Number One Dungeon Supplier

"You are back," Lynn said as she lifted a plate filled with food for Jin to eat while the rest had already returned. "Damn, that's a lot of food. I do not know whether I can finish it or not." 

"It's all your favorites, so I do not doubt the capability of your stomach to finish it," Lynn said as she passed him a fork and spoon as she sat beside him to watch him eat and in the meantime, check her phone since she finally had some alone time as well. 

"How's your cultivation grade? Did it increase?" Lynn asked and Jin did not know where to begin.

"Ermm…It's a little complicated." Jin was already sucked into the tasty foods that Qiu Yue and the others bought since Lynn definitely had no time to cook any of them.

"How so?" She stopped browsing her phone for a while and looked at him.

"Sigh. I do not really know how to say it well. Erm…. Technically… I dropped cultivation grade," Jin said as he munched a little and spoke even though Lynn was an advocate of finishing whatever was in his mouth before speaking.

"Within expectations?" Lynn felt that this might be a concerning issue for him.

"Exceeding expectations. I dropped to Grade 4." 

"Oh no. Isn't that the cultivation grade you had in the Virtual Simulation?" Lynn asked and Jin nodded his head and when he was munching, he closed his eyes and portrayed a bit of his cultivation, causing one of the young astral Pandas to appear.

"Oh my god." Lynn was shocked by the appearance of the Astral Panda as it went up and hugged her even though she was about to do the same. This is …part of your cultivation?" Lynn said as she eyed him. "You better make sure no girls are near you when you do that." 

"Why? Won't that make the perfect distraction for female enemies? They will literally fall for these." Jin smiled and Lynn beat his shoulders playfully and later ignored the boyfriend to play with the Panda. It was only when she had calmed down and the Panda was lazing in her arms she continued her question.

"So, you are the lowest among all of us right now?" 

"In terms of numbers. Yes. But the System and I just checked, I got stronger… by a ton. Definitely enough to deal with even two Royal Zodiac Heads if they come to face me…" Jin had decided to tone down his estimates since he never knew how strong they were. A Grade 18 punching bag cannot be compared to a Grade 18 skilled cultivator.

"How come there's only one panda? Where's the other three?" Lynn asked as she took her phone up and tried to take a photo of it. Surprisingly, it managed to appear in the photos like they were real. Unlike the silhouettes which could only be seen with the naked eye and cannot be captured with photos or videos.

"You are more concerned about the Pandas?" 

"Why not? It's time to name these Pandas too. Righttttt?" 

"At this rate, people will ignore me and play with the Pandas," Jin said as he swallowed down his entire glass of water. 

"Hahaha, imagine you use these Pandas to do spy missions and they get caught. Oooo too cuteeee." Lynn said and somehow Jin got curious as he summoned another panda out and took a piece of French fry from his plate to pass it to it.

The Panda ate the whole thing and even enjoyed it which made Jin extremely surprised by its actions. How could a manifestation of Maqi be able to swallow that? He quickly looked at the bottom of the Panda and even on the floor to find no trace of it anywhere. 

"The System is now curious as well." The System reported and Lynn noticed that it had come into the conversation. 

"What? Curious about what?"

"Take a look at this." Jin picked up another piece of French fry and passed it to the Panda that Lynn was holding. It sniffed at it and later ate it. (Please do not feed French fries to your local zoo's Panda(s). The zookeepers will find you and hurt you like how Kraft would.)  Lynn was amazed and she too wanted to be part of the action as she picked up now a piece of fried chicken nugget and put it into the Panda's mouth which it chewed happily into that delicious piece of processed meat.

Now Jin tried something even more controversial as he used his mind and commanded the Panda to spark a fire on its right paw. Instantly, the baby Astral Panda did just that and Jin realised the amount of implications he could do if he had a huge Astral Panda right beside him. He will have a Panda partner that can fight with him and for him when things get rough or the access to either monsters or dungeon instance creation is limited.

"This is amazing and its good, isn't it? People might underestimate you as a Grade 4 Cultivator when in actual fact, you might be like Grade 4 Ver 2 or something. Hahaha!" Lynn clapped and too saw the potential these Astral Pandas could be but more importantly, there was something to dote on.

"Yea, I guess you could say that. I am not sure why but everything felt so much different, The atmosphere, the monsters and even Qiu Yue."

"Of course, the concept of time is totally different from Synthesis World and of this world. It was so bad that Kraft and the System had to create something to reverse that concept of time within the current versions of Virtual Simulation pods using both Time Compression and Time Dilation of a grand scale." Qiu Yue came out and beckoned the Astral Panda to come to her arms.

"If anything, I will even call Kraft a God of Time and Space for the work he had done. If researchers all over the world knows that Kraft could do this, they will ask him to build a freaking spaceship with quantum engines. So, you better thank them for manipulating time in those pods or your customers would be elders by the time they came out."