Chris's Family

Since the students looked tired, they were all sent home.

Mrs. Hale warned the students against using the meditation technique until the next day as they were already at the end of the line. Using it again with such a status may bring more harm than good.

The students too understood what was at stake and thought to refrain until the next day, but that doesn't mean everyone thought so. There would be a few idiots who would want instant success or rapid success, they don't see the fallout of that.

Soul is a delicate thing and it was something no one understood at all.

Experimenting with that without proper resources would only damage the soul and impede their growth in the future.

Hearing Mrs. Hale's Warning, Chris started to ponder whether to meditate again or not. He originally thought to meditate again at home when he observed that all the students were tired but he was not, but now he has doubts about that.

"I don't know much about this and we are still starting at this point. Though the ones that have their own family technique would proceed faster than me, it is not a competition. I need to reach the top and at the same time survive till then.

No one knows much of anything about the soul. There is no reason to run without understanding the path. I'll take it slowly", Chris thought.

With that, he abandoned to meditate again for the day.

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Chris returned home but there were none at home.

Lina is younger than Chris, so she has school. He arrived early because he already awakened his talent and could stay at home. The only reason he went was to learn the meditation technique and that was done for the day, enabling him to return early.

Chris's parents and grandparents had formed their own adventurer party to hunt beasts to earn.

Chris's mom, Mary, though B-grade, her talent was Quadraple Healing. So she had to choose the healer profession to make the best use of her talent. She could bind with other beasts but that won't be the best use of her talent.

Though she is weak compared to others, with her healing talent, she is the most important part of the team if the team wants to survive the harsh wilderness.

Coming to Chris's Dad, Thomas, he was C-grade like everyone else in Chris's family. His talent is Double Attack Power. He was fully oriented towards combat. He has no constraints on what beast to contract as long as they are combat-type beasts.

Chris's Grandmother, Sussane has Frost Talent at C-grade, making her capable of contracting with Frost-based beasts for the maximum use of her talent.

While she is a Frost talent, her husband Matthew is a Fire Talent with a similar grade to hers. Normally Fire and Frost are supposed to be at each other's throats but somehow they ended up together.

The group of four are the earners of the family. However, they don't go deep into the forests as there would be too many dangers there and there is a family dependent on them.

Going into deeper parts means, that they get their hands on valuable resources which would further increase their strength but there are dangers that could end them easily.

With higher ranks, they could provide the three children with various resources but there is a high chance that they could die. Even if they can't give them those resources, they didn't care as they didn't want to let the children grow up without them and become emotionless puppets.

This is why, though they were an adventurer team, they worked in the city as well. The three worked as city guards and Mary as a healer in the hospital.

This work lets them earn more money but there are resources that can only be earned by leaving the city. Not everything can be brought with money, especially as their ranks increase.

This is why they have to go out once in a while and for that, they four formed their own party.

In a world like this, unless there is no other choice forming groups with known members is good as greed can bring disaster to the group members, especially if they are not known ones.

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Chris opened the fridge and there was already lunch prepared for him.

Usually, he would get his lunch at school but now that he has awakened his talent and became a Beast Tamer, his family knew that he would be home before noon.

His mother has informed him that morning before he departed for school. It was already noon and he was starving. SO he took out the food and placed it in a plate.

There was food for Snow too, and he placed the food in a bowl and placed the bowl on the table beside his plate.

Chris then pulled out the sleepy Snow from the Beast Space and placed her on the table in front of her food. She had been sleeping all this time since she had breakfast early that morning.

"This lazy bum...", Chris muttered looking at his sleeping pet.

Normally newborn pets would be too active unlike the adult pets which gained intelligence and knows how to act and when to act, unlike when they were newborn.

The lazy fox started to sniff and suddenly opened her eyes to see the food before her eyes. She started to devour it before anyone would have a chance to take it away.

"Oye, oye, Am I your master or not? You didn't even care to ask whether it was for you or not?" Chris lamented but Snow gave him a look and returned to her bowl.

Chris shook his head.

"It looks like it would be not easy to train this lazy bum", he muttered to him.

He too dived into his plate as he was starving more than he usually did.

"It's a good thing, mom cooked more for me", Chris thought, not knowing the real reason.

His mother knew and experienced this when she was his age and so she prepared well for Chris, which is something he would learn later.