I think you can't even imagine the happiness of a warlock.

Facts have proved that whether it is on earth or another world, it is an animal with low IQ or a magical beast with certain intelligence, a beast that cannot understand human language or a mini giant space hamster with telepathy.

It is true that raising pets is not an easy job... Chen Zhou should have thought of it a long time ago.

After buying this magical hamster of the astral variety for a huge sum of dozens of gold coins, he completed the ritual of contracting a familiar under the guidance of Fu Jin, used his own magic to make an arcane connection with the hamster, and successfully obtained A rodent magical beast serves as his familiar.

Then I learned a lot of necessary knowledge and returned home with Shushu with a large bag of hamster supplies.

So that night began a headache-inducing life.

As we all know, hamsters are nocturnal creatures, and the Mini Giant Space Hamster is no exception.

But Chen Zhou is not.

The tiger's hearing is very outstanding. Even in sleep, the body can detect external sounds, and is even more sensitive to abnormal movements.

That night, the crunching sound of chewing and the intermittent sound of the rolling wheel broke into his mind, disturbing his sleep.

"Well, it seems that not all mice are like electric mice that stay at night and come out by day."

Strictly speaking, according to Suto Tsuyoshi, the world-famous electric rat is also a nocturnal animal, but it has only changed its habits during its long-term symbiosis with humans.

Therefore, if you want your demon pet's routine to be closer to your own, you must slowly adjust its lifestyle.

Anyway, one person and one mouse must compromise with each other's biological clock.

Thinking like this, Chen Zhou continued to close his eyes.

"Wha...what kind of electric mouse?"

But Shushu seems to be curious about someone of his kind.

"Nothing, just a red squirrel that generates electricity."

The magic pet who had his doubts answered didn't ask any more questions, and just started running the wheel again.

Trivia: hamsters in the wild have to run more than ten kilometers every day in search of food, but domestic hamsters don’t have to worry about food and need to do more exercise to consume energy.

About half an hour later, Chen Zhou sat up, casually moved his numb tail to the side, and then looked reluctantly at this astral species, which was far more energetic than its cousins ​​on the main material plane.

In the first night of competition between one person and one mouse, it was Chen Zhou who lost.

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In desperation, he had no choice but to calm down and study his "Life Plan".

After contracting the space hamster as a familiar, the character card recording his information in the appendix was opened to a separate page, showing more detailed information.

Appendix 2:

Name: Jerry

Sex: male

Race: Space Hamster

Type: Magical Beast, Miniature

Alignment: neutral good

Variants: Not selected

Attributes: Strength 1, Agility 20, Constitution 10; Intelligence 6, Perception 12, Charisma 6;

Abilities: Telepathy 5ft, sneak attack 1d6, alertness, improved evasion, spell sharing, emotional link

It's still basically the same, except that the species has changed from an animal to a magical beast, and its abilities have also increased as it becomes a familiar.

Let’s leave aside alertness and mastery of evasion.

The commonality of spells means that when Chen Zhou receives a magic effect, if Jerry is nearby, he can also withstand the same magic effect.

For example, when he casts "Mage Armor", he can choose to flow magic power to the opponent along the link, forming the same force field armor on Jerry's body surface.

And because the hamster is extremely small, the additional magic power consumed by this method is approximately zero.

As for the emotional link, it refers to the magical connection between the two parties that allows each to experience the other's current mood.

It's not as accurate as telepathy, but it has an extremely long effective range.

In the future, when Chen Zhou becomes stronger, Jerry will gain the ability to transmit contact spells.

This means that he can temporarily store contact spells in the body of his familiar, allowing the other party to attack the enemy on his behalf.

But this ability is of little significance. Chen Zhou is not a weak conventional mage or warlock, and does not need a magic pet to fight on his behalf.

Unless he gives his familiar the type of an alien creature, and then uses transformation spells to transform it into some more powerful monsters...

I hope there will never be a time when I can do this.

Among them, after Chen Zhou and Jerry made an arcane connection, there was a column for selecting "Transformation" in the character card.

The so-called transformation refers to the choice to give up part of the ability and obtain another part. This will change the ability that the familiar can obtain from Chen Zhou now and in the future.

For example, choosing the "God Envoy" familiar variation will cause the emblem of Chen Zhou's deity to appear on Jerry's body, and he will automatically become proficient and gain the talent of medical treatment and learning religious knowledge.

At the same time, it loses the "alertness" ability and gains "divine guidance" - a spell-like ability (sp) that allows it to cast "divine guidance" at will.

Then "coexistence of wills" replaces "spell sharing", and "power of domain" replaces "transfer of contact spells"...

In Chen Zhou's opinion, this is a very practical variant. The only problem is that he can't choose.

The premise of this variant is to have a specific belief...which is more difficult for Chen Zhou.

So, in the end, he chose an option that might make him feel extremely complicated - the "think tank" familiar variant.

After choosing this variant, the familiar will become extremely smart and its learning ability will be greatly improved.

Extremely Intelligent (Ex): The think tank's Intelligence is always equal to 5 + its or its master's level. This ability replaces the familiar's Intelligence attribute and natural defense.

Thinker's Knowledge (ex): The thinker gains a bonus to all knowledge equal to half his or his master's level. This ability replaces alertness and the ability to inherit his master's skills.

Chen Zhou thought that as long as he chose this variant, Jerry's intelligence would increase to the level of 4+5=9.

※Unfortunately, the space hamster's HP is 4d4=10, which means that Jerry's level is 2 levels higher than Chen Zhou.

Although he may be a bit of a smartass at first, as his own abilities improve, Jerry's intelligence will reach 6 at level 11, equal to his own.

Starting from level 7, Jerry's intelligence will begin to surpass...

This means that he can have a think tank with higher intelligence than himself, and it will become smarter as the level increases!

Although distant water may not quench near thirst, a familiar with an intelligence of 9, only two points lower than himself, is still very attractive.

Can it at least adjust its biological clock through negotiation?

No matter how bad it is, you can still use the bonus to help him a lot in areas of knowledge he doesn't understand!

Thinking of this, Chen Zhou, who was convinced that this was a good idea, thought about it again and again and chose the variation of the Think Tank Demon Pet.

So from this day on, he got a smart pet with an intelligence of 9 - Jerry!