13: Traffic continues to rise

After entertaining Cheng Yao and Fan Hongxiang, Luo Chen also put up a sign at the entrance to attract customers.

'New store opening, selling high-quality Imperial Beasts.

Providing Imperial Beast fostering services.'

Whether it was the sign that worked, or if Chenyang Pet Store garnered attention today, people finally started trickling into the store.

Although most people just came in for a quick look and had no intention of buying.

Luo Chen was quite satisfied seeing the customer count continuously rise on his mission objective.

Compared to other Imperial Beast shops on this commercial street or in the city, Chenyang Pet Store only had one person in total, including the server and cashier.

Naturally, there was no way to explain things in detail to the customers who came in, so all guests just looked around freely, and there were relatively few Imperial Beasts in the store.

However, the introduction of the Fierce Beast three-star Fragrant Rabbit still attracted the attention of most customers who came in to look.

Some even asked Luo Chen behind the counter, "Little Shop Manager, is the description of your Fragrant Rabbit guaranteed to be true?"

Luo Chen straightened up from behind the counter, "Customers can observe the Fragrant Rabbit's auricle. The size of the crystal attached to its auricle represents its current strength.

Authoritative Breeders even deduce that when the crystals cover the Fragrant Rabbit's auricle, they will naturally evolve, though no Breeder has ever succeeded.

You can observe the two Fragrant Rabbits in the cage. Is the size of the crystals attached to their auricles much larger than what you commonly see?"

Those customers observed carefully, and indeed, as Luo Chen said, the two Fragrant Rabbits walking on the ground in the cage had a much larger crystal attachment area on their auricles than ordinary ones.

One person, seeing Luo Chen's young appearance and quiet demeanor, couldn't help but feel a playful urge.

"Little Shop Manager, besides this Fragrant Rabbit that can be considered high-quality, why do the descriptions of the other two Imperial Beasts not seem special?"

Facing this question, Luo Chen calmly replied, "Those two Imperial Beasts were just bought and haven't been cultivated yet. If customers are interested, they can come back in a few days."

Facing Luo Chen's confident attitude, the customer, a man in his forties who had only been speaking casually, said seriously:

"Good, my son will be twelve soon. If the Imperial Beasts cultivated by the Little Shop Manager are truly high-quality, I'll bring him to your shop to buy one."

Luo Chen said loudly, "Alright, five days, just five days, and you can come again."

These could only be considered a small interlude throughout the morning. What truly concerned Luo Chen was that another Fragrant Rabbit was sold that morning.

Now he was only one away from completing his mission of successfully selling three Imperial Beasts.

When the crowd thinned out a bit at noon, he couldn't help but cast an encouraging gaze upon the last Fragrant Rabbit. Now, all his hopes of completing the system mission rested on it.

However, Luo Chen's behavior was purely casting pearls before swine. The Fragrant Rabbit calmly and naturally ate the green grass pellets Luo Chen fed it.

Even though the two Fragrant Rabbits it had been with were 'missing,' it didn't affect its joy of eating.

Luo Chen once again reviewed the Fragrant Rabbit's Evolution Path.

[Evolution Path: Fragrant Rabbit → Fragrant Spirit Affinity Rabbit (King Beast species).

Evolution Conditions: The Fragrant Rabbit itself reaches Fierce Beast six-star, then use a liquid concocted from Clear Heart Flower, mystic spirit grass, and Autumn Moon Vine branches and leaves for the Fragrant Rabbit to drink, which has a very high probability of completing evolution.]

It must be said that every time he saw these evolution conditions, Luo Chen would fall into silence.

Clear Heart Flower is a common Spirit Beast-tier medicinal herb, so it's not too precious.

But mystic spirit grass is different. Although it is also classified as a Spirit Beast-tier, its selling price is more than thirty times that of Clear Heart Flower.

Autumn Moon Vine is a high-tier Spirit Beast species, and its branches and leaves are not considered particularly precious.

However, just its evolution materials alone would cost approximately six to seven hundred thousand.

Not to mention whether Luo Chen could even get the materials now, just the time it would take to cultivate the Fragrant Rabbit to Fierce Beast six-star would be very long.

Moreover, this Fragrant Spirit Affinity Rabbit is a King Beast species. With Luo Yuheng missing, he, a mere Apprentice Breeder, would not be able to control it.

Under such circumstances, Luo Chen still chose a more stable development method. Although Fierce Beast four-star Fragrant Rabbits are basically not sold in shops.

However, pet Fragrant Rabbits that have emotional bonds can still advance to this level.

So, others would only think that Chenyang Pet Store was merely reopening, selling at a loss to attract customers, and other commercial tactics.

At noon, Luo Yang arrived at the store with packed meals.

He put down the sumptuous lunch he was carrying and then curiously surveyed the completely transformed shop.

"Brother, did you redecorate the shop?"

Luo Yang had visited Chenyang Pet Store much more often than Luo Chen before, so the changes in the store's facilities and space instantly caught his attention.

Although these renovations didn't cost him any money, being entirely the system's doing.

Luo Chen couldn't expose the system's existence yet, so he could only bite the bullet and explain, "Yes, it cost a fortune."

However, Luo Yang didn't dwell on that question and instead watched the only four Imperial Beasts in the store with interest.

"Brother, these Imperial Beasts you've chosen look quite good."

Luo Yang had always been Luo Chen's praiser. It seemed that in some aspects, from childhood, Luo Yang was more like Luo Chen's older brother, taking care of him.

After all, Luo Chen, who occasionally suffered from soul-detachment syndrome, sometimes looked exactly like a mentally challenged child.

Luo Chen shook his head and chuckled, "Sit down and eat. You can look after we've eaten."

"Alright."

Once Luo Yang got closer to Luo Chen, Luo Chen keenly noticed a difference in Luo Yang and asked with confusion, "Why do you look so pale?"

Hearing Luo Chen's words, Luo Yang's expression stiffened for a moment, "Ah, maybe I consumed a lot of energy training at the Imperial Beast Battle Arena this morning."

Luo Chen didn't doubt him, thinking Luo Yang had really gone to the training hall, "Where's Scarlet Flame?"

"Uh, it consumed too much this morning, finished eating, and is now resting in its bracelet."

Scarlet Flame, who was forcibly kept in the bracelet and secretly sulking, just smiled without saying anything.

"Oh, I see."

Seeing that Luo Chen didn't press further, Luo Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then after you eat, hurry back and rest. Don't overexert yourself."

Luo Yang buried his head in his bowl, only managing to respond with a few muffled grunts.

Luo Chen wanted him to go back so early precisely because he didn't want him to go upstairs and discover the Transformation Pool.

Thus, the meal was finished with the two brothers each 'harboring ulterior motives.'

After eating, Luo Yang indeed didn't linger in the store and hurried back.

In the afternoon, the store's foot traffic was even higher than in the morning. Soon, the system's requirement of 50 customer visits was met.

Now, only one more Imperial Beast needed to be sold, and the first system mission would be completed.