Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 39 Study Hard

Although Rocky had a month off from his basic training, he still had a lot of studying to do, themost important of which was learning how to evaluate the beasts. As there was no technology norscience in this world, he had to replace another way to study their genes and create his own geneticallyenhanced beasts. He believed that the evaluation of the beasts might be his ticket to making hisbreakthrough.

In this world, no one had a better knowledge of the beasts or any other rare species than the beastevaluators who were tantamount to authoritative scientists around the world. It was the main reasonwhy he wanted to be a beast evaluator as a huge first step.

After he returned to the bamboo grove, Rocky saw a dark figure running straight towards him atlightning speed. Before he realized what it was, the big beast jumped right on top of him and lickedhim all over.

"It looks like Uriah has evolved so much. It is so fast now that I don't even have time to react, whichmeans its strength could now be even stronger than mine. It is merely a rock yet it has caused sucha drastic change to Uriah. Its genes seemed to have been completely rearranged.” Rocky pattedUriah as he muttered to himself.

Rocky set Uriah free to play by itself as he lay down on the rock by the pool. He took out the BeastEncyclopedia to read while bathing under the sunlight glimmering through the bamboo leaves.

A beast evaluator usually called all the species including war beasts, spiritual beasts, and other rarespecies like dragons the spirit-manipulated beasts. It was because the method to evaluate them waspretty much the same for all kinds of beasts. Although spirit-manipulated beasts were different interms of appearance, the basic structure remained the same.

However, every beast evaluator applied different methods in evaluating beasts, just like there weredifferent pills and prescriptions for the same disease. The one who wrote the Beast Encyclopediahad created an evaluation method called the "Magical Evaluation Skill". One could use it as a basisfor the analysis and evaluation of all kinds of spirit-manipulated beasts.

A beast evaluator was more than just determining the beast's star level. It also required forevaluators to discern all of its quality like category, ability, and its space and direction for futuredevelopment.

So there was a set minimum standard for studying the beast evaluation technique, which was to beat the third grade of the Mortal Stage. It consumed spiritual power when one was using suchtechnique. The longer the evaluation took, the more spiritual power it consumed which meant thathigher levels of the Magical Evaluation Skill would also require higher levels of spiritual power. So inorder to become a beast evaluator, a spirit manipulator had to gain a certain spiritual power.

There are nine levels of the Magical Evaluation Skill and it was the same as the grades with spirit-manipulated beasts. With higher levels of the Magical Evaluation Skill, one would be more likely tobe able to discern spirit-manipulated beasts of higher grades and star levels. For instance,evaluators at the entry level of the Magical Evaluation Skill would be able to evaluate all one-starspirit-manipulated beasts and discern their qualities. However when it came to two-star beasts,beast evaluators at the entry level would only be able to discern its star level along with a smallportion of its qualities instead of being able to detect all of them.

Put it this way, beast evaluation was like a program in an operation system. It would take a betteroperation system for a more advanced program to run. The same could be applied to the MagicalEvaluation Skill and the evaluation of spirit-manipulated beasts.

The advancement of the Magical Evaluation Skill was entirely up to the enlightenment and endeavorof the individual. Evaluating more spirit-manipulated beasts would certainly help with theadvancement and breakthrough one could achieve at a certain point.

Generally speaking, it was not an easy task to be a beast evaluator.

However for someone like Rocky who had a thirst for knowledge, nothing excited him more thanthe idea of studying beast evaluation as he got to know more about all kinds of spirit-manipulatedbeasts. Although there were detailed information about spirit-manipulated beasts in the BeastEncyclopedia, Rocky still decided to study them through firsthand experience in order to lay a solidfoundation for his future genetic endeavors. After all, theory came from practice.

Therefore, Rocky planned to take a one-month vacation to study the Magical Evaluation Skill. Hespent all his time in the bamboo forest studying apart from his basic three meals a day.

After a rough inspection of its contents, to Rocky's surprise, he discovered that what was specialabout it was way beyond his imagination. He finally understood why one could use the MagicalEvaluation Skill to discern all the qualities of spirit-manipulated beasts.

The Magical Evaluation Skill required an evaluator to apply spiritual power directly on spirit-manipulated beasts which would then reflect it in the form of light in different kinds of color thateach represented a quality. The more color it showed meant that the more qualities it possessed,and vice versa. Also the brightness of each light indicated the strength and space for growth foreach of these qualities. Just like the sequence of our genetic makeup, not too difficult as it might be,it was still not easy to completely match each of these lights with their designated qualities.

This was not too much of a problem for Rocky because he had spent a lot of his time in his past lifemapping the genes extracted from DNA. However, in this world there, was no DNA to extract thegenes from for mapping. Although he had some big ideas, there was virtually nothing concrete forhim to work on. But now, that wasn't the case anymore. The light reflected by spirit-manipulatedbeasts was tantamount to their DNA. The volume, brightness, and even the very position of everylight correspond to the sequence of the genes.

This Beast Encyclopedia brought about an opportunity for Rocky to take his research up a notch,thanks to that beautiful general.

A whole month went by in a flash.

In the deep parts of the bamboo grove

"Evaluating..." Rocky sat on the ground as he tried to use the Magical Evaluation Skill on a rabbit.At that moment, a triangle mark appeared on its foot and a bright white light shone out of it. Therabbit then reflected a very week and yellow light the size of a spark, which represented the agilityof its extremities.

Howl! A beast then came in at lightning speed and ran off with the rabbit in its mouth.

Rocky was kind of used to Uriah always taking his subjects to eat them for lunch all.

Its appetite had grown exponentially since its evolution. The food Rocky brought from the canteen,including the raw meat directly from the kitchen was no longer enough for it. Finally, he let Uriah gohunting food for itself while bringing him back some subjects for his experiment.

As there were no proper facilities in the world to tame and nourish Uriah, he had to raise it in thewild to further improve its abilities. Uriah proved to be a born hunter with extraordinary motionskills. It could climb trees and swim in rivers at a great speed. It also had tremendous strength. Thedepth of the bamboo grove had already been leveled by it just because of its regular playtime forthe past month.