Once he casually signed the paper, Alfredo looked at him. "You understand the work and time that will go into this, right?"
Il Ji looked up at him. "I do understand the boundless work that will go into making the strongest team in the Chrono Cup. However, I am looking forward to greatly shortening the time you think it will take."
Alfredo waved his hand at the beast behind him. "Then please, show me."
Il Ji looked at the obnoxiously prowling two headed rooster in front of him. "Alfredo, is there any way you can send him into a paralytic sleep?"
Alfredo opened his Soul Space. A large, white-and-silver moth appeared. As it batted the brown eyes on its wings, it activated a skill and sent the chicken to sleep.
"It should be knocked out for the next day or two," Alfredo supplied, "but if you need it wake up again I'll leave a servant outside. Let him know if you need anything."
"The room behind you was set up for you to practice your talent- this is the storage area for the beasts you've asked for. The room is soundproofed, so you won't have to worry about the beasts affecting each other in there."
"Thank you, Master Butler."
"So shall it be."
The butler walked out, and he was left alone, holding a small chicken cage enclosing a two headed sleeper. He carried it into the next room and set it on the floor before closing the doors.
Then, assuming something close to the fetal position, he did his best to match the chicken before activating his Unique Tamer Talent: [Mimic].
He aligned the star in his soul space and linked it towards the sleeping beast. Then, he simply waited as he continued to align himself.
Two hours later, he realized that he had one of the two skills he didn't need: [Rooster Crow].
Settling back in, he went for the next. After another two hours, he managed to get one of the three skills he needed, [Assign Thought].
Crossing his fingers, he tried again. It worked! The third time truly was the charm. He began to combine the six stars of [Ruggedness], which he had just received, with [Hardness], [Toughness], [Robustness], [Steadfastness], and [Iron Skin] to make the skill, [Iron Body].
Linking the stars in his soul space, he brought them closer and closer together until he felt a warmth pass over him.
This time, exhaustion set in. By creating an Iron-level skill, his body had used up most of his daily stamina allowance.
As quickly as he could, he stumbled over to the nearby juice jugs and began to sip it.
His body was once again over-exhausted, but with the nutrient juice he still had enough in him to finish out the day.
He walked back over to the sleeping chicken and began the process again. This time, however- because of his exaustion- he set up an alarm on his phone that would go off once he needed it to.
An hour and a half later, he felt the skill warmth. As he rose to check the skill, he was surprised to see it. He had once again received [Ruggedness].
While he didn't need it now, the upgrade process for [Iron Body] was strenuous enough that nobody trained their beasts for it.
To upgrade [Iron Body], you needed [Iron Body], [Hardness], [Toughness], [Robustness], [Ruggedness], [Steadfastness], and [Bronze Skin] to make the skill, [Bronze Body].
The problem with this skill was that the time it took the strongest Beast Trainers to train all the prerequisite skills was a year and a half using the best research and technologies.
For the average Beast Trainer, it took much, much longer. But then, when you had all five of the skills minus the [Skin] skills, the moment you applied a [Skin] skill you lost all the rest.
It was safe to say that the [Rank Body] skill sets were mostly unused. But they were still powerful. For Il Ji, they were a blessing. After he could sacrifice [Iron Body] to Jackpot, he could copy it.
Then, he could sacrifice [Ruggedness] back to Jackpot, and copy it. At that point, training a single [Body] skill could take less than a day.
Noticing the time change, he quickly got down to schedule his new timeframe for the night and change his alarm clock.