The Rebirth Of The Beast Tamer
Chapter 101: The Revealed Rouge Tamer

Chapter 101: The Revealed Rouge Tamer

Kelvin led the Tide’s Crest through the maze-like structure final stretch with his staff tightly held in his hand as its fire runes were blazing through the dark gauntlet that forged in the Shattered Peaks.

The journal’s revelation that revealed Cindy as the rogue tamer, manipulating Zack to taunt them with their fears has ignited a fire in his chest.

The cloaked figure’s shadow from the labyrinth lingered like a blade at his throat, urging him towards the rift to end Cribsy’s scheme.

The Verdant Hollow’s core thrummed with raw power, a compressed open passage of wood where the Veil rift tore through reality and its violet light pulsed across a ritual circle of rune-etched stones.

As they were moving Kelvin pressed his hand on Xerion’s scales and it’s heat steadied his trembling fingers, a lifeline against the dread of facing Cindy’s ritual.

Lyra moved with her shadow-etched gauntlet pulsed with the Peaks’ dark runes, gloomstalker spores, and the maze-like structure vine essence, its glow was steady despite her wounds.

Salaris with her shadow-cloaked raptor, moved through the trees and her feathers were blending with the shadows while her talons were gleaming with lethal precision.

Lyra’s side and the wounds in the arm region was bleeding through the bandages, while her face was taut with pain, but her eyes burned with determination.

"Cindy is here," she said, with a sharp voice, her gauntlet flared as she scanned the rift. "She won’t escape this time."

Immediately she said, Darius moved to Kelvin’s right with his soulstone that glows with Peaks’ soulstream gems and maze-like structure runes, his chest and side wounds were seeping through bandages, but his eyes gleamed with fierce determination.

Rhoam, his iron-plated panther moved behind and his massive paws was sinking into the earth and his plates were reinforced with Peaks’ ore that clinked with each step.

"She used Zack to mess with us," Darius growled and tossed his soulstone with a flick of his wrist. "Let’s make her pay."

Kelvin nodded and said . "We will stop her ritual now." The monitoring device in his pack buzzed and its runes flickered .....

"Rift ritual is active now and the rogue tamer is confirmed. Neutralize immediately." The Sanctum’s warning was urgent, the signal is wavering a grim echo of the Peaks’ interference, a proof of Cindy’s power over the Veil’s energy.

The glade’s stones pulsed, their red runes flared and the rift was shuddered, as its violet light surged like a heartbeat.

Cindy stood at the altar, unmasked with her dark robes filled with glowing runes and her eyes were blazing. Her corrupted griffon and its black feathers pulsed with red energy and perched beside her, its talons were gouging the stone, its screech disrupted the silence like a thunder.

"You are too late, Tide’s Crest," Cindy said, and her voice was as cold as steel, runes flared at her fingertips. "The Sanctum betrayed my mentor and left him to die in a rift. This surge will bury your precious order, and you with it."

"You played Zack to break us," Kelvin shouted, Immediately he said that his staff blazed and fire runes glowed. "It didn’t work."

Cindy laughed and her laugh was sharp, cutting through the glade. "Zack was a tool, in which I sowed doubt with pathetic fears. The Veil’s Sovereignty will crush you all."

Her griffon launched towards the sky and her wings were beating with a sonic boom, while the rift erupted, spawning riftborn wraiths, ethereal, shapeless entities that morphed into twisted forms of Zack, their families and their deepest failures.

Their hollow eyes glowed and they made a loud cry, as they behold the visions: Kelvin saw himself failing the Sanctum and its spires were crumbling...

Lyra saw her sister’s lifeless body, Darius saw his village consumed in flames and people were running around, screaming....

"Form up!" Kelvin roared, Xerion moved to the back, with his flames been ignited in a blazing arc that lit the glade. He channeled a fire Convergence through the dark gauntlet, a piercing fire lance that erupted from his staff, while slicing through a wraith’s core.

The beast dissolved in a burst of ash, but the visions were intensified, his father’s burning form appeared, while his voice was accusing Kelvin....

"You let me die." Kelvin’s heart pounded and guilt clawed at his resolve, but Xerion’s warmth surged through their bond, grounding him like an anchor.

Lyra wove a multi-layered rune net and her gauntlet trembled as shadow tendrils lashed out, pinning three wraiths to the ground.

Salaris struck from above, her talons tore through a wraith’s core, but the griffon’s sonic strike clipped her wing, drawing a sharp scream.

Lyra’s face became paled, her sister’s ghost screamed in her vision, accusing her of failure. She gritted her teeth, while blood was dripping from her shoulder as she tightened her net and her voice was raw.

"I won’t let her win!" The tendrils crushed another wraith and its core were shattered in a flash of light.

Darius fired soulstone blasts, the gem-enhanced green light exploded across a wraith and obliterated its core. Rhoam charged, his iron bulk crushed another wraith and his plates deflected a flurry of dark energy.

The griffon’s talons raked his flank, forcing him to roar, and the visions hit Darius very well, his village’s ashes swirled and Zack’s taunts echoed in the flames.

"I am done running!" he shouted, this time his blasts were precise despite the blood seeping from his side as he shattered another core.

The wraiths adapted and their forms shifted to mimic the trio’s attacks, fire lances, rune nets, soulstone blasts, which was countered with bursts of dark energy that scorched the ground.

Cindy’s runes flared brighter, amplifying the rift’s pulse and the stones cracked while the glade quaked. The griffon dove and its sonic screech slammed into Kelvin, immediately blood flowed from his nose as he staggered.

He cursed, channeling a second Convergence, Xerion’s flames roared into a fiery vortex that incinerated a wraith and its core exploded in a shower of sparks.

Lyra dodged a wraith’s mimicry of her rune net, the tendrils collapsed as a talon grazed her leg, tearing through her armor. She cried out, nearly falling, but Salaris’s talons ripped through the wraith, saving her in a blur of feathers and claws.

Darius took a direct hit, a wraith’s mimicked soulstone blasted knocking him to his knees and his concussion flared as blood dripped from his brow.

Rhoam’s charge crushed the wraith, its core bursted under the panther’s iron weight, but the griffon’s talons struck again, gouging Rhoam’s shoulder.

Darius roared, firing a desperate blast and shattered another core. "We are losing ground!" he shouted, his voice was cracked and the visions shake his resolve. "She is too damn strong!" He added.

Kelvin’s mind raced while Cindy’s runes fueled the wraiths, the rift’s pulse was deafening as the ground split beneath their feet.

The visions showed the Sanctum in ruins with his friends’ lifeless forms scattered everywhere. "No!" he roared, shaking off the images and his staff blazed. "The altar is the key! We will hit it now!"

Lyra nodded, her eyes were fierce despite the pain, weaving a shadow cage that trapped four wraiths and its tendrils were tightened like a vice.