The Seven Demon's Tamer
Introvert!? Me!? The hell am I an introvert? I stay indoors all day because I am afraid of getting my butt kicked.
Until I contract my beast, I won’t be walking freely. This is a promise I made to myself.
My name is Ryder, and I am black-marked. The planet where I live is dominated by summoners. If you guessed it, then you are right—we contract beasts from the Astral Shadow Plain and summon them at will after successfully forming a contract.
A mark appears on the left shoulder of every human after a period of maturity, a mark given by the beast that chooses you. There are five different types of marks—the brown, the orange, the red, the black, and lastly, the white.
Of all the markings, I was marked black. I was chosen by a supreme demon monarch of the Astral Shadow Plain—the Dracogon.
There was only a 0.5 percent chance for me to survive the contraction process. However, with a slight twist in the original outcome, contracting a creature from the black-marked plain was nothing compared to the catastrophe I caused shortly after—I opened a link between the beasts of the Astral Shadow Plain and the planet of humans, Terra.
Everyone on my planet has been endangered because of me. The fact that no one knows when the link will trigger and cause a breach that pours mindless creatures into my world makes it all the more unsettling.
Now, with no other choice, I have to find a way to resolve the mistake I made—alone, just like I caused it.
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Chapter: Chapter 148: Impossibly In The Astral Shadow Plain Satoru remained suspended in the air, levitating in the foreign vicinity with no visible means of support, his body still positioned at an angle that made it hard to tell if he was up right or upside down or diagonal. The sensation was deeply unusual despite how natural it felt to his body, as if his body had instantly adapted wherever this place was. Countless small multicolored orbs like distant stars were scattered all around him. The orbs gave Satoru conclusive evidence that this wasn't his world, wasn't anywhere on the planet he'd been born on. These weren't stars in the traditional sense—they were too close, too varied in color and too small compared to what scientists described stars to be up close. As if the orbs weren't strange enough, there was something else as well—things resembling projections, though that word didn't quite capture what they were. They weren't soli
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Chapter: Chapter 149: The Hell Hole Known As Astral Shadow Plain 'It is like nighttime in the real world,' Satoru thought inwardly. Except the surroundings looked far more visible and apparent than they should under actual moonlight. The shadows weren't as deep, making the details less obscured. The visibility Satoru was experiencing even made him wonder if he'd suddenly gained catlike vision or if this was simply the natural state of this world. But either way, regardless of how it works, he was glad that this world seemed to be operating in his favor. "The Astral Shadow Plane," Satoru muttered, his voice sounding strange now that there was actual air to carry it and cause small echoes. "So this is what it is like in real life." He was standing on his two feet for the first time since arriving, having transitioned from floating to standing without even noticing when it happened, in what appeared to be some kind of beach environment. On the opposite side of the oc
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Chapter: Chapter 147: A Different World, Or Top Tier MadnessThe state of blank unconsciousness didn't last—couldn't last, though by all rights it should have extended for hours or even days given what Satoru body had gone through. Just seconds into the numbness, into that wherever it was that his consciousness had fled to escape reality, Satoru's eyes snapped wide open. There was no temporary state of disorientation like there should have been when someone wakes from deep slumber, no moment of confusion while the mind struggles to remember where he was or what happened before he had fall unconscious. In fact, what appeared to be far more strange than the manner of his awakening were his surroundings, which had transformed so completely and impossibly that for several long seconds, he had just kept staring like a dummy. He found himself in a dark space—not the darkness of the torture cell with its stone walls and iron chains, but true pitch darkness. His body position
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Chapter: Chapter 145: Tolerance Breaking point *Whip!* The leather struck against Satoru's back with a wet impact that was somehow worse than the whistle the whip was making while cutting through air. flow. *Whip!* Again. The leather whip was swung. The impact, just like most of the others, had split Satoru skin and splash out tiny droplet of blood. *Whip!* *Whip!* Satoru had heavy iron shackles clamped around both his wrists, the metal bands so tight that they left red marks that would most likely eventually bruise purple and black. Thick chains extended from those shackles to iron rings that had been bolted directly into the stone walls on both side of him. The chains were stretched tightly, pulled until there was no slack whatsoever, forcing Satoru's arms into a wide spread that had even caused him pain before the lashing had begun. His feet barely touched the ground—they'd positioned him just high enough t
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Chapter: Chapter 146: That... That Wasn't Fair.The figure was Nakamura himself, looking as enigmatic as always despite having just ordered brutal torture to little Satoru all in his name. Behind him, he pulled a chain that clinked softly with his movements, dragging across the stone floor while making sound like coins being counted. The chain extended back into the darkness of the hallway, attached to something that was still outside the cell, still in the shadows where Satoru couldn't quite see what it was."Satoru," Nakamura spoke gently, and his voice was soft, carrying the kind of warmth that fathers were supposed to use when addressing children rather than victims they'd just had tortured."I have a present for you," he continued, and the words should have been warm, should have carried positivity of gifts or parental affection. But coming from Nakamura's mouth, in this place, with that chain in his hand and that expression on his face, they sounded like a threat.Saying that w
