The Greatest Beast Tamer of Earth



The tutor returned and saw the table bobbing from one place to another. When he looked carefully, he noticed the Shadow of the table was throwing the table into the air before moving to the location where it would fall and catch.

The silver-haired boy seemed to be enjoying it. He heard a voice from behind, which made him lose control of the table's Shadow: "What are you doing?"

He turned back with a smile and replied, "I was just practicing."

The tutor ignored it and started teaching him other things. Rishi stayed in virtual reality for 24 hours before receiving a message that he needed to rest. The tutor told him to join the 'Tower of Champions' again at night for additional training.

Rihsi logged out and opened his eyes. He saw lights around him. The helmet and other sensors connected to his body detached, and he stood up, opened the chamber, and came out. He looked at the clock and saw that exactly four hours had passed.

"It looks like one hour in real life is six hours in virtual reality; the only problem is I will need to wait for two hours before I can enter it again." After coming out, he decided to train and revise everything he had learned.

Learning so many things quickly was harder for even him, but his 'Extreme Focus' skill helped a lot. He first tried the technique he had learned by himself, 'Shadow Sense,' and after activating it, he could sense his surroundings through shadows. The more shadow elements present in the environment, the more powerful this technique was.

After it, he tried controlling the shadows of the objects around him and moving them. He enjoyed it for a while before leaving it after getting tired. He ate his lunch and rested before entering the 'Tower of Champions' again.

...One Week Later

One week has passed since his personal training with 'Silent Shadow,'' and he has learned many things about the Shadow Element. The following week, his affinity and control of the shadow element increased exponentially.

He was more excited today as he could finally spend even more time in the "Tower of Champions' as the summer vacations have started and he was free to do anything for the three months. He had come to the park to meet Professor Roy and learned many things from him about aura and swordsmanship.

Professor Roy was shocked by Rishi's talent; he had been teaching him for a while. What surprised him was that Rishi got even more talented after the second trial and learned everything faster. At first, he was excited; he felt that he had chosen some Sword-related job class, but he was pretty disappointed when he realized that even when Rishi could use Sword even more skillfully, something had changed in him that made him distant from Sword.

This was a major concern, as from what he had seen until now, Rishi was talented enough to learn sword intent. This made him try his best to guide him in the way of swords with even more motivation, but when he came to know that the new job class Rishi has chosen makes him able to wield many weapons, he was disappointed for a while.

This all changed when he saw Rishi train his Sword. When he asked Rishi if he could now use different weapons, why was he still practicing sword techniques? The answer he got was, "It doesn't matter how many weapons I learn to use; the sword will always have a special place in my heart."

He looked at the silver-haired boy coming, and he sighed. 'It's his life, and I should not interfere in it much. My job is to guide him as best I can; what he becomes will depend on his luck, destiny, and choices.'

"Good morning, sir." He smiled and greeted Rishi before starting his training. Their training continued for an hour before it was time to leave. Rishi was just about to leave when the professor stopped him. "Wait, Rishab, take it with you."

He passed Rishi a rectangular box that had a small height compared to its length and breadth. Rishi looked at the white box and asked, "What's in it?"

Professor Roy's lips curled up. "Why are you so impatient? You can check that later; I have something important to tell you now."

"What?" asked Rishi, with curiosity.

"I have talked with the professors regarding the vacation, but the time they have decided is three weeks from now; we will all be free at that time. If you can wait that long, then we can join you; if not, then you will need to go on your own," said the professor with a serious tone. He looked at Rishi to see his response.

It was simply asking him to waste a month of his holidays, but to his surprise, he smiled and said, "How can I go alone after asking you to join me? I can wait even for two months." While he said so, while in his mind he was thinking, 'It's good; I will also get time to finish my Shadow Element course and evolve Sheru.'

After discussing some more things with the professor, he went back to his apartment, where he got his breakfast before training his shadow element. The previous week, he had learned so many different types of shadow techniques. He had first learned a simple technique known as 'Night Vision,' which was not very strong but was very helpful.

He had also learned the 'Shadow Hijeck' skill, which made him control the shadows of people equal to or lower than his levels. He had tried this technique for the first time on a Magic Beast and was able to stop him from moving. It took him some time to make the opponent move against his will.

He liked this new technique a lot and used it to play with his opponents. He was now so skilled that he was able to control the opponent's Shadow and control him like a puppet. He thought of many ways in which he could use this ability when he suddenly remembered a scene from an anime where a person controls the Shadow of his opponent and makes it kill him.

He tried it and was able to succeed in doing so, but the only problem was that it took a lot of energy if he used the Shadow to choke someone to death. He was still not able to make Shadow use weapons; he had asked his tutor the same question, who replied that it would only take him some more time before he would be able to do it.