Chapter 273: When a Professional Makes a Move, You Instantly Know! So, how should I put it...

"Your body size is really... huge," Asher looked up at the flame dragon, his eyes and tone full of unconcealed amazement.

Really very big.

Even just measuring by the naked eye, Asher felt that this flame dragon's body size was at least twice as large as a normal flame dragon.

The standard for a normal flame dragon here referred to the two flame dragons of the Clyde.

Whether it was the Flame Emperor, a Tier 8 flame dragon, or Sovereign, an Tier 9 flame dragon, their body sizes were still within a normal range.

Big but not exaggerated.

Compared to the Tier 9 Flame Sovereign, the Tier 8 Flame Emperor was still a bit smaller.

But this one… Asher didn't even know what to say.

"Hehehe!", Freya lifted her chin, her round, delicate face full of proud smiles.

While patting a part of Flame Dragon Jaeger's body, she said with a very proud voice, "Right! Isn't my Jaeger super invincible and overwhelmingly dominant!"

"Every time he makes an appearance, he grabs all the audience's attention!"

"My Jaeger has tons of fans," Freya proudly showed off her big baby.

Asher looked at Flame Dragon Jaeger.

'Hmm, strange, its temperament was completely different from its Beast Tamer?'

Flame Dragon Jaeger looked down at Freya with a gaze that could be called gentle and also full of helplessness, as if saying, 'As long as you're happy.'

Asher: "..."

'This really is...'

Before Asher could say anything, Clyde beside them had already rolled his eyes at Freya without any courtesy, "You actually have the nerve to say that?"

"You really don't realize why all the attention goes to you every time you show up?"

"Every opponent gets scared just seeing you, okay?"

"With Jaeger's size, even without using any skills, just falling down like Mountain could suffocate half the pet beasts."

Clyde rubbed his forehead with one hand, looking extremely helpless and tired.

"A good fire-attribute dragon has almost turned into a meat tank in your hands."

Asher couldn't help but laugh.

Although, it was really funny.

"Hmph!", Freya put one hand on her waist and looked at Clyde with a "you're an idiot" expression, "What meat tank? I'm just making full use of Jaeger's advantages, okay!"

"When Jaeger was still a pet beast egg, he was already two full circles bigger than normal pet beast eggs, which means Jaeger's genes were made like this."

"Of course I would nurture him toward increased size."

Speaking of pet beast nurturing knowledge, Freya, as a Tier 7 Beast Tamer, definitely had her own system.

'What? Brother preaching to me?'

'Tch! No way!'

She's just going to keep doing it this way. As the two were about to argue again, Asher started to inspect this giant Flame Dragon Jaeger from top to bottom.

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[Pet Beast: Flame Dragon]

[Attributes: Dragon + Fire]

[Species: Advanced Extraordinary High-Class]

[Level: Eighth Rank, Low]

[Skills: Dragon Roar, Bite, …, Dragon's Howl, Magma Breath]

[Evolution Path: None]

[None]

[Innate Skill: Illusion-Reality Enhancement]

[Oh wooo—As long as the Beast Tamer is happy~]

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Asher smiled slightly.

This was one of the few dragon-type pet beasts he had seen with an unusually gentle temperament.

Although...

Most Dragon-Type Beasts, or Dragon-Bloodline Beasts, were temperamentally and energetically prone to aggression.

That was totally normal.

Among them, fire-attributed Flame Dragons were even more so.

In terms of temperament, Flame Dragons were much harder to tame than Ancestral Dragons.

But when facing Flame Dragon Jaeger...

Asher could strangely see a bit of affection toward Freya from it.

Asher: "?"

'Humans shouldn't, humans can't… never mind, the relationship between pet beasts and Beast Tamers is inherently very complicated, also a very complex field of study.'

'If people can choose to marry rice cookers, then the reproductive isolation between humans and pet beasts doesn't seem so exaggerated,' Asher decided to ignore it.

'But this innate skill… is kind of interesting.'

Asher stroked his chin, seeming to fall into deep thought.

Freya and Clyde didn't bother him.

The two exchanged a look.

With sibling telepathy, Freya kept winking at Clyde.

'Brother brother!'

'Ask ask ask ask!'

'Can Professor Asher make Jaeger even bigger?'

Clyde didn't want to respond.

He rolled his eyes at Freya.

'No taste, just obsessed with stacking body size.'

Freya: "..."

'How awful!'

'No personal attacks!'

'No mocking my preferences!'

She didn't even say that Clyde lacked taste, always stacking pet beast energy all day. When there's nothing to talk about, even one sentence is too much.

The two siblings' eyes met, and it felt like sparks and thunder flew between them, like they'd start fighting the next second.

Just then, Asher's voice rang out like timely rain.

"Can I touch this Flame Dragon?", Asher looked toward Freya, politely asking.

Although Flame Dragon Jaeger seemed to have a decent personality, quite patient with the little girl, she was still Jaeger's Beast Tamer.

With someone else… Asher felt it was still necessary to ask.

Otherwise, with max-level affinity at play, it'd be hard to explain later.

"It's fine, it's fine. With me here, Professor Asher, feel free to touch," Freya waved her hand grandly, not thinking this was a big deal at all. Professor Asher wanting to closely observe the Flame Dragon, wasn't that totally normal?

Asher smiled and walked to stand before Flame Dragon Jaeger, touching here and there.

Flame Dragon Jaeger lowered his head to glance at Asher, didn't move, just sat there and let Asher do as he pleased.

Freya watched Asher's actions, her face revealing a slightly confused expression.

'It looks like… there isn't much method to this?'

'Can you really tell anything from touching like this?'

Freya didn't want to doubt Asher's professional level or competence.

But she had interacted with quite a few nurturers before. While she hadn't dealt with many pet beast professors, it wasn't like she had none.

