00:00The beast that is mine.
00:02Golden light erupted from within me.
00:04Two columns, one crimson, one black, tore through the clouds.
00:09He summoned two beasts at once!
00:11The red column dissolved.
00:12A blazing dragon emerged, wreathed in roaring flame.
00:18The black column faded.
00:20A shadow cat dropped silently to the ground and rubbed against my leg.
00:24Too bad. The second one's F rank trash.
00:28I scanned the crowd. My girlfriend, Lyra Ashford, stood there.
00:32She just failed to bind.
00:34Even if the binding went wrong, it doesn't matter Lyra.
00:37I'll protect you.
00:39Then Lyra sprinted up onto the altar.
00:43Instructor, that dragon is mine.
00:49Lyra?
00:52What are you saying?
00:53Kale tampered with my bindings.
00:55What kind of gutter trash from the Ash Quarter could ever summon two beasts on his own?
01:01She just thinks the lamp core winding there.
01:03Someone like you could never pull this off.
01:06Everyone knows it.
01:07The blazing dragon stepped past me and moved to Lyra's side.
01:11It turned and snarled.
01:12I stared it down.
01:14You are my bound beast.
01:16Who gave you permission to move?
01:18You're not my master.
01:20You never were.
01:23Lyra stroked its neck, satisfied.
01:25Exactly.
01:27Only I have the resources to raise a blazing dragon properly.
01:31Turns out he's scum!
01:32Get out of Iron Heaven Academy!
01:35Kale Voss.
01:37Violation of academy code.
01:39Attempted theft of another student's bound beaster.
01:41You're expelled.
01:42You're taking her word alone.
01:43You call yourself an instructor?
01:45You think Lyra Ashford, top of the entire academy from a distinguished family,
01:49would frame someone from the Ash Quarter?
01:51I held its gaze.
01:52Top of the academy?
01:53Without my tutoring?
01:55She wouldn't crack the top ten!
01:57Someone called out.
01:58Right.
01:59And maybe she wrote your essays too.
02:01Kale, we're done.
02:02I don't know what I was thinking.
02:04She glanced at the shadow cat by my feet.
02:07F-rank trash suits you perfectly.
02:10Though knowing you, you'll struggle to even feed it.
02:13I clenched my fist.
02:14Then a blue screen snapped open in front of my eyes.
02:17Divine Beast Binder System.
02:19Online.
02:20Quest.
02:21Break up with Lyra Ashford.
02:23I stared at the quest details on the system screen.
02:25Breath coming fast.
02:27Six rank.
02:28Upgraded a million times over.
02:29That would push far beyond SSS rank.
02:32I looked at Lyra and kept my voice flat.
02:35Fine.
02:36As you wish.
02:37I turned to the blazing dragon.
02:38As for you, I hope you won't regret this.
02:45Kale, after this is over, don't go around talking about us.
02:50I don't want people knowing I had a nobody like you for an X.
02:56Warning.
02:56Energy release during Shadow Cat's upgrade is projected to level Iron Health entire.
03:03My brow snapped together.
03:05I looked at the instructor.
03:06At the students of Ironhaven Academy.
03:08Then I tore my Academy crest off and dropped it on the ground.
03:13From this moment, I have nothing to do with Ironhavel Academy.
03:17I turned and walked away.
03:18Meanwhile, at Ironhaven Guard Corps Headquarters, her cousin, Roland Ashford, was already there.
03:23He held out a crystal, pulsing the flame.
03:26This is an S-Rank Fire Tribute Beast Corps.
03:28Once Inks absorbs it, he'll advance straight to S-Rank.
03:32Lyra pressed the core against the dragon.
03:34The column of light exploded skyward.
03:36When the radiance faded, Ignis's presence had surged beyond recognition.
03:40Ignis, Blazing Dragon S-Rank.
03:43I'm an S-Rank Beast Finder now!
03:45Thank you, Roland!
03:47S-Rank Beast hinders.
03:49The entire alliance sees fewer than five a year.
03:51Once you grow into your power, the Ashford name will want for nothing.
03:56Lyra's smile turned cold.
03:58She thought in her mind,
04:00Someday I'll be the Alliance's finest Beast Finder.
04:03And Kale Voss, that nobody, will spend the rest of his life beneath my feet.
04:09The next day, I pulled on a mask, shouldered my pack, and headed deep into the forest.
04:14It was on the far edge of Ironhaven.
04:16Nyx stood quietly on my shoulder the whole way.
04:19The blue system screen blinked open in front of me, asking whether to upgrade the Shadowcat.
04:23I drew a slow breath.
04:25Yes.
04:25System. Upgrade complete.
04:27Shadowcat has evolved.
04:29Void. Bang.
04:30In an instant, Nyx blazed with golden light.
04:33A massive pillar tore through the sky and swept across the earth, leaving nothing but empty craters in its wake.
04:39Across Ironhaven, Beast Binders stopped and stared.
04:42A beast manifestation?
04:45It is.
04:46But the scale is way beyond S-Rake.
04:49Is that, is that, S-S-S?
04:51In the rubble, Nyx landed back on my shoulder and pressed her face against mine.
04:55Purple markings had appeared along her fur.
04:57I checked the system screen.
04:59Her rank had reached Worldbreaker class.
05:02Potential beyond anything this world had seen.
05:04I scratched behind her ears.
05:06Nyx.
05:07That's your name now.
05:09We're going to the top together.
05:13I rubbed my chin.
05:15Right now you can level a continent in one breath.
05:18But everything else is still untrained.
05:20New quest.
05:22Slay 10 City Razor Class Beasts.
05:25Divine Rank Talent.
05:26I'd seen what Divine Rank Talents could do for a beast in combat.
05:32The picture was clear.
05:34Just as we turned to leave, a roar split the air.
05:39Commander Thorn descended on a war eagle.
05:41His companions dropped from a griffon and a giant butterfly, landing in a line across my path.
05:47Thorn surveyed the craters around us.
05:49Kid.
05:50You cause this much damage on the outskirts of Iron Heaven and just walk away?
05:54That's not how this works.
05:56Join Iron Heaven University and I'll let it go.
05:59I looked the three of them over.
06:00Three City Razor Class Beast Binders.
06:05Let it go?
06:07Three City Razors.
06:09You really think you're in a position to say that?
06:11Nyx exhaled in their direction.
06:13A purple light pressed down.
06:15All three of them, and their beasts, slammed flat against the ground.
06:19The earth cracked beneath them.
06:20I looked down at them from where I stood.
06:22Be grateful.
06:23All you wanted to do was threaten me.
06:26I walked away with Nyx.
06:28Behind me, the three of them lay sprawled in the dirt, unable to so much as stand.
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