The First Association

 

 

 

"Say whaaaat, Tongqiu did it again?! Look, look! Oh my..."

"Fucking god!" As the previous player wasn't done speaking, another one interrupted-no, complemented the other player's words in a loud voice.

"Is it really Legendary? Oh god! There isn't even any sighting of a Heavenly grade BOSS but he's already gotten a Legendary grade pet?! The heavens are unjust!"

"Just what kind of dogshit luck does this bastard have to rely upon? He just has it all! I wouldn't be surprised if he had my daughter and wife next time!"

"Oh shut up you cuckold of closet, for fuck's sake, don't 'bless' us with your hidden dark desires man!"

"Well I wouldn't mind if he takes us both mother and my daughter, hee~"

Everyone: "..."

Meanwhile, one of the players that was heartily talking to many, many other players pertaining from different groups; was completely astounded when he heard the system's global announcement, immediately after, he abruptly stopped talking to those players as he flung his arms to his sides in order to make way between the suffocating crowd. Thinking to himself: 'Oh man, big news, I have to go tell Mr Edorn about it as soon as possible! Before the forums are overwhelmed of such information!!'

Wheezing like what seemed to be a mix between a dog and a pig, the slender player moved towards the Marketing Area as soon as he could, moving so fast he exhausted himself in less than 15 seconds of swimming across the crowd.

When he arrived at the Marketing Area, he immediately after put a Light Red Potion on sell for 1 million gold. One minute later, he began talking on the message box towards an ID called 'Sworn Heir'. He wasn't worried of getting reported or paying a huge fee when it came to receiving payment, as he wouldn't be receiving any. That is, unless some rich guy boringly bought it; in any way, as long as he didn't confirmed the sell, there was no aroused problem at all.

"Hurry it up, if it's nothing you'll be punished."

"Mr Edorn, sir! I have huge news."

"Are you dumb? A complete idiot? Just say them!"

Trembling a little from being responded correspondingly to his stupidity, the player then amply responded in large texts. "Mr Edorn, Tongqiu has obtained a 'Legendary' grade pet!! You must hurry up into the game, we are ready to move at any given moment Mr Edorn..."

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"Okay Rosey, here we are, just point me at where you like them more." Right at this moment, Tongqiu and Rosey stepped into his garden. Unlike before, it had many, many more flora in it. Decorations have also been added, albeit that change was rather small. The entire floor was of a cyan, delicate blue while the walls were of a beige color.

As for plants, herbs and the like; it was a good storm of colors. There were all colors possible and imaginable, though not in a great amount, merely there being lots of different colors rather than there being lots of flora. Even then, though it wasn't orderly and looked quite explosive, it was still a feast for the eyes. After all, Tongqiu is merely planning to use these for his Gardener sub-class, not for decorations. Though that may just change with Rosey around.

Tongqiu was indeed somewhat worry that she may not like this and that she'd instead run away the moment she saw the state of his 'garden'. But, Rosey was observing the entire garden, her eyes visible brightened to the point that they became impossibly more cute even!

She looked straight ahead, a little up, lots of down down, and many left and rights. It was true that the color combinations in this garden was nefarious, but Rosey nonetheless, felt herself grow to like it a whole fucking lot!

Seeing this, Tongqiu's heart eased at the possible tantrums and what not that he'd have to mollify as a rather gladdened sentiment prevailed his little heart.

"Oh, go ahead, pick as many as you'd like." Right after hearing out Tongqiu's slow words, Rosey nodded like crazy a couple of times before jumping off his shoulder. It was done so at a great speed but Tongqiu did not feel a thing, quite nimble the chick, ah.

She immediately after made a long yet quick tour through the entire garden and even peeked at the still empty, flora-less adjacent rooms that were placed at all angles from the 'main garden room'. Tongqiu tranquilly watched her go, as if his gaze alone was enough to keep her from danger, and should any be present he could always protect her.

It was silly, really, even more so when they were at his White Space. But oh well, who could blame Tongqiu for desiring some peace? The future was always uncertain, unknown and cruelly predictable sometimes.

After 'a few' fifteen minutes, there was finally a change on Rosey's non-stopping tours across Tongqiu's garden. He found her little body remain at a single place for more than a second, which was enough to catch his attention.

He immediately after went forwards and as soon as he reached up to her, Rosey turned her head around only, giving her an incredibly cute appearance as her eyes were slightly glossy from having 'chosen' which to take for herself.

After admiring the little Rosey, Tongqiu looked at the plants that were being cutely held by her little hands from their stems, almost escaping her grasp as her limbs were truly too small.

One of her hands were holding onto a purple sunflower-like plant which had a gorgeous golden color at its center.

[Fiora Spike Violet Sun]: Type: Herb(Flower), Grade: Magical, Properties: Can make incredible powerful venom that can be imbued into any equipment to create an innate effect.

Her other hand was holding a plant who had instead an extremely long stem yet only a 4 cm cactus-like sticky substance on top of its stem, its aroma was incredible soothing and had great effects on relaxing one's muscles.

