Tristan got over the excitement that had consumed him for a moment and turned to Alaric. “I thought you said her father had forced her to renounce her admission into the Holy Mountain Academy.” Without taking his gaze off Kira, he answered, "That was the information that I got this morning before I left.” After getting control over her breaths, Kira stood straight. Alaric noticed something, she had ditched the gown he saw her with in the castle in exchange for clothes that make combat easy. A brown shirt that wasn’t tight but wasn’t big either, a similar situation for the black pants she was putting on. It seemed like she moved quite easily in dresses like this, given the fact that she had run all the way from the castle to the gate. Alaric noticed a heavy gaze on him, he looked in the direction he had felt it from. Kira’s chimera towered over Kira after its evolution, it slowly brought its lionlike face closer to Alaric, letting out a low warning growl. In that moment, Elena s

Alatic, Kira, and Tristan all stood in front of a huge gate that towered above them, raising their heads to see the top of the gates, they saw something else protruding from past the gate, it seemed like the gate was placed in front of a mountain. Alaric turned his head to the left, while Kira turned her head to the right, both of them trying to see where the gates had started from, but they were so wide they could barely see it.Tristan noticed the slight frown on his companion's face when he turned to look at them, but it didn’t take him to figure out why that was. They couldn’t find the edge of each side of the gates. “Ah,” he let out a laugh, drawing their attention to himself, and when he got their attention, he proceeded to talk. "The gate is the most massive that was ever built by the humans in the whole of our history.” “The founder of this academy was said to be the strongest during his time, and you know what it means to be the strongest. You have access to a lot of resou

Alaric lay on his bed in the dormitory that he had been introduced to as his room. It had a bed that was placed close to the wall, and there was a window built into the mountain. The room didn’t have much in it, just a table and a chair in the corner, obviously for reading. To another corner, there was a wardrobe, the front doors were glass, made to be mirrors. Today was their first day, so nothing much had happened. Andressa had told them to just settle in after showing them a partial tour. That tour included the single training ground that they owned. Thirty years ago, the size of the training ground was beyond standard, given the equipment they had, but right now it is outdated. The tour had also included the archives. Alaric noticed something earlier during the day when they had arrived. He seemed to be the only one with barely sufficient knowledge concerning the academies and generally everything relating to beasts and history like that. With that thought in mind, he pushe

“I am pretty sure that all of you can feel it. That subtle mental connection between you and your beast, now, you will gently tug on that connection, and through that connection, you will pass your intent to your beast through that connection.” Professor Finn said, walking away from the podium and heading closer to the students. “Now. That is your own part of the compression, which is like half of it. The remaining half has to do with your beast. They have been engineered, and it is also stated in your contract that their goal is to protect you. Compressing them means that they will have no means of protecting you while they are in that state,” he explained, but he wasn’t done. “You have to find a way of communicating with your beast and making them trust you enough to actually give in to your intent and then let themselves be compressed. You should also know that some of these beasts will take time to be convinced. There is also the part of forcing them to do your will, but that wi

"Don't be too surprised, you don’t have time for that in a combat,” Josh said, putting aside his karambit knife as he stretched his hand towards her. “Go again, but with different information this time around. I might believe in balance, but that isn’t what I practice at all. Like I said earlier, sometimes all these decisions depend on the nature of the beast you are in contract with,” he said to all of them, going into another trance. Kira went back to her earlier stance, but this time she didn’t repeat the same mistake of charging in straight on, she was cautious. She closed the gap between herself and Josh so easily. She lunged in for an attack, but Josh easily moved away, dodging the attack with so much ease, but it was a feint, the part that he had moved into was a part of Kira's plan. Seeing that she had successfully manipulated her enemy into moving into the trap she had set for him, she wasted no time in changing her grip on the dagger and then swiping it to slash him. Bu