Beast Tamer: Carrying a small world of the end times with you

“The Undead-type special attack skill, Shadow Ball, has only decent power, but its advantages lie in its short charging time and low energy consumption. There's also the Normal-type enhancement skill, Qi Gathering, which can circulate the energy within the body to increase both Defense and Special Defense by one level each.”

Yong Xuehai placed the learning device in Qian Er's hands, then took out a pure black sphere from his spatial backpack.

“These past few days, I went to find the Beast Master who cultivated the Myriad Souls Banner to the Elite level and carefully studied his Myriad Souls Banner. I discovered that the Myriad Souls Banner itself has a very weak consciousness. After absorbing other souls, it leads to a situation where other souls usurp the position of the original. To address this, that Beast Master conducted an experiment: finding a powerful lifeform's soul to serve as the main soul of the Myriad Souls Banner, replacing the original consciousness of the Myriad Souls Banner, and then using a Beast Master contract to restrain the main soul.”

“This is a Quasi-King level Dark Fiend that I specifically hunted in the Extraterritorial Battlefield these past few days. Speaking of which, do you know about the Extraterritorial Battlefield?”

Halfway through his explanation, Yong Xuehai suddenly looked up at Qian Er and asked.

“I haven't heard of that name, but based on what others have said, I can more or less guess what it is.”

Yu Feiyi had once said that humanity's war wasn't over; it had only just established a foothold for survival, but the war of expansion was still ongoing.

“Yes, Extraterritorial Battlefield is an old term. It's the convergence point of all races, the battlefield where humans and other races used to fight. However, now that the war has ended, each race has begun to develop frantically, waiting for a new round of war. It has calmed down there, with only minor skirmishes. Besides that, there are also some races that live off death energy and resentment, and they occasionally go there to scavenge. I was lucky enough to catch one.”

As he spoke, he tossed the Dark Fiend's Soul Orb to Qian Er.

“The Dark Fiend is Quasi-King level, so your Soul-Guiding Banner probably can't handle it right now. Decide whether or not to use it after you've upgraded it to the Elite level. However, after looking at his Myriad Souls Banner, I saw that the original consciousness had completely disappeared and was replaced by the main soul's consciousness. In this situation, it's basically considered that the Myriad Souls Banner has already died, but most Dark-type Beast Masters don't really care about that. Dark-type Beast Masters only care about strength and enjoyment.”

Qian Er calmly accepted the Dark Fiend's Soul Orb. He understood that Professor Yong was suggesting that he abandon the Soul-Guiding Banner and let the Dark Fiend's soul replace the Soul-Guiding Banner's consciousness for greater power.

But… his Soul-Guiding Banner had absorbed hundreds of thousands of souls, and that situation he mentioned hadn't occurred.

【Is it because of merit again?】

After bidding farewell to Professor Yong and exchanging the Wood Source Crystals he brought back for Flesh and Blood Essence, he returned to the training room in his own little house. Qian Er immediately released his Soul-Guiding Banner.

“Goo~”

The Soul-Guiding Banner, still chewing on the Sacred Heart Lotus, raised its banner surface and looked at Qian Er innocently.

Ever since he had completely cleared out all the zombies in an entire city, Qian Er had a feeling that the Soul-Guiding Banner's accumulation was almost enough, so he completely released the resources he had been restricting from the Soul-Guiding Banner.

So, the Soul-Guiding Banner had been quite happy these past two days. It didn't even need to eat a petal of the pure white Sacred Heart Lotus every so often to satisfy its cravings like before; it could just stuff an entire flower into its mouth. After getting tired of that, it could have a handful of Brain Stones to cleanse its palate.

And under the accumulation of this massive amount of resources, the Soul-Guiding Banner's level had also soared, now reaching level 39.

If Yu Feiyi knew about this, he would definitely be shocked because with Beast Masters, it's not always a good thing to keep eating these nourishing resources. Because a Beast's body has an upper limit of what it can handle. Generally speaking, an Elite-level Undead-type Beast would have to spend quite a long time digesting just one Sacred Heart Lotus, but Qian Er's Beasts didn't have this restriction.

Whether it was the Blood-Burning Saint or the Little Ice Dragon and Soul-Guiding Banner, none of them had this restriction. They could eat as much as they wanted.

“Alright, I'm not going to snatch your flower. Tell me, have any of the undead souls you've absorbed been disobedient lately?”

Hearing that Qian Er wasn't going to snatch its Sacred Heart Lotus, the Soul-Guiding Banner breathed a sigh of relief and quickly swallowed half of the Sacred Heart Lotus in its mouth before shaking its head.

“Goo (Undead souls rebelling? Impossible, they're very obedient.)”

As it spoke, the Soul-Guiding Banner waved its banner surface again, and the densely packed undead souls on the banner surface reappeared. However, this time, the ferocious faces of those undead souls were filled with docility; one couldn't see the ferocity they displayed during battle at all.

“That's good.”

Seeing this, Qian Er nodded slightly. The Soul-Guiding Banner had been with him for so long, and he really didn't want to give it up just like that.

He rubbed the Soul-Guiding Banner's surface and tossed the two skill learning devices that Professor Yong had given him to the Soul-Guiding Banner. After seeing it use its banner surface to wrap up the two skill learning devices, Qian Er then put it back into the Doomsday World to let it learn inside, while Qian Er walked back into the villa.

Opening the door, the Cat Maid was carefully using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the fur that was falling off her body. Hearing the noise coming from the door, she turned her head to take a look. After realizing it was Qian Er, she happily let out a meow.

“Cat Maid, let me ask you something. Do you know where in the academy there are shops that sell Beast equipment?”

Qian Er walked over and sat down on a clean sofa, looking at the Cat Maid as he asked. This time, he was preparing to buy the saddle for the Little Ice Dragon.

After all, the number of undead souls the Soul-Guiding Banner had absorbed was only nearing its limit, but there was still some distance before it reached the limit. He needed zombie souls now, a large number of zombie souls.

In other words, he needed to change locations.

And if he didn't have a saddle for the long journey, his butt would probably be rubbed raw.

“Meow?”

Listening to Qian Er's description, the Cat Maid tilted her head, gently stroking her whiskers with her paw, pondering for a long time before suddenly showing a realization.

…

“This is the Beast Equipment Market you were talking about?”

Walking on a street filled with Cat Maids walking around, Qian Er only felt his head filled with question marks. He never would have thought that there would be a place like this in the school.

This was a secluded grove in the campus. Before the Doomsday in Qian Er's previous world, it was probably a place where only couples in love would come for a secret rendezvous, but in this world, it had been occupied by a group of large cats standing upright. They were setting up stalls like humans, selling all kinds of things, and constantly meowing to bargain.

“Meow meow meow (This is the market that the school officials have allocated to us Maid Cats. Usually, when school isn't in session, we sell some daily necessities here. After school starts, we sell some Beast equipment that students can use.)”

The Cat Maid walked in front of Qian Er, leading the way, constantly meowing, and through the cat language translator issued by the school, Qian Er could also understand what she was saying.