"I know that you want to become a Beastmaster all of this time; after I awaken my skill, the principal has given me a shocking gift; I am going to give it to you." He grabs his bag and takes out the beast monster egg.
He looks at it, and he is shocked to discover that a couple of words appear in front of him like a screen from the games in his former world. It seems that his skill has automatically activated itself.
Type: Beast Monster Egg
Type: Night Cat
Rank: Bronze
His eyes light up after seeing this. He quickly looks at his sister with an intense gaze, and just as expected, he can see her information too.
Name: Ashley Hall
Level: Iron Rank Level 3
Type: Archer
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Skill: Hawksight (Rank E)
"Uhm, Dad, are you trying to give me this?" Her breathing is hurried, her eyes are full of desire, and the thing in front of her is the thing that she has always been dreaming about.
He smiles and, without hesitation, puts the beast monster egg on her hand. She is now in a daze, and seeing this, he stands up and hugs her.
Sensing his warmth, she starts crying. She was the oldest of the three siblings, but she always feels useless.
She has been striving to become a beastmaster, learning how to use the bow in order to earn money while hunting low-level monsters or wild beasts.
But even then, she earns much less than her brother, and she has been relying on him all of this time.
Even now, her dream is within her grasp because of him; she owes him too much. In this world, a person like him is incredibly rare. Most people would work hard for themselves, but he devotes himself to taking care of their family.
"Do not go to school tomorrow; I want you to stay here and try to open your soul space; I believe in you." Putting his forehead on hers, he smiles and looks at her full of faith.
She clenched her hand and looked into his eyes with determination. She knew she would achieve her goal and make him proud.
Opening the door, two figures fall to the floor. He cannot help but sigh and rub his temple. As he expected, his mother and little sister are trying to eavesdrop on their private conversation.
He claps his hands and says,.
"Okay, okay, stop trying to bother Ashley, mom. I am giving her my room for the next couple of days; please do not bother her in the meantime. She is trying to do something; it is an extremely important event for her and will directly affect her future."
Pulling the two out of his room, he leaves Ashley there, still in a daze, trying to ascertain if this was reality or not.
The next day, his mother left early for her job, and her little sister was preparing herself for school. Meanwhile, he went to Bryan and Richard's room.
The two of them are already expecting him; their parents are more than happy to let their sons follow someone like him, especially after learning that he awakened a Rank B skill.
"Hahaha! Fatso, to think that your mother actually tried to pair your sister with Daniel, it was too funny!" Bryan starts laughing, seeing the expression on his friend's face.
"F*ck you! At least my sister is considered beautiful! What about you!? Do you really think I would not hear that your mom tried to pair him up with your creepy sister!?" He retorts, causing Bryan to become red in embarrassment.
"The two of you, can you stop fighting?" he helplessly asks. This is a daily occurrence for them, but this time, it seems that it was even more so.
The two harrumph and turn their heads away. Seeing this, he cannot help but shake his head, as even after becoming sixteen years old, the two act like children when they are with each other.
"Okay, okay, so what plans do we have today?" He asks them. Almost every time, it was him that was leading the group, including on what to do, but in order to apologise for not showing his gift that the principal has given to him, he decided to let the two decide.
"I think we should go and round up the gangs in the area; now that there are more beast monsters present outside, the nearby gangs are now getting rowdy," states Richard.
"That is stupid! We just taught the Red Dragon Gang a lesson last time; we should go hunt the wild beasts that are present in the vicinity; we cannot let them be!" Bryan shouted.
This is how he earns money: by being the strongest gang leader in their neighbourhood and hunting low-level wild beasts and beast monsters.
"Bryan is right; must I remind you that there are only three of us in our gang?" He stated to them, stating that unless one becomes a Bronze Rank, one will not be able to use their skill on themselves.
With his experience in his former world and the fights he had been in, he managed to be a small gang leader on their block.
No one still knows their true identity; his appearance is ordinary, making it easy for the majority of his enemies to not think of him; there is also his age; it is too abnormal for him to be a gang leader.
"So are we going to hunt low-level beasts?" Richard asks.
"No, we are going to hunt low-level beast monsters. Now that we have awakened our skill, we need to level up, and the easiest way is by eating beast monster meat and absorbing monster shards," he calmly stated.
The two freeze; they quickly become excited, and they are not afraid. The reason for this is because of his presence; at such a young age, he managed to make all gangs afraid of him.
They had seen his strength, and they admire it; they even worship it a little. In this world, strength is what matters most.
They arrived at a certain location; all three of them don an outfit that hides their appearance, but everyone in the neighbourhood knows them or their other persona.
"It's the three demons!"
"F*ck! Are they going to challenge another gang again!?"
"No! Look! They are walking towards the hunting ground!"
Seeing their appearance, the people instantly reacted drastically. Their notoriety has been well known for some years now. They might be one of the new gangs, but they are feared by even gangs that have high-level Iron Rank fighters.
"To think that those scum would actually go into the hunting ground!" states one of the bystanders.
The hunting ground that the people called is actually a part of the city but has been abandoned for a long time now.
"Let us leave our clothes here; we do not need to hide our appearance in this location anyway," Daniel stated before taking off the ridiculous outfit that he was wearing.
"I have been researching in the library; the most common wild beasts here are big rats and fast roaches; meanwhile, the most common beast monsters here are spiked-tailed rats and wind roaches."
"Why are they so similar?" Richard, just like him, likes to read books and is interested in learning more knowledge.
"There was no information about that, but from the speculations written in multiple books, it is said that there are multiple instances where a beast monster would breed with wild beasts." Wild beasts are former animals in this world that mutated after the arrival of the mysterious energy.
There is still no knowledge regarding the origin of beast monsters, but there are some speculations that they came from outer space.
"Hmm, so would their children be wild beasts or beast monsters?" Bryan asks.
"I do not know; that is why I said that it was just speculation." He shrugs his shoulders and decides to walk to the location written in the book.
There, they saw a couple of rats that were the same size as a dog. They truly lived up to the names given to them, but unfortunately, they were not their target.
"Look at their fat bodies; hmm, what would their taste be after barbequing them?" Richard salivated as he imagined himself eating them.
Bryan does not think that it was strange, but for Daniel, he cannot help but shiver. If not for the fact that he has to be cautious against beast monsters, no matter how level they are, he would not have chosen a rat and a roach as his first targets.
Fortunately, he can still absorb their monster shards; he has decided that, unless necessary, he will not eat their meat, especially the roach one.
"Hide." He grabs the two, and the three of them hide inside a broken car; it no longer has any appearance that it once had.
"Sh*t! Where is that famed illusion cat!? As long as we successfully capture it, we can obtain its eggs and we can become beastmasters!" Complains one of the people walking near Daniel and his group.