After leaving the group, Cole decided to follow the trail of Holy Beast Mountain. He wasn't lying when he said that he'll look for them.
But this time, he's looking for them with newfound vigor!
And the very reason was from the loot he acquire from Levi John, the talented disciple of Poltergeist Cult that had the same standing as Lady Scarlet.
This was what he acquire from him;
Ghost Devil Physique (Special Constitution) Affinity : Yin, Ghost Type : Heavenly Gift Fruit (Artificial) Description : A heaven defying fruit that contains the inborn talent called the Ghost Devil Physique. Consume to acquire the special constitution.
Among the loots he acquire, this thing stand out the most! Even the Skill Crystal that contain Blood Manipulation pail in comparison to this Heavenly Fruit!
As someone who also have special physique, he knew just how powerful special constitution was.
For instance, the thing that greatly mark in his mind regarding the Ghost Devil Physique was when Levi use it and become transparent and become ghost as well! In that ghost state, he could by pass physical obstruction and can even hide under the [Divine Sense] of cultivators, which was a very powerful attribute for assassination!
Cole can't deny that he's very tempted to consume this heavenly fruit for himself.
However, for the things like this, he want to give this to his pets first.
As for the reason why, it was very simple; he can use the skills and innate abilities of his pets through [Soul Mimicry] but not the other way around. In fact, his learned skill [Time Heal] should shine more and show its value if it was learned by Virgo instead.
Thus, when it comes to skill and talent drops, he ought to give them to his contracted pets.
Later on, Cole contemplate to give the heavenly fruit between Shelly and Hunter. The two of those uses stealth type skills, Shelly for hiding in the void while for treasure hunting at Hunter.
He think that the two of them could become more powerful with their hidinf ability should they acquire the technique of the ghosts.
But after some more consideration, Cole decided not to give this heavenly fruit to the true.
In his opinion, Hunter already had a powerful innate stealth ability and it was even a spatial type. Having the ghost movement ability will become just a redundant.
As for Shelly... He fear that after the latter enter the ghost body mode, he'll leave all things mounted behind his back. It will defeat the purpose of the floating city.
In the end, he decided to ask his personal encyclopedia for his opinion.
"I fear that I won't be able to help this time Master. Even from the ancient times, heaven defying fruits like this is almost non-existent. It needs a heaven defying luck and literally only the person blessed by the Heaven had the chance to encounter this kind of treasure."
"But if I was to choose my pick, I guess my first choice is Shiela."
Cole subconsciously gave the said ghost a glance. He can't deny that the latter undeniably contribute the most, mostly because of it's powerful base strength. He was even save by her several times already.
Even now, she's still working hard and sealing the corpse puppet inside the block of ice.
"Why Shiela though?" He can't help but ask.
Cole didn't know if his eyes trick him but he seem to see that Baldy glow more brighter as if it was blushing.
"Well... I'm just wondering if after you use this fruit to her, will she be able to exit the Ghost Devil body state and acquire a flesh body?"
Instantly, the scene where Levi could freely switch from his flesh body and ethereal ghost body... It truly could arouse one's curiosity!
Unfortunately, he can't use this fruit for something as trivial as checking the validity of that theory!
Furthermore, he's already contended of Shiela's ghost presence and don't have the urgency to gave her flesh body. After all, being ghost has it own perks.
"What about the second pick?" He followed up.
"I also consider the compatibility of the heavenly fruit you hold Master. Therefore, my second choice is the undead egg."
Speaking of Skeleton Sage Egg, it seems that it really is compatible with Ghost Devil Physique. Only, he don't know if the latter will evolve into spirit like creature 'Wraith' after it acquire a ghost physique.
But the most pressing question is... Does the Skeleton Sage should even have a constitution? In his opinion, they have nothing but the body frame that shouldn't not be considered as physique.
But after thinking that the Chaos System is so omnipotent that could even extract the natural talent from corpse, it should not be a problem for it to give the Skeleton Sage the Ghost Devil Physique.
It was a pity that until now, the said egg have yet to hatch. Adding to the uncountable number it's been stored inside the [Black Ring], the said egg could be considered as ancient already, like dinosaur egg from Earth.
Speaking of the Skeleton Sage Egg... Doesn't it need a massive amount of Life Energy, Force and Essence in order to hatch?
Now that he acquire the True Flame of Immortal Regal Phoenix, it should not be a problem for Cole to provide the needed Life Energy, Force and Essence. In fact, even the former Tree of Life, that should be now called the Nine-World Elven Ancestral Tree, could provide ample amount of Water of Life enough to drown it.
Cole was getting tempted to hatch the bone egg...
But after contemplating for some more, he believe that it was better to hatch it using the [Sacrificial Life Divine Nirvanic Flame]. Not only the said flame contain a powerful Life Energy, Force and Essence enough to revive a dying creature to its youth stage, it also contains the trace of Rebirth!
Perhaps if he use the said flame, the Skeleton Sage might enter Nirvana and be reborn into living person! If not, it might be able to receive special ability!
Therefore, Cole suppress his impulse and delay the hatching of the Skeleton Sage egg.
Instead, in order to not get tempted by the impulse of hatching the skeleton egg, he decided to visit the System Store.
Until now, he still have more than 2 million remaining System Points.
