The Seven Demon's Tamer

Chapter 5

The Astral Shadow Plain is made up of multiple smaller plains. About how big each of these small plains can turn out to be, it is easily three to four times greater than the biggest planet in the galaxy Ryder came from.

It can also be relatively small, like the Dracogon's domain, which is just as big as a whole country back on Ryder's planet, Terra.

On these smaller plains in the Astral Shadow, powerful beasts with incredible destructive capabilities, that are also feared by many other beasts, can create or dominate a free plain.

After creating or dominating their plains, some introduce Astral wanderers into it, making it free for any beast to enter and exit at any time, willingly.

Some other plain possessors create their plain to be more refined and exclusive, just like the Dracogon. They create their plain to be exclusively for beasts that they choose and beasts that they find worthy. In order for a beast to enter the Dracogon's plain, the beast will need to pass a trial.

Exiting any plain is very easy, but coming back into it might not be as easy, especially if the beast is a previous member that left the plain. One may exit a plain if he is banished or if it is by will, AKA—self-banishment.

Exiting an exclusive plain willingly is extremely rare for beasts. It is mostly unreasonable, but right now, Luxy had no option but to do so in order to save his host.

At least, he had a reason.

Knowing fully well he never stood a chance against an entire horde of demons and devils, he made the action.

Jaxon was quite confused at what Luxy meant by banishing himself away from the plain, but after Luxy spent some time explaining, he finally got it.

"Oh, so that is how it is then," Jaxon spoke to Luxy via his mind. Even up until now, he was still unable to move his body.

Although his body remained damaged, he could feel he was recovering.

Earlier, he was almost certain he was going to fall unconscious, but now, he was not having that feeling anymore. His eyes, which were blank previously, recovered to the extent that they were now blurry.

All the pain he was feeling as well was gone, but he still couldn't move. His broken bones, unfortunately, remained broken.

"I can guess my recovery is due to you, Luxy," Ryder continued.

"Of course." Despite being unable to see Luxy's face due to his blurry eyes, Ryder could still guess that Luxy smiled as he responded.

"I told you earlier, didn't I? All my capabilities have been cloned into you. You are capable of all that I can do.

You can heal just as fast as my healing speed, even faster if you wish, as far as you have control," Luxy explained. "Your current body is still quite foreign to you, so you might not be able to do more than using my natural agility and strength for now."

Walking towards Ryder, Luxy placed his paw on Ryder's face. Closing his eyes, Luxy concentrated, and then a soft golden glow began to radiate from his paw onto Ryder's face.

Crack Crack Crack Crack Crack

Ryder's body shifted and twisted abnormally as his bones cracked. It took a short while before the glow faded, and he stood up from the ground in a completely perfect condition.

"I am... healed!" Ryder was stunned. He was broken and lying motionlessly a few moments ago, and now, he was back up, like nothing ever happened.

"Luxy, you can heal me!" Ryder blurted. All his life, he had never heard of a beast healing his summoner like this.

"Yes, and you will be able to heal yourself just as well and as fast as that when you get used to your new body."

Looking at the horizon before him, a gust of wind swept past Ryder.

Just as expected, another foreign landscape. Ryder then questioned, "Where am I?"

Luxy walked forward, standing on two legs this time instead of four. "Well, welcome to a place where I don't know."

"You are kidding, right?"

"Of course, I am not," replied Luxy. "How do you expect me to know this place when I have been on an exclusive plain for as long as I can remember?

The only information I can guess about this place is that it is a wanderer's plain. It is free for any and every creature to go in and come out as many times as they want."

Ryder, with a fascinated stare, commented, "It looks magnificent, not like that eerie plain of the Dracogon."

The area where they both stood was the peak of one of the highlands around. On the surface of the rock, flowers encompassed it.

The flowers were beautiful, possessing an ethereal luminescent glow that changed after every short while.

"So what are we meant to do now?" Ryder asked.

"We will live here from now on," Luxy responded nonchalantly.

"What! Who among us? You or YOU?"

Turning his head slightly backward and upward to lock his crystal red eyes with Ryder's, Luxy corrected, "Both of us."

At that moment, they were both silent while the whistling wind temporarily blew past Luxy's snow-white fur.

"Luxy, are you aware that I am not from this world! I need to find a way to contract with the Dracogon and exit this world as soon as possible.

My real body is back there on my planet, lying without a soul. If I spend too long, they could assume that I am dead, and if that happens, then it is over."

"Oh, I nearly forgot about that. How silly of me," said Luxy.

"But here is the problem. You cannot pass the test the Dracogon bestowed upon you.

If you never had me, you would have never escaped death back then. Now that you have me, you still won't survive if we go back there together. So you need to somehow figure out a way to conquer that unfortunate test."

Ryder scanned the horizon silently for a while as if he was searching for something.

The plain was quite breathtaking. Distant golden clouds could be seen above with glimmering silver linings, like each of them was masking a sun.

The sky was blue, like that of planet Terra, where Ryder came from, but quite different and unique at the same time.

Where Ryder and Luxy both watched the horizon from was a particular high mountain among all the various mountains bounding the plain in a formed circle.

The living area where beasts of this plain supposedly lived was filled with greenery and flowers,just like the rock where they are standing on.

There were buildings around, although scanty, but the structures looked more human than any other structure back in the Dracogon's plain.

The shelters around were built with bamboo and wood, like in the Stone Age of humans.

This alone was enough to make one wonder just what kind of beasts lived here.

"Let's check out this settlement."