The All Powerful Mutt Tamer

Chapter 2

The hall exploded into hysterical, cruel laughter that echoed off the rafters.

"It’s a stray dog! A literal gutter hound!"

"It’s a perfect match for a beggar! Look, they both look like they haven't eaten in a week!" Elara lets out a mocking snicker.

Chris was laughing so hard he had to lean on his beast for support. Elara just shook her head, her face a mask of cold pity. 

"I actually thought you might be something, Alex. What a total waste of my time."

“You can't really blame him, at least, he was able to break the family cursed line and awaken something, even though it's below worthless in my candid opinion.”

The Master’s face was frozen in fury. "A Gray-rank failure. The lowest summon in fifty years. Guards, get this garbage out of my sight. He’s an intern now. Let him clean the kennels until he learns to be invisible." 

He stepped closer towards Alex, the aura that emitted from him enough to tear down an already broken Alex but he kept his face emotionless.

“The law states that anyone that awakens a beast can get into the academy doesn't it?”

“What gives you the right to say otherwise!” Alex was injured with raised brows.

He might not have the best beast, or skills, or the best background but he made up for all his flops with his sharp intellect.

“Do you dare to challenge me?” The Master growled, his aura preventing everyone from doing so much as breath.

“I wouldn't call it a challenge, more like jogging your memory!” He responded.

The supervisor, a gray haired man observing from the rear, quickly stepped in.

“Step away Kev, the boy is right!”

“But…’ Kev tried to object, all the vines on his body bulging with anger.

“No buts, the law is the law and as long as they haven't been changed, they must be obeyed.”

A growl threw through Kev's throats before he backed down with a stare that looked more like a threat to Alex's entire existence. 

“Don't take this as support. It's just the law.” Henry noted.

“But be aware that the fact that you awakened a beast doesn't mean that you have to contract it. 

You can choose not to… Going to the academy with that thing would be more like a death sentence.

So I will ask you again, is it really worth the risk?”

Alex looked at the mutt, drawing an animal that just escaped death.

Everything screamed at him to accept the offer and take the academy money.

But he felt pity. If a beast was not contracted, it meant that they would not exist forever.

And he knew what it meant to be humiliated, to be written off even before you were given a chance…

“I will contract it!” Alex announced with a clenched fist and the whole hall gasped.

“Well then!” The supervisor lets out a disappointed sigh.

Meanwhile, during the breaks, Alex returned to the stables to eat his poor dinner.

"I'm sorry," Alex whispered hours later, sitting in the corner of the damp, freezing stables. 

The hairless dog huddled against his leg, its body shaking with a pathetic heartbeat so weak Alex had to hold his breath to feel it. 

After finishing his meal, he handed some to the beast before walking to the beast room, making sure that everyone was fast asleep. 

For now, the beast had to be kept in a room until the tamers learned to enhance them in the beast spaces in their minds.

The instant Alex reached the door, he was hit by the air of intimidation.

Different beasts stared at him like death, the aura that emitted from these powerful beasts were enough to make his blood run could.

And at the center of it all, he could see two fire eyes stared right into his soul, Chris beast.

Then his mutt let out something like a whimper and Alex turned to it.

“Don't be frightened, it's just for a fearful night..” he tried to say but there was nothing that spoke fear in the eyes of the beast.

Rather, the earth underneath Alex shook, all the beast lined up from their spaces, and one after the other, they took a bowing position. 

Alex quickly stared behind him, but there was no one there.

Confusion bored into his being as he tried to make sense of what was happening right before him.

“Are they bowing before me!” He watched their eyes, slowly followed it and they fell on the mutt beside him, his beast.

But this time, it glowed with the faint encase of authority, something that he had not seen before.

And the beast didn't just look at him with respect, their being shook with a mystical fear unlike anything that he had ever seen before. 

And just then, it chimed.

[God-Level Beast Taming System Initialized.] 

[Host Identity Confirmed: Alex.]

 [Targeting Bonded Beast... Analysis Complete.]

A translucent blue screen flickered into life right in front of his face, glowing with a divine light that ignored the shadows of the stable.

"What is this?" Alex scrambled back, his heart hammering against his ribs.

[Species: Heavenly Devouring Hound (Larva)] [Rank: Divine (Sealed)] 

[Hidden Potential: Infinite] 

[Current State: Starving. Suggestion: Feed it the Flame Salamander’s core to trigger the first evolution.]

Alex looked down at the pathetic, shivering mutt. 

The dog looked back, and for one split second, its eyes turned into swirling pits of violet darkness. 

All the high-rank beasts in the stable suddenly went silent, backing into the corners of their cages in pure, primitive terror.

And then, Alex felt a cold, sharp smile spread across his face, his fear replaced by a sudden, predatory heat. "So, you're the monster they're all afraid of?"