10 010 Skeleton Training Manual 2.0

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, six days had passed since Lu Wu transmigrated.

The past six days had been especially fulfilling to Lu Wu, and he had gained much knowledge, from reading books.

In terms of cultural class.

He had successfully finished reading all the textbooks for the first and second years.

With his photographic memory, he had basically memorized all the main points, and his grasp of the academics had improved accordingly.

Although his standard might not have reached the level of straight-A students, at least he should be around the middle-upper rank. If he further absorbed the knowledge, it should not be too difficult to pass the exam with flying colours.

In terms of summoning.

For the past six days, he stayed in the library until eight or nine o'clock almost every day.

He didn't stay for four to five hours a day in the library for nothing. In these six days, Lu Wu had read dozens of related books.

Among these books, except for the basic guides that he read on the first day, and other random books such as "The Possibilities of Summoning a Kemonomimi", the rest of the books were basically useful encyclopedia-type books about summoning. 

Some examples were, "Encyclopedia of 100 Common Summoned Beasts", "Encyclopedia of 100 Common Summoned Beasts's Enhancement Route", "How to Raise Common Undead Summoned Beasts", "Encyclopedia of 200 Materials Related to Summoned Beasts", "Introduction to Secret Realms", etc...

These were basically the types of books Lu Wu had been reading in the past few days.

Of course, if Lu Wu had the choice, he wouldn't be reading these books.

He would rather read books related to "Summoned Beast Trainer". He now knew that this profession was a perfect match for his golden finger!

But unfortunately, his high school did not teach this, and their school's library also did not have such books.

Left with no other choice, Lu Wu could only follow what the books and Internet described about the Summoned Beast Trainer, that "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon of the Summoned Beast Trainer".

Starting from these most basic contents, he decided to first enrich his knowledge before considering anything else.

Facts had proved that Lu Wu's approach was right.

The effect of this quickly reflected on his golden finger.

Based on the books that he had read in the past few days, Lu Wu had been making changes to the quality enhancement program of Skeleton, and now the program had been revised to version 2.0.

But when thinking about the program, Lu Wu flared up.

Over the past few days, he had been constantly ridiculed by the system about the program.

Things like "Look at this program! Thank goodness, your IQ has finally grown, and now you have an IQ of a 3.5 years old! But unfortunately, your plan is not much different from the previous version, so modification failed."

"Oh? Are these the only things you can do? Can't you be even a teeny bit innovative? Can't you put more effort into energy absorption?"

"Are you sure that you hadn't learned this from your childhood friend's summoned Piglet? It's very wise, isn't it? Seeing that you are so wise, the system sincerely recommends that you put a lot more effort into energy absorption."

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Lu Wu had submitted five program modification proposals to the system, including the original one. He was snarked by the system five times and rejected three times. It took him five days to upgrade the 1.0 version to the 2.0 version.

Lu Wu almost had a mental breakdown because of the system.

But Lu Wu also had to admit that although this nasty system had a sharp tongue, it was not the only thing it had.

Other than being sharp-tongued, it also gave some suggestions on the modification of the program.

And it was precisely based on these suggestions by the system and the books he had been reading in the past few days that Lu Wu managed to perfect the 2.0 version.

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Quality Enhancement Program: Skeleton's Training Manual 2.0

Specific steps: Prepare 10,000 grams of beef bone meal and 20,000 grams of beef blood. First, add the beef bone meal into a suitable amount of water, cook them into a soup, and turn off the heat after boiling. Then, add in the beef blood and let the Skeleton bathe in it for an hour. After that, proceed to exercise for 3 to 5 hours.

Effect: Each time, it can significantly improve the Skeleton's bone strength and toughness, and trains its coordination, building up its foundation.

Time needed for quality enhancement: 5 times (the interval between each time is 6 to 10 days, and the estimated time is 30 to 50 days)

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Well, this was version 2.0 of Skeleton's training manual.

As soon as this version came out, all the ridicules Lu Wu had suffered in the past few days and the emotional blows he received had vanished.

No words could describe how happy Lu Wu was.

After all, although he had confidence in his future as he had a golden finger, it was just a blind confidence. He hadn't really seen hope. But today, he finally saw it.

Following this method, he only needed a little more than a month to improve the quality of Skeleton.

Although the quality of [Normal (Bad)], when improved, would only reach the quality of [Normal], which in theory could barely catch up with Pang Tutu's piglet, Lu Wu was confident that with such a good start, he would definitely be able to enhance Skeleton further.

It might not be impossible to enhance Skeleton's quality to [Iron], [Bronze], or perhaps even [Silver] or [Gold]...

Of course [Silver] or [Gold] was too far away, Lu Wu didn't even consider it at present.

He was more concerned with whether he could upgrade Skeleton's quality to [Iron], and its strength to 2 or 3 stars before the league.

Lu Wu believed that as long as Skeleton could reach such a standard, then he would be admitted to at least one summoner's universities for sure.

Well, the National High School Summoner's League would start in the second semester of the third year, and there was still more than half a year left. With his powerful golden finger, Lu Wu felt that it should not be difficult for him to do well in it.

Of course, that was what Lu Wu had thought before he was beaten up mercilessly by the harsh reality.

Soon enough, the ruthless reality slapped Lu Wu in the face.

Lu Wu found out that although the 2.0 version of the program he produced was quite effective, there was a very big problem: How could he get the money to buy all the materials?

He did a calculation on the costs. Skeleton's enhancement to the next level would need 50,000 grams of beef bone meal and 100,000 grams of beef blood. The cost of water could be neglected.

Lu Wu had gathered some information and found out that in this world, the price of beef bones was 35 yuan per catty, and beef blood was 15 yuan per catty.

50 catties of beef bone meal plus 100 catties of beef blood would cost a total of 3,250 yuan. Adding the cost of some other equipment used during the process, it would cost at least 4,000 yuan for Skeleton to be enhanced to the next level.*

Although spending 4,000 yuan to enhance the quality of summoned beast to the next level was actually very cheap, the problem was that Lu Wu had no money!

The money left by his predecessor added up to only one to two hundred, so he was still short of more than three thousand.

Of course, he could ask his family for the three thousand dollars, but he couldn't do it.

Because he was transmigrated, although he had received the memories of his predecessor, he and his predecessor's family were still a little distant as if separated by a film, which made Lu Wu unable to ask the family for the money.

This already placed Lu Wu in a dilemma.

But this was not the worst problem for Lu Wu...

** T/L : A catty in China is equivalent to 0.5 kg. The mistake in calculation is an intentional error made by the author and will be corrected in Chapter 014.