1: Chapter 1: One advancement point per second? That's a pretty overpowered cheat!
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[No female lead]
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Lin Feng City.
North District, Job Transfer Plaza.
It was already packed to the brim. Today was the annual Awakening Day.
Here, everyone had a chance to awaken a profession in the year they turned eighteen.
Life-type, support-type, combat-type... All kinds of professions were available!
“Chu Ran, Beast Tamer!”
The shout of the staff member in charge of the Awakening echoed across the entire plaza.
Before the broadcast even finished, a wave of noise instantly erupted from the crowd.
Beast Tamer!
As the name suggested, it meant enhancing one's combat power by signing a Contract Spell with a spirit beast.
As the ultimate Late Stage combat profession on the Tianxuan Continent, the Beast Tamer was renowned!
There was even an old saying circulating here: 'Ten Thousand Professions are Inferior, Only Beast Taming is Supreme.'
One could see the high status of the Beast Tamer...
However...
Beast Tamers were also divided into different tiers; not all Beast Tamers were sought after.
The claim that it was the strongest Late Stage profession was true, but it was extremely difficult for this profession to reach the Late Stage...
Due to the specialty of this profession, the most important focus for a Beast Tamer was the spirit beast. Cultivating them was much more difficult than cultivating a person...
Because spirit beasts had another name: Gold-Swallowing Beasts!
They truly devoured money!
And it wasn't guaranteed to become stronger just by throwing money at them...
So now, very few people would risk everything to Cultivate this profession just because it was strong in the Late Stage...
Investment in this was similar to stock trading...
There were quite a few Families that had suffered devastating losses by investing in Beast Tamers...
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“Did Chu Ran awaken as a Beast Tamer? That’s such a pity. I remember he isn't very rich, right?”
“I heard he’s a top student, but he earned his tuition by working part-time during breaks. His Family really isn't wealthy...”
“Ah? Then this supreme profession is wasted on him. If I had awakened it, my Family could definitely buy me a young gold grade spirit beast.”
“What a shame. The early cultivation of a spirit beast is very expensive...”
“Without a good spirit beast, this profession is basically useless...”
“Sigh, what a mess. He almost got to live a good life.”
“But if Chu Ran can really become a top Beast Tamer, I’ll still be happy for you~ Hahahaha!”
As a handsome top student, Chu Ran was highly favored by the girls at school. This naturally made him the object of hatred for some boys...
Seeing that Chu Ran had awakened a useless profession, the students who were jealous of him suddenly found a point to attack him. They mocked him, one after another...
The gazes of others around him also held a few more traces of sympathy.
For a Beast Tamer, innate talent wasn't that important, because the growth attributes of a Beast Tamer were the lowest among all professions. Even high talent only amounted to so much...
Having a powerful spirit beast was the most crucial thing!
The reason this profession was overpowered was because Beast Tamers obtained a Contract Spell every twenty Ranks...
In the Late Stage at the same Rank, a Beast Tamer could summon several high-Rank spirit beasts at once, and each one could contend against other Professionals of the same Rank. How could anyone fight that?
Although Beast Tamers were overpowered in the Late Stage, they were extremely difficult to develop in the early stages...
The resources required to Cultivate one spirit beast from Rank 1 to max Rank were comparable to two or three other professions...
Moreover, even a bronze-grade spirit beast, the one with the worst growth attributes, cost tens of thousands to acquire...
If one didn't have a good spirit beast, the profession of Beast Tamer was a joke...
A purely useless profession...
This was why ordinary people didn't want to awaken as Beast Tamers, while the Young Masters from noble Families hoped to awaken as Beast Tamers...
The Beast Tamer basically didn't need to work hard themselves; the difficulty of Cultivation was much lower than other professions, all they needed was money and resources!
I hate rich people!
Chu Ran cursed in his heart.
Listening to the sighs around him, his brow furrowed slightly.
Just because I didn't take out a loan, you really think I'm broke?
