atop the carriage, the Night Helmeted Owl, which had been intently watching the scene with eyes filled with longing and envy, suddenly flapped its wings and landed in front of Char, gesturing with its wings.

Originally, the Night Helmeted Owl wasn’t that intelligent. Although it could express simple emotions like happiness and anger, it didn’t understand or couldn’t convey more complex ideas.

However, perhaps because it also managed to absorb a bit of Energy Essence every day, while consuming Energy Essence didn’t allow the Night Helmeted Owl to grow rapidly like the Star Worm and the Fierce Sword Firefly, it clearly increased the owl’s intelligence by a good margin.

"Are you saying you want to become my Magic Pet?" Char managed to decipher the meaning of the Night Helmeted Owl.

Then, he fell into hesitation.

He had indeed planned to recruit the Night Helmeted Owl as his Magic Pet from the start. The reason he asked Freyja to help train it was to keep it as a backup, to see whether he should recruit it as a Magic Pet later on.

But that was then, and this is now.

What was his situation at that time? His most powerful Magic Pet was the Clover Mantis, and he didn’t even have one Intermediate Combat Power by his side.

Where is he now? He has seven Intermediate Combat Powers (including Freyja), and the Clover Mantis, which used to be his strongest combat power, is now almost at the bottom.

How can the same words be spoken for different times?

From the examples of the Thunder Night Dragon and the Fierce Sword Firefly, after their transformation, their strength depended on their Level before the transformation and their innate talent or aptitude.

The Thunder Night Dragon, Frost Deer, and the Fierce Sword Firefly all evolved at Level 4, but the Thunder Night Dragon and Frost Deer, who had better talents, were a Level higher than the Fierce Sword Firefly.

Even the Thunder Night Dragon and Frost Deer were differentiated in terms of strength. Although both had a Challenge Level of 8, the Thunder Night Dragon was still a Subadult, in the midst of rapid growth, and was definitely going to reach Level 9 before the Frost Deer.

It goes without saying who was stronger and who was weaker.

The same was true for the Green Lotus Frog and the Fierce Sword Firefly. Although both had the same Challenge Level after evolving, in terms of combat power, the Fierce Sword Firefly was clearly much stronger than the Green Lotus Frog—after all, the Green Lotus Frog did not have the capability for a temporary upgrade.

And this was very likely because the Fierce Sword Firefly had evolved at Level 4, while the Green Lotus Frog had evolved at Level 3.

The Night Helmeted Owl’s talent might not be better than the Lantern Firefly or the Lotus Leaf Frog, and its Challenge Level was only 2. After recruiting it as a Magic Pet, its Challenge Level might only be 6, which would be too much of a loss.

Char now hoped to recruit a Demon Beast with a Challenge Level of 5, which might give him a Magic Pet with a Challenge Level of 9 right away.

The difference between a Challenge Level of 6 and 9 is hundreds of times.

"Your strength is a bit weak; you’re not quite suitable for using Praying Power." Char hesitated for a moment but still said it.

The Night Helmeted Owl seemed unable to understand such complicated words and cocked its head with a puzzled expression. At this moment, the Star Worm approached, circling the owl and making wind-chime-like sounds, translating Char’s meaning.

Soon, the Night Helmeted Owl understood, but it didn’t give up and made a series of owl calls, then gestured something with its wings again.

The Star Worm understood, then manipulated the stardust swirling around its body into a series of words—after continuous leveling up, the Star Worm had become smarter. It followed Char around and slowly, even picked up the basic Continental Common Language from reading books, truly a creature of exceptional talent!

"Are you saying you want the Dead Soul Jade? Can it help you transform?"

Char was surprised, not having expected that the Night Helmeted Owl had quietly set its sights on the Dead Soul Jade. On second thought, it wouldn’t be bad if the owl could transform through the Dead Soul Jade.

Although the Dead Soul Jade was very valuable, at the moment he didn’t know what to use it for. Instead of letting it collect dust in the Prayer House, why not give it to the Night Helmeted Owl?

The Night Helmeted Owl’s capabilities were already decent. It wasn’t just another run-of-the-mill Demon Beast. Although it couldn’t match the Ghost Flying Lizard or the Frost Crystal White Deer, it was also quite rare and uncommon, with good talent.

With the addition of the Dead Soul Jade, it was very likely to transform into a Demon Beast no less formidable than the Ghost Flying Lizard and Frost Crystal White Deer. Then, upon recruiting it, wouldn’t he have another powerful Magic Pet?

The Night Helmeted Owl nodded eagerly.

"Alright."

...

In Pine Tree Hills, the carriage moved slowly along the riverbank.

The Thunder Night Dragon, Frost Deer, and Fierce Sword Firefly all scattered to clear the path for Char and to remove threats in advance, while also earning a bit of Praying Power. Even though most of the "monsters" had already been encountered and killing them again wouldn’t contribute Praying Power, there were always those they hadn’t met, right?

Apart from the Thunder Night Dragon, Frost Deer, and the Fierce Sword Firefly, the other Demon Beasts remained on the carriage.

For one, these Demon Beasts were smaller and could stay inside the carriage, and secondly, although the others were paving the way and sweeping the path, who knew if any danger might slip past their cleansing and approach the carriage?

Leaving the Green Lotus Frog and the Praying Light Sword, two powerful combatants on the carriage, was also just to be safe.

By the way, after absorbing the power of the Bright Treasure Diamond for a while, the Praying Light Sword’s Challenge Level had reached 7.

In its restraint against Undead creatures, the Praying Light Sword’s performance was similar to that of the Fierce Sword Firefly and Green Lotus Frog of the same level when facing non-Undead creatures.

But when facing Undead, the Praying Light Sword’s burst of combat power was even stronger than the higher-level Thunder Night Dragon and Frost Deer.