Gi-An

The apparitions kept moving in a circle around the boy, seemingly shouting without any sound. The man watched from a distance of a few dozens of meters while all the others recalled their beast spirits back into their tattoos and stood behind him.

Many were there just to quench their curiosity and find what it looked like to integrate with a high-grade beast spirit while the others were looking for a chance to step up in case the boy failed.

Because one person would get only one chance to integrate with a beast spirit and if they failed, that was it. They would once again have to venture out into the wild and find the same beast with the exact same word of power, the chances of which were one in a billion, if even that.

The integration process itself was rather simple. The word of power which was developed naturally on a beast's body would become attached to its soul and once the word was extracted, a portion of the beast's soul would come along with it.