Chapter 337: Giant Anostos Bird
Anos wasn’t too keen on obeying him.
Although his will had been dominated and superseded by his own, his mind was not fully in tune with him. Anos flapped his wings fast and hard and soared a little too high for an obedient following of his orders.
Kazi could see. He could always see.
The fundamental difference between the Animal Tamer Class and Monster Tamer Class was a matter of perspective. There were those that saw the Anostos Bird as an animal. They would nurture it, groom it, and grow affectionate with it. The Monster Tamer was opposite and therefore functioned the opposite way. It meant seeing them as mere monsters, as weapons and tools. To dominate your will upon them and to train them rigorously.
The history books were not very sympathetic to those with the Monster Tamer Class. The great king Shaka kaSenzangakhona was said to have tamed an army of Lightning Birds by subjecting his supreme kingly will upon them. The special objective apparently was to kill them. Taming them prevented anyone from doing so.
Kazi was forced to a halt, a hand on his forehead. ’My head is throbbing. I thought I would be mentally stronger than this.’
The history books also mentioned the toll of dominating the will of other living creatures. During the war, many turned mad from trauma of the war and much of it was attributed to Monster Tamer Class.
Anos kept flying ahead. Kazi pushed past the obscene pain. This was twice as bad as a migraine. ’The books really weren’t exaggerating! Ngh!’
After hours of running through the desolate landscape of Anostos, Kazi finally came to a halt. Ahead was a colossal, solitary tree. The tree broke through the red fog with its own magical pressure, its immense trunk gnarled and twisted, its dark branches stretching high into the murky sky. The bark was an eerie shade of black, absorbing any light or fog that touched it, and the ground around it was littered with a dense layer of fallen leaves, dark as coal.
The tree’s sheer size was overwhelming. Its base was easily as wide as a house, and its canopy spread out like a vast, dark cloud. The leaves, almost black in color, rustled faintly in the stagnant air, creating a haunting melody that seemed to resonate with the very essence of Anostos.
Kazi’s left eye pulsed with a familiar, otherworldly sensation. He focused and witnessed the potential future. His vision revealed what would happen if he charged forward.