Rank Zero
Beast Rank Book 1
Zara Washington gets the lowest-ranked spirit beast anyone has ever seen — a sleepy gray blob named Pudge. Humiliated at the Beast Taming Academy, she discovers Pudge has a secret: a blank evolution tree that changes based on her choices, not her battles. When courage triggers Pudge's first evolution, Zara beats a higher-ranked beast through unconventional tactics and begins to question everything the ranking system taught her.
Beast Rank Reading Order
- 1Rank Zero(you are here)
- 2The Gauntlet
- 3Wild Zone
- 4Evolution Storm
- 5The Invitational
- 6Beast Break
- 7Unbonded
- 8True Rank
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