2026-03-16 16:16:54Harry's vision swam with golden light. Words appeared before his eyes—visible only to him, hovering in the air like ethereal script. A translucent panel materialized, filled with information that made his breath catch in his throat.
[BEAST STATUS PANEL]
Name: Rose
Current Rank: Unranked (Sealed)
True Rank: IMMORTAL
Bloodline Origin: Lord of Light × God of Night (Forbidden Union)
Status: CRITICAL - Conflicting divine energies causing power suppression
Condition: Light/Dark imbalance (Current ratio: 20% Light / 80% Dark)
Note: This beast possesses bloodline never before documented in human history. Offspring of a forbidden divine union. Dual-natured essence causes internal conflict, sealing true power. If properly balanced, potential exceeds Immortal classification into UNKNOWN territory.
Restoration Requirements:
Full Power Restoration: Seven Divine Materials
Initial Strength Restoration: Holy Light Grass (Common herb - rebalances Light/Dark ratio to 50/50, unlocking base Immortal rank)
Harry's hands trembled as he read and reread the information. Immortal rank. A grade that existed only in ancient legends. No living person had ever contracted an Immortal beast—it was considered theoretically possible but practically impossible.
And this little girl, this crying, beaten child that John had called trash...
"Master?" Rose's soft voice pulled him back. "Are you alright? You're staring at me strangely."
Harry looked down at her—really looked at her. The violet eyes that seemed too large for her face. The pale skin that almost seemed to glow faintly in certain light. The complete absence of wings that had marked her as "defective."
No wonder the identification lens couldn't read her rank. She wasn't below Common grade—she was so far above it that the measuring tools simply broke.
A smile spread across Harry's face, slow and genuine. For the first time in eighteen years, hope bloomed in his chest like a flower pushing through concrete.
"I'm fine," he said quietly, squeezing her hand. "Better than fine. I'm—"
"Still standing here like a cockroach that won't die?"
John's voice cut through the moment like a rusty blade. He strode toward them, Seraphiel gliding elegantly beside him. The contract marks on his wrist glowed with fresh power, and his expression radiated smug satisfaction.
"Seriously, Harry," John continued, his voice dripping with contempt. "You actually contracted that worthless thing? I knew you were stupid, but this is pathetic even for you. You're like a rat clinging to a piece of moldy bread because you're too dumb to know it'll poison you."
The crowd, which had been dispersing, paused to watch. Nothing entertained them more than watching the mighty Klein family put someone in their place.
Rose shrank against Harry's side, her small hand clutching his sleeve. Harry felt her trembling.
"At least I made my own choice," Harry said coldly, his earlier fear replaced by something harder. Something that had been forged in years of humiliation and abuse. "Unlike you, who needed Grandmother to steal my summon because yours was trash."
John's face went crimson. "What did you just say to me, you gutter-spawned piece of—"
"The truth," Harry interrupted, his voice steady and calm. It was the calmness that seemed to infuriate John most. "You failed, John. Accept it. Having a Legendary angel handed to you won't change the fact that you're a failure. The crystal doesn't lie—you summoned garbage, and everyone saw it."
"How dare you!" John lunged forward, but Victor Klein grabbed his shoulder, holding him back.
"Not here, son," Victor hissed. "Not in public."
"Listen to daddy, John," Harry continued, that strange new courage making him reckless. "At least someone in your family has sense."
"Enough."
Elder Margaret's voice cracked like a whip. She moved between them with surprising speed for her age, her cane slamming against the stone. Her eyes blazed with cold fury as she fixed Harry with a venomous glare.
"You ungrateful worm," she hissed. "After everything we've done for you—feeding you, housing you, tolerating your very existence—you dare speak to your betters this way?"
"My betters?" Harry laughed, the sound bitter and harsh. "I don't see any here."
The crowd gasped. Several people muttered that Harry had lost his mind.
Elder Margaret's lips curled into a cruel smile. "Then let me educate you on reality, boy. This year—for the first time in fifty years—the Imperial Royal Beast Academy will be conducting entrance examinations in our city. Do you understand what that means?"
Harry's expression remained neutral, but internally, his heart skipped. The Imperial Royal Beast Academy. The most prestigious beast-taming institution in the entire federation. Graduates became generals, council members, heroes. It was every tamer's dream.
"With a Legendary angel," Elder Margaret continued, her voice growing louder, addressing the crowd now as much as Harry, "John's admission is absolutely guaranteed. The academy will be begging him to attend. He'll be trained by masters, given access to resources beyond imagination. He'll become someone truly great."
She took a step closer to Harry, her voice dropping to a venomous whisper that still carried to every ear.
"And you? With that pathetic, unranked garbage clinging to your leg like a diseased puppy?" She laughed, the sound like grinding glass. "No academy in the federation would accept you. Not the Imperial Academy. Not the regional schools. Not even the community training centers that take any fool with a Common beast. You're done, Harry. Finished. You'll spend the rest of your short, miserable life in the gutter where you belong, and that thing will starve beside you."