At first, Cole save that amount in order to buy another extraordinary companion like Moment Queen.
But instead of making the points stack in the system accumulating dust, he decided to use it.
And since his collection of pets can almost everything, from offense to defense, to support and healing, he have them. Thus, he don't have the need to add another beasts in his arsenal.
Instead, he intend to buy it into something that could strengthen his pets capability.
And what he mean by that was weapon and equipment.
Yes, he want to buy weapon and equipment for his contracted pets!
For beast and spirits alike, although it was a undisputed fact that their own body and innate abilities are their greatest weapon, the increment of strength and skill effect produced by weapon and equipment are still very massive!
It was akin to giving a wings to ferocious tiger!
It was unfortunate that the shop of System are focus for his contracted beasts and spirits. If not, he also like to buy a weapon for himself.
Therefore, while Shelly is travelling towards the direction he pointed to, he use the waiting time to browse the [Beast Store].
There were different type of weapon and equipment. Cole was even surprised of how many kinds he saw from the system interface since most of the beast he encounter until now don't seem to use weapon and equipment.
But in fact, in the system store, the collection of beasts and spirits weapon or equipment are no inferior to humans.
As long as he have corresponding System Points, he can also buy a Divine-Rank Artifact for his pets. Its a pity that with his current remaining points, he could only buy one item should he buy a Divine-Rank Artifact.
In the end, he decided to buy a Growth-type weapon and equipment for his pets.
The good thing about Growth-type weapon and equipment was that it could grow. As long as the owner nourish it for long time, it was even possible for it to reach True-Rank.
In other words, the value of Growth-type weapon and equipment lies to its potential.
Only, these kind of equipment was terrifyingly expensive.
The main level of every Growth-type equipment is Tier-1 but he could also buy it in more higher base level. Only, the price is ridiculously high.
The prices of Artifact are much even higher.
If he want to give his contracted pets at least one equipment, he could only buy the equipment in Tier-1 level.
After thinking of those needed consideration, Cole started his shopping spree.
First and foremost is for his very first pet, Shelly. What he buy for the latter could greatly assist him to hide in the void. It was called Spatium Blanket. Made mainly from the beast skin of spatial-type chameleon like beast, it could help the user to blend in the void more stealthly.
He also like to buy Earth-type equipment for Shelly but there's nothing in his current mind that's suitable for the latter.
For Bell, what he bought for her was an equipment called Flower Fairy Skirt. Although it was called a skirt, it was actually a mini garden. Its main purpose was that all the flowers planted or imprinted in the skirt could aid on Bell immensely. From recovering his spiritual energy and even the speed of his cultivation. This equipments' function is to further improve Bell's existing and current ability. The latter could also use the flower in the skirt to turn it into her Flower Attendant or assimilate it with her and acquire its characteristic.
For Groot, he buy the equipment called Deception Mask. It was the kind of mask that had the smiling and crying face.
Its main effect was to create a split personality. A good and bad side personality. Normally, the mask will show the smiling white face and become as benevolent and merciful person that won't even take himself to hurt other creatures. But when the owner enter depressed state and experience an extreme change of emotion, the mask will turn into crying face and the holder will become an evil person that won't even have a ounce of mercy.
Since Groot have a two persona, the good blood face tree and evil tempting ghost, Cole believe that the effect of the mask will activate simultaneously for each the persona.
And the most wanted effect of the mask was called [Deceptive Image] which could alter the appearance of the holder. After the mask grow into higher level, the menacing appearance of the good bloodfaced tree can be temporarily hidden.
For Celia, he bought her a weapon called the Spiral Spirit Jade Shell which could protect her Sea of Consciousness. The main reason why Cole chose this equipment was to protect the little dragon from possible retaliation of the victim she paratized and of course, to protect her soul from spirit attack.
For Coal, he bought him a fire affinited flying, chained hammer! Not only the hammer could deal physical damage, the chain that connects it could also be used to restrict foe!
For Blue, he bought a Tribulation Punishment Cloud and its main ability to to amplify lightning-type attack!
For Pisces, he bought an equipment called Sun Gem Crystal Orb and Moonlight Disc which could could both absorb and store Sun and Moon-Energy. The two could also amplify celestial attacks and even contain offensive skill on their own.
As for Hunter, eventhough the little one had a weapon on its own due to the rewards he recieve by completing the mission, he still buy something for the little one. Since the little guy had very impressive capability when it comes to its speed and attack, he chose to buy it an stealth-type equipment like what he bought for Shelly. In that way, its way of thievery will become more scary.
The last and the most expensive equipment that he bought was for Virgo. Due to rarity of Temporal Equipment, the price of the equipment was twice as expensive than Spatial Equipment he bought for Shelly and Hunter.
Still, for the sake of fairness, he bought an equipment called Overflowing Temporal-Sand Vase. Appearance wise, it looks like the vase Aquarius held but instead of flowing water, the equipment produce a sand infuse with Temporal-Energy.
This equipment had a very strict requirement when it comes to needed energy to form Time Sand. It was only due to Moment Queen's [Imperial Monarch of Time] that gave her a terrifying speed of energy recovery that Cole bought this equipment for her despite the corresponding terrifying price!
In the end, after his shopping spree, his less than 3 million System Points was reduced to 300,000!