The Primal Hunter

The two hawks sat within the protective sphere while the one Jake had named ‘Hawkie” helped its mate with the ritual. Its mate, the Mystsong Hawk, was still skeptical but had agreed to the modifications anyway.

Hawkie needed to stabilize the entire formation while the Mystsong Hawk redrew the markings on the ground carefully. It was intricate work that took a lot of concentration from both of them for something they weren’t even sure would have any point.

If the human failed to kill the elemental or didn’t want to give the Orb, it would all amount to nothing.

Now, why would the hawks make this large formation and spend more than 1½ month feeding it energy as their egg slowly grew? The answer was simple: Records.

They wanted their chick to start out with as large an advantage as possible, hopefully even getting a powerful race. As a Galesong Hawk and a Mystsong Hawk, the race of their chick was already unpredictable to begin with, and while this entire ritual would make it even more so, it could only lead to positives.

As a D-grade, the Mystsong Hawk was already placed highly on the planet’s hierarchy, and they both also believed that the Galesong Hawk could reach D-grade… but to reach C-grade or above was a massive uncertainty.

As beasts, their natural instincts were, of course, for both themselves and their offspring to become as strong and healthy as possible. They had made this entire formation to make sure of that, collected hundreds of the cloud elemental orbs… but they needed more.

That is when that weird human suddenly appeared. At first, he was just a shitty flyer that the Galesong Hawk took pity on, and a few of its fatherly instincts influenced it to give some pointers. It wasn’t with any specific goal in mind; it just found the human amusing.

But then it saw the human fight. It saw the man annihilate the souls of an entire flock of birds with a look and for him to improve at a ridiculous speed as he hunted down beasts many levels above himself. It saw him kill beasts the Galesong Hawk wasn’t confident in facing with a single arrow…

It saw him kill a D-grade that even its D-grade mate couldn’t beat.

That is when the Galesong Hawk realized that it had met a monster.

To see him stand atop the Thunder Roc with a disappointed look in his eyes was what made the Galesong Hawk resolve itself and convince its mate to ask his assistance. The Mystsong was still reluctant but agreed nevertheless. It had tried to pressure the human with its aura but instead found itself suppressed.

22 hours after the human left, the Mystsong Hawk detected him within its projected aura.

A small hole in the barrier opened as the human flew inside, landing on the ground with far more grace than the Galesong had expected the human ever to be able to when it met him only a few weeks ago.

“Well, that was fucking annoying,” the human said as he suddenly began rambling. “Seriously, I kill the stupid elemental, and then everything just goes to shit and...”

However, both of them had already begun filtering out his rant on disrespectful thieving birds after hearing the first part. Besides, they didn’t fully understand his words, just the general sentiment behind them.

The Galesong Hawk made some noises towards him, and the human looked over. “Oh yeah, the orb is right here.”

He took out the Orb and displayed it to the two birds.

[Storm Elemental Orb (D-grade)] – Contains strong storm-affinity mana and the remnant Records of a Storm Elemental

bit, Jake went to inspect the center of the cloud continent, aka the massive crystal tree. Upon further inspection… he

was just a natural treasure. One that gathered and created lightning-affinity mana and likely also generated the clouds. Jake couldn’t do anything to it or move it. So he decided just to let it be… perhaps he could find a use for it in the future, and if he couldn’t, he was fine with it just spawning more D-grades to hunt down later. Even if he didn’t hunt them himself, the cloud was pretty close, so perhaps

way back by a bunch of ignorant vultures that hadn’t seen him earlier. He was happy that his hawk-buddy wasn’t an asshole that just attacked him at first sight. These two hawks at

was now 100% sure that Hawkie was the guy and the Mystsong Hawk, the girl.

should I call you?” he thought, looking at the Mystsong Hawk. The bird looked back at him with confusion as Jake stood there, thinking deeply. “Well… you are a Mystsong Hawk, so… how about Mystie? Yeah, let’s

were in any way good, but quite frankly, he didn’t care. Even if other people heard

finding the entire concept of naming things novel. Hawkie had already gotten used to the weird human long ago, so it just

as he tossed the Orb to Mystie, who easily caught it with some kind of magic as it levitated in

circle being redrawn in new patterns. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that it was to allow the use of

as he took out

orb for a bit before sadly shaking

it because it isn’t just pure energy like the orbs?” he asked, pointing between the orbs

got

with it a bit and make it more like an orb? Can it then be

confused look from Mystie. Hawkie made some bird noises that made the hawk look at him

just going to take

no idea if he could even do. A bit of

to Jake, it really wasn’t. He would kill countless D-grades in the future, so to mess a bit with one for a mad experiment wasn’t a waste at

useful. And what better way to do that but poison the

bit of a unique way. So the cauldron he had taken

of Myriad Essences (Epic)] – A cauldron made by infusing a vast array of essences within it, granting it the ability to far easier and more efficiently transform mana affinities. Allows the user to change affinities to elemental affinities the user doesn’t possess himself. The cauldron has very high mana conductivity due to the material and the runes inscribed upon it, but it is somewhat fragile compared to many other types of cauldrons. Enchantments: Mana conductivity (Very High).

50+ in any

While this was a mad experiment, he still needed at least some kind of plan or approach. Closing his eyes, he entered meditation as he

wasn’t all the mighty god’s Records but a mere fraction of a fragment,

like he got some kind of response as he briefly felt the

and, more importantly, the evolution of beasts and how to support them

he got… but surprisingly, it wasn’t from what was within the blood but

Records into a drop of blood like this… can’t I

display as he was entirely in his own little world - didn’t every

own blood, infused with Blood of the

core fight back. This was the reason why he used this cauldron. The mana he infused into the Beastcore was made to mimic the current mana within

the core tried to dig into it but instead found itself consumed by

the mana of what was within what it hit. This also meant that if you used lightning magic on a person, it would drain some of

Draining its toxicity at a rapid pace as Jake allowed it to win out. He wasn’t sure exactly how long it took, but soon the blood was entirely drained of all traces of toxicity and

Jake that the lightning couldn’t destroy. Because while the lightning could destroy all the mana-based poison, it failed to destroy the poison that was

Trial of Myriad Toxins, he had been inflicted with even