In terms of raw strength alone, the Crystal Bird Wyvern, now promoted to a tempered individual, was not actually very strong. As a wingless Bird Wyvern Species, its bloodline had doomed it to be unable to match the Beast Wyvern Species in close combat, nor could it soar freely through the skies and breathe fire like the Flying Wyvern Species.
No matter how much it was strengthened, there was a limit.
However, the Aether Light Crystal from another world had bestowed the Crystal Bird Wyvern with a series of rather special enhancements. Among them, Immunity to Negative Status and Traps accounted for a major part, and that was the fundamental reason why hunters had found it so difficult to hunt in the original quest.
The Leshen's Beast Dominance was extremely powerful. Almost no monster below an Apex Individual could resist it, and a comparatively weak species like the Crystal Bird Wyvern had no choice but to submit.
Yet as long as the Crystal Bird Wyvern maintained its pose of clutching the Aether Light Crystal, the effect of that domination was forcibly reduced to mere communication and a higher initial level of favorability.
Likewise, Cheng Tian's Beast Tamer effect, which had a Special Effect on other beasts, could not truly fool the Crystal Bird Wyvern. But unlike the Leshen, Cheng Tian, as one of its "kind," had offered actual payment.
Although the Crystal Bird Wyvern's intelligence had also been enhanced somewhat by the crystal, beastly instincts still prevailed most of the time. At the moment, there were probably only three things in its head—
Eating dragon eggs, smashing deer heads, and the Chocobo Song.
As a Leader Template, the Leshen should not have been knocked unconscious so easily. However, while the Aether Light Crystal granted the Crystal Bird Wyvern a sturdy-shield