After the appearance of the blood-red flower, everyone became obedient.
Teacher Rong started the class with her introduction again, then,
"Before starting class, I have to advise you of something," she started speaking.
"Everything you know about Beastmasters and related stuff—" she paused for a second, "Forget about it."
Students were stunned when they heard it. One girl in a red dress tremblingly raised her head and asked with caution, "Why?"
When students heard someone daring to ask Teacher Rong, their hearts leaped to their mouths.
Teacher Rong looked at the girl with an expressionless face and asked, "What's your name?"
The girl replied struttingly, "Th— My name is Karishma."
Teacher Rong nodded and replied, "Because what you know may not be true. It is just to let common people live their lives peacefully."
Karishma sat down while Teacher Rong asked everyone to introduce themselves, their relics, or the reason they were admitted into the celestial class.
No one dared to refute her and started introducing themselves.
Yang Feng was astonished when he heard some truly unique abilities.
The third student introduced himself, "Hello, my name is Jian Lei, and I have the Blood Flame Chalice, a Verdant-grade Relic."
"When a pet is evolving, it can increase the chances of evolution depending on the bloodline rank."
Teacher Rong nodded, and students continued to introduce themselves.
The eighth student was Karishma, "Hello, guys, I am Karishma. My Relic is Durga's Trident. It is a celestial relic. It is a war tool without any of the 9 elemental attributes."
Teacher Rong's eyes narrowed when she heard about Karishma's relic.
The twelfth was Yang Lan, "Hello, my name is Yang Lan, and my relic is Everglas, a time supreme relic."
When everyone heard Yang Lan's relic was a time relic, they looked at her with bulging eyes. There was astonishment, envy, and jealousy in their eyes.
Yang Feng could even see some male students' eyes shaped like hearts. He rolled his eyes and thought about how to kill these.
Next was Yang Feng's turn, "Hello, I am Yang Feng. My relic is also a celestial relic, the Nine Element Divine Codex. It gives me affinity to all elements, including variants."
Students once again were astonished, even more than at Yang Lan's turn. One had to know that there were four time relics before Yang Lan's, so it had a precedent. But for Yang Feng, his relic was unique. It had never appeared before.
After Yang Feng, the next student forgot to introduce himself. He only came back to his senses after Teacher Rong coughed.
He hurriedly stood up in fright, thinking that Teacher Rong was angered, and introduced himself hastily.
"I am Xiao Pang. My relic is an arcane relic, 'The Infernal Stove.' It can imbue any dishes cooked on it with enhancing abilities."
Yang Feng was dumbfounded as the student was a little fatty, and his name literally meant "little fatty."
As introductions continued, the last two were Beast Tamers and not Beast Masters.
One was a boy who contracted an Arcane bloodline race, a Mystic Stone Giant.
The last was a Loli, "My name is Dou Dou, and my contracted pet is a Machine Spirit, 'Mystic Fox Lord.'"
Teacher Rong nodded and spoke, "Very good. It seems this year's quality is higher than previous years'."
She said this while pressing a button on the podium. "Now let me distribute your syllabus for next year."
Two humanoid bots with upper bodies and hoverboards instead of lower bodies came from behind the screen.
They had trolleys in front of them, which were also hovering.
These bots distributed eight thick books to every student.
Teacher Rong spoke, "These will be your curriculum for the next year."
Yang Feng's lips twitched when he saw these thick books.
Their titles were:
Introduction to Beastmaster's World,
Principles of Beastmastery,
Beast Evolution and Genetics,Basic Herbalism,Beastmastery in the Age of Technology,Arcane Engineering: Integrating Magic and Machines,Beastmaster's Compendium of Relics,Atlas of Thousand Lineages.
Teacher Rong continued, "Your official studies will start next week. For the next seven days, teachers will introduce secondary professions to all of you."
"After seven days, you have to choose your secondary professions and start its studies alongside your regular classes."
Yang Lan asked at this moment, "But Teacher Rong, Dean said that there will be three days of classes. So—"
Teacher Rong replied with a side eye, "The Dean meant official classes. And those will start next week."
Yang Feng was sweating profusely for his sister, afraid that she might anger Teacher Rong.
Yang Lan pouted and sat down, while other students decided not to ask anything.
Teacher Rong used a remote and started the large screen behind her.
On it was a bold title:
BEASTMASTERS
Teacher Rong started teaching. "Our today's topic is the main profession, which is Beastmasters."
