Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 7 Rainbow Jade Comprehends Skills!

After awakening their profession, one becomes a Level 1 professional. Levels 1 to 3 are called junior professionals, levels 3 to 6 are called intermediate professionals, and levels 6 to 9 are called senior professionals.

The Elementary Professional Tournament is for beginners of levels one to three, while the Intermediate Professional Tournament is for those of levels four to six. As for advanced professionals, those experts are busy making money in the secret realms and have little interest in such competitions.

Compared to the intermediate-level professional competition, the beginner-level professional competition is rather childish, with most participants being students. Levels one and two are mostly high school students, while level three is more likely to feature university students.

The timing of the competition is also clever, occurring after the professional exams and before the release of admission results from various colleges. This provides an additional opportunity for students with weaker academic performance to showcase their abilities. A strong performance in the competition might even lead to a special admission offer from their desired university.

The Elementary Professional Tournament serves as a talent selection platform for various professional high schools. The Intermediate Professional Tournament is more professional, with regional, national, and even world competitions.

If you perform exceptionally well in the Intermediate Professional Tournament, you may attract the attention of major powers.

When is the registration period? What are the requirements for participants?

"The minimum age for participation is twelve years old, and you can register if you have a professional certificate certified by the Professionals Alliance." Fang Yaqi's eyes lit up when she saw that Lin Manman was interested.

"Registration will be open from June 20th to July 2nd, and the competition will be held on July 10th, lasting for one week."

Today is June 5th, and the professional exam is in a week, from June 12th to 15th. From today until the competition, it's almost a month, which is a good time to prepare.

"Are you so interested because you want to participate?" Lin Manman asked, taking a sip of her drink.

"Hehe, if I could awaken my profession." Fang Yaqi smiled shyly.

"It's all about participation. What if you get a prize? Don't put too much pressure on yourself. Beastmasters don't have much of an advantage in the early stages anyway."

Lin Manman raised an eyebrow. A level one Beast Tamer with average aptitude can only contract one spirit pet, and their own combat strength is weak, so their advantage compared to other level one practitioners is indeed not significant. But could she say she could contract five?

"Don't worry, you know me well enough, I'm in a great mood." Lin Manman smiled and gave Fang Yaqi a reassuring look.

As they were chatting, Fang Yaqi's bracelet rang.

"My mom replied to my message. She said that her shop is planning to hire two summer workers, but the pay isn't high, only 25 RMB per hour."

"No problem, I can accept anything." Salary is not something I can rely on.

"When can you come over? I'll tell my mom."

"Tomorrow." Since her brother couldn't help, she might as well look for opportunities to earn money sooner rather than later. If Fang Yaqi hadn't reminded her earlier, she would have gone straight there that afternoon to get her professional certification.

After finishing the meal, I waved goodbye to Fang Yaqi.

Fang Yaqi went back to continue her classes, while Lin Manman, seeing that it was still early, found a professional training center and planned to test Hongyu's combat power.

"Hello, how can I help you?" A warm and beautiful receptionist greeted us as soon as we entered the training hall.

"I want to open a single-person training room for beginner professionals."

"We have training rooms available. A single beginner professional training room costs 200 Chinese Yuan per hour. Please pay at the counter in front." The beautiful receptionist, who had seen many geniuses who had awakened their professions on their own, was not surprised by Lin Manman's age.

Lin Manman glanced at her savings account with a pained expression. There was only a little over two thousand yuan left, all saved from her allowance. This wasn't even enough for a day's training in the studio.

After paying, Lin Manman didn't have time to worry about the remaining balance. She hurriedly urged the beautiful receptionist to take her to the training room. From the moment she paid, every minute and second felt like it was bought with money.

Pushing open the door to the training room, you'll see a huge testing machine with a transparent sphere the size of a basketball at the front.

This transparent sphere is made of a mineral that can absorb energy, and through a device in the middle, it can display the specific values ​​of combat power on a large screen at the back.

"Baby, see that ball? Go at it." Lin Manman pointed to the transparent ball and said to Hongyu, who was curled up in her hands. Looking at Hongyu, who was only as thick as two of her fingers, she felt a little sorry for her. After all, Hongyu was only a baby who had been born for one day.

Hongyu tilted her head to look at the transparent sphere, then at Lin Manman, seemingly reluctant to get off Lin Manman. After a moment's thought, a glint of light flashed in her pale pink eyes.

Rainbow Jade's tail twitched, and a small portal appeared where Rainbow Jade's tail was. Rainbow Jade quickly extended its tail into the portal.

A crisp "snap" rang out. While Lin Manman was still staring blankly at the small teleportation portal, the testing device buzzed, and the electronic screen behind her displayed the number "105KG".

At the same time, a system notification popped up with a "ding".

[The spirit pet Rainbow Jade has learned the skill Tail Strike: Attacks the target by whipping its tail. (Upgradeable)]

[Spirit Pet Rainbow Jade learns the skill Spatial Teleportation: Allows teleportation of any item no larger than the pet's own size within a 10-meter radius. (Upgradeable)]

Huh? You've already learned two skills?

Lin Manman was stunned, looking at Hongyu in disbelief and then at the system notification. If she remembered correctly, there were only two ways for professionals or spirit pets to learn skills. One was through skill books developed by the Professional Alliance, and the other was through self-comprehension. Skill books developed by the Professional Alliance could be used to copy skills for those who needed to study and learn, but even using skill books couldn't guarantee 100% comprehension of the skills, let alone self-comprehension.

At least she had never heard of a human or beast at the beginner level who could independently comprehend skills, let alone two of them.

"Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, this is outrageous! Rainbow Jade! My darling, what kind of divine spirit pet are you? You are absolutely amazing!!!" Lin Manman hugged Rainbow Jade's little head and showered it with kisses.

Hongyu was so shy from the kiss that she wrapped her little tail around her head and covered her entire head.

Lin Manman spun around holding Hongyu a few times before finally calming down. Looking at the numbers on the monitor, she fell into deep thought again. A level one warrior's attack power exceeds 500KG, and elemental mages' attacks sometimes inflict debuffs. Hongyu's attack power was far from sufficient. However, it was an upgradable skill, which meant…

"Mommy's sweetie, let's try attacking a few more times like that." Lin Manman coaxed softly, patting Hongyu's head.

Rainbow Jade was clearly flattered by the praise, nodding its little head hurriedly and twitching its tail. "Snap!" It lashed out again.

110KG.

There has been progress!

"You're so good, baby! Let's do it again!"

"Snapped!"

123KG.

"Wow, you've gotten even stronger! You're a genius, sweetheart. Let's continue!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

Under Lin Manman's barrage of flattery, Hongyu unleashed a continuous barrage of attacks. Half an hour later, the display screen showed the number "326KG," and Hongyu finally collapsed limply in Lin Manman's palm, its forked tongue lolling out.

(End of this chapter)