[Crown of Tenacity]: Type: Herb, Grade: Magical, Properties: With the correct gardener's hands, it can be made into an elixir capable of allowing its consumer to be invulnerable to any CC effect for 1.5 seconds at most.

Both of them were clearly powerful, and even if he didn't wanted to use them for himself; Tongqiu could concoct them into something really, really expensive or sell them right off the bat. So it was either to have a little increase in power and battle opportunities or to make big money out of them.

Tongqiu. however, didn't even cared about Rosey's little, cute worried face as he crouched down to pluck them from their pot. He softly caressed their stems as if showing his apologetic emotions as he then presented them to Rosey.

When those two beautiful, so well smelling and attractive plants were placed in front of her, Rosey no longer had a bratty expression; merely looking at them for half a second before turning to look at Tongqiu for a good, solid 10 seconds. The incongruity of her behavior from just then to right now was admirable, to say the least.

Her eyes then went to a full crescent moon as her thin lips made an adorable large smile on her little head, her fingers separated before properly taking in those two stems.

*PING*...host's intimacy with pet 'Rosey' has increased from 48 to 50.

*PING*... 'Rosey' is now in the 'Likes' relationship with host.

"Oh." Tongqiu looked surprised for a moment there, but he then gave not a care on it and proceeded to pat this little, tender thing. She didn't refused and instead kept her eyes at a full crescent moon, enjoying his patting and rubbing of her head and her sole petal on top of her head.

For any player who had recently become a master of a pet, they would all start at the very last at 0 points of intimacy. With some probably starting at even -1!

It was a tremendous surprise yet not at the same time when Rosey's current intimacy with Tongqiu was that high. By normal regulations, it definitely came as a 'tremendous' surprise but going for what they've gone through and how they came to be for what they are now, was also pretty normal to have such amount of intimacy, alright.

In fact, Tongqiu even felt that she had a little too little intimacy with him.

Intimacy levels were graded into at least 11 different levels.

Hatred for less than -1 intimacy points; pets would attack their 'master' immediately after seeing them and will flee right away.

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Hostile for -1 to 0 intimacy points; pets won't flee right away nor attack their master right away but they could very well still do so.

Neutral for 1 to 9 intimacy points; pets will now no longer actively try to flee nor attack their master unless provoked to lower points of intimacy.

Dissatisfied for 10 to 19 intimacy points; though it is only slightly better than neutral, the pet will now rarely obey their master.

Curious for 20 to 29 intimacy points; the pet will now have a better interaction with their master as well as increasing the rate of obeying their master's orders.

Amicable for 30 to 39 intimacy points; pets will have a rather good impression of their master but still be wary, pets will also obey their mater's command sometimes instead of rarely.

Friendly for 40 to 49 intimacy points; pets will now be obeying most of their master's orders and will rarely step out to fight to defend their master.

Likes for 50 to 59 intimacy points; pets will almost always obey most of their master's orders and actively come out to protect their master.

Trust for 60 to 69 intimacy points; pets will almost always obey any of their master's orders and will always give their lives to protect their master on their own.

Dependent for 70 to 79 intimacy points; pets will obey and protect their master no matter what. This type of relationship is very rare and it has some special and hidden features along with it.

Infatuation for 80+ intimacy points; there was not much information about these except for little mentions like: will go out from their own pet space to protect their master without their permission and that they will ALWAYS want to be with their master.

With this kind of advantage -though not enough for Tongqiu- on intimacy points, Tongqiu was sure that he'd be able to conquer- wait, that's not right; be able to level up their relationship for a better time fighting together in the future. And the core of all that possibility becoming reality was right inside of his body, his little garden. As long as he kept on improving, even Mortal's Lethal flora wouldn't be impossible, right? Right?!

As one grew higher and higher on their relationship with their pets, one would also have a harder time improving it. The first 30 to 40 intimacy points in total may be easy to say the east; but from then on, it was an excruciating amount of time needed invested on raising up their intimacy points. Like right now, he may still be able to raise another 8 points with Magical items, or not, so he may need even better ones if he wanted to not waste any of them.

Not that Tongqiu would do that, sigh, as long as Rosey wanted something, he'd make sure that she would have it. Specially if he can already give it to her himself, like just now when he gave her both the Fiora Spike Violet Sun and the Crown of Tenacity.

Rosey was nuzzling with her eyes closed at the stems she's just received, amazingly, the pair of Magical plants began transforming, becoming more and more beautiful, bright... They were evolving.

This happenings kept on continuing until they literally became another existence altogether. The Fiora Spike Violet Sun became a 2 meters long stem with purplish-black petals that emanated pressure upon Tongqiu; while the Crown of Tenacity gave him instead a sense that he'd be put to sleep from the medicinal properties of itself, it was of a still small -compared to the Fiora Spike Violet Sun plant- stem but this time, its cactus-like substance on top of its stem was that of a gorgeous beyond-belief shiny verdant oval bud, with a resplendent aura around it.

