It was the fifth day of April, 2078. The day that all the students in Red Leaf High School would get their beast.
What's a beast you ask? It is a mutated version of an animal, some keep traits while others are practically reborn.
These beasts have supernatural powers, some able to shoot ice while a select few have rare powers like gravity manipulation.
Those who can subdue a beast and make it's power their own are called shepherds, when a beast willingly submits, the shepherd will gain increased abilities.
All humans have something called a spirit well in their bodies, it creates spirit energy that can be used to establish a connection with a beast and let it reside inside of the body.
Even though everyone has it, it doesn't mean everyone can be a shepherd. The quality of it and the amount it creates normally is also important.
The ranks of beasts and shepherds go like this: bronze, silver, gold, master, grandmaster, and legend.
There's are 10 stars in each rank, 1 star being the minimum power to be considered that rank and 10 being a half step into the next rank.
Nowadays, the mutated beast numbers are rising rapidly, to combat that, almost every school has a class about mutated beasts specifically.
It was clos to the end of the year and that means that those who do not have a beast can choose one that is provided to integrate with.
"Alright, all students line up, freshman and sophmores on the right, sophmores and seniors on the left."
All the students listened to the instructor speak, he pointed to each beast in the cages and explained what they are and their abilities.
Some of them caught Victor Ruiz's eyes when the instructor pointed them out, he especially liked 3 of them.
"The Shadow Leaping Tiger was found inside of a rainforest and wounded heavily, because we saved it, it will willingly submit to any of you. It has the elements dark and metal, its power is at a nice 5 star bronze level."
"That over there is a Boulder Panda, it has the elements metal and earth and is a very good beast for defense, it is at 4 star bronze in power."
"And that over there, the Thundering Forest Eagle, it will be used as a test for those who are brave enough. It was forced over here and is the hardest to integrate with, it has the elements lightning and earth and is a 5 star silver beast."
The students whispered amongst themselves while getting picked to get beasts. Some chose for easier ones and some directly tried to get the highest level ones.
Victor traversed through the thick crowds of people before arriving at the Thundering Forest Eagle, his blood was pumping as he saw every student who tried to subdue it get knocked back.
This was actually not the first time Victor tried to get a beast, he has been obsessed witht hem all his life but none could be subdued by him.
"Become my beast!"
As he started the integration process of establishing a connection to it with spirit energy, the Eagle fought back, it was like scissors that were cutting through the spirit energy like paper.
"No.. You have to become my beast! This is my last chance. Integrate with me!"
As he forcefully connected to it, all the spirit energy that was built up in his body from practicing rushed out like a tidal wave.
*Screech!*
"You damn eagle! Stop resisting, you're mine."
Suddenly, Victor's body glowed, the eagle in front of him turned into small orbs of light that shot into his body.
He could feel the Eagle residing inside of his spirit well. He could feel it's emotions, what its doing, some of its information was also in his brain.
As Victor left the area to go home, he felt something strange going on in his spirit well.
It was like a vortex, his spirit energy was swirling around.
Before he let it get any worse he rushed home to figure out what was going on, he's studied everything about it but couldn't figure out what this was.
「 You have have been fused with the Beast System 」
「 You currently have 1 beast, would you like to see its stats? 」
"What the hell is this?"
He looked at the translucent blue screen floating in front of him, it looked like the things from games.
"Sure, I want to."
「 Thundering Forest Eagle 」
「 Pathways Of Evolution: Thundershock Eagle, Lightning Stone Eagle, Hairy Jungle Eagle 」
「Stats:
Level: 5 SS
Strength: 34
Agility: 61
Stamina: 49
Defense: 20
HP: 600/600」
「 Other Information: Focus on improving its agility, that is its strongest point 」
"Woah, there's really everything here. I've never seen something like this before."
He tapped on the evolutionary pathway 'Thundershock Eagle' and it opened up a separate screen.
「 Multiplies stats by 3, additional abilities 'Thunder Reign' and 'Crashing Lightning', And a few more (tap here for all information) 」
「 Evolution Unlock Requirements: gold rank first star, 100 pound thundertooth torpedo fish」
「 As a starting bonus, you have 1 free evolution, would you like to spend it? 」
"Yes!! Do it! Holy Shit!"
Victor cheered while watching the eagle evolving into its next form.