Chapter 7: Beast Taming Mechanics
After dinner, David approached his bed, clutching three old and rusted glyphs in his hands. His room was just as small as it had been in his old world, except now, he had the whole place to himself.
It was the typical teenage boy room, with soda cans and broken gadgets littered around. A poster of a female tamer named Fenris Harkson, who David presumed was Jethro’s celebrity crush, hung on the wall. And a framed picture of Mardetta sat by the bed.
David took down the Fenris poster, folded and flung it into the bin, then picked up the picture of Mardetta and stared at it thoughtfully.
Save for the snow-colored hair, Mardetta was a literal photocopy of Margaret, David’s mother. It was still a shock to him that he was living the life of one of his versions in the possible multiverse.
Exhaling softly, he gently set down the picture. He picked up a cloth and used it to make a small nest for the lizard. After pulling it off his shoulder, David dropped it on the makeshift nest, picked up the three glyphs and sat on his bed.
The glyphs contained information on separate subjects.
The first glyph— the newest amongst the bunch —contained information on Basic Beast Development and Taming. This subject would inform David on the growth path of mechbeasts, including things to do as a tamer to ensure your mechbeast reached its full potential.
The second glyph explored the Hierarchy of Mechbeasts, explaining how ranks reflected potential, distinct from raw power. It outlined power scaling using feats that had been recorded over time, including beast battles, the Games, one-on-one encounters and overall harnessing and containment of aether by measuring the amount inside the core using units.
The third glyph— the oldest and grimiest of the three —contained information on evolution. Evolution was a process where a mechbeast could change its size, power and form to another much stronger one that is multiple ranks ahead of its original form.
This glyph was the most interesting to David, although he already knew from Jethro’s memories that most mechbeasts couldn’t evolve. It was a sporadic trait given to select few mechbeasts usually in the Gold and Silver Ranks, giving them the chance to evolve to Platinum and sometimes Black.
Still, David could only dream.