Their strength is also pitifully weak. Compared to the Snow Wolf, which can steadily awaken four racial skills during its growth phase, the Green Silkworm only has one skill: Silk Thread.

Moreover, even when Silk Thread is mastered to perfection, its strength is only comparable to that of steel wire—a completely unremarkable skill.

Beastmasters categorize the abilities mastered by extraordinary creatures into different levels based on their power and effects, from low to high: no rank, low-level skill, mid-level skill, high-level skill, super-level skill...

The Silk Thread mastered by the Green Silkworm doesn’t even count as a low-level skill; it doesn’t have any rank at all.

So, the fact that the Green Silkworm’s racial level is classified as a low-level extraordinary is already a mercy. After all, the Green Silkworm can’t even beat most ordinary animals; its only advantage is its potential for growth.

However, depending on how it’s raised, the Green Silkworm’s Silk Thread can still have quite a few uses.

But the pet breeding base doesn’t raise Green Silkworms just to produce Silk Thread.

The reason for raising such a weak pet is that, in nature, the Green Silkworm is one of the few pet beasts that can naturally evolve once.

After absorbing enough nutrients, they can evolve into Wind Crystal Butterflies, and there’s a chance they’ll awaken a new racial skill, Wind Blade, thus increasing their combat power.

Although after evolution, due to lifespan limitations, their racial level is still classified as low-level extraordinary, the Wind Crystal Butterfly, as one of the easiest insect-type pet beasts to raise, is the optimal initial transitional choice for the vast majority of ordinary beastmasters.

Next, William Carter and his team’s job was to record and observe the growth status of the Green Silkworms and determine when they would be able to evolve smoothly.

Compared to the Snow Wolf, the Green Silkworm is much more harmless—after all, it’s only palm-sized.

With its green, fuzzy body, innocent eyes, and two yellow antennae on its head, it looks very much like the larva of the citrus swallowtail butterfly on Earth.

After interacting with them personally, William Carter also understood why they’re known as the weakest of the pet beast world...

Because when these untrained Green Silkworms used their Silk Thread skill, William Carter could easily snap it apart with a gentle tug of his hands...

During the observation, William Carter ended up with his hands covered in Silk Thread.

Compared to the Snow Wolf, the Green Silkworm is less intelligent, and William Carter’s telepathy talent is not yet proficient, so communication between the two sides wasn’t very smooth, which led to some resistance from the Green Silkworms.

But this resistance... was just too harmless.

However, that wasn’t what left him most speechless.

What left William Carter truly at a loss was that the stone illustrated guide in his mind showed that the high-level psychic skill, Intimidate, could actually be taught to the Green Silkworm?

A Green Silkworm with king-level potential???

Is the so-called compatibility standard really this loose?

William Carter’s gaze toward the Green Silkworm changed.

Looking at it this way, the skill illustrated guide really isn’t simple. After all, the Green Silkworm is known as the lowest-tier pet beast that, before evolution, absolutely cannot learn any skill other than Silk Thread...

While William Carter was marveling, the Green Silkworm slipped out of his hands, and the illustrated guide changed once again.

At this moment, the stone illustrated guide opened to the second page.

This time, a new image of a Green Silkworm was added.

Below it was still a pile of text.

【Skill】: Silk Thread

【Skill Level】: None

【Description】: Bug-type skill. If mastered to the extreme, it might have some use.

【Status】: No teaching target at the moment

William Carter: ???

What’s with this description? Why is it exactly what I was thinking!

Forget it, forget it... So now Silk Thread has also been copied and recorded?

Looks like those three conditions have been met.

At present, the skill illustrated guide has successfully recorded a second completely useless skill, Silk Thread... and he couldn’t even feel happy about it, since this skill really does seem useless.

But then again... maybe such a weak skill could be used for experiments, to test stamina consumption.

For the rest of the afternoon, while everyone else was observing and recording the Green Silkworms, William Carter was also observing and recording, but he actually had an extra task: continuing to study the skill illustrated guide in his mind.

The only valuable discovery was that even a Green Silkworm that had already learned Silk Thread could still teach Silk Thread!

Even after mastering Silk Thread, it was still in a teachable state!

William Carter studied it and found that the information from the skill illustrated guide indicated that repeated teaching of the same skill could increase proficiency in that skill!

He understood, but unfortunately, William Carter didn’t dare to experiment here...

...

It wasn’t until evening.

After dinner, William Carter went straight back to his dormitory.

Once back, he picked up a manual and started searching through it.

This wasn’t some evaluation guide, but another book.

This manual recorded the 51 types of pet beasts raised at the Icefield City Pet Beast Breeding Base and their racial skills.

Obviously, William Carter was starting to select targets for skill copying.

He planned to see if there were any skills suitable for his Iron-Eating Beast to learn.

The skill illustrated guide can’t create skills out of thin air; he has to find a way to record new skills himself.

But as long as he successfully records a rare skill, the skill illustrated guide is invincible.

A Green Silkworm that knows Intimidate—what beastmaster has ever raised one of those?

William Carter decided to treat the skill illustrated guide as his second beastmaster talent. With this talent, his next goal was easy to predict.