This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

In order to put his plans into action Kain needed land. A lot of land. However, unfortunately the land in one of the empire's 5 major cities is not cheap.

Even if he emptied out all of his savings he would at most be able to buy an apartment in Dark Moon City.

Therefore, he turned his attention to the surrounding suburbs.

"And here we have the 34th home that I've shown you today, dear customer," said a real-estate agent that Kain had hired through clenched teeth. He was completely annoyed. Kain had been spending less than 5 minutes in each of the homes before shooting them down.

Kain took a look around, "I don't think this is for me."

"WHY?! Ahem… I mean why, dear customer? It is a beautiful home with a large backyard, which was your main requirement. The home itself has several upgrades such as marble flooring, upgraded lighting fixtures, 10-foot ceilings and a balcony! Please tell me what it lacks"

"The yard isn't big enough. I told you that I want REALLY big yard. I don't care about the house, I want as much land as possible."

"I see…then I only have one option left to show you."

Ten minutes later towards the very outskirts of the city, in a region that could barely be called still within Dark Moon, Kain stood in an expansive field.

At the center of the field was a rundown "house" that more resembled a wooden shed. The total space within it was probably smaller than his dorm room at the college.

However the property that the shack sat on was at least several acres wide. It was overgrown with weeds and completely unkempt, but that's precisely why such a large amount of land less than 30 minutes from the core of Dark Moon City has been left unsold all this time.

The real estate agent already had a face of resignation as Kain looked around in silence. He knew that his day was probably completely wasted. In the future he'll have to vow not to take clients on that are so young. Clearly they don't know what they want—

"I'll take it!"

"Huh?" The real-estate agent turned to him in shock. He was unsure if he'd heard Kain correctly.

"I said I'll take it. It's perfect!"

Immediately the real-estate agent sprung into action and dragged Kain back to the city to fill out the paper-work. He buzzed about the office as though high on adrenaline. He wanted to get that land that hadn't sold for years off his hands, not to mention one of the most annoying clients he'd had in a while, he was afraid that Kain would change his mind.

A perfect match. A terrible property and a terrible client, they absolutely deserved each other.

After quickly getting Kain to sign all the paperwork, and even offering him a hefty. Discount to get him out of his hair, he practically shoved Kain out of his office.

Click

Kain turned around to look at the door that was locked behind him and the closed sign that had been promptly displayed on the door.

"Wow! He must really be in a rush to get somewhere. I wonder if he had to use the washroom…"

Now that Kain had the land, he needed the spiritual plants that he wanted to grow. Thankfully, although getting access to fully grown spiritual plants was difficult, seeds were not as difficult to obtain. That was because many spiritual plants had specific and difficult to meet growth conditions.

Not to mention most spiritual plants did not have a use until they were fully mature, but they were very easy to die before reaching maturity. And that time until maturity may take several years, or even decades in certain species of plants. In short, growing them for yourself was tedious.

However, Kain had the life energy that could be provided by Eve. Once she finishes breaking through to orange-grade she should be able to release the life-attribute energy into the surroundings even more easily and have a more profound effect.

Therefore, the hurdle for getting the spiritual plants to grow for Kain is much lower. Not to mention the time until maturity will also be reduced.

What he needed to focus on were obtaining seeds from plants that increased spiritual power and had a short growth period. Therefore, the honey produced can also help Kain and his contracts to increase their strength more rapidly.

Thankfully, plants that increased spiritual power were not among the most expensive and rare.

Unlike plants with mystical effect such as increasing the chances of awakening an affinity or gift, increasing the chances of breaking through to the next level, or serving as a necessary material for a powerful evolution, momentarily speeding up the rate of spiritual power condensation is not a particularly powerful effect.

Such spiritual plants are often used as a supplement to cultivation in middle-class families and above that want to give their children an edge.

Kain will definitely consider planting more rare and powerful spiritual plants in the future, including growing the seed given as a gift to him by Mr. Evergreen.

Many of the tea leaves and batches of honey that Kain had left at the orphanage also had this effect.

Kain had 3 avenues for obtaining spiritual plant seeds: the college using credits, at a retailer in Dark Moon City, and the System Shop. Several times when the System Shop was reset there was an option to exchange for spiritual plants or spiritual plants seed. Many of them also had unusual and powerful effects.

Kain went to 3 retailers in Dark Moon City and managed to purchase over 400 seeds for red-grade spiritual plants, 150 orange-grade spiritual plants, and 20 yellow-grade spiritual plants that increase spiritual power for around 4 million CD.

Thankfully, Kain had also kept many of the materials he'd obtained during missions and the field assessment to exchange for celestial dollars, instead of using all of the materials to exchange for school credits. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to afford the property or the seeds.

If he didn't need to save up his school credits to buy Bea's evolutionary materials he would have also like to buy some from the school, but that would need to be put on hold.

Therefore, Kain decided to explore the third option for obtaining seeds—the system shop.

The next system upgrade costs 10 000 GP, after the numerous times Kain had gone into the wilderness he had managed to obtain 2450 GP.

This week also happens to be one where spiritual seeds are available for purchase, although not in the manner in which they usually are.

*Selective Wheel of Fortune Ticket—10 available for 100 GP each*

Unlike in the past where there were specific seeds and plants available, this time there were tickets available for Wheel of Fortune tickets.

However, unlike a general Wheel of Fortune that would have a wide variety of lavish prizes, the prizes up for grabs in selective wheels are of a lower maximum quality, but in turn the user can select what type they wish the prize options to all be selected from among the 3 options available: spiritual seeds, equipment, or elixirs.

For example, a wheel that only has weapons as an option. Although whether you get an axe, sword, or spear is left completely up to luck. Also, none of them will be enchanted weapons with an extra sigil, the quality of all the available options will be kept at a moderate level for their grade. Decent weapons, but not the top.

Similar rules apply for the spiritual plants wheel that Kain selected as an option.

The options ranged from obtaining spiritual plants and seeds with a variety of effects that were red-grade to orange-grade at maturity.

Kain spent 1000 GP in order to purchase all the available tickets. Then he pressed the button to start the first spin.