Chapter 15 — Class Branches
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Eleven thought its beast master was far too much of a genius.
Could any normal person dream up such a brutally un-bear-like training method?
Right now, Eleven was very much looking forward to using this method to temper its Hardening toughness.
Still, looking forward to it was one thing — it did have a small worry.
This training method would surely deal a heavy shock to the body; it sounded painful, and there was no way it wouldn't cause injury...
If it got hurt, it wasn't as though Eleven couldn't accept that.
After all, if you don't get hurt in training, you'll get hurt worse in battle.
It was all an early payment for a better future.
What worried it was this: after getting hurt, if treatment didn't come in time, it might hold back their training progress.
"Awoo—"
And if training progress was held back, training efficiency would drop again.
"You really have thought this through."
Shi Jin watched the little Iron-Eating Beast, his eyelid twitching.
If you don't make this year's Top Ten Hardest-Working Pet Beasts list, I'm going straight to smash up the TV station myself.
"Don't worry, I've prepared a healing skill for you too. Train with peace of mind!"
Eleven had thought it through thoroughly, and Shi Jin had thought it through just as thoroughly.
[Skill]: Rapid Healing
[Skill Tier]: Mid-tier
[Description]: A wood-attribute healing ability that accelerates the recovery rate of ordinary wounds.
[Status]: Teachable
Shi Jin first swallowed two Bright Spirit Capsules, then, with a martyr's expression, pressed his white-glowing right hand onto the little Iron-Eating Beast's head.
And once more, the spiral rubbing.
In fact, his skill codex's cooldown had already reset to zero yesterday, and after Eleven reached level four, his physical constitution and mental level had improved somewhat as well.
This set Shi Jin to thinking about trying to teach a mid-tier healing-type skill.
He'd have to teach it sooner or later anyway; teaching it early meant getting it off his mind early.
Since the codex showed it as teachable, then in theory, even if he taught the high-tier skill Intimidation, he wouldn't drop dead.
At most he'd be laid up for a few days...
As the light drained away, the skill codex's cooldown timer appeared again — this time reading "48 hours."
A cooldown was just a cooldown; as long as he didn't die, it didn't matter.
What did bring a tear to Shi Jin's eye was that the Iron-Eating Beast actually had an affinity for learning Rapid Healing.
Seems all that bamboo paid off — you've got at least a touch of wood in you.
Though perhaps this also showed that the Iron-Eating Beast had the potential to evolve in the wood-attribute direction?
A druid panda?
From what Shi Tang knew, besides wood attribute, Iron-Eating Beasts also had the potential to master lightning and flame abilities; in Ping City there were beast masters who specialized in raising Iron-Eating Beasts and had bred out related skills.
In the days to come, perhaps he could look into it and enrich his own Iron-Eating Beast's skill panel a bit more.
At this moment, the teaching done, Shi Jin was drained again — and it was the kind of weakness that even Bright Spirit Capsules couldn't ease.
This toll was just too heavy.
The high-tier skill Absolute Sleep would have to wait until he'd trained his body for a month — otherwise something really would go wrong...
"One day, sooner or later, I will definitely train myself into a constitution that lets me fight an Iron-Eating Beast bare-handed." Shi Zhao made this grand vow.
Meanwhile, as the skill codex kept channeling energy into the little Iron-Eating Beast through Shi Jin, transforming its constitution, the usage of Rapid Healing gradually grew clear in Eleven's mind.
The various wondrous effects of entry-level Rapid Healing immediately made Eleven understand what it did.
At once, the scene from the day before yesterday repeated itself: the beast master had done something or other and made it learn a new ability, and Eleven was utterly baffled.
This was... a wound-healing ability?
Iron-Eating Beast: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
The little Iron-Eating Beast looked at the weakened Shi Jin, its little brain struggling to keep up.
The only thing it could understand was that, no matter what, it had to jump for this falling training method.
Otherwise... this healing ability would sit uneasy in its hands, burning to the touch.
…………
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Inside the room, Shi Jin lay peacefully.
Outside, the sound of Eleven's intimate collisions with the alloy steel plates came without pause.
And with them, the heart-rending shrieks of a certain Green Silk Worm.
Having witnessed Eleven's training method with its own eyes, the Green Silk Worm in the birdcage was deeply shaken.
What kind of freaks were these people?
Surely it wasn't going to be tortured like that too, later on?
In truth, it wasn't only the Green Silk Worm who was shaken; Shi Jin himself was speechless.
Because Eleven's acceptance of this training method was unexpectedly high...
Even though he had come up with the training regimen himself, Shi Jin couldn't help feeling a little frightened now.
Raised along the lines of Eleven's personality, what sort of pet beast would he end up with ten years from now...
Little Iron-Eating Beast: Even my beast master is scared of how I train.jpg
Never mind that — why think so much about it? In any case... the consumption brought on by the dual-skill training of Hardening and High-Speed Healing would definitely make its demand for food nutrition even more outrageous.
After resting a bit, Shi Jin planned to go shopping again. The food that came as a bonus with the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base really didn't look like enough for Eleven to consume in a month.
Exhausted as he was, Shi Jin dozed off hazily, yet the racket outside was so loud that he couldn't fall asleep.
This inevitably set Shi Jin's mind to wandering.
"I keep feeling like something's missing..."
Though three months had passed since he transmigrated, Shi Jin, lying on the bed, still felt empty, as if something were missing.
The profession of beast master... it was quite fascinating, and it filled one's life.
Cute as the Iron-Eating Beast was, he still felt that, as expected, he wanted a phone!
Being without a phone in hand was so awkward... he had been out of touch with the internet for three months.
After shifting his thoughts, Shi Jin felt a little vexed.
If he had a phone, he could order training equipment, food, and medicine online — how convenient that would be.
Unlike now, when he had to keep running out trip after trip.
It wasn't that this world's technology was backward — in fact, it wasn't. Televisions, computers, and phones all existed.
But on ordinary days Shi Jin was either at school or interning, and he had no use for such things, so he hadn't wasted money buying them.
Though he was still very poor, Shi Jin had already made up his mind... once he had money, he would equip himself with the best.
The kind of super-smartphone that also came with a pet-beast energy level scanner.
In a sense, this world's technology, though hardly widespread, was truly ahead of its time.
Because not only had animals and plants evolved into transcendent life forms, but in modern times machines too had evolved into transcendent life, and artificial intelligence was highly developed in certain countries.
In some places, there were even beast masters who took mechanical life as their contracted pet beasts.
And compared with beast master, they preferred to call themselves machinists.
Actually, beast master was merely a general term handed down from ancient times. Over the course of history, many beast masters who specialized in contracting a particular kind of pet beast had long since found other names for themselves.