Chapter 87: Chapter 87 - 78: Selecting a Beast Egg!_2

Translator: 549690339

Nowadays, Xu Ran was no longer a nobody.

The visibility of his missions showed that almost half of Qingzhou City’s population knew about Starfire Foster Care Shop.

So, as soon as he entered the Beast Master Association, many Beast Masters greeted him with a smile.

“Boss Xu, are you here to collect Beast Eggs?”

“Boss Xu, your pet beast is so badass, what breed is it? I want to contract one too.”

“Boss Xu, I will visit your shop in a couple of days, can I get a discount?”

Once he had responded to everyone, Xu Ran headed straight for the Rare Beast Egg Repository.

The Rare Beast Egg Repository was located in a section of the Association’s basement. A stout alloy door sealed the repository tightly, guarded by an elderly man with an impressive scar on his face.

“Senior, I’ve come to collect a Beast Egg.” Respectfully, Xu Ran handed over the Beast Egg Withdrawal Card.

“Are you the kid who won today’s competition?” The elderly man glanced at the card, got up, and walked towards the nearby door.

After a complex unlocking process, the heavy alloy door slowly opened, revealing an impressive sight inside.

Rows of one-meter-high alloy pedestals, orderly arranged, each pedestal held a differently patterned Beast Egg.

These Beast Eggs were covered with durable tempered glass, and there seemed to be nameplates with text at the top of the glass cover.

At a glance, there were hundreds of them.

“This is the first floor of the Beast Egg Library. You may choose one Beast Egg from here.” The elder turned around without looking at Xu Ran and returned to his position.

From his words, does it mean there are second floors and even more floors above?

Xu Ran murmured, then quickly approached one of the Beast Eggs.

It was an egg with purple patterns on its surface, these patterns were a bit messy and somewhat similar to the texture of feathers.

The nameplate on the glass cover gave a brief introduction of this Beast Egg.

“Sky Thunder Hawk, a Thunder Attribute Pet Beast. It’s a powerful beast species that reigns in the sky and clashes with sky thunders with its wings.”

“Sounds pretty awesome.” Xu Ran murmured, showing no reluctance as he turned his attention to the next Beast Egg.

No need to consider Thunder Attribute Pet Beast, Ziyun is enough.

Choosing other attribute-based Pet Beasts will allow more efficient use of the skills obtained from Plucking Fur.

“Profound Wave Fish, a Water Attribute Pet Beast. Its mysterious waves give it a completely different attacking method from other Water Attribute Pet Beasts.”

Are fish not hatched from fish roe? Why are they in Beast Eggs?

“Blue Flame Dog, a Fire Attribute Pet Beast. Its peculiar flame not only possesses high temperature of the Fire Attribute, but also has an extraordinary burning effect.”

Having eggs for hatchlings is one thing, but even mammals like dogs have Beast Eggs?

Xu Ran looked at each one, his expression gradually turning strange.

On one hand, he was amazed at the diversity of these Beast Egg species. On the other hand… these Beast Eggs all seemed very good.

He loved every Beast Egg he saw, except for the Thunder Attribute ones!

This was a bit difficult since he could only take one.

Looking at the hundreds of pedestals in front of him, Xu Ran knew he had to change his strategy.

These nameplates all sounded very impressive, but they were somewhat vague. Making a choice based on these introductions alone seemed a bit rash.

So…

Xu Ran took out a pair of ordinary-looking glasses and put them on.

Bless his ingenuity, he remembered the Blue item he won in the lottery drawing, Insight Mirror.

According to The System’s introduction, wearing this item would allow one to “obtain some undetectable information” in the next five minutes.

He felt this description very apt for the current situation.

Indeed, the moment he put on the Insight Mirror, everything transformed.

The alloy pedestal vanished, robust tempered glass cover disappeared, leaving only Beast Eggs floating in front of Xu Ran’s eyes.

These Eggs appeared different from what his naked eyes saw previously.

They were emitting colored glows on their shells!

Xu Ran’s gaze fell on the Sky Thunder Hawk Beast Egg he saw initially.

The eggshell was glowing with purple light.

The shell of the Profound Wave Fish was glowing blue, while the Blue Flame Dog Egg was shining red.

So, is the color of the glow corresponding to the attribute of the Beast Egg?

Xu Ran continued his inspection and quickly discovered another characteristic of the radiance.

