In a corner of Yunyang Academy's library, closed the book in his hand. This was the 75th book he had looked up in the past three days, and also the last book in the library about different species of magical beasts.
Ever since the little magical beast hatched, had been trying to figure out what species it belonged to, but despite searching through various relevant books, he couldn't find any information about this little creature's species or attributes.
"Damn it," Yawen muttered to himself. He didn't even know how to take care of it.
The little creature was sleeping comfortably in a corner of the table, bathed in the afternoon sunlight that cast a brilliant golden hue on its fur.
Yawen gently stroked its soft, long fur with his fingers, sighing. "Little one, you're sleeping so comfortably, but I've been racking my brains to find food for you. I've tried feeding you all sorts of things in the past few days, but there's nothing that you want to eat. What do you actually eat?"
Feeling Yawen 's touch, the little magical beast yawned and woke up, looking at Yawen and then sniffing the air with its nose. It then made a light leap and jumped into the bag next to Yawen . In an instant, sounds of it munching on something came from the bag. Yawen immediately opened the bag and was stunned.
It was actually eating the energy stones that Yawen had just bought today. These stones were supposed to be used by Yawen for the demonstration tomorrow by Professor Gais on how to use magical beasts to absorb energy and enhance their growth. Yawen never expected this little creature to directly eat them up, something he had never heard of before.
Yawen watched in amazement as it devoured three fist-sized energy stones and then jumped onto his shoulder, rubbing against his face affectionately.
Yawen looked at this creature, whose body was only the size of his palm, as if he were looking at a monster. Where did it eat all that? And it still wanted more?
Yawen caught the little creature from his shoulder and held it in his hand, saying, "Since you're so greedy and look like a wolf, let's just call you Greedy Wolf Star."
Greedy Wolf Star seemed to know that Yawen had given him a name and let out a howl, not as mournful as a regular wolf's howl, but with a hint of clarity, which actually sounded quite pleasant.
After tidying up, Yawen was about to leave the library with Greedy Wolf Star when he suddenly saw a group of people coming in from ahead, and he frowned, thinking, "What a coincidence to run into them."
It turned out that the group coming in was led by Naken, and Naken was also taken aback when he saw Yawen . When he saw Greedy Wolf Star in Yawen 's hand, he was even more stunned, and then a strange smile appeared on his face, making Yawen feel uneasy.
Naken smirked, "Young Master Yawen , you're here at the library too?"
Yawen replied impatiently, "If you can come, of course I can come too!"
"Is this your magical beast?" Naken pointed to Greedy Wolf Star in Yawen 's hand.
Yawen nodded without saying a word, inwardly cursing because he still remembered what happened three days ago vividly.
As expected, Naken said, "Today happens to be a good day to continue what we didn't finish three days ago."
Before Yawen could refuse, the group of people surrounded him and pushed and pulled him out without giving him any room to resist.
Note: Energy stone is a special crystal that can store a certain amount of energy. It can be used by magical beasts and has other uses as well. After use, it can be recharged with energy.
The library is located on the east side of Yunyang Academy. It is a marble building with a square shape. Both the inner and outer sides are adorned with reliefs of patterns and unknown inscriptions, which are said to be an ancient form of writing that no one can understand now. It is 30 meters wide and 7 meters high, with two floors inside, located to the left of Yunyang Lake in Yunyang Academy. In front of it is a large square with an area of 700 square meters, which is used for major ceremonies of the academy. Usually, not many people come here, and there is a forest on the left and back sides.
Naken and his group led Yawen into the forest on the left side of the library, and found a small clearing about 5 square meters in size. The others surrounded them, leaving only Naken and Yawen on both sides of the clearing.
Naken stretched out his right hand and summoned his magical beast, Tiger King, saying to Yawen , "Let's compare the strength of our magical beasts in their first form. Don't say I'm taking advantage of you."
Yawen knew that magical beasts had three forms. The first form was their original form, which was their normal appearance. The second form was the incomplete humanoid form, which attached to the owner and provided the owner with a considerable degree of attack and defense power without affecting the owner's appearance and movement, like the Tiger King attached to Naken's arm. The third form was the complete humanoid form, which was only possessed by mature magical beasts. It covered more than 70% of the owner's body and gave the owner complete abilities, like armor.
But as the magical beast grows through each stage, its abilities in all aspects will make significant progress. Even the weakest first form will have differences in maturity.
Therefore, what Naken said about being beautiful is actually unknown, as the result of the mature Tiger King under Naken's command facing the young Greedy Wolf Star in its infancy is yet to be seen.
But at this moment, the arrow is on the string and must be released.