Compared to Asher…

'Something just feels off?'

Asher didn't know Freya was secretly doubting his professionalism in her heart.

If he knew...

Asher would probably give her a thumbs up.

That's right. He was pretending.

At least, that's what it looked like. But Asher's aura was confident enough that no one suspected anything from him.

Doubt? Clearly this was Professor Asher following the standard process. These are necessary inspection steps.

Take Clyde on the side. Although he also felt that some of Asher's movements were a bit unlike a typical pet beast professor.

But he didn't doubt Asher's ability one bit.

Doubt Professor Asher's ability? What a joke!

Freya: "..."

Sensing her brother's mood, Freya rubbed her chin again, her curious gaze falling once more on Asher.

She wasn't sure about other people's personalities.

But she knew her own brother's well enough.

Thinking of this, Freya nodded.

'Professor Asher's capability probably doens't need me to worry.'

Thinking this, her gaze toward Asher became hopeful again. She really wanted to know whether Asher could think of some way to make Jaeger even bigger and stronger.

Asher: "..."

Sensing Freya's gaze from behind, Asher looked a bit helpless.

He circled around Flame Dragon Jaeger once.

This body size, no lie, was really outrageous.

At the same time, Asher also understood very clearly the issue he saw using the innate skill.

Organizing his thoughts, Asher returned to where he started, back to Freya's side.

He looked at Freya and said gently, but with certainty, "From the very beginning, your plan in raising the Flame Dragon was to increase its physical strength."

Freya nodded.

Her gaze toward Asher held a bit of confusion.

As if to say—

'Is there really any question here?'

'Isn't that obvious?'

'Just look at Jaeger's size!'

'Isn't it?'

Although...

'Power conquers all, right?'

'That's not a joke.'

With just a physical advantage, Flame Dragon Jaeger was basically invincible among opponents of the same rank.

Even against slightly higher-ranked foes, Jaeger wasn't necessarily outmatched.

Facing Freya's confused and puzzled gaze, Asher rubbed his forehead tiredly and helplessly.

'Well...'

"What you're pursuing is pure physical strength, but what you can't ignore is the relationship between flesh and energy," Asher sighed.

Freya looked half-understanding.

"Professor Asher, just speak directly. It's fine," Freya sensed this was about her having a problem with her nurturing method?

'I don't mind.'

Freya still minded a tiny bit. Just a little.

After all, whether from family teachings or nurturers she met growing up, no one had ever said her method had problems.

Even when they saw Jaeger, they praised her for raising him well.

She herself, at a young age, had already become a Tier 7 Beast Tamer.

Through her growth, she did face some setbacks and troubles, but compared to others, it didn't even count.

Even regarding becoming an Tier 8 Beast Tamer in the future, Freya had never doubted whether she could or not.

What she wanted to surpass was her brother's timing in reaching Tier 8 Beast Tamer.

If her strength allowed, she even wanted to snatch the title of Ace from her brother.

That was the ideal and goal Freya had set for herself.

Clyde, who knew her ambition, only chuckled at it.

'Really thinks surpassing me is easy?'

'Keep dreaming.'

'It's not like she's the only one who's ever tried,' Clyde didn't mind one more, even if it was his own sister.

When it was time to strike a blow, he would never hold back.

"It's like this," Asher looked at the huge Flame Dragon Jaeger in front of him and said, "Your nurturing direction and concept are not wrong, but somewhere along the way, you've gone off track a bit."

Asher seriously analyzed for Freya.

Gigantification was Flame Dragon Jaeger's innate gift.

Maybe due to ancestral blood reversion, or maybe due to some trace amounts of Flame Dragon King's bloodline?

Among the normally sized flame dragons, one appeared with an especially huge body.

Then Flame Dragon Jaeger met Freya and became her first contracted pet beast.

"Because of his size, your Flame Dragon has great potential, and a ridiculous demand for energy and food."

"Any regular person would have been bankrupted raising him as a baby."

Hearing Asher's words, Freya couldn't stop nodding, "Exactly."

"My allowance back then was all spent on Jaeger's rations, and it still wasn't enough."

"Luckily, mom, dad, and my brother all chipped in!"

Recalling the early days of raising Jaeger, Freya's face still showed a terrified expression.

A newbie Beast Tamer met a glutton king.

And a fire + dragon attribute baby pet beast... just thinking about it brought to mind a chaotic, wild period of chaos.

Luckily Clyde's pet beast was also a Flame Dragon, so he could barely help out.

Otherwise...

Thinking of this, Freya threw a thankful glance at Clyde.

His disdain was one thing, but her brother was sometimes very nice.

Clyde: "?"

Noticing Freya's grateful look, Clyde gave a slight shiver and showed a disgusted expression.

'Ew, did something possess my sister?'

'How else would she suddenly look at me so tenderly?'

Freya: "..."

Her gratitude had been fed to the dogs.

Freya coldly withdrew her gaze.

Looking at the little sister who almost bristled with rage, Clyde smiled.

'So cute～'

Asher's gaze circled around the brother and sister.

"Yes, ever since childhood, the growth of the Flame Dragon has required an extremely huge amount of energy for replenishment," Asher nodded, while also deeply resonating with Freya's words.

Don't ask how he knew. If you ask, it's because his family also has big eaters.

More than one.

Little Jellyfish: "?"

Cat-worm: "?"

Then Asher continued, "But once the energy provided reaches a certain limit, it's discovered that the Flame Dragon's required food intake and energy seem to stabilize."

"There won't be that kind of seemingly endless eating situation anymore."

Freya could only nod and nod again.

Exactly.

But what does this have to do with what Asher said, that on the path of raising Flame Dragon Jaeger, she gradually went astray?

Freya was very confused.

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