Eleven thought his beast tamer was a genius.
Could a normal person come up with such a bearly humane training method?
Now, Eleven was eager to use this method to train his Hardening strength.
Still, eager as he was, he had one little concern.
This training method would surely put his body through a lot. It sounded painful, and he would definitely get hurt...
Eleven could accept getting hurt.
After all, if he didn't get hurt during training, he would suffer worse injuries in battle.
It was all a price paid in advance for a brighter future.
What worried him was that if his injuries weren't treated promptly, they might affect his training progress.
"Awoo-"
If his training progress was affected, his training efficiency would drop again.
"You've really thought this through."
Shi Yu's eyelid twitched as he looked at the little Iron-Eating Beast.
If you don't make this year's list of the world's ten hardest-working pets, I'm going straight to the TV station and smashing it up.
"Don't worry, I've also prepared a healing skill for you. Go ahead and train without worrying!"
Eleven had thought things through, and so had Shi Yu.
[Skill]: High-Speed Healing [Skill level]: Intermediate [Description]: A wood-type healing ability that can accelerate the healing of ordinary injuries. [Status]: Teachable
Shi Yu first popped two Mind-Clearing Capsules, then, with a look of heroic resolve, pressed his right hand, wreathed in white light, against the little Iron-Eating Beast's head.
Once again, he rubbed it in a spiral.
In fact, his Skill Index's cooldown had reset yesterday, and after Eleven reached level four, his physical fitness and mental capacity had also improved somewhat.
That had given Shi Yu the idea of trying to teach an intermediate healing skill.
He had to teach it sooner or later anyway. The sooner he taught it, the sooner he could stop worrying.
Since the index said it was teachable, then theoretically, even if he taught the advanced skill Intimidation, he wouldn't die.
At worst, he'd be bedridden for a few days...
As the light faded, the Skill Index's cooldown appeared again, this time showing "48 hours."
Shi Yu didn't care how long it was. As long as he didn't die, that was fine.
The fact that the Iron-Eating Beast had an affinity for learning "High-Speed Healing," though, nearly brought tears to Shi Yu's eyes.
Looks like eating all that bamboo has given you at least some connection to wood.
But perhaps this also meant that Iron-Eating Beasts could evolve toward the wood attribute?
A druid panda?
As far as Shi Yu knew, aside from the wood attribute, Iron-Eating Beasts could also potentially master lightning and fire abilities. Beast tamers in Ping City who specialized in raising Iron-Eating Beasts had developed related skills.
Perhaps he could look into it later and add more variety to his Iron-Eating Beast's skill list.
Now that the teaching was complete, Shi Yu was weak again, so weak that even the Mind-Clearing Capsules couldn't ease it.
The effect was way too intense.
He'd better wait until he'd trained his body for a month before teaching the advanced skill Absolute Sleep. Otherwise, something really could go wrong...
One day, I'll train my body until I can go barehanded in a PK against an Iron-Eating Beast, Shi Yu vowed to himself.
Meanwhile, as the energy the Skill Index transmitted through Shi Yu to the little Iron-Eating Beast continued to alter his constitution, the way to use "High-Speed Healing" gradually became clear in Eleven's mind.
The various wondrous effects of entry-level High-Speed Healing immediately made Eleven understand what it did.
Just then, the scene from the day before yesterday repeated itself. His beast tamer had done something unknown and taught him a new ability, leaving Eleven utterly bewildered.
This is... an ability that heals injuries?
Iron-Eating Beast: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ
The little Iron-Eating Beast looked at the weakened Shi Yu, his little brain struggling to keep up.
The only thing he understood was that, one way or another, he had to jump for this falling training method.
Otherwise... this healing ability would burn in his hands, and he wouldn't feel at ease accepting it.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Inside the room, Shi Yu lay peacefully.
Outside came the constant sounds of Eleven colliding intimately with the alloy steel plate.
Along with the heartrending cries of a certain Green Silkworm.
After witnessing Eleven's training method firsthand from inside the birdcage, the Green Silkworm was deeply shaken.
What kind of freaks are in this family?
They won't torture me like this later too, will they?
Actually, the Green Silkworm wasn't the only one who was shocked. Shi Yu himself was at a loss for words.
Eleven had been unexpectedly receptive to this training method...
Although he'd come up with the training himself, why did Shi Yu feel a little scared now?
If he kept raising Eleven according to this personality, what kind of pet would he end up with ten years from now...?
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Never mind. Why think so much? In any case... the expenditure from training both Hardening and High-Speed Healing would surely make his need for food and nutrition even more outrageous.
Shi Yu planned to go shopping again after resting. Judging by things now, the food provided by the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base really wasn't enough to last Eleven a month.
Shi Yu was groggy as he rested because he was so tired, but the noise outside was so loud that he couldn't fall asleep.
He couldn't help letting his thoughts wander.
"I keep feeling like something's missing..."
Although he'd already been in this world for three months, Shi Yu still felt empty lying in bed, as though something were missing.
The profession of beast tamer... did pique his curiosity, and it could fill his life.
The Iron-Eating Beast was cute and all, but sure enough, he still wanted a phone!
It felt so awkward not having a phone in his hand... He hadn't been on the internet for three months.
Once Shi Yu's thoughts turned in that direction, he felt a little annoyed.
If he had a phone, couldn't he buy training equipment, food, and medicine online? It would save so much trouble.
Instead, he had to keep making trips outside.
It wasn't that technology in this world was backward. In fact, it wasn't; TVs, computers, and phones all existed.
But Shi Yu usually spent his days at school or interning and had no use for those things, so he hadn't wasted money buying them.
Although he was still very poor, Shi Yu had made up his mind... Once he had money, he would equip himself with the best.
He wanted the kind of super smartphone that could even detect a pet's energy level.
In a sense, although this world's technology wasn't widely available, it really was advanced.
Not only had animals and plants evolved into transcendent life forms, but in modern times, machines had also evolved into transcendent life forms, and artificial intelligence was highly developed in certain countries.
In some places, beast tamers even took mechanical life forms as their contract pets.
And rather than beast tamers, they preferred to call themselves mechanics.
In fact, "beast tamer" was just a general term passed down from ancient times. Over the course of history, many beast tamers who specialized in contracting a particular kind of pet had long since found other names for themselves based on the type of pet.
Those who specialized in taming and contracting giant dragons were dragon tamers, those who specialized in communicating with and contracting the dead were spirit mediums, and those who specialized in modifying and contracting mechanical life forms were mechanics. They all had new professional titles, but they were still beast tamers at heart.
But although they were the same at heart, a chain of disdain often emerged because of the differences in their names...
Among them... spirit mediums, who specialized in contracting the dead, were the least welcome. After all, not many people were willing to deal with the undead.
Those who specialized in raising mechanical life forms were all highly intelligent, and their profession also had the highest entry requirements, creating a large gap between them and ordinary beast tamers.
Thanks to the power of their dragon pets, dragon tamers could tell every other branch of the beast tamer profession that they were all trash.
And beast tamers who contracted transcendent animals were the most common... That was also because animal-type pets were the easiest to breed...
Shi Yu was speechless at the chain of professional disdain he'd learned about. He thought it was childish and boring, because as an ordinary beast tamer, he was at the very bottom of it.
"It's not a big deal. A beast tamer it is... With Eleven training this hard, I don't think it'll be long before he can tear a giant dragon apart with his bare hands."
"After this round of training, let's find a real opponent and test the waters!"