Beast-Tamer: Limitless Evolution-Chapter 225: Progress

Progress

One Week Later.

'Finally done.' Osho sighed as he massaged his temples. He'd gone on an evolution and conduit enhancing marathon as soon as they returned from defeating the terrorists.

Mrs Jane assured him that they would deal with the potential fallout. After all, it was impossible to hide the fact that a battle had occurred, moreover, Oshi had a feeling the the Citadels which had already been taken over by these Outerplanar beings wouldn't sit idly knowing that their plan had failed, so there was still lots of work to do.

Well, if Osho was being honest, he preferred this–his work–over whatever the fallout entailed. It was stressful, but it still followed an easily understandable path that he could control the outcome of. People were fickle. At least with this, he knew what he was doing.

Also, the satisfaction from a successful evolution or augmentation was difficult to surpass.

With a breath, he looked down at the two beasts before him. Blackie and Lux had been his last "patients". After successfully evolving them, he worked on their conduit enhancements, and if he was being honest, he was quite happy with the results.

The two of them were opposites in many ways, but at the same time, they were two sides of the same coing. Light and darkness.

Whenever they fought together, their abilities had a strange synergy that made them more dangerous the more they fought together, so he played into that particular fact. One of the augmentation he'd made was that there was now a special connection between the two of them that used their bond with Sam as a sort of base.

Through this bond, not only did their abilities complement each other even more, but they could borrow each other's affinities and abilities. So Bkackie could augment her darkness with light, and Lux could do the same to his light with darkness.

It hadn't been tested yet since, obviously, it just happened, but Osho looked forward to seeing the results.

He sighed.

Bedrock and Gale had also not been with him since he began. Well, they were the first ones to receive additional enhancements. Nothing crazy just things to better help them combat corrupt Mana.

Oh, and they had also ranked up...

Yeah, Osho was now at the Expert Rank, just a bit over a year after becoming a beast tamer.

It was an insane thought, and one might worry about things like foundation and stuff, but the truth was, Gale and Bedrock had solidified their foundations not long after they had reached the Adept rank. There was nothing else holding them back, and now Osho actually felt urgency, all thoughts of putting off their breakthroughs were discarded.

Naturally, with his rank increase, there were numerous benefits. The bond between Osho and his two beasts had strengthened considerably, allowing him to draw more from their abilities while also strengthening him considerably. His pure physical strength alone was absurd, not to mention magic.

Moreover, Osho realized that he now had access to lesser versions of certain abilities the two beasts possessed. Specifically, their domains.

While he was on ground, in contact with the earth, he received a passive augmentation to his earth-type abilities and his earth Mana was always replenished. Moreover, he now possessed a bit of a lesser sky domain. Nowhere near as good as what Gale had, but still incredible to have at all.

This also meant he could independently make use of sky magic without Gale needing to be close to him. But, naturally, he was strongest when next to both of his beasts.

The thing, however, that he was the most excited about, was the upgrade to his ability.

Osho realized that with every rank upgrade, he would either unlock a new facet of his ability of become capable of using future features at a limited capacity.

The first feature, obviously, allowed him to see the ribbons and follow them to whatever material was required for evolution. Straining would let him either see the ribbons without touching the beast/egg or know the name of the items required without yet seeing them.

At the Appretice rank, he could use all the previous functions without any strain, and straining would allow him to see both conduits and any damage the ribbons might have.

Entering the Adept rank allowed him once more to use the aforementioned abilities without any repercussions, and the aspect he could use at limited capacity was that he could temporarily augment a certain aspect of a beast. For example, he could temporarily make Gale's sky domain much more tyrannical than it already was. He just hardly used this specific aspect because, one, he noticed it only worked on his beasts, and two, there hadn't been a situation requiring its use.

Regardless, now that he was an Expert, he could use the function freely. That said, he couldn't augment more than three things per beast, and augmentation weren't permanent. Moreover, they had a cooldown, but it was still a nice thing to have.

So, with all that said, what would the Expert Rank give him?

Well, it was interesting, to say the least.

You see, up until now, Osho could never truly control what direction a beast involved in.

To be CLEAR, he could still influence it go a degree. Like how manipulated certain conduits to take on specific properties. However, that was only taking the beast and showing it the general direction.

In reality, Osho never truly knew what direction a beast would evolve in. He could only make deductions based on what a beast had shown him. It was even harder for beasts that were difficult to classify when it came to their paths, like Spectrum.

This new ability changed that.

The ability which Osho had dubbed 'Evolution Anchors' had a fairly simple use.

Osho could impose rules on how a beast could evolve, and the process of evolution, along with the materials required, would change accordingly.

Now, at a glance. This sounded incredibly powerful. After all, if it worked that way, Osho could simply say 'this beast I'm evolving will have a domain that negates all hostile energies'. And it would simply be a case of gathering the materials.

But, it didn't work like that...

Completely.

Yes, Osho could indeed impose direction. A simple example would be this. He's evolving a beat with the water affinity, and the Anchor he imposes makes it so that the consequent evolution allows the beast to also control ice. That's simple enough.

However, the issue came with more complex or powerful anchors. The more complex/powerful an anchor was, like the energy negating domain example, the harder it would be to impose.

Alternatively, if Osho imposed an Anchor that completely went against everything a beast was, for instance, one that would make the free, fast, and untamed Gale a stationary defensive combat, then there was a high chance the anchor would just... dissipate, as causing such an abrupt change was much too extreme.

As such, Anchors weren't omnipotent. Still, there was some nuance to the whole thing.

For instance, Osho realized that, for harder Anchors, they could be set if there was a condition in place.

For instance. If Beast does X before Y, or X beast reached Y rank at a certain time, then the Anchor would hold.

In other words, harder anchors could stand if there was a condition in place. If the beast failed to meet said condition, it wouldn't stand. Moreover, all the conditions had to be evolution based and of a certain difficulty. He could just set a condition saying that Gale has to do a backflip before his next evolution lets his domain cover the entire planet, that would be insane.

Still, the use cases were, well, a lot.

For example, Osho broke through before he began his recent secluded enhancements and evolution of beasts, and he'd been using these anchors on all of the beasts.

The most recent case was, obviously, Lux and Blackie. And it was the concept of them evolving to further augment each other that Osho had anchored. As such, for every consequent evolution the two underwent, their connection and combined abilities would spike dramatically.

With all that said, Osho was looking forward to the day when he could impose anchors without worrying about the current restruction since, well, the more he ranked up, the easier his already existing abilities would become to use. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

'I guess I should head out now. I wonder what's happend recently. I told Gale and Bedrock not to contact me unless it was important. So I'm curious.' He hummed.

He first let Blackie and Lux go to Sam before taking a short nap, an action that was becoming increasingly unnecessary with how growing strength, then he stepped out of the lab he'd been provided and stretched.

As soon as he did, Gale quite literally materialized on his shoulder. The bird sported a lot more marking on his body, and on his back, a new pair of wings were growing beneath his second pair. They weren't useful now, but Osho judged that by the next rank, they would be fully developed.

"Finally done?" Gale chirped, and Osho rubbed his beak.

"Yup." He just nodded.

"Great! Soo much has happened." Gale said, sounding excited, and Osho smiled a little.

"Alright. Let's go see, then."