Rose whimpered softly. Harry felt her press closer against him.
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The first was a young woman standing near the window with her arms crossed and her weight balanced on her back foot, the posture of someone who assessed threats before she assessed people. Sienna Reyes. Her hair was cut short, practical, and her eyes carried the patient stillness of deep water. Behind her, barely visible in the room's dim light, a shape shimmered, her contracted beast, a Frost Ice Phoenix called Frostwing, whose aura radiated cold so controlled that it never quite reached the furniture but made the air taste like winter.The second was a young man sprawled across two chairs with his boots on the table and his hands behind his head, radiating the kind of confidence that usually preceded a spectacular failure. Damon Ellery. Tall, broad shouldered, with the build of someone whose beast did most of the fighting while he did most of the talking. His War Treant stood behind him like a living fortress, bark skinned and massive, its root system curling across the stone floor.
CHAPTER 79 PART 1
Harry had not finished folding his second shirt when the knock came.It was not a knock that waited for permission. The door opened three seconds later, and Elias Cho stood in the frame looking like a man who had slept exactly zero hours and made peace with that fact."General Cole is outside. You leave in four minutes."Harry looked at the half packed bag on his bed, then at Rose, who was already standing with the hammer materialized and her posture perfectly composed, as if she had known this was coming before the door opened."Four minutes," Harry repeated."Three now," Elias corrected, and disappeared.They were in the air before Harry's brain fully caught up with his body.General Cole's guardian beast defied every reference point Harry possessed. The system panel flickered when he tried to scan it, returning fragmented data that amounted to almost nothing, a name, Skyrender, and a classification so heavily redacted that the display looked like a page of blacked out text. The cre
CHAPTER 78
Red markers highlighted completed sections, forming an almost continuous line across the map. Almost."Every other section has been conquered. Military forces cleared them over the past decade at significant cost in lives and resources. But one section remains open." Cole enlarged a single point on the map, a pulsing gray marker surrounded by red. "This node sits at the most critical junction in the entire defense network. Without it, the barrier has a gap. And through that gap, Outer Domain demons enter our territory every single day."Harry studied the marker. "Why hasn't the military closed it?""Because the Land of Trial at this node is classified as Abyssal difficulty. The highest tier recognized." Cole's voice carried the weight of someone who had lost people to those words. "And because Abyssal Trials impose entry restrictions that no amount of military force can circumvent. Specifically, this one requires a team of exactly three Beast Masters, all at Awakening Tier Five or belo
CHAPTER 77
The Southern Command Mansion corridors smelled like polished stone and authority. Elias Cho walked two steps ahead of Harry, his posture so rigid that it looked painful, as if the man's spine had been replaced with an iron rod somewhere between the plaza and the front entrance. He had not spoken a single word since they left the ceremony grounds.Harry followed in silence, Rose walking beside him with the hammer dismissed and her hands folded behind her back. She had sensed the shift in atmosphere the moment they crossed the mansion's threshold and adjusted accordingly, pulling her aura inward until she radiated nothing more threatening than a well dressed young woman with unusual eyes.Elias stopped before a set of heavy oak doors, knocked twice, and stepped aside."Through here, Mr. Klein. They're expecting you."Harry pushed the doors open and read the room in two seconds.City Lord Marcus White stood near the window, hands clasped behind his back, occupying the kind of position a m
CHAPTER 76 PART 2
Beside him, Seraphiel had gone very still. While everyone else had been watching the rankings climb from the bottom, she had been scanning the entire list from top to bottom, searching for one specific name. She had checked every position from last place to second.Harry Klein's name was not on the list.Which meant it could only be in one place.The screen resolved its final line.First Place: Harry Klein. 42,600 points. Potential Evaluation: SSS.The plaza did not erupt. It detonated.Noise crashed from every direction at once as hundreds of voices collided in shock and disbelief. Students grabbed each other's arms and pointed at the screen. Spectators who had been leaning against walls pushed forward to get a closer look. Someone near the front dropped their drink, and the glass shattered on the stone without anyone noticing."Forty two thousand?""That's five figures. That's a five figure score.""Count the digits again. Count them again!""Is that real? Is that actually real?""S
CHAPTER 76 PART 1
The white light spat them back into the city plaza like the Trial Space was glad to be rid of them.Harry blinked against the sudden brightness of open sky after hours of fog and crimson shadow. Rose materialized beside him, hammer resting casually on her shoulder, looking no worse than someone returning from an afternoon stroll. The plaza was already crowded, hundreds of students and spectators milling around the massive display screen mounted above the registration platform, waiting for results to populate.Harry barely had time to orient himself before a figure cut through the crowd toward him with the kind of urgency that turned heads.Elias Cho looked like a man who had sprinted from the monitoring station to the plaza without stopping to catch his breath. His uniform was rumpled, his hair disheveled, and a coffee stain darkened the left toe of his boot. But his eyes were electric, burning with the kind of energy that bureaucrats were not supposed to possess."Harry Klein." Elias
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