At present, this green silkworm is at the first stage of the growth level: the awakening stage.

　　At this level, most pet beasts are in the growth phase where they awaken their racial skills.

　　With each awakening and level up, the pet beast’s physical attributes improve, its internal energy limit increases, and there’s a chance it will awaken its own racial skill.

　　After ten awakenings, it can attempt to reach the extraordinary level and become a truly extraordinary creature.

　　These ten awakening stages are generally referred to simply as levels one through ten by beast tamers.

　　For example, this green silkworm is at level one, while the iron-eating beast contracted by William Carter is currently at level three, meaning they have undergone one and three awakenings respectively.

　　However, the number of awakenings doesn’t fully represent a pet beast’s strength.

　　The strength of a pet beast in the awakening stage mainly depends on the racial skills it has awakened.

　　In other words, at the same growth level, the higher the racial level of the pet beast, the stronger its combat power—unless a low-race pet beast has mastered powerful skills beyond its basic racial abilities.

　　So, even if a green silkworm has awakened ten times but only knows the Silk Spinning skill (which has no level), it could never defeat an iron-eating beast that has learned the Hardening skill, even if the iron-eating beast’s growth level is much lower. This is racial suppression.

　　The green silkworm’s advantage may be that, compared to other high-race pet beasts, it grows faster. After all, its short lifespan forces it to grow quickly.

　　In short, this green silkworm is very weak. This kind of “unable to control its own fate” level of strength directly made it William Carter’s test subject.

　　“Jii——”

　　The green silkworm was thrown to the ground. Because its body is light, it wasn’t hurt.

　　However, that slap from the iron-eating beast really scared it. After being stunned, it was left in endless fright.

　　Green silkworm: Σ(°△°|||)︴

　　It stared with wide eyes, panicking at the giant in front of it and the iron-eating beast that had jumped down from the tree. It immediately turned to crawl away, not even thinking of resisting with silk.

　　But… William Carter moved even faster, stepping forward and grabbing it in his hand.

　　At this moment, the green silkworm finally resisted.

　　Silk!

　　Snow-white silk sprayed from its mouth, a flurry of white wrapping around William Carter’s hand, but William Carter simply tore it off with one hand.

　　After three months of internship, the skill he’d mastered best was tearing silk.

　　Your silk is still too weak.

　　Do you think you’re Don Quixote the green silkworm?

　　Green silkworm: Σ(°△°|||)︴

　　“Little guy, behave yourself.”

　　“Otherwise, I’ll feed you to that guy over there.”

　　Iron-eating beast: (°﹃°＊) Can I eat this???

　　Although it’s an extraordinary creature, the green silkworm isn’t very intelligent, only capable of instinctive emotional reactions.

　　Even so, William Carter’s telepathy was still somewhat useful, since it conveyed messages mind-to-mind.

　　Although the green silkworm couldn’t understand the meaning, its body instinctively produced a sense of panic, making it afraid to act rashly.

　　[Skill]: Silk Spinning

　　[Skill Level]: None

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

　　[Status]: Can be taught

　　William Carter looked at the green silkworm in front of him and summoned the skill compendium in his mind, turning to the second page.

　　Among the six recorded skills, he selected the most useless one—Silk Spinning—and targeted this green silkworm.

　　The green silkworm’s racial skill, Silk Spinning, is innate from birth, so this green silkworm naturally knows how to use it. William Carter had known this from the start.

　　“Teach.” Under the green silkworm’s bewildered gaze, William Carter silently uttered the word in his heart, trying to activate the compendium.

　　This was his first attempt, and he was quite nervous.

　　What happened next wasn’t what William Carter had imagined—the green silkworm didn’t instantly learn the skill. Instead, his own hands gradually began to glow.

　　Immediately after, the halo on William Carter’s hands was transmitted to the green silkworm through touch, flowing over like water.

　　As the light flowed, in the next second, the halo on William Carter’s hands faded away, covering the green silkworm’s entire body and making it shine.

　　Buzz!

　　Once everything was done, William Carter felt as if some of his stamina had been drained, his mental state plummeting—hungry, tired, and sleepy.

　　But the changes that followed quickly made him so excited that he forgot his fatigue, because right before his eyes, the green silkworm’s body suddenly began to develop.

　　This green silkworm was undergoing its second awakening, with a second stripe slowly appearing on its body. William Carter quickly set it down to observe carefully.

　　Green silkworm’s perspective.

　　This little green bug was probably just as confused.

　　As the halo merged into its body, its physical attributes and internal energy limit suddenly increased.

　　At the same time, in a hazy state, the green silkworm felt as if it had unconsciously used the Silk Spinning skill countless times.

　　This experience made the green silkworm feel much more proficient in using silk.

　　Although it still didn’t quite understand what had happened, it did grasp the concept that it had become stronger.

　　But none of that really mattered.

　　With the intelligence of a green silkworm, it couldn’t possibly figure out what was going on. All it could do was decide what it should do next.