The brightness and intensity of the radiance rising from different beast eggs varied!

Of the row of beast eggs he had examined so far, the one with the brightest radiance was a water attribute pet beast called “Jade Water King Snake”.

The description on its nameplate was, “At its peak state, the Jade Water King Snake is a hundred meters long. All aquatic beasts bow down before it, and those who do not are swallowed whole.”

It sounded more formidable than the other beast eggs.

Does this mean the brightness of the beast egg’s radiance corresponds to the strength of the pet beast?

A lightbulb went off in Xu Ran’s mind.

He seemed to have found the correct use for the Insight Mirror.

If that’s the case, let’s see which of these beast eggs has the brightest radiance!

Taking a deep breath, Xu Ran stepped forward.

With the assistance of the Insight Mirror, the inspection process was much faster.

Don’t want the one with purple radiance.

Don’t want the ones with lesser radiance than the Jade Water King Snake Egg, and if he encounters brighter ones, he should consider the brighter one as a new benchmark.

By applying this filtering rule, Xu Ran quickly stopped in front of a particular egg-

The radiance of this egg was the brightest among all the eggs, mapping itself onto the other eggs around it and the color was earth yellow pertaining to the earth attribute.

Earth attribute huh…

In terms of attributes, it doesn’t conflict with Ziyun.

Earth attribute pet beasts usually have high defense and many of them are large in size, some of them excel in healing, these are nice attributes.

Then let’s go with this one!

The five-minute time effect of the Insight Mirror ended at this moment. The alloy base and the glass cover became visible again, and Xu Ran saw the content of the nameplate on the glass cover.

His expectant expression stiffened momentarily.

“Unknown Species Beast Egg, obtained from a sweep outside Qingzhou City, its energy intensity has been confirmed to be high with a potentially powerful species.”

An unknown egg?

Xu Ran defiantly glanced around.

Apart from this one, all the other eggs had clear species.

So you are the one with the mysterious origin, huh!

In this protagonist template, I’ll take it!

Without saying a second word, Xu Ran pointed at this egg and turned his head toward the old man outside, “Elder, I choose this one!”

“Oh?” The elder peeked inside, an interested expression emerging on his face, “You want to choose this one?”

“This is the only unknown species egg on the first floor of the Beast Egg Library. According to its energy intensity, it can be placed on the second floor, but because of its unknown origins, it was downgraded to the first floor.” The elder walked in with a smile, “Your eyes are quite sharp.”

“However…” He paused mid-sentence, opened the glass cover, took out this egg, and handed it to Xu Ran, “According to the association’s assessment, this egg may have a long incubation period, so you need to be patient.”

“How long?” Xu Ran put Ziyun on the ground, and received this heavy egg with both hands.

“A conservative estimate would be… a year!”

“Huh?” Xu Ran responded with a weird look on his face.

It needs a year to hatch?

“Of course, if you use some special resources or something to speed up the hatching process, you can shorten this period.” The elder supplemented.

“Alright.” Xu Ran nodded, “Then I’ll be leaving.”

Looking on the bright side, perhaps the system has items that can speed up the hatching as a reward?

“Take care.” The older man laughed heartily, watched Xu Ran leave, then closed the metal door again, “He’s an interesting young man.”

“An egg that will take a year to hatch, eh…”

On the first floor of the Starfire Foster Care Shop, Xu Ran and Ziyun were staring at each other, with this beast egg that was about fifty centimetres high placed in between them.

From the egg, faint transcendent energy was continuously emanating, proving its vitality. On the shell of the egg, there were earth-yellow colored lines, which looked like cracks on the ground, quite peculiar.

Beneath the egg was a chunk of casually shaped mud, which had been squished into the shape of a stand, supporting the beast egg in an upright position.

It seemed ordinary, but there was a rich wave of earth attribute energy in the clump of mud.

This was an earth attribute resource called Mud Marrow, a resource that is very suitable for speeding up the hatching of earth attribute beast eggs. Although Xu Ran had initially not planned to use Beast Master Points, when he was holding the egg and passed by the resource exchange area, he couldn’t resist and exchanged for it using 50 Points.

“Now, let it absorb on its own.” Knowing that even with the help of resources, hatching an egg is not something that can be accomplished overnight, Xu Ran carefully moved it to the bedside table on the second floor, then sat down cross-legged.

“So now…. it’s time to break through to the second stage!”