Chapter 17

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Among the three batches of students in Jinghai Beast Taming High School, the librarian was undoubtedly most familiar with Fang Mu.

The librarian was an old woman with kind eyes.

Gray-haired, slim, but straight-backed.

The age spots on her face were gently embedded in her cheekbones and dimples.

It contained an elegance that had settled over the years.

The old woman’s favorite thing to do was to pet a fat black cat in her arms.

The fat cat was not afraid of people at all.

However, it would show its claws whenever someone wanted to touch it.

The meaning was clear. ‘If you touch me, I’ll scratch you!’

The reason the old woman was so familiar with Fang Mu was not because of his achievements in school.

Instead, Fang Mu was the student who came to the library the most.

When the old woman saw Fang Mu, she placed the big black fat cat on the table and smiled at him.

“You are here to study again, little Fang?”

Fang Mu handed over his student card and spoke.

“Granny Yin, I want to catch up on my missed classes with my classmates later.”

“Help me arrange a study room!”

Hearing this, the old woman took a nearby volume and glanced at it.

“The classmate you said you were going to tutor with—is that Little Hu Tao?”

“She’s already asked for a study room.”

“If you’re meeting her, just go straight to the A317 study room and look for her.”

Fang Mu arched a curious brow at that.

Hu Tao was passionate about going to combat classes. Her beast took the close-combat approach, focusing on recklessness.

If such beasts wanted to improve their combat ability, the most suitable way was to undergo more combat training.

Fang Mu checked his phone. It was 5:20 in the afternoon.

She was 40 minutes early instead of being late.

Fang Mu had expected to study for at least half an hour before Hu Tao arrived.

Fang Mu took the student card that the librarian, Yin Yin, handed back and was about to head for the A317 study room when he saw the black cat staring at the snack can with dried fish on the table before it skillfully opened the tightly screwed lid of the jar with its two little paws.

Before the big black cat could lift the lid of the jar, a pair of thin, age-spotted palms rested on top of the bottle, stopping the cat.

Then that pair of hands scooped the big black cat into her arms and continued to pet it.

Out of curiosity, Fang Mu subconsciously used his Omniscient Eye to investigate the black cat.

[Beast Name]: Dark Clouds At Night

[Beast Species]: ???

[Beast Taming Level]: ???

[Beast Taming Department]: ???

[Beast Taming Potential]: ???

[Beast Taming Grade]: ???

Skills: ???

Exclusive Skills: ???

Evolutionary Lines: ???

As soon as he did, Fang Mu froze in the middle of moving forward.

Then, he walked toward Hu Tao’s study room as usual.

His intrinsic Beast Tamer’s Shadow of the Fool’s Innate Mystical Power, the Omniscient Eye, could not detect creatures beyond his own level.

The Shadow of the Fool was now Bronze-rank. After that were Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond-rank.

Anything above the Diamond rank would be another life form.

Fang Mu had heard his eldest sister, Fang Qin, mention it before.

The Legatus of the Jinghai Navy possessed the beasts of the Serial Species.

Serial Species type was the general name for any beast which had evolved into another life form.

A beast of the Serial Species could create its own unique sequence.

Then, they could advance all the way until level nine as the threshold

The fact that the Shadow of the Fool was unable to detect this black cat called the Dark Clouds At Night meant that this black cat must be a Serial Species.

This was the first time Fang Mu had seen a Serial Species with his own eyes.

Previously, every time Fang Mu came to the library, he could see Dark Clouds At Night.

He just didn’t know that there was a beast of the Serial Species right beside him.

Fang Mu had thought Yin Yin was just another ordinary person.

He could guess that Yin Yin was at least a five-star expert through Dark Clouds At Night.

No wonder the school had especially emphasized during the safety drill that once there was an emergency such as a mutated beast attack or a dimensional rift hitting the face, the appropriate hide-outs would be the library, the gymnasium, and the auditorium.

The martial arts arena and the auditorium should also have experts similar to Yin Yin.

As Fang Mu left, he pretended to look casually in the direction of Yin Yin and Dark Clouds At Night.

Fang Mu realized that he didn’t attract any abnormalities from Yin Yin or the Dark Clouds At Night when he used his Omniscient Eye to probe the Dark Clouds At Night.

This meant that neither the Dark Clouds At Night nor Yin Yin had noticed it which meant that Fang Mu no longer had any burden when investigating high-level beasts through the Omniscient Eye.

When he arrived at the door of the A317 study room, Fang Mu saw that it wasn’t shut.

He went straight in to find Hu Tao writing papers with her right hand.

It could be a trick question. Hu Tao instinctively tried to scratch her head with her left hand.

That resulted in a tug on her bandaged left arm that made her gasp and her eyes red with pain.

Fang Mu hurried inside and asked Hu Tao. “Were you injured in practice class at the practice field this afternoon?”

“Teacher Wei should still be in the school doctor’s office.”

When Hu Tao saw Fang Mu, she hurriedly put down her pen and pouted.

“I was a little too rash in today’s combat class and let Iron-Winged Dove rush forward.”

“It caused me to be slapped on the arm by the Iron Gut Violent Bear which crossed over.”

“Teacher Wei has already treated me.”

“It’s just a superficial wound that’s easy to treat but my tendons and bones need some time to recover.”

Hu Tao looked annoyed as she spoke.

With her injured body, she would probably have to watch from the sidelines during combat class for the next month.

Hearing this, Fang Mu took out the blood-nourishing date that he had just bought at the Dinghai Mall from his Mirror Turtle Pendant.

Fang Mu finally understood why the pale face of Hu Tao looked familiar.

Her expression was exactly the same as his after he withdrew his own blood.

The Iron Gut Violent Bear’s claws were two to three centimeters long.

The length of these claws was nothing to beasts, but they could cause great damage to weak Beast Tamers.

These were claws that tore flesh and bone.

Even if the teacher had sent Hu Tao to the school doctor’s office as quickly as possible, she would have lost at least 1,000 milliliters of blood.

A silver-grade Blood-nourishing date was enough to improve the state of the Hu Tao.

After Hu Tao finished eating the date, her exhausted blood was quickly replenished instantly instead of recuperating for a week.

Hu Tao was a good friend Fang Mu had made in high school and who had helped him a lot so he was naturally generous with her.

As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to heal broken bones and tendons. However, this saying was only applicable in his previous life.

After being treated by a healing-type beast in this life, the broken bones and tendons could still heal as long as there were no broken limbs.

If Teacher Wei’s Glimmer Bell Orchid was not a Silver-Rank Beast, but a Gold-Rank Beast, Hu Tao would fully recover in a week or so instead of a month.