Beast-Tamer: Limitless Evolution
Chapter 49: Confrontation III

Chapter 49: Confrontation III

Confrontation III

Gale finally reached his limit.

From the moment he killed the Sloth, he felt a strange presence in the air. A strong one, yet, that wasn’t what caught his attention.

You see, despite his obedience, Gale was an arrogant creature. It wasn’t random, but a superiority complex that belonged to all creatures of high birth like himself.

Granted, he was still a child, so despite this arrogance, he didn’t know how to act on it, and largely just followed whatever Osho wanted him to do. His master was trustworthy after all.

But when Gale felt this presence, Osho noticed he felt both wariness and defiance. He keyed into the wariness due to the fact Gale hadn’t shown such an emotion before, simply chalking the defiance to him not wanting to bend in the face of a more powerful creature.

He’d be correct in that assessment, but it was more than that. That’s because the presence Gale felt stirred a certain part of him, one that he knew was there but largely ignored due to the circumstances not needing its appearance.

His Bloodline.

His defiance was born partly due to his unwillingness to bend, but it was mostly due to a strong, almost visceral sense of disgust Gale felt towards the presence. One that only grew the closer the creature got to them.

The Skyblight Harbinger already felt ’wrong’ to begin with. Heck, it had been given that designation due to its existence being no different from a blight in the world. But what Gale felt was something else.

His bloodline responded in a way that could only be described as offense. As if whatever it sensed in the Skyblight Harbinger insulted it. If Gale was smarter, he’d be able to put his feelings into words.

Essentially, it felt like he was in the presence of a cheap imitation.

The Skyblight Harbinger seemed to possess the attributes of many beasts, but at its core, it was an avian beast like Gale, and it seemed like whatever beast it got that value from had a similar bloodline to Gale, albeit weaker.

Whatever had been done to it had changed that bloodline and reduced it to what could only be described as a fraudulent product, a counterfeit.

A failure.

Gale didn’t like that. He didn’t like it one bit. The longer such a thing existed, the more agitated his bloodline became. He wanted it gone.

This feeling only strengthened when he sensed Osho’s distress. Clearly, seeing his teacher engaged in a battle and get injured had set him off, his usually collected demeanor cracking.

When Mrs Jane got injured, Gale finally snapped. Before Osho or anyone else could react, the bird removed his weights with his masterful control over the wind and shot out of the window.

Gale felt his Master’s shock through their bond, and he felt him urging him to return. But he wanted to deal with this now.

As he stared, the markings that had been suppressed all this time bloomed across his body, and his Aura started to surge.

Gale was at the Novice rank. As such, his Aura shouldn’t have held any sort of sway against anything, let alone a beast at the Elite rank like the Skyblight Harbinger. There was a gap of four ranks between the two.

Yet Gale wasn’t concerned. Because he knew that despite the gap, the counterfeit bloodline the creature held was a weakness, one heading intended to exploit.

So as soon as he laid eyes on the creature which was similarly looking at him, he opened his beak and let out a powerful screech, the very sky trembling as the Sky magic ingrained in his being was activated, and at the same time, a phenomenon which was rarely witnessed occurred.

Behind Gale, a vague manifestation of a blue bird appeared. Its features were hard to make out, but it had four wings just like Gale, and its Aura, while weak, seemed...

Old

Bloodline Manifestation, something that occurs when the Bloodline of a beast is agitated enough to physically manifest itself.

It was unfortunate that Gale was still at the Novice rank, so all this did was manifest an unstable avatar that couldn’t do anything, not physically anyway.

Still, its Aura was more than enough to suppress an inferior bloodline.

SCREEE

The Harbinger let out a screeching wail as suddenly, it plummeted like a puppet whose strings were cut.

The storm clouds above suddenly lost their intensity and retreated significantly, giving way for some sunlight to pierce through the veil and land on Gale, the bid staring down at the falling figure of the Harbinger with eyes full of disdain.

___

Within the control room, the hub of urgent chatter and activity fell into a stunned silence at the scene just witnessed.

Everyone had been trying to figure out a way to get the extraction team to the convoy faster to retrieve them, especially Mrs Jane. Losing an Expert rank beast tamer was a loss they simply couldn’t afford to make.