Then, as if having accomplished their life-long goal, Tongqiu saw some incredible small globes be formed from their bodies as they started to dematerialize into more and more of such globes. The globes coming out from the Fiora Spike Violet Sun were navy blue with a perimeter of lagoon-like blackness; while the Crown of Tenacity's globes were of a light green, lime color with some transparent-white aura surrounding them, clearly unique. These were totally different to the ones Tongqiu himself had witnessed before.

He didn't notice, as he was deep in a pondering state this time, but Rosey was scrutinizing his expressions- mainly his eyes, with an intelligent, appreciative glint went across her eyes.

After some time, Tongqiu finally stopped his totally engrossed state and woke up to a Rosey who was shamelessly rubbing her belly with both hands, mouth satisfactorily opened and eyes heavily closed.

'This girl...' And as if noticing Tongqiu was now awake, she immediately stopped her antics by placing her arms to her sides and giving Tongqiu a pitiful upward glance. The next moment, however, revealed her inner thoughts way too much!

Bleeeeeeeeergh~!!

Tongqiu: "..."

Little Rosey: (っ˘ڡ˘ς)

His voice turned soft as he shook his head lightly before speaking to her: "Sigh, anyway. Were they yummy then, did you actually ate them?"

"PTRR! Brr-ptrr, ptrr ptrr!"

'Ah, many 'ptr', that means she's flustered, annoyed or in retort, mn mn.' Intelligently deciphering this little monster, Tongqiu then 'listened' to her speech.

"So... you're saying you didn't eat them at all, but instead gave this room and the surrounding area a boost in... life? Um..."

Tongqiu's words came to be as a nodding, pleased Rosey nodded without a stop. When he reached the point where he was asking what exactly did she do all that for and how or with what, she instead flinched and placed her arms up in protest, all while puffing her cheeks and shaking them, as if saying 'no no, cannot do!'.

"Ugh, don't tell me is that again from not being able to 'understand' right now. Come on, Rosey. At least tell me if that boost in something was from the Core Elements...?" Rosey was adamantly teaching the young a lesson, but when she heard Tongqiu's 'wild' guess, her eyes opened as big as saucers -for her size- as she then looked at him as if saying 'you're a monster Big Brother! How did you know?'.

It was only after a couple seconds that she realized that her intentions and surprise/shock were taken in by evil Tongqiu...

"Ptrrr-ptrrr! Ptrrtrtr!" Clearly dissatisfied, she pointed to Tongqiu after venting for a while, just to keep venting in frustration. Her thoughts were just that of: 'Damn, this boy cannot be taken advantaged for even a little, waah.'.

Tongqiu ended up having another 12 seconds conversation of so with her, where he finally understood that the effect it would have on his current and in the future, planting, would be always improving. But that they still needed the necessary care to grow in proper nature, so that he couldn't be a lazy fucker, basically.

'That's true, I have not given my gardener sub-class much- no, necessary attention, My miner sub-class doesn't need any further improvement, after all, one only needs to constantly pick rocks and minerals. The same could be said to be said for the lumberjack sub-class. There's also the repair feature for blacksmiths and I should also create better tools for the rest of my current sub-classes as well as those that will come to me in the future. I also need to check up what kind of true, real benefits can the Great Petal Suit full set grant me when working on my sub-classes.'

Having his head made the brain juicy train of thoughts go away once they were resolved, Tongqiu went outside of the White Space after he himself gifted Rosey another 7 different flora while she also picked another 11 for herself. Thinking that this little Rosey is full of curiosity for the exterior world, he did not feel tht she was greedy or non-thoughtful, he instead saw a little bit of himself on her, so he was warmed up to see her getting all she wanted without holding back in fear or worry of displeasing him or ruining his garden. She was truly just a little kid... Tongqiu's eyes went extremely calm yet extremely fierce once, before Rosey startled up Tongqiu so as to 'leave' at once. Maybe he did or maybe he didn't, but Rosey had an affectionate, worrying gaze whenever she felt the innate bloody instinct coming from Tongqiu.

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Tsheen~!

A familiar, almost blinding light came to be from nowhere, and as soon as it came it disappeared. What took form 'behind' it as it left, was Tongqiu's body with a little cutie doll sitting on his right shoulder, swaying her feet back and forth with all of her mighty joy in the world!

Her first scenery of the outside world with her own eyes was that of the long, distant huge NPC buildings. The one that stand out the most was obviously the few towers of the castle in which the city lord, the city lord's family and powerful beings resided. Some of them lived there for either work, or because they were part of the city lord's family while others were in charge of protecting the city, if they wanted to. They were pretty good but in the eyes of the true powerhouses of Main Kingdom, they were toys to be ignored, full of lust, greed, gluttony, sloth, and even pride! While there was a little bit of wrath when it was most unwelcome...

In any case, Rosey's sighting didn't last long as the system's notification resounded in both, Tongqiu's and Rosey's small little pointy ears at once!

*PING* Global Announcement: Player 'Raoundozia' has officially created the first association on Rising Essence, Main Kingdom. [House], 'Knights of Raoundozia' is now permanently at the first place in the record of associations and has been placed at first place in the Association Leaderboards.

 

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