Spirit Taming

Chapter 445: Incredible Empress

'True Empress jellyfish- legendary

Due to the unique additions of perfectly crafted materials, the true queen jellyfish has gained slightly different anatomy than it would if it had grown normally. It has barbed tentacles and more pronounced healing aura frills. This caused it to be more relatable to a battle nature further altering it from a queen to an empress.

Any female beast referred to as an empress is normally more aggressive and able to defend itself better.

The high strength of the numbing, paralytic, and various other potential poisons based on diet cause the empress jellyfish to be able to use them to defeat opponents, heal others, and also work to produce usable materials for glow sting jellyfish to take a unique growth paths, the royal guardian jellyfish.

Due to the unique growth, the empress and true queen jellyfish can share high amounts of their stored poisons to influence a unique growth in a glow sting jellyfish. It may shorten their lifespan but greatly increase their physical and magical resistances. They will act as a body shield for their queen.

The strengthened spiritual energy is stored in the frills that fall between the empress jellyfish's tentacles. They are the healing tentacles while the barbed tentacles are for attacking or poison storage. This is also seen in the unique purple and blue colorations on the barbs.

While the growth to another form is gone due to this being the long lived adult form, an empress jellyfish is able to gather energy and take one of two forms at a time. The royal cloak form is the same as the princess jellyfish cloak form.

The secondary option is called the poison empress form. It is slightly different from the spirit queen from that it would have as a true queen jellyfish. The spirit queen form would focus on hyper healing while using condensed spiritual energy and causing the true queen jellyfish to slumber for a month to regain control of its energy.

The poison empress form is radically different. While the true empress jellyfish can also heal at a much higher level, it gives that up during the usage of its empress form. The spiritual energy packed frills shed from the empress jellyfish and allow the poison energy to take over. It then wraps around the tamer to allow poison energy to be used as if it was an extension of the tamer.

The barbs on the tentacles will cut in to the tamer to cause the energy to flow without harming the tamer other than the cuts. The barbs will act as a secondary defense other than the true empress jellyfish's body as a whole. The higher boost to physical abilities is mirrored by the boost in poison resistances and pain tolerance increase.

The cost of using this is the long three month growing period of new spiritual energy holding frills and the inability to heal during that three month period.

To allow the empress jellyfish to grow in to these skills along with proper balance, strengthen, and use her body, high amounts of poison and spiritual energy are required over a long period of time. When the energies have balanced and the true empress jellyfish has become able to use its body along with its tamer safely, it has an expected lifespan of three hundred years.'

Shocked and amazed were two small words compared to the radical changes that Clark saw. While the princess jellyfish form that Lit had was long gone, he knew that Lit was showing off her true power now. She seemed to move here and there trying to show off more.

It was clear that she was feeling the pure joy and excitement that Maria was feeling as she looked at the beautiful new body that had appeared next to her.

On the other hand, Maria had a decent influx of changed energies through her bonds. She had been able to see Lit change in her mind and felt that change naturally. Even the midnight eel had shown itself from Maria's shadow to protectively move around Lit and Maria. It was a feeling that it had as they had grown and were left weakened.

Not a single person had said a word since this was just as expected from a second beast. It would want to protect its family that it was bonded with.

There was also the shock of some healers that had not seen the beast that lived near Star City and was somehow bonded with Maria who should just be a healer. The assassin style of battle that Maria had shown off made even more sense to them now. Especially since they all understood the strength of having a protective beast literally in someone's shadow to keep them safe.

"As everyone can see, instead of growing in to a true queen jellyfish, a slight deviation was able to occur. This little surprise came about due to unique materials such as an additional set of carved energy crystals, a second iridescent flower, and various other reasons.

That allows this beast to be known as a true empress jellyfish." Clark spoke catching everyone's attention as Lit met Maria and hid away within her taming space. It was clear that Lit's energy and started to die down and she needed rest to stabilize her new body. It was the same for Maria who had barely been able to stand after her meditation.

She too had been emotionally and mentally drained from this event.

"The true queen jellyfish will be a beast that can heal with its ultimate form. It can meld with its tamer in a way and use condensed spiritual energy to heal everything around it. The price is a month of slumber to gain energy back, but it comes with rapid healing well above the level that it can heal normally.

Healing bones, deep cuts, and organ damage is very much possible with a true queen jellyfish. There's even more to discover as well since there needs to be a lot more research done. I believe that the white robed healers can perform that research and strengthen their bond with our beast planning business?"

The last bit had been enough to make Isa jump in glee. She was very glad that Clark had said that since she was certain that the white robed healers would be going out of their way to make sure that they had a way to grow with these beast plans and look for more. Especially since the healers might have other beasts they want evaluated.

While some of the healers fell in to debates that were radically more energetic than they had been just hours before, others had begun to watch Clark's group with awe. Their thoughts ran through the possibilities that had come together for a group like this to form. For multiple people to somehow come together and research beasts like this at a young age.

While some had heard of the Nebula tournament, they had trouble believing that these were the same people. Great in battles and great in planning for a large selection of beast species to grow? It was seemingly impossible to have so many achievements. Yet that was the case.

The achievements had already been enough to spread like wildfire after the Nebula tournament. But now that the white robed healers would have their own rumors to spread while they grew, they would cause new achievements to become known. The new family that Maria was the first member of would be broadcasted to many regions throughout the entire continent.

The cities that heard these accomplishments would know that the tossed away child of the Mourne family was much greater than they had even imagined. A deadly blow to the Moourne family but also a great way for Clarks' group to gain more traction. To gain even more people to stand behind them and rise against the corruption of Nova as a whole.

It seemed small now, but their little waves would become tsunamis.

"For the moment, we are going to rest. You should do so as well. Everyone here was interrupted by our exploration of your dungeon and we will gladly help hold things off. But I do believe that there are more things to learn from the unique mutations. That is why I will show you all the notes we took on them when we saw them to help you counter them in your new battle lessons starting tomorrow.

Please train with us so we can get stronger too." Clark left the stone building with the entire group behind him.

"Now that was a perfect grade. Your teamwork has grown, your mental planning is growing, and you are going to take advantage of the days you have in a healer's camp to grow. I am very proud of everyone. I will be watching guard of the dungeon for the next few days. Relax and train as you see fit." Professor Wright only stopped them for a moment.

Whether it was because she wanted the group to relax or if it was because she was too proud of her students not to give them the extra inch didn't matter. The group let themselves feel the warmth of their good work, especially because they had solved multiple problems and watched their friend take another step in life.