Chapter 9

The next morning, birds chirps could be heard throughout the silent forest. Different wild beasts began to search for food in order to survive.

Attendant Lee opened his eyes slowly with a yawn.

"AAAAA"

Attendant Lee screamed loudly after seeing the eight eyes of the black spider near his face.

"It is only curious about you, you were snorting loudly."

Kazuki said with a chuckle.

"Ahem, good morning, your highness. I will go immediately to prepare breakfast.

Attendant Lee cleared his throat and said. He looked quite embarrassed, but no one can blame him as the black spider looked extremely horrifying.

Kazuki was someone who would always wake up early at dawn time. The spider was already awoken when Kazuki opened his eyes.

Kazuki tried to communicate with the spider with hand gestures and even with sound voices, but the spider seemed to only understand simple gestures and simple sounds. The spider was like a small child who does not quietly understand everything. but Kazuki was not worried because it's still early to judge the spider's learning ability.

The elemental beasts in the Ancient World were known for being intelligent. They can understand their human companion calls and orders.

"The breakfast is ready, your highness."

Attendant Lee said with a smile.

"Titan, come the food is ready."

Kazuki gestured to the spider to follow it.

"Oh! Your highness, you named it Titan?"

Attendant Lee asked.

"Haha! Yeah. It has such a big body unlike any insect I saw, so I decided to name it Titan."

Kazuki said with a face beaming with a smile.

"Great name, your highness."

Attendant Lee praised.

Titan understood Kazuki's intention, so, it followed him slowly. A small table filled with food was ready for Kazuki, as a body cultivator, Kazuki needed to eat a lot of food. Beside the table was a huge dish prepared for Titan. Kazuki had asked attendant Lee to bring with him as much food as he can from the palace.

When Titan saw the food, its eyes lit up, but it didn't go to eat. Kazuki smiled warmly as he carried the huge dish and placed it in front of Titan.

"Titan, the food inside this huge dish would be always your food from now on."

Kazuki explained calmly.

"it's acting cautiously around me. I need to gain its trust."

Kazuki thought to himself.

Kazuki didn't want to train Titan right now. Not until he gains Titan's trust. So, after finishing the breakfast, Kazuki instructed attendant Lee to watch Titan as he was going to do his daily training. Anyway, Kazuki wasn't worried about attendant Lee from Titan, because Titan was replete as it ate a lot of food. An elemental beast could be very dangerous when it feels hunger, that was common information.

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Kazuki's daily training consisted of three main drills. The first one was training his body by doing heavy physical workouts like lifting heavy objects and running for long distances and so on. The second drill was practicing his archery, Kazuki drew a circled line on some trees. He made it look like the target boards of the archery training field. The third drill was training his body senses abilities like hearing and seeing.

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Several days had already passed.

In those past days, Titan became more familiar with Kazuki and attendant Lee. It became smarter as it now understands important words like "Do" or "Don't do". Besides that, its cautious attitude towards Kazuki and attendant Lee vanished into thin after several days of eating and living with them.

Seeing that Titan is now trusting them, Kazuki decided to start training it how to fight. One day, Kazuki asked Titan to follow him towards the area where he trained daily. It was a spacious land with some trees scattered here and there. Besides that, the area was near the entrance of the silent forest. Obviously, No dangerous wild beats would be countered as they only lived in the deepest parts of the forest.

Kazuki went to a nearby tree and gestured to Titan to watch him.

"Boom"

Kazuki hit the tree with a powerful punch causing it to snap into two parts.

"Do like me towards that tree."

Kazuki said while pointing towards a tree near Titan's position.

"Kr, Kr"

Titan voiced some strange sounds before going to that tree. One of Titan's front legs began to turn into black color. That front leg soon turned completely into iron. With that leg, Titan hit the tree.

"Boom"

The tree began to crack from the powerful attack.

"Clap, clap."

Attendant Lee applauded from the side.

Titan went to look at Kazuki with a proud look.

"Very good."

Kazuki went to Titan and said while patting its head.

"Only one leg and it already can crack the whole tree, I wonder what would happen if it used all of its legs."

Attendant Lee thought to himself.

"Your highness, that was a truly amazing attack from Titan."

Attendant Lee praised.

"Haha! This is expected from an iron user."

Kazuki said.

The iron element was the toughest element among all elements. It was extremely durable and sturdy. The iron warriors depended on their element to gain extremely powerful defense and offense. Their only issue was their speed, they were the slowest among all the other elements warriors.

"it can only turn one leg into iron, I think it can become a first stage bronze ranked beast when it can turn four of its eight legs into iron.

Kazuki thought to himself.

"Now, its time to test if you have innate abilities."

Kazuki said to Titan with a smile.

Kazuki gestured to Titan to watch Him. Kazuki held his bow and shot an arrow towards a tree.

"Shoo, Bang"

The strong force behind the arrow made the targeted tree shook.

"Now, do it towards that tree."

Kazuki said, pointing towards a tree nearby.

Titan began to move. Kazuki and attendant Lee watched with anticipation. Some Elemental beasts had an innate ability. the orange tailed snake was famous for shooting poisonous fires from its mouth. the gray-eyed eagle was famous for its unrivaled flying speed.

"Shoo"

Titan opened its mouth and shot a small black colored web towards the tree.

"Shwa"

The black-colored web didn't do any damage and only stuck on it. Kazuki went to check on this web. Surprisingly enough, the black web was extremely sturdy. Kazuki tried to cut it, but he couldn't. Kazuki smiled, feeling overjoyed. this web would be very useful in the future.

"Your highness, is that black thing a web?"

Attendant Lee asked curiously.

"Yeah! But it's better than the normal webs by multiple times, come and look, it's very sturdy."

Kazuki said.

"Maybe because it fused its iron element with its natural webs resulting in this sturdy black webs."

Attendant Lee analyzed.

"That���s what I thought too."

Kazuki said with a smile.

Kazuki patted Titan's head gently.

"Now, let's see your speed. Watch me."

Kazuki said to Titan.

Kazuki started to run fast before beginning to jump from tree to tree.

"Titan, now do it."

Kazuki said, looking at Titan.

"Whoosh."

Titan didn't actually run, but rather jumped from a place to a place with high speed. Titan then began to move from a tree to a tree using its black web.

"Clap, clap."

Attendant Lee clapped with sparkled eyes. Titan has a lot of abilities under its sleeves, that what's he thought.

"Excellent fast speed and amazing high jumps"

Kazuki said, complimenting Titan generously.

"Titan, time to stop."

Kazuki said as Titan kept moving here and there. it quietly liked to play around, but Kazuki didn't want Titan to roam around as it is still quite weak to resist an attack from another elemental beast. besides that, it may get lost.

Soon, the trio returned to the cave. Attendant Lee began to prepare some food. Kazuki was sitting beside Titan. They were waiting patiently for attendant Lee to finish preparing.

Kazuki was in deep thoughts. He was planning some combat strategies for Titan. Kazuki wanted to draw a clear plan on how he and Titan could fight along with each other in rhythm and harmony.

"The food is ready, your highness."

Attendant Lee said.

"We are coming. Titan, let's go."

Kazuki said with a smile.

To be continued.