At this moment, Mo Qingchen couldn't help but slightly narrow his eyes, looking at Wang Xiao'Er, that jerk.
This guy is no good, don't be fooled by his student status—he actually has Black Society connections.
His dad, Wang Erbai, is a small hall master of the Mad Dog Gang, overseeing over a hundred thugs, and few dare to mess with him in the South City Suburb area.
Moreover, Wang Xiao'Er has had conflicts with him—well, to be precise, this guy has conflicts with more than half the boys in the class.
The lazy students resent the gung-ho scholars, often picking fights.
Kids from poor families have to grow up quickly; the Fourteenth High School in the South Suburb Slums mostly has students from the lower socioeconomic classes.
Even with the arrival of the Beast Taming Era, for them, it's just a tiny glimpse of hope to rise above, but the reality is that their chances of becoming a Beastmaster are slim.
Therefore, they still only have the option to study hard, and even if they don't become Beastmasters, they could get into a decent ordinary university and improve their lives later on.
Thus, the majority of students in Class 99 are slogging hard at their studies.
The reason Wang Xiao'Er causes trouble for most people in the class is because of this academic matter—the class extremes create a huge tug of war.
The top thirty-plus students score over 500 in each exam, while the ten-plus students at the bottom score between 100 and 300.
No comparison means no harm, so how can this not make the lazy students angry and ashamed?
Thus, led by Wang Xiao'Er, the group of lazy students often bothers the diligent ones.
Luckily, with the Beast Taming Era's arrival, incidents like school bullying are unlikely to happen, as these lazy students only tend to cause mischief.
Mo Qingchen has been targeted by these guys before, leading to several brawls between the two parties.
Nothing serious, just a few punches exchanged, leaving each other bruised and swollen, just some scrapes and bruises.
Yeah, Wang Xiao'Er got the worst of it; he never lost an argument but never won a fight. Withstanding everything, even after cremation, his toughest part would still be his intact mouth.
So, Mo Qingchen could already imagine this guy's smugness later.
But he wasn't worried, as long as they didn't bother him, he couldn't care less about dealing with this fool.
Wang Xiao'Er attracting the attention of Old Fish-head and the principal didn't concern Mo Qingchen. Instead, he focused on his attribute panel for the first time.
[Beastmaster: Mo Qingchen (Apprentice)]
[Tier: LV0 (Zero Tier)]
[Talent: Eye of Truth (Conceptual Myth, God's Object Concealed), Divine Soul Thought Movement (B-level Rare), Power of One Cauldron (C-level Excellent)]
[Attributes: Strength 10, Agility 2, Spirit 20, Constitution 2]
[Skills: Telekinesis]
[Guardian Beast: None]
[Items: None]
[Abyssal Currency: 0]
[PS: He who possesses great talent will soon tear apart exotic beasts with bare hands! God's Object Concealed, others cannot see!]
Staring at the attribute panel, Mo Qingchen had a moment of distraction.
Having a golden finger in existence made he wasn't expecting much from his talent.
There's no helping it, every year, the graduating students awakening in the Divine Xia Empire number in the tens of millions, and those with A-level or above talents are few and far between.
But he never would have guessed that he actually had as many as three talent skills!
Counting the golden finger as a talent is one thing.
The [Power of One Cauldron] is understandable, as he had already speculated about it.
If it weren't for his power being several times the average person's, when he initially crossed over at 14, he wouldn't have been able to outrun everyone in the village during the exotic beast tide, being the last one standing.
Nor would he have managed to kill several rat monsters at the junkyard home using a piece of rebar sharpened to a point.
And in the brawls with Wang Xiao'Er, it couldn't always have been him getting the worst of it, while he emerged unscathed, even having to hold back during fights.
Worried that if he punched too hard, he'd have to beg Wang Xiao'Er not to lie flat on the ground.
"The talent of the divine soul, it must have appeared due to the merge with remnants of a previous soul fragment, leading to a mutation and evolution of my own divine soul, resulting in this B-level rare talent."
The power of Divine Soul Thought Movement, though only a B-level rare talent, rivals many A-level or S-level talents.
The divine soul is the most mysterious part of a person; the stronger the divine soul, the less pressure from the Abyssal Power when contracting an exotic beast.
In other words, normal Beastmasters can only contract one exotic beast during their internship period, with their power at the Zero Tier.
Basic Beastmasters have power at 1 to 3 Tiers and can only contract a second Guardian Beast when reaching Tier Three.
Intermediate Beastmasters have power at 4 to 6 Tiers, and can only contract a third Guardian Beast upon reaching Tier Six.
Advanced Beastmasters have power at 7 to 9 Tiers and can contract a fourth Guardian Beast by reaching Tier Nine.
And the advantage of a strong divine soul is lowering the power requirement for contracting exotic beasts!
While others have to wait until Tier Three to contract again, he only needs to reach Tier Two, perhaps even earlier at Tier One!
Moving past the talents and onto the attributes, Mo Qingchen's smile was harder to suppress than an AK firing.
A normal Apprentice Beastmaster has 1 point for each of their four basic attributes.
Only by awakening special talents do their initial basic attributes skyrocket.
[Power of One Cauldron] brought him a 9-point increase in strength, which we know equates to a hundred pounds of force per point.
Now his Strength Attribute reached 10 points, granting him a force of a thousand pounds directly.
Such immense power requires a sturdy physique, so the [Power of One Cauldron] talent also boosted his Agility and Constitution by 1 point each compared to an Apprentice Beastmaster.
[Divine Soul Thought Movement] brought a whopping 19-point increase in Spirit, offering numerous benefits—like eidetic memory and speed-reading, which are merely child's play.
Regarding the skill derived from the talent.
[Telekinesis: The telekinetic power derived from the divine soul can manipulate objects, with 1 point of Spirit equaling control over 10 pounds of weight.]
20 points of Spirit equals the ability to move up to 200 pounds of weight.
"While other Beastmasters use exotic beasts to fight and stay out of harm's way because they themselves are fragile, why does it feel like my scenario is narratively off?"
Normal Beastmasters can't defeat exotic beasts of the same tier, often getting utterly beaten.
Yet here with Mo Qingchen, his awakening of three talents and an additional skill made him feel like he has become a humanoid exotic beast.
The comment on the panel about tearing apart exotic beasts with bare hands soon becoming reality wasn't an exaggeration.
Just as Mo Qingchen was familiarizing himself with his attribute panel, two more classmates in Class 99 summoned their own Guardian Beasts.
A double-winged husky?
A Painted Halberd radiating cold air?
Mo Qingchen looked bewildered at the two newly appeared Guardian Beasts, both with A-level talents.
Indeed, the variety of Guardian Beasts is endless; anything can appear.
Mo couldn't help but be a tad jealous of his classmates' good fortune in obtaining highly talented Summoned Beasts through Abyssal Summoning.