Bear School Astartes

The sound of the Golden Lion and the Grand Commander roaring at each other resounded from behind.

Lann actually found it a bit hard to tell them apart.

But at this moment, he didn’t have time to worry about the little thoughts sprouting in his mind.

He ran headlong all the way to the pile of debris shattered by the Kirin.

Lann started to dig, pulling away broken corals, shells, and weeds.

Finally, after two minutes, he touched something with the texture of fur amidst the ruins.

At the same time, his head of silky silver hair, like molten silver, appeared to be on the verge of an electrostatic explosion.

The place where Lann was digging turned out to be the Kirin’s head with the broken horn, saving him quite some effort.

Lann reached out his left hand toward the Kirin’s head, not yet touching the blue skin with intricate lightning patterns covered with fine scales.

A small arc of electricity erupted from the high-voltage field surrounding the Kirin.

”Crackle!”

”Ow!”

Instinctively, Lann withdrew his hand, exclaiming in pain.

The electric shock was sharp and sudden.

But this was good news, as it proved that the young Kirin’s body was at least unharmed.

Gritting his teeth, Lann extended his left hand towards the Kirin’s head once more, this time more cautiously.

Meanwhile, he was muttering under his breath.

”Work, you must work!”

Once, out of curiosity about those [Knights] who could tame large monsters mentioned by Aibo, Lann consulted Aibo and scholars from the Ecological Institute about this group.

But since this world was ultimately not a modern world with convenient communication, those [Knights] were always active on another continent far from the old one, with almost no contact between them.

So even exceptional but slightly gluttonous investigators like Aibo, or an old man from the Douding Dragon Race in the Ecological Institute who had lived for several centuries, didn’t have much information for Lann.

In summary: the [Knights] used a specialty mineral called [Tether Stone] to establish a mental communication channel and build trust with the monsters.

Lann initially thought that the significant effect lay in the specialty mineral [Tether Stone].

But later, he realized the scholars were very precise in their wording.

They said ’establishing mental communication through [Tether Stone]’, meaning the [Tether Stone]’s role was only to establish communication.

It made communication between humans and monsters possible via this special mineral. After that, ’establishing a trustful and comrade-like relationship’ depended on whether the [Knight] could achieve it.

Monsters can indeed be tamed, but because they are overly powerful, they can’t be suppressed and tamed with violence from the start like cats or dogs.

Instead, like making friends, you need to learn to communicate first for any chance of success.

[Tether Stone] is the bridge for communication.

Lann didn’t have the specialty mineral from another continent on hand, but he had his own methods.

The [Yakxi Rune] of Demon Hunters was originally a combat technique used to confuse the minds of intelligent beings and create opportunities during intense battles.

But as the profession of Demon Hunters evolved, they often used this rune to soothe and hypnotize the minds of survivors to obtain fairly credible information from the panicked.

Later, Kohen from the Griffin School mentioned that their school developed a lot of unique knowledge about various runes.

During the short time they traveled together, as a topic of conversation at the drinking table, Kohen demonstrated a special form of the [Yakxi Rune] to Lann.

It allowed Demon Hunters to send telepathic messages like Warlocks, directly transmitting words into another’s mind.

Kohen was quite nonchalant about this special form of the [Yakxi Rune], presenting it as a trick.

And indeed, it was somewhat like that because unlike Warlocks who could send telepathic messages with just a glance or even just by ’thinking’,

Demon Hunters had to make hand signs, draw runes, and produce a spectacle with the glow of magic. When they needed to use telepathy for secret conversations, it wasn’t as discreet as whispering directly.

Moreover, this special form of the [Yakxi Rune] required both Demon Hunters to know it to communicate; otherwise, it was just one-way information transmission.

But now, Lann was willing to try anything in desperation.

As he completed the hand signs, Chaos Magic Power surged into the structure, and a cold white magical glow appeared in front of Lann’s hand sign.

The Kirin, whose eyes had been tightly shut, had its eyelids twitch; then, it opened them in surprise, looking at the ’little human’ smaller than itself in front of it.

”Snort?”

The Kirin’s skeleton was quite similar to a horse, and so was its voice.

Its elegant neck lifted off the ground, shaking its head, releasing a large puff of dust and sand.

”Don’t snort at me, I can’t understand it now.”

Seeing the Kirin’s puzzled expression, Lann finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This ancient dragon’s surprisingly gentle nature was a delightful surprise for him.

”The plan I told you! Can you understand it? If you follow it, we might just slay that dead monkey today!”

”We got dragged into this fight with that dead monkey in order to save you. Does it seem right for you to just lie there?!”

While the Kirin’s long face remained confused, Lann had already started pulling it up.

Thanks to its gentle nature, the Kirin instinctively restrained the powerful electric field around its body, preventing Lann from getting shocked again as before.

Standing in front of the Kirin, Lann realized that although it seemed small from a distance and its four-plus-meter body length wasn’t all that imposing,

standing side by side... ’pat pat.’

Lann habitually patted the Kirin’s back and neck, just as he used to groom Bopai.

”You’re quite the fine horse!”

The Demon Hunter remarked.

Whether it felt comfortable or uncomfortable, as Lann gently stroked its back like grooming a horse, the young Kirin’s bristling mane gradually settled.

Lann stood in front of the Kirin, looking up into its ruby-like eyes, and his hands lit up again with the cold white magical glow.

”I’ve told you the plan, nod if you can execute it, shake your head if you can’t.”

The Kirin first looked confused.

Although it possessed intelligence higher than the human average, intelligence still needed knowledge to be effective.

Many of the things Lann said were beyond its understanding.

Like what ’plan’ meant or what ’dead monkey’ referred to—it had no idea.

But thanks to Mentos’ powerful computational ability, Lann had the biological AI create a short video simulating the battlefield and transmitted the intuitive visuals to the Kirin.

So despite the cumbersome communication between the man and the Kirin, the Kirin still hesitantly nodded.

”Snort!”

The noble steed, adorned with lightning patterns, contained the strong electric field within its body. Its ruby-like eyes fixated intensely on the gold-skinned monkey darting around not far away, exhaling two heavy streams of white smoke from its nostrils.

A hopeful smile curled at the corner of Lann’s mouth as he leapt onto the Kirin’s back.

Then, he sheathed his elegant Aron Dite and drew out the massive black sword!

The sudden addition of weight made the Kirin tilt slightly towards the side of the sword Lann held.

But subsequently, the ancient dragon’s powerful physique allowed it to completely stabilize, as if carrying nothing at all.