Chapter 697: Upgrade Time

'Huh?'Suddenly, Leo turned his head and looked at the spot where two silhouettes were standing a few moments ago.

However, the two silhouettes had already disappeared without a trace after deciding to inform Leo's abilities to their so-called Gate Master.

'Were someone standing there? Or am I just imagining things?'

Leo had a bad feeling about it; however, he didn't see anyone and thought that he was being overly cautious.

He had already seen the group of Shadow Syndicate Members while fighting the Blood Wolves; however, he didn't bother too much about them because he had already decided to kill them after dealing with the Blood Wolves.

He waited until masked men made a move before appearing in front of them with his Teleport and summoned a dozen contracted beasts to take care of them.

While his beasts were taking care of the masked men, Leo felt like he was still being observed by someone and hurriedly checked his surroundings only to find nothing.

Nevertheless, soon, he shook his head and thought that he was being overly cautious and focused on the Masked Men in front of him.

"Kacha"

'Swoosh'

'Puchi'

Leo's contracted beasts didn't give them any chance to summon their beasts or use any of their talents before they got killed.

'Swoosh'

'Swoosh'

Soon, familiar shining orbs started falling out of their bodies before turning into light particles.

'Huh? Why more than one Essence Orbs are falling out of their bodies?'

Leo frowned for a moment as he picked them out and soon, he got the answer to his question.

'These might be the Beast Essence Orbs from the contracted beasts of this Masked Men.'

That's right!

Since the masked men stored their contracted beasts in their Tamer's Space, with their death, the contracted beasts were also killed without Leo doing anything.

Nevertheless, he still got the Beast Essence Orbs from those contracted beasts, giving Leo a pleasant surprise.

'With these many beast essence orbs, another two beasts could reach level 10 Gold Grade.'

Leo picked up all the Tamer Essence Orbs and Beast Essence Orbs and started checking their information.

…..

Tamer's Essence Orbs,

Level 3 Gold Grade: 3.

Level 4 Gold Grade: 4.

Level 5 Gold Grade: 3.

Level 1 Purple Grade: 1.

….

Beast Essence Orbs,

Level 1 Purple Grade: 1.

Level 8-10 Gold Grade: 5.

Level 4-7 Gold Grade: 8.

Level 1-3 Gold Grade: 10.

Level 8-10 Silver Grade: 10.

…

A total of 11 Tamer's Essence Orbs and 33 Beast Essence Orbs were stored in his Storage Bracelet.

"With these 10 Silver Grade Beast Essence Orbs, all my Silver Grade Beasts would reach level 10 Silver Grade."

After collecting his spoils of war, Leo returned to his peaceful place from before and tossed the Silver Grade Essence Orbs at his Silver Grade Beasts like, Space Moon Hound, Crystalwing Butterfly, Giant Storm Eagle, and Verdant Hawk.

"Thank you, master."

'Screech'

'Wissh'

'Eeek'

The beasts were excited and received the Silver Grade Beast Essence Orbs depending on their strength.

The lower the strength, the more essence orbs that beast would receive and Leo's goal was to make them reach level 10 Silver Grade Beasts.

'Now, it is time to select more Gold Grade Beasts to make them level 10 Gold Grade Beasts.'

Soon, Leo looked at the group of Gold Grade Beasts and started his selection.

"Phoenix Eagle, and Frostwing Dragon, I choose you."

Leo didn't have to think much as he selected the two beasts that were born in the Heaven Class.

The stronger they become, the more powerful their skills would be. Hence, Leo didn't have to think much about selecting them.

Leo gave 13 level 4-10 Gold Grade Beast Essence Orbs to both of them and believed that both the beasts could reach level 10 Gold Grade.

'I still have 10 level 1-3 Gold Grade Beast Essence Orbs left with me.'

After thinking for a moment, Leo gave one Beast Essence Orb to each one of his beasts that didn't use the Essence Orbs until now.

'Even though they can't increase their strength by much, they will be happy.'

Looking at the excited look in the eyes of those beasts that got only one Beast Essence Orb, Leo could not help but bitterly smile.

Nevertheless, as long as they were with him, he would help them become more powerful.

Be it evolving them or giving essence orb or even injecting God Energy, Leo had already decided to help them in one or the other way.

'Now, it is time for me to increase my strength.'

Looking at the Tamer's Essence Orbs in his Storage Bracelet, Leo could not help but become excited.