Under Naken's command, the Tiger King let out a tremendous roar that seemed impossible from its small body, leaped with force, and knocked down the Greedy Wolf Star from Yawen's grasp before it could react.
Yawen was shocked and exclaimed, "In trouble."
Looking up, Naken held his hands together, with his index and thumb extended straight and touching his forehead, staring straight at the struggling Greedy Wolf Star and Tiger King.
He murmured, "Charge, claw strike, headbutt, claw tear...."
As if communicating telepathically, the Tiger King made the same movements as Naken's words.
Yawen was even more distraught.
This was the "long-distance telepathic communication method" between magical beasts and their masters.
Normally, after a magical beast enters maturity, it can understand human speech. But if the master and the magical beast are separated, the master can use this method to remotely command the magical beast's actions or call it to come to their side.
Naken used this method for two reasons. On one hand, the Tiger King was still too young to understand human speech and directly accept his commands. On the other hand, he treated the Greedy Wolf Star as a target to train his own commanding ability over the Tiger King and to display his strong self-confidence.
Because everyone knew that once the "long-distance telepathic communication method" was used, a resonance state would be formed between the master and the magical beast, and if one party was injured, the other would also suffer the same injury.
Naken's actions clearly conveyed to Yawen that he would absolutely not let the Tiger King get hurt.
Sure enough, after a while, the Greedy Wolf Star was covered in bruises and wounds under the Tiger King's relentless attacks, while the Tiger King had not a scratch on its body, attacking the Greedy Wolf Star fiercely under Naken's command.
Ignoring Yafeng, who was anxiously considering suicide on the side, in the young heart of the Greedy Wolf Star, everything in the world seemed so novel from the moment it opened its eyes. Everything was filled with freshness. The only human it had come into contact with, Yafeng, gave it a warm feeling and made it willingly follow him. It didn't expect to encounter a fellow of the same species that gave it a similar feeling for the first time, but this fellow kept hitting and biting it incessantly, causing it great pain without knowing what had happened.
"Ouch, why isn't Yawen helping it?"
As if hearing the thoughts in Langxing's heart, Yawen couldn't help but shout, "Naken, stop, I surrender, please stop."
Yawen yelled while quickly running towards Langxing, who was covered in blood from Tiger King Zheng's attack.
He was just one step away from embracing Langxing in his arms when a sudden surge of extreme cold power struck Yawen 's left shoulder from the left side. Yawen let out a scream and was thrown several meters away by the force.
Yawen quickly turned his head and saw Lanni holding a mythical beast that was as large as a tiger king and resembled a pale blue carp.
A thought flashed through his mind: "So Lanni also has a mythical beast." Then his mind went blurry and he lost consciousness.
After an unknown amount of time, Yawen slowly woke up, and in front of him was an old face with a caring expression, the Butler Blue.
Blue looked at Yawen with a worried expression and said, "Young Master, why did you intrude into someone else's mythical beast duel? Luckily Naken passed by, otherwise you wouldn't know when you would have been discovered."
Yawen turned his head to look at Naken standing beside Blue, who was looking smugly at him, confident that Yawen wouldn't tell Blue what happened.
For the first time in his life, Yawen felt an overwhelming sense of hatred rising in his heart, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Blue, you can rest first! I'm fine."
Blue shook his head and sighed, "Young Master, please be careful, if anything happens, just call me or Naken."
After Blue left, Naken approached Yawen with an evil smile and said, "Thank you, Young Master, for going easy on me. This is your mythical beast."
As he spoke, he took out a box from behind and handed it to Yawen , then left proudly.
Yawen opened the box and saw Langxing lying weakly inside, emitting a barely audible whimper upon seeing Yawen .
Yawen carefully held it in his hands and said, "Langxing, don't be afraid, I will definitely heal you."
Saying that, Yawen immediately went to the medical room in his home and brought a large amount of magic energy stones, with various attributes such as wind, fire, water, earth, and even rare light and dark attributes. However, despite the continuous efforts to heal it, Yawen couldn't help but panic.
Because none of the magic energy stones of any attribute seemed to work on Langxing's injuries, and couldn't heal it.
As he watched Langxing grow weaker and weaker, Yawen couldn't help but collapse on the bed and cry.
Yawen , who hadn't cried since he was ten years old, finally cried now, because Langxing was not just a mythical beast to him. It represented his ideals, his spiritual support, and was his only friend, even though they had only spent three days together.
Yawen didn't know how long he cried, suddenly feeling warmth on his face. He looked and saw that Langxing had struggled to his side at some point, and was licking his tears with its tongue.
Yawen looked at the appearance of the Greedy Wolf Star with sorrow in her heart. She clenched her teeth and said, "Greedy Wolf Star, just you wait. I will definitely heal you."
