The Greatest Beast Tamer of Earth



The clouds could be seen blocking the sun, but they could not hide the light for long; a yellow morning sun became visible from the gap. Its rays traveled far and wide and removed the darkness from the world; now, the only remaining darkness was at the back of these objects. The place where sunlight never reaches is present everywhere.

Where there is light, there will be some darkness; the error of light causes this darkness. This is what we call "shadow." The night is the sky veiled by shadow. For life to prosper, the shadow is as important as light.

In the remains of one such darkness, a boy could be seen trying to do something. His whole body released a dark smoke as he started turning into a cloud of smoke before entering the black-colored spinning weapon before him. He tried for a while before turning back to his human form. "Shit, I failed again; this can't go on like this; I need to succeed."

He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his body. He used his spiritual sense and saw a small orb caught in various chains trying to struggle. "This orb is also making it harder for me to focus; let's resolve its problem first. I didn't get time to think about it; let's check first what it is."

He took the small orb out and used his 'Inspect' skill on it.

[NAME: Shadow Spirit (infant)]

GRADE: Elite (Growth)

ATTRIBUTE: Shadow

INFORMATION: An infant spirit that grew very fast and transformed due to consuming a large amount of saturated energy and can be refined by someone possessing high-level control of the shadow element. Refining it will increase the elemental affinity, control, and power of the Shadow Element Skill, plus the user's Shadow Element will get the properties of the Shadow Spirit.

PROPERTIES:

a.) Devour: The shadow spirit can devour shadow energy to become stronger. It will be able to devour saturated energy faster.

b.) Mimic: The shadow spirit can change its body according to its will. It can mimic to become similar to anything it wants.

C.) Extinguish: destroys and removes anything harmful from the body, like poison, curse energy, and impurity.

Rishi looked at the orb and said, "At least you can have some cool properties like Shadow Mist, Shadow Poison, or even Shadow Cloud. It only got lucky due to me and became an elite-level spirit after consuming all my shadow cores, but I think this will at least make my Control and Affinity of Shadow Element stronger."

He sat in a lotus position and started refining it; the process was well-known and not a secret. The only requirement was to have a high affinity for and control over the element; He closed his eyes and brought the orb closer to his shadow core. The orb started moving wildly; it wanted to devour the shadow energy inside the core. It stopped resisting as Rishi brought it closer to his shadow core.

He let it carefully devour the shadow energy of his core while integrating it into himself. It accepted his will easily, and he suddenly noticed a connection to the orb. He received some meaningless messages, but he sensed hunger in them. He understood their meaning and allowed the orb to enter his shadow core.

The orb entered his shadow core and started to devour his shadow energy. The shadow energy inside him started to fade away while the orb increased in size. It took it a few minutes to devour everything; then it started shoning Violet as if it were a ticking time bomb.

"It can't be right," said Rishi, as he could not believe it, but he soon got his answer. The area around him exploded, giving him no chance to retreat. Hopefully, the explosion was not dangerous; he felt pain all over his body as he was paralyzed. He used his senses and noticed that the orb was transforming his body. He had seen it before, but this time the change was on the surface of his skin. He could sense small holes appearing all over his body; they were similar to stomata present in plants.

His body shook as he felt pain as the holes expanded. A black gas released from them that withered anything it came into contact with. It was shaped like a spirit and looked at Rishi hatefully before disappearing into nature. His hair also changed and became darker; now they looked no more silver but grey. He suddenly felt refreshed and cold.

This continued for a while before the holes started to become smaller and disappeared; he sighed as he saw that. He stood up and noticed the change; He felt like he could sense the shadow energy around him and absorb it without doing anything.

He also felt that his control and affinity with his shadow element had leaped to a new level. He brought his right hand in front and tried to use his shadow construction ability to create a sword; The pores in his hand opened a little, and a violet mist appeared from them and transformed into a sword. His mouth widened as he looked at the speed.

His eyes then fell on the sword, which looked like a ditto copy of his sword. A Voilet hue was surrounding its blade. He picked it up and moved it and felt that it was of the exact same height, weight, and feel as his own sword. He swung it and hit a branch of a tree; his sword passed through it smoothly. The branch fell after a while; It was razor sharp, he was able to create weapons before, but they were not that sharp and took time to create and their overall structure was also not proper.

"Hmm, that mimic property is not that bad after all. With this, I can create powerful weapons." He touched his chest and sensed his shadow core. It had a two-centimeter diameter and had some mysterious patterns and magic runes embedded in it.

He looked at his changes for a while before creating a chakram and looking at him. Now that his control and affinity for the shadow element were very high with his 'Umbrakinesis' ability, it was like he was talking to shadows. His eyes shone in a golden glow as his brain worked as a supercomputer, looking for a way to achieve the desired result; After some time, his eyebrows rose as a smile surfaced on his lips.

He took a deep breath and released the shadow energy from his pores. He then controlled that energy to turn into a semi-mist form. After that, he fell backward and entered his shadow. His shadow shone in a light purple glow before it stopped moving. He touched the Chakram in front of him and was able to enter it after some struggle.

He was even able to control its movement; his control was a little sluggish, but with time he was able to get better. The only downside was that this consumed a huge amount of energy to remain in this form, so he could hardly enter a Chakram for more than one to two seconds if he wants to use it many times in battle.