This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Chapter 243 The Reputation of the Blood-Attribute

In their upcoming battle against Supernova, Kain and the others were surprised by the profile of one first-year that looked suspiciously like Alexei and Dmitri, aside from his dark red hair. In particular, all three of them have the same identical red eyes—Nikolai Sanguine.

Like Dmitri and Nikolai he is form the Sanguine family and, like pretty much everyone else in that family, someone with an attribute related to blood-type spiritual creatures.

Kain and the others would probably be interrogating their seniors for information about this cousin, if each year level were not separated for targeted debriefings since each of them has a different school as their opponent and their performances are now evaluated separately.

Nikolai was highly suspected to be the representative for the 1-vs-1. Unfortunately, he'd only participated in one match, and for that match he had won with summoning 2 contracts.

Therefore the identity of his third contract was not 100% certain, and even based on the information collected prior to the actual tournament from informants and scouts the details about the third contract were still unclear.

Likely even during competitions within his own college he'd been on guard enough to reveal many of the skills and abilities of this third contract to the public.

'Unfortunately, I didn't get that opportunity with dozens of articles publicizing what was known about my contracts being plastered everywhere,' Kain thought in irritation.

"The two confirmed contracts are both of dual blood-attributes. The Crimson Wraith has both dark and blood-attributes."

What appeared on the screen was a shadowy figure that was difficult to focus on. Crimson Wraiths were an extremely rare species, but one that Kain had learned about. It feeds on the life force of its enemies, and it is said that it leaves behind a chilling aura and drains vitality with each touch. Its presence is also apparent by a dark, blood-red mist that obscures the surroundings.

Kain flipped through the sheets for as much detailed information as possible, as well as brief descriptions of the skills that it has revealed so far.

"The second contract is the Sanguis Snake with dual blood and poison attributes." It was a long, sinuous serpent with scales that resembled flowing blood. It was able to can siphon life energy from its surroundings, healing itself while weakening its foes.

It can emit a toxic blood mist when threatened and has the terrifying ability to manipulate the blood inside of any target that it successfully bites.

"The final contract hasn't been revealed during the tournament yet, but although they themselves weren't fully clear on the details, you can thank your seniors for providing what they knew about their cousin as well as a picture."

The picture of the third contract was obviously secretly taken, and not of the best quality. The third contract, according to the information provided, is a blood and fire dual attribute spiritual creature that had a fierce and imposing appearance.

It appeared similar in appearance to a wolf, but was several times a wolf's size and with a more muscular build. Its fur is a deep, rich red, resembling blood, with flickering flames visible occasionally between strands of fur. The hound's eyes glowed like burning embers, exuding an intense, fiery gaze that seems to pierce through screen at Kain and the others.

"Now to decide who would be competing first…since our opponent's contracts all have the blood-attribute, in order to limit its abilities, we decided that it's be better for those with contracts without blood to take the stage."

At those words Soren immediately slumped in his seat, knowing that his dragons obviously did not fall into the category. However, the reasoning was sound so he didn't protest.

Serena has revealed 2 contracts so far, both of which are energy based spiritual creatures without blood—one made up of the four primary elements, and the other of star attribute energy.

Similarly, of Kain's 3 contracts, neither Bea nor Aegis have any blood to be manipulated in case the enemy had any skills with such effects.

The Vespirae guards do, but there were so many of them, and since they are not Kain's primary contract, any losses to them were only temporary and not too damaging to Kain. He would just need to protect Queen, who is the direct host of his actual contract… and himself. Explore more at m,v l'e-NovelBin.net

Unfortunately, blood-attribute beast-tamers do have an unpleasant reputation of attacking the beast-tamer directly. There are no rules in the tournament to not directly attack the beast-tamer, and the beast-tamers can participate in the battle directly themselves.

But unless they have a gift, most would not choose to arm themselves and participate directly. And as long as the beast-tamer doesn't take the initiative to participate, there is an unwritten rule and tacit understanding among participants to not attack them.

After all, humans are much more squishy than spiritual creatures, and an attack that may just push a spiritual creature back, may end up shattering all of the bones in a human's body unless that have a gift or powerful defensive spiritual skill.

Since this is just a competition and they are all loyal citizens to the same country, most participants have been abiding by this rule.

However, blood-attribute beast-tamers have a tendency to ignore this unwritten rule…

Of course, they usually prioritize attacking the spiritual creature who is more threatening…but if none of the opposing contracts have any blood, while most of their attacks rely some degree on their effects on and manipulation of blood, then they may switch their target to the squishy beast-tamer who can definitely bleed.

According to the report, Nikolai also has a habit of capturing the king to force the surrounding knights to surrender.

In preparation for such opponents, the college did bring enchanted equipment that can combat the effects of such attacks, but there is no guarantee that such defensive measures will completely eliminate the threat, especially not since the equipment Kain was permitted to use within the competition was limited to his level—3-stars.

Therefore, whether it was Serena or Kain, since both of them have contracts without blood, more than any other battle this will probably be the one in which they would need to watch out for their own safety rather than their contracts.