Ye Qin took a deep breath. "All right, I'll ask the warehouse manager."
With that, she took out her phone and dialed a number.
"Sister Lili, how many Parasitic Fruits do we have in stock?"
"Three? All right, I'll bring Luo Yu over for a look in a bit."
With that, Ye Qin hung up.
"Three! That many!" A smile tugged at Luo Yu's lips.
Tobi was in for a treat. With over a million credits going into this, he'd better get some good upgrades out of it.
"Imperial Capital University has a Sage Forest, but even she only had one in stock."
"How many Ancient Wisdom Trees does your university keep?"
"Don't tell me you've got a whole forest!"
Ye Qin smiled. "How could we? Principal Yan doesn't have Principal Yue's knack for coaxing a Kage-level Ancient Wisdom Tree into coming along with him."
That left Luo Yu even more puzzled. "Then how does Capital University have so many Parasitic Fruits?"
Ye Qin blinked her beautiful eyes. "Where do you think Capital University gets its stock?"
"Holy crap! Is Sage Forest doing side gigs behind the university's back?" Luo Yu's imagination took off.
Ye Qin chuckled. "Not really side gigs. Hardly anyone buys Parasitic Fruits anyway."
"So Principal Yue sold them off."
"Our university wanted to fill out its resource warehouse, so we bought some."
Luo Yu nodded in understanding.
The knowledge contained in the Wisdom Fruit had told him this.
Through thousands of years of experience, humans had discovered that only a few specific Summoning Beasts were well suited to hosting Parasitic Fruits.
Those beasts gained enormous boosts after being parasitized, while other Summoning Beasts had more suitable five-star resources available.
Because their applications were so limited, Parasitic Fruits often gathered dust in warehouses.
Capital University had only