This routine continued for a full half-month. Li Miao hadn't checked Erha's stats in the Taming Book all this time because she knew herself too well.
If she looked, she wouldn't be able to resist spending the training points right away.
But considering the issue of base attributes, Li Miao decided to save up the training points and allocate them all at once.
After a tiring day of training, Erha flopped down and fell asleep, while Li Miao took out a mirror and activated her True Sight skill.
[Name: Li Miao
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Status: Anticipating
Tamed Beast: Erha (Expand)
Beast Race: Siberian Highland Dog (Expand)
Spiritual Energy: (52/66)
Innate Skills: True Sight (Expand), Evolution Index (Expand)
Physique: 10 | Speed: 5 | Attack: 1 | Defense: 20
Note: You will grow stronger by receiving feedback from your tamed beast!]
Li Miao put down the mirror, satisfied.
With enough spiritual energy, she could now allocate all her points.
But when she entered the spiritual plane and pulled up Erha's stat screen, she fell silent for a few seconds.
[Tamed Beast: Erha
Race: Siberian Husky
Attribute: Ice
Quality: Bronze (Can Evolve)
Level: 1
Personality: Energetic, Playful
Status: Exhausted, Asleep
Passive Skill: Boundless Energy (Gold+)
Active Skills: Bite (Basic 10/500), Paw Strike (Basic 1/500), Intelligent Gaze (Beginner 66/100)
Base Stats: Speed 19 (+), Physique 24 (+), Attack 13 (+), Defense 68 (+)
Training Points: 216]
A full half-month had passed, yet each of Erha's base stats had only increased by one point.
This was way too slow.
Of course, it might also be because she didn't have the money to buy supplements for Erha.
After all, higher-energy foods could provide more attribute feedback for tamed beasts.
But the cheapest supplements in the base shop started at 50,000 credits—far beyond her reach.
Thinking of her meager 10,000 credits, which she had already spent partly on canned food and snacks for Erha (likely bringing her remaining funds down to 8,000), she sighed.
Of course.
She still needed to make money.
With a sigh, Li Miao turned her attention to the training points—over 200 of them, all earned through Erha's hard work.
After much internal debate, she decided to prioritize Defense first—because she wanted to find out what the upper limit of a tamed beast's base stats was.
No sooner had the thought crossed her mind than she acted on it. But to avoid wasting training points, she added them one by one, even though this drained her spiritual energy much faster than usual.
She kept allocating points until Erha's Defense hit 70—at which point the plus symbol disappeared.
This meant 70 was Erha's Defense cap.
What about the other stats?
Her gaze shifted to Physique.
At 80 points, Physique could no longer be increased—but Li Miao still had 156 training points left. After some consideration, she distributed the rest between Attack and Speed.
The final allocation was:
Speed: 50Physique: 80Attack: 40Defense: 70
When she finished, she was surprised to find that 111 training points still remained.
Not only that, but a new note had appeared under the base stats:
(Note: This tamed beast's base attributes have reached their limit.)
This is the limit?
Li Miao frowned, rolling over on her bed before glancing at Erha, curled up in his dog bed below.
By now, Erha was 1.2 meters long, lean but not yet fully mature in appearance—though his size was already comparable to some small, adult tamed beasts.
Her gaze landed on his Level, where she noticed a plus symbol next to "Lv. 1."
Her eyes lit up.
[Level: 1 (+)]
(Note: Spend 10,000 training points to break genetic restraints and initiate awakening?)
Li Miao: "..."
Staring at the utterly unreachable 10,000 training points, she felt her soul leave her body.
What kind of bullshit is this?!
What kind of "genetic restraint" demands 10,000 points?!
How long will it take to save up that much?!
Even if Erha trained nonstop, it'd take half a year—and that was assuming his training efficiency stayed consistent.
And… time wasn't on their side. In another half-month, they'd finish basic training, undergo the awakening ritual, and then be sent into the wild forests outside the base to level up properly.
So…
Is it really this hard for a tamed beast to awaken on its own?
Looking at the staggering 10,000-point requirement, Li Miao's expression darkened.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
"This doesn't add up. Something's off."
She had a nagging feeling that the genetic restraints weren't what everyone thought they were.
Was this really just an "ancient beast's curse" on tamed beasts?
If that's the case, then why were Beast Soul Stones left behind specifically for them?
With that in mind, Li Miao grabbed her phone and searched for info on the first-generation tamers.
There was no taboo around the earliest tamers, so she quickly pulled up records—names, beasts, levels, skills—but after scrolling through everything, she found nothing useful.
Next, she looked up wild vs. tamed beasts.
What she discovered shocked her: Even if a wild beast had already awakened, once it was tamed, all its stats and abilities would reset to their base values—until it used a Beast Soul Stone to reawaken.
Despite this, many tamers still preferred capturing wild beasts because, while stats reset, skills did not.
So… were they really cursed after all?
Li Miao couldn't help but doubt it.
But no matter how much she searched, she couldn't find concrete answers—only known tamer knowledge and general beast info, none of which helped.
She sighed, hugging her phone in frustration.
Damn genetic restraints.
So annoying.
The next morning, Li Miao dragged herself out of bed, sporting massive dark circles under her eyes.
Turning her head, she glared at the culprit—Erha, who had once again climbed onto her bed.
She smacked his rear with a mix of irritation and amusement. "Wake up!"
"Awooo~"
Erha blinked blearily, yawning.
"Didn't you swear you'd never climb onto my bed again? Huh? Getting bold, are we?"
Erha protested: "Awoo awoo!"
(But I was born a dog!)
Li Miao: "..."
"Do you enjoy pissing me off?"
Erha felt unfairly accused.
Erha decided to get up.
Erha stood—
"CRACK."
The bunk bed frame let out a groan of protest.
Li Miao shot him a death glare. "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
Erha instinctively backed away—
And slipped off the edge.
Panicking, he instinctively hooked his claws onto the bed frame—but with his newly boosted 40+ Attack stat, accidents happened when least expected.
The metal railing snapped.
The entire bunk bed collapsed in an instant.
Li Miao, still disheveled from sleep, plummeted to the ground in a heap of blankets and broken wood—
Erha tucked his tail between his legs, staring at his furious, bed-headed tamer with sheer terror.
MOM!
I WANNA GO HOME!