Genius Beast Taming: Starting from Awakening an S-Rank Talent

There were more than 30,000 students in the senior year of high school, but only a handful of more than 50 went on stage to take the challenge.

After all, by the time you reach the senior year of high school, it's rare to find a situation where you can overtake others by taking a shortcut.

Ten arenas, each 200 meters long and wide, rose into the air, and the senior year competition ended in just over an hour.

Most people's rankings remained unchanged.

Zhou Heng mainly focused his attention on the top-ranked senior high school students.

The student who ranked first in the senior year was an S-level talent. His strongest beast taming reached level 30, which directly caused a crushing defeat for the other senior students.

The student who ranked second in the grade in the senior year only reached the 24th level.

This is quite normal, because among the senior students in this year's class of No. 3 High School, there is only one S-level talent, and the rest are A-level talents.

While S-level talents may seem to be only one level apart from A-level talents, they are actually worlds apart.

Then it was the turn of the second year of high school, and the situation was similar to that of the third year.

The new rankings were finalized in just over two hours.

This year's second-year students at No. 3 Middle School have no S-level talents; the strongest among them are only A-level talents.

Therefore, the strongest beast tamer who ranked first in the grade in the second year of high school was only level 20.

The second-ranked student in the grade caught up very well and reached level nineteen.

Both of them come from very good families and have contracted with diamond-quality beasts, which is why they were able to cultivate their beasts to near the third tier in the first semester of their second year of high school, thanks to their A-level talent.

After the rankings for the senior and junior years were determined, there was a two-hour break before the main event of the day, the senior year competition.

Unlike the second and third years of high school, this is the first grade-level competition for Beast Tamers for first-year high school students. It is equivalent to a monthly exam in a regular high school, so everyone must participate.

Xu Weiran and Chen Qingshan approached Zhou Heng and the others, taking out a bunch of slips of paper with grade, class, name, talent, and basic information written on both sides.

The front side of the name belongs to them, while the back side belongs to someone else.

Xu Weiran said, "There are about 30,000 students in the first year of high school. The first competition will divide you into two groups. The other name on the slip of paper you are holding is your opponent. If you win the competition, you will advance; if you lose, you will be eliminated."

Zhou Heng had a question in his mind and asked directly, "Teacher, Li Lang, Liu Yao, and I aren't afraid of anything, but what if the others run into Zhang Yunfeng from the top class right away?"

Chen Qingshan patiently explained, "It's alright. After the preliminary rankings are finalized, you can challenge for a spot one more time before the final rankings are determined."

Li Lang then asked, "If someone keeps winning until the end, it's easy to determine the rankings. But if someone is eliminated in the first round and doesn't have the ability to challenge for a higher position, how are the rankings of those 15,000 people determined, given that the first round eliminates over 15,000 people?"

Xu Weiran bluntly stated: "If they can challenge higher levels, that's their ability; if not, the school will rank them directly according to their level."

Zhou Heng asked curiously, "What if several thousand or even several hundred people are all at the same level?"

Chen Qingshan sighed: "For the school, students ranked below 120th in the grade have little value for development and receive no rewards, so as long as the ranking is roughly correct, there's no need to delve too deeply. The focus is on the students ranked in the top 120; these are the students the school truly needs to cultivate. And the most crucial are the students ranked in the top 40! Generally speaking, the top 40 students in the grade are almost guaranteed to get into university."

Zhou Heng instantly understood what Chen Qingshan meant: "I understand, thank you, teacher."

Chen Qingshan smiled and said, "No need to be so polite with us."

Xu Weiran and Chen Qingshan then left.

Li Lang leaned closer: "Aheng, who was your opponent in the first round?"

Zhou Heng waved the note in his hand: "Su Chenfei, a poor student from Class 6, Grade 11."

Li Lang handed his note to Zhou Heng: "Mine is from the underachiever class too."

Zhou Heng glanced at them: "Our opponents are also from the underachieving class."

Li Lang suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized, "It seems that there is a reason for the arrangement of opponents. The teachers will not let us talented students meet each other in the first round."

Zhou Heng was not surprised by this: "This is normal. In the first round, we naturally need to eliminate more students from the lower-achieving classes."

Li Lang shrugged: "There are too many students in the underachieving classes. One round of elimination won't be enough. It would take at least three rounds to eliminate them all. After all, just in the first year of high school, there are more than 25,000 students in ten underachieving classes alone."

Soon, the competition officially began.

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Peng sent a flash of silver light through the air, instantly cutting the ten giant arenas in the center of the arena into a thousand smaller arenas.

Each small arena is only thirty meters long on each side.

This is not friendly to some roaming beast tamers, but there's no way around it; that's how arena battles are, and it's impossible to completely simulate the conditions in the wild.

Then, the Magic Mirror Bat's eyes shone with golden light, forming a golden screen on which two thousand names appeared.

Two thousand names were divided into one thousand groups and projected onto one thousand arenas.

Taking advantage of this time, the two thousand students whose names were called immediately walked down from the stands and went to their respective arenas with their opponents.

With a crisp whistle, the battle officially began.

At this point, the Magic Mirror Bat listed two thousand more names, so that the students who were going to compete in the next round could prepare in advance.

The principal and teachers of No. 3 Middle School put a lot of thought into assigning opponents to the students.

Soon, the battles on the thousand arenas came to an end, and the thousand underachievers were defeated without any surprise.

They all looked dejected.

Most of them only reached level two in beast taming, only a few reached level three, and very few reached level four.

Their talents are the worst, E-grade and F-grade, practically nonexistent.

Not to mention compared to students like Zhou Heng in the elite class, they could easily crush them even in the intensive class, the top class, and the regular class.

The other thousand victorious students were all beaming with joy.

They quickly left the ring and returned to their original stands.

The students, who were already prepared, stepped directly onto their respective stages for the second round.

The Magic Mirror Bat began preparing for the next round of battle.

The second round of the competition also ended quickly, and the students in the underachieving class lost miserably once again.

They only have the ability to fight back when facing opponents who are also from the same underachieving class.

In addition, even when facing students from regular classes, if the difference in beast-taming level is not significant, they will still be suppressed by talent.

Beast Taming talent starts at level D; even the weakest one will still have some use.

However, E-rank and F-rank talents are usually extremely useless, barely better than nothing.