Chapter 680
Chapter 680 - 660: Beast Tamer
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Hua Xueyi and Meow sat in a small room, each holding a wolf beast, their fingers dripping blood, feeding it to the little wolf beasts.
These two wolf beasts were no ordinary ones.
At this point, the wolf beasts had undergone three basic screenings. The ones eliminated in the second round were the "Soldiers".
After their second soul awakening, they didn’t perform well. Their intellectual growth fell short of expectations, and they didn’t show any other talents or traits... that meant further investment in them would be discounted.
As a result, they experienced the strangling of their childhood and became immediate combat forces.
The ones eliminated in the third round were the high-level soldiers... The best among them could receive a certain level of training and become elite warriors, but those who failed the three soul awakenings related tests would always remain losers.
After the three basic screenings, the remaining ones were the "optimal" candidates with normal intellectual development.
This meant they could accept continuous soul awakenings to improve their intelligence, potential, and spirituality. They were the seeds of "Knights"... or in other words, the foundation of "officers" and "frontline commanders".
These prime seeds at this stage had a normal selection ratio of one out of a thousand. In some areas on Earth, it was quite normal to choose a ratio of one out of tens of thousands... at this point, even a cavy would be a valuable gold cavy.
These "fully awakened beings" among animals were hard currency among Beast Tamers. After all, they were excellent seeds capable of cultivating companion magic pets.
"The production rate of Knights is one in twelve... just catching these things and selling them back home can make a lot of money."
"Not necessarily, there are so many exotic specialties now that the old common sense has lost its meaning. Last time I went on an exotic journey and went crazy stocking up on goods, thinking I would make a fortune only to go broke on the spot... there are too many cases like that."
"...That’s true, the so-called common sense expired after three months, whatever we got in our hands is our salary, and the combat power and resources we can digest ourselves are always cost-effective."
Such a high success rate allowed Beast Tamers to have more options. They could make further selections based on other conditions, such as physical strength, bloodline and other secondary attributes... those "fully awakened beings" that other Beast Tamers considered as treasures, many of them ended up in the soldier class.
After all, it takes magic potions and smashing resources to be a knight, even if Life Courtyard is a treasure trove of resources.
Now that the wolf beasts in the area had been ravaged, the group had collected over a hundred fully awakened young beasts and ultimately more than 50 knight-class and over 300 soldier-class beasts. A normal beast tamer would typically have 1 knight for every 100 or so soldier-class beasts, and their knights would be used as the Beast King.
The first wave of beast swarm was taking shape, and its quality was quite high, which made Lu Ping’an more determined to invest more resources.
"Are these two the smartest ones?"
"Little Lu is the strongest and most cunning of the ’Knights’, making it a suitable king."
"My Little Meow is the fastest Knight meow!"
The so-called King was not fundamentally different from other fully awakened knights and was the result of careful selection. The chosen beast would naturally occupy the dominant position in the beast swarm due to the resources it was provided.
Now, with "Little Lu" and "Little Meow", the two wolf kings, the test of the extreme limits of the two Beast Tamers’ talent...
"Is it done yet?"
As Lu Ping’an conveyed Big Cat’s opinion, the two Beast Tamers gritted their teeth, pulled out their fingers with wounds and completed the last part of the curse technique.
"Bloodline connection!"
"Bloodline connection meow! Give Meow a useful special effect meow!"
The next moment, a strange glow flashed across the bodies of the two wolf beasts, then disappeared cleanly, as if nothing had happened.
"...Little Lu, use your talent ability."
"Meow, show me a trick meow!"
The two Beast Tamers tried to communicate with their beloved pets, and the magic pets with some wisdom began to instinctively sense their changes.
Little Lu’s claws suddenly glowed golden, with metal texture appearing on the original fluffy paws.
Hua Xueyi immediately showed her joy, grasped the little paw and tried to scratch on a piece of wood...
The wood broke directly.
"Localized metalization, blade transformation... Congratulations, nice talent. This is the message from Fang Wen for you."
Hua Xueyi’s Beast Tamer mentor’s blessing made her overjoyed, smiling like a blooming flower.
As for Meow, the situation was quite delicate.
"...It disappeared, meow?!"
Right in front of its eyes, the wolf called Little Meow...well, anyway, it jumped into the ground and disappeared.
Meow turned its head abruptly and saw the fluffy head of the wolf within its own shadow.
