There was nothing he could do about them at the moment, as they would have to figure out this by themselves. He could only satiate their hunger at the moment.
With those thoughts in mind, after taking care of all these things, he finally once stabilized his state once again and left Gaia for the outside.
After taking care of the titanic cat this place seemed to have regained his peace and calm, as this time he could even see a few other animals drinking water beside the river.
Not wanting to startle them he immediately got down on the ground, as he prepared his magic traps for them.
The only thing he could use right now was the water hit, and Earth trap, anything besides that was either too difficult for him to perform, or it would consume him more than half of his Magic Power.
So, he had to work only with these two, and reach the best results he could. This time though he wouldn't make the same mistake again, to attract the attention of more powerful animals or beasts.
After 10 minutes he now had two additional animals in his hands, one looked like a wild pig of sorts, only that his teeth were much bigger, and he could dig through his earth trap.
He had spent a lot of time, and sweat in order to capture him, as he had used the water strategy once again, and drowned the animal in the water.
The other animal was some kind of fox, he had easily put this thing inside his Earth trap, but knowing that no animal was simple on this new planet, he didn't dare to take it lightly.
For that reason, he left that thing inside his earth trap and was thinking of opening it only when he entered inside Gaia, there it had no way of escape no matter what specialty it had.
The only thing that gave him a bit of rest of mind was the fact that even though the animals in this world had their own mutations, they were still almost the same as those on Earth.
In fact, it would be more exact to say that this planet had all the animals found on Earth and some of their mutations.
Because in the memories of his Master, and old Roy there were memories of normal Earth animals as well.
After that, he went to take a look at his traps. It had passed more than a few days so there must be some catch in there.
To his bad luck, there wasn't as much, there were traces of most of the catch being eaten though, so it was most probably that damned cat once again.
He didn't know if he should feel pity, or curse that damned cat for messing with him, and his life, but anyway what was gone was gone, there was no way he could bring it back.
Furthermore, he already had more than 200 kilograms of meat from the titanic cat. That would keep him alive for some time.
Even the fish trap wasn't as full as he imagined it, but it was nonetheless not empty. The good side of it was that there were a lot of small fish in there, that he couldn't wait to grow up.
Taking care of the meat, he started collecting whatever herbs, grass, or fruits that he could find in the surroundings.
The meat was great, but eating only meat the whole time would make him eventually hate it, and wouldn't be good for his health either.
There was a lot of useful information on the old Roy's memories about most of the herbs in the forest, as this guy had been a true nerd.
And for those that he didn't have, he would have to go through the old method that humanity discovered everything, by trial and error.
After going through what he went through inside Gaia, and the base of the stone obelisk he had become totally sure that that place would cure any illness or poison it existed.
No matter what, it had healed his body as brand as new, even when he had clearly felt most of his bones crack, and crumble, while his inner organs had ruptured.
This was one of his biggest trump cards, no matter how injured he was, and no matter how close to death he was, as long as he had the necessary mana to return to Gaia, he would definitely survive.
This was his biggest cheat ability, and while he didn't plan on ever ending up in a near-death state, he nonetheless considered it as a big cheat ability.
It took him 4 weeks of going back and forth with Gaia and the outside world, for him to collect all that he thought to be necessary ingredients to last him for the time he would spend inside Gaia training, and cultivating.
The population inside the altar grew quite a bit, as even the small animals started growing bigger and bigger.
He could easily spend more than one year inside Gaia without problem with all the food and the ecosystem he had built up in there.
-- 1.5 years later –
It took Roy much more than he thought in order to dissolve his Magic Power clouds in his Dantian area, and then replace them, while he continued training his physical body at the same time.
But finally, he was able to make it happen, and now he had become a Rank 1 Mage once again, and a Rank 1 warrior.
His rank was definitely below his previous one, but his strength, power, Magic Power capacity, and fight prowess were much higher than him of rank 2.
In fact, looking through old Roy's thoughts he knew that the strength and fighting prowess he had right now, was infinitely close to a Rank 3 Mage or Warrior.
There was a different way to refer to the ranks on this planet, it was related to the royal titles. It started from Rank 1 as an esquire, to Rank 9 as Emperors.
Every Rank 9 Mage or Warrior was an Emperor in and of itself, but not all the Emperors on this planet were Rank 9.
If one went through normal logic, Roy was now a Mage Esquire, and a Warrior Esquire at the same time.
If he were home, in his own Empire he would get the resources and payments from both big departments the Warrior department and the Mage department.
Even though it would be a lot in the eyes of other people, in his eyes it was nothing more than a drop compared to the ocean.
The space ring that the old Roy carried with him, had more than 10 million gold coins of his kingdom, and a lot of water element crystals, inside.
Even without consulting with the Old Roy's memories, he knew that this was already a lot of money and that he carried a fortune on himself.
But what would you expect from a pampered little prince after all? It was more than normal considering his position, and his treatment.
That fortune was useless at the moment though, as he was unable to use it in this forest. The only thing he could use right now was his strength, and fighting prowess.
He knew that at the moment he was practically useless in a real fight, as even though he had fought with his grown animals inside Gaia he still needed more practice.
That wasn't all, he also needed to form his killing intent, he knew that his way towards the peak of the food chain wouldn't be an easy and clean one, so he had to start from somewhere.
After killing all those animals to keep himself alive, he already had an idea of his killing intent, but at the same time, he didn't know how he would react in front of another human being.
He didn't know if he had the galls, or balls to take another human life, and the more hesitant and reluctant he was, the more was he going to suffer.
He knew all this, but yet it wasn't that easy to come to peace with such a thing. After all, he would be taking another human life.
So, in order to get better with his killing intent, and get used a bit more to killing, he decided to get some real-life experience, as he killed a few more animals and beasts.
He wasn't alone on his hunt though, as the moment that he had started cultivating Magic Power with the new technique, he had used a blood binding technique from his Master's memories, and bounded all his animals.
Normally a Mage or a Warrior wouldn't be able to carry many successful blood-bonded animals, as the animal's, or the beast's resistance would be just too powerful for them to bear.
And they could only bond with one or two at the most on average, but since Roy had practically grown these beasts himself, they were more than happy to bond with him, as they saw him as family.
Now he had 9 Rank 1 beast titanic cats, 2 Rank 1 sharp-toothed wolves, and 1 Rank 2 illusory fox as his bonded beasts.
The ability of the little fox he caught at first was illusory arts, it released some special pheromones that made the target look at illusions, while it sliced its throat with its nails.
If it wasn't for the stone obelisk and his tenacity, he would have died from this little fox, but fortunately, he hadn't, and they had started to get friendly along the way.
All these things saw him as the head of the pack, and none of them fought with each other without his permission.
This was a hunt for all 13 of them, after so long closed inside the 'home' in Gaia, they could finally hunt in nature once again.
They hunted happily, until at the start of the 7th day Roy was faced with a strange situation…