The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 3

Chapter 3: The Early Bird

Karl flopped on his bed and looked out the window, to see if there was any sort of hint as to what his powers were supposed to be. The guard had a point, and the claw marks definitely had to refer to some sort of animal. Humans didn't leave marks like that.

So, the first thing that he tried was focusing on adding claws to his hands.

"Claw!"

"Nope, yelling out skill names isn't going to do it. How do the other classes activate their skills?" Karl complained, unaware that the bored supervisors in the main car were watching through hidden cameras and laughing at his antics. _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}

[Page 2, Magic Classes

Open the box of casting assistants under your bed using the thumb of your left hand, and extract the appropriate casting medium to begin attempting to activate your first spell.]

"This doesn't look like the sort of marking that a spell caster should have, next page."

[Page 3, Combat classes

Open the box of practice weapons under your bed with the index finger of your right hand and choose the most appropriate weapon for your desired skills.]

That sounded more likely, so Karl knelt on the ground in front of the bed and unlocked the upper drawer, where he found a collection of simple weapons, and even some more obscure ones, like throwing knives, single-handed crossbows, and some sort of axe on a chain that looked like it would be more dangerous to the user than anyone else.

He was, unfortunately, not yet among the physically gifted, so Karl picked a short sword from among the weapons while he cursed being the last in his class to enjoy the full benefits of puberty.

He had never actually held a sword before, but this one felt right, and Karl gave it a few tentative swings before trying for a more meaningful strike toward the door.

[Pet Skills Not Available. You must record a pet.]

Karl blinked slowly as he worked to process the idea that had come to him as if implanted in his mind.

It was a message directly into his thoughts, obviously from the effects of the marking, and now he somewhat knew what he needed to do. But how did he record a pet? It couldn't be as simple as just writing it down, could it? Or maybe he needed to do something to memorize it?

But first he would have to find some sort of animal. This was a shiny new military train, not the company houses at the mines, there weren't going to be any mice. If he had to touch the animal for the skill to activate, this could be much more difficult than he had been expecting.

The obvious choice would be to try writing something down, and to see if that worked. Maybe there would be a book in the spell casting equipment.

The drawer of tools slid open, and Karl stared in amusement at the wide variety of strange items held inside. He had absolutely zero clue about how these were supposed to be used. Some of them didn't even look like they were anything special, like this silly snow globe with no base.

What were they going to do with that? Sit and ponder their Orb?

Karl picked the surprisingly heavy glass ball up in his hand, and suddenly, it lit up with a bright white light.

[Taming Space viewing is not available. Please Record A Pet.]

At first, the message that appeared in his thoughts made no sense, but after a few seconds of focus, Karl could feel the change. In his mind, a vast emptiness was forming, giving him a sense of eternal power beyond anything he had ever imagined.

"What about a Dragon? Can I have a Dragon?" Karl thought, trying to will one into existence in the taming space.

Nothing. Of course, it wasn't going to be that easy.