The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Practice Makes Perfect

Dana and Hawk spent the rest of the evening practising their skill control together, while Karl focused on finding more about the growth cycles and power increase triggers of various magical beast species.

There were so many, but Karl was certain that if he worked on it, he could find some sort of pattern to the triggers. It should be either something to do with their skills, their body's alignment to an element or some sort of environmental factor. He didn't believe that it was completely random and that it was all up to luck, with study, they should be able to trigger the advancements deliberately.

The meditation and movement of energy to Hawk was certainly going to help, though he couldn't tell how much. But every meal since the advancement had given him a surge of energy, as he was absorbing the nutrients and embedded mana much more efficiently than a regular human would.

That should be something normal for the Elites, as the kitchens did deliberately prepare that sort of meal for every student, so the real difference should be that he could share the excess with Hawk, instead of wasting it.

Once it started to get dark, Dana finished making notes on what she had learned, and then returned to her room for the night, while Karl prepared to eat one more late night meal and meditate on transferring that extra energy to Hawk to help him grow.

The only problem was that they would have to wait until there was a noticeable change to find out if these methods were working, and even then, they wouldn't necessarily know for certain which of the methods were the ones that had the largest impact.

There was no exact measuring method, which was why they had just loosely grouped monsters into categories based on their power rankings, but that also meant that near the boundaries of those rankings there could be some uncertainty, unless the body or power went through a notable change.

For example, when a Devil Cat went through the process of moving from awakened to Ascended, it grew a second tail. That was a pretty simple and surefire way to tell. Many birds would gain a distinctive pattern on their feathers as they grew more powerful, and most mammals would increase in size in a sudden growth spurt.

Windspeed Hawks didn't go through most of that, they kept their appearance, except for the claws. Once a Windspeed Hawk reached the Ascended level, their claws would turn from a dull black, to a translucent obsidian, and that claw material was an exceptional resource for elites learning similar skills. It could be ground up and mixed with monster blood in the same way as the strength stones, and drinking it would increase skill understanding.

[Haha, yeah, make them eat my claw clippings. They grow back quickly.] Hawk giggled in Karl's mind, equating the broken claw parts to human toenail clippings. Just a shed waste product that it no longer cared about.