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The recent enlightenment that Akailu had gotten made him feel like an idiot due to how simple the answer was that he was looking for all this time.
He struggled to become like Owen, who had awakened the true ascended abilities of a Sacred Neanderthal and became a true Ascended Being.
He was too obsessed with becoming like that while also blindly copying Leonard, who could let his Elemental Spirits possess him during the battle.
Beast Fusion was one of the main abilities of his class and race, which also became one of his signature techniques up until now. But it was not the only core ability that he had. It was just one of the many abilities that were unique to his race and class.
He was a Spirit Beastmaster who could capture, contract, and summon beast pets during his battles to assist him. He could also fuse with them to further enhance his overall stats and abilities in the process.
