Ascension of the Primalist [A Tamer Class, LitRPG]

Seth stared silently at Elysha's body.

She had been a Primalist. Someone who had clawed her way upward despite impossible odds. Someone who despised the ruler of her own nation. In so many ways, she had been just like him.

Did he truly have to kill her?

She had tried to kill his friends… but hadn't he done the same to hers?

Over the past month, how many of her comrades had he slaughtered? How many families had he shattered without ever knowing?

Seth couldn't look away from the fallen woman.

The overwhelming rage he had felt toward her no longer made sense. It was as if it had never truly been his own. A part of him suspected Kreytorus' Legacy had been responsible, nudging him toward such violence.

After remaining motionless for another moment, Seth shook his head to force the thoughts away.

Now wasn't the time to be crippled by doubt. His friends were still fighting—wasting any more precious time here would put them at risk.

He pulled the Seed Extractor from his Endless Pouch and placed the ring-shaped artifact against Elysha's blood-slicked chest.

Claw of the Primal Tiger [Copper~Legendary]

Just as he had suspected from their battle, the imperial Primalist possessed a Seed—though he'd never expected it to be Legendary Grade.

Seth channeled a stream of aether into the device. Just as it had done during the extraction from Morsh's corpse, the artifact flared to life. Radiant light spread across Elysha's body before converging into a dense sphere at the center of her chest.

A heartbeat later the sphere tore itself free from the corpse and transformed into a claw-shaped mass of glowing energy.

The instant it appeared, Seth's core stirred violently.

A primal hostility welled up from deep within his chest, as if another predator had stepped into its territory. For a fleeting moment, it urged him to destroy the Seed rather than take it.

The sensation then vanished.

Frowning, Seth retrieved his Mountain Steranorm Vessel and ignored his core's reaction. As he prepared to seal the Seed inside the glass container, he cast Intermediate Identify on it.