After taming the Summoning stars, I sank into deep thought.
Over the week Pikachu honed his power control to perfection—to avoid harming my body during body enhancement practice—I scoured all online monster info.
No matter how I racked my brain or searched, I wasn't satisfied with any options.
There was a monster with a unique ability I liked, but its bloodline was too weak. Even with resources galore, it couldn't exceed False Emperor—and that's best case! Worst, it'd stall at Warlord like Mo Fan's wolf, reduced to fast mount duty.
If a beast had a bloodline strong enough for me, it had guardians too tough for current me—at least Elder Warlord or High Tier mages who'd claimed it. Dead end.
Then, eyeing snoring Pikachu beside me, inspiration struck. Why chase fancy-bloodline monsters when I could contract another elemental being?
No power cap at least to mid-Emperor, as far as I know. Just shovel in truckloads of matching-element resources. And I found their fast-leveling method.
Plus, recalling elementals' fusion ability, I wonder if they can fuse with each other?
So, grab a Water Elemental now, Wind Elemental later as second contract beast, fuse into Storm Elemental! Maybe even teach fusion magic later for more power.
Then, developing all three to mid-Emperor, united they'd near or hit high-Emperor! Mortal world top tier! Only about three such in the world!
Done! Screw brutal named-bloodline monsters! I'm pumping cute elemental blobs into death machines that zero out all life!
Since contract beasts must come from the mortal world, can't summon like Pikachu before.
With few elementals left now (or rather, few on human turf), I read histories hoping for a young one in a safe spot.
One-in-a-million odds or worse, but history has lucky finds. Found one: 415 years ago, young Aruana de Santiago from Campinas, Brazil—a small town—went fruit-picking in the forest and spotted a cute eyed water droplet scampering on a small woodland lake.
The guy wasn't a mage, but he quickly realized that such magical stuff could fetch a good price, so he called the strange creature over and took it to the city. There, the city mayor bought it from him, then resold it in Brazil's capital at an auction for a huge sum of money.
Aruana, with the money he earned, opened a small business making carnival costumes and lived a good life. His company still exists today, by the way, and has a logo of a smiling water droplet with eyes.
That's exactly what I needed. The creature's appearance suits me fine, so I'll just go back to the moment when Aruana found it and buy the creature from him with gold and sketches of his company's current creations.
I don't really want to steal a normal kid's entire life's luck. But I should drop by parallel Bo one more time and steal the gold reserves from the bank, since up until now, I've neglected this useless metal for magic and have no reserves of it. Time to fix that.
Shifting with a backpack stuffed full of gold on my back to the coordinates of Campinas city, I waited for Aruana in a roadside caf. As I know, this is the exact path the young man took to show off his find on the city square.
Fifteen minutes later, I finally spotted the boy carrying the creature I wanted. Blocking his path, I snatched the water elemental from his hands.
"I'll name you Bul," I informed the creature, which looked like a blob of water with arms, legs, and a face drawn on with black marker.
"Bul! (And I'll call you Ugly)" the creature replied to me, but until the contract is sealed, I have no idea what it means. It must be happy to see me.
"Hey, that's my find!" the kid rightly protested, but he didn't dare lay hands on me. He must have somehow realized I was a mage and was wary.
"Yeah, yeah, here," I said, handing him the backpack. Peeking inside, his eyes went wide.
"I'm here for tourist purposes, sort of. I found something interesting, so I'm taking it. Take the backpack as payment," I brushed him off. The boy, no fool, hurried away before I drew a crowd of gawkers.
Pulling a magic water elemental stone worth a couple million yuan from my spatial ring, I offered it to the elemental. It bubbled excitedly.
"If you accept the contract, this stone is yours," I made the offer and sent the contract request.
Bul eagerly accepted the contract and waved its little arms excitedly toward the stone. Perfect, deal done.
Handing the stone to the happily bubbling Bul, I recalled it to the contract space and left that world, vanishing from the bustling street under the stunned gazes of passersby.
Back in my apartment, I hurriedly started searching (for Bul's food - crossed out) for an evil clan specializing in the water element. To bring a ray of justice to this dark world, of course.
Half an hour later, I found Bu Clan, consisting of eighteen members led by three Intermediate Tier mages. 150 years ago, they made their living by first selling their mage protection services to Hunter groups in their small Chedan city. Then, in cahoots with bandits, they led them into ambushes. For that, they were eventually wiped out.
After scouting the area, the operation to neutralize and capture them was no different from the one with Lei Clan. Except no need to free slaves from the basement, since there were none here.
Ripping the cultivation from the weakest mage, I summoned Bul from the contract space and offered him a treat. The joyful water blob even spat out its favorite stone—the one it sold itself to me for—and gobbled the soft water magic clump.
After four more of those, Bul finally broke through to mid-Servant Level and got full, so we wrapped up today's outing for good and justice. Later, when it gets hungry again, we'll repeat.
Back in my world, I recalled the sated Bul and summoned Pikachu.
"Well? Ready? Then let's start practicing the body reinforcement technique!" A anticipating smile spread across my face.