Era of Pet Beasts: Picking Up a Dark Demon Dragon Egg Right off the Bat - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Godly Treasure Hunting System!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Dragon God Village.

It was an extremely remote village that was at least 200 kilometers away from the town, so it seemed to be isolated from the world.

The villagers here worked the whole day and returned home at sunset

The sun rose as usual today.

When the first ray of sunlight shone on Dragon God Village, a young man who looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed simply, was carrying a basket on his back as he shuttled through the streets

He would warmly greet every villager he saw.

“Hello, Uncle Sibosai!”

“Hello, Aunt Elsie!”

But the greetings of this extremely polite youth were always responded with a cold look, as if the villagers did not want to see him.

The young man did not care about their gazes. Soon, he arrived at a weaving workshop.

He placed the basket in front of the shopkeeper and said, “Mr. Kelvin, can you help me calculate how much these hemp cost?”

Hemp was a very common plant. After multiple processing, it could be woven into the common hemp garments.

Kelvin glanced at the basket the youth handed over. There was a lot of hemp in it, enough to make a lot of hemp garments.

However, he took out three copper coins from the drawer with a look of disdain and threw it to the youth. “It’s only worth that little.”

“Three…” The teenager’s clear eyes flashed with disappointment when he saw the three copper coins in his palm.

There were many scars on his hand. They were caused when he gathered the hemp.

The rough hemp was not so easy to collect.

The morning’s hard work only earned him three copper coins.

But in the end, he managed a smile and bowed slightly to Kelvin. “Thank you, Mr. Kelvin.”

Then the young man clutched the copper coins tightly in his hand and hastily left the weaving workshop.

“Tsk!”

It was only after the young man had left that Kelvin put away his disdainful expression a little and took away the basketful of hemp.

On the other side, the young man left the workshop and went straight to the stuffed bun shop on the street.

“Uncle Brewster, can I have two buns?”

The young man had a sunny smile on his face as he looked at the owner who was arranging the buns with his clear, golden eyes.

When Brewster saw that the customer was the youth, he gave the same disdainful look as the others.

However, he still handed the youth two buns and said coldly, “Two copper coins.”

The young man used his scarred hand to count two of the three copper coins he had in his pocket before handing them to the bun shop owner.

Brewster took the two copper coins and put them aside casually. Then, he stuffed two buns into a small bag and tossed them to the young man. He waved his hand and urged him to leave.

“Thank you!”

The young man thanked him, and quickly left the bun shop with the bag.

He entered an alley, and started eating the buns in a secluded corner.

The young man’s name was Matthew. Eight years ago, on a night of total lunar eclipse, he had transmigrated to this foreign world.

He, who had just transmigrated, was a four-year-old orphan who had followed the old village chief of Dragon God Village to here.

At that time, the people of Dragon God Village loved Matthew very much, and they treated him like their own son.

It was not until Matthew was six years old that the old village chief died unexpectedly. He left peacefully.

And then, overnight, everyone’s attitude toward Matthew changed.

Their love changed to dislike and they wanted nothing more than to drive him out of Dragon God Village.

But the villagers didn’t do that. They still let Matthew stay in the village, though they often gave him unfair treatment.

Like just now, a basket of hemp that could be exchanged for 10 copper coins was bought from Matthew for only 3 copper coins.

Everything had changed too quickly. In just one night.

Even Matthew, who had experienced two lifetimes, didn’t understand the logic behind this.

However, he, who was still young, had to use his own strength to exchange for food in such a harsh environment to survive.

Fortunately, although the villagers treated Matthew very badly, it was not to the extent that they did not even give him the basic necessities and only required him to pay the same amount.

It didn’t take long for Matthew to finish the two buns in his hand. He got up and dusted himself off, ready to resume his efforts for lunch.

The villagers were not friendly to Matthew. Fortunately, his hard efforts every day were enough to earn three meals.

If he was injured one day and did less work, he would be able to exchange for two meals. There was nothing wrong with starving for one meal.

As Matthew left the alley and passed by a farm, a mechanical voice sounded in his mind.

“Godly Treasure Hunting System is being activated…”

The sudden sound made Matthew pause.

Godly Treasure Hunting System?

What was that?

“Godly Treasure Hunting System activated successfully!”

While Matthew was still in a daze, the system was activated, and another notification sounded.

“The Godly Treasure Hunting System will provide the host with three treasure-hunting opportunities every day.”

“As the host’s beast taming level increases, the number of treasure hunting opportunities will also increase.”

Matthew suddenly understood.

He knew that there was a magical profession in this world called Beast Tamer.

Beast Tamers could control many mutated creatures in this world and command them to fight for them.

However, Matthew had always been in Dragon God Village ever since he had transmigrated to this world. He had never seen a Beast Tamer, nor had he seen a tamed beast, nor had he seen a battle between mutated creatures.

Matthew had only read about Beast Tamers in the village library when the old village chief was still alive.

It was said that high-level Beast Tamers could fly in the sky and move underground. They were omnipotent!

“The system is searching for treasures…”

As long as there were still treasure hunting chances remaining, the system would continue searching for treasures automatically.

Matthew didn’t even need to give orders.

“That’s a good point.”

He nodded in satisfaction, though he did not know why there would be a system.

Let’s see what abilities this system has.

Matthew gathered his thoughts and was about to continue moving.

At this moment, the system’s voice sounded again, giving him a pleasant surprise.

“Discovered a Dark Glazed Amethyst 100 meters away from the host at 3 o’clock.”

Dark Glazed Amethyst!?

Matthew was stunned for a moment. He hadn’t expected the system to find a treasure so quickly.

He had been in the village for almost ten years. He moved around the village every day and was familiar with every corner of the village. It could be said that he basically knew what was in every place. Even so, he had never seen any Glazed Amethyst.

Is there a problem with the system?

Looks like this system is not that reliable.

However, since the system has given the notification, it will not take too long to check it out.

With that thought in mind, Matthew set off toward his right.

100 meters didn’t take much time.

He came to a patch of grass, and after searching carefully for a while, he didn’t see any treasure. He only found an irregular-shaped stone covered in moss.

“Could it be this stone?”

Puzzled, Matthew picked up the stone.

Immediately, a screen appeared in his vision which gave him a fright.

However, the light from the screen did not reflect upon the grassland beside him.

This made Matthew realize that he was the only one who could see the screen.

He heaved a sigh of relief and began reading the content on the screen.