My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 1 Is this grass even real?

At lunchtime, hundreds and thousands of students walked out of the gate of Xin'an Beast Taming Academy and flocked to the surrounding restaurants.

Their faces still had the naivety of high school students, and that awful youthful energy was practically overflowing.

Zhou Lu, holding a potted plant, leaned on the balcony of his dormitory, watching the young girls coming and going.

I have to say, young people these days dress really boldly.

These freshmen are lucky. A new spirit beast realm has just been discovered, which means they have more possibilities in choosing spirit beasts. They are not necessarily bound by spirit beast breeding companies and forced to accept the expensive breeding formulas and evolution materials of spirit beasts.

Of course, a brand new spirit beast also means that its evolution is unknown, which will greatly increase the burden on the beast tamer.

But all of this has nothing to do with Zhou Lu.

He was just there looking at the legs.

As a transmigrator, Zhou Lu was not surprised at all by his predecessor's orphan status. His only regret was that his professor father had sold all his assets and invested them in research, only to die suddenly in the laboratory. Despite being from a wealthy family, he had left no inheritance for himself.

Fortunately, the Beast Taming Academy was quite kind, and my father's students took good care of me. Otherwise, with my quiet and reserved personality in my previous life, I might have starved to death alone in my room one day without anyone even knowing.

Thinking of this, Zhou Lu turned his gaze to the school gate not far away. This was one of the few ways he could relieve his depression in the completely unfamiliar world he had encountered after transmigrating.

After all, whether it's a past life or this life, at least the breasts are still the same breasts, and the legs are still the same legs.

Since things have come to this, why not take a look at black stockings?

The green plant in his arms seemed to sense its owner's fluctuating emotions. Its emerald green leaves swayed gently, and the tender buds at the top of its branches raised their heads toward Zhou Lu as if they were heads.

Zhou Lu sensed the movement of the green plant in his arms and looked down to examine it.

The green plant, which looked like a roadside weed, trembled its stems, and then the soil beneath it stirred, and a snow-white root broke through the soil.

After doing all this, the little grass patted its leaves, as if inviting Zhou Lu to look at its legs.

Okay, even though he had accepted the fact that he had traveled through time, he still couldn't accept the idea of ​​a blade of grass trying to act cute and showing off its legs to him.

The little grass reacted very strangely to its owner.

If the owner likes to look at legs so much, why doesn't he look at his own?

So it used a lot of effort and finally managed to extend another thick root out of the soil.

Then, it raised its head proudly and looked at Zhou Lu: I'm whiter than theirs!

"No... um... I mean, I don't need it, Hanabi." Although Zhou Lu didn't know what the little grass named Hanabi wanted to express, he felt that it was what he understood. "Although I like to look at legs, it's usually girls' legs... or at least human legs. My tastes aren't that strange."

The firework swayed, puzzled by Zhou Lu's words, but it could sense the rejection in its master's voice, and its leaves drooped down in disappointment.

In a world of beast taming, it's understandable that a blade of grass could possess such spirituality.

But the protagonists in other beast-taming novels initially tame beasts like pandas, tigers, lions, or at the very least cats and dogs. How come I ended up as a blade of grass?

Let me think who the last protagonist used grass as a weapon was... Okay, why do I feel even worse now?

Damn it, I don't know what went wrong with my father, he insisted that I contract a blade of grass, which took up my only beast-taming slot for nothing.

Plant-type spirit beasts cannot remain detached from the soil for long before evolving to the second tier and undergoing a metamorphosis. Although many beast-taming technology products have attempted to solve this problem, they are ultimately no match for other types of spirit beasts.

He could have been ruthless and simply plucked the flower. Most plant-type spirit beasts are unable to walk before evolving to the second tier, and are even so weak that they can't even defeat a human. But looking at the lively little green creature in his arms, Zhou Lu couldn't bring himself to do it.

Oh well, I don't have the talent to be a beast tamer anyway, and I'm not pursuing being the strongest. I'll just keep raising them as is.

In a world where existing resources have been exhausted, even a transmigrator would probably not be able to make a name for themselves in such a mature system with fixed promotion paths without any special advantages.

As Zhou Lu was thinking this, his phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the contact name, hesitated for a moment, and then answered the phone: "Hello, Sister Xiaoqing."

"Do you have time now? Why don't you come to my lab for a casual meal?" A woman's pleasant voice came from the other end of the phone.

Wu Xiaoqing was one of the original owner's father's students and also one of the graduate students in the laboratory at the time.

After the death of his predecessor's father, he took good care of his predecessor.

Um... Sister Xiaoqing, are you sure you can cook?

Zhou Lu recalled his terrifying experience not long ago.

However, just as Zhou Lu was about to politely refuse, a voice suddenly rang in his mind.

[Ding! A suitable candidate has been detected. The detection process will begin.]

Zhou Lu initially thought he was hallucinating, but he quickly realized:

Could it be... that my transmigrator perks are finally here?

[Ding! Attachment procedure initiated.]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have obtained the Savior System.]

It's here! It's here! My cheat code has arrived!

Ten years from now, Zhou Lu, the strongest, most evil, and most terrifying demon king in history, will destroy the entire world. All human consciousness will sleep eternally beneath his Final Rose, their bodies forever enslaved to him.

The spirit beasts he raises will become demon gods that destroy the world, and all living beings will wail beneath their vines.

[To prevent this tragedy, the host must use every means possible to stop the Demon King's growth and awakening.]

The system will guide the host through a task-based approach.

[Currently available mission 1: Kill Wu Xiaoqing.]

[Mission Introduction: Wu Xiaoqing, a graduate student at the Breeding Research Institute of Xin'an Beast Taming Academy, is one of the mentors who guided Zhou Lu on his path to becoming a Beast Tamer. She has repeatedly saved Zhou Lu's life at the most critical moments and is a major obstacle on the host's mission path. If given the opportunity, the host can eliminate this obstacle.]

[Quest Reward: 1 Random Permanent Skill Card for a Spirit Beast (Rank A)]

[Current Optional Task Two: Obtain Information on the Unique Evolution of the Rose of the End]

"..."

Zhou Lu... It seems like I am Zhou Lu, right?

What's going on with this system? How did I become a world-destroying demon king?

"Hey? Xiao Lu, are you listening?" Wu Xiaoqing's voice on the other end of the phone was slightly anxious.

"Ah, I'm listening, I'm listening." Zhou Lu finally snapped out of his daze and said into the phone, "No problem, I'll definitely be there on time."

"That's good." Wu Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, by the way, please bring me some salt when you come over."

"...Would you like me to bring you some chili peppers?"

"No need for that. The senior brother next door specializes in nightshade-type spirit beasts. There must be chili pepper plants over there. Maybe we can even pick chili peppers from chili pepper plants that have already awakened into spirit beasts."

(End of this chapter)