Astralux closed her eyes for a while, turning into a beautiful baby blue color that indicated she was extrely shy. It had be a few minutes since Nox asked his new pet to introduce herself to her brothers, yet the elemtal beast had yet to speak any words.
"Co on, stop being shy." Nox displayed a warm smile that was like the sunset during spring as he tried to coax Astralux. Still, there was no answer from her. He tertained the thought that she hadn't learned how to speak very well, hce her silce.
Th his eyes flashed as he thought about sothing he had read in his father's *Guide to Beast Taming* book. "Well, not all beasts could speak like Fluffington and Thirte. So of them could only make sounds, while so would only be able to make gestures. Perhaps Astralux falls under one of these categories."
Just wh Nox was thinking of placing all his beasts inside and starting to look for beasts to use his *Analyze* and *Beast Sse* skills to upgrade them, Astralux evtually snapped her eyes op. She blinked her big red eyes a couple of tis. She had returned to her natural color--a warm shade of yellow.
Th she oped her mouth and spoke, pointing one of her ttacles just as Thirte had done. "Asta!" she managed to say, her voice as sweet and pleasant to list to as the singing of birds on a spring day.
Nox suspected she'd be a very good singer if she was on Earth... He seriously doubted if ev the bards whose classes were related to singing had voices as pleasant as Astralux.
"So she can talk. Hmmm, it won't take long before she feels free a us," Nox reasoned.
"Asta, lovely na," he praised as he gtly caressed the beast's bubbly head. Asta's eyes shone in delight as she joyed her master's pat, and she turned a soft shade of pink.
Watching his sister, a powerful urge to protect her welled in Thirte's heart. Asta, in her small form, hovered to the panda and cat's height and started circling a the two as if she was etching each of their details in her mind. Th she stretched out her ttacles and pulled Thirte and Fluffington for a hug.
Nox watched this wholeso sce with a smile on his face... but there were much more important things at hand, and he couldn't continue to waste more ti, though he didn't consider gaining a rare elemtal beast a waste of ti.
"Alright, ti to do what I ca for." Nox called Astralux over and asked in a polite voice, "Asta, could you return to your combat form?"
The elemtal beast nodded vigorously, and a delightful expression crossed her face. She was more than happy to take on her combat form at her master/father's request. Gradually, the beautiful beast, who was the sa size as a soccer ball a few seconds ago, grew in size.
Nox watched in amazemt as the beast grew before his very eyes. "How convit," he couldn't help but exclaim in delight. He could sneak this elemtal beast into emy camps and have her large, causing damage.
In the blink of an eye, Astralux took on her original size of over two ters. Though she wasn't gigantic, she was equally large in her own right and looked much more fearso now, but was equally cute as well.
"Good." Nox nodded his head in approval as he telepathically told the elemtal beast to lower herself so he could mount her head. Asta was more than happy as she flew over, and Nox carefully sat down on her head. It wasn't that comfortable, but it was good for the anti, pding wh he got his hands on a dragon.
"I wonder if an elemtal dragon exists," Nox thought as he waved his hands. To their dismay, Thirte and Fluffington appeared back in the beast taming space. Their master was eager to improve because of how busy he had be.
"Alright, let's go!" Nox gtly patted Asta's head. The elemtal beast, thanks to its levitation ability, slowly flew up. The wind tousled Nox's hair and reminded him a lot of the ti he had mounted Doombringer for the first ti in the Barony.
The reason he decided to mount the beast was that he wanted a good vantage point to see this dimsion better. This way, he could spot beasts more easily and use his *Analyze* and *Beast Sse* skills.
"Let's head in that direction." Nox pointed at the forest, and Asta flew towards it. Nox held tightly to Asta's slightly slimy head because she was moving fast, though she wasn't as fast as Doombringer.
As they continued their flight, Nox noticed that the elemtal beast couldn't surpass a certain altitude in the sky. She was just flying slightly above the trees... Nox shrugged this thought off as he caught sight of his first beast.
To his dismay, it wasn't another elemtal beast but just the sa old boring magical beasts. He quickly used his skills and passed over.
For the next few hours, Nox continued to use his *Analyze* and *Beast Sse* skills. He didn't gage with the beasts and simply continued to fly a the island. Wh he got hungry, he took out the food that his mother had ticulously prepared for him and devoured it with a smile. He also gave so to Astralux and Fluffington. Thirte still had ough bamboo reserves, so he was good.
As he ate the food, Nox couldn't help but picture his mother's face. "I guess she was right, this journey could indeed take more ti than I originally thought, and I'm missing ho more and more." There was wistfulness in his eyes, but he had to constantly remind himself that everything he was going through now was for the greater good.
Two days later...
[Ding!]
[*Analyze* has leveled up.]
[*Beast Sse* has leveled up.]
[You can now view the information of higher-level beasts.]
"Phew, finally!" Nox breathed a sigh of relief. He was currtly taking a bath on the beach, butt naked. He had scanned the tire island and was confidt that there was no one a, hce his recklessness.
Swimming in the water were Asta and Thirte. Fluffington stood a good distance away. He didn't like the color of the water, and he didn't like big bodies of water that could easily swallow him, such as this.
After seeing the ssage, Nox stepped out of the beach, water rolling off his well-toned body, which had be forged through fire because of the non-stop training in the past years and the use of *Shadow Oblivion*, which seed to mold his physique.
He magically put on fresh clothing from his invtory and took one last look at the island. There were more craters as he had killed a few more sharks that had targeted Asta in the past few days.
"Alright, guys, I promise to develop the taming space wh we're done with this whole hunt, but for now, please manage." Nox said, and Fluffington and Thirte tered the taming space. Asta looked at him with hesitant eyes, as if he'd run away. He had to spd minutes convincing the elemtal beast to ter the blue portal as the familiar door that led to the real world oped up to him.
"Hope this level up will be ough for to see the weaknesses and strgths of that elemtal beast," Nox thought as he passed through the door.
A few minutes after Nox left and the dimsional door faded away, a massive armored ship, over a thousand feet long, erged from the horizon. Its black steel hull glinted in the fading light, with jagged spires and finials piercing the sky. The ship's surface was etched with pulsing gre lines, giving off a calm glow.
As the ship approached the small island, the sound of the gine grew louder. Inside the control room, a middle-aged man with silver hair and blue eyes squinted, taking in the deep craters on the shore of the island. There was sothing strange about this man. Unlike humans, his skin was flawless, and he looked extrely handso.
However, what stood out most about him were his two pointy ears and the bow and quiver that were firmly strapped behind his back.
"Is the holy maid of the world tree hunting again?" The elv man muttered to himself. However, his expression morphed into a frown as he added, "No, the holy maid is usually careful, especially since this is the personal rift of the emperor... Could it be soone else?"
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