The pridormial beast of ash
In a world ruled by the iron law of Beast Taming, your summoned spirit is your entire worth. A high-ranking beast guarantees luxury, power, and respect. A low-ranking beast condemns you to a life of servitude. For seventeen years, Leo lived in the shadows of the city elite, waiting for the Day of Summoning to change his fate. Instead, it became his living nightmare. Humiliated in front of thousands, mocked by the person he trusted most, and left with a trash-tier ranking, Leo became the joke of the city.
But when the elite discarded a dying, mutated defect beast and sentenced it to execution, Leo felt a strange, ancient resonance. He chose to form a soul pact with the creature, drawing the ultimate ridicule from the crowd. They thought he had sealed his own doom. They were wrong. What the world saw as a broken defect was actually a dormant, forbidden myth from the dawn of time. As the blood pact activates, a terrifying power begins to wake, and the people who trampled on Leo’s dignity are about to learn that some gods should never be angered.
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Chapter: Chapter 60"Take those words back right now, Miller, or I will kill you myself."Clara didn't recognize her own voice. It tore from her throat like a jagged piece of glass, low, trembling, and dripping with an absolute, lethal horror. She backed away from the foot of the bed, her hands flying to her ears as if she could physically block out the sound of the room."Look at the paper, Clara," Miller pleaded, his voice cracking beneath the weight of the confession. He held the document out, his hand shaking so badly the paper rattled in the quiet room. "Look at the DNA markers. I'm not lying to you!""I don't want to see it!" Clara shrieked, backing straight into the cold glass wall of the ICU room. "Get away from me! Get that filthy paper away from me!""Clara, please, listen to me," Miller whispered frantically, taking a fast step toward her, his eyes desperate. "Arthur Vance had two families. He kept your mother hidden in a quiet house outside the city for four years. He wrote her letters every
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Chapter: Chapter 59"Touch one single page of those papers and I will tear them out of your hands and shove them down your throat."Clara didn't back away an inch. She stood like an iron wall between the bed and Harrison Vance, her knuckles white, her eyes burning with an unholy, defensive fire that made the older man falter for half a second.Harrison let out a sharp, dismissive breath, his thin lips twisting into a cold sneer. "You have your husband's dramatic flair, my dear. But dramatic speeches don't hold up in a probate court.""Julian isn't in a medical coma!" Clara yelled, stepping directly into Harrison's space, her voice trembling with intense rage. "He is resting! He had emergency surgery hours ago!""The charter explicitly defines a coma as any medically induced state lasting longer than six hours," Harrison countered, raising the heavy document bearing the blood-red wax seal. "He has been unresponsive since four this morning. As of ten minutes ago, I am the sole trustee of Vance Global.""He
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Chapter: Chapter 58"Clear!"The high-voltage shock surged through Julian’s frame, throwing his bare chest off the narrow stretcher with a sickening, violent jerk. The flat tone of the monitor cut through the deafening roar of the helicopter blades like a razor blade slicing straight through Clara’s soul."Julian!" Clara shrieked, her bound wrists straining against her knees as two medics shoved her back into the corner of the cabin. "Julian, don't leave me!""Charging to three hundred!" the lead medic yelled, his brow dripping with sweat as he slammed the paddles back into the gel paste. "Hands off! Clear!"The electrical charge struck his body again. Julian’s head snapped backward against the hard foam pad, his jaw slack, his face a ghastly, translucent white beneath the harsh cabin lights.Silence stretched for two suffocating seconds.Beep.Beep. Beep.A ragged, erratic pulse fluttered across the digital screen, weak and dangerously fast, but beating."We have sinus rhythm!" the second medic shouted,
