~12 hours later full of rest~
As Ryu walked out of his dorm room he felt like he might throw up from the sight of the mutilated bodies and body parts scattered across the floor "well I'll be lucky to find anybody and save them…"
Ryu muttered, and kept on going while closing his right eye as he doesn't have a left one anymore.
He prayed to only find zombies and not that giant dog, but is luck ever on your side? Not today because as soon as he got to the lobby he saw the now whopping 4 meter tall dog staring at him as if Ryu was just more food. Ryu wanted to step back but he hardened his resolve and tried to find the weaknesses of the dog/monster/thing. He found a strange mark that looked like fangs that could pierce metal, wait can animals also have marks? If so then they are even more dangerous than he thought, but ultimately as seeing its prey lose focus the dog charged at Ryu with the speed of a cheetah.
[Giant dog Lv8 {fang mark} has challenged you to a duel. Do you wish to accept?
Yes
No]
Ryu noticed the message and smiled while thinking 'yes'
[duel initiated]
Ryu got out of his thoughts only to see a giant claw going towards his right eye. "FUUUUUCK!" Roared while attempting to dodge, but the dog was to fast and it successfully ripped away his right eye which officially made him blind. Ryu was feeling two emotions; confusion towards why everything went dark, and rage which he had never felt before.
Then a third emotion appeared, fear, as he stared into purple pupils, blue irises, and the rest? Pitch black, but what terrified him even more was as he looked at his hand he saw it slowly turning black along with his nails merging into his fingers while sharpening.
"Hmmmm, you are truly worthy of becoming my successor if you can see me in half a day. I shall allow a partial transformation, but of course it's up to you to see if you can control that form. Goodbye, and good luck." The voice behind the terrifying but slightly mesmerizing eyes spoke. Ryu somehow stared at the pair of eyes blankly until the black 'disease' reached his 'left eye.'
~Giant dogs point of view~
As soon as the dog blinded Ryu it whimpered while sensing a being way beyond a C rank mark let alone a measly top tier F rank! It got even more terrified when it saw it's supposed 'prey's' left hand turned light purple while its nails merged with its fingers simultaneously the nails got sharper and sharper, but what terrified it the most was as soon the light purple skin touched the prey's left eye, to its horror, opened showing a purple light blue pupil and a pink iris. The giant dog knew this power and feared it, every living being feared this power, this was the power of the god of creation, and the devourer, albeit weaker.
The god of creation and the devourer was born when the two greatest gods, the god of creation and the devourer god, sacrificed theirselves to fight the dark beings. It was successful and the god of creation and the devourer (god of C and D for short) was born, but right when the dark beings were about to be defeated their leader, the dark god, greatly weakened himself to seal the god of C and D. So how is that gods power here in it's supposed prey? No, not prey anymore, this right here is a hunter.
Realizing it's mistake the dog tried running away, but it's prey just took a step and with a flash was infront the dog. With no other hope the giant dog lay on the floor looking at its hunter's out stretched claw with desperate but obedient eyes.
~Ryu's POV~
As soon as Ryu got out of that… place he was angry, no infuriated, at that dog for blinding him and then running! Unacceptable! Stretching his light purple claws Ryu took a step forward only to be infront of the giant dog. Pleasantly surprised Ryu reached out his claw to crush the skull of the dog with a sadistic smile that any maniacal villain could where perfectly, but suddenly stopped with eyes widened while looking at the pitiful dog that's now whimpering with a sorrowful but obedient expression.
Realizing what he was about to do to the poor dog without remorse nor care made Ryu contemplate what's going on until he heard a system notification.
[Giant dog Lv8{fang mark} wishes to be tamed. Accept? If you do you will unlock two separate tabs called job and mark dictionary.
Yes
No]
"Yes"
[congratulations you have successfully become a mark tamer and tamed your first marked beast]
Seeing this notification Ryu just smiled and petted his new dog that he named Kanzen because he was exactly that. Perfect.
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Authors note!
A mark tamer means that you have basically enslaved a mark of a mark user/ marked beast. So yes Ryu has basically just gained his personal puppet, and best of all is that the enslaved mark beast/user doesn't have a say in the decisions!