One second, Shi Zhuang was eagerly anticipating his spirit beast. The next, he realized he'd transmigrated. Seriously? He'd been waiting for this moment for sixteen years!
After accepting the original owner's memories and finding out that a summoning ceremony was taking place here, too... Fine. It didn't matter where he made a contract. He wasn't picky, and he knew all kinds of spirit-beast lore by heart. He was confident he could raise any beast to its full potential.
But why were they all just piles of metal? Where were the fluffy creatures he'd been dreaming of? If it came down to it, he could even accept reptiles, but what was with all these hunks of metal?
Oh, it turned out that contracts with spirit beasts had gone out of fashion. People now contracted with mechanical life-forms. Once activated, they obeyed only their master's commands, could be given any personality, and would never turn on their master. Weren't they a hundred times better than spirit beasts?
That sounded great, but he chose spirit beasts! To everyone's astonishment, Shi Zhuang picked up the trembling tiger cub in the corner.
"Hi there. We're going to be partners from now on."
The tiger cub, suddenly scooped into a warm embrace: "Roar?"
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In the interstellar age, humans and spirit beasts were on bad terms. Aside from a few traditionalists, there were very few people who contracted with spirit beasts. Yet in that era, a young man appeared out of nowhere and, together with his partners, turned the entire sea of stars upside down.
Their adventures were destined to be told and retold throughout the sea of stars.
Theme: Animals are precious treasures of the world. No matter how far technology advances, we must never give them up.
