Chapter 1090

Lin Cheng seemed to understand that whether it was a juvenile magical beast or an adult one, a slave contract was needed to make them assist in battle, or to force them to do certain things; otherwise, with the violent temper of magical beasts, it would be a miracle if they didn't eat you on the spot.

Battle pets, as the name suggests, are combat pets, similar to magical beasts but also different from them. Such battle pets are usually highly domesticated and have a strong dependence on us humans; some battle pets even possess extremely high intelligence and can take human form — those are true spirit pets! Fundamentally different from magical beasts.

General Ji Xia recalled that the legion commander himself had a battle pet whose intelligence was in no way inferior to a human's; at times it would disguise itself as the legion commander and help him handle some official business.

He really had to go take a proper look at the local customs of Beast Pen City; perhaps he could even pick out a spirit pet. Lin Cheng made up his mind — once they reached Beast Pen City, no matter what, he had to try his luck with Miss Qianhui; maybe they really would run into a spirit pet.

"Lin Cheng, you can forget about that. Spirit pets are the kind of existence you can only encounter by fate; they're not that easy to come across." As for the talk of spirit pets, Miss Qianhui had naturally heard of them. When her father was young, he had the good fortune to encounter a spirit pet, but unfortunately her father never managed to make that spirit pet acknowledge him as its master.

This regret was later conveyed to Miss Qianhui and Gong Bailiu by Gong Tianlei — if they ever encountered a spirit pet in the future, they must tame one, as it would be of tremendous help to their future growth.

"What's there to be so sure about? Going to take a look won't hurt."

That's true… it's just a visit; whether they encounter one depends entirely on luck.

Setting out from Yongjicheng, the distance to Beast Pen City is at least another two days, but at the speed of the mechanical wolves, it's no problem.

"Prepare to accelerate. With you two like this, we should be able to reach Beast Pen City before the late lunch." Lin Cheng was truly a bit impatient — he too wanted to see what the legendary spirit pets actually looked like.

"Alright."

"That fast?"

General Ji Xia was momentarily surprised — the mechanical wolf beneath her wasn't even at its top speed? A thousand-li horse would need two days, yet this mechanical wolf needed only half a day to arrive.

"Sit tight and hold on."

Lin Cheng's will drove the two mechanical wolves to begin accelerating to the maximum. In an instant, the already blazingly fast mechanical wolves now transformed into two streaks of silver light, racing at full speed along the empire's main road.

The fierce forward airflow stirred up along the way sent the leaves on both sides flying, and unavoidably startled some of the merchant caravan personnel and Ma Pi who were being overtaken; several people were spun around in place by the airflow several times.

Dizzy and disoriented, they stopped and tried to recall what had just happened, but… they couldn't see clearly at all — whatever it was, it was gone in the blink of an eye.

Could it be that they had seen a ghost?

Beast Pen City — after nearly ten hours, Lin Cheng and his party of three finally arrived at Beast Pen City.

This city, completely unlike any other city in the empire, looked from afar like a giant circular city resembling an arena, bordered by the empire's famous Taqi River, with only one gate for entry and exit — though this gate was extremely grand and enormous, so large that one had to cross a river over it from above.

Well, actually, the roads in and out of the gate were bridges built over the river, with no toll charged, divided into two separate lanes for entering and exiting. Lin Cheng's first thought was: this must have been built by some young man from the modern era, just like him.

To be fair, while the scale of Beast Pen City far surpassed other cities, its foot traffic also gave him an immensely vast impression — both the lanes in and out of the city had an enormous flow of people.

Looking at the long dragon-like queue moving slowly ahead, it would probably take over ten minutes to inch forward.

"With such a massive flow of people, Beast Pen City must be close to a first-tier city of the empire." The enormous crowd made Lin Cheng exclaim.

If this isn't a first-tier city of the empire, then how many people would a true first-tier city have? Moving slowly along with the crowd, Lin Cheng and the others were now at the center of the bridge. He quickly glanced to the side — the fierce river below brought on a palpitating sensation; he was a bit afraid of heights.