The Psychopathic Beast Emperor

The time for the mission completion was almost near. Bahamut had only two days to complete it. The quest had no penalty, so he could risk it, but the reward was tantalizing. He’d already gotten the same item of the reward from Elder Silvia, the Mythic Chimera Core, and although he had yet to use it, he just sensed its energy, and it was enough to tell him just how powerful it was. This made him wonder... What if he used two of the cores?

It wasn’t like he was rich enough to buy them, but they were being served on a silver plate for him... literally, so why not take them all? If one could help him master his chimera abilities faster, then what would two do?

With this in mind, Bahamut trained like a madman. He was still going on about the hybrid, but he decided to try a tribrid today. Three different beast traits. Fortunately or unfortunately, whatever, he couldn’t train in secret. He was to train under supervision, and his supervisor was his master, Elder Silvia.

Elder Silvia stood on her balcony, watching her two disciples and Ren going about their things, but her gaze was more focused on Bahamut. He sat cross-legged with his shirt off, and his sandals were placed somewhere. His hair covered his face, so his expression couldn’t be seen, but his grunts and groans could be heard by her.

"What is he doing now?" She muttered, only for her eyes to widen in surprise.

She suddenly heard the cries of beasts, and her eyes became sharp. She had almost attacked when she realized that it was coming from Bahamut. His body seemed to be cracking as his shadow changed forms; first a lion, then a fox, then a scorpion. Three powerful beasts with powerful traits.

"So this is what a chimera-!" Elder Silvia stopped talking as something shocking happened. A deep and brutal aura exploded out of Bahamut, tearing through the ground like sharp claws. His body twisted as he slowly began transforming.

His groans switched to faint huffs, as if he was trying not to scream, but that was all a futile try. His head suddenly snapped upward as he released a deep and agonizing scream that swiftly turned into a roar. The roar sounded like three beasts roaring simultaneously.

His already long hair, elongated again, turned sharp. His eyes turned bestial and red with two more below it, one dark and one gold. His teeth turned to sharp fangs. His arms bulged and became furry, a mix of red and white with beautiful black inscriptions.

His back arched as two long, black, and thick scorpion limbs ripped out. A dark plate covered his chest and his back, making his skin gleam with a metallic sheen. Then, with a roar, three thick tails of a scorpion, a lion, and a fox ripped through his skirt. The scorpion tail stood on end while the other swayed as if they had lives of their own.

He grew in height, too, shooting from six feet tall to a shocking six-foot-three! His feet also transformed into bestial limbs. Just by standing up, his weight cracked the ground beneath him.

Elder Silvia and others who were watching him were shocked at this transformation. Just what sort of broken entity was he? That was when they realized why and how he became so strong so fast, surpassing those who were already in the race of strength before he even started. They now understood just how he was able to overcome all the odds and defeat creatures and people tiers above him.

He was broken! He was a monster in the actual sense, not just by title or figuratively. He was really a monster!

Elder Silvia’s gaze narrowed as she remembered when she first met him. Her spirit had reacted in a way... reverence. Yes! It had shown reverence, respect, and worship to Bahamut. She didn’t understand it then.

On his first awakening, a similar thing happened, but she shrugged it off. And now, looking at the boy standing there, she realized it. The true definition of a beast. What a chimera really was.

It wasn’t what was known in myth as a mindless beast with the tail of a snake and the head of a lion or whatever. The chimera was all beasts as one. That was why she had felt that reverence that time, and that was why she was feeling it now. He was the personification of a beast.

"Just who are you?"

...

Bahamut, on the other hand, was oblivious to whatever theory was going through their minds. He was focused on taming the beasts... again. Despite the week’s work of taming and commanding the beast traits in him, they were still stubborn. And it was even worse with the kind of beasts he was using: lion, fox, and scorpion.

The lion, as usual, was arrogant and prideful. Its roar sounded in his mind, commanding him to take out the other, too. It didn’t want the others to breathe the same air it was breathing. It was unacceptable to it!

The fox, on the other hand, whispered into his ears, telling him to take out the other two and allow it only. It was sly and greedy. A natural manipulator.

The scorpion, on the other hand, just stared at Bahamut silently with its multiple eyes. It didn’t need to talk or act. It would do things on its own.

Bahamut, seeing and feeling all these, smiled widely. His aura turned heavy and sharp, encapsulating his whole being.

"This is GREAT!"

He roared to the sky, his own roar. It wasn’t the roar of the beasts in him, but his own, powered by the BEAST. Who were those beasts to tell him what to do? He was their master; they were in him. He decided what they would do, not the other way round. His roar shook his surroundings, and right in front of the shocked witnesses, the three tails coiled around each other, transforming into a single, long tail with the length of a lion’s tail, the furriness of a fox, and the stinger of a scorpion’s. It swayed slightly as Bahamut’s grin widened.

Then the tail snapped back, causing the ground to crack further. Bahamut crouched down slightly, his clawed feet sinking into the ground, and shot forward.

PAH!

The sound was so loud that even people outside the residence heard it. The shockwave generated from his movement hit Ren and Sel, throwing them six meters away.

Sel got up from the ground with a shocked expression, and turned to Ren.

"You realize this is without support from his Tier circle..."

Ren’s face twisted into pure horror, realizing the depth of what Sel had said. Bahamut didn’t need resources to grow like they did. All he needed was time and the environment. Even without his Tier, he could defeat people with just brute strength and his chimera abilities. If this wasn’t broken, nothing else was.