After saying that, she held it in her arms, crossed her legs, extended her hands, and placed the Greedy Wolf Star between her palms.
With her eyes closed slightly, she focused her mind between her palms, and chanted, "Under the witness of the heavens, O majestic beast that embodies courage, wisdom, and beauty, O mythical creature! I, Yawen Stadak, shall make an eternal blood covenant with you, with the deepest spirituality. From this moment on, you and I shall be lifelong allies, bound by oath."
After finishing her chant, Yawen emitted a white light from her entire body, growing stronger and stronger, until all the light converged between her palms and her forehead.
The Greedy Wolf Star, bathed in the white light, appeared to be in great pain. The intangible white light felt like sharp needles, constantly drilling into its wounds, causing the Greedy Wolf Star to cry out in agony, but it was unable to move.
Then, the white light concentrated between Yawen 's eyebrows transformed into a white column of light, connecting her and the Greedy Wolf Star, creating a strange spectacle of light between human and beast.
Through this column of light, Yawen conveyed her thoughts to the Greedy Wolf Star.
An indescribable warmth filled the heart of the Greedy Wolf Star, making it unable to resist the urge to absorb this feeling with all its might.
At the same time, the severe pain that had been unbearable on its body gradually disappeared, replaced by a comfortable sensation of warmth coursing through its body, and it also began to feel stronger.
As if knowing that all of this was coming from Yawen in front of it, the Greedy Wolf Star licked Yawen 's palm affectionately.
Yawen smiled, concentrated her mind again, and an even stronger white light shot out from between her eyebrows.
If there were anyone present at this moment, they would witness a remarkable scene.
The white light emitted from Yawen 's eyebrows and hands seemed to be absorbed by the Greedy Wolf Star, blending into its body bit by bit.
At the same time, the Greedy Wolf Star, which had been no bigger than a palm, began to grow at an unimaginable speed.
In less than three minutes, the Greedy Wolf Star had grown nearly three times its original size, becoming as big as an ordinary cat or dog.
Yawen seemed to have exhausted her strength after completing all the movements. She made a faint sound, and the white light emitted from her hands gradually faded and disappeared.
As the white light from Yawen 's hands disappeared, the growth of the Greedy Wolf Star also stopped, but the white light between Yawen 's eyebrows became even stronger, constantly flowing into the Greedy Wolf Star's body.
The projection lasted for nearly half an hour before finally stopping.
After completing all the actions, Yawen appeared very weak, almost unable to speak.
Just now, she had used the "Resurrection Technique" passed down in her family, which could only be used five times in her lifetime, to heal the injuries on the Greedy Wolf Star's body.
"Resurrection Technique": As the name suggests, it means to revive from the dead. By using this method, the caster can transfer all the energy from their own body to their mythical creature in an extremely short period of time, instantly increasing the creature's abilities three to five times, for use in battle...
The originally cured Greedy Wolfstar suddenly became extremely strange.
The once gentle Greedy Wolfstar suddenly became extremely aggressive, fiercely biting Yawen 's right arm and sucking a large gulp of blood before swallowing it down. Then it jumped out of Yawen 's embrace and emitted a strange roar.
Yawen thought to himself, "Oh no, could it be that the Resurrection Technique cannot be used on a mythical beast that hasn't recognized its master yet?"
In fact, nobody could answer him, because none of Yawen 's ancestors had ever sacrificed so much for a young mythical beast like he did, so naturally, nobody could answer him.
But the subsequent changes in Greedy Wolfstar made Yawen smile, because after its strange howl, numerous golden threads floated out of its body. It pounced and "disintegrated" into pieces, wrapping around Yawen 's right wrist to the elbow.
At this moment, Greedy Wolfstar actually recognized him as its master and entered its growth stage at the same time.
Looking at the part of his right arm wrapped by Greedy Wolfstar, which was originally gray but gradually turned flesh-colored, Yawen couldn't help but feel ecstatic. Greedy Wolfstar finally recognized him as its master.
However, soon Yawen felt that something was wrong. He didn't sense anything.
The moment Greedy Wolfstar possessed him, he didn't feel any attributes, no brightness of light, no depth of darkness, no elegance of wind, no chill of water, no heat of fire, no solidity of earth.
He recalled the three days of being together and couldn't help but murmur, "Greedy Wolfstar, could it be that you really have no attributes?"
Note: Magic Energy Stone: A type of energy stone specifically for mythical beasts, which provides a large amount of energy to enhance their physical abilities and promote their recovery. It can be said to be a panacea for mythical beasts, but it is not affordable for ordinary families.