Beast Taming: Starting from Transmigration and Starting with a Cheat Code

"Quick, quick, hurry up and register! The academy has actually released spots for the teleportation array to the border of the Blue Sea!"

The news spread like wildfire from the mission hall of Azure Dragon Academy, reaching every corner of the campus.

Activating a teleportation array is quite expensive, so usually only high-level instructors are eligible to apply for its use.

However, there is a special case where students can ride: if an instructor has already booked a certain route, the teleportation array can pick up a few more passengers traveling the same way when it is activated, without adding much extra cost.

These spots are extremely rare because the places the mentors go to are generally very dangerous, and ordinary graduates, even outstanding students, cannot go there and cannot travel with them.

Unlike this time.

"The difficulty is just right, and the teleportation location is so perfect it's like it was tailor-made for us. We don't even have to go far after getting off the teleportation array; we're right in our base area!"

The well-informed student spread out the internal announcement he had just intercepted on the table, and a group of people gathered around, their eyes sweeping over the bolded words on the announcement:

The teleportation array in the Blue Ocean Border Zone is temporarily open. Spaces are limited, so please register as soon as possible.

The Blue Ocean Frontier is a war zone known for its abundant aquatic resources and stable warfare, making it a relatively good choice for job assignments after graduation.

There are battles to fight, but they are not too intense; there are resources, but you don't have to risk your life for them. It is the best place to accumulate military merits and combat experience.

"Oh my god, I'm going to change my application right now! I love the Blue Ocean Frontier!" Several students whose spirit beasts didn't show any obvious regional bias were already filling out application forms to change their choices.

Meanwhile, the spirit masters who had contracted spirit beasts that could only exert their advantages on land could only cast envious glances, looking down at the spirit beasts around them whose combat power would be halved if they left the land, swamps, and jungles, and sighed silently in their hearts.

The two days passed quickly.

Qin Ming stayed in his residence, busy tidying up and organizing, and almost never went out due to the risk of being harassed.

The old man has an excellent sense of evasion and superb skills. Most of the combat instructors have returned empty-handed. In comparison, Qin Ming is much weaker. If he shows his face too much, it will be really dangerous.

As a result, he rarely went out and naturally missed the recent hot news that was only passed around by word of mouth and was immediately reported and taken down online.

It wasn't until the day he set off, when he walked alone to the stone platform where the teleportation array was located on the back mountain, that he discovered the situation was completely different from what he had expected.

The stone platform was already full of people.

Students dressed in various uniforms gathered in small groups. Some were doing a final check of their equipment, some were having a pre-departure conversation with their spirit beasts, and a few were carrying large and small bags as if they were going to a market.

Qin Ming glanced around and saw that there were at least twenty or thirty people present. Judging from their expressions as they talked to each other, most of them were excited and smug.

Are there so many people with connections? Or is it some special occasion?

Qin Ming was slightly taken aback, but he didn't show it on his face. He simply found an inconspicuous spot at the edge of the crowd and stood there quietly.

On the bright side, having more people isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Having an outgoing, sociable travel companion leading the way will make things much easier.

Otherwise, given his personality, if his social anxiety were to flare up, he might linger in front of the military camp for days without daring to enter, and eventually be forcibly invited in by the patrol team as a suspicious individual.

That would be terrible.

While he was listening in absentmindedly, his ears automatically gathering random information from the surroundings, this small group had already begun to spontaneously elect a leader.

A tall, broad-shouldered, and narrow-waisted young man stepped forward and stood next to the teleportation array base in the center of the stone platform. He introduced himself as Qi Huan, and said his strength was at the half-step fifth level.

"Half-step to the fifth rank" means that one of the contracted spirit beasts has already broken through to the fifth rank, but because the other spirit beasts have not all advanced yet, the spirit master himself does not receive enough feedback energy and has not been able to reach the fifth rank at the same time.

After all, not everyone is like Qin Ming, whose mental strength meets the standard and whose spirit beast provides such a huge amount of energy that his Spirit Master level is always ahead of his Beast Tamer level.

After Qi Huan finished introducing his strength, a murmur of praise and discussion immediately arose around him. Someone whispered, "Senior Qi Huan got a top-three finish in the last competition at the war zone level." Someone else quickly added, "His fifth-tier spirit beast is a blue-eyed golden eagle, a speed type, which is practically his home turf in the Blue Sea."

Qi Huan was clearly used to this attention. He looked around and made a few promises in a calm yet friendly tone: if they were assigned to the same team after reaching the border, he would take the lead and hoped that everyone would help each other on the battlefield.

Different spirit beasts have different skills and strengths. Some people's spirit beasts are good at frontal attacks, some people's spirit beasts are good at flanking, and some people's spirit beasts are better at healing and support. Only by complementing each other can the best results be achieved.

As fellow students of the Azure Dragon Academy, we naturally have more trust when we're out and about, so there's no need to hide anything from each other.

His words were clear and sincere, and almost everyone present nodded in agreement.

Qin Ming glanced at the crowd out of the corner of his eye and slowly nodded, following behind them.

He's not one to show off unless absolutely necessary.

After the election of the leader was completed, Qi Huan began to discuss serious matters.

He glanced up at the sky, then down at the energy gauge on the teleportation array's base, which was still slowly rotating but nearing its maximum value, and said with a hint of doubt:

"The moment of the energy tide is almost here, but the mentor who applied for this route has not yet appeared. The activation key of the teleportation array is in the mentor's hands. Without the key, we cannot leave even when the energy tide arrives."

Does anyone have relevant information? Or should we wait a few more minutes and send someone to contact the school?

As soon as he finished speaking, a murmur of whispers arose from the crowd.

Some people checked the college's intranet for the latest announcements, some tiptoed to look at the end of the mountain path, and some had already started to plan how to reassign their group if the instructor really canceled the trip at the last minute.

No one had any relevant information, but many of his companions showed great eagerness.

Qin Ming, who was silently calculating the time, was finally stunned when he heard this.

--tutor?

—Wasn't the route applied for by him?

He was carefully selecting from several candidate border war zones at the time.

—There were too many mosquitoes and beasts in the grassland war zone, and the few water-loving spirit beasts in the desert war zone would probably have a hard time. In the end, we chose the Blue Sea Border, which had a name that sounded very appealing.

He submitted the application and did indeed receive a key.

Qin Ming checked the time again. There were still three to five minutes before the precise window for the energy tide, but if everyone was impatient, they could activate it now.

He paused for a moment, then took out a spare wide-brimmed hat from the Space Stone, put it on his head, and pressed it down to just cover most of his face.

Then he walked through the crowd and patted the person in front of him on the shoulder.

"Excuse me, classmate."

Qi Huan, who had been pushed, glanced at the person who was wrapped up tightly and looked rather strange, and frowned in confusion.