Fantasy Lord: I Have a Moving Castle

Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Misfortunes Never Come Singly, Quantity Limit

Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Misfortunes Never Come Singly, Quantity Limit

“Currently, the number of magic pets a player can have has reached its limit, please upgrade the castle before recruiting more,”

Staring at the sudden alert that popped up, Char’s expression turned extremely ugly.

This damn system!

Why didn’t it warn him earlier?

It’s absolutely idiotic! Clearly, it’s just meant to annoy people!

Only three magic pets allowed in the first stage, and you need to upgrade the castle to continue recruiting?

This twist was completely beyond Char’s expectations!

Because in “Mobile Castle·Fantasy Forest,” there were no such restrictions.

Their studio counts on players spending money on loot boxes, so why would they limit the number of magic pets?

Isn’t that crazy?

Who would go against money?

To them, as long as players are willing to pay, they could draw as many magic pets as they want!

If players wished, they could even draw a thousand or ten thousand magic pets!

But unexpectedly, after his transition into this world, such a change occurred.

The critical thing was that this damn system held back this crucial information, not warning him beforehand and only belatedly alerting him when he tried to recruit the fourth magic pet.

And it had to pick the time when he was facing a huge crisis.

It’s fine if you’re not timely with your alerts, but why did it have to be now?!

‘This is troublesome.’

Char had a gloomy face, visibly distressed.

Though, upon reflecting hindsight, it seemed there was some fault on his part for this situation arising.

It was his lack of thoroughtness, his too assumptive thinking.

Because it was designed that way in the game, it led him to not consider this possibility earlier due to habitual thinking.

But in reality, having such restrictions is reasonable, is normal.

After all, the real world operates on entirely different logical and systematic premises than the world of the game — the real world doesn’t revolve around making more money for the creators!

In a real world, if there were no restrictions like in the game where one could easily recruit a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand magic pets,

that would be too unreasonable.

Although these magic pets wouldn’t be very strong, much like the Lantern Firefly, Lotus Leaf Frog, and the like,

even ants can overwhelm an elephant, let alone demon beasts.

Even the weakest demon beast becomes terrifying when their numbers reach a hundred, or a thousand.

Moreover, the strength of magic pets isn’t fixed; as time passes, their power also grows.

Even if it’s unrealistic to expect all magic pets to evolve — as that would require a vast amount of Praying Power —

even just natural growth could increase the challenge level of the magic pets by 1 or 2 levels on average.

By then, the combined strength of these one hundred, or one thousand magic pets would only become more formidable.

Such a capability being unrestricted would be too unbalancing; not being restricted would be abnormal, being restricted is normal.

Yet, these restrictions undoubtedly disrupted his plans; he had been counting on recruiting new magic pets to resolve the current crisis, and now he had to upgrade the “Castle” first.

What’s worse, he only has three magic pet slots in the current stage; could it be that after the upgrade, he will have many more?

Definitely not!

At most, he could perhaps gain five more slots, and it’s even very possible that like the first stage, it will still be three.

Just having three more Magic Pets, could he recruit those with a Challenge Level of 4 or even 5?

If he couldn’t summon them, wouldn’t he have to wait until the “Castle” was upgraded again?

However, the problem is that the first upgrade of the “Castle” was relatively simple, the second upgrade wouldn’t be so simple and would definitely take a lot of time.

A year and a half would be normal.

To expect to recruit Magic Pets of Challenge Level 4 or even 5 after a year and a half?

He might as well hope for the strengths of the Star Worm, Lantern Firefly, and Lotus Leaf Frog to increase.

That would even be faster.

Fortunately, Char had outstanding psychological adjustment skills. After the initial shock, disappointment, and frenzy, he quickly regulated his emotions and forced himself to calm down.

During the day, he was annoyed that he shouldn’t have wasted the Praying Power on the Upgrade Task, but by evening, he ended up thankful that he had completed three Upgrade Tasks.

Otherwise, upgrading the Castle would have added who knows how many days.

It could be said that he had turned misfortune to fortune.

Char steadied his emotions and then used the Prayer Fragment to exchange for a blueprint.

The blueprint illustrated how to make a large wooden cabinet.

Then, carrying his bow, he turned and left the room. He wasn’t going to sleep; he continued hunting.

Who would sleep in a life-or-death crisis?

Each first-time hunt tonight could accumulate more Praying Power.

…

In the early morning, sunlight shone on the dew, reflecting a bright light.

Several small goblins were sniffing around while hurrying along.

In the forest, a few Red Fireflies flitted back and forth. As it was early morning, their glowing tails were not as conspicuous as at night, showing only a faint red glimmer.

Very unremarkable, easy to overlook.

The goblins didn’t pay attention to these little insects, as long as the Red Fireflies didn’t get too close, disturbing them wasn’t an issue.

Even if they did come close, it wasn’t an issue either; there were plenty of flies and other insects that thrived in dirty, smelly environments closely following them.

Suddenly, a short whistle-like sound came through the wind, and then the goblins discovered that one of their companions suddenly flew backward, landing only to discover an arrow in his chest.

The goblins let out clamorous screams and clawed their way toward the enemy, but as several streams of scarlet flames shot forth, soon, several goblins were blown away, evidently not surviving.

A beam of light sunlight came through, and the Star Worm quickly absorbed the Life Essence and Magic Power from several goblins, then flew back to Char and Lantern Firefly.

Char glanced at the fallen goblins.

Unfortunately, the reward for the first kill was included in the larger task of “Kill this group of goblins!” Therefore, killing a goblin for the first time didn’t automatically generate a task, delaying the acquisition of Praying Power.

At that moment, Char was also carrying a pheasant, which he had hunted on his way conducting guerrilla war.

In these days, his most important tasks, apart from conducting guerrilla warfare, weakening the goblins’ forces, were to complete more first-time kill tasks to accumulate Praying Power.

This pheasant, adorned with beautiful feathers, was prey he had never hunted before.

Once the Star Worm flew back, a man and two pets quickly left.

If they lingered any longer, other goblins were sure to come.

As Char quickly retreated, he opened his panel and took a quick look.

With the enhancement from “Natural Seal,” his Arrow Skill had received a significant boost, and once Arrow Skill broke through to lv2, his Level was likely to reach 3.

Not only that, but thanks to the help of the Red Fireflies, the guerrilla plan was also going smoothly.

Now, it was a race to see whether he would finish upgrading the Castle and recruit New Magic Pets or whether the goblin troop would discover and surround him first!