So imagine their reactions when a Novice ranked beast emerged from the bus, and with a single move, caused the creature that seemed all but indestructible to fall from the sky like a meteor.

It hadn’t been struck, it hadn’t been restrained. It just... folded.

However, the people in this room were professional if nothing else, so it didn’t take long for their shock to turn into a need to figure out what happened.

"Zoom in and enhance the image. We need to see what just did that." Major Thompson ordered and the Handler who had been in control of the live feed acted quickly.

They zoomed in and soon enough, the figure of Gale with his wings spread wide and the vague manifestation of his bloodline became clear.

’Incredible. The undertone of its Aura is still Grey, yet not only has it realized its bloodline, it’s also able to manifest it.’ Major Thompson thought as he observed.

"I’m looking through our database to see who has such a beast, and it seems to belong to someone named Osho. He is one of the students who went on their excursion, and the name of his beast is Gale. From what I’m seeing, it seems to have... Master rank potential?!" The Handler exclaimed at the end and everyone had similar reactions.

When Major Thompson heard it, his eyeswidened as a single thought entered his mind.

’We absolutely cannot let him die.’ His expression hardened as he spoke.

"Change of priorities, retrieve this Osho alive and unharmed. While what its doing is impressive, his beast won’t be able to sustain something like Bloodline Manifestation for long. The moment that happens, that creature won’t be impeded by anything. Grant him the designation of ’Asset’. Is that understood?" He said firmly, then paused and added.

"Also, get me whatever information you can on him. Clear?"

"Yes!"

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Osho wanted to get angry when Gale suddenly shot through the window. He was shocked that the bird was able to shed his weights so easily, but he couldn’t focus on that.

He tried to have Gale return, but the response he got shocked him.

Gale had been very obedient thus far. Arrogant, yes, but he never disobeyed Osho’s orders even when they dissatisfied him.

But this time, forget disobedience, he didn’t even acknowledge the order through their bond and just moved.

Osho wanted to get angry and scared, but then he paused. There was something Gale was feeling that Osho had never noticed before.

No, he had noticed it, he simply ignored it.

Revulsion. Such a strong sense of it that even Osho was influenced slightly. It wasn’t fear,nor was it rage. It was something more primal, something that existed on a more fundamental level.

Pure and utter disdain.

And not the kind born of arrogance or superiority. This was something deep, rooted in instinct and blood. A rejection that felt less like emotion and more like reflex. Like a bloodline that refused to acknowledge the existence of the thing it saw.

Osho frowned and wanted to act, but then he froze, his eyes widening.

It was so sudden that he barely had time to react. Their bond which had steadily been growing stronger suddenly pulsed in a way Osho couldn’t explain with words, and the next moment, he found his consciousness whisked away.

At least, he felt that’s what happened. It’s not like he’d ever had his consciousness removed before. Also, it was so quick he wanted to question if he’d actually seen properly.

One moment, he was in the bus, the next moment, he was in the sky. No, he wasn’t intentionally the sky, he WAS the sky. Endless, blue, expansive...

Free

But these weren’t his feelings, not by a long shot. They were Gale’s, feelings born from his bloodline.

Osho knew that bloodlines carried power, but this was something beyond his wildest imagination. The Aura behind the bloodline was expansive, heck, it felt limitless.

But it was also heavy, unbelievably so. It felt like his soul was getting crushed under its weight, and he wasn’t even the target. So one could only imagine how the Harbinger felt, especially when it was prone to bloodline suppression as Gale was displaying.

But what shocked him most wasn’t the scale.

It was the purity.

Sky. Not just an affinity, but a state of being. Wind, pressure, freedom, presence, it was all wrapped into one, and it stirred now not out of necessity, but out of insult.

Gale wasn’t attacking the Harbinger out of rage.

He was rejecting it.

To a creature like him, the Skyblight Harbinger wasn’t a threat. It was an offense.

Osho’s consciousness returned to his body and instantly later, and he was vaguely aware of Ellie shouting his name and shaking him, but at that moment, he couldn’t help but think...

’This is kinda my doing.’

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