The Strongest Beast Tamer 145 N'baku Tal'ia

"Ahm, alright, but be quick I need to get some rest, I have some art I want to create later!" Sandra shouted back. Lachlan already knew that wasn't her real name, but she couldn't exactly expose her identity either.

Walking down the stairs the gang leader was rather hesitant, his back was covered in cold sweats from fear. Lachlan could understand, someone that sees killing as a form of art is certainly all kinds of messed up.

When they finally reached the bottom a silver flash went past them, the gang leader collapsed on his knees, holding tightly onto his knee which was spewing out blood. A girl emerged from the shadows. "What the hell, I thought I cut both of your necks. Oh well, it isn't as though I can't do it now."

She pushed off from where she was standing, a knife held tightly in her hands shone silver. Lachlan waited a second before lifting up his hand to intercept it, the girl smiled widely as she struck with force.

But the moment of impact where she would usually feel her knife tear through human flesh never happened. She felt her arm halt in the air, something wrapped around her wrist threatening to crush it at any second.

Looking she noticed Lachlan's sunken eyes staring at her wit a gold glint. She attempted to release herself, kicking off on Lachlan's armour but it came to no avail. She pouted and looked at Lachlan disdainfully. "Hmph, what does a human like you want? Do you too want my body as well? Or do you require my services?"

"You speak pretty good English considering you came from another world," Lachlan said abruptly, shocking the girl to her core. She suddenly changed the way she treated the man before her, she could feel that he was strong, much stronger than her and many others in her own world.

"So, did you also come from another world then?" N'baku asked curiously before taking a big whiff. "No, that can't be, you smell just like the humans in this world. So that means you've probably already met someone or something else that came through the gateways."

"Hmm, so the people of your world call them gateways. Now, do tell me, is that gateway you came through a permanent one or did it close shortly after you came through?" Lachlan asked.

"Obvious it closed soon after I entered. Why else would I still be in this world? It's sucks, there aren't many strong people here so killing is easy. Not to mention those city guards of yours haven't been able to find me yet," N'baku complained that living on Earth was too easy.

"Didn't know that was something you complain about; so, was it a different story in your world?" Lachlan continued to ask questions, poking at her in attempts to get more information about her world.

"Of course it was different in my world. They had magic that could track onto me, magic traps that would seal and restrict me, not to mention magic knights that are able to hunt me down a hundred kejus from a murder," N'baku explained. "However, in this world there's none of that. Although you have those things called security systems, anyone with control over darkness can easily bypass them."

Lachlan analysed N'baku again after hearing what she said. He hadn't considered the chance that she had been living here for a long time until just then.

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Name: N'baku Tal'ia (Dark Elf)

Age: 42 (Child)

Friendship Bonds: 2/10

Compatibility: Rabbits (Low)

STR: 35, AGI: 39, VIT: 100

INT: 16, PER: 23, WIL: 23

Weakness: Overwhelming Arrogance, Prideful

Strengths: Darkness Control (Level 2), Wind Control (Level 2), Leg Strength (Level 1), Grip Strength (Level 1), Night Vision, Heightened Senses, Flexibility

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She's certainly been on Earth for much longer than Lachlan expected. A whole two years, it came by no surprise that she was able to speak English fluently now. However, Lachlan did notice her decrease in willpower, which meant she was living pretty easy and relaxed, facing no problems at all.

Lachlan let go of her before summoning Aaron, keeping him by the stairway just to make sure she doesn't escape. Although he didn't think anything could happen, he just wanted to make sure.

"Whoa, now that's something you don't see every day. A damn griffon, they're something extremely rare even in my world, not to mention strong. Oh, I really want to create some art with it," N'baku said while it looked as though she was frothing from the mouth.

Lachlan smacked her on the head. "Don't think I don't know what you mean by art. Now, before I kill you though I wanted to ask you a few questions. Just to set me at ease, you know?"

"Oh, I know well enough, unlike some of those humans you can't kill that easily even though you have such strength. I think of it as a waste but I suppose I can't really do anything, considering you could kill me any second," N'baku had already resigned herself for death the moment Lachlan came in and she wasn't able to kill him. "So, ask away."

"What other races are there in your world?" Lachlan wanted to continue asking questions about her world, trying to understand it a bit more. Because from what Lachlan could understand so far, both hers, Aaron's, and the dragon's worlds work rather differently.

"There are humans, elves, dragons, and demons. Humans make a majority of the world's population followed by demons; elves and dragons are low in number but strong, dragons especially," N'baku explained swiftly as she sat down and relaxed.

