Beast Tamer

Biodata

Power Progression

Beast Tamer ranks correspond to their pet beasts’ growth-level brackets. Advancement requires clearing a corresponding Breakthrough Secret Realm, rather than simply increasing a pet’s level 16.

• Pet beasts reach a growth bottleneck every ten levels. Clearing the appropriate Breakthrough Secret Realm removes that bottleneck for all of the tamer’s pets 11 16.
• Breakthrough Secret Realms award additional Contract Cards and are the only known means of increasing the number of beasts a tamer can contract. Contract Cards cannot be traded 11.
• A Beast Tamer can learn one beast-taming skill per rank stage 16.
• The maximum pet-beast growth level is unknown in the basic training manual 16.

Becoming a Beast Tamer

Selection and Contracting

Black Cards select people with Beast Tamer aptitude. Selected candidates generally have substantial contact with animals through their occupations or pet ownership 2 21.

• Time limit: An unused Novice Contract Card disappears after 24 hours, and its holder loses the right to become a Beast Tamer 3.
• Capture procedure: Hold the card, focus on the target while channeling the desire to contract it, then bring the card close enough to attempt capture 4.
• Restrictions: Contract Cards cannot capture humans. Success depends on the user’s mental power and the card’s quality 2.
• Control requirement: Attempting to contract an uncontrollable creature can destroy the card or cause the beast to turn against its tamer 2.
• Compatibility: A stronger bond between tamer and pet allows the pet to awaken greater potential during its initial contract 21.

Novice Trial

After the initial contract, newcomers are teleported into a Novice Trial. Infinite City assigns these realms according to their contracted beasts 2 10.

• Lu Ran’s trial takes place in the projected Demon Cat Forest, with the objective of surviving for one day 5.
• Trial ratings run from highest to lowest: SSS, SS, S, A, B, C, D, E, F 8.
• Passing grants an Identity Card and access to Infinite City, a safe zone with facilities for Beast Tamers 8.
• Rewards vary. Lu Ran’s S-rated completion awards Crystal Coins, resources, Super Beast Mimicry, and the basic Eye of Data 8.
• Novice rewards are more generous than those of ordinary secret realms at the same level 16.

Background / History

Contract Black Cards first appeared three years before Lu Ran’s selection. The Donghuang Beast Taming Alliance was established during that period and initially operated outside public knowledge. A much larger selection wave began roughly one month before Lu Ran met Little White Dragon, making continued secrecy increasingly difficult 10.

The authorities later announced that prehistoric ruins had unlocked Infinite City and described it as the inheritance of a lost beast-taming civilization. The announcement made Beast Tamers and supernatural powers public worldwide 24.

Generations

When the number of Beast Tamers who had passed the Novice Trial reached 100,000, Infinite City introduced the Divine Pet Rankings. Its next announced update milestone was 1,000,000 Beast Tamers 27.

Abilities & Skills

Contract Bond

A contract creates a mental connection and enhances both partners. In Lu Ran’s initial contract, his strength increases, but General Ha receives a much larger physical enhancement 3 4.

• Mental Link: Enables basic mental communication between a tamer and their contracted beasts; it does not extend to unrelated animals 20.
• Mutual enhancement: Contract Card power combines with the power each partner provides to the other. The quality of that feedback affects the initial strengthening 43.
• Rank-dependent support: An ordinary animal contracted by a higher-level tamer receives a greater boost than it would from an apprentice 43.
• Resting space: Contract Cards contain an internal space suitable for pet beasts to rest 2.

Beast-Taming Skills

A combat-oriented tamer’s strength consists of their pet beasts’ combat power and their own beast-taming skills 16.

• Acquisition: Skills come from secret-realm reward cards. In certain special realms, an S rating gives a 1% chance of obtaining one 16.
• Development: Skills have no formal rarity ranks; their effectiveness depends on how their users develop them 16.
• Super Beast Mimicry: Lets tamers gain strength and skills by imitating the behavioral characteristics of their contracted beasts 9.
• Trait Borrowing: Allows a tamer to temporarily use a contracted pet’s trait 40.
• Individual experimentation: Lu Ran investigates reversing Super Beast Mimicry’s feedback to help General Ha learn human tool use, using his separate Telepathy ability as a possible second connection 18.

