The Greatest Beast Tamer of Earth



It has been a long time since Rishi started his personal training with Silent Shadow. He taught Rishi everything during this time; he also felt a little attached to his new tutor, as he was an entertaining guy and always treated him like a friend. He had the teacher's contact details. He had asked Rishi to contact him if he ever had any doubts about anything, and he would solve them for free. He also asked to be in touch.

After his training, Rishi has now learned some more spells. He used the shadow energy inside his 'Shadow Core,' A liquified mist-like substance appeared above his hand and turned into an orb. He activated his 'extreme focus' and concentrated. He gave instructions to the orb to transform into a weapon.

It took him ten seconds before the orb transformed into a small knife; the edges were also very blunt, but his lips curled up as he wiped the sweat. He was happy with this progress; at least, he was now very close to his actual goals.

He threw the small, two-inch knife at the tree in front of him; the knife moved like a bullet, leaving behind a blur before hitting the tree and disappearing without making a sound. There was a tiny mark on the branch of the tree, and in front of Rishi, the tree started to rot slowly before falling. After some experiments, he realized that his shadow energy acted as poison on the bodies of other creatures.

He was curious, though, if it would have the same effect on the creatures with an affinity for the shadow element. "Only time will tell." He was about to move when he heard the sound of many trees in the path of the small knife falling one by one; hopefully, only five more trees had fallen.

"It's good that I decided to experiment with it in the dungeon; I don't know how much of a commotion would have taken place outside." He sighed. He had dodged a bullet. He was moving around when he heard the cries and roars, along with the sounds of several footsteps approaching him.

He looked and saw a group of goblins coming at him. He had chosen an advanced-grade dungeon as he was only here to test his new skills. When he looked at the opponents approaching, instead of getting angry about being disturbed, he had a curious expression on his face.

He looked at the ten opponents in front of him, approaching him with their weapons. He pointed at them with his right index finger and created a symbol in the air at a very fast speed before chanting 'Shadow Suicide.' This was a self-created AOE skill that was still in the making.

The imaginary symbol created by it came alive in front of him. It had something written in Sanskrit, and it shone violet before approaching opponents and blasting. The opponent in front of him stopped; they tried to move but were suddenly unable to move. Their shadows shone in a violet glow before moving and standing behind them. Then the shadows moved the weapons and attacked their own bodies before dissipating.

The goblins that were carrying swords or daggers instantly died as their throats were slit, while the ones with blunt weapons survived. "Shit, I made a mistake. I always considered that all opponents would have a sharp weapon, never thinking of ways to kill the opponent without weapons or different weapons swiftly."

He looked at the survivors coming at him to take revenge for their friends; he just pointed at them, and a thin rope came up from their shadows and moved at speed uncomparable to the opponents. It appeared in front of the opponents' blind applause. It was a violet color, with a black mist coming out of it in some parts.

The opponents bypassed the rope and were about to reach Rishi when their lower bodies split into two; coincidentally, it was below the ankles, the part that came in contact with the thin rope. This was none other than the 'Chains of Shadow' skill of Rishi; the only change was that Rishi was now able to make full use of it after his control of the Shadow Element increased.

He could now change the shape of the chain; he changed it from chain form to a thin, sharp, strong, and stretchable rope form that was triple the size of the previous chain form. He realized some days ago that he could still make changes to this skill.

The only downside was that it needed a lot of research and experimentation before he could succeed, but that was not a big deal for him.

He looked at the opponents, crying in agony at looking at him with their teary eyes filled with hate; some were still approaching him, dragging their bodies from their hands. He looked at this disgusting scene and said, "You guys don't know when to give up, huh?" He pointed at a dagger and used it to slice through the head of the leading goblin.

After that, he closed his eyes and chanted some verses before opening his eyes and looking at the dagger. The weapon moved on its own and appeared before Rishi; there was still a light green fluid on it. He touched the weapon and used shadow energy and mana to create a magic circle with a complicated pattern of a skull pierced by a dagger. He then threw the dagger and controlled it to anvil the shadow of the goblin he had killed with this dagger.

The magic circle on the dagger shone in a red glow before disappearing. The shadow shook, and a blackish mist released from it before it slowly moved and stood up. The shadow was similar to the goblin; the only change was that it was transparent and black. Its shape was also constantly changing, making it look unstable.

The ugly shadow moved and started approaching Rishi at a very fast pace. It was walking weirdly like a drunkard and even fell some times before it appeared before Rishi and stood before him like a statue.

Rishi looked at the shadow and didn't have an ounce of pride in calling himself the creator of this thing. "I know the spell is only in the primary phase, but how could it be like this? As a person who has always liked art, how can I create it? It reminds me of the tentacle creatures I once created. Well, it's not like I can blame it; I will need to put in more research to make it better."

"It's because of me; it would have been a lot easier if I had used the original way of summoning the shadow by touching the corpse, but at that time my intelligence acted against me.

"I thought where would I get a chance to move around touching corpses on the battlefield to summon the shadows? They consume a considerable amount of shadow energy and mana, while the shadow will not even have half of the original strength of the corpse at low mastery."

"At that time, I thought that it might be a big deal for other people; I would just think of a way to summon the shadow from far away, and this was the idea I came up with. While there were ever better ideas, they required me to burn even more mana and shadow energy, which was very suitable as I can control multiple weapons."

"After some practice, I can instantly summon weapons with the 'Animate Shadow' spell integrated into them. How cool it will be when I use them to slaughter multiple opponents in the enemy backline, and then when everyone thought it was over, the shadows would come out and start attacking them."

He laughed, saying, "That would be very cool, but it will take a lot of effort to create this spell and master it. If I didn't have 'Umbrakinesis,' I could have never even thought about creating such a spell, even in my dreams." He sighed before clenching his fist.

"But I have it, and I will not let it go to waste in my hands. I will create as many cool and powerful spells as I want. As for the 'Animate Shadow' spell, I am also Magic Beast Cultivator. I know everything about the Magic Beasts' bodies, bones, and structures. It would take some time, but I will succeed no matter what."

"Shadow, go kill all the goblins," he said. The shadow remained still; it tilted its head and looked at Rishi with confusion. He facepalmed before repeating, "Go and stab their heads till they stop moving." It looked at him for a while before moving toward the opponents that had already come close to Rishi. It used the dagger in its head and started attacking the opponent; It kept stabbing the first opponent until it stopped moving.

The thing that surprised Rishi was that even though it had twenty percent of its original strength and it was clumsy it was very resistant to physical damage.

After killing one of his own the Shadow continued the process of brutal killing; it slaughtered every opponent before disappearing and returning back to the original body. 

"This skill could be very useful later, but unlike the already created skills that are tried and tested skills I will need to develop and upgrade it on my own." There was a seriousness and a sense of purpose in his eyes; he had decided that he would do it now it was only a matter of time before he achieved it.