With the onset of spring, life in the city of Yaktana on the Itia continent was full of new colors. The end of the next academic year was approaching. Students from all schools worked hard to prepare for the final exams.

Educational institutions in the city are divided into three stages – primary, secondary and high. The initial one includes the first 4 years. The middle school has 5 academic years, the high school has 3 years. Children are allowed into educational institutions when they are 7 years old, and they graduate just when they all turn 18, when the door to adulthood opens for all children and the chance to choose their life path.

Life has been monotonous for Anon for the past few years. Everything revolved around his school life. Recently, he and his twin sister turned 16 years old. Both were finishing their first year of high school.

At first glance, Anon is an ordinary teenager with black hair, wearing a short haircut. Light brown eyes are decorated with high, wide eyebrows. His gaze is often serious and distant. He has a high forehead, which indicates his developed intellectual abilities. Height is slightly above average.

His appearance, character, the way he dresses and the way he behaves are no different from other children his age. But Anon himself realized a long time ago that in some way that he did not understand, he was different from the others.

For some unknown reason, over the past three years, all the people and animals around him have begun to ignore him, behaving as if he did not exist. But at the same time, Anon exists in their understanding.

Anon himself could not explain how this is related. At one time, everyone pays attention to him when he becomes needed by that time. To give an example, this is when his time comes to be on duty in class, test papers, and all that. The rest of the time, when his need for something disappears immediately, everyone ignores him. It's like they turn on some kind of switch - ignore it.

Because of this, Anon got really lonely at school. Before all this started, Anon had acquaintances, friends with whom he went to high school together and spent his free time.

After countless attempts to get attention, talk, and even do something to attract attention, Anon gave up. All of his attempts only caused a small ripple to attract attention. After a short period of time, everything returned to calm indifference again.

Anon himself was an intelligent, intelligent child from birth. From a very young age, he was drawn to the new unknown. Very early for his age, unlike his sister, he started speaking and learned to read.

Everyone around him admired his understanding and prophesied his genius. He absorbed everything around him at a rapid pace, sometimes shocking his mother.

Anon attended elementary and middle school with his twin sister Anna. His sister was trying to keep up with her brother. Despite this, the relationship between the sister and the brother was harmonious. They always went to the same school and the same class.

But they went their separate ways in high school. Once again, this mysterious phenomenon or curse was to blame for everything.

From the moment Anon became a blur to everyone, his family life began to change. Even his loving mother and sisters started ignoring him. Yes, sisters. In addition to his twin sister, Anon has another older sister, Sursa, who was in her first year of college this year.

Of course, it all didn't start in one day. His whole family gradually, like all other people, stopped paying attention to him. His mother and sisters became cold towards him, and his father, who was constantly away from work, forgot about him altogether.

In the understanding of his sisters, they have an unremarkable brother. It's like he is and that's it. The old affection and belonging to the same family are gone. Like all people, most of the time they stopped paying attention to him, taking an interest in his school life, mood, and everything else.

The first year was difficult, but as they say, a person gets used to everything. So Anon had to get used to it all. He searched for the reason for all this phenomenon, but he never found the answer. He spent so much time in the libraries of his schools that he became a regular there and read almost all the books there.

And once again he was sitting in the library and rereading a certain book.

After taking a short break, Anon took his right hand off the book, opened his palm and thought about something. At the same moment, a small blank white card with the size of business and bank cards materialized in his hands from the particles of light.

Anon picked up the card and said softly, "Status."

The card in Anon's hands disintegrated into particles and a small window with data materialized in front of him, which everyone called the "Status Window".

Status

Name: Anon Arkin

Gender: Male

Age: 16 years old

Relatives: Sarah Heyers (Mother); Adam Arkin (Father); Sursa Arkin (Sister); Anna Arkin (Sister);

All the inhabitants of this world had their own status card, which each person received at birth. No one knew how or why people received the card. There were many questions and guesses, but there were no precise statements or proofs. There has never been a time in history where people didn't have status cards. So, status cards have been and remain an integral part of human life.

After checking his status, Anon returned his attention to the book he was holding in his hands. The book was called The Handbook for Beginner Animal Tamers. Anon had already read this book many times, but he still opened it from time to time and read it over and over again.

But this time it was different. He and his sister have already turned 16 this year.

All over the world, when someone turns 16, the so-called ceremony of awakening the soul of a beast and the talent of a beast tamer takes place every year at a certain time. Today was exactly the day when the awakening ceremony of the beast tamers would be held in the city where he lives.

This was the era, the era of beast tamers and beast lords.

All over the world, beast tamers are at the head of every country, organization, family, clan, and sect. All children born in this era, without exception, want to become beast tamers.

It is well known that people who awaken their beast souls become beast tamers, and beasts that have evolved and gained intelligence and soul power are called beast lords.

As it says in the beginner beast tamer's handbook, not everyone can awaken their beast soul, let alone awaken their talent. Yes, the awakening of the soul of a beast and the awakening of talent are not the same thing.

By awakening the soul of a beast, a person becomes an official beast tamer and will be able to tame their first beast. Apart from awakening the soul of the beast, few of the awakened ones can awaken the so-called tamer talent. The awakening of which is immediately guaranteed to make the awakened one a genius at taming beasts.

All the forces of the world will fight for such geniuses. Even powerful tamers will fight for them.

According to the book, the talents of a beast tamer are different. The talent of taming dragons, the talent of enhancing elemental affinity, the talent of telepathy, the talent of enhancing physical strength and protection, and much more. Without exaggeration, every single talent of a beast tamer is useful and desirable.

While reading the beast taming handbook, Anon couldn't help but worry. After all, it is not known what the chance of awakening depends on. Not everyone is lucky and only some lucky people manage to become a beast tamer.

Since childhood, Anon, like all children, dreamed of and still cherishes the opportunity to become an beast tamer. 

At least Anon consoled himself with the fact that the handbook says in small fonts that those who have beast tamers in their family have a better chance of success, but this has not been proven and is not a constant.

Exactly. There is a beast tamer in the Anon family, namely his father Adam is a level 4 beast tamer who has awakened his fourth beast soul and signed a contract with his fourth beast.

It is precisely because his father is a beast tamer that he is constantly on the move in an attempt to awaken his fifth beast soul and become a level 5 beast tamer.

After his long adventures, Anon's father returns home, spends some time with his family and resumes his adventures again in an attempt to improve his level. Anon's father has his own group of like-minded people, or as everyone calls a team of adventurers.

If earlier, before Anon suffered this unfortunate illness, which Anon called a curse, Adam paid little attention to him, most of all paying his attention to his youngest daughter, then after all this he seemed to forget that he had a son besides his two daughters.

Even though his father had forgotten about him, Anon was still glad that he had him and that he was a beast tamer. This was Anon's greatest hope, that he would be able to awaken and become a beast tamer and have his own animals, and perhaps find or remove this curse from himself.