She had seen many beastmasters and pet beasts who ignored minor injuries, and as these small wounds accumulated, they would eventually develop into more serious problems.

William Carter: ...

Sorry, even for such a small injury, he had already struggled with himself for a long time.

"I'll be more careful next time, thank you."

William Carter quickly nodded in thanks, feeling quite embarrassed inside—after all, he had delayed someone else's work. He decided to buy some snacks that plant-type pet beasts liked tomorrow as a thank-you...

Using healing abilities to treat injuries—that was the treatment method of the pet beast breeding base's infirmary.

Even for minor wounds, the doctors here preferred to use pet beasts for treatment. The reason was simple: repeated treatments also helped increase the pet beasts' skill proficiency.

Learning a skill didn't mean you could use it proficiently; it often took a lot of practice to truly make the skill your own.

Therefore, the skill compendium's method of increasing proficiency through repeated teaching was actually quite a bug—it essentially accelerated the pet beast's training efficiency.

...

Through the breeding base's infirmary, William Carter successfully obtained a rare healing skill, and he was in a great mood.

After returning to the dormitory from the infirmary, William Carter washed up and lay down.

Before falling asleep, he began to look forward to the day he would become a beastmaster.

After becoming a beastmaster, there would be many more paths to take.

Especially if he could pass the professional beastmaster assessment—aside from fulfilling a few minor obligations, he would hardly have to do anything, and the Beastmaster Association would pay him a monthly salary. It was practically a leap in social class.

"A beastmaster who has just formed a contract with a pet beast is an apprentice beastmaster."

"Once both the apprentice beastmaster and the initial pet beast reach a certain standard, they can participate in the unified assessment held by the Beastmaster Association."

"Passing the assessment means becoming an official professional beastmaster."

William Carter muttered to himself, wondering how long it would take him to go from apprentice to official beastmaster with the skill compendium...

With the skill compendium, he should have a great advantage in cultivating pet beasts.

Being around eighteen years old was also the best age to become a beastmaster.

Thinking about all this, William Carter fell asleep.

...

After crossing over, William Carter spent a day trying to adapt to the new world.

At the same time, he set his next goal.

Early the next morning, William Carter got up early and started a new day of work.

He also took some time to buy a thank-you gift for the aunt who had helped treat his injury the day before.

After adjusting his mindset and suppressing his urge to become a beastmaster as soon as possible, William Carter began to slowly integrate into this world.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed, and the internship period was about to end. William Carter could finally go and receive his pet beast.

Thanks to the convenience of his job, during this time he had also successfully copied and recorded two more skills.

The first was the mid-level skill "Super Vision," which came from a high-rank extraordinary wind-type bird pet beast, the Green-backed Eagle—the same group of pet beasts that patrolled the skies above the breeding base.

Super Vision, as the name suggests, was a skill used to enhance vision.

Eagles already had excellent eyesight, and creatures that awakened the Super Vision skill had even more perfect vision. Not only could they see at night and at long distances and see through ordinary illusions, but any movement within their line of sight would appear much slower to them.

Although it didn't seem to directly translate into combat power, its potential was extremely high and its uses were wide-ranging. In every city, pet beasts that relied on vision for reconnaissance and patrol basically all mastered the Super Vision skill.

Unfortunately, this was still a bit short of the sensory skill for extreme enhancement of the five senses that William Carter wanted... If he could find it, who would settle for less?

Still, this skill was pretty good. If the Iron-eating Beast could learn it, its combat awareness would definitely improve by more than a little.

The second was the high-level skill "Absolute Sleep."

It came from a high-rank extraordinary pet beast, the Sleep Demon.

The Sleep Demon belonged to the undead-type pet beasts and had only two racial skills: the psychic-type "Hypnosis Wave" and "Absolute Sleep."

Obviously, this Sleep Demon was also a breeder's pet beast.

The owner often used the Sleep Demon's "Hypnosis Wave" ability to help some pet beast cubs sleep soundly—a very useful support skill.

As for "Absolute Sleep," it was a skill used on oneself. After using it, one could enter a deep sleep state and recover physical strength at super high speed—a recovery-type skill.

Very few pet beasts could master the Absolute Sleep skill, but with the Iron-eating Beast's love of sleep, it should be possible, right?

The reason William Carter copied this skill was because he wondered if he could become self-sufficient in the future...

After becoming a beastmaster, if you wanted your pet beast to grow quickly, you definitely had to train it.

But training consumed a lot of the pet beast's stamina, and pet beasts would get tired and need to rest.

In general, beastmasters could speed up their pet beast's recovery by recalling them into the beast space, but this would consume a lot of the beastmaster's own energy.

The wealthier ones could buy some nutritional supplements.

But William Carter was different. What he thought was, if his own pet beast could learn "Absolute Sleep," wouldn't it be able to recover its stamina quickly on its own? It would save both money and effort, and since the Iron-eating Beast loved to sleep anyway, sleep was sleep no matter where it happened.