Chapter 63 - Lord! (1/2)

The Hound could sense its end the very instant Will got underneath. It had its own method of omnidirectional sensing and it could tell what Will was about to go underneath it. At that moment it was as if time froze for the hound and it could see death right before its eyes.

Dreadhounds were beasts that had a nether element to them, that meant that they were very sensitive toward anything that had to do with death. The hound could tell that once Will swung his sword, it would be all over, not even a spec of dust of it would remain, thus it made a difficult decision.

'I yield!'

These two words were like a mountain crashing into Will's mind. He immediately stopped all action and stopped his sword mid-swing. Just the pressure from the swing itself blew away all the objects around the duo and made the Hound fall over.

Will was extremely happy with what had just happened. The puppy yielded! Both parties had completely different ideas as to what this meant.

A demonic beast that had a certain level of sentience could yield and end the battle in the arena. The result would be a drop in its strength and the winner receiving less experience than they should have. Yet many users were more than happy to do so because winning and killing were a far cry apart when it came to high-rank beasts. This was what the Hound had in mind. It would yield and immediately run away once Will accepted. Of course, Will had other ideas.

Colossus Criterion immediately took effect.

Skill: Colossus Criterion Thesaurus

Class: SSS

Class Restriction: Restriction: None

Level Restriction: None

Special restriction: User must be a Sovereign and must have an Intent Ability.

First Chapter- Colossus Criterion

An ability that allows a user to tame a beast that yields regardless of that beasts level so long as the user has personally won the battle.

Second Chapter- Thesaurus Phylogenesis

An ability that allows a user to imbue a tamed beast with intent and allow it to evolve. Can only be used 5 times. Results depend on compatibility.

Third Chapter- Colossus Graft

Fuse two tamed beasts to create a brand new species. Results depend on compatibility.

The Hound had no idea what it had just done, unfortunately for it, the ability immediately took effect before it could even resist. A feeling of subservience and reverence for Will started forcefully entering its body and creeping up around its soul. The hound started shrinking in size while howling in terror until eventually, it was a ball of light with a brown hue. Interestingly, once the ball stabilized, it started growing in size, completely surpassing the Hounds original size. As it grew larger Will could feel more and more resistance from it.

'Impossible, it's fighting back? No…I'm just too weak to fully control it!'

Will was lacking knowledge of Godbeasts. If he did know what they were, he would not have used his skill so hastily, especially considering the fact that the Hound had yielded to the battle, not to Will himself. The result was now a spiritual tug of war between Will and the puppy. Will did not like what was happening, so he came up with a crazy idea.

”Thesaurus Phylogenesis!”

Will imbued his sword with three of his yin attribute intents: Bloodlust, Killing Intent and Sword Intent. Water Intent was too broad and had aspects of both yin and yang thus Will was not going to imbue it into his ability. His goal was simple. Make the beast evolve using his own intents since yin had the aspect of suppression this should, in theory, help him suppress the beasts rebellion while at the same time synchronizing Will's own soul with the beast, a sort of 'soul branding'. It was conjecture, and a massive gamble, but Will was too tired and mentally fatigued to think of anything else at this instant.

A car with 64 fuel tanks is useless if they are all on empty. Thus with a reddish-gray sword strike, Will applied his ability, putting his theory to a test.

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