Chapter 259: A Different Path

Joo Joowon’s mouth twitched slightly. All right, it really did have something to do with it. Being able to intimidate other animals through force and make them serve him, in a certain sense, how could that not count as Beast Taming?

It was just somewhat different from the Beast Tamer he had imagined.

More precisely, it was very different.

Although he had never imagined becoming the kind of Beast Tamer he had seen in anime in the past, where the protagonist would establish deep bonds with every tamed beast, after all, he could not treat Byeol and his other pets equally. People did not fear having too little, but feared having an unfair share. The tamed beasts would definitely notice his favoritism, and by then, they might not be willing to obey him commands.

Therefore, his original idea had been to lean toward a Beast Tamer focused on producing large numbers of troops, similar to a Necromancer. If that was not possible, simply becoming the superior of the tamed beasts would also be acceptable. These were the tendencies Joo Joowon had filled in on the questionnaire.

In Joo Joowon’s view, having Byeol and Hwi was actually enough. One was a support who could influence the enemy’s fortune. Once he became powerful enough, perhaps there would not even be any need for the enemy to appear. He could directly decide the outcome from thousands of miles away, causing the enemy to die from bad luck before they even had a chance to attack him.

As for Hwi, he possessed the talent of Predator’s Feast, so his growth potential was not bad either. As long as he gave him enough resources, he would definitely be able to become his right-hand man in the future.

With them around, Joo Joowon naturally leaned even more toward producing large numbers of troops. Hwi would be responsible for one-on-one battles, while Byeol would be responsible for placing debuffs on the enemies. Since he planned to work toward becoming a Lord, he naturally had to consider how to build a reliable and enormous army under his command.

Hiring people was impossible, and even if he recruited them, their fate was probably not strong enough to withstand the effects without being killed by the backlash. One could tell from Hwi’s experience. If one’s fate was not strong enough, then one really should not get involved.

But this class he had taken...

It could not be said that it completely failed to meet the requirements. It was just somewhat different from what he had originally imagined.

Of course, Joo Joowon could also tell that this was not a useless class. Although he had failed to obtain skills of the legendary level like Byeol had, none of these skills were ordinary either. At least, he had five rare level skills. He could heal, fight, and calculate people’s fortunes, and even her only common level skill had the ability to see through illusions.

Unfortunately, this was clearly a class that leaned more toward support. At least during the first stage, it did not possess particularly powerful combat abilities.

In short, it was the kind of jack-of-all-trades class. It could do a little of everything, but it could not be considered particularly advanced in any one area.

Take Astrology for example. The so-called prediction of fortune and misfortune really meant that it could only divine whether something was "auspicious" or "inauspicious." It could not give even a single extra word, and it was completely unable to predict what kind of event would cause that fortune or misfortune.

The reason this skill was rare level instead of common level was probably because, in Joo Joowon’s estimation, the skill did not actually require observing the stars. It could also use a person’s birth information together with their location to arrange a celestial chart and predict the trajectory of their fortune. This was probably why its restrictions were not as great.

However, this kind of prediction could likewise only reveal whether something was auspicious or inauspicious. It could not see anything else. In terms of mysticism, it was probably only at the level of a beginner apprentice who had just entered the field.

The other skills also had various shortcomings to a greater or lesser extent, which was why their final ratings were not particularly high.

According to the information provided by the game, the Astral Diviner was a very ancient class. It had existed since ancient times and was favored by fate. Those who possessed it were born with talents far stronger than those of other supernatural beings. They did not need to climb step by step through the Sea of Quanta. They were naturally connected very closely to the Astral Realm within the Sea of Quanta.

As long as they were born in accordance with the flow of fate, Astral Diviners themselves could grow at an extremely rapid speed. It was a class that depended heavily on fate.

Because of this, the growth of an Astral Diviner required not only Quanta Energy, but also Star Fortune. If enough Star Fortune had not been accumulated, then even if all the other requirements had been met, they still could not level up.

No matter how one looked at it, this was certainly not a simple Special Class. Ordinary classes did not have so many restrictive conditions when advancing.

Yet because of this, Joo Joowon instead began to feel somewhat troubled.

When the game transmitted the class knowledge and advancement path to him, it also included some basic common knowledge.

The world was vast, and there were countless different classes, as numerous as the stars. Even after developing to this point, not even the most knowledgeable beings could know exactly how many class paths existed throughout the universe. Only the most ordinary paths had almost no obstacles ahead of them.

The so-called basic classes were like individual great trees, while Special Classes were the branches growing from them.

The more fundamental a class was, the more stable and enormous its main trunk would be, and the more branches it would be able to develop. This way, even if one path became impossible to continue in the future, one could still take a roundabout route and change to another path that had branched out from the same main trunk.