After Otso ate the wolfs and recovered, Saros got on his back and started their journey to the bear's territory, which spanned over 25 thousand kilometers, on their way, Otso warned saros that the bear king will probably not talk to someone insignificant like them, and only the generals might accept to discuss with them but will also most likely deny the request.
after a long journey, they finally arrived at the location, it was filled with mountain ranges, with high mountains reaching the sky with snow on the tip of the mountains.
'right on top of the highest mountain is where the bear king resides, he usually does not come out, making his subordinates bring him food, he puts everything on his loyal generals and sits all day, he is a laid back king, but never underestimate him, I once heard that he once got angry and flattered a small mountain out '
"Ahh, it would definitely be exciting to fight him someday'
'Yeah, someday'
before reaching the bear area borders saros descended from Otso's back, avoiding the possibility that the bears might perceive this as a disrespectful act towards them, so he walked side by side with Otso as they got deeper into the territory, many bears looked at saros with suspicion but Otso told them he took him as a mount, many were surprised but did not say anything as it was Otso's decision and they had no say in this matter.
" where are we going now?"
'we are heading to one of the generals caves'
finally, they got to one of the caves, it had a massive opening and the entrance was decorated with many different skulls and the aroma of the cave's humidity oozing outside, there were two armored white bears standing guard at the entrance, otso explained the situation to them, and one of the guards delivered the message to the general, after a few minutes he came back and allowed them to enter.
as they went inside, saros could see a bear sitting on a stone throne with a skull of a gazelle on top of the throne, the was 10 meters tall and 15 meters long, he had a black metallic fur, with 2 red horns coming out of his head and a pair of enchanting red eyes, and he wore a black and red armor that gave him a fierce look.
'Otos right? who is this human visitor, introduce me to him'
'Yes, general, this... human right here is called Saros, I met him about 3 days ago when he was looking for a cave to sleep in and stumbled upon mine, therefore we had a small fight, and he was winning and could've killed me if he wanted, but he offered me to be his mount and I accepted'
'His mount? it's never easy to tame a wild bear, good job saros, now explain to me what this very important affair you talked about is'
'it's a very big matter general, my friend here has a very unique ability that allows him to transform into beings he ate before, and he already ate a spider and a wind wolf, his plan is to take the form of a wolf and attack the spiders close to their territory and do the same with wolfs, this will create a conflict between the two sides and maybe even a war out of continues revenge. the plan is to drive our forces and attack the winning side, this will cause us to win over both of the territories, what do you say?'
'Hmph, no way!'
"what! why? this is a chance for your species to expand and flourish, why would you refuse such a thing"
'Simple, we do not need more territories, this could be a curse for us more than a blessing, some stronger forces from deep in the forest will probably take interest in a 60 thousand kilometers territory taken by strategy and not brute force, they will see us as an easy target, this is not a human kingdom where such strategies will work, actually, even in human kingdoms if such an event was to happen and a large amount of land was taken by a weak force, a greedy superpower will probably take it, never mind a forest full of wild beasts, and if you want us to just help you kill them, we will take 90% of the energy concentration and their bodies, if and you don't agree to pay this price... you can leave'
Saros grid his teeth in anger, but he could not offend such a powerhouse so he could only leave with Otos following behind
'Saros, I'm so sorry, I thought the general would agree to such a nice deal, but who would've thought he would dismiss it immediately!'
"It's okay, he makes sense in his words about the bigger powers taking interest in these lands, but then he starts spouting nonsense, 90%! no way, never... we will just have to go with plan B"
'Ohh, you have other plans?!'
"yes, my current ant command ability only gives me control over a limited amount of ants, so... I will get an ability that will grant me full control over the ants"
'But where will you get this abili- WAIT! are you implying that you want to kill the ant queen!?
"Yes, but I'm too weak right now, I'll have to evolve myself first, I'm going to hunt some spiders since wolfs are a bit harder to deal with, wait for me in my cave"
'Sigh... this really went south huh, I'll be waiting for you'
as Otos went to the cave, saros headed to the spider's area transforming into a spider and doing the usual bait technique, Saros spent two days of hunting and leveled 9 times, he limited himself to only killing 10 spiders a day and it has been working fine, and on the fourth day he finally killed the last spider which was red and black in color with red horns, he had to use multiple acid webs and gravity infused hits to finally kill it which gave him 3 levels.
Saros broke through two small thresholds during those two days, and he received two big upgrades to his body that would allow him to fight the ants with a chance to win.
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