Skipped dinner to update this. _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_
*collapses*
It also pleasantly surprised me that people have been viewing this site everyday. You guys are also getting refered from a bunch of places I didn’t even know （゜◇゜）
I think for now the release speed for this series should be one per week.
Thanks to everyone who commented and took the time out to refer this site.
Enjoy!
Arthur → Ya Se
Ernest → Ou Nisi Te
Hebrew → Xi Bo Lai
Beast Essence Print → Beast Spirit Mark
Beast Spirit World → Beast Spirit Realm
Zou Liang woke up naturally. The place they lived in was pretty shoddy, this was a given. They were barely able to pay tuition for the first year, and he didn’t know where they would land up next year. Currently, he was working part-time in the library. For Beasts, this kind of broken job was the one nobody wanted to do, but to Zou Liang this was a great thing to do. Not only could he doze off, he also didn’t need to fight groups of burly dudes in hand-to-hand. This was a great thing.
Actually, for a person who lived in a peaceful environment, suddenly arriving in this strange place, this was not insane, this was normal.
Mengjia Empire had eight major provinces. Ya Se resided in Yelusamo city, an important city located in the southern part of Yao God province. As one of the empire’s top-tier cities, it was very prosperous. Yelusamo War College was known in the city as the 3rd biggest buildings(the first two being the Temple, and the Master Spirit Engravers Association). The War college had two systems, one for combat professions, and one for for non-combat professions.
Combat professions included: archers, shadow hunters, battle hymn priests, wild beast warriors, and armored warriors; the five major professions.
It can’t be denied that they were connected to beast essence. Once a beast’s Beast Essence accumulated to a certain level it would change. There were two directions it could change, one way was a beast transformation, changing into a giant monster that corresponded with your clan’s race. The other was an armor transformation; you could conjure up armor on your body. The armor also had various attributes attached.
Generally speaking, archers, shadow hunters, and battle hymn priests would choose the armored transformation, while beasts transformed according to their profession’s characteristics. Wild Beast warriors are all Beast clan’s soldiers who chose beast transformations. Their fighting prowess was amazing, but this cultivation path also had it’s pros and cons. It lacked the technical aspect and expansion/dilation aspect of armored soldiers.
Armored soldiers; the transformation of all one’s beast essence to become a suit of armor, becoming an armor wearing fighter. This was considered a more aristocratic profession. like archers, shadow hunters, and battle hymn priests needed the armor transformation to fully carry out their profession’s characteristics. While they were forming a suitable weapon, soldiers who could beast transform could just transform immediately and easily gain effective combative abilities. Armored soldiers were more troublesome because they themselves could not transform, but required the aid of a master Spirit Engraver.
One doesn’t dare not mention master Spirit Engravers. In this continent where theocracy was supreme, master Spirit Engravers were a particularly special group, one that no one dared to provoke. The Master Spirit Engravers Association was one that was ** more formidable, for every beast that wished to become strong required a master Spirit Engraver to form their beast essence into their desired shape, and a master Spirit Engraver could determine the success or failure of the transformation, as well as the quality.
Beast transformation breakthrough happens when Beast Essence is accumulated to a certain point, and broken through under the guidance of a master Spirit Engraver.
Becoming an armored soldier was a casting [TL:an object made by pouring molten metal or other material into a mold.] progress with the help of a master Spirit Engraver. Beast Essence is changed into a helmet, armor, arm guards, shin guards, shields, and pieces of weaponry. This process is obviously very complex.
Beast transformations, Armor Transformations, and other transformations are divided into levels: White, Copper, Silver, Gold, Dark Gold, and Diamond. Each level required a corresponding master Spirit Engraver that matched the level. Of course there was also a legendary level that existed in legends. [TL: redundant much?]
Beast transformation is characterized by its low degree of difficulty, especially the first transformation. You could learn the basics at War college and then carry out the transformation by yourself. Of course, economic conditions permitting, you could go find a master Spirit Engraver thereby raising your chances of success, after all, a breakthrough failure would result in the loss of alot of Beast Essence. One drawback was the the breakthrough had to be complete, and not partial. For example, from the White level to the Copper level, you must accumulate enough Beast Essence to completely transform your entire body, not one half at a time.
Armor transformation’s advantage lies in the fact that one could refine according to the characteristic of their chosen profession, maximizing to the degree human technology and one’s own attributes. Archers focused their Beast Essence to form good bows and arrows, placing emphasis on agility attributes, Shadow hunters on forming suitable daggers or claws with an emphasis on speed and agility attributes, and Battle Hymn Priests on helmets with an emphasis on blessing power to enhance both their range and boosting effect.
Armor transformation allowed partial upgrades. Generally people usually upgrade their weapon first, successively upgrading their equipment based on their profession. This was on the basis of cultivating prominent features of your chosen profession. This method had little waste and was also safer.
Speaking of armored soldiers, it’s not wrong to say that it is a very extravagant path. Because the soldier vocation is more balanced, everything had to be good, requiring a lot of Beast Essence. But relying on your own cultivation was not enough, you also needed a master Spirit Engraver, otherwise everything would go to waste. However, once formed, and obtaining the silver level, that fighting power would be quite formidable, so this was usually the aristocrat’s choice.
But armor transformation had one more benefit, its greatest advantage. It was suave!
For most female beasts, in consideration for their beauty, there would basically be no female wild beast warriors. They were usually archers, shadow hunters, or battle hymn priests. In the more noble families, like the Bisi Mai swan family, there would emerge the rare female armored warrior, but with their status, it was quite normal.
All this was very distant to the Xi Bo Lai brothers. Ya Se did not gather his Beast Essence to breakthrough the first level, and lost all of it in battle. Sometimes Zou Liang was also very strange. If he had not lost so many times, and had saved his essence instead, what good opportunities could he have obtained to break through? But sometimes the Bill clan were a bit block headed, with one track minds.
Ou Nisi Te had actually obtained two chances to break through, but failed both times. He regarded his Beast Essence break though as a profound thing. Frankly speaking, it was absolutely impossible for him to break through without the guidance of a master Spirit Engraver. And with their situation, they clearly could not afford a master Spirit Engraver, not even one of the lowest level, a White stage master Spirit Engraver.
I was thinking of changing master Spirit Engraver to Spirit Engraver or Spirit Engraving Master, and wild beast warriors to berserk beast warriors. Leave an opinion in the comments and I’ll change accordingly. •ᴗ•
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