The next slide was a flow chart.
She continued,
"And also in the Institute, whenever a thing is directed toward Beastmasters, it also includes Beast Tamers."
"Now, let's start."
"Everyone knows what a Beastmaster and Beast Tamer are, so let's skip this."
"Beastmasters are classified into two types overall:
Battle Beastmasters: Those that take part in battles. Their focus is battle, and their pets are also chosen according to their needs.
Lifestyle Beastmasters: Any other type of Beastmasters other than Battle Beastmasters fall into this category. They include doctors, secondary professions, businessmen, and much more. This type of Beastmaster will be discussed in the next six days.
Today, our topic will be Battle Beastmasters."
Everyone listened intently. Yang Feng also started the recording function of his star watch.
Teacher Rong continued.
"Battle Beastmasters are further divided into four categories:
Commanders: They focus on battle strategies, traps, and calculations, working as the team's brain. They mostly contract soul-type pets that can enhance their souls, as they need to calculate everything on a battlefield.
A more niche category of Commanders are Controllers. They are commanders that also have trapping-type pets like vine types, plants, machinery that can control enemies physically or spiritually, or spirits of weapons like ropes, etc.
Attackers: Beastmasters that have high lethality and focus more on attacks. They will contract and train pets of high lethality, e.g., Flame Spirit, Crimson Blood Tiger, or mechanical pets like Dou Dou, who has Mystic Fox Lord, which focuses more on attack with its nine tails as cannons.
Defenders: Battle Beastmasters that focus more on their defense than attack are Defenders. They will contract pets like Turtle species, Earth-attribute beasts, mechs, shield spirits, etc.
Wardens: Beastmasters that focus on support during a battle, like healers, enhancers, cursemancers, etc., are collectively known as Wardens."
Yang Feng was listening with his full focus. This was the first time he had heard about Beastmasters in such detail.
He raised his hand, and after the teacher's permission, he asked, "Teacher, are there any other categories other than these, like Assassins or Scouts?"
Teacher Rong explained, "I was going to explain this, so first listen to the whole lecture, then ask questions at the end."
Then she gestured for Yang Feng to sit down with her hand.
"As Student Yang has asked, Assassins are a part of Attackers, while Scouts are part of Wardens.
They—"
Then Teacher Rong talked about the five main categories and their sub-professions in detail.
It took about three hours to talk about everything.
Yang Feng was very fascinated by it. Till now, he only knew about Beastmasters and some basic information.
He never knew that Beastmasters were divided into so many categories.
Teacher Rong gave all of them some time to digest the information. She looked at the students, and only the Yang siblings, Karishma, and two other students were listening with focus. The others, coming from prestigious backgrounds, already knew these things.
She shook her head and didn't reprimand anyone. She may be strict, but she wouldn't force someone to listen to something they already knew.
She paid attention to the Yang siblings and the other three students.
For the next fifteen minutes, some students asked questions, and Teacher Rong answered with patience.
After fifteen minutes, Teacher Rong spoke again while checking the time, "It's 12:30 now, so we have only 90 minutes until lunch break.
"So, in the next 60 minutes, we will discuss how these five categories of Battle Beastmasters cooperate as a group. And in the last thirty minutes, I will divide your class into four groups, five members each."
This time, all students listened with focus, as this was not something they had learned before.
They knew about it, but only the basics.
Teacher Rong started speaking, "Most Beastmasters have many shortcomings, especially low- and mid-level ones.
"So, to minimize their shortcomings, earlier Beastmasters started cooperating with each other as two or three and more."
"Until a hundred years ago, there were four people in a group as an ideal combination.
They would have two Attackers, one Defender, and one Warden.
But a hundred years ago, Commanders and Controllers were categorized as a separate class. So now, every ideal team will have five members, with the fifth being the Commander."
Then Teacher Rong talked about how these categories cooperate and their duties in a team fight.
It was an interesting and novel topic for Yang Feng.
At the end, Teacher Rong gave everyone 20 minutes to decide their battle categories.
As for Lifestyle Beastmasters, they could choose it, but Battle was a must for every student—not just celestial class but all students.
Everyone looked around and started talking with other students to decide what to choose.
Yang Feng looked at Yang Lan, who was smiling at him.
She came to Yang Feng and smiled sweetly, "Brother, what are you going to choose?"