Beast Tamer: Carrying a small world of the end times with you

"Your Bloodforged Saint needs to learn different skills to broaden its attack range. There's nothing to debate about that. The school has plenty of ordinary skill learning machines. Even ordinary students have access, let alone you. But you need to be careful. The selection of skills and the development of advanced skills must be tailored to your team and your own pet beast's characteristics."

"For example, in my team, the Flesh Demon is positioned as a tank with sufficient counterattack power. Therefore, its skill development is mostly focused on forcing attacks on opponents and various functional effects."

Qian'er suddenly understood. As for the functional effects, it should be the interruption caused by Earthquake.

And in my team, what is the Bloodforged Saint's position?

Qian'er pondered his three pet beasts. Although the Little Ice Dragon's attack is quite prominent now, once it completes its final evolution into a Frost Bone Dragon, its special attack will be even more outstanding. So, without a doubt, it's the team's special attack specialist.

As for the Soul-Guiding Banner, it's the team's support and part-time tank.

In that case, what's suitable for the Bloodforged Saint is either an output-type tank like Professor Zheng's Flesh Demon, or a primary physical attacker.

But turning the Bloodforged Saint into a tank would be a waste of its high speed.

Thoughts racing through his mind, Qian'er had already made a decision.

With the Bloodforged Saint's terrifying stat distribution, it would be a waste of talent to make it a meat shield.

"It seems you've already figured out the direction for nurturing the Bloodforged Saint."

Professor Zheng smiled slightly, seeing that Qian'er had made his decision.

"Yes, Professor, I now need a powerful Blood-type attack skill, a speed-enhancing skill, and a skill that can counter Holy-type pet beasts."

Qian'er stroked his chin and spoke slowly. For now, he only thought of these three. Any more would be trying to bite off more than he could chew.

"I've already prepared what you need. Blood Burst for the Blood-type, which can directly detonate the opponent's blood, ignoring their defense. Shrinking Ground, a Fighting-type transformation skill, can directly increase speed by two levels, making it seem like the distance to the ground has been shortened. As for the skill you want that can counter Holy-type, I don't have that. The Flesh Demon can't learn that kind of skill."

Professor Zheng sighed helplessly. The Flesh Demon, a pet beast with such deep demonic nature, really has no way to deal with the Holy-type.

Other Blood-type pet beasts have more or less some means of counterattack, such as the Myriad Transformation Demon, which can directly copy itself into a Holy-type pet beast.

"But yours is a Bloodforged Saint, so it's hard to say. After all, your Bloodforged Saint also has a Fire attribute. I'll go ask the Fire-type people for you in a couple of days."

"Alright."

For now, that was the only option.

Afterward, Professor Zheng led Qian'er into a room filled with Blood-type skill learning machines. The various precious skills that were rare outside were almost worthless here.

Except for forbidden skills, it could be said that all Blood-type skill learning machines were here.

At that moment, Qian'er finally understood what Professor Zheng meant by 'already prepared'.

So he brought all the skill learning machines here.

"Here, Blood Burst and Shrinking Ground. After learning them, come back to me if you feel like anything's missing."

Picking out two skill learning machines from a large pile, Professor Zheng handed them to Qian'er with a smile.

"Thank you, Professor."

Hearing Qian'er's 'Professor', Professor Zheng's heart bloomed with joy.

The two strolled slowly through the training ground, and Professor Zheng took the opportunity to supplement Qian'er's missing common sense.

The smile on Qian'er's face stiffened a bit. He quickly walked to the door, and just as he was about to turn around and say goodbye to Professor Zheng, the Bloodforged Saint's voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Master, over there, there's the scent of the blood relatives of the people who attacked us last time."

The smile on Qian'er's face froze, and his eyes narrowed instantly. He looked in the direction the Bloodforged Saint was pointing.

A man and a woman were walking on the gravel path, both appearing to be in their late twenties. The man was refined, and the woman was beautiful, both with good appearances.

"Both of them?"

Qian'er's smile remained unchanged, even becoming a bit brighter, as he asked in his mind.

"Both of them."

Hearing this, Qian'er took a deep look at the two.

"Those two young fellows are quite something. They're from the Wen and Zhao families, two of the Eight Great Families of the Empire. It's said that they were betrothed from a young age, and later both were admitted to the Imperial Academy. After graduation, they both chose to stay at the school as interns, and now they're both teaching assistants in the Imperial Academy's Water Department. It's said that they'll be promoted to lecturers in a while."

Professor Zheng walked over slowly, his tone filled with a smile.

The smile on Qian'er's face remained unchanged, and he turned his head, about to say something, but was interrupted by Professor Zheng.

"The academy doesn't allow private fights. That's the bottom line. If you want pet beast battles, there's a special arena, but you also have to abide by the rules."

Qian'er was stunned for a moment, then a helpless smile appeared on his face.

"Does Professor know what I want to do?"

Seeing his expression, Professor Zheng laughed even louder. After all, this kid had always acted like a little adult before, making people want to tease him.

"Your talent is too important, so your previous life trajectory has been investigated in detail. Now, people of our level in the Empire basically know. We may not say it, but we can all guess what kind of dirty things they did."

After laughing, Professor Zheng slowly opened his mouth.

"Then Professor isn't afraid that I'll go too far?"

Qian'er looked at Professor Zheng and asked curiously.

"Little fellow, you've already become a Dark-type pet beast master, and you're still worried about this? Don't you know what others say about Dark-type pet beast masters? Let me teach you a lesson. When they slander you for being a murderer, you better actually be a murderer. Remember, I am a barbarian too."

A lazy voice sounded behind Qian'er. Qian'er turned his head and saw Professor Yong Xuehai, whom he had met once before, slowly rising from the shadows, looking at him with a smile, his arms crossed.

"Although I don't really like this old thing, what he said is indeed correct. The time and energy wasted in proving your innocence is too much. Rather than trying to prove your innocence, it's better to just go along with their thoughts and then use the methods they slander you with to kill them."

Professor Zheng nodded, adding a sentence.

"… Since that's the case, then I understand."

Qian'er lowered his head, and a different, excited smile gradually appeared on his face.

Afterward, Qian'er took the Bloodforged Saint back to his villa, and everything was as usual.

But after the night was deep and quiet, a figure swayed down from Qian'er's balcony and walked towards the Water Department faculty dormitory area.