A spiritual collar formed around the neck of the baby Carnassid. It was a thin vibrant blue circle and constantly in movement as if fire. Min-Su's tattoo appeared on the back of his right hand, as expected. The technique forced it to be so. It was a small mark the size of a pellet, around half a thumb. And it depicted two giant jaws filled with this. It was a black ink tattoo.

As Hae-Hyuk observed it, he was thoughtful. A tattoo was always unique to the beast. Though there were doubles due to the innumerable beasts tamed over the eons, they were mostly considered unique. And they represented the beast tamer's belief in how he perceived his beast. The fact that a pair of jaw appeared meant that Min-Su indeed thought that the little Carnassid would become a fearsome monster.

It was fine in its own way. Hae-Hyuk would have likely thought the same. After all, why try to rear a spiritual beast if not for it to become a helpful fighter?

As for Min-Su, he was staring at the Carnassid with a weird expression. That didn't go unnoticed by his Master who asked him what was wrong. Min-Su explained: "I can hear his thoughts, Master"

Hae-Hyuk nodded as he explained: "The binding art I gave you not only enable you to become the master of the beast but to also communicate with it. It is a high-level contract art. With this, you will be able to fight alongside this Carnassid much more easily. Not only that but rearing it will be much easier too. Understanding the needs and wants of your new partner is a huge advantage for a beast tamer"

Min-Su agreed but there was still something wrong. The little beast had only one thought in his mind. He wanted to eat the beautiful white and dark strands. ...And that was Hae-Hyuk's hair. It was quite difficult for Min-Su to keep up with a voice in his head complaining about eating his master's hair.

So, he asked: "Is there a way to make the voice stop?"

Hae-Hyuk nodded and told him: "Will to cancel the telepathic link and it will happen"

Min-Su tried. And he failed. He looked at his Master with reproachful eyes. Hae-Hyuk chuckled as he told him: "Did you manage to will spiritual energy on your first try? You will need to practice. That aside, should we take this time to also bind the other two?"

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Min-Su pondered for a moment. He would be forced to hear the voices of two more baby creatures if he did so. It wasn't very appealing. However, this pain would force him to work hard in figuring out the on/off options of his link. He decided to consider it a trial to forge himself and go with it.

Hae-Hyuk had left the choice to him and having gotten an answer, he began to start the hatching process. First, he picked the two eggs and placed them on the ground. He proceeded to take out a lot of sand from his spatial ring. He drowned the eggs halfway in sand. Then, he took out two dozen emeralds and a dozen spiritual iron ore. He put them around the eggs equally. Finally, he infused his spiritual energy into the eggs.

Five minutes later, cracks began to appear. And moments later, there were holes. From them, two slippery green eel-like things came out. They made a weird metallic noise as if to greet the world. Then, they hurriedly began to eat the different ores around them. Only once they finished eating them all did they coiled themselves and rested.

Min-Su had observed the two newborn wurms since the start. He was quite unimpressed. They weren't longer or bigger than one of his arm. However, his opinion changed as he saw them open their jaws who seemed filled with rows upon rows of teeth and devour chunks of tough rocks. If they were this ferocious as newborns, what about grown-ups?

Hae-Hyuk patiently waited until they finished their meal before he told Min-Su to proceed. Now that they had hatched and successfully had a filling first meal, their birth was complete. And as such, binding could proceed. It didn't take long and it wasn't too difficult either. Min-Su was now aware of the process. Two new tattoos appeared close to the first one. They depicted circular jaws this time with only one difference between each other, the color. One was grey and the other emerald.

At the same time as they appeared, voices were heard in Min-Su's head. And they kept repeating a single word: 'Rock'. The same word on repeat, again and again. It wasn't even a minute later that Min-Su closed his eyes and began to focus on cancelling the telepathic link. He would go mad soon if he didn't manage to figure this out. This might be too much of a motivation.

Seeing his reaction, even Hae-Hyuk was slightly surprised. He did expect it to be slightly bad due to three voices appearing at once in his apprentice's head but not to the point that he would need to go right away in meditation. He couldn't blame though as he didn't have any knowledge on baby wurm taming. It wasn't his area of expertise. He was aware of quite a lot about them but not that much either. In the end, Min-Su would have to deal with it himself.

Hae-Hyuk decided to leave his disciple alone as he worked and went in a different room. It had an entire level to himself anyway.

A few hours later, Jin came to his door. As they sat down, Hae-Hyuk asked him: "So, have you decided on your spear's third element?"

Jin nodded and said: "Sharpness"

Hae-Hyuk smiled slightly as he asked him: "That's an unusual element, what brought you to pick this one?"