Although the current Pet Tamer Association appeared quite peaceful on the surface, wherever there were people, there was a dark side.
Back when pet beasts had not yet become widespread, there were only human traffickers. Later, as the Pet Tamer Association developed, the profession of pet beast traffickers emerged.
Those engaged in this line of work were generally ordinary people or low-level pet tamers.
They did not dare enter secret realms to capture pet beasts, nor did they dare lay hands on pet beasts that had evolved once.
That was because even Intermediate Pet Beasts that had only evolved once were mostly not very small. Also, if an Intermediate Pet Beast sensed that something was off, casually using a skill would cause quite a commotion.
Most importantly, even if they succeeded, if the pet tamer who owned the Intermediate Pet Beast was above E-rank, not only would the danger level rise sharply, they would also be unable to force the pet beast to break its contract.
So, without exception, the targets they trafficked were small, innocent, easily deceived low-level pet beasts.
Of course, cases of pet beast traffickers abducting pet beasts were isolated incidents, and every time one appeared, it made the social news.
After all, there were truly not many people in this line of work nowadays.
The last pet beast trafficker reported on the news had been three months ago.
According to his confession, he had staked out a training center for a month before finally setting his sights on a Little Ball Cattail that had no pet tamer to pick it up or drop it off.
So he spent a fortune buying Fragrant Fruit, which was highly attractive to Grass-type Pet Beasts. Just as he expected, the Little Ball Cattail grew close to him.
Later, using the