All the other tamers, excluding Reid and Scrappy with their respective forged beasts, frozen in place hearing the roar.
Reid turned his head to face the beast that was walking towards him slowly.
The beast was a lizard the size of a komodo dragon with red scales with glowing magma veins running through it. The tip of its claws and tail looked to be burning.
"What a way to flaunt your ability" Reid couldn't help but comment, even without Evo's scam, he already that the giant lizard has fire related abilities.
The beast was flaring its silver-tier aura, making everyone weaker than it freeze in fear.
From his pheripal vision, he spotted Scrappy moving towards him to help.
"It's fine old man, I'll take this one on myself" he informed "just be sure to jump in when I'm about to die".
"You do you kid" old man Scrappy said and moved to finish off the few remaining beasts.
If he was being honest, he actually wanted to see more of Reid's skills to make a decision.
What decision?, only Scrappy knows.
Alex was gritting his teeth in anger, both at the fact that he was frozen due to fear making him useless in the fight
and also at the fact that Reid, who he labeled as useless, was facing a beast he would never think of facing.
Using all his will power, he ignored the fear locking him in place— breaking free from it. But after he broke free, he didn't move to help Reid, he sat down to watch each and every trick Reid was going to show today.
"Alright Rusty, Nyx, let's jump this reptile" Reid said, spinning his metal bat and then pointing it at the lizard.
[Beast identified]
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[beast type: Flame lizard]
Beast name: The Infernal Ravager
Rank: Silver tier
Abilities: Eruption, Molten shield, lava lash and Flame breath.
Useful parts: flame core, claws and hide
] Evo showed the beast's stats before Reid could attack.
"A name?" Reid was surprised "why didn't the other beasts have names?"
[Only beasts at Sliver tier and above can have names. The names almost always relates to their reputation amongst themselves (beasts).
From this one's name, I guessed that it must be well known for causing large scale destructions with it flames] Evo explained.
"Beasts can gain reputation?" Reid was a bit shocked hearing Evo's words "What's next? Beast politics?"
[Kind of, but focus on the enemy in front of you first]
As soon as Evo spoke, a large flame tornado erupted from the floor seemingly engulfing him.
Old man Scrappy's eyes widened in shock, did his eagerness to find out what the kid could do just get the kid killed?.
The flames receded to reveal Reid's charred on the floor alongside a pile of ash.
This made Infernal really smug, seeing how easily it took down its enemy without giving them a chance.
It was about to turn to the other tamers, planning to finish them off when suddenly.
*Wham*
A metal bat slammed at its side, sending it flying.
"That was one of my favorite coats you dip shit" Reid stood at the lizard's previous position with his bat in hand.
He looked totally unhurt and the same as before, except for his missing jacket. At the last minute, Rusty had teleported him away but for some weird reason, his jacket was not teleported with him.
"I'm gonna make a new one from your skin" he threatened while pointing his bat at the recovering and now, pissed off, lizard.
[You can't] Evo interrupted with a neutral voice.
'I know but I said that to look cool' he inwardly said 'I mean, look at Alex's face, even he thinks it's a cool line'
Alex was busy being surprised at how Reid suddenly reappeared, instead of listening to Reid's cringe lines like he thought.
The lizard quickly recovered and roared at Reid, showing it's anger. Its roar was accompanied by a stream of fire from its mouth.
Reid dodged to the side narrowly avoiding the flame.
Rusty then used [Skip], appearing near the lizard and delivering a strike on the lizard's side with its claws making it screech in pain.
The lizard tried to turn its attack on Rusty but Rusty used [delayed reaction] to slow it down significantly, allowing Reid —who was just teleported close by Nyx— to land a hit with his bat on its head.
Relentlessly, the three delivered attack after attack on the lizard, teleporting back and forth to avoid its attacks and flanking each of its sides.
The Infernal Ravager was soon bubbling with anger. It let out a loud roar and exploded, literally.
The explosion would have burnt Reid, if not for Nyx's [Nullification] skill. There was smoke everywhere and Reid could hardly see anything.
Before he could react, something hot slammed into him, burning his clothes in the process and sending him flying.
He was caught by Nyx and teleported away from the smoke. Rusty also retreated, quickly using rewind to heal the burn on his chest.
"What the f*ck?" Reid couldn't help but curse.
They were clearly dominating the fight a couple of seconds back, so what happened all of a sudden?.. he thought to himself.
"Okay kid, I'm stepping —" Scrappy started but was quickly interrupted by Reid.
"I can finish it old man, the beast just had a lucky hit" he spoke. Although he knew that the attack was anything but lucky.
The beast had started using its brain and maybe even more of its power.
"Alright guys, let's get ready for round two" Reid said to Rusty and Nyx, waiting for the smoke to clear out.
The smoke dissipated, revealing an angry looking lizard but this time it was flaming all over.
[Silver-tier lizard has entered rage mode, all its abilities and stats are doubled for the next 3 minutes].
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"Now this is interesting" the mysterious man spoke, still sitting on his throne.
In front of him was a hologram screen displaying the happenings of the beast siege in realtime.
"Has the failure finally become something more?" Although the beast siege hadn't ended as he hoped, he was satisfied with the entertainment provided to him.
On his lap lay the head of a large lion like beast... No not forged beasts but an actual beast which he was slowly petting.
"We'll meet soon, Reid"...