Max-Level Beast Tamer Thrives in the Beast-Taming World

(No romance; true beast taming; pets never turn into humans; competition-focused + exploring ruins; slow burn) Song Yi spent eight years as a zookeeper. Then she opened her eyes and found herself as a low-level cannon-fodder “exclusion-zone cleaner.” Three hundred years ago, a surge of spirit energy sent plants and animals around the world into frenzied evolution. Now beast tamers stand at the top of the pyramid, while all she can do is scavenge along the edge of an exclusion zone to earn enough to eat. Then she heard an injured Tibetan mastiff say, “Stay back. I'll bite you to death.” Song Yi crouched down. “You're hurt. Don't try to act tough.” The mastiff froze. After the System activated, her first ability wasn't some world-shattering power. It was simply fluency in animal speech. When others' forced contracts drove their beasts to mental collapse, she cured a socially anxious white fox with desensitization training. When others used drugs to force their pets to mature, causing their genes to collapse, she used homemade enrichment toys to get a depressed golden python eating again. Later, she heard a faint cry for help from a dying dragon egg. “Stop crying, stop crying. Mommy's here to save you.” She grabbed the egg and ran. Later still, the System unlocked gene grafting and organ fusion. She could extract advantageous genes from different species and safely transplant them into beasts. While others fretted over their pets' loyalty, her mastiff chased her for extra food, the white fox refused to leave her shoulder, and the golden python tucked its head into her arms. A young dragon poked its head through the clouds and called, “Mommy! Hungry!” The beast tamers went wild. “You call yourself a zookeeper?!” Song Yi stroked the indescribable, Lovecraftian little creature in her arms and blinked innocently. “It's simply the right job for my skills.” After all, no one in this world understands better than she does that a true zookeeper relies on more than just taming.