Beast Taming: Starting From Zero

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After the morning classes, Qiao Sang headed toward the infirmary.

"Teacher, I want to test my brain domain." She said as she pushed the door open.

"Wait a moment." The young doctor replied while examining a pet beast. The creature had a hardened wooden shell covering its head and back, with a brown-tipped tail.

Standing beside him was a Southeast Asian-looking male student.

Qiao Sang glanced at his sleeve and saw a white gemstone.

A first-year student... She found a seat and sat down.

At Sainan High School, each grade level had different gemstone colors embedded in their uniform sleeves. First-years had white, second-years had green, and third-years had blue, making it easy to distinguish.

After the examination, the young doctor said, "It can be treated, but full recovery will take until the evening."

The boy frowned.

"I have an outdoor training session this afternoon. If it’s not fully healed, how can I participate?"

"Junjun..."

The pet beast, with its wooden-covered head, lowered its head as if it had done something wrong.

The young doctor reassured him, "Junjian Grass can still battle, but its movement will be slower than usual. It shouldn’t affect your training too much."

The boy raised his head and said seriously, "Kul Chaang once said that even the slightest discomfort before going into battle can put a pet beast in a passive position."

Qiao Sang's mouth twitched hard.

Are you seriously using a famous wartime quote for an outdoor training session? With just a beginner pet beast? Do you even realize your own level? The instructor isn't going to throw you against creatures way beyond your capabilities, what's wrong with moving a bit slower?

The young doctor mentally rolled his eyes but outwardly put on a look of admiration.

"You're right. That was my oversight." Then, he looked troubled.

"But the issue is that Junjian Grass absorbed too much energy, which is now blocked inside its body and unable to dissipate. I can only accelerate its energy absorption and help it release the excess, but this process takes time."

"If you want an immediate fix, it’s not impossible. But Junjian Grass is a low-level pet beast, its body won’t be able to handle it. In the end, it would still need a few hours to recover."

The boy fell silent, seemingly weighing his options.

"Junjun..."

Junjian Grass lowered its head even further.

"Um..." At that moment, Qiao Sang spoke up.

"Maybe I can heal it immediately."

Both the boy and the doctor turned to look at her.

The boy asked skeptically, "Does your pet beast have a skill that specializes in this?"

He had recognized her the moment she walked in.

There had been a post about her on Sainan High School’s forum yesterday.

The new interstellar exchange student. The high school champion of Blue Star’s Dragon Nation Beast master League. Someone the same age as him but assigned to the senior class, Year 3, Class 6.

With those titles, it was hard not to remember her.

If she were from Chaosu Star, the elite social circles here would have been all over her. But she was from Blue Star and would eventually leave, so there was no need to befriend her.

"Something like that." Qiao Sang nodded.

"What do you want in exchange?" The boy, maintaining a fair-trade mindset, asked.

Well, since you put it that way, I won’t hold back... Qiao Sang smiled.

"Just give me six points."

The boy immediately turned to the young doctor and said, "Go ahead and treat Junjian Grass. Use the first treatment option."

Thank you, exchange student... The young doctor gave Qiao Sang a grateful look and began the treatment.

Qiao Sang: ...

After the boy left with Junjian Grass, she asked, puzzled, "I told him I could heal it right away. Why didn't he take my offer?"

The young doctor chuckled.

"Points are extremely important to students here. He wanted Junjian Grass to fully recover before training so he could earn more points. Giving you six points would have been worse than giving you 600,000 alliance credits."

Are points really that hard to earn…? Realizing this, Qiao Sang felt even more heartbroken about losing six points.

"You're a special talent student, right?" The doctor asked.

"Yeah."

"Most interstellar exchange students are special talent students." The doctor said with a smile.

"If you want to earn points, it’s easy, just participate in competitions related to your specialty."

Like I have time for that... Qiao Sang pouted.

As the doctor placed the brain domain testing helmet on her head, he added, "If you have a breakthrough in your brain domain, an evolution in your pet beast, or pass a beast master ranking exam, you can also earn points."

Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up.

"How many points?"

"It depends on your previous records." The doctor said as he turned on the helmet.

"You need to surpass your archived stats for it to count."

"For brain domain increases, going from 8% to 9% won’t earn points. Only reaching a milestone, like going from 9% to 10%, where your Beast master Codex gains an additional blank contract page, counts as a major breakthrough and will reward points."

Qiao Sang’s heartbeat quickened.

"How many points for that?"

"Well, let’s see..." The young doctor looked at the display screen, and his words suddenly died in his throat.

How many points…? Say it already! Qiao Sang was getting impatient.

"Teacher?"

"Hold on." The doctor snapped back to reality and immediately pulled out his phone.

"The brain domain testing helmet is broken. I need to call for maintenance."

Broken? Qiao Sang turned to look at the screen.

[39%]

"Where is it broken?" She asked.

The young doctor was dialing maintenance when he noticed her glancing at the display.

He froze for a moment. Does she really need me to explain?! Can't she see this number for herself?!

Taking a deep breath to steady himself, he said, "The data is incorrect."

Qiao Sang, ever the curious learner, asked, "How can you tell?"

The doctor couldn’t hold it in anymore.

"Thirty-nine percent! It shows thirty-nine percent!"

Qiao Sang asked sincerely, "What’s wrong with 39%?"

Tang Yi’s brain domain had increased by 6%. It wasn’t unreasonable for hers to increase by 10%, right?

In her experience, breaking through in brain domain had always been easy.

First, it awakened naturally. Then, after a good night’s sleep, her Beast master Codex had an extra page. Later, resisting a hypnosis skill had unlocked another. She had never found brain domain advancement particularly difficult.

Besides, to qualify as a B-rank Beastmaster, she needed to reach 50%, a universally recognized barrier. She hadn’t even crossed the small chasm of 40% yet.

Do you even hear yourself?! The young doctor’s eye twitched violently, struggling to find words for this absurdity.

Seeing his expression, Qiao Sang started to understand.

She had tested at 29% yesterday. Today, it showed 39%. A sudden 10% jump, it was no wonder he thought the equipment was faulty.

With that realization, Qiao Sang formed a hand seal.

In the next moment, an orange-yellow star formation lit up.

The young doctor’s mind went blank.

An... orange-yellow star formation?!

"Hey, why aren’t you saying anything?" The voice from the phone speaker echoed faintly.

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