"What do you mean Beast Tamer?" Arthur asks with confusion visible on his face.
Yeah, the hells a beast tamer?
"Lets go somewhere else and talk" Virion said as he led us to a living room with couches and a fireplace.
He sat down on a couch before he continued, "Lets start from the beginning shall we? I'm assuming that both of you know that mana beasts possess mana cores, same as humans, elves and dwarves."
We both nodded at this.
"Alright, just as mana beasts, humans, elves and dwarves possess qualities in their mana cores that are distinct to their own race."
He picked up a piece if paper and drew a chart.
Water - Ice
o Plant
Earth - Gravity
o Magma, Metal
Fire - Lightning
Wind - Sound
"These are the four basic elements and their higher forms. The higher forms—Ice, Metal, Lightning, and Sound—can only be controlled by mages especially adept at a particular basic element, i.e. a deviant. This is where the distinct racial qualities lie..." he wrote each race with and recited a brief description.
Humans
"Human mages possess the ability to manipulate all four basic elements and are the only race capable of having deviants that can control the higher form of their adept element. They also have deviants that can even transcend the four basic elements, like healers (emitters), making their mana cores the most diverse."
Elves
"Elven mages can only manipulate water, wind, and earth, but with much higher affinity. We also have a special trait distinct to our race that allows very pure-blooded mages to control plants. However, elves don't have deviants that can manipulate water, wind, and earth into their higher forms"
Dwarves
"Dwarven mages can only manipulate earth and fire but, like elves, they possess a much higher affinity to those two elements. Their distinct trait lies in the fact that all dwarves are able to mold and bend metal, while some deviants possess the special ability to manipulate both earth and fire into magma, something even human deviants are not able to do, much less elves. However, they can only manipulate those two basic elements and, like elves, do not possess the ability to control the higher form of the basic elements."
"Wait, wait, wait, if that is the case then why can't human mages manipulate plant or magma?" Arthur asked while reading the chart.
Exactly, if humans have affinity for all four elements why can't they manipulate plant or magma?
"Good question. Only elves can manipulate plant, the only form of nature that is alive, because of our lineage being highly affinitive to the nurturing elements. And only the Dwarf race can manipulate magma and metal because, like us elves, their lineage makes them highly adept to the constructing elements."
I see.
"Okay. I get it now, but what does that have to do with me apparently being a beast tamer? What is a beast tamer anyways."
"I'm getting to it!" Virion barked out.
"Mana beasts are different from the three humanoid races because each species has their own special characteristics. Listing all of them would be endless so I'll give you a simple example. Mages, adventurers or not, are classified: E, D, C, B, A, AA, S, SS class. This classification is the same for mana beasts as well. Take the sonic hawk. They are B Class beasts that possess incredible speed while in flight. They all have to affinity for wind and sound. These attributes are innate in their mana cores. Regardless of their affinity, if these mana cores are taken out and given to a human or elf mage that specialize in the wind element, their training will go by much faster than just cultivating mana from their surroundings, but that's it"
He stopped his explanation as he drunk a glass of water.
"...However! When a mana beast reaches A class or higher, they have the ability to pass on their 'will', or ability to be more precise, to one person. I called you a beast tamer earlier because you have a mana beast's will in your mana core and from my estimation, not just any will but an S class mana beast's will, if not an SS class will. I'm only able to sense this because I'm a beast tamer as well, although the beast's will that I tamed was an AA class beast, the Shadow Panther. And yes I could only bully you that badly due to my Shadow Panther's will, even then that was only 50% of my speed" he adds the last part with a wink.
That was only half of his speed?
How fast can he go?
Anyways so that's what Noctis did, he passed his beast will to me. He did say I would need it survive something that's going to happen.
"Judging by the look on your face its safe to assume you have a beast will as well don't you?" He asked seeing my enlightened expression.
I gave him a nod in response.
He came towards me and extended his arm, "May I?"
"Sure"
He put his palm on my sternum, right above my mana core, just to pull it away almost instantly. He was sweating bullets now.
"That's a very dark beast will, even with my Shadow Panther's will protecting me I almost went insane"
"Um, I'm sorry?" as if you weren't insane already.
"Don't be, but I can't help but wonder what exactly gave you that will. You can chose not to answer if you want in case it brings up any bad memories" he replies.
"No, no, its okay. But I still can't answer your question because I don't know
what kind of mana beast he is myself, all I know is that he's a massive 20 foot tall wolf with red eyes and jet black fur which seemed to turn to smoke when he gave me his will." I answer him with a shrug.
"I see, could it be? No its just a myth anyways, it seems like he was a Shadow Wolf. Thats good for you, I can train you better than Arthur. But its urgent for me to guide you, you two don't have much time." He replies in a stern voice.
"What do you mean?" Arthur sniffled, seems like he has some bad memories about that. We'll compare notes later.
"The power from your mana cores is too strong for your immature bodies to handle. Let me ask you this. Have any of you recently felt a burning pain coming from your mana core?"
What the- is this something every beast tamer experiences?
He must have read our face cause he continued, "If you don't learn to control your new mana cores it will destroy your bodies."
Wait, WHAT?