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Chapter: Chapter 57"I will spit on your grave just like my father should have twenty years ago."Julian’s voice ripped through the freezing courtyard, thick with blood and malice. He lay twisted on the bottom marble step, his chest bared to the cold wind, but his bloodshot eyes burned up at the man in the wheelchair with a terrifying, unholy hate.Arthur Pendelton let out a dry, rattling chuckle that turned into a harsh cough behind his breathing mask. "Your father was a sniveling coward, Julian. He cried on his knees in this very hall when he realized what Victoria and I had built.""You dragged my family through hell!" Clara screamed from the stone tiles, her bound hands shaking behind her back as she tried to crawl toward Julian. "You let Julian believe his mother was dead! You turned Marcus and Ethan into monsters!""Marcus and Ethan were hungry little dogs," Arthur said, his ancient voice thin but sharp as a razored blade. "They thought they were playing for the crown. They had no idea they were ju
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Chapter: Chapter 56"If you shoot him, you will have to execute me first."Clara threw her entire body across Julian’s chest, her fingers digging desperately into his wet hospital gown. She stared up at the black barrel of the assault rifle, her eyes wild with an absolute, unyielding desperation.The masked soldier didn't flinch. He grabbed the back of the paramedic's collar, dragging the terrified man out of the side door and throwing him onto the rain-slicked asphalt."Get off him, lady!" the soldier barked, his voice muffled behind his heavy tactical mask. "We are here for Vance! Move!""No!" Clara shrieked, her voice tearing raw against the cold night air. "You'll have to put a bullet through my spine!""Clara... get... get down..." Julian rasped, his eyes snapping open as a surge of pure adrenaline forced its way through his exhausted, freezing body. He tried to raise his left arm to push her behind him, but his muscles trembled violently, refusing to obey. "Leave her out of this!"The small silver
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Chapter: Chapter 55"He went under three minutes ago, Clara, and he isn't coming back up."Ethan stood on the slick wooden steps, dark ocean water dripping from his tailored suit onto the pier planks. The silver automatic in his hand pointed steadily at Clara's chest, his face twisted into a triumphant, grotesque smile."You're lying!" Clara shrieked, her voice tearing raw against the freezing rain. She backed away toward the edge of the pier, her eyes darting frantically to the black, churning water below. "Julian! Julian!""Save your breath," Ethan sneered, taking a slow, heavy step forward, his wet shoes squeaking on the wood. "The man had no blood left in his veins. He tackled me over that rail, lost his grip in the tide, and sank like a stone.""No!" Clara screamed, her entire body shaking so violently she could barely keep her feet. "He's not dead! He wouldn't leave me with you!""He didn't have a choice!" Ethan shouted over the roar of the storm, his eyes flashing with manic delight. "His heart st
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Chapter: Chapter 8: The weight of historyThe enforcer did not die.He lay in the dirt where they had left him, his body twitching, his eyes open and empty. The villagers had fled into the forest, but the memory of his screams followed them through the trees like a curse.Zhong Yue led the way, his steps slow and heavy. The flame inside him was weak now, barely a flicker. He had given too much. The connection with the enforcer had drained him in ways he did not fully understand.Old Wu walked beside him, his face grim. "You should not have done that.""I had no choice.""There is always a choice."Zhong Yue stopped. He turned to face the old hunter, his eyes tired but steady. "He would have killed us all. You saw what he was. What they all are. The gods and their servants do not negotiate. They do not show mercy. They take and they burn and they leave nothing behind."Old Wu's jaw tightened. "And now you have shown them something new. Something they will fear. You think that will save us? Fear makes the powerful more dangerou
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Chapter: Chapter 7: The enforcerThe attack came before they reached the tree line.One moment the night was silent. The next, a wall of pressure slammed into the villagers like an invisible wave. People screamed. Children were thrown to the ground. The weaker ones collapsed, clutching their chests as if the air itself had turned to stone.Zhong Yue spun around. His flame flared, pushing back against the crushing weight."He's here," he said.The enforcer descended from the darkness, his black-scaled beast snarling and snapping at the air. He was not alone this time. Two more riders flanked him, their faces hidden behind masks of dark metal. The one in the center, the one with the scar, smiled coldly."Did you think you could run from me?"The villagers scrambled back, terror in their eyes. Old Wu stepped forward, his hand on his hunting knife. Mei Ling stood beside him, her face pale but unafraid."We are not running," Old Wu said. "We are leaving."The enforcer laughed. "Leaving. Running. It is the same thing for c
