"A system? For real?" Alex felt his heart beating like a drum.
He had lost his legs at the age of 13 and he was an orphan.
The government would give him a minimal monthly allowance for living his life.
He passed the next five years of his life reading novels and watching anime and movies, and he even wrote a novel too.
At 18, he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and stayed in the hospital for three months before the doctor said they would perform an operation on him.
He died there.
Now, coming back to business, he knew all about novels and systems. So it made him so excited that he jumped off the bed and started dancing like a monkey since there was no one present in the room.
But he was wrong. As soon as he started dancing, the door opened and the two earlier young man and young woman entered the room.
They stopped in their step. They were looking at Alex. Alex was looking at them.
An eternal silence descended upon that room for a while.
"Hahahahahahahah." The young man fell to the ground after losing control over his body as he laughed so hard. He pressed his belly but still couldn't stop laughing. He was rolling on the ground.
Even the woman started laughing, putting her hand over her mouth.
Alex's face turned red instantly, because now he knew who these two were.
The man laughing like a madman was his best friend Ron, and the woman was Ron's fiancee and also Alex's friend. They were in the same class at the Academy.
Alex coughed a bit.
"Why are you laughing like a maniac in front of your woman? Have you no shame? Have you no honor? Have you no dignity as a real man?"
Ron stopped laughing when he heard this. He also felt a little embarrassed for rolling on the ground in front of his fiancee like this.
"Huh, says the glorious dignified man, who dances like a monkey." Ron looked at Alex with disdain.
"Cough, cough. Don't talk nonsense,Ron. Okay, I want to sleep. Get lost."
Alex went to the bed and went under the blanket directly, he just wanted to find hole to hide. That's all.
Ron laughed one more time and left the room.
"I guess he feels better now. Let him take a bit more rest."
But before leaving the room, he looked at the bed.
"Your mom called me. I said you were busy with your summoned beast and doing a little training."
"Thanks, Ron."
Ron heard this and shook his head. Then he left with Lia.
Alex now had time to study the system.
"System details," he muttered softly.
[Ding! The Beast Evolution System is the ultimate system. You can evolve your beast as much as you want by using money. You can design their evolution line, their bloodline,their skills, their power and other things and make that happen by using money.]
Alex's eyes opened wide. If this was the truth then this was really an ultimate system.
"Status"
[Master: Alex Hunter]
[Realm: Master (level 1)]
[Contracted beast: Blue Cat (common)] [Money: 0]
There was nothing much to see. He was not interested in the status panel; he was interested in the system function.
"Draw Blue's evolution line."
Instantly a blank white page appeared in his mind.
[Draw and write down your desired evolution point. The price will be calculated after that.]
Alex started drawing Blue's next evolution look where he would become an uncommon beast.
Blue would look like a Blue Panther in its uncommon form. Yes, Blue would be able to change his form between common and uncommon after that. Then he wrote down the skills he wanted from Blue after he evolved. He watched so many animes and read so many novels and comics that it was a piece of cake for him.
[Activeskill: Shadow movement, Dash, Metal Claws, 5 times cosmic energy absorption than normal uncommon beasts, 5 times strength boost, Fly, teleportation
Passive Skill: Auto Healing, Danger sense, 5 times speed than normal uncommon beasts.
Bloodline: Panther
Except teleportation and fly skill, other skills can be given.
Price: 50 Gold coins.
Accept?]
Alex knew teleportation couldn't be given at this early period, but even fly couldn't be given to an uncommon beast. He didn't expect that.
The price was not much: 50 gold coins only, but for a pauper like him it was a big deal.
Fifty gold coins meant 5,000 silver coins. His family could barely send him 30 silver per month.
And he didn't have any job either.
"Looks like I'll have to find a way to earn money first."
He stood up from his bed and looked at Blue. In these few minutes, Blue looked much better. His fur became shiny and glossy. He was sleeping now as he had been through torture for the past 15 hours or so.
A summoner became powerful through his beast. He needed to make his beast break through realms, and he would also get feedback from that.
A beast needed to break through nine levels in each major realm, but the summoner would only break through once. That was from one realm to another.
He would also get 50 percent of his summoned beast's strength after contracting it.
But Blue was very, very weak, so Alex didn't get any boost in strength.
"Don't worry, Blue. I will make you even stronger than that nine-headed hydra one day." Alex stroked the shiny fur of the sleeping cat.
Alex took Blue into his arms and went out of the room.
He was going toward his dormitory. Thirty days later, they would graduate from the academy after the exam and then they would go to different sectors like university, military and some would even become free adventurers.
"Yo, you are still alive? I have to say, you are as sturdy as your cat who is said to have nine lives."
"Hahahaha, well said boss."
Alex met a group of boys on the way back. Instantly he felt immense anger; it was an instinctual reaction since those boys were the ones who killed the original owner of this body.
"Stay away from me Jass, I don't want any problems," Alex gritted his teeth and said that.
Jass was a person who summoned a mastiff tiger from the second layer of the astral realm, an uncommon beast.
A master of an uncommon beast was five times stronger than the master of a common beast.
Besides, he had lackeys too. So Alex was not a match for them now.
"What did you say, punk? You don't want any problems? Who are you to decide that? I will decide if you want any problems or not."
He threw a punch at Alex's gut.
Alex felt a sledgehammer fall on his gut because Jass had already contracted with his mastiff tiger.
Alex sat on the ground and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Blue woke up from his sleep. Like Alex, he could also feel his master's emotions.
Blue showed his tiny fangs at them and jumped at Jass.
"Blue, no," Alex shouted. But it was too late. Jass smirked and kicked Blue.
The kick landed on his tiny body perfectly. Blue flew away instantly.
"No, bastard, I'll kill you." Alex jumped at Jass.
Jass threw a punch but Alex dodged it and punched his jaw instead.
The fist landed on him but it didn't have much power.
Jass just took a step back.
His eyes turned cold.
"Now you have done it. You are really going to die now."
Just at that moment, Ron and Lia arrived there running, and with them was another girl.
Noelle Silva, the class president. Ron saw Alex and Jass clashing, so he went to call Noelle because Ron or Lia were not a match for them.
Noelle coldly looked at Jass. "Do you want me to tell the principal so that he can cancel your studentship?"
Jass's face became dark instantly.
"Walk away," Noelle said coldly.
Jass and his lackeys walked away, but there was an intense killing intent in his eyes.
Jass hated Alex because of Noelle. He had a tremendous crush on her, but she would never pay him any attention, not even after he summoned an uncommon beast.
But she would always talk to that loser and sometimes even helped him study.
Alex didn't have time to greet Noelle. He dashed toward Blue like a madman.
"Blue, are you alright? Please stay with me." Tears were rolling down his cheeks.
Alex could tell Blue was alive but he was hurt badly. A tremendous bloodlust instantly gushed out from his body.
"Ron, please lend me 50 gold coins. I'll pay you back in a month. If I can't, I'll sell my organs to pay you. Please, Ron."