"Finished another title by this author and have absolute faith that it's gonna be a good one!!! already stoked to see where this goes"
—— Binx_E (WebNovel reader), five stars

"Aoki, where is the romance? Where is my dragon??? I need it ?.
"All jokes aside, this is the beast tamer novel I've been looking for. The beasts have their own personalities—Hawk is my favorite—& Karl is not an edgy homicidal psycho. I love everyone's reactions to Karl's beasts and that Karl treats them like family. Great job, author.
"Ps: seriously, where is the romance ?"
—— TwistedTsunami (WebNovel reader), four stars

★ Winner of the 2024 WSA (WebNovel Spirity Awards) Gold Award, with its author taking Gold in two consecutive years and named "Overseas Influential Author" at the 2025 Yuewen IP Gala; over 27 million views on WebNovel, included in the platform's official annual promotion showcase, and a 60% rise in paying readers during the campaign.
★ On the last day of middle school, one experimental injection splits his entire graduating class into two lives: those who succeed become the nation's idols, those who fail go back to hard work and low wages. Almost everything that follows is settled by that single shot. Karl has this one chance. He is the world's first Beast Master — no one before him, no ready-made training manual: what to feed them, how to train them, which monsters could bring out their potential, he has to work out for himself one thing at a time.
★ A boy from a mining family, given a unique power on the awakening day that decides his fate, works his way toward becoming the world's first Legendary Beast Master in the Golden Dragon Nation, a nation surrounded by enemies both human and monster.

Born into a dirt poor mining family, Karl only had one chance to get ahead in life, the annual elite recruitment day. On their final day of middle school, every student in the Golden Dragon Nation was given an experimental injection to awaken their affinity with magic.

Those few who succeeded would become the Elite, the leaders and idols of the nation, blessed with astonishing magical powers and respected by all. Those who did not would return to their normal lives of hard work and low wages, just doing the best they could.

But with the nation surrounded by enemies, both humans and monsters, how long would these peaceful days of magical idols last?

Follow the story of Karl as he awakens a unique power and strives to become the world's first Legendary Beast Master.

Aoki_Aku
Canadian, a writer serializing on WebNovel. He came across Chinese web fiction several years ago, sold his company and took up writing full time; he was 43 at the time of a 2024 profile. His best-known work, "The First Legendary Beast Master", has over 27 million views on WebNovel and won the Gold Award at the 2024 WebNovel Spirity Awards; he also won Gold at the previous WSA, making him a two-time consecutive Gold winner. In February 2025 he was named "Overseas Influential Author" at the Yuewen IP Gala. He is known for the logic of his world-building and for the ensemble of beasts he creates.