Episode 2: Growing Up Chapter 3: Stupid Ways (below)

Linley scurried over at once and directly grabbed the hare’s throat with one hand, only to hear a ”click”, and the hare, which had been struggling painfully, convulsed twice and then stopped moving. Ever since he had watched those two battles half a year ago, the ‘bloodlust’ contained in the bloodline of the Dragon Blood Warrior had gradually started to bubble up.

“I’ve reached level one warrior and level one magician, but in terms of attack power, it’s still magic that’s stronger.”

Linley couldn’t help but sigh with a smile as he grabbed the hare.

Magicians were mainly divided into nine levels, and it was relatively easy to reach first level magician. And as the level increased, the further back it went, the more time it took! Even many powerful seventh and eighth level magicians could hardly improve a level by spending a hundred years of time.

As for level one magicians, those with good qualifications can do so in half a year, and even if their qualifications are not good, as long as they meet the conditions to become a magician, they will be able to become a level one magician in two or three years.

Grabbing this dead hare, Linley directly ran towards the bottom of the mountain.

“Linley, why don’t you roast it? Although this magical beast, the Shadowmouse, loves meat, roasting it is the favorite.”

Delinquent Corvette’s voice resounded in Linley’s mind.

“Grandpa Delin, I don’t think you’ve ever coaxed a child.”

Linley said teasingly as he ran.

Derin Corvette was stunned, he didn’t have any grandchildren, and how would a Holy Realm Magus coax a child?

“Uh, no.”

Derinkelwalt still admitted.

Linley said confidently, “I’ve coaxed little Warden a lot, let me tell you, what about giving something to a small child, you can’t be too good at first, or else the child will want something good every time in the future, or even better. Now that Shadow Mouse is gnawing at the stones, and I will give him the raw meat now, and he will be very glad; give him the raw meat first for seven or eight days, and then I will give him roast meat, and he will be even more glad.”

Drinkwater understood at once.

How could an old man not understand this, and when ruling over his men it was like this, give his men a little sweetness first, and then give good ones later. Otherwise, if you give too many benefits at once, it will be difficult to satisfy the desires of your men in the future instead.

“There’s this truth in the book I read about raising monkeys, and ‘three in the morning’ can be much more effective than ‘four in the evening’.”

Linley hemmed and hawed.

Drinkwater suddenly felt that although Linley was only eight and a half years old, he was no worse than some teenagers.

“It seems that this Baruch family’s education does have some effect.”

Derinkelwalt sighed in admiration in his heart, education to open up wisdom, however most commoners were incapable of receiving an education, and some good magic academies and warrior academies, regardless of the enrollment conditions as well as the tuition fees, were not something the average commoner would be able to accept. ……

Catching a hare and going home, even if the people in the town of Wushan saw it, it wouldn’t be strange. In fact, ever since Linley’s ‘Ground Surge’ could be performed, he had often brought home some hares.

“Young Master Linley is truly amazing, catching wild rabbits again.”

The residents of the town said with a smile.

Walking down the street Linley also smiled politely.

“I wonder if that shadowrat will eat what others give it.”

Taking a deep breath, Linley stepped into the cluster of ancient houses behind the family mansion, carefully approaching the past step by step towards where the shadow rat was, each step not even a little sound. In just a moment, Linley once again arrived at the place he had just been.

“Where are the shadow rats?”

Linley looked towards the courtyard of the ancient house, in which there were only some broken rocks and some withered fallen leaves.

Some of the traces of the rubble being chewed on were still there, but looking over the entire ancient house courtyard there was no shadow of a shadow rat, Linley couldn’t help but feel a pang of disappointment in his heart, hard to bear, “Grandpa Delin, the shadow rat is gone, it’s only been an hour, did the shadow rat leave?”

A stream of light flew out of the disk dragon ring, transforming into a moon white robed Derin Corvette.

Derinkelwalt also frowned, “It shouldn’t be, it’s only been an hour and the Shadow Rats have left?”

Suddenly – “Scrooge, scrooge,” that familiar faint gnawing sound resounded again, Linley’s eyes lit up and he immediately headed towards a nearby courtyard of a withered ancient house, and as he walked up to the threshold, he could clearly see that the black shadowrat was moving around gnawing on a stone as if it were a sculptor, gnawing a stone into strange shapes.

Linley stood at the threshold.

“Bang!”

Linley deliberately kicked his foot on the threshold making a little noise.

“Instigate!”