I just awakened, why is everyone talking as if my life is over?
But...
As a Transmigration expert, being broke was one thing, but could I really be without a cheat?
As a thought crossed his mind, a panel floated before his eyes.
[Profession: First Turn · Beast Tamer]
[Rank: Lv.1]
[Strength: 5]
[Agility: 8]
[Spirit: 12]
[Combat Power: 16]
[Skill: Contract Spell.]
[Spirit Beast: None]
[Evolution Points: 3006... 3007... 3008...]
[Note: Evolution Points increase by one point every second and can be used to advance spirit beasts...]
“Evolution Points.”
He had been in this world for three years, and finally, about an hour ago, he heard that ding!
Chu Ran focused his gaze here; the number of Evolution Points was still increasing...
He knew this must be his cheat!
On the Tianxuan Continent, the Ranks of spirit beasts were divided into: bronze, Silver, Gold, Commander, Monarch, Holy Spirit, and Totem, seven Ranks in total.
With every Rank increase, the growth of all attributes of the spirit beast would undergo a qualitative change.
However, the evolution of a spirit beast was uncontrollable; no one knew when it would evolve...
Some spirit beasts with high Comprehension Ability might evolve during the leveling process, while some spirit beasts might not change their Rank even after reaching max level...
The appearance of Evolution Points was tantamount to making the evolution of Chu Ran's spirit beasts controllable...
He couldn't wait to see the use of these Evolution Points...
As for the continuous low whispers of ridicule in his ears...
Chu Ran didn't pay any attention.
They were just children during their school days; they just liked to compete and be jealous like this. Their nature wasn't truly malicious...
Chu Ran suppressed the excitement in his heart, completely ignoring the various looks around him, and calmly left the Awakening Plaza quickly.
He had more important things to do now, which was to obtain his first spirit beast!
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Soon, Chu Ran arrived at the largest trading pavilion in the North District.
Qianjin Pavilion.
Here, there were dedicated trading zones for various professions. Chu Ran walked into the Beast Tamer zone.
bronze-grade and silver-grade spirit beasts were for sale here.
Sometimes, gold grade spirit beasts would also appear, but those required auctions...
The spirit beasts openly sold in Lin Feng City were basically those that had just hatched and had not yet signed a contract. A Rank 1 gold grade spirit beast could easily fetch several million or even tens of millions at auction...
And the higher the Rank of the spirit beast, the higher its Comprehension Ability, and the greater the possibility of it evolving again during the leveling process...
So, every time the Rank of a spirit beast increased by one level, its price would multiply countless times...
As for higher tiers like commander grade, Monarch Grade, and so on...
Those were legendary spirit beasts that experts at the Fifth or Sixth Turn spent countless efforts and their entire lives to Cultivate just one of...
Each one was an existence capable of stirring up a storm in Lin Feng City, or even the entire Northern Territory...
Most ordinary Beast Tamers, in their entire lives, could at most Cultivate one silver-grade spirit beast, and if they were lucky, it might evolve to gold grade...
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Chu Ran followed the saleswoman to a spirit beast incubation room.
This place housed bronze-grade spirit beasts that had just hatched, priced between thirty thousand and one hundred thousand. The price fluctuated slightly due to differences in vitality...
[Black Eagle]
[Rank: bronze-grade.]
[Combat Power: 10.]
[Selling Price: Sixty Thousand dragon country coins.]
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[Spirit Cat]
[Rank: bronze-grade.]
[Combat Power: 10.]
[Selling Price: Sixty Thousand dragon country coins.]
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Chu Ran saw a box in the corner placed on the ground, completely different from the exquisite boxes placed on the shelves.
The box on the ground looked somewhat dilapidated, like a trash can.
Inside was a small snake with a wound on its abdomen.
[Green Flood Dragon]
[Rank: bronze-grade]
[Combat Power: 11]
[Selling Price: Thirty Thousand dragon country coins.]
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“I’ll take this one.”