Chapter 1099

Knowing Miss Qianhui's temperament, she would absolutely not feel troubled over a spirit cat; the only one troubled was him — how on earth was he going to tame it?

"Thirty thousand gold coins, to tell the truth, this spirit cat has already been here for quite some time, and if it can find a suitable master, I sincerely feel happy for it." The manager rubbed his hands together in delight, happier in his heart than on his face — this spirit cat was finally off his hands.

"Twenty thousand gold coins!"

"Put away your pleasantries. This spirit cat must be too dangerous, which is why it's been sitting at your place for a while now, right? Knock the price down, manager. I still haven't found a suitable pet yet, so if one suits me, I'll buy it right here from you." Lin Cheng casually slashed the price and tossed out a tempting offer along the way.

The manager was also in a bit of a bind. On one hand, the price of the spirit cat genuinely made things difficult for him; on the other hand, if he refused, the second deal the customer dangled before him made him reluctant to let those flying-away gold coins go.

The manager thought it over carefully, finally gritted his teeth, and agreed.

"Fine then, esteemed customer, you truly make me love and hate you at the same time. Now let me take you to see the other magical beasts. If you pick out a suitable one, I'll take it upon myself to sell you the spirit cat at twenty thousand gold coins."

The manager was a sharp one himself, afraid that what Lin Cheng had said was just a temporary ploy to fool him — that later, using the excuse of not finding a suitable magical beast, he'd successfully haggle the price down again.

"Sure. I like small magical beasts as pets. As for temperament, something gentler, and the ability should be a bit special too." Lin Cheng paused briefly, then agreed.

The manager's meaning was clearly that they would settle the bill together at the end.

Damn, he hadn't managed to trick the manager after all. Since that was the case, he could only go buy another one.

Just pick a cheap magical beast, and that would do it. Heh-heh.

"A magical beast with a special ability? Let me think…"

This really was a bit of a pickle for the magical beast manager. The combat abilities of magical beasts were beyond doubt, but when it came to special abilities — what standard even counted as a special ability?

Would a magical beast that could stealth count as a special ability? No, it wouldn't.

Only a magical beast that could carry other magical beasts, or humans, into stealth together would count as a special ability.

Yet such a magical beast simply didn't exist. Even within the human race, assassins could stealth and conceal their forms, but assassins could not help others conceal their forms; there wasn't even a group-concealment spell like that.

Whether there was one in ancient times was unknown.

"Wait."

The magical beast manager suddenly thought of one magical beast.

It had been delivered yesterday. Because it had been at the shop for too short a time, he had almost failed to recall it. He seemed to have seen it on the list — its ability appeared to be illusion magic.

He seemed to ask Lin Cheng.

"Esteemed customer, I've thought of one magical beast. Its ability is illusion magic. Would that suit you?"

"Illusion magic?"

Lin Cheng considered it for a moment — it seemed illusion magic really could count as a special ability.

"Let's go take a look first."

To tell the truth, illusion magic was quite rare. Even within the human race, illusion mages were an extremely rare existence. It was said that a mutation of innate magical talent in later life led to the birth of illusion mages; in their childhood they almost all endured unimaginable torment and abuse, and endless torment caused their magical talent to mutate, making them adept at probing the inner thoughts of others, capable of hypnosis and guidance.

For this unfortunate group, the empire would often have them serve in the relatively important role of teachers at the Imperial Academy; while they used their abilities to educate students, they were also placed under imperial surveillance.

Throughout history, there had also been incidents of illusion mages guiding large mobs of rioters in uprising actions, and the matter seemed to have blown up rather badly. Therefore, the empire kept fairly strict oversight over these rare illusion mages — even if they did not teach at the Imperial Academy, they still had to report in regularly.

"Very well, please follow me." The magical beast manager narrowed his eyes, stroked his beard, and walked ahead with a smile. Because that magical beast had only been delivered yesterday, it apparently hadn't been sorted and assessed yet, and was locked up in the temporary magical beast cage. He hoped that beast was still alright.

In the temporary magical beast cage, there were quite a number of magical beasts all locked up together. In the past, it was not unheard of for magical beasts, while in a weakened state, to still fight each other.

If that little beast had really kicked the bucket, that would be trouble.

While following the magical beast manager and passing a corner, suddenly from deep down another path came a woman's heart-wrenching wail of crying, seemingly mixed with a man's violent cursing and shouting.