Ascension of the Primalist [A Tamer Class, LitRPG]

Seth followed Nightmare, his senses alive with the new information of the direwolf's aether-infused howl flooding through Link. Seth had a perfect lock on the fleeing Dark Elemental, as if a glowing thread was leading him through the cavern's gloom. Ahead, Nightmare intercepted the panicked creature.

The moment the direwolf launched his assault and sank his fangs into the Dark Elemental, Seth felt something different through their shared senses: Shadow Bite was tearing through the creature with even more potency. The corrosive smoke dissolved its body far more rapidly than before.

Seth joined the fray a second later, and together with Nightmare attacked the wounded Elemental. The direwolf tore and pulled it aside, forcing the creature off balance while Seth buried his fists repeatedly into its torso, each blow thudding against layers of condensed darkness. The Elemental shrieked and tried to counter with a wide swing of its mace-like limb, but Seth stepped in and blocked it before it could gain any momentum.

Seizing that opportunity, Nightmare bit down on the junction between the creature's neck and its shoulder and shredded through smoke-dense flesh. With one arm injured and the other blocked by Seth, the Dark Elemental was at the direwolf's mercy. Seconds later, its body vanished in a burst of shadow.

Still panting from the pursuit, Seth knelt to pick up the beaststone that had just clattered to the ground. At the same time, Colossus finished lumbering over, the two black crystals from the other Elementals held between his massive pincers.

'Don't worry, Nightmare, I got them!' the scorpion exclaimed with a happy rumbling, as if he thought the direwolf would be sad they might have forgotten the stones.

'Thanks, Colossus.' Seth smiled and took the beaststones. He stowed all three in his pouch before turning to Identify Nightmare and examine that new spell.