The black shadow rat jerked, dodging over a dozen meters away in an instant, its two ebony eyes staring in the direction of the threshold, and in an instant, it saw Linley, its eyes full of vigilance.

“Come, here’s food for you.”

Linley smiled faintly at the magical beast ‘Shadow Rat’, and threw the hare at the threshold. The Shadow Rat might not understand human words, but Linley understood that …… a magical beast with a relatively high IQ should understand what the ‘smile’ represented.

After all, magical beasts weren’t beasts, and their intelligence was only somewhat lower than that of humans, and some powerful magical beasts were even as cunning as they could be.

“Can’t be in a hurry, can’t be in a hurry.”

Linley persuaded himself in his heart, before forcing himself to leave directly.

That magical beast ‘shadow mouse’ saw Lin Lei leave, then saw the hare, just waited in place for a while then couldn’t resist scurrying towards the threshold all at once, while also looking towards the distance, at this moment Lin Lei had already gone far away, then looked at this hare in front of him, the magical beast shadow mouse instantly stood upright with excitement, jumping up and down with joy.

Then it quickly began to tear the hare meat, the sharp teeth tearing especially fast, don’t look at the magical beast ‘shadow mouse’ size is not big, but the body than it is even bigger than the hare, in addition to the skin and fur, surprisingly by the magical beast ‘shadow mouse’ in the end to eat cleanly, even the There was not even any bone residue left.

“Gu” the little shadow mouse throat moved, then very humane patted his stomach, excited.

Compared to the stone and the flesh and blood, it was obvious that the flesh and blood was much more delicious.

After eating, the little shadow mouse looked in the direction Linley had left, and in the young little shadow mouse’s heart, his favoritism towards that teenager immediately increased. After all, it had only been born a short time ago, it was still a magical beast toddler, and even in the little shadow mouse’s heart there was some anticipation, would that teenager give it another hare?

On that day, before dinner.

“I wonder if that little shadow mouse will eat it.”

Linley was currently walking amongst the cluster of ancient houses in the back garden, heading directly towards the ancient house compound where he had thrown the hare in the afternoon.

“Linley, don’t worry, that’s just a magical beast toddler with a big mouth.”

Delinquent Corvette’s smiling voice resounded in Linley’s mind.

Linley also nodded slightly, and in just a moment, he walked over to that threshold, only to see that there were some bloodstained hare pelts at that threshold, as for the hare’s flesh and blood as well as its bones, all of them were gone. Seeing this scene, Linley’s eyes instantly lit up.

“Great.”

Linley clenched his fist.

The first step was successful, all that was needed in the future was persistence!

In the afternoon of the second day, Linley killed a hare and a mountain chicken, leaving the hare with Grandpa Hilly to be roasted and eaten at night, and as for the mountain chicken, he directly placed it in its usual place – at the threshold of the last Ancient House compound.

“This magical beast, the Shadow Mouse, is actually watching me right there.”

Linley smirked as he looked at the magical beast shadow rat staring at him in the courtyard.

“Linley, it looks like things are going well, the fact that it hasn’t immediately scurried away when it sees you now means that it’s no longer very hostile towards you.”

Seeing this scene, Drinkwater was also secretly happy for Linley. To be able to encounter a toddler that had been a powerful magical beast, this was indeed good luck.

“I really don’t know what this little Shadowmouse’s parents did.”

Derinkelwalt was also secretly puzzled in his heart.

Linley threw this mountain chicken at the threshold, said a few words to the little shadow mouse, smiled and still retreated away, but this time, he didn’t leave directly, but instead looked back as he walked. The little shadow mouse scurried out in a moment, looked around, saw Linley in the distance and wasn’t too scared, directly lowered his head and tore up the mountain chicken. ……

Third day, fourth day, fifth day ……

This kind of day continues, Lin Lei continues to meditate and cultivate every day, and at the same time often sends wild rabbits and so on to this little shadow mouse to eat. The entire town of Wushan, including Hogg, Hillman and the others, didn’t know that Linley was practicing magic. Likewise, they didn’t know that Linley was taking care of a magical beast that had level four strength as a toddler!

The only person who was clear in his mind was Derinkelwalt, who had watched Linley grow.

“This tiny Wu Shan Town can’t trap Linley.”

Looking at Linley, who was meditating to build up his magical power, Derinkelwalt had a hint of anticipation on his face, “One day, he’ll take the adult purple shadowrat and set foot on the vast stage of the entire Yulan Continent.”