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Chapter 55 Affinity with Living Beings

"Twinkle, twinkle, sparkle... Lu Ren, You He, look what I brought back!"

A little hamster pushed open the door and came in carrying something that was unclear.

Shen Yaoxing was dressed very brightly today. Her hair was styled in a bun with three strands pinned up. She wore a white silk cross-collar jacket with a vermilion gold horse-face skirt and a red cloud-shaped shoulder piece. The fabric was gorgeous, the tailoring was elegant, and the embroidery was exquisite.

The pipa sleeves are wide at the cuffs, which would make others look like big lumps, but Shen Yaoxing looks elegant and graceful, with the air of a well-bred lady.

Lu Youhe stood up with a delighted expression: "Sister, you look so beautiful!"

Learning from Lu Ren's experience, Shen Yaoxing made it clear to Lu Youhe from the beginning that he should call her "sister" or "Yaoxing" in private, but he was not allowed to call her "Miss" like her brother.

"Hey? Clothes? They're awful! This will be such a hassle to put on!"

Lu Ren asked, "Young Miss, have you learned the skill?"

A few days ago, Shen Yaoxing left the clan's territory and went to Athens with the clan members to learn a skill related to a divine mage.

Lu Ren didn't know the specifics.

"I learned that! I learned it yesterday, isn't that amazing?"

"My sister is amazing!"

After spending half a month together, Lu Youhe already knew that the young lady would become very cute at night, and she also liked Shen Yaoxing in this form.

She acts like an older sister during the day, but becomes a little sister at night.

Lu Ren asked, "What skill did you learn?"

"That's an amazing skill, want to see it?"

"Can I use it here?"

Shen Yaoxing looked at herself, and then the next second, Lu Ren found himself lying on the ground without knowing how. Moreover, the positions of Shen Yaoxing and Lu Youhe had changed. Lu Youhe praised Shen Yaoxing as amazing with a fangirl look on her face, while he himself seemed to have lost track of the world.

Lu Ren looked completely bewildered. "Wait, what happened?"

Shen Yaoxing was somewhat smug, then looked at Lu Youhe beside her: "Medusa's Gaze—"

Just from the name, Lu Ren had a vague guess, but Lu Youhe did not turn into stone, but just stood still.

And because she didn't move for a moment, she lost her balance and fell to one side.

Shen Yaoxing hurriedly tried to hug him, but Lu Ren hugged Lu Youhe, who had turned into a 'sculpture', before she could.

"This ability..."

Although he didn't turn into stone, Lu Youhe remained motionless, his eyes no longer blinking, as if time had stopped.

He held his sister in his arms and could still feel her body temperature, breathing, and pulse. He could also feel the elasticity of her skin when he pinched her cheeks. External force could change her condition.

Lu Ren then realized that he must have been 'time-stopped' in the same way, which was why he fell to the ground.

This is the sorcerer, also known as the magician in the past. Although they do not have destructive power, their abilities are strange and unpredictable, making them difficult to defend against.

Two seconds later, Lu Youhe blinked, wondering why he was being hugged by his brother.

"Huh? What happened?"

"This is the effect; see for yourselves the detailed description."

Shen Yaoxing opened her attribute panel and saw that a skill description had been added at the bottom of her panel.

[Medusa's Gaze] Quality: Silver, Learning Requirements: 1000 Inspiration

Effect: After casting the skill, it consumes spirit and has a chance to freeze the time of the person you are staring at. It may become ineffective after you look away.

She explained, "This is the remains of a Silver-grade Medusa. Impressive, right? It cost over thirty million!"

"Three, three thousand, more than ten thousand, ten thousand... ten thousand..."

Although Lu Youhe had gradually come to accept the spending power of aristocratic families, he was still somewhat dizzy at this moment.

Shen Yaoxing is currently at a bottleneck in the Candle Illumination Realm, with an inspiration level of 520 points, which can reach 1040 points at night, barely meeting the standard for absorbing this skill.

A regular silver-grade beast wouldn't be this expensive; this is a silver-grade "True Seed" Void Beast.

Races do not exist anywhere in the world; they can appear anywhere within the virtual realm.

However, there are some patterns. For example, Medusa appears more frequently in the virtual world of Greece. Just like this time, Medusa's remains appeared at an auction in Athens.

Shen Yaoxing flew over there specifically to photograph this silver-grade spirit relic. Although it was only silver-grade, its value was nearly a hundred times that of spirit relic of the same grade.

Therefore, professionals from aristocratic families are often stronger than ordinary people. In addition to having inherited professions, resources are also a very important factor.

You are a professional sorcerer. When you learn six months later that Medusa's remains, a rare sight in recent years, have appeared at an auction in Athens six months ago, Shen Yaoxing has already spent several months.

Shen Yaoxing's classic rich girl attire today is because, as a noblewoman of the Shen family, she would naturally be attending some high-society events in Athens.

Unlike the previous life, in this life, China only experienced a period of weakness during the Qing Dynasty, while the Great Yu Dynasty rose to power.

As a nation that values ​​etiquette and decorum, Chinese people naturally wear elegant Chinese clothing when entering and leaving those places.

"That's an amazing skill, and Miss's intuition is always spot-on, she'll definitely be able to seize the right moment to immobilize someone, right?"

Just now, she froze both times.

"Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking, which is why I chose this skill!"

"By the way, what was that thing you said you were bringing us again?"

"This one? This one is even more incredible."

The little hamster looked mysterious and then pulled out a ring-shaped alchemical artifact.

"Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump... the beast-controlling ring!"

The Beast Taming Ring is an alchemical artifact, similar to a Poké Ball, that can capture young Void Beasts. It is exclusively for the Beast Tamer profession.

The requirement for the "Manipulation" attribute of the Beast Taming Ring is very low, only needing to be above 1 point, which means that ordinary people can use it, but it is very difficult to "tame" a virtual beast.

Similar to alchemical creations, there are different 'life affinity' requirements for taming different levels of virtual beasts. Just like the absorption requirements for spirit remains, the requirements are 1 to 50 for black iron level, 50 to 500 for bronze level, and so on, increasing tenfold.

Once a beast is 'tamed,' the beast tamer can apply their power to the beast's spirit, similar to signing a master-servant contract. The higher the beast tamer's affinity with living beings, the stronger the tamed beast can be. In fact, as the beast tamer's strength increases, the beast can even be upgraded in rank.

If you have the ability and are willing, you can train a Black Iron-level Mud Eater to a Crimson Gold-level one.

"A beast-taming ring, and a bronze-grade one at that. Does the young lady mean there's a nascent beast cub inside?"

Shen Yaoxing crossed his arms, nodded with a look of aptitude, and said:

"Your affinity with living beings is already at 50, right? You can try taming this child now."

After breaking through a realm, the attribute increases faster, so he was able to increase from 39 to 50 in a week. At this rate, he can reach the bottleneck of the Candle Illumination Realm in a little over a month. So there are advantages to having low stats.

Lu Youhe, standing to the side, held the Beast Taming Ring with a curious expression. It was also an alchemical artifact, and she had recently become very curious about alchemical artifacts.

She asked, "Sister, what kind of ethereal beast is inside?"

"Heh heh, take a guess!"

Lu Ren guessed, "Is it that mud monster?"