The First Spirit Binder

While selling textbooks at a recycling depot, Ren Wu missed her footing and transmigrated into a future world riddled with bone beasts and mineral veins. In this utterly unfamiliar world, bone beasts attacked humans at will and destroyed civilization. Spiritforgers emerged to meet the threat. Spiritforging was the most revered profession of the age. Those with the talent could communicate with the formless spirits in the mineral veins through a spiritforging ritual and craft “vessels” for them. These vessels, inhabited by mineral spirits, could inflict irreversible damage on bone beasts. The good news: Ren Wu had a talent for spiritforging. The bad news: she had transmigrated to an abandoned mine, where the only things she could find were broken “vessels” that had been thrown away. Ren Wu wiped her face and decided she might as well learn blacksmithing, too. What should a spiritforger do without mineral spirit partners? Ren Wu’s answer: Pick up a few by the roadside, fix them up, and use them if they work. A nameless longsword on the verge of breaking? Fix it. A pair of daggers discarded because they couldn’t be controlled? Fix them. A man-portable plasma cannon? Also, wait, can this thing even be repaired? Before she knew it, Ren Wu had put together an entire arsenal. When the Spiritforgers’ Association detected a massive energy surge in the abandoned mine, its members hurried over, only to discover a large gathering of mineral spirits. The spirits surrounded a girl whose forehead bore an intricate sigil of runes. The scars of the past had vanished, and fresh contracts were engraved on their bodies. #Weren’t spiritforgers only supposed to have two vessels at most? #Why has the introduction to mineral spirits turned into an arms showcase? * Bone beasts howl beneath the moonlight, while formless spirits wander through the mineral veins. Spiritforgers give mineral spirits “bodies” and fight and live alongside them. A body is a vessel for a mineral spirit, and its only home after the spiritforging ritual. If a body is damaged, a spiritforger must personally “recast, nurture the spirit, and renew the contract” to keep the mineral spirit safe. Repairing a mineral spirit’s body takes enormous effort. It’s easier to perform another spiritforging ritual. At least, that’s what most spiritforgers think. Until one day, the girl who had emerged from a barren wasteland claimed the tournament’s crown using the very “vessels” everyone else had discarded. The longsword rang sharply, and its red-eyed mineral spirit transformed into the deadliest of weapons. The twin daggers traced ghostly arcs through the air, while their twin spirits guarded the girl like loyal beasts. Amid the scorching flames, a former ghostly governor followed behind her like an eerie shadow. The girl took the crown and smashed it to pieces. “Every stone has a spirit. I give it form.” “For my companions, my family, and those I cherish most.” “That is what it means to be a spiritforger.” A young adventurer’s tale, full of eating, drinking, fighting, and killing, with a few unwanted mineral spirits picked up along the way, dusted off, and blown clean. Ren Wu and the mineral spirits choose each other. There’s friendship, family, and romance; all in all, a very warm family (pat-pat on the little metal head.jpg). Ren Wu is a highly gifted character who grows stronger over time. Click to enjoy the fun of watching her level up while you’re away ovo ★Reader comments are open, with no restrictions. Come join the fun ovo ★Daily updates, at 8:30 p.m. If I get busy rummaging for scrap and have to post late, Zero Machine will let you know in advance! Upcoming story separator *Becoming a Legendary Beast Tamer After Leaving the Team* blurb: After the rules for the Beast Taming Tournament changed to allow beast tamers to implant mechanical parts into their bodies and include mechanical-type spirit beasts in the competition, Yaoling, who had spent three years working hard as the team’s support, was kicked off the team and lost her chance to claim a legendary title “Like that’s going to happen!!!” “I curse you traitors who abandoned your teammate! May you never be able to raise your academy’s banner over Cloud Palace. May the mechanical parts you implant for battle spark and blow you all sky-high, and may the mechanical spirit beasts you’ve contracted never follow your commands…” Yaoling watched her former teammates leave with a dark expression, wiped away the tears she had struggled to squeeze out, and turned around to pick up a team registration form. The next day, a recruitment post appeared on Vermilion Bird Academy’s forum. 【Teammates wanted】 Looking for two teammates. Training guidance and relevant skill books provided. Applicants may qualify by meeting any two of the following conditions. 1. Your contracted beast is a grass type and can accept a change in its training path, switching from a primary healer to a combined poison-support role. 2. Your contracted beast is a water type with both support and healing paths, and can learn the skills “Water Mirror Refraction” and “Damp Domain.” 3. The beast tamer is not in a good mental state. The academy students: ? - This is a world where spirit beasts and humans live in harmony. Humans recognized by spirit beasts and contracted to them are called “beast tamers.” The Beast Taming Tournament is held once every four years. Teams who wish to compete must challenge “flag points” in different regions one after another during those four years, winning flags and earning hard-won points. Only the top 100 teams in the rankings can enter the tournament grounds to compete for a legendary title and make their academy’s banner fly above Cloud Palace. At first, no one thought the team that began “capturing flags” only in its fourth year was worth worrying about. But within a single year, this dark horse shot up the rankings. “I Said the World Would End Tomorrow, Didn’t I?” surged ahead of a host of relentlessly upbeat team names and claimed the top spot before the tournament began. On opening day, the top-ranked team entered first. The wings of the Profound Radiance Phoenix covered the sky. The vines of the Purple-Gold Netherworld wound like a river of blood, while the Empty-Sky Cloud Ray glided silently through the mist. Surrounded by her teammates, the masked girl removed her faceplate and grinned menacingly at her former teammates, who stared at her in shock from beside the stands. “It’s not my fault if people dislike me. If you hate me, you should first consider whether you might be the problem.” -A lighthearted daily-life comedy about spirit beast training, battle competitions, regional exploration, and characters who look like villains but are full of bonds and love. -A veteran hands-on trainer takes on mechanical deus ex machina. Never underestimate the power of our bonds, guys! (What?) Theme: Everything has value and a reason to exist.