The Strongest Beast Tamer 124 Everything Gathered

He headed back to the beach, Aaron still had the turtle in his claws, it was struggling to get out before just giving up, losing all hope. It continued to stare at Lachlan, who seemed to be in a bit of a trance.

Its eyes were filled with fear, as though it saw something terrifying within Lachlan, something heartless, cold, filled with the intent of destruction. Its senses were going off like mad, fuelling its fear even more.

Lachlan reached the beach quickly, the turtle looked up at the massive island in the sky, its eyes widen in shock. Even with its old age, it has never come across such a scene. The island's shadow was cast upon the ocean below, drowning it in darkness.

Lachlan hopped onto Aaron. 'Alright, let's go back'

Aaron shot into the sky, the turtle began to worry as it saw the ground moving further away from it every second. It was fearful of Aaron just deciding to drop it out of revenge, it gently rubbed against Aaron's claws.

Looking back down the turtle noticed they were already above the island, gliding just slightly above the treetops as the leaves swayed in the wind, leaving a trail of floating leaves in their wake. Lachlan was breathing deeply, calming himself down as he prepared to give Phoebe the gift he got her.

They reached the centre quickly, Aaron descended onto the group that was gathered, in the air above them were two balls of corpses and a ball of vines. One of the balls was just ramp corpses, all had different fur colour and horn shape and size. The other ball had snakes, lizards, rams, deer, and moose, all had horns, some small and some large.

One snake, in particular, had a large horn that reached a length of 5 metres, blood stains covered it completely. Its point was thin, the width of a strand of hair and it gradually grew to have the width of an arm.

'That could be useful' Lachlan had been in need of a weapon. Although using his fists was plenty enough, especially with his newfound control over the elements. But there was just something about wielding a weapon that made everything more intimidating, especially if it's such a large weapon such as a broadsword, swordspear or lance.

It would also be easier to control his elements, it would take less control since he has a weapon to mould it around. Although he would have to just learn how to fight with a weapon, especially something like a spear.

So he wouldn't mind a broadsword, it's just that the materials needed to create a broadsword worth wielding are rather rare. He couldn't just use some normal metal, it wouldn't even be able to pierce a piece of tree bark in present times.

As for the bone in front of him, it wouldn't exactly be able to be morphed into the shape of a broadsword. However, it could be used as a spear or even a jousting lance. Lachlan could imagine it, riding on top of Aaron, piercing through hordes of beasts with his jousting lance.

He could also imagine the damage done when a few stones are placed in it, leaving a trail of elements as it slaughters its enemies while flying through the air. It would certainly be a sight to see, a sight he would like to create.

The group watched as Lachlan descended, his gaze never leaving that of the snakes while their gaze was attached to the turtle. Feeling the piercing gazes of so many people it looked towards the source, finding the group of people.

When Aaron finally landed on the ground everyone gathered around him. Phoebe walked a bit closer to the turtle and stared at it up and down before turning to Lachlan. "What's the turtle for? You could have just brought it back dead, its shell wouldn't have gone to waste."

Lachlan hopped down and wrapped his arms around Phoebe, it was a swift and fluid movement, Phoebe didn't even have any time to react. "It's an early birthday present for a special person."

Phoebe took a closer look at the turtle, it looked back before retracting its limbs into its shell. Comparing this turtle to her other two was pointless since this one looked much weaker; however, she also trusted Lachlan and knew he wouldn't give her a weak turtle, he was just as worried about the future as her.

"Its attribute is time, it has the ability to predict and sense catastrophes, calamities and any immediate danger to itself," Lachlan explained. He saw Phoebe eyeing down the turtle and realised it certainly didn't look all that strong.

"It was also a massive pain in the ass to actually get alive considering its ability to sense any immediate danger to itself; fortunately I had Aaron hold it down with his aura," Lachlan said as he walked to up Aaron and took the turtle from his claws.

Lachlan then returned back to Phoebe and handed the turtle over. Its head began to extend from its shell, the turtle began to sniff at Phoebe, its pupils constantly dilating before expanding again.

Holding onto the turtle Phoebe took a closer look at its golden shell which had a fine and intricate pattern to it. The shell of the turtle kept the overall normal shape, however, when getting close enough it begins to show something else.

The pattern seemed like a swirl, with a spot just slightly below its neck, above the centre of the turtle's shell. The swirl seemed to send Lachlan and Phoebe into a daze, as though their conscious was being pulled towards the centre of the swirl.

Aaron gave a small but menacing growl towards the turtle, its beak shone in the light just as well as its claws. He gave the turtle a grin filled with malice, threatening it to back off.

The turtle swiftly stopped using its ability, in fear that Aaron would now rip it in two should it continue. Phoebe and Lachlan both snapped out of their daze and looked at the turtle again, Lachlan especially.

He hadn't seen such an ability registered in the turtle status screen, which meant to say that it was a hidden ability. Either that, or it was the turtle special ability. If it was the later Lachlan would be fine; however, should it be the former, then there'll be a big problem with that.

He had to increase the level of his eyes, but at the same time, he was hesitant due to his other half. One wrong move and it could come out, something he would rather never want to happen. He would rather die than let whatever that thing is out, that's the sacrifice he would be willing to make.

"Well I suppose this turtle is even more unique than I thought, so how about taming it?" Lachlan quickly moved on, he would focus on levelling up his eyes in a bit; as of now, Phoebe was his main priority.

"Right," Phoebe nodded before giving her full attention to the turtle. "Would you like to travel by my side?"

Although it was a longshot considering the fact that Phoebe hasn't suppressed it with her own strength, nor become a parental figure to it. She still gave it a try to save them all some time and effort.

After a few seconds Phoebe began to make a noise, she was screaming but keeping the sound inside. A tattoo was forming on her hand through a silver light, it began to swirl before finally solidifying into a similar shape to that of the turtle's shell pattern.

After the tattoo solidified Phoebe took a few deep breaths while holding onto her hand, looking closer at the tattoo. Giving the commands her new tattoo lit up, stunning the group with its golden light.

When the light dispersed the turtle was seen right in front of Phoebe's feet. It began to crawl towards the rest of the group, who calmly squatted down to greet it. The turtle got closer and closer before finally walking past the group.

The turtle was heading towards a pile of things on the ground, it was the fruits they got from the island along with some stones. Lachlan swiftly analysed the stones which were new to him.

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Name: Horn Sharpener Stone

Description: Grinding a horn against this stone will give it unparalleled sharpness with the possibility of changing its shape depending on the wielder's intention.

Location: Possibility of being found anywhere alongside mountains.

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As Lachlan looked through what the status screen said the turtle had already reached the pile of goods. Its neck extended before the turtle managed to get a horn fruit in its mouth. It swallowed the fruit whole and swiftly after retracted its head back into its shell.

Faint sounds could be heard from the shell before its shell began to change.

Although it kept the swirl like pattern from before, slight points began to stick out from the shell. The turtle's head came back out and on its forehead was a horn with the length of 10cm. It then reached out its horn and scrapped it against the stone.

It began to change and morph as its horn was losing its sharpness. It almost turned completely flat before finally stopping. The turtle retracted its head back into its shell, the horn managed to block the gap then head went into perfectly.

Now one of its weak spots was taken care of it swiftly returned to Phoebe's side. Giving Lachlan a few stares as it hid behind her.

Chapter end