Compared to enhancement-type talents, special-type talents are extremely complex and lack any pattern, with vastly different manifestations of abilities across different talents.

For example, the special-type talent "Sharing" allows a beastmaster to share one skill of a contracted pet, granting themselves a supernatural ability.

Beastmasters with sharing-type talents generally have much stronger self-preservation and combat abilities than ordinary beastmasters.

There's also the special talent "Fusion," which allows a beastmaster to temporarily fuse with their pet to become a new form—could beast-eared girls really exist?

As for William Carter's telepathy talent, although it is also a special type, it is relatively common and is currently one of the most widespread special-type talents.

Beastmasters with telepathy talents, once they master the ability, can communicate with any intelligent creature, with no language barriers.

Normally, beastmasters can only understand the thoughts of their own contracted pets, but those with telepathy talents can communicate, at least to some extent, even with other people's pets or wild creatures.

In the history of the beastmaster profession, although telepathy cannot directly translate into combat power, its status is unshakable and indispensable.

After all, if you can communicate with other species, it's very likely that an unnecessary war can be avoided altogether.

Professions in the beastmaster field such as medical workers, teachers, researchers, and breeders are basically held by beastmasters with telepathy talents—it's a jack-of-all-trades talent.

With such a practical beastmaster talent, logically, he should be able to get along with wild creatures fairly easily...

Thinking of this, William Carter breathed a sigh of relief.

As for the use of "telepathy," although William Carter couldn't claim to be highly skilled, he shouldn't be bad at it either.

He subconsciously tried to use his beastmaster talent, listening in all directions, planning to get familiar with the steps in advance to avoid messing up later.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened...

As the beastmaster space William Carter had opened in his brain trembled, his vision suddenly blurred, and then, in his mind, a black stone-like illustrated book appeared.

He seemed to have... awakened a second beastmaster talent!

Chapter 2: Skill Compendium

What happened... Where did this compendium come from?

In a daze, William Carter's brain received a flood of information.

This information appeared in his mind in the form of images and words that were easy for him to understand.

After a moment of dizziness, William Carter's expression froze.

Because the stone compendium that appeared in his mind instinctively let William Carter understand part of its function.

This function is extremely OP, practically a cheat.

The compendium is called the Skill Compendium.

It can copy the supernatural abilities of extraordinary creatures and record them in the compendium, and the abilities recorded in the compendium can be freely taught by William Carter to other extraordinary creatures, except humans.

Extraordinary creatures are powerful precisely because they possess all sorts of extremely special skills... Copying and teaching them—how is that even possible? Can even the abilities of mythical creatures be copied and taught to ordinary pets?

According to the compendium's feedback, to successfully copy the abilities of other extraordinary creatures, three conditions must be met.

1. Witness the other party using the ability with your own eyes.

2. Make physical contact with the other party.

3. From seeing the skill to making contact, it must be completed within one hour.

These are the conditions for copying and recording skills.

To teach a skill to another creature, certain conditions must also be met.

Depending on the skill's level, teaching it will consume a certain amount of the user's stamina.

In addition, the target being taught must have a certain degree of compatibility with the skill...

There are quite a few restrictions, but William Carter still fell silent. Even though he wasn't a beastmaster yet, he could clearly see that this compendium for copying, recording, and teaching skills would make every beastmaster drool with envy.

A beastmaster's strength, aside from their pet's abilities, is closely related to three aspects.

First is the development of their own beastmaster talent and abilities.

For example, a beastmaster with a flame enhancement talent may increase their pet's skill power by different amounts depending on how well they've developed their talent.

Second is skill manuals.

The vast majority of pets can only awaken their own racial skills, and the innate racial skills they can awaken are an important reference for the pet's species level.

Whether a pet is powerful or not depends greatly on the strength of its skills.

Generally speaking, it's very difficult for a pet to learn skills outside of its racial skills.

Teaching a pet skills beyond its racial abilities is as hard as teaching a seven-year-old to fly a plane, but through some special teaching methods, pets still have a chance to learn other skills.

These skill teaching methods are like martial arts manuals in wuxia novels—very precious, and can quickly boost a pet's strength.

If a beastmaster masters the teaching method for a powerful skill and successfully has their pet learn it, the pet can even defeat opponents across species and levels.

Third is evolution methods.

The vast majority of pets have the potential to evolve, but many evolutionary paths are extremely secretive.