Chapter 553 — Bugbug's Stellar Weapon
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But with this, Shi Jin could make sense of those books—so that was what it had been: study...
The reason his predecessor had worked so hard was in truth the hope of one day becoming a beastmaster; but in reality... an orphan who could not even feed himself—what was the point of talking about raising pet beasts?
With the Shi family's circumstances, becoming a beastmaster was simply too hard.
But Shi Cen was lucky: a little talent plus a little effort had at least tied his present occupation to beastmasters, and a future in which he became one was not impossible.
He had even made extensive preparations, resolved to take out a loan if need be to buy premium pet beast cubs and become a beastmaster.
So young, and already set on shouldering a pet beast loan.
Shi Jin's defenses crumbled. Sure enough, it really was miserable.
Having a mountain of mortgage and car loans himself, he felt a billion-percent empathy—who would have thought that even after transmigrating he would carry debt again?
He was wandering too far afield. As things stood, Shi Yu was merely a lowly working drudge.
And shortly a task would be waiting for him; the six-six-six work system—Shi Yun ran them hard.
To be honest, apart from his high school years, it had been a long time since he had risen at six in the morning...
Shi Jin rubbed his aching head, then walked to a wall plastered with a work schedule.
This was the weekly task list just issued yesterday; as an intern at the breeding base, his daily tasks were all arranged for him.
Today's task was... Shi Qi looked at the content beneath Monday.
Morning: feed the snow wolf pack (solo task)... haul feed (group task)...
Afternoon: record growth data for the green cotton worms (group task)...
Mm...
If his memory served... the snow wolves were a pack-living, ferociously savage carnivorous pet beast, weren't they?
Such a dangerous-looking task... and solo was for real?
Shi Jin sank into thought.
He had been bitten by a dog as a child and had always been instinctively timid around canines; this task was a little toxic for him.
"Still, it shouldn't be a big problem..."
Shi Jin suddenly recalled that he possessed the "telepathy" talent, which let him communicate normally with any living thing, so it seemed nothing would go wrong...
The reason he had been able to come here for his internship, apart from his excellent theoretical scores at school, was that he possessed a special beastmaster talent called "telepathy."
When a human successfully opened up a beastmaster space through meditation, there came with it the awakening of a beastmaster talent.
Apart from not yet having contracted an initial pet beast, Shi Jin had already successfully opened his beastmaster space and smoothly awakened his talent.
This was thanks to the state, which, in order to cultivate talent for beastmastery, had incorporated the meditation method for opening a beastmaster space into Zhaoye education after the modern era arrived; Shi Jin had been identified as possessing beastmaster talent during that stage.
Beastmaster talents came in many kinds, but chiefly fell into two great types—enhancement type and special type—awakening in a ratio of roughly nine to one.
Enhancement-type talents, such as Flame Enhancement—a beast tamer who possesses a talent like that would do best to seek out and cultivate a pet beast with fire abilities.
Because in battle, the beast tamer can use their own taming talent to amplify the power of their pet beast's fire-type skills.
Compared with enhancement-type talents, special-type talents are extremely complex and follow no pattern; the ways different talents manifest their abilities vary enormously.
Take the special-type talent "Sharing," for instance: it allows a beast tamer to share one skill of a contracted pet beast, granting the tamer an extraordinary ability of their own.
Generally, beast tamers with talents like Sharing possess self-preservation and combat prowess far beyond the ordinary.
There is also the special talent "Fusion," which lets a beast tamer briefly merge with their pet beast into a new form. Perhaps beast-eared girls really do exist?
As for Jue's telepathy talent, though it too is a special-type, it is rather commonplace—one of the most common special-type talents at present.
A beast tamer with the telepathy talent, once they have mastered the ability, can communicate with any sentient being without any language barrier.
Normally, a beast tamer can only understand the thoughts of pet beasts contracted to themselves, but a beast tamer with telepathy can communicate to some degree even with other people's pet beasts or wild creatures.
In the history of the beast tamer profession, the telepathy talent cannot directly generate combat power, yet its standing is unshakable and indispensable.
After all, if one can communicate with other species, there is a very good chance that an unnecessary great battle can be avoided outright.
In fields such as medical work, teaching, research, and beast keeping within the beast tamer profession, the core positions are basically held by beast tamers with the telepathy talent. It is a jack-of-all-trades talent.
With such a practical taming talent, by all reasoning he ought to get along with wild creatures rather easily...
At this thought, Shi Jin breathed a sigh of relief.
As for the use of "telepathy," Shi Jin might not call himself especially skilled at it, but he ought not to be too shabby either.
Instinctively he tried to use his taming talent, listening in all directions, intending to familiarize himself with the steps in advance lest he botch things later.
But just at that moment, an unexpected change occurred...
As the taming space he had opened up in his mind shuddered, his vision suddenly blurred, and then, in his mind, a black stone compendium unexpectedly surfaced.
It seemed... he had awakened a second taming talent!