Zok didn't pay any attention to what was in front of him. Instead, as soon as he was sure the Arachnid was dead, he left her alone and rushed towards Kaira. Her condition didn't look good at all. There were numerous gaping wounds all over her body. The spiderling had done quite a number on her.
Blood was pumping out of her body at a crazy rate. She was whimpering but there was nothing that Zok could have done for her. He wasn't someone proficient in healing techniques and at this point, he wasn't sure if even Okun could have saved her.
"There has to be something I can do to save her! I can't let her die because of my weakness..." Zok banged his fist on the ground. He was desperate to save her and in this desperation, help arrived from the most unexpected place.
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Detecting a weak pulse from the [A Grade] Direwolf.
Chances of survival: 4.56%
Recommended action: Tame the beast as a familiar.
Taming the beast would recover it from its wounds and guarantee its survival.
Required Control to tame the beast: 40.
Current balance of Control points: 65
Proceed with taming?
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"Do anything you want! Just save her!"
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Affirmative.
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Following those words, Kaira was surrounded by a brightly glowing white circle. The brightness of the circle kept growing, it got bright to a point where Zok had to avert his eyes from Kaira. Soon afterwards the glow disappeared which was followed by another message in front of Zok.
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Taming of [A Grade] Direwolf complete! EXP +1000
First beast tamed: EXP +200
First Direwolf tamed: EXP +100
Taming the direwolf has provided you with the skill: [Wolf's Claw lvl 2]
Do you want to learn the skill?
Cost: 10 Control points.
Balance: 25 Control points.
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Zok once again paid no heed to the glowing letters. Instead, he turned to look towards Kaira and her wounds had started healing on their own. Within moments she was back on her feet and tackled Zok down before licking his face as if she wanted to tear the skin off of his skull.
Zok was happy to see his partner all good but now was not the time to celebrate. Not that he was finally free from everything else, there was a lot of thinking he had to do. The first thing he wondered about was the thing that kept appearing in front of him. It gave him the power to take care of all of his problems but he wasn't sure why he received that power, to begin with.
To him, it seemed an act of God that he was able to save Kaira from the verge of death. That too without knowing a thing about what was going on. While he was thinking about it, the same thing happened again and a new window popped up in front of him.
He was back at the page called 'status plate', whatever that was supposed to mean. The numbers he had seen earlier on the table had changed a lot. Also, his level had gone from 1 to 8 in a short time, still, he didn't know what it was all supposed to mean. The only thing he understood was that the larger the numbers he saw, the stronger he became.
Then, he saw something blinking on the corner of the screen. Zok only had to think about the blinking thing and a new window opened up in front of him. This time it was something called the 'Skill list'. On the list, quite a few things were written.
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Learnable Skills:
• [Hivemind lvl 5]
Rank: A
Cost of learning: 25 Control Points.
• [Wolf's Claw lvl 2]
Rank: C
Cost of learning: 10 Control Points.
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"What does any of this even mean?" Zok yelled in frustration before madly scratching his head, "All of this is so confusing!!!"
[Would you like to view a tutorial to help you get acquainted with the Primal System?] (Author's note: Huge thanks to Zen_Time_HD for suggesting a better name for the system.)
"...sure."
As soon as Zok mumbled the word, everything went dark around him. The only thing in front of him was the awkward screen. He was back to viewing the status plate.
[This is your status plate. Here you can view all of your stats as well as the list of the abilities that you have learned. According to the classes provided to you, your stats would grow automatically depending upon the type of beast you kill. Moreover, you would also be provided with a set number of Unallocated status points every time you level up. You can use these points to increase whichever stat you want. Moreover, killing or taming beasts would also provide you with EXP, which would help you level up faster.]
The screen changed afterwards.
[This is your Skill list. Here all of your learnable skills are listed. You can obtain more skills by killing or taming a beast. Furthermore, you can learn these skills whenever you like as long as you have enough Control points to do so.]
"Okay... that seems... fine."
The screen changed once again and this time it was showing a picture of Kaira on it.
[This is the Index. It is a list of all the beasts you have tamed. You can select a beast of your choice just by thinking about them once this window is opened. Once a beast is selected their profile would open in front of you. Try thinking about your first familiar now.]
Zok did as he was told to and visualized Kaira. The following moment her profile was opened in from of him. It was similar to the one he had and only had a couple of things missing from it.
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Basic Information:
Name: Kaira
Age: 2 years
Species: Direwolf
Gender: Female
Level: 8
Exp needed to level up: 0/9000
Stats:
HP: 1000/1000
Strength: 20
Defence: 14
Stealth: 34
Stamina: 45
Agility: 55
Accuracy: 50%
The beast is evolvable.
Unallocated Stat points: 5
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[A familiar's strength will grow according to the wish of his master. Unlike you, your familiars won't get stats allocated to them automatically but will gain stats points as they level up which can be used to increase their stats. A noteworthy point is that only beings having a B or a higher Grade are evolvable. But there are some exceptions to this rule. Next up, is the inventory.]
A new screen appeared in front of Zok. But this screen was completely different from the ones he had seen so far. Unlike before, this screen didn't have a list, instead, it was divided into several small blocks.
[This is your pocket inventory. You can store up to 50 organic and non-organic materials here. It will also protect anything you place inside it from decaying. The size of the pocket dimension would increase by 10 slots every 5 levels you gain. With this, we have finished the tutorial. You can view this tutorial as many times as you would like to from your status plate.]