CHAPTER 29: GOURMET SUMMONER AND DEVOURER

[Gourmet Summoner and Devourer

- Grade: A (Evolvable) 0/1000

- Permissible summons per every 10 levels: 5

- Permissible Extraction per similar Food Item: 10

- Gourmet Summoner: Enables the class inheritor to summon spirits from things consumed, limited to food items with essences, and have a chance to use one of the summon’s skills. Condition per activation: The inheritor must consume enough of the food item’s essence before summoning can be successful. Every initial summon will consume the inheritor’s mana, which is equivalent to 10-25% of the total basic stats of the summoned. Combat Summons will retain 10-25% of the master’s stats.]

[Devourer: Enables Class Inheritor to gain a 2% permanent boost effect on random stats from things consumed, limited to food items with essences, and Summons have a chance to copy one of the defeated enemy’s skills. Targets are not limited to game monsters, summoners’ contracted monsters, dungeon and secret realm monsters, and other players.]

At first glance, you wouldn’t have a reaction to it, but the more you analyze the class description, the more you’ll be amazed.

You just need to ignore the name, and everything else is good. especially when one had the chance to acquire a random skill and, most importantly, the permanent boost stat effect.

"Brother Siri, what are items with essences?"

"Master, an example of items with essences are edible plants, equipment, those that harvested and grown in the spiritual field, gems, ores, weapons, artifacts, and so on, but in Master’s case, the class is only limited to food. Though it’s a bit weird, the description is good, there is definitely a lot of potential, and it seems very flexible too. But maybe you should test it out first."

Li Chunhua pondered the elf’s words, and just from them, she could conclude that before she could summon, she must eat a lot. Cough, all right, she’s not complaining.

"System, can I receive the task now?"

[Pre-Inheritance Mission Task...]

Li Chunhua focused her attention on the system task. Since she didn’t find anything unlikable with the class, Li Chunhua was ready to accept the mission.

Due to his joy for his master’s situation, Siri had forgotten the most important thing during class change- the given tasks.

The nine basic classes mentioned before also have their tasks before they can successfully be granted the chance to wield the skills of the class they chose. Most tasks revolve around killing a specific number of low-level monsters.

The second class’s tasks are all varied, and the difficulty also increases, with some basically unable to fulfill the conditions in the end and having their path of growth cut off. Some lucky ones were able to succeed, and their strength will undergo qualitative change because of the new abilities they gained and the additional stats granted.

Although his master doesn’t have any initial skills, she can accumulate a lot of attributes and have her summons gained additional skills which she can share. That’s basically OP.

However, Master’s Mission Task was a combination of multiple class changes, and therefore the degree of difficulty would be high. It’s not an exaggeration to say that she might not be able to qualify for that inheritance or that she would need to spend a long time to acquire it.

But Li Chunhua doesn’t know any of that. She only knew that if the task required her to find some hermit in some part of this game world or some strange item that only exists in legends, they would be on the road for a few days or even months. That would be quite tragic for someone who likes staying at home.

"But Master, this unique class always has insane mission tasks before you can inherit..."

[Detected Player had accomplished Task: Achieve an impossible feat]

"Oh, that’s good. I thought we needed to leave the house for a few days." Li Chunhua patted her chest in great relief.

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"Eh?" Siri was in disbelief. Did Master just fulfill one of the conditions in just a blink of an eye?

"But, Master, you still need to see if your stats..."

[Detected Player Basic Stats had passed the maximum requirement.]

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"Maximum? The system must be malfunctioning." Siri was left astonished once more. He had seen his master’s stats. Even though it was ahead of the players in this batch, it was still far from reaching the maximum requirement. One had to be at least at the level where the 3rd class change is permissible, and that is until level 50.

However, before he even settled his shock, the game system brought another piece of astounding news.

[The detected player’s compatibility and physique exceeded the limit required by class inheritance. Class has directly evolved.]

[Gourmet Summoner and Devourer

- Grade: SSS

- Unlimited Summon and Extraction

- Enables the class inheritor to summon monsters from things consumed, limited to food items with essences, and have the chance to use one of the summon’s skills. Condition per activation: The inheritor must consume enough of the food item’s essence before summoning can be successful. Every initial summon will consume the inheritor’s mana, equivalent to 5%-15% of the total basic stats of the summoned. Summons specialized in combat will retain 50%-75% of the summoner’s stats.]

[Devourer: Enables Class Inheritor to gain a 10% permanent boost effect on random stats from things consumed, not limited to food items with essences, and the Summons have a chance to copy one of the defeated enemy’s skills. Targets are not limited to game monsters, summoners’ contracted monsters, dungeon and secret realm monsters, and other players.]

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At this point, Siri didn’t know what to say. He chose to shut up and keep his thoughts to himself because all common sense and his previous knowledge didn’t seem to apply to his master, who was a walking enigma.

Even the little fox that wasn’t serious about this stuff couldn’t help but be envious of his master’s luck. Almost everyone in their fox cave city and his father were obsessed with the items with attribute boost effects, and he was no exception. Having seen his master get stronger and gaining companions just by consuming food, he was bitter inside. It was even permanent.

That is so unfair.

Siri also thought of it that way. If those people can see what he’s seeing right now, he wonders how they will react.

Nevertheless, towards his master gaining an invaluable class, Siri was overjoyed because once he becomes a resident, their fates are tied. Who doesn’t want his master to be powerful? Only a fool would do.

"So if it’s Unlimited...?" The little fox’s tail swished wildly behind him as he processed the information on the screen. "Doesn’t this mean Master would still be able to gain additional attributes even if she exceeded the threshold for some items?"

For instance, the Hundred- year- old ginseng, after consuming 5 chunks of it, the person can no longer gain anything.

"Probably." There was a hint of envy in Siri’s voice.

[The detected player had passed the condition. The player is qualified to take over Victor No. X’s Inheritance.]

After the game system’s announcement, the room was once again lit in a dazzling light, and while at it, the scroll turned to speckles of light and entered Li Chunhua’s forehead.

The sensation she felt was no different from when she tried to learn skills from those jade tablets in the sect’s library.

The process of inheritance was very simple and short, with no overcomplicated ceremony. After her mind was loaded by the introductory information of the class, the light retreated.

Immediately, Siri and Little Mantou threw their Master a lot of queries.

"Master, how are you feeling?"

"Master, can you show us your skill?"

"Master, can you summon one?"

"Master..."

"Hold on." Li Chunhua was rendered dizzy by their questions. She raised her hand to stop them from spouting further inquiries before grabbing ginseng from her inventory.

Since the other food acquired by the players didn’t qualify as a food item with essence, Li Chunhua had no choice but to eat the ginseng.

Siri and Little Mantou gave her peace and attentively watched her.

Li Chunhua ate the ginseng, and with every bite, she could hear her attributes improving.

As to how much, the system didn’t indicate the particular amount but only stated [+10% Strength], [+10% Agility], [+10%...], and along with it was the system notification of [+10 essences], [+10 essences], [+10...].

(A/N: Took me long enough to get home. By the way, thanks for the gift Daoist628069. (⁠っ⁠.⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠っ)