"Oh, right." Just as Manager Ying was about to leave, Lu Ran suddenly stopped it.
"I have something else here!" Lu Ran took out the Damage Transfer Skill Card.
"By the way, do curses count as damage? If they do, help me deliver this to Principal Shi Zhen, if it could help him."
Lu Ran thought Principal Shi Zhen was a decent person. All told, Principal Shi Zhen had given him two Exquisite resources: a Wind King's Fruit and an Ethereal Flower. Although one was an advance on his salary and the other a bounty he had earned himself, the principal had still been quite generous.
Now he was eyeing the man's Evil God's Eye trait as well. The Stone Dragon Eggs probably wouldn't interest him, but Damage Transfer might. He just didn't know whether this thing could transfer curses. If it couldn't, that would be a bit of a trap. It would instead waste one of the man's skill slots for nothing. So Lu Ran first asked Manager Ying whether it knew much about this skill.
"Damage Transfer?" Manager Ying paused and looked at Lu Ran. "Just how many good things did you get?"
But then it shook its head. "Unfortunately, he probably can't use this skill of yours either."
"Huh? Curses don't count as damage?"
"Maybe they do, but if a curse is too high-level, do you think a newly learned Damage Transfer could transfer it away? Skills need to be developed."
"That's why many Beast Tamers clearly have several skill slots, yet focus on mastering only one or two Beast Taming Techniques."
"A jack of all trades is a master of none!"
"And the reason I said he can't use your skill is... he already knows it!"
Lu Ran froze. Of all the possibilities he had considered,