This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

The next morning Kain booked the mental-attribute room for Bea's evolution. Finally, it was the long-awaited moment.

Due to the continuous delays with getting the necessary amount of credits to book an attribute room for Bea, her evolution actually coincided with Lady's. Therefore, Kain and Bridge decided to witness the evolution of each other's contracts. A privilege that they would only grant to each other due to their bond as family.

It was decided that Bea would go first since Lady was still extremely anxious.

As for Bea, as her strength increased the clarity of the thoughts and emotions Kain could receive from her through the contract have also become more clear. Thankfully, he could sense that there was no nervousness, only anticipation.

Kain released Bea into the center of the room surrounded by the necessary materials, including the 3 evolutionary base materials he'd selected. Since Bea wouldn't be able to drink the catalytic elixir, Kain placed her into the liquid, with worked out perfectly since she herself prefers to be in liquids.

He then backed away against the wall to stand next to Bridge.

"Aren't you going to release your contract?" Bridge asked. He still wasn't too sure what Kain's contract was. The last time he'd asked Kain about his affinity he wasn't even sure what his affinity was himself. However, he assumed that Kain's contract took the form of a mist.

Given that Kain's second contract was also of the wind-attribute, the prevailing theory among their classmates was that Kain's affinity was related to the wind-attribute.

However, Bridge knew that this wasn't correct. If Kain's attribute could be described so simply, he believed that he'd have told him by now.

"Bea is already there." Kain replied while pointing to the obviously empty space. Typically when there is an invisible spiritual creature, beast-tamers could still sense their presence due to fluctuations in spiritual power. But in the space that Kain pointed at Bridge sensed nothing.

And as the minutes continued to tick by and there were no changes or anything moving. Bridge even began to think that this was a prank done by Kain and that any point he'd yell out 'Gotcha!'

"Take your time, we paid for an hour and I can add more time if needed," Kain said aloud to the seemingly empty space while Bridge looked at him as though he questioned his sanity. That is until a faint glow originating from the bottle of elixir began to appear.

The ball of light grew larger and larger until the light consumed the nearby materials.

The duration of the light far exceeded Yara's when she evolved. At least 10 minutes passed without any signs of the light fading.

"Is it supposed to last this long?" Bridge asked worriedly. He didn't want Kain's contract to have any problems, especially not when the re-ranking was less than a month away. He took more pride in bragging about his brother's top 5 status than Kain himself.

Kain shook his head but he wasn't worried. He had already run the simulation and he knew that the chance of failure was extremely low. His major concern is which form the evolution would take.

The more likely form is the white-gold Sovereign Mindshard Amoeba that he'd initially had planned with only minor changes to the skills due to the newly added material from the spider… the lack of significant changes to the evolutionary form is likely a result of Bea being unable to adequately assimilate the energy of the green-grade material meaning that's addition was practically rendered useless.

The less likely evolutionary form is for if Bea can assimilate with the green-grade material from the spider, resulting in more significant changes. Such as an increase in quality to Platinum…a jump so large that even the System said would be almost unheard of.

Kain couldn't help but put his hands together and close his eyes in prayer. He wasn't praying to anyone in particular, it was more so just to comfort himself. He couldn't do any of his other superstitious actions like lighting a candle or washing his body, because he didn't want to distract Bea.

Finally, when only 20 minutes were remaining in their booking of the room, the light began to fade and both boys stared anxiously at the now mostly empty center of the room. Where there'd previously been many materials, there was now only an empty glass bottle that previously contained a catalytic elixir.

Bridge looked around the empty space with growing confusion before turning to Kain, "Did it succeed or not?" Considering that Bea couldn't be seen with the naked eye, Kain would need to either look at the System or sense her changes through the contract. The former was much faster and easier so it was what he did.

Closing his eyes to give the appearance that he was communicating with Bea through the contract to determine her changes.

Heart beating so loudly he could hear it in his ears, he went to Bea's new profile:

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Species: Apex Mindshard Amoeba

An advanced evolution utilizing both the Subliminal Orb and the Mindleech Vine and enhanced by the integration of the crystal core of the Mindweaver Spider. This evolution represents the pinnacle of mastery over the mind at its level, capable of reading, altering, and controlling not just memories but entire thoughts and actions of multiple targets simultaneously.

The Apex Mindshard Amoeba embodies a nearly omnipotent presence within the mental realm, commanding legions of minds with a mere thought.

Quality: Platinum

Type: Microorganism (Amoeba)

Attribute: Mental

Skills:

SS-Mindshard Manipulation: The Apex Mindshard Amoeba can fragment a target's mind into separate cognitive shards, each containing different memories and aspects of their identity. It can then permanently manipulate, erase, or reassemble these shards to alter the victim's perception of its present and past reality or to temporarily completely control their actions.

Erasure of all mind shards will lead to death. Erasures and manipulations of mind shards are only possible for targets up to one grade higher.

SS-Threaded Dominion: By utilizing mental-attribute threads, the Apex Mindshard Amoeba can send splits of itself that can exert up to 90% of the original bodies' strength to numerous targets over vast distances. Skills performed by splits can only affect those equal to or lower in level than the Mindshard Amoeba.

S-Mental Veil: This advanced protection mechanism allows the Apex Mindshard Amoeba to hide its presence from entities with spiritual power up to two grades higher, while simultaneously maintaining control over its puppets, ensuring minimal interference.

A-Mental Nexus: This ability establishes a powerful network of shared consciousness among all connected targets, allowing the Apex Mindshard Amoeba to communicate and coordinate strategies instantaneously.

A-Memory Siphon: This ability allows the Apex Mindshard to siphon and store the most crucial memories from its victims, transforming them into a reservoir of knowledge and power. There is a very small chance of it developing new skills based off of these siphoned memories.

B-Psychic Assimilation: By consuming extracted memories, the Apex Mindshard Amoeba enhances its spiritual power and cognitive abilities.

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'Yes!' Kain almost screamed out loud at Bea successfully achieving the desired evolution. He recalled her back to her star space after praising her on a job well-done. Once she returns to optimal condition, she can then attempt to breakthrough to orange-grade.

Kain opened his eyes with a smile and turned to Bridge, "Your brother is going to aim for the number 1 spot." Bridge's smile soon mirrored his own.