96. Beast joining the group
Both the group and the humanoid beast felt a wave of pressure wash over them. It was as if the air had been sucked out of their lungs, and they could barely breathe. They felt their hearts pounding in their chests, and their knees felt weak.
The pressure was so intense that it felt like they were being crushed. But among them all, it was the Liknorm beast that was feeling the most pressure and due to that, it had already fallen on the ground.
Like the human and vampire, the beast immediately recognized the source of the pressure. Just like how the basic Furry hounds were scared when it, a king-tier beast came, now the same thing was happening to the Liknorm.
Above the king tier, there was Emperor, Legendary, Demigod, and finally Demon tier. As it was a humanoid beast that had some intelligence, it knew that even if an Emperor-tier beast was a level higher than it, the emperor beast would not be able to bring it to its knee.
As the beast realized the danger it was in, its whole body started to shiver. As the Liknorm beast has fallen on its knee, its gaze was down and then it noticed something. A humanoid shadow was cast over it.
As the shadow draw closer, the beast felt like death was coming. But as the shadow was completely next to it, the beast felt a sudden relief. The entire pressure was gone. Instead, the Liknorm felt something pressed against its shoulder.
Fighting against its beast instinct, the Liknorm turned around to see what was on its shoulder and the creature behind it. Slowly, it found a hand holding its shoulder that was covered in some sort of black material. It continued to turn its neck until the full figure of the creature was in view.
There was only one thought in the Liknorm's mind.
"Demon"
It saw a human, one that was part of the group it just saw but unlike before there was something different. Each eye of the human was ablaze with a blistering inferno flame. A flame that the Liknorm beast immediately recognized as a demon-level tier.
"Calm down" in a calming voice, the human uttered those two words which the beast could not comprehend yet it knew that whatever its meaning, the Liknorm had to obey.
On the spot, the rage mode that the beast was going into immediately cancel and the beast found itself entirely at the mercy of the human present.
What followed after was a notification inside the human's head.
[Quest completed]
[Defeat the king-tier beast]
[ Quest reward: Small Blood crystal (1) Obtained ]
[ Quest reward: Humanoid King-tier Liknorm has been successfully tamed]
Looking at the notifications, Abraham was extremely happy due to his action paid off. In the beginning, Abraham had no intention to interrupt the fight but when Robert and the Licknorm beast were fighting, Abraham had a sudden thought.
The beast had a great potential to become stronger, what if it was part of Abraham's group? That's when Abraham remembered something. His dragon's ancestor, Ray Talen was able to tame other beasts and Abraham was also part dragon, maybe he could also do it.
But when Abraham saw that the Liknorm was entering rage mode, Abraham knew that he had to act quickly as there was no turning back when the beast's rage mode was fully on. Thus instead of attacking the beast which would further fuel its rage mode, Abraham decided to activate his dragon's aura creating an enormous pressure on the Liknorm.
Normally from the canon story knowledge, the system should have just rewarded Abraham with the blood crystal but here, there was also the taming of the beast.
Abraham opened his system to look at the blood crystal obtained.
"Why would the system give you a blood crystal? Was it in the possession of the beast? I am sure with how you know everything, you must know that a blood crystal is a very rare item. I still don't understand how you know so much. Don't think for once that I believe the bullshit that you say to everyone that you have a future-sight ability and were able to see the possible outcome. Arrgh man you drive me crazy. With how overpowered you are, now there is an evolvable humanoid beast that is with you. Sometimes I pray for your enemies or opponent." Hearing the system say such a thing placed a smile on Abraham's face.
In their everyday life, the system would keep pestering Abraham with questions and most of the time Abraham would stay quiet or give the system a teasing reply. This time Abraham choose the former.
While still looking at the system, Abraham saw a new tab present.
[Ding]
[New system tab "Beast companion" created]
[King-tier Humanoid beast: Liknorm]
[Condition weak]
[Evolution possible]
[Current Evolution at 5 percent]
Seeing the evolution at 5 percent, Abraham remembered a few things. A beast consumed other crystals in order to evolve but the higher it was in tier rank, the less effect a low-tier crystal would have an effect on it. It was just like the dragon evolution quest of Abraham that required a higher-tier crystal the more Abraham climbed up the evolution ladder.
But there were a few restrictions. For example, if a king-tier beast was to consume an emperor crystal, it would not directly evolve into the next tier. The only difference when consuming an emperor crystal compared to a king crystal would be the percent increase in the evolution.
There was also a weak state that would happen any time a beast was to consume a crystal and have the evolution process.
Abraham now had the possibility to add beast to his arsenal. But he also knew that he will now try to tame every beast. His attention was only on humanoid beasts as they possessed intelligence. Normal beasts were known as aggressive beings. They would attack anyone who would enter their territory, be they fellow beast or human.
But humanoid beasts were able to communicate.
With that, Abraham remembered a place where two humanoid beasts were located. Maybe he could pay a visit to that planet later.
Now it was time to look at one more notification that was displayed.
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{Author's note}
There are two chapters two as I missed the one on Wednesday.
Chapters 97 & 98 are already available on my p@ter0n.