Permanent Summon: Brutal Beast, Child of the Cave

You used a Type One Summoning Contract Scroll. Determining the target's willingness.

Determination successful. The target was completely willing to sign the contract and held an extremely high favorability toward you.

Attribute disparity determination canceled. You completed the contract.

You obtained a Permanent Summon: Brutal Beast, Child of the Cave (Wu Da Bao).

The Type One Summoning Contract Scroll turned into a streak of light and entered Da Bao's body. At the same time, Chu Danqing formed a faint, indistinct connection with Da Bao.

Da Bao froze as well, his expression turning bewildered.

Chu Danqing knew that Dimension Paradise was instilling the necessary common knowledge into Da Bao.

The reason he had gone blank was probably related to Da Bao's intellectual deficiency.

You unlocked a new permission: Summons.

At the same time, Chu Danqing gained a new permission. He glanced at Da Bao. It would surely take some time for him to recover, so he decided to check his attribute panel first.

Brutal Beast, Child of the Cave (Wu Da Bao)

Attributes

Health: 55%

Blood Rage: 90 (Current ratio: Constitution Attribute × 10. Current recovery rate: 1 point per minute.)

Strength: 7

Agility: 7

Constitution: 9

Spirit: 1 (Locked)

Perception: 8

Talents

Bloody Frenzy

Effect 1: His own blood undergoes rage transformation into Blood Rage Power.

Effect 2: The lower the enemy's health, the higher the damage dealt.

Effect 3: Spirit Attribute is locked at 1 point and is instead determined by the Constitution Attribute.

Skills

Rending Claws (Active) LV.7: After activation, attacking an enemy deals an additional 7 points of rending damage and inflicts the Bleeding status. Consumes 7 Blood Rage per minute while active.

Bloodthirsty Pursuit (Passive) LV.7: When dealing damage to an enemy with the Bleeding status, gains a life-steal effect and additionally inflicts 7 points of Bleeding damage once.

Beast Instinct (Passive) LV.MAX: Greatly enhances instinctive awareness and perception efficiency. At the same time, enters a berserk state when health falls to 30%.

"Fuck, are you a goddamn BOSS???" Chu Danqing was utterly dumbfounded when he saw Da Bao's attribute panel.

The attributes, talents, and skills all bore a +1% boost, provided by Chu Danqing's Basic Skill in the Summoning System.

Then there was the additional 0.5 increase to the attributes, a boost granted by his 10% attributes. However, one digit had probably been omitted—Chu Danqing's Constitution was 6 points.

According to the explanation in Summoning Basics, the summon enjoyed a bonus equal to 10% of the Apostle's average attributes, so the actual bonus should have been 0.52.

Other than the locked Spirit, which was 1 point, everything else completely crushed Chu Danqing. But Da Bao's Spirit Attribute did not take part in the determination; it was judged by his Constitution Attribute instead.

Even his energy value was more advanced than Chu Danqing's. Chu Danqing still had the most basic energy value.

And whether it was the ratio or the recovery rate, compared to Da Bao's, his was simply too embarrassing to look at.

Fortunately, Chu Danqing quickly calmed down as well. He had stumbled upon a bargain—Da Bao was probably a mutated version of a BOSS, and this was his panel after being digitized by Dimension Paradise.

Before awakening the Cave God Bloodline and devouring the White Dragon Fish, Da Bao's panel definitely could not have been this luxurious.

If Chu Danqing had contracted the White Dragon Fish back then and then had it devour Da Bao, perhaps he could have activated the White Dragon Fish's True Dragon Bloodline and given it a similarly extravagant panel.

And this was only the beginning. A great deal of knowledge related to Summonology and Summoning Art surfaced in Chu Danqing's mind.

Only after he officially possessed a summon were his two Basic Skills truly activated. Before this, they had merely been decorations.

Secondly, he had also acquired the shortcomings of Summoning System creatures in Dimension Paradise, such as stricter requirements for learning skills and greater restrictions on using equipment and items.

Then came nurturing them. Apostles not only had to prepare resources for their own growth, but also had to prepare a share for their summons.

It was equivalent to needing to invest N+1 shares of resources for however many summons one had, though generally only Permanent Summons were cultivated.

There were benefits as well. After a summon died, the Apostle could pay a price to revive it.

As for what that price was, this summon permission did not mention it. Most likely, he would only learn it after completing the reserve trial.

"Little Chu, still hungry." Da Bao gradually recovered and spoke as soon as he opened his mouth.

He felt that he had become much stronger. The rage and brutality that had once filled him had been reined in.

"I don't have any consumables left." Chu Danqing was helpless too. He had already given away everything he could; even the cleverest housewife could not cook without rice.

"Don't eat. Eat Great White Ape." A hint of blood-red light surfaced in Da Bao's eyes as he unconsciously used Blood Rage Power.

Previously, his talents and skills had been scattered and disordered. With his level of intelligence, he had been unable to properly develop them.

He could only use them through instinct. But after being converted into Chu Danqing's Permanent Summon, his talents, skills, and even attributes had been digitized and intuitively integrated.

Combined with his Beast Instinct skill, they gained a more efficient method of use.

"What do you mean?" Chu Danqing did not understand why Da Bao had suddenly come up with such an idea.

"If I eat Great White Ape, I can, complete, become stronger." Da Bao still spoke haltingly, clearly not yet accustomed to his own physiological structure. "Better, protect Little Chu."

At that moment, Da Bao also understood Chu Danqing's identity and what he might encounter in the future.

He did not regret it. If he stayed here, he would have food and clothing without worry for the rest of his life, but that was not what he wanted.

"Village chief said, Cave Beast only one." Da Bao gave his reason.

"The Cave God Bloodline in you still isn't complete? That's why you need to kill the Cave Beast?" Chu Danqing asked.

"Cave God Bloodline gone. New power, not enough." Da Bao answered Chu Danqing's question.

"In other words, it needs to be completed." Chu Danqing immediately understood what Da Bao meant. "Blood Rage Power is a new power born from the fusion of the White Dragon Fish and the Cave Beast."

"You have enough of the White Dragon Fish's portion, but lack the Cave Beast's share of power, right?"

Da Bao nodded without speaking, but his gesture gave confirmation.

"Compared to the Great White Ape, who do you think is stronger?" Chu Danqing asked.

Da Bao raised his head and confidently pointed a claw at himself, indicating that he was stronger.

"Good." As Chu Danqing spoke, he took out the White Dragon Fish's Roar Horse Pike and handed it to Da Bao.

Da Bao did not take it. Instead, he waved his claws in refusal. "Can't use."

"I wasn't asking you to use it as a weapon. I want you to see whether you can use the active effect on it. If you can, heh heh." Chu Danqing revealed a smile.

Seven points of Strength plus five points of Strength—Da Bao's Strength could directly reach 12 points. Even the White Dragon Fish might not have possessed such high Strength underwater.

And that was without adding the bonus from Chu Danqing's Basic Skill in the Summoning System.