Talent Swallowing Hero

As the members of the secret organization, they were trained to endure torture, so that, the information about the secret organization would not be revealed.

Just like the leader, the two other members decided not to say anything about their organization.

However, the moment they saw Leo put their blood-coloured mask on his face, they felt a shiver run down their spine because they recognized Leo's other identity.

From the rumours they heard about the Talent Swallowing Hero, the two men felt it was better to answer his questions when he asked nicely rather than when he becomes a monster and swallows their talents.

Previously, he was only a rank 9 hero; however, now, he was a level 2 supreme hero.

So, how could they not fear him?

"W-we belong to the 'League of Beast Masters'."

The two men said in unison with a voice full of fear.

"League of Beast Masters?"

Except for the 'Order of the Black Tower', Leo didn't know the names of the other secret organisations; however, since both men said the name at the same time, Leo didn't doubt they were lying.

"Idiots…stop speaking. Do you think he is the Talent Swallowing Hero?"

On the other hand, the leader of the group shouted at his subordinates, "Just because someone has a blood-coloured mask doesn't mean he is a Talent Swallowing Hero."

After the Talent Swallowing Hero became famous, many tried to impersonate him for their benefit; however, most of them were killed and the remaining never dared to impersonate him.

So, the leader of the group thought Leo was also one of the impersonators and tried to make his subordinates' mouths shut.

"Don't worry. I will give you a little show before asking other questions."

Since the two men feared the Talent Swallowing Hero more than he imagined, Leo felt it would be very easy to get answers from them.

'System, extract the talent.'

Leo walked towards one of the two corpses that he killed earlier and used [Talent Swallowing Ability].

'Ding,

Extracting the Talent [Beast Tamer].

Soon, the corpse twitched a little and a grey-coloured crystal condensed in front of Leo.

"See…this is how I got the name Talent Swallowing Hero."

After saying those words, Leo swallowed the talent crystal in a single gulp.

'Ding,

The host awakened a new talent [Beast Tamer].

'Ding,

Talent Name: Beast Tamer, (Level 1).

Talent Type: Normal / Rare

Effect: 1) The user has a 10 percent chance of taming the beasts.

2) There is a 1 percent chance of awakening one of the tamed beasts' skills.

Note: 1) The above chances are applicable for the beasts that have the same level as that of the talent.

2) As the number of tamed beasts under the user increases the chances of the two effects decrease.

In less than a minute, Leo awakened a talent and the information about his new talent was also projected in front of him.

'Even though it was a normal type of talent, it is still a rare one. But….'

Leo didn't finish his words because when he thought that he had encountered five men with this talent despite being rare, made him shake his head.

'Anyway, despite being a normal talent, it already has two effects and compared to the first effect, the second effect is quite interesting.'

Even though the probability of awakening one of the tamed beasts' skills was quite low, Leo knew it would increase as the level of talent increased.

'I think I could afford to do some little experiment.'

Earlier, when he saw the five men had the same talent, Leo got an interesting idea; however, he hesitated a little.

However, when he saw that this talent has two effects at level 1 and both of them were good, Leo decided to try his experiment.

'System, reset the cooldown for the [Talent Swallowing Ability] and extract the talent from the second corpse.'

Soon, Leo started extracting the second [Beast Tamer] talent while keeping an eye on the three men.

….

"Boss, he is really the Talent Swallowing Hero."

"He is extracting his talents so openly. I don't think he will let us go. So, there is no need to answer any of his questions and prepare to die."

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After witnessing Leo swallowing a talent crystal condensed from their fallen colleagues, the three men didn't have any doubts about Leo's identity.

However, the leader tried to convince the other two members to shut their mouths as he knew that the Talent Swallowing Hero would kill them sooner or later.

There was a reason why no one knew about the Talent Swallowing Hero's identity and it was because he killed everyone who knew about it.

However, the two men were still in a dilemma as they didn't know what to do.

….

'Ding,

The host awakened a talent [Beast Tamer].

'Ding,

Detected that the host has similar talents. Do you want to merge it?

With the help of the [Talent Merging Ability], Leo could even merge two completely different talents and skills without any problem.

So, he was not surprised to see the second notification.

'However, it is still not the time to merge them.'

However, Leo didn't merge them as he had other plans.

"Now, since I took some effort to confirm my identity, are you going to answer my questions?"

Leo looked at the two men because he didn't have any hope that the leader would be answering his questions.

'From what I have seen so far, the leader seems to be so loyal to his organization, if I can crack him down, I will get a lot of information.'

Leo silently thought in his head as he waited for the answers from the two subordinates.

"If you promise us…."

"So, you are choosing the hard way?"

Leo didn't wait for them to finish their words as he could already guess what they wanted.

Therefore, he didn't waste any time and used his talent [Haunting of Ecstasy] on the leader.

'Swoosh'

Soon, the leader of the group fell into a nightmare.

Leo didn't have any plans of wasting his energy on the two subordinates because they might not know many things about the secret organization since they easily blurted out the name of the organization the moment they saw the Blood-coloured mask.

Nevertheless, Leo felt that as long as he tortures their leader using the talent [Haunting of Ecstasy], the two subordinates choose to answer his questions.

"I will let you two witness the pain and misery of your leader."

With an evil smile under his mask, Leo continued, "If you don't want to go through the same nightmare, you can answer my questions for an easy death."

Time continued to pass and in less than a minute, the leader of the group started groaning in pain.

'Aargh…this is just a nightmare…I can endure this. Nothing is real…nothing is real.'

Surprisingly, the leader figured out that he was currently experiencing a nightmare.

"You are much stronger than I thought."

Leo praised the leader for having strong willpower.

"However, it will only make things easy for me and difficult for you."

In the next second, Leo changed the scenario playing inside the leader's head with an evil smile on his face.

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