Pet-Beast Training

Tamers must discover their pets’ learning aptitude and develop suitable skills. Species rank determines base qualities such as vitality, energy reserves, and physical strength, but does not determine learning ability 16 18.

Energy coating is the foundation of pet-beast techniques. Its effects depend on the attribute: rock energy strengthens defense, while wind energy increases movement speed 17.

• These directions can be combined; shaping and release can produce a projectile such as an ice spear 17.
• Every ten levels, special resources can grant a new attribute or trait. Their combination determines the pet’s evolutionary direction 17.
• The manual identifies major evolution opportunities at levels 30 and 60, after accumulating three additional attributes and traits 17.
• Attribute resources and Trait Crystals are rare rewards associated with difficult Abyss-level realms 17.
• Awakening Leaves are used to screen prospective pets: successful supernatural awakening indicates aptitude, while the resulting species rank helps guide the contracting decision 35.

Occupational Paths

• Nutritionists develop diets for pet beasts 27.
• Potion masters prepare healing medicine and antidotes, particularly valuable because healing pets and healing-oriented tamers are scarce 27.
• Blacksmiths chiefly equip the comparatively vulnerable tamers themselves, though some also forge weapons for pets 27.
• Professional knowledge can come from Breakthrough Secret Realms. Master Lin learned forging through a crafting-focused task and instruction from a smith within one such realm 26.

Organizations and Regulation

Donghuang Beast Taming Alliance

The Donghuang Beast Taming Alliance is Xia Country’s largest beast-taming organization, incorporating official institutions and major guilds 14.

• Joining the authorities is optional, but every Beast Tamer must register and must not use supernatural powers to break the law 10.
• Official tamers receive access to veteran knowledge, resources, experience, and equipment; their responsibilities include addressing crimes committed by civilian tamers 11.
• Guilds offer greater occupational freedom but remain subject to Alliance supervision 14.
• The Public Security Protection Bureau investigates malicious activities involving tamers and supernatural creatures 22.

Guilds and Education

• Beast Tamer Guilds originally formed to tackle Abyss-difficulty secret realms collectively. Most are founded by unofficial tamers 13.
• Medicine Pavilion operates as a commercially focused pharmaceutical guild 13.
• The planned Beast Taming University will teach knowledge and mental resilience without requiring students to clear secret realms. Graduates may choose an official agency or guild afterward 22.
• Its intended teachers include earlier-generation combat and support tamers, guild members, and researchers of supernatural creatures 22.

Equipment and Facilities

• Contract Card — Strengthens mental power, captures beasts, and provides their resting space 2.
• Identity Card — Records a changeable name and Beast Tamer ID. Its number indicates the order in which the holder cleared the trial 9 10.
• Eye of Data — Displays information such as a creature’s species, attribute, species rank, and growth level 5.
• Crystal Coins — Infinite City’s universal currency, used for resources and services 11 28.
• Training Secret Realms — Paid facilities for training 9 27.
• Arena — Designated venue for pet battles and disputes; fighting elsewhere in Infinite City is forbidden and punished by Patrol Beasts 11.
• Divine Pet Rankings — Regional rankings with ten places each for Extraordinary, Leader, Monarch, and Overlord species. Ranked tamers receive monthly Crystal Coin rewards 27 28.

The Extraordinary Species Rankings only admit pets whose tamers have held the profession for less than one year. External boosts from equipment, consumables, or teammates reduce a pet’s ranking weight 28.

Risks and Limitations

• Initial trials can be fatal: The first online account describes a pet being gravely injured while protecting its tamer, and many first-generation tamers died in secret realms 2 14.
• A contract does not guarantee obedience: A zoo keeper contracted a powerful tiger without a sufficient bond; its awakened wild instincts and intense hunger contributed to it killing him 23.
• Tamers remain vulnerable: Their initial physical enhancement can be far smaller than their pets’, making weapons, armor, and protective support important 4 27.
• Direct combat carries greater risk: According to guild veterans quoted by Pig Farmer, self-enhancement tamers have a death rate several times higher than pet-enhancement tamers 36.
• Pet death can cause backlash: Pig Farmer’s account states that pet-enhancement tamers suffer backlash if something happens to their beasts, but do not necessarily die 36.
• Necromancers prey on tamers: Other Shore members kill their own pets, convert them through Undead Servitude, and hunt supernatural beings to level up by devouring their souls 44.

Notable Practitioners