This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Chapter 771: Chapter 771: Kain Vs Isolde: Plan Bea

Down below, the battle was pure chaos.

Aegis met the Demon-Manticore hybrid with thunderous force. Earth walls rose, claws shattered stone, and the two titans clashed again and again. Aegis, built for defence, absorbed most of the strikes—but even he was showing signs of strain.

Every hit from the hybrid was like getting hit with a spiritual freight train wrapped in infernal energy.

Vauleth, meanwhile, duelled the aerial hybrid high above.

Fire spiralled. Wind sliced. Vauleth’s jaws snapped closed on a blazing wing, only for the hybrid to twist and rake him with barbed feathers. He retaliated with a sonic roar that shattered the air and nearly disoriented the hybrid’s balance.

The sky crackled with power.

On the ground, the Gargoyle was a menace.

It spun through the air on massive wings. The Vespid Guards swarmed it, harassing it with coordinated stings and slicing weapons. But it’s stone body tanked the blows without much reaction, retaliating with crushing blows of its fists and a cone of sonic disruption that sent three guards crashing into the ground.

Queen extended her aura. A green pulse of life-attribute energy restored any injuries quickly and she also gave her children a boost to their stats.

Then came Bea.

The Pale Thought Field expanded. Mental tendrils snaked invisibly across the battlefield, probing, whispering, waiting. Any moment of weakness, any lapse in spiritual focus, would be enough. Bea wasn’t immediately trying to dominate the mind of the hybrids—she’d already tried and failed since their combined mental defenses were too tough even with the negative thought particles to wear down their defenses. But she still was working to chip away at their mental armour over time—like water droplets chipping away at stone.

And if that came?

She would be ready.

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Meanwhile, Kain watched the chaos unfold below from the relative safety of the sky.

The Vespid Guard he rode buzzed in wide arcs along the arena’s perimeter, occasionally dipping lower to avoid long-range attacks, but mostly circling and keeping distance. Chewy bounced slightly against his wrist with every twist and dip, but remained latched on, eyes narrowed as it continued to observe the battlefield.

Kain leaned over slightly. “Anything yet?”

Chewy’s surface rippled. A faint glow pulsed in time with the energy patterns it was analyzing. A low burbling sound escaped it in response to Kain’s question.

“You think their power is centralized in the chest? Heart region?” Kain murmured, eyes narrowing.

Chewy wiggled in affirmation.

Kain exhaled. That made sense. Most creatures’ spiritual power cores were located in either their chest or brains. Similarly, depending on the cultivation method, human usually had their spiritual power located in their cores or brains.

But there was more. Chewy burbled again, this time higher-pitched.

“Two cores? But the second core only recently appeared?” Kain’s eyebrows lifted.

Now that was interesting.

It meant that although the fusion was stable, it was incomplete, and what was originally one core had now split into two.

Chewy had been tracking the flow of spiritual power for minutes now, and it was only just beginning to identify the threads. Two distinct pulses.

The Phoenix and Harpy—unlike the Manticore-Demon hybrid—still has a single cohesive individual core. But Kain was confident that they, too, would soon have their core split.

That was good.

Very good.

Because if the core is separating, it means the fusion could be undone more easily

Kain didn’t need to completely destroy the hybrids.

He just needed to force a split.

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Down below, Aegis was holding strong.

The Demon-Manticore hybrid was relentless, slamming into him again and again with hammering strikes that sent stone flying in all directions. Aegis tanked each blow with his massive arms raised and shoulders hunched. His automatically activated transparent shield was already used and triggered a backlash effect on the hybrid…which didn’t do much damage. Merely pushing it back a few steps.

Now forcing Aegis to dodge and physically tank attacks when needed.

The Vespid Guards, in the meantime, had split into two strike groups. One flanked the blue-grade Gargoyle, hounding it with precise, diving jabs meant to keep it too busy to interfere. The other flew in coordinated formation toward the Soulreaver Incubus, who still hadn’t recovered from its domain expenditure. It tried to backpedal, wings flapping sluggishly, but Queen’s swarm was merciless.

Stingers flashed.

Barbed wings sliced.

Under Queen’s direction, the exhausted Incubus was taken down swiftly. Finally eliminated—so far buried under a storm of sharp pain and disorientation that it was effectively out of the fight.

Above, Vauleth met the Phoenix-Harpy hybrid in an intense midair clash.

Wings beat like thunder. Claws tore through clouds of steam. Fire and wind clashed with pure dragon breath.

And still, Chewy observed.

Kain tilted his head. “So, if the fusion is unravelling over time… how do we help it along?”

Chewy responded with a high-pitched gurgle that roughly translated to, ’the fighting is accelerating the destabilization.’ Which, honestly, Kain had already expected.

But he was hoping for an even faster, energy-efficient, method…

’Bea’ He mentally called out as an idea came to him.

He felt the subtle flicker of acknowledgment.

’Can you trigger cognitive dissonance between the fused minds?’ he asked. ’Chewy’s sensing dual hearts, that means there’s still a trace of both original consciousnesses. Maybe… maybe you can twist them apart mentally. Cause conflicting thoughts. Similar to what you did when breaking apart Soren’s fused dragons during the College re-rankings.’

Bea hesitated. Not from fear, but from calculation.

Then a feeling washed over Kain. Agreement.

She would try.

The Pale Thought Field sharpened. Focused.

Although it will be momentarily exhausting, she chose to use the same method she had in the past to take down the mental defences of Soren’s fused dragons.

In Chewy’s energy-based vision, it could see Bea’s ’light’ rapidly dimming as it produced hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of splits that immediately died in a suicide bomber mission while trying to infiltrate the opponents’ minds.

It worked hard to focus most of its replenishment efforts on the smallest member on the team. But soon enough, it was no longer able to—Bea had disappeared from its perception.