Beast-Tamer: Limitless Evolution

The Possibility

After a while of talking more, the group decided to leave, but not after collecting Ahmed's contact information.

They didn't like him, that much was certain, but having the contact of someone so knowledgeable on Stellaris and its internal matters wasn't something any of them wanted to pass up easily.

Ahmed wasn't the happiest about being reduced to a contact, but he still gave them his information in the end. After getting an idea about their abilities, he wanted them to join Valhalla, so having them on speed dial was also not a bad idea.

Once this was done and they went their separate ways, the group was silent for a while, and it was only after they encountered more beasts to fight against that Ellie addressed Osho directly. Dıscover more novels at 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵•𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮•𝓷𝓮𝓽

"What are you thinking?" Hearing this, Osho, who had indeed been thinking, pushed himself off the tree he was leaning against.

"It's just the beginning of an idea, nothing overly extreme." He said dismissively, but that just got him a few looks, making him sigh.

"Fine... I was thinking about factions. More specifically..." His expression grew serious. "Possibly making one of our own."

***

"Phew." Osho eased himself into the large bath of his bathroom and sighed as the hot water engulfed his body up to his neck.

He closed his eyes and groaned as he enjoyed the feeling of the water over his skin and opening his pores.

The water wasn't any normal water as it was, in fact, a medicinal bath that could be set up with the aid of a guide and numerous natural resources his residence already possessed.

Despite winning, Osho hadn't come out unscathed from his battle against Ahmed, as his sun magic, especially the sun magic of his lion, had truly been too potent, and even with his armor and Mana shield, there were numerous burns all over his body.

Moreover, near the end of their little exercise, things had gotten a bit dicey as they squared off against a beast that was at the peak of the Adept rank which was pretty good at gravity magic.

Needless to say, having the gravity around you spike to 50 times its normal force wasn't good for your bones.

Opposite him in the bath, Bedrock could also be seen floating with his belly to the ceiling, quietly enjoying the medicinal contents of the bath.

Since Bedrock had been the tank of the entire excursion along with Sugil, he faced the most attacks. Granted, he could heal simply by absorbing the surrounding earth, but the water still felt nice.

Only Gale stood at the edge of the bath with a wary expression as he watched Osho and Bedrock enjoy the warm water.

"Come on, Gale. The water is great." Osho tried to coax the burd into the water, but he immediately held out his wings and shook his head.

'No way! You keep talking about how showering is good for me, but all it does is make my wings needlessly wet.' Gale refused strongly, making Osho shake his head.

"Your loss..." He mumbled, and there was quiet for a few seconds before he suddenly whipped his arm out, splashing a bunch of water at Gale.

The bird seemed to expect it, though, as he simply rebuffed the droplets with a gust of wind while staring at Osho with a deadpan expression.

"Tch, worth a shot." Osho clicked his tongue and relaxed into the bath, allowing the water to seep into his pores as he gave Gale a meaningful look.

His original plan after the excursion was to see if he could fiddle with the conduits of Gale and Bedrock despite them having already hatched to add some interesting attributes to their already existing ones.

He still had that plan, but staring at Gale now, he had a faint suspicion as he recalled the battle with Ahmed and his lion.

'Gale doesn't have Legendary Rank Potential.' He thought without a doubt.

The fight was what solidified this idea, but thinking back on it, there had been several things Gale did that simply didn't make sense.

First of all was his fight against the Skyblight Harbinger.

At first, one could make the argument that his bloodline suppression was what allowed him to make the terrifying creature bow its head, but the records say that it sacrificed its regeneration so that it wouldn't be an issue anymore.

So, realistically, Gale had no business fighting a creature that was 4 ranks ahead of him. And yet he did.

And he won.

Once more, Osho had excused it as Gale simply having a better Affinity towards the sky and related magic compared to the abomination, but that raised a point.

Why DID Gale have so much authority over sky magic? To the point of being able to wrestle control of it from a creature that, for all intents and purposes, had reached a level of power where it could impose its will upon the world to make it bend to its whims?

As an Apprentice?

It made no sense.

Then, there was the issue with the Abyssal Scrounger.

In terms of raw strength, it wasn't exactly insane. It focused more on its ability to infect and control living beings, after all.

No, what Osho focused on was the last parts of the event where Gale had sucked in all the corrupt Mana into his domain.

The bomb had been judged to have enough power to sweep over more than half of the entire Citadel with how much energy it possessed. That was a scale of power not even Expert Rank Beast Tamers could output. At least, not easily.

And yet, Gale managed to compress that much energy and redirect it somewhere else.

One could argue that the others had helped. But to be frank, their assistance was so negligible that it might as well not have been there.

Then there's the fight with Ahmed. Specifically, the last part where he had decimated the surroundings with that final attack of his.

Osho asked Gale what he'd done at the last part where the sky itself seemed to appear behind him and augment his body, and Gale gave an answer that was simply mind-blowing.

'Oh, well, I kind of wondered, if my domain is my own personal sky I can take around anywhere, shouldn't it be possible for me to link it with the main thing? Kinda like you humans having personal water supplies and deciding to connect them to the main reservoir to get more. I connected my domain to the real sky. Well, the sky of this hidden realm, anyway, and I used it to augment myself.' His response to the question had been casual, but the implications were anything but.

Gale had just admitted that he somehow managed to harness a natural phenomenon in its entirety to augment himself. If that didn't make it clear that his true potential was incorrect, what did?

However, if Osho was correct and Gale truly had potential beyond the Legendary Rank, what exactly did that mean?

The implications were... staggering, to say the least.

Mythical Rank.

In all of history, there have only been 14 recorded Mythical Rank entities. 5 of which belonged to humanity, and the other 9 were Beasts known as the 9 Beast Kings.

Mythical Ranks were essentially breathing, living phenomena that embodied certain concepts in their entirety.

Their power wasn't something that could be measured simply by using normal additions or multiplications, and the scope of their abilities was simply incalculable.

According to history, there had only been a single confrontation between two of these entities, one Beast Tamer with their Beast and one of the Beast Kings.

It's said that they met on the arctic circle, and just the release of their auras shattered it into four pieces, forcing them to break through the sky in outer space.

No one knew how the battle concluded, but reports say that flashes dwarfing the moon by several times appeared hundreds of times every second for about ten seconds, and then, it stopped.

Both sides returned to the planet, seemingly unharmed, and didn't bother each other anymore.

From then on, people realized that those with the Mythic tag were on a level not even legends could fathom, and that a single one of them could destroy the planet if they really wanted to.

Osho glanced at Gale in the corner of his eye. The bird warily dipped a talon into the water before jerking it back abruptly, as if it had been burned, even though the warmth of the water wasn't even a fraction as hot as the magic Ahmed and his lion employed against the two of them.

'What does that mean for me?' Osho sighed as he stared up.

The Legendary Rank Potential tag already caused him to garner quite a bit of attention from those stronger individuals. If they found out that his potential was actually higher than that, well, it would be quite the headache, needless to say.

Not that Osho was mad at that. In fact, if his guess was correct, that meant he had the potential to become one of the strongest people on the planet.

... However, he didn't want to be satisfied with just being one of the strongest.

After soaking in the shower for another hour, Osho stood. The water dripped down his toned body, and any signs of injury from before had all but vanished.

"Alright, you two, we're going to the lab."