"Is it Shadow Walk? Or Etherealization? Hmm, it shouldn’t be Spiritualization; this little thing probably couldn’t bear it."
Both of the Beast Tamers showed smiles and breathed a sigh of relief. Anyway, they wouldn’t end up as the most unlucky "blank-slate Beast Tamers."
"Congratulations to both of you. Your mentors are quite satisfied and are willing to provide you with further guidance. Next, continuously use the bloodline-connection and share your ’bloodline’ with your first Magic Pet... "
The scene before them was "ability sharing," which was also one of the core abilities of a Beast Tamer.
Most Beast Tamers started with basic animals and Demonized Animals, yet the strength of these animals was quite subtle.
Could you imagine Meow’s Little White Cat defeating a real Magic Monster, or arm-wrestling with a third-tier professional?
Beast Tamers tamed beasts, and naturally, they had ways to make their Magic Pets stronger.
Bloodline-connection was established through "body fluids" and "body cells" as carriers and the source of curses, and a bond was formed between the Beast Tamers and their Magic Pets by sharing their bloodline power.
The abilities shared were diverse and not limited to Talent Abilities. Most of them were associated with physical characteristics, passive Abnormal Abilities... Among Beast Tamer’s Career Abilities and Abnormal Abilities, there were a lot of enhanced basic attributes, and special abilities.
Most of these abilities were passive and convenient for sharing, such as Enhanced Regeneration, Enhanced Reflex Speed, and enhanced fire pit characteristics, which could be used to nurture suitable Battle-pets based on requirements.
Moreover, there were higher-level characteristics like "Poisonous Traits," "Deadly Curse," "Aging Touch," and "Flaming Absorption" on the list of high-level professional abilities.
On the other hand, these "Passive Abilities" and "Characteristic Abilities" were priorly learned by Beast Tamers for sharing, and Magic Pets could only get a share of them.
It meant that high-level Beast Tamers were far from being weak bookworms like Gardeners. They combined hardware attributes and supernatural characteristics, turning into living panel monsters.
This was the regular upgrading path for Beast Tamers. Most Beast Tamers could learn it normally, but some things required talent and luck...
"Xueyi’s ability has developed very well. Just after the first connection, she has achieved such a high degree of sharing. It is quite good, quite good... Most soldiers can choose this kind of sharing."
"Meow’s sharing degree is relatively low and it might not be able to complete the Spiritualization sharing completely later... Probably when she reaches Rule-level or at least Decree-level High-level, she may fully share her Spiritualization talent."
"But being able to share is a good thing in itself. At least they can continue on the Beast Tamer’s Path... "
Beast Tamer’s "bloodline-connection" is not a high-end ability, but many low-level Beast Tamers find it virtually useless. That is because the minimum "bloodline ability" and "powerful trait" that can be shared are in the late 2-tier, basically starting from the third-tier.
The Talent Abilities of Beast Tamers are the best options for early sharing, but not all Talent Abilities can be successfully shared. Even if the sharing is successful, it can be directly discounted depending on the Beast Tamer and the tamed beast.
The two Beast Tamer masters were very satisfied with the performance of their apprentices. Hua Xueyi’s Talent Ability development was very high, and her characteristics were very suitable for sharing... The cellular-level changes were one of the most suitable characteristics for sharing. With her blood integrated into the tamed beast’s body, the "Metalization" cells should also spread within its body.
Perhaps she wouldn’t need continuous bloodline-sharing, and the metalization characteristics of the tamed beast would naturally increase... Generally speaking, fire without a source doesn’t go out on its own.
Hua Xueyi’s cellular-level metalization was a simple and practical ability. It was also the root cause of why Big Cat recognized her suitability for the Beast Tamer Path at first glance.
Meow was another kind of Beast Tamer. Its talent was too high, and the shared version was destined to be a discounted one. However, the fact that it could share reality also meant that its future sharing (other high-level abilities) wouldn’t have any problems, and it could still Cultivate high-level Beast Tamer abilities.
Moreover, this seemingly "Shadow Walk" special ability had no small value in real combat.
"Alright, for the next stage, let’s mass-produce War Beasts themed around Hua Xueyi’s Diamond Wolf. Knights and kings start taking Magic Potions for elite training. Meow (Big Cat behind Meow) will be responsible for this."
— End of Chapter 680 —