The Awakening

The process of awakening for a wild beast is a fundamental change in its habitual self. The wild beast is completely transformed, getting rid of many restrictions. He gains a sharper mind, deeper thinking, and a clearer understanding of his surroundings. The beast learns to control and curb its wild beast instincts.

But the most important thing is that upon awakening, the beast, like the beast tamers, has a chance to awaken spontaneous intimacy. Like tamers who can unleash their talent, wild beasts gain the ability to harness the power of the elements.

However, as with tamers, not all wild beasts have a chance to awaken their elemental affinity. It all depends on their natural predisposition to a particular element, as well as on their lifestyle. The beast's parents also play an important role.

In this regard, the descendants of the beast lords have a significant advantage from birth. Firstly, they are born with an almost one hundred percent chance of awakening. Secondly, their mind is more developed compared to a wild beast. And thirdly, they inherit the elemental affinity of their ancestor.

There is a lot of debate among people about who is stronger: a wild beast that was able to awaken on its own, or a descendant of a beast lord who inherited the traits of his ancestor. Some believe that a beast that has awakened by itself, having put a lot of effort into it, is more powerful and experienced than the descendant of the lord, who received everything from birth.

However, others claim that the descendants of the beast lords inherit not only the traits of their ancestors, but also the ability to learn and adapt faster than a wild beast. In addition, they almost always awaken their ancestor's elemental affinity.

Many beast tamers make contracts with wild beasts to help them awaken. However, not all contracted beasts can develop their affinity with the elements upon awakening.

Wild beasts that have awakened on their own in the wild are usually very proud. It is very difficult to tame such a beast, but it is possible.

For many beast tamers, the dream is to form a contract with a descendant of a beast lord. But not everyone has this opportunity. The beast lords strictly control their descendants, and only with the ancestor's consent can they form a contract with a beast tamer. Many beast lords prefer to create Contractors instead of beast tamers.

Susu, a descendant of a Rank 8 beast lord, was predisposed to awakening from birth and intelligent by nature. She was holding back her own awakening.

At the moment when an unknown dark force engulfed Anon, Susu, without realizing it, freed herself from all restrictions. The power she had been holding back for years surged out like an ocean and engulfed her.

She didn't notice how her body was starting to change. Although the changes were painful, it didn't bother her mind as much as Anon's disappearance. A flame of indignation burned in her. The moment the dark force engulfed Anon, Susu clearly heard a chuckle. Whoever abducted Anon was mocking her.

Under the influence of strong emotions, Susu quickly went through the process of awakening. Her appearance hadn't changed much. Sparks of the lightning element flashed in her violet eyes, confirming that her awakening had been successful and she had become close to this element. Susu's thought process accelerated so much that the outside world around her seemed to slow down.

She persistently searched for traces of the dark creature that abducted Anon, but to no avail. As soon as the abduction took place, it disappeared, leaving behind only an annoying and mocking laugh.

"Ancestor! The ancestor! Anon has been kidnapped!" — Susu screamed in despair through the mental connection she gained with her ancestor immediately after awakening.

She hoped that her ancestor would quickly find and save Anon. But the seconds turned into minutes, and the answer through the mental connection never came. Her ancestor was silent.

"Ancestor! Why are you silent?!" Susu continued to shout. "Please save Anon!"

But no matter how much she begged and called out to her ancestor, she didn't get an answer. The longer she waited and called through the mental link, the more disappointed she became in her ancestor. Her resentment towards her was growing by the second.

Finally, she gave up waiting for help and decided to act on her own. Violently flying through the window of the inn, she completely destroyed it and swiftly soared onto the roof. With her unexpected act, she attracted the attention of others, but she was not up to it.

When she awakening, she felt all her senses sharpen. She was trying to understand what was going on around her. It was only now that she noticed a faint connection with someone that was different from the connection with her ancestor. This connection was rapidly moving away from her towards the nearby forest.

She realized that perhaps this strange new connection was her connection to Anon. However, she couldn't be sure about that. The reasons for this connection didn't bother her too much. It was the only thread she could cling to at the moment.

She struggled towards this connection, using her newly acquired abilities. Her speed increased many times due to the awakening of her connection with the lightning element. The surrounding space seemed to blur, and she couldn't fully comprehend what was happening around her. Her mind couldn't keep up with the rapid events, and she crashed into a building in her path with a bang. The building was completely destroyed, and she herself suffered considerable damage.

Her body ached from her injuries, but it didn't bother her much. She didn't even care that those inside the building might be injured by her actions. She stood up and rushed back to the connection she felt. This time, she exerted all her strength, as much as she could control and perceive what was happening around her.

All this time, Raikishi was watching her actions from a height with a complicated expression on her face.

She had witnessed everything that had happened since Susu had woken up. Through the mental connection, she could hear Susu's desperate pleas, but she deliberately ignored them. She could clearly feel her descendant's frustration and anger, and it hurt her. She didn't want to do it, but she had already made her decision and couldn't back down.

All of this was planned by her to push her descendant to awaken. The most important thing was to see Anon's reaction to what was happening. She didn't know how to help someone like him awaken. Therefore, she decided to create a dangerous situation in which his life and the life of her descendant would be at stake. She created this situation to stimulate the little boy's emotions.

In history, most of the natural awakenings of beast tamers and wild beasts occurred during moments of life and death crisis. Only strong emotions in moments of despair could help to awaken hidden forces.

Nowadays, when many people live in safe cities, the natural process of awakening has almost been forgotten. Everyone is used to the black stone awakening ceremony.

She had been thinking about how to help him for a long time, and eventually came up with this idea. She began to implement it as soon as they left the city of Yaktana.

Next to her was the seventh rank beast lord, the Storm Leopard, the true and hidden ruler of this city. He watched the scene with a complicated expression on his face. His city became a field for the machinations of a cunning old fox.

He looked warily in her direction. Like the Shadow Wolf, this fox had visited him several times over the past three years and taught him similar "lessons", demanding payment in the form of rare resources.

After watching Susu's actions for a while, Raikishi was about to go to the place where Anon was taken, when she suddenly froze in surprise. Her descendant was rapidly heading in the direction where the Rank 5 Shadow Wolf had taken Anon. It was the same Shadow Wolf named Bera who kidnapped Anon and ridiculed Susu.

After taking a close look, Raikishi made sure that Susu was indeed moving in the indicated direction. She couldn't figure out how her descendant knew where they were. It was obvious that Susu was not moving randomly, but purposefully, as if she knew exactly where to go.

But she was even more struck by the strange vibrations that Susu began to emit as she approached her goal. These vibrations had an effect not only on her, but also on the Rank 7 beast lord who was next to her. He felt them too. Although he didn't understand what it was, the beast lord's instincts led him to it.

At that time, Raikishi and the seventh rank beast lord did not realize that the vibrations emanating from Susu spread like waves, attracting the attention of other beings far beyond their perception. These waves swept the whole world, and all the influential personalities turned their gaze towards Region No.03 of the Astakia Federation.

Raikishi could not imagine that her desire to help her descendant and Anon would turn into such a large-scale crisis. All the free and unfree representatives of high society, abandoning their business, rushed to where this strange force came from.

While all the powerful of this world were like moths attracted to the source of gravity, a certain ancient being, who had been dormant since time immemorial, awoke from his long sleep under the influence of this force.