This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Chapter 755: Chapter 755: A Deadly Accident?

The battlefield rippled.

At first, it looked like Aegis was preparing a standard earthen trap—stone ridges began forming in a wide circle around the enemy contracts, rising and curving inward like the closing petals of a flower. But just before they locked shut, the ridges trembled, hollowing out from within as thin, glowing veins traced across their inner walls—like magma flowing through cracked obsidian.

Then Vauleth dove.

But he wasn’t cloaked in flame alone.

As his body rotated midair, a dark energy flowed from Aegis to himself and condensed earth-fire resonance coiled outward from his wings. Instead of his usual dragonflame, it was denser—compressed through the pressure fields Aegis had set up moments before. The air above the battlefield began to fracture, the dragon’s roar muffled by the sheer weight of force descending with him.

What emerged wasn’t two skills stacked on top of each other—it was a single integrated technique.

A rotating crucible of heat and gravity, collapsing from above and below at once.

The now searing hot stone petals closed with a thunderclap, locking the enemy contracts inside.

Then came the core detonation.

A pulse of gold-crimson fusion energy surged from the center, igniting every sealed gap and reverberating through the rock from the inside out. The arena floor didn’t crack—it rippled. Like reality itself was trying to recoil from the compression happening at its center.

Five enemy contracts disappeared in an instant.

The wave of pressure that followed knocked the opponent himself to his knees, eyes wide with stunned disbelief as he looked at the now empty section of the stage that previously held his contracts. He gave out a terrified, heartshattering cry in panic, before realizing that despite not seeing them, he wasn’t sensing the soul deep pain that came from a broken contract and gradually calmed down.

The terrified audience, also seeing his renewed composure, regained their calm.

Naturally, Kain didn’t kill all five of the opponents contracts. He had no great enmity with the boy and doing so would end up crippling a young man with a bright future ahead of him.

Not to mention, Kain couldn’t have done so even if he wanted to…

He looked toward the corner of the stage where the referee had moved instantly to. In his hand were 5 tiny inch-tall dolls that looked surprisingly similar to the opponents 5 disappeared contracts.

Despite meeting more and more powerful individuals lately, even Kain couldn’t help gasping at the show of pure power from the beast-tamer himself—no contracts needed.

‘Getting an 8-star tamer to oversee a match amongst students is so extravagant…’

Even Chewy, who’d been on standby near the perimeter happily absorbing the remaining energy from the fusion skill, stopped mid-bounce to stare at the predator (aka the ref) that suddenly appeared at the corner of the stage..

Kain exhaled hard, nearly buckling from the energy the ref just unconsciously released. But he quickly stabilized—the energy wasn’t directed at him specifically anyways.

Then his mind was overcome with joy at the effectiveness of the move.

‘That… wasn’t even their final version of the move,’ he thought, pulse ringing in his ears. ‘We haven’t even named this variation yet…’

He had expected a breakthrough eventually. But the degree of harmony between Aegis and Vauleth this time—the seamless fusion of elemental energy mid-casting—had exceeded even his best simulations in the System’s training arena so far.

The crowd lost their minds once they came to grips with what happened at that the 5 contracts weren’t dead.

Announcer 1: “—AND THAT’S TWO DOWN! Kain Newman has taken out back-to-back third and fourth-years, both with blue-grade contracts!”

Announcer 2: “But he’s clearly exhausted now. His reserves aren’t unlimited. Dark Moon has depth, but will they risk sending him out for a third match?”

They wouldn’t.

Kain stepped off the stage with a slow exhale, sweat running down his spine, eyes narrowing as the next enemy fighter was introduced—a spear-wielding fourth-year girl with a crimson phoenix hovering at her shoulder.

He handed the fight off.

But not to Jade. Not to Theo.

A blur stepped onto the stage, soft-footed and forgettable.

The cameras almost missed the transition entirely.

Reed.

The most invisible member of Dark Moon’s Top 5.

Likely the most invisible participant in the tournament period.

The Veil of Relevance activated the moment he stood beneath the arena’s spotlight. Commentary stumbled. The crowd noise dipped for half a second. Even the livestream tracking seemed to subtly flicker.

StarChaser22: who is this guy again???

MysticMango: did the feed just lag?

WhoIsHe: that’s not Theo… did they sub in a support student???

Kain4Life: wait is this Renn?? Ralph?? Something like that. I forgot he was even on the team LMAOO

Reed stood still.

Then he summoned only three of his six contracts:

The Sinkmaw Tortoise, slamming into the arena with a gravitational pulse that disrupted the opponent’s footing.The Veltrake Serpent, winding upward and then vanishing into the sky above.And the Gravity Wyrmling, whose body pulsed with rhythmic pulses of pressure, warping the light in short-range bursts.

His control was clinical. Unremarkable.

Until you looked again—and realized that the enemy had stopped moving.

Then the phoenix screeched, trying to counter with a burst of aerial fire—but the Veltrake struck from above, crashing it into the tortoise’s zone of influence.

Two minutes later, the match ended.

No flashy finisher. No declaration.

Just silence.

The crowd blinked. The announcers scrambled.

Announcer 1: “Uhm… it looks like… Ren…uh, Reese… whatever his name is, of Dark Moon has secured the win. Somehow.”

Announcer 2: “Yes—yes! That’s three down! Kain with two eliminations, and Reese following up!”

‘It’s Reed…’ Reed thought despondently. Not that anyone noticed his change in expression. The camera wasn’t even focused on him any longer.

PrematureFinisher, now live on stream, squinted at the screen. “Wait. Was that the match? Did I blink? Bro what just happened??”

MediocreJadeFan: why does it feel like I didn’t watch anything and yet they still won

SnoozeYouLose: Yeah. it felt like I just slept for a second and before I knew it the match was done! 😭

After quickly defeating the rest of the opposing lineup, with his name still being said wrong continuously by the announcers, Reese (?) returned to his teammates victoriously.

Dark Moon had won.