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Chapter: Chapter 43: Opportunity Of The Beloved In the Nakamura family mansion's dining hall, hundreds of children were scattered throughout the space like ants. The hall itself was not small or less awe-inspiring—its ceilings soared high enough to make you dizzy if you stared up too long, massive chandeliers shaped like crystals sending bright glittering lights across the room, walls lined with long framed windows and so on. Some children were moving toward their destinations through the crowd with ease. Others had clustered into small groups, chatting with each other loudly and laughing heartily. Some others also were serving themselves from the elaborate buffet tables that nearly lined one entire wall. The noise level was considerable, not enough to cause discomfort like the chaotic roar you'd expect from hundreds of young people gathered in one place. At a more reserved, elevated area of the dining hall at the very front of the room, Nakamura
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Chapter: Chapter 92: The AssassinThe woman's mouth twitched at first, then she smiled."It worked on you earlier when Kitsura approached," she told him.Kitsura smiled upon hearing it. Small again, but real.She sat regardless."Name?" Erwin asked, staring at her with a poker face."Derin. And before you ask," Derin added, digging her spoon into her plate, "no, Gutra isn't with me.""Didn't seem like that to me," Erwin responded immediately, still looking at her.Derin froze with her spoon standing upright in her plate, then looked straight at him and said, "In that case, I want to be your ally too.""What do you say, Erwin Veridian?"Erwin paused for a moment, then responded flatly, "No."She froze again, then smirked, took a spoonful of her food into her mouth, and stood up.She said nothing else. She simply left with her bowl still on the table, barely touched."What do you think, Fernando? Do you suppose she is one of those plotting against me?"Fernando, who had been quiet throughout their conversation, responde
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Chapter: Chapter 91: New person"I need this seat," she sat regardless."Name?" Erwin asked, staring at her with a poker face."Derin. And before you ask," Derin added, digging her spoon into her plate, "no, Gutra isn't with me.""Didn't seem like that to me," Erwin responded immediately, still looking at her.Derin froze with her spoon standing upright in her plate, then looked straight at him and said, "In that case, I want to be your ally too.""What do you say, Erwin Veridian?"Erwin paused for a moment, then responded flatly, "No!"She froze again, then smirked, took a spoonful of her food into her mouth, and stood up.She said nothing else. She simply left with her bowl still on the table, barely touched."What do you think, Fernando? Do you suppose she is one of those plotting against me?"Fernando, who had been quiet throughout their conversation, responded with one of the most serious expressions Erwin had ever seen on him."I know with certainty it was a trap. And I don't think you've escaped that trap jus
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Chapter: Chapter 90: Essence Energy Pool IncreaseThe notifications did not stop.They kept coming. Stacking up and stacking up.They kept filling his vision until the entire chamber was a blur behind blue-edged rectangles and neat lines of private information only he could see.[Congratulations][You have killed a grade 4 beast: Lightless Crawler ×1][Reward: 100 Essence Energy][Beast crystal has been teleported to your Space][Congratulations][You have killed a grade 5 beast: Rustspore Beetle ×1][Reward: 10 Essence Energy][Beast crystal has been teleported to your Space][Congratulations][You have killed a grade 5 beast: Rustspore Beetle ×1][Reward: 10 Essence Energy][Beast crystal has been teleported to your Space]And on.And on.And on.It became ridiculous so quickly that Erwin stopped reading until it got to the last one.[Kill notifications condensed][Additional beast kills registered][Total Rustspore Beetle kills credited: 14][Total Lightless Crawler kills credited: 1][Total beast crystals transferred to Space: 15
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Chapter: Chapter 89: The Reward For Killing BeastsThe mistake most people would have made was trying to use power through the erasure pulse, but Erwin didn't.The moment the crawler's antennae folded back and fired it's ability, he started counting. 'One.'He kicked the first beetle out of the air instead of cutting it with his blade, applying his full strength for the first time in the battle.The creature was smashed so hard that the air rippled while it zoomed away and struck the wall, bursting into a pulp of green blood.'Two.'Kitsura copied Erwin's action and did the same instantly. Her boot caught another beetle and sent it into a cluster of three behind.She wasn't as powerful obviously, but her attack wasn't weak either. They were both Ascendants after all, with skin as hard as rock and strength enough to punch through reinforced metal doors.'Three.'The Anomaly Erasure faded off that moment, and Erwin felt his abilities returning."Kitsura, again!" he barked, and she obeyed instantly.Sound Anomaly: Midnight SilenceSilenc
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Chapter: Chapter 88: The Two Beasts KindA few hours literally flashed by, and then he was teleported. He landed inside a stone square so small that his face twitched.It was only twenty feet by twenty feet wide, with one door and a low ceiling.And directly across from him—Kitsura.She hit the floor on one knee, looked up, saw him, and closed her eyes once like a woman accepting the worst fate. "Of course it's you."Erwin rubbed the back of his head with a forced grin. "Am I that bad?""No." She rose. "Just irritating."Before he could answer, the regular voice filled the chamber and, no doubt, every other chamber in the ring.*"You are now on Floor Twenty-Two: The Exchange."**"You must survive your chamber and neutralize the assigned threat."**"Participants are paired randomly."**"One participant death equals team disqualification."**"Chambers will unseal when the chamber threat is neutralized."*"*"May the cosmos favour the worthy."*The voice vanished, and moments later, the far wall moved—more audibly than visibly—
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Chapter: Chapter 87: The Exchange TrialErwin spent the first hour of rest pretending he was going to sleep. The tower had already given him a sealed recovery chamber that would clearly be his permanent residence for the entire Ascendant bracket trials, so he lay down on his bed and closed his eyes. Six minutes later, he opened them and stared at the ceiling. Brokk had turned to dust in front of Fernando. Veyr had screamed with one leg missing. Sarvek had disappeared so completely that his mind kept trying to disagree and kept trying to place him somewhere else in the scene. Too bad it was his delusion, and too bad he was well aware of that with clarity. Kaladian had told him to stay alive until Floor Twenty-Four. Even though he had managed to distract himself from thinking about that, the silence of his room was forcing his imagination in. And those imaginations were all terrible scenarios. "You are bad at resting," Einstein observed from the table. "You are bad at being helpful." "I wasn't trying to be helpful.
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