I Have an Army of Spirit Pets [Apocalypse]

[Post-apocalyptic wasteland] [Revenge after rebirth] [Good-for-nothing rises to greatness] [Old-school fantasy] [Subtle everyone-loves-her] [Beast-taming progression]

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The apocalypse arrived, and the whole world began to evolve. You Shanning awakened a supernatural ability called "Celestial Evolution," giving her dominion over evolution.

People took pride in becoming her contractors and revered her as the foremost among ability users.

She poured her heart and soul into protecting humanity's base, giving everything she had. In the end, she died at the hands of her contractors, betrayed.

When she opened her eyes again, nearly twenty years had passed.

Now, half a century after the apocalypse began, she had been reborn in the body of a poor child from a remote borderland.

The woman she had once been had become a legendary evil dragon, a lamentable tyrant, a piece of history long past... The contractors who betrayed her earned fame as dragon slayers, and every one of them had become a ruler of the new era.

They had foreseen You Shanning's rebirth and feared her revenge. So, for twenty years, they schemed and joined forces to place a seal on her: she could never contract with humans again.

With no other choice, You Shanning turned her attention to the stray mutt wandering the borderlands.

...Why had nobody told her that her ability worked even better on animals?

Before long, more and more little animals gathered around her.

The stray puppy became a three-headed hellhound, while the stray cats formed an intelligence and assassination corps.

The bubbles blown by the blind cave fish pointed the way to treasures from the apocalypse.

The mind-reading parrot: "He was the one who betrayed our master."

The crow whose words became law: "Die! Die!"

The turtle who awakened an intelligence ability slowly said, "Caffeine is the effect, and the coffee fruit is the cause."

The desert horned lizard blinked its cold, slit-pupiled eyes, weaving nightmare illusions for the traitors.

Spiders with danger sense, foxes with mind control, hamsters with spatial storage, giant white tigers that had grown wings, and elk that could control plants... You Shanning evolved little animals into mythical divine beasts.

Research Institute: "One person can have no more than three types of abilities."

You Shanning: "You're right, but I have an army of spirit pets."

Research Institute: "Your ability is only suited for support."

You Shanning: "You're right, but I have an army of spirit pets."

[Oracle's Record - 00]

[You Shanning - ■ Variant]

[Ninth Rank: God Slayer]

[Ability - ■■ Sequence - Celestial ■]

[Talents: Eye of Insight, Empowering Veins, Resonant Voice, Weaver's Fingers, Touch of Frenzy...]

[Prophecy: You are the pioneer of the new era, the guardian of the old, the scribe of the altered, the cleaner of the mutated, and the emissary of the gods... You will decide who wins this war of evolution. Take the Creator's place and play the [game] of molding little figures.]

♦ Please read these warnings ♦

1. The female lead is beautiful, powerful, and tragic, with a subtle everyone-loves-her quality. There are all kinds of feelings directed at her (love and hate entwined, a broken relationship that cannot be mended, resentment that the bright moon shines on everyone but me). They come from men and women alike, and include family, friendship, romance, and rivalry. Feel free to ship everyone with the female lead.

2. The spirit pets and their master have a purely master-pet relationship. The spirit pets will not transform into humans.

3. This is more fantasy, wasteland, and beast-taming than apocalypse fiction. Lots of author-created worldbuilding, with an old-fashioned flavor and a tone caught between ancient and modern.

4. A stray-dog Mary Sue, my own take on a Phoenix-like heroine. Writing this for myself.

5. Slow burn.

6. The writing style is bleak.

7. It really is a slow burn, not instant gratification. The female lead will face many setbacks.

8. I like writing different kinds of women, some of them bad. All sorts of bad.

9. I haven't decided who the male lead is yet, and there isn't much romance. I like romance woven into the plot, subtle and almost imperceptible.

10. Entirely fictional, entirely fictional, entirely fictional. Please don't connect this to reality.

11. I have an outline. Please don't give me writing advice. Thank you, sending love. The author's in a very bad state of mind. This is a way to pass the time during a creative slump, with plenty of self-doubt, setbacks, and limited writing ability. I hope everyone finds a story they love. Thank you, sending love.

Theme: The world doesn't care.