2026-03-16 16:17:41The shabby inn squatted in the poorest district of the city, wedged between a butcher shop and an abandoned warehouse. Paint peeled from its walls like dead skin, and the wooden sign reading "Miller's Rest" hung crooked on a single rusted nail. But it was cheap—only two denars per night—and that was all Harry could afford.
The room was barely large enough for a narrow bed and a cracked washbasin. Mold bloomed in the corners, and the single window overlooked a filth-strewn alley. But after eighteen years sleeping on a cellar floor, it felt almost luxurious.
Rose stood in the center of the room, her small frame seeming even tinier in the cramped space. She clutched the pouch of Holy Light Grass to her chest, her violet eyes wide with uncertainty.
"Are you sure about this, Master?" she whispered. "What if... what if it doesn't work? What if I'm too broken to fix?"
Harry knelt before her, meeting her gaze steadily. "It will work. Trust the system. Trust me."
She nodded slowly, then reached into the pouch with trembling fingers. The Holy Light Grass glowed softly in her palm, pulsing with gentle warmth. She brought a strand to her lips and bit down.
Light exploded through her body.
Rose gasped, her eyes flying wide. Golden radiance burst from her skin, flooding the dingy room with brilliance. Harry shielded his eyes as the light intensified, washing away the shadows like sunrise banishing night.
Rose's body lifted off the ground, suspended in the air by invisible forces. Her small frame trembled as power surged through her. Harry could see it—dark energy and light energy, swirling together like oil and water, beginning to merge, to balance, to harmonize.
[System Alert: Light/Dark ratio stabilizing...]
[Current ratio: 30% Light / 70% Dark]
[40% Light / 60% Dark]
[50% Light / 50% Dark]
[BALANCE ACHIEVED]
The light dimmed gradually, settling into a soft glow that emanated from Rose's skin. Her feet touched the floor gently, and she swayed. Harry caught her, steadying her shoulders.
"Rose?" he asked urgently. "Are you alright?"
She looked up at him, and Harry's breath caught. Her eyes—they were different now. The pale violet had deepened, becoming luminous, almost otherworldly. Power radiated from her small frame like heat from a forge.
"I feel..." she whispered, flexing her fingers in wonder. "I feel strong. Master, I feel—"
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
[CONGRATULATIONS, HOST!]
[First Task Completed: Beast Awakening]
[Reward Unlocked: Exclusive Weapon - Upper Realm Warhammer]
[Item transferred to System Storage. Would you like to retrieve it? YES/NO]
Harry's eyes widened. A weapon? For Rose? He mentally selected YES.
A golden portal opened in the air before him, swirling with ethereal energy. Something massive began to emerge—a handle, then a shaft, then an enormous hammer head that seemed to defy the laws of physics with its sheer size.
The weapon materialized fully and dropped.
The floor shook with the impact. Dust exploded outward. The entire building groaned in protest.
Harry stared in disbelief. The warhammer was colossal—easily six feet long with a head the size of a wine barrel. Intricate runes covered its surface, glowing with divine light and abyssal darkness in equal measure. The weapon radiated such intense power that the air around it seemed to warp.
"You've got to be kidding me," Harry muttered, looking from the massive hammer to the tiny girl beside him. "This thing is twice your size, Rose. How are you supposed to—"
Rose walked forward calmly and wrapped her small hands around the handle.
She lifted it.
Effortlessly.
The enormous hammer rose as if it weighed nothing, balanced perfectly in her grip. She gave it an experimental swing, and the air whistled with the movement. Power thrummed through the weapon, resonating with her newly balanced energies.
"It's perfect," Rose said softly, her voice filled with wonder. "Master, this is the weapon meant for me. I can feel it—like it's part of my soul."
Harry's jaw hung open. "But... how? That thing must weigh hundreds of pounds!"
"The system wouldn't give me something I couldn't use," Rose said simply, resting the hammer on her shoulder. Despite its size, she looked completely natural holding it—like a warrior born.
Harry's hands trembled as he mentally commanded the system to display Rose's full status panel.
[BEAST STATUS PANEL]
Name: Rose
Current Level: 1
Rank: Immortal (Unsealed - Base Form)
Attributes (Average Level 1 Beast = 5):
Strength: 15
Agility: 14
Spirit: 11
Constitution: 20
Intelligence: 12
Skills:
[Hammer of Judgment] - Throws the Upper Realm Warhammer at enemies, creating a devastating area-of-effect impact. Cooldown: 30 seconds. (Note: AOE attacks are typically unavailable before Level 20)
[Divine Bloodline - Dual Activation]
Lord of Light Mode: Ignites the bloodline of the Lord of Light, granting complete invulnerability for 1 minute. No damage can harm the user during this period.
God of Night Mode: Ignites the bloodline of the God of Night, increasing ALL attributes by 500% for 1 minute. (Example: Strength 15 becomes 75)
[Limitation:] After either bloodline activation ends, internal energy becomes unstable. Light/Dark balance must be restored before combat can resume.
Harry read the panel three times, certain he was misreading something. But the numbers didn't change.
Strength of 15 at Level 1? That was triple the average. Constitution of 20? That was four times what normal beasts possessed. And those skills—
"Invulnerability," Harry breathed. "Complete invulnerability for a full minute. Or a 500% attribute boost. Rose, do you understand what this means?"
Rose tilted her head, the massive hammer still resting casually on her shoulder. "That I'm useful, Master?"
"Useful?" Harry laughed, the sound almost hysterical. "You're a monster. You're stronger at Level 1 than most beasts are at Level 5. With these abilities, we could—"
He cut himself off, his mind racing. The academy exam. Tomorrow. Suddenly, it didn't seem impossible anymore. It seemed...
Easy.
Morning light filtered through the grimy window, painting streaks across the worn floorboards. Harry had barely slept, too excited and nervous to rest. Now he stood before the Selection Altar with Rose beside him, surrounded by hundreds of other candidates.
The altar itself was ancient—a massive stone structure covered in glowing runes that pulsed with mysterious energy. This was the gateway to the Secret Realm, the testing ground where new tamers would prove their worth.
The plaza buzzed with activity. Groups of candidates clustered together, forming teams and discussing strategies. Laughter and excited chatter filled the air.
Harry stood alone.
"Hey, isn't that the Klein bastard?"
"The one who got kicked out? What's he doing here?"
"Probably too stupid to realize he doesn't belong."
Whispers followed Harry like shadows. Several groups he approached scattered before he could speak, as if his presence contaminated them.
"Sorry, our team's full," one boy said quickly, not meeting Harry's eyes.
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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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