Spirit Taming

Chapter 517: Powerful Professor

The large figure of the screeching mite queen struck Clark as a monster. He knew that it was not something evil like a monster, but the vicious appearance made him relate this beast to one. Especially with the large spiked legs it had and the massive pincers that could snap through a small house with ease.

This only was more intimidating as the powerful earth affinity it had made the earth energies draw near it. "You are a very adorable little queen. Unfortunately, you are not worth collecting. But you are worth feeding to my partners."

It was odd seeing the Professor Wright just standing still. She clearly didn't intend to summon out her beasts from her taming space. Instead, she was brandishing two very slim curved blades. They followed the curve of her arm like a mantis blade would. They made Clark and the entire group shiver slightly. The feeling of death that came with them was enough.

'Queen screeching mite- rare

The queen screeching mite is a powerful earth and fire affinity beast that is able to make a large cavern in the shallow depths of a lava lake. It will lay seven eggs a month and allow those to grow and become her soldiers, workers, or grunts.

The queen must consume larger amounts of nutrients to be able to create eggs and also to be able to protect the nest. If it was to perish, then the rogue mites will start attacking one another and anything else around them.

The organs of the queen can be fed to insect type beasts to greatly improve their health along with assist in healing injuries. Furthermore, armors are made out of the exoskeleton if the materials are kept in good quality. These aremors will naturally be able to channel the insect type energies that the beast had. In this case, the earth and fire energies.

The queen must be born and mutate, then it will escape its current nest to create its own. It is very territorial and will often face enemies on its own. It is very vicious when need be. It has the usual weaknesses at its joints, but is surprisingly flexible compared to the other mites beneath it.

To raise a…'

Clark would have read more, but the queen screeching mite attempted to strike out at Professor Wright with a single spiked leg. In just the blink of an eye, everyone understood why Professor Wright was able to hold so much power.

Professor Wright had known people in every city that they had gone to. Some as friends, some as rivals, and apparently even some enemies. This had left the group wondering about what else she had accomplished in her life that they had missed. Just who the teacher was. But they had not realized just how powerful she really was.

Even after seeing the strength of her beasts, Clark had only been able to analyze a small part of Professor Wright's strength. Overall, he found her a mystery since she would hold back. Especially since she had a host of different beasts that all worked together in other ways.

The assassin beetle constantly watched over the group when they were separated along with the centipede which watched them in the wilderness.

Adding in the gnats, that was three beasts that he knew of. But he was certain there was another beast that was even more powerful hidden away within her taming space. One with strength that he could be unable to face even at his top form right now.

The sudden crack and slam as the queen screeching mites' leg fell to the ground was enough to make everyone drop their jaws. The sheer speed that professor Wright had just used surpassed what they were all capable of. Many times over. The only two that could follow it were Clark and Ella. Yet, even then, they could barely follow her movements.

The sharpness of her blades had cut through the leg joint in a perfect space. Along with this, the cut was so clean that the queen screeching mite hadn't even realized it. "Ah, I am sorry. I should not react with instinct and just cut you. Allow me to end this." The polite yet domineering tone was radically different from how Professor Wright acted most of the time.

The hands off approach seemed to be totally gone.

With another speedy leap and attack, Professor Wright had gained higher in the air and spun. Her spinning attack sliced through the exact same space on the neck of the queen screeching mite before it could react at all. It had barely begun to comprehend that its leg had been cut off. The strength that professor Wright had was much more than it could handle.

"You just needed the organs to feed your beasts, right?" Clark was casual when he mentioned this first. Eh managed to speak even before Professor Wright said anything. But to his surprise, she was clearly surprised that he knew what her intentions were.

"That would be good. Bonus points for you today Clark. I need these materials to help all of my beasts maintain their strength and to ensure they are ready to defend me at all times. That is why I said you were all capable, but I would be taking the lead today." It was a quick second before Professor Wright stored away the beast body.

Everyone was sure that it would be useful to be sold, but not that much that they would ask for it.

"I was always curious what sort of weapons you used, but I can't say that I have seen those for sale anywhere." Since It was Isa's experience that led her to ask, Ralph didn't push ahead to find out what the blades that professor Wright used were made of or where she got them. He just waited to what an answer.

"To answer you, and Ralph," Professor Wright did not ignore Ralph's attention; she knew his goal as a blacksmith. "I received this from a blacksmith after I managed to gain his attention. It was an older man that has left this world already. But he took some beast materials I had and said that my fighting style inspired him. There are always odd people out there in the world.

But I was lucky to meet a creative person who made these to fit me."

"A blacksmith that can forge weapons specifically for someone and their style is very skilled. They never deal with merchants and will have their own blacksmiths and apprentices. That is very lucky!" Isa's outburst was the same reaction that Ralph showed. But he was silent.

He had read that a truly talented blacksmith could forge things specifically for a person and would rarely bother with the outside world since they cared more for studying their own skill.

"It appears that every screeching mite has begun to fight with each other. Their queen was the key factor. This is similar to ants. I researched this, but the ants would find another queen to raise, potentially splitting the colony. The termite like beasts do not. A good note." Ella hadn't been phased at all.

She was recording information as if it was just an average day. All the surprise from before were hidden away under her calm exterior.

"Can we get moving again? I want to see what that rock mountain thing looks like. Especially since I can already spot some lava flowing around it." Brad and Reese were both fired up about this. They looked ready to fight something after seeing the display that Professor Wright had just given of her own skills.

"I would be more interested in why there are scarlet cardinals flying all over the place ahead of us." Jerold recognized the scarlet cardinal since it was a very common fire type bird. It was a beast that some people had but was known to be weak. However, it did travel in flocks as some bird beasts did.

This made it easier to hunt for those that used its feathers for arrows or other sorts of creations.

"That should be clear from the goals we have. We are venturing to a powerful fire type dungeon that is considered an isolated place. It has multiple entrances which would allow the energies within to be much stronger. They would be attracted to the entrance where they would be able to grow and nest.

They should not attack us as long as we do not touch their homes." Ella chimed in again while looking ahead with a slight smile. She had never seen a flock as large as this.

"Then we are all right on time. If there is a flock of weak beasts like that, then there should not be any trouble ahead for the time being. I will send some scouts ahead, but you do not have to worry. I feel like stretching myself a little." Professor Wright appeared to be in a very jovial mood after she had managed to gain some food for her beasts.

It left the group with an odd feeling since they rarely were left behind.