"Are there heroes in your world?" This was more of a question just to satisfy his knowledge. He wanted to know if there were, that way he might be able to discover more about the dragon's world.

"Yup." N'baku nodded. "They're chosen warriors sent from god, they're also apart of the human population and their entire purpose is to defeat the demon king, a demon of great strength that can change the course of the world with a mere thought."

"Does everything have some type of class, determined at birth or something along those lines?"

"Humans and demons do; obviously the highest tear demon is the demon king, followed by the archdemons, high-demons and so forth. While for humans, at the top are the heroes, followed by the special royalty classes then your average, archer, knight, made type thin," N'baku explained in detail. However, it could be different for the dragon's world, or just be because that kingdom worked differently. But it seemed the heroes were indeed put onto a higher pedestal than royalty.

"Do you enjoy killing?" Lachlan asked this question to resolve himself, he didn't exactly want to kill someone that looks like a little girl. His protective sense for his younger sister was acting up, but, he would do what he has to do.

"Indeed, I love the terror-filled screams you humans give when I tear through your flesh slowly. Not to mention the screams of pure fear when the first human discovers my art pieces," N'baku answered with a murderous smile. "That's the reason I was tossed out of the inner circle of dark elves, this wonderful personality of mine is best suited for the killing class of dark elves."

"Do you have any regrets?" Lachlan asked. N'baku's answer left Lachlan unsettled, there was just something about a young looking girl talking that way that didn't sit well within Lachlan's mind.

"Indeed, not being able to kill you is probably my biggest regret right now," N'baku answered as she whipped out her knife and went to strike Lachlan's neck. The knife made contact and bent, all the knife did was push Lachlan's skin in. "Tsk, there's no way you're human, you're a damn monster."

Lachlan sighed. "Indeed I am."

Whipping out his broadsword Lachlan swung it in full motion, the blade whistled through the air as it reached N'baku's neck before she even realised what was happening. She was killed instantly, without any sort of resistance.

Lachlan sheathed the broadsword before stretching his limbs and back, he looked back towards the corpse and noticed N'baku had black blood. It oozed and seeped into the floor, staining it black forever.

'Aaron, return' Aaron swiftly merged with its shadow beneath it and returned to Lachlan. His tames remained silent, they could feel what Lachlan was going through at this moment. It was a bunch of conflicting emotions, he wasn't sure whether or not he should be pleased with himself.

Taking a deep breath Lachlan calmed himself down before walking back up the stairs, passing the corpse of the gang leader along the way. 'Well, I suppose that's going to make things slightly more difficult. Losing the head of a dragon makes it defenceless and pathetically weak.'

Lachlan continued his way up the stairs until he reunited with the group. Using his control over wind he blew all the candles out, darkness once again consumed the staircase. The group was confused about the lack of a gang leader.

"What happened to the guy?" Chloe asked. "Without him, relocating a whole gang suddenly becomes an almost impossible task. Especially considering we're about to lower the number of members by half."

"Well, that girl killed him the moment he reached the bottom of the staircase, she didn't hesitate one moment. Fortunately, although she did try to go after me her blade couldn't even pierce my throat," Lachlan explained.

"Are you sure you're alright," Phoebe came running up worryingly, checking his neck for any marks. She had a sigh of relief when she found nothing unusual, not even a single hair was out of place. "Alright, seems you're fine."

"Anyway, I suppose we should go around and deal with those few members first before going around the city again," Lachlan stated before looking at Burnie. "Remember to guide us properly."

"But what are we supposed to do about the whole relocating problem? We can't exactly kill everyone gang member, some of them are rather innocent and afraid to even hurt a fly," Georgia complained. "At the very least we have to help out until they can change industries."

Lachlan's eyes lit up. "I think I just found ourselves the new workers."

"But they're gang members Lachlan," Phoebe said. She had thought Lachlan had gone insane, thinking of mixing gang members with their company.

"And, so were the people currently working in Argentina, as long as we get rid of the bad eggs the rest should be fine. Who knows, maybe we could become the number one food stall in the city," Lachlan explained with a bright smile.

The group couldn't find anything to argue about, they did leave a gang in charge of their business in Argentina without hesitation. Although it seemed as though Joseph had truly changed his ways, it was as though he was a natural for the business.

"That's what's going to make this fun, we'll have Valentina's parents teach some of the gang members how to cook and maintain the business and then we'll leave. But while they're being taught, we'll explore and have fun in the city," Lachlan explained.

Chapter end