Even though Leo learned that he could increase his level using God Units, it would be very costly and he preferred to use the Tamer's Essence Orbs.

'I thought I should wait until I complete my mission of collecting the third system fragment before focusing on collecting the Tamer's Essence Orbs; however, who would have thought that the Shadow Syndicate would be so generous to deliver him with 11 Tamer's Essence Orbs.'

For Leo, getting the system fragment was the urgent goal that he had set for himself; however, now, he had the Tamer's Essence Orbs with him.

Hence, he could use them to increase his rank.

'With this many Gold Grade Tamer's Essence Orbs, I am confident in becoming a level 10 Gold Grade Beast Tamer.'

Currently, Leo has two Tamer's Spaces. One is ranked at level 2 Gold Grade whereas the other one was ranked at level 7 Gold Grade.

Since he was only three levels away from upgrading one of his Tamer's Space to level 10 Gold Grade he was excited and confident in becoming a level 10 Gold Grade Beast Tamer.

'It's a pity that I don't have many Hatching Stones and I can either choose to help Howler become a Purple Grade Beast or help myself become a Purple Grade Beast Tamer. I can't do both.'

Looking at the 10000 hatching stones in his Storage Bracelet, Leo bitterly smiled.

'Compared to me, I should let Howler become a Purple Grade Beast.'

Leo didn't have to think much as beasts would be more powerful than the Beast Tamers in the same rank.

Moreover, Celestial Forest Howler was a Heaven Class with some extraordinary skills.

With that thought in mind, Leo sat down and started absorbing the energy from the Tamer's Essence Orbs to increase his level in the Gold Grade.

Of course, he didn't forget to order some of his contracted beasts to be on the lookout duty.

Since they are currently in the most dangerous place in the world, anything can happen and hence, they have to be careful.

Moreover, Leo had already cleared all the Purple Grade Beasts in the area of the Blood Valley and he didn't think any Gold Grade beast would dare to attack them.

...

While Leo and his beasts were increasing their strength using the Essence Orbs, the two silhouettes that watched Leo's performance and abilities while fighting the Blood Wolves returned to the gate of the Beast Sanctuary.

"Master…master."

The silhouettes hurriedly called the lazily sleeping old man in front of the Beast Sanctuary's gate.

"Huh?"

The old man woke up from his sleep and looked at the two masked men who were gasping for breath and frowned before asking,

"What happened? Aren't you supposed to be watching that brat Leo or whatever his name is? Why did you come back already?"

"M-master, that young man Leo is not normal."

One of the masked men replied but still he was gasping for breath so he didn't say anything in a single go.

As soon as they saw Leo and his dozens of beasts fight the Blood Wolf Kings and Blood Wolves and his ability to collect the Beast Essence Orbs, the two masked men who were supposed to watch Leo hurriedly rushed back to inform their master. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ ɴøvᴇlFɪre.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

Their master was none other than the gatekeeper of the Beast Sanctuary who helped Leo and other youngsters awaken their talents.

It was the duty of the gatekeepers to keep an eye on the young beast tamers who were not normal and thus the old man had sent his servants to keep an eye on David and Leo.

"Huh? I know that. Isn't that the reason why I asked you to keep an eye on him?"

The old man scoffed at them and asked, "Keep it short and tell me everything about what you witnessed."

Even though he scoffed at his servants, the old man could tell that his servants had witnessed something and that's the only reason why they rushed back while huffing and puffing.

"Master, we were keeping an eye on Leo and do you know where he went after returning to his home?"

One of the servants started explaining with a question as he answered himself, "He entered Blood Valley where even the Gold Grade Beast Tamers would be killed within 100 meters after entering."

"What? He entered the Blood Valley? Is he seeking death?"

The old man frowned as he looked at his servants and signalled them to continue.

"At first we are a little hesitant to enter the Blood Valley as we don't have much combat power to protect ourselves."

"However, we still entered and saw that Leo summoned more than 15 beasts from his tamer's space and beast storage token and started killing the Gold Grade Beasts and even killed five Purple Grade Blood Wolf Kings."

The two servants briefly mentioned all the events they witnessed while following Leo.

"However, the most shocking thing was, the beasts killed by his beasts could leave behind Beast Essence Orbs."

Finally, they informed the old man about Leo's shocking ability that made the Old shocked; however, soon, he revealed an evil smile and muttered, 'I have to find out his secret and make it mine at any cost.'