This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

"Jin! If we take care of most of its puppets, do you think that you and the other second years can kill the green-grade spider?"

Jin immediately nodded without hesitation. None of the top 5 students of each year should have much trouble contending against spiritual creatures one level higher than themselves. And while the gap in strength between levels increases with each step, working together as a group they should be able to take it down.

The most annoying part of fighting this spider would have been fighting against its hundreds of controlled spiritual creatures moving in sync. Since Kain and the other first-years promised to take care of the puppets so they would not interfere in their battle, he was even more sure that they could achieve success.

After all, this wouldn't be the first green-grade spiritual creature the top 5 second-years had hunted down together as a group.

Every time it was challenging and there were injuries, but never any casualties.

Jin called together the other top 5 students of his year including Alexei, who looked even more pale than usual due to his injured contract, and 3 girls that Kain hadn't yet been introduced to. One of the girls only paled slightly in beauty compared to Serena and sported pink hair and eyes. Another had black hair and tan skin, with eyes that were deep, hypnotic violet.

The last had a valiant atmosphere and long wildly curly hair that was a fiery blend of gold and red and framed piercing golden eyes.

They huddled together briefly, likely to come up with a game plan, but they didn't need long considering their familiarity with each other's abilities.

At the same time, Kain and the other first-years began to attack the "puppets."

"Focus on damaging the brain. If you damage other body parts they will still be controlled to move by the spider. Destroying the brain is what will keep them down for good." Kain shared his knowledge of the mental-attribute that he'd collected over time working with Bea.

The spider was of mental attribute, not controlling the undead, therefore destroying their minds was what they needed to do to defeat them, targeting other body parts was a waste of time.

However, for the controlled guards, the best they could do was tie them up for now.

Thankfully, even though the beast-tamers were controlled, their contracts weren't.

While some of their contracts mindlessly followed their beast-tamer's directions to betray the humans, some of the smarter ones realized that their beast-tamer was being controlled and continued to help the humans to maintain order or even took the initiative to tie up their contractors so that they would not do something that they'd regret later once they were of sound mind.

Following Kain's instructions they all went about taking care of the puppets. Kain used Bea to restrict the strength of the orange and yellow-grade spiritual creatures.

Unfortunately, she was unable to just kill them directly, but since she was at the threshold to break through to orange-grade, and could do so as soon as she evolves, she still exerted a strong control effect over orange-grade spiritual creatures.

Many of the weaker ones immediately collapsed while convulsing, while the stronger ones, and many of the yellow-grade spiritual creatures, appeared drunkenly unsteady on their feet.

With their fighting strength reduced. Kain's remaining Vespirae guards were easily able to dispatch all of the orange-grade spiritual creatures and ganged up on the remaining yellow-grade ones to hammer them to death alongside the others who saw the weakened yellow-grade spiritual creatures once Kain. Retracted the mist.

At the same time the first years were following the pattern of a mist covering a large area to infect the attackers and then retracting the mist to blast the weakened foes to death, the second years' contracts had approached the most powerful target, the "puppet master" spider.

Alexei's main fighting force and strongest contract, the yellow-grade blood-red spider was still recovering from its severe injuries and so did not join in. Since orange-grade spiritual creatures would usually be useless against an enemy at this level, Alexei only had one more contract that he could use, his second strongest contract, a yellow-grade white albino snake with blood-red eyes.

Suddenly through Kain's connection with Bea, Kain could sense that many of the infected puppets closer to the white snake suddenly had their blood boiling. And then…

BAM!

All of the controlled spiritual creatures in the snake's immediate vicinity exploded and rained down scorching hot blood. Hot blood that Kain could see was being absorbed by the snake through its scales. Kain could see it wiggling in pleasure at the hot bloody bath.

The blood-boiling effect also seemed to exert a slight effect on the green-grade spider who was now staring daggers at the snake while its legs were shaking slightly in discomfort.

Meanwhile, Jin also sent his two yellow-grade contracts to circle around its sides and launch attacks at the spider who was distracted.

One contract was a fire-attribute tiger larger with a robust and muscular body, and a blazing orange coat with stripes that seemed to flicker like flames as it moved. It had piercing eyes that were a bright yellow at the edges that darkened to a crimson red closer to the black pupil.

Its sharp black claws also left scorching marks on the earth wherever it moved showing that just a casual swipe from it would have a devastating burning effect.

The other wind-attribute tiger was more slim and graceful in its movements. Its fur was a soft, silvery-blue that shifted in hue as it caught the light, creating the illusion of constant movement. Its stripes were more delicate and wispy, like gusts of wind that blended seamlessly with the coat. Its clear, sky-blue eyes also appeared to have a high amount of intelligence as it studied its target.

In practiced unison, both tigers struck at the same time, targeting one of the spider's back legs to hinder its movements.

The colossal spider then sank down with an enraged screech before sending even more threads out, the majority now targeting the second years and their contracts.