264 Ch. 264 Zen's Power Weakened

Dark beasts were creatures that originate from the dark realm. They were much fiercer, stronger, and harder to control than magical beasts. Even their body shape was none like average creatures in this realm.

Their builds were like a monster that did not have the brain to think neither could it control their cravings. They felt the absolute desire was to go on a rampage and destroy anything that moved or made a sound.

They should all live and linger in the dark realm, so they would not hurt humans. Just imagine that one dark beast stayed in this mortal realm, the human would meet their end more quickly.

But now Niken heard that many dark beasts appear in the mortal realm?

"How do you know that the dark beast appears in this world?"

"There is something I haven't told you."

"What is it?"

"Niken, I'm just like you… I am also a familiar master. Right now, a white wolf cub is curling next to my feet, but no one could see it apart from the other master familiars or the spirit familiar itself."

Niken gasped in shock, never thought that Kazuto was also one of the familiar's masters.

"Oh? Then what does that have to do with the dark beast?"

"The current beastmaster is still alive, and he is the one responsible for managing the balance of all the beasts in the various realms. But… he opened the portal that connected the dark realm to this world to let the beasts out of their world."

"Why did he do it?"

"To kill me."

Niken gritted her teeth at that. "Why does he want to kill you? Have you met him before? You can beat him, right? You are also a beastmaster."

Kazuto shook his head to deny all of his lover's words. "I may indeed have a familiar spirit, but I haven't undergone our union contract yet because my Alpha is still weak, and the current black Alpha is now powerful. I haven't become a beastmaster like you who haven't become a Phantasm Lord yet. My Alpha would die instantly when the black Alpha gave his basic attack."

"Is the master that strong?"

Kazuto recalled his first encounter with the beastmaster when the black supreme Alpha ate the daemons about to absorb Niken's vitality.

The black-haired man didn't do anything nor attack him, but Kazuto could still feel the man's energy strength as well as the level of his magical cultivation.

Surprisingly, he felt an intense magic pressure as if that person was a pureblood wizard. At the same time, he smelled a true pureblood werewolf.

The combination of the two different pureblood blood made Kazuto wonder… who were the beastmaster's parents? Will someday, he be able to surpass that man's strength?

Little did he know, at this time, Zen, the beastmaster, was coughing blood somewhere. Black Alpha shrank his body size to make Zen felt comfortable when he supported him. Zen could sense his power was starting to weaken.

"Master, you are pushing yourself too hard." came the worried tone from the fierce black supreme Alpha making Zen smile sarcastically.

"In the end, I failed to control them. What can we do about it? I am almost a thousand years old. My time is near. "

In truth, Zen was a pureblood wizard, and now he was nine hundred and ninety-four. A pureblood wizard could indeed live up to a thousand years, and some even become immortal and enter the eternal realm. However, it was a different case with Zen.

Zen also had the blood of a pureblood werewolf in it, so he should live longer than a thousand years. 

Zen's father was a pureblood werewolf and a wolf clan leader in the immortal realm, while his mother was the most potent pureblood wizard because he has more than two magic circles.

Born as the strongest hybrid, Zen should have no problems with age and live for more than a thousand years. What's more, both of his parents were immortals who will not die of age.

But… Zen had sacrificed his eternity to save someone. He purposely threw away his immortal life to summon a Time Master and take her to that person's confinement tower.

He did it and the Time Master he summoned managed to get the man out of the prison tube. In exchange, Zen will die when he reached the age of a thousand years old. At his current age, he only had six years before his heart stopped beating altogether.

He started to feel the effects, such as he became tired more frequently when using his strength and became more easily sleepy even though he had been asleep for more than twelve hours.

His current condition was the same as an ordinary human who was already ninety years old and above. He becomes easily tired, cannot move as swiftly as he used to, or often feels pain in his back when doing strenuous activities.

The difference was, Zen's face and body shape were still the same as when he was tens of years ago. He didn't have wrinkles or the sort that only older people have.

However, his magic energy and cultivation began to weaken as the time of his death drew near.

"You're going to let that kid take over your position?"

"He is the next beastmaster, and he is still very young. What's wrong with giving my position to him?"

"Then how about your promise with that person?"

"I do not know. Until now, that person has not appeared. He should have appeared ten years ago. He made it out of that tube and was reborn as someone else. He should have come back when he remembered his past on his eighteenth birthday and look for me. But…"

"But that person didn't look for you and disappeared without a trace."

"You're right. Is it possible, he preferred his current life and decided not to take revenge. I can't believe he doesn't want to find out where his daughter is."

"..."

"If he preferred to forget the past, why would I survive here?" Zen tilted his head towards the sky, looking like he thought of something.