"The path of the Beast tamer…"
"It seems like a really strong path, and my world view formerly did not match it…" Ryuk began with a faint whisper as he looked up at the sky, the shining stars, and the blinding white moon.
The twilight seemed even more relaxing than he had ever seen it.
"I don’t want to turn Isha into a cuddle buddy, nor do I expect Isha to be a cuddle buddy. I know it is a Mutated Beast, and a very powerful one. I could feel it the second the egg was passed into my arms…"
"But somehow, system, I don’t agree."
"Somehow, I don’t like this path. The Beast tamer path. To stand behind and let Isha fight at the front—that is not just me…"
"Uncle Bob has never hunted a beast with me before. Not even when I just started hunting the Mutated Beasts."
"I have always learned to hunt them alone, to corner them alone, to fight them alone."
"I bear the wounds of my own battles; no one carries them for me…"
"But now, this path—this new game—is best played with me sitting at the back and letting the beast fight for me?"
"To make the beast protect me?"
"Uncle Bob said Isha was a gift from my mother. I’ve always wondered, just what did she want me to do with it? I have found myself an answer on Isha’s birth."
"I’ll raise Isha, not like a pet, but like a sister. A blood sister. I’ll never release it to go fighting at the front while I stay at the back."
[Host, I am afraid you will go astray if such a path is followed…] the system said as Ryuk’s hands folded within his lap.
"Let me ask you something too?"
[What is that, Host?]
"You were created by my uncle, weren’t you?"
"This Beast taming aspect of it was also from my uncle, isn’t it?"
[That is correct!]
"All my life, my uncle has raised me to be an independent fighter. And now that I think about it, he must have also been working on you when I was out hunting beasts."
"I have once partnered with others to try and hunt beasts, but my uncle had frowned at that. Not that he hated the people I partnered with, and more of him hating my action of thinking I needed a partner. Somehow, Uncle Bob himself had tried to make me a very good fighter."
"Yet you tell me he made me this system and this class that required me to do nothing but sit at the sidelines?"
"For a person who has emphasized me fighting alone all my life and needing no help, you think he would suddenly create a system for me to stop fighting and start relying on beasts to do so?"
"That just doesn’t sound like Uncle Bob at all!" Ryuk mused to the system, which remained absolutely silent.
"So somehow, I am sure Uncle Bob still expects me to fight. All Beast tamers have a very solid weakness, which is that they aren’t really capable of personal battle."
"This is a very fatal mistake, and now I see why Uncle Bob had made me fight all alone. Uncle Bob wanted me to be the perfect Beast tamer. Beast Tamers feel like their strength is their beasts, but I’m different…"
"I refuse your path, system."
"I won’t hide at the back, simply learning how to use my evading skills to avoid trouble while Isha fights."
"That’s a cowardly path. It must have been fine for all the Beast tamers out there, but unfortunately, I wasn’t raised like that. If Beast taming is all about me hiding away, and Isha fighting…"
"If somehow such disgusting cowardice is what you refer to as cunning, then I spit on Beast taming as a class."
"I’ll choose the path of Uncle Bob!"
"I may have thousands of contracted beasts, and they can all be strong, but never!"
"Never will you find me at the back, system. Never will you find me being so dependent and personally weak myself…"
"I will always stand at the front first…"
"I will be stronger than all of my beasts combined. I’ll be the final boss for my enemy to fight against, not the other way around…"
"The beasts are my companions; they can help me. But still, I will be the lone warrior at the end of it all…"
"I will follow your advice, system. I will train Isha and make it stronger. I’ll evolve it until it reaches its apex evolution state, and grow it into a scary powerhouse…"
"But still, I will also train myself to become the absolute terror at the end of it all!!!"
Ryuk stated, rising to his feet as a fearsome aura began sweeping all around him, a strange energy pulsating out of his body.
His snow-white hair began lifting around his head, flapping as if gravity no longer existed, and teh blue in his eyes, began pulsating with a blue energy.
Strangely, cracks began spreading out from his feet, the ground shuddering as if unable to bear the pure, powerful, condensed aura gushing out of Ryuk’s body.
Instantly, a notification flashed before Ryuk’s gaze.
[Congratulations, Host has undergone a change of class!]
[Host has gained a new SSS-grade class!]
[Host is no longer a Beast tamer!]
[Host is now a Beast Sovereign!]
[Host has gained a new skill!]
[Would Host like to check it out?]
The system notification somehow brought Ryuk back to life as he slowly stepped away from the cracks that he had caused on the ground.
His resolve had been so strong that he had succeeded in ultimately forcing the system to change his class from a Beast Tamer to a Beast Sovereign.
And now he had even gained new skills from his class.
"Yes…"
[Skills and Abilities]
[1. King’s Aura (Level 1)]
[Description: The user exudes an aura that bolsters his beasts’ strength and morale, increasing their attack power by 50% while weakening the resolve of the enemies within range of himself.]
[Extra benefit: Other beasts will naturally gravitate toward Host, making wild creatures more likely to submit and join Host’s cause...]
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