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Chapter: Chapter 6: The price of powerThe celebration died before it could begin.Zhong Yue stood at the edge of the village, watching the sky where the enforcer had disappeared. The golden glow had faded from the villagers' skin, leaving them exhausted and trembling. Some were crying. Some were laughing. Most were simply standing there, stunned by what they had done.But Zhong Yue felt no joy. Only a cold, creeping dread."You're afraid," Old Wu said quietly, coming to stand beside him."Yes.""Good. You should be."Zhong Yue turned to face him. The old hunter looked tired, but there was a fire in his eyes that had not been there before. Something had awakened in him during the battle. Something that would not easily go back to sleep."We have to leave," Zhong Yue said.Old Wu frowned. "Leave? This is our home.""Your home is no longer safe. The enforcer will report what he saw. The gods will send an army. If we stay here, we die.""Then we fight.""With what? Fifty farmers and a handful of hunters? We barely survived on
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Chapter: Chapter 5: The tax collectorThe sky-ruler patrol returned at dawn, and this time, they did not come alone.Mei Ling saw them first. She was standing at the edge of the village, her eyes fixed on the horizon, her hands clenched into fists. The memory of her parents being dragged away was still fresh. It would always be fresh."Zhong Yue," she said. "They're here."He was beside her in a moment. The flame in his chest stirred, alert and watchful. "How many?""One. But he is not alone."The single rider descended from the clouds on a black-scaled beast. Behind him, the sky was empty. But the weight of his presence filled the valley like a storm. He was not a god. He was something worse. A half-breed enforcer, a servant of the sky-rulers who had been given just enough power to terrorize the mortal world.He landed in the center of the village, crushing the garden that had just begun to regrow. The beast snorted, its hot breath steaming in the cold morning air."Where is the tribute?" the man demanded. His voice was
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Chapter: Chapter 4: The First LessonChapter 4: The First Lesson"You want to teach us to fight gods?"Old Wu's voice was sharp, almost angry. They stood in the old man's house, the fire in the hearth casting long shadows across the walls. Mei Ling sat in the corner, her eyes red but dry now, her hands still clenched into fists."I want to teach you to remember," Zhong Yue said."That's not an answer.""It's the only answer that matters."Old Wu slammed his hand on the table. "Do you understand what you're asking? These people have survived by staying quiet. By bowing. By pretending they don't exist. And you want to take that away from them?""I want to give them something better.""Better?" Old Wu laughed, but there was no humor in it. "What's better than alive, boy? Tell me that."Zhong Yue met his eyes. "Free."The word hung in the air. Old Wu opened his mouth to respond, then closed it. He looked away, his jaw tight."You sound like my father," he muttered."Is that a bad thing?""He died screaming. The sky-rulers to
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Chapter: Chapter 3:The Jia Clan's SecretThe mountains did not welcome him.They rose up jagged and cold, their peaks hidden in grey mist that never seemed to lift. The path was narrow and winding, barely visible beneath layers of fallen pine needles. Zhong Yue had been walking for three days. His body was failing. The flame in his chest had dimmed to a faint glow, barely enough to keep him upright.But the voice had been clear. "They are here. The ones who still remember.""Remember what?" he had asked."The spark. They carry it without knowing what it is."Now he stood at the edge of a hidden valley, his legs shaking, his vision swimming. Below him, tucked between the mountains, lay a village. It was small. Fifty houses maybe. Wooden roofs and thin smoke rising from stone chimneys. It looked peaceful. It looked afraid.He took one step forward. Then his legs gave out.The world tilted. He fell.The last thing he saw was an old man running toward him, grey hair wild in the wind, eyes wide with alarm."Easy now."The voice w
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