(Day 14)
After 2 days of walking, I found an area that I wanted to settle. It has sprawling green plains a dense lush forest and I am on the coast for easy fishing access as well.
In total the amount of area, I claim as mine would probably be 4 acres on earth in southeastern Italy.
I have been living here for 2 days now and everything has been peaceful except for the occasional wild boar that wonders near my home but that's just free food and exp so it's fine, and it didn't take me long to build my house all I did was use earth magic to shape bricks and lay them to create my home all in all everything's good, well that is until I had my first run-in with a mammoth.
Rumbling.
Crash.
Boom boom boom.
*Loud Elephant Noice(don't know how mammoths sound)*
What the hell is that! Appraisal!
[Mammoth(Adolescent)
[Age: 10]
[Gender: Male]
[Strength: Mid tier 2]
Oh my god! How strong are full-grown mammoths?!
I don't have time to waste, Ash back up and don't try to fight it!
Magic Arrow x2
- 10 mana
Fwoosh! Bang!
Fwoosh! Bang!
*Loud Aggressive elephant noises*
Rumbling! Crash!
Argh! Little fucker just ran into my house!
Fireball!
- 15 Mana
Boom!
*Dying elephant sounds*
Mana Slash!
- 10 Mana
[Ding! Host has slain Level 10 Mammoth! Level up!]
*Heavy breathing*
Shit! He destroyed half of my house! Damn it! I'll fix it later but first. Status!
[Name: Shin Midnight]
[Age: 20]
[Level: 12]
[Affiliation: none]
[Mage Realm: 2nd tier Apprentice]
[Warrior Realm: 3rd tier Apprentice]
[Strength: 34]
[Agility: 32]
[Endurance: 30]
[Intelligence: 40]
[Mana: 90]
[Skills:
[Skill Points: 5]
[Stat Points: 5]
[Companion: Ash lvl 15(adolescent dire wolf) Skills:
Nice, Ash learned a new skill! What should I put my stat points into?
…
Status! Put all 5 points into Endurance!
[Ding! Endurance: 30 -> 35]
Now let's get to work on my damn house. Stupid mammoth.
(Day 16)
It took me a whole day to rebuild my house using mana Manipulation coupled with crafting and while I was at it
So using my new skill I terraformed roughly 2 acres of land into farmland where I planted wheat, grapes, and carrots. Now all I need to live out my farmer simulator dream is some livestock. Hehe
"Alright ash let's go out and hunt, maybe you can even level up!"
Woof!
"Did a dire wolf just bark? Huh! I think I have domesticated him a bit to much. Ha, well whatever let's go.
(Forest near the settlement)
Boom! Crash! *Tree splintering noise*!
[Ding! Wild Rock Boar has been slain! Exp gained.]
[Acquired high tier 2 magic core]
[Ding! Companion: Ash has leveled up!]
[Ash(adolescent dire wolf) lvl 15]
"Nice i think ash is close to evolving I wonder what he will evolve into?"
[Ding! New Task! Help Companion Ash reach level 20!]
After the translucent box faded away, I stood there speechless because this was the first time the system has sent me a task to do which made me happy as it will help speed up my growth and ash's!
"System what is the reward for completing the task?"
[You gain the title
"Awesome! with this I could build a pack to help protect my farm and house."
"Activate
[Ding! Skill
"Great just what is was looking for, Scan for all wolves below peak tier 2."
[Ding! Detected 3 peak tier 1 wolf 300 meters away in a small cave, two are injured and one is engaged in battle]
"Crap I need to go there and help maybe it will gain me favor among them."
After that, I rushed to the location of the wolves in need of help and when I got there I saw a mid-tier 2 dire bear trying to attack, before it could connect against the wolf I moved in and used
ROAR!
Then the bear retreated back and ran but not before a could get a good cut on its eye. After that everything went quiet then I recalled the whole reason I was here and went to the cave to heal the two injured wolves, after that the younger wolf who was fighting ran to the two older ones and they exchanged affections before looking at me. I used
[Ding! The wolf family of 3 is willing to submit to you and form a master-servant contract will you accept?]
"yes!"
[Congradulations on taming 3 peak tier 1 wolves!]
[Species: Forest wolf]
[Age: 10]
[Gender: Male]
[Level:10]
[Species: Forest wolf]
[Age: 11]
[Gender: Female]
[Level: 9]
[Species: Forest wolf]
[Age: 4]
[Gender: Female]
[Level: 7]
[Inate skill:
"Hey system what is this innate skill thing? and Why are their levels so low compared to Ash and his mothers."
[Firstly an Innate skill is a skill that a creature that's a humanoid or best is born with and it usually grows alongside the holder of said skill, secondly, the reason they are so low compared to Ash and his mom is that they are normal forest wolves and it isn't uncommon for forest wolves to stay around peak tier 1 because they form intricate packs with an upwards of 50+ members and numbers make up for weak strength, judging by the level of the two wolves they were probably high in the hierarchy of the pack they were in and they either got banished for whatever reason or the pack was decimated and they parted ways.]
"hmm, I see that makes sense, hey system when will I be able to talk with my tames?"
[Name them first then find out]
said the normally mechanical system in a playful voice.
"Alright if you so insist, system I'd like to name my tames."
[What would like their names to be]
"Name the father wolf Scar for all of the battle wounds and scars on his body, Name the mother wolf Cloud for her fluffy white fur, and last name the daughter wolf Luna."
[Ding! due to having 4 named familiars, you have unlocked a new skill
-hello, can you hear me?-
-yes we can master! (Ash), I can hear you. (Luna), me to. (Cloud), mhm. (Scar)-
-great I can finally talk to you guys now Cloud could you tell me what happened to your pack if it's not too hard for you?-
-Not at all master, the reason we were by ourselves is that a group of weird humanoids that looked like you but the top of their heads are different and they were darker attacked us, originally we were a pack of 28 but they showed up and decimated us, the women and children to everyone… master, can you avenge our pack, please? I beg you to go and take vengeance for us.-
-of course, all I need is the location of where they were I'll try and track them down!-
-sob. sob. Thank you master when you are ready I'll tell you where it was.-
With that over, we returned back to my home and I showed them around and got them accustomed to the areas I want them to patrol and after that, I used my geokinesis to build an artificial cave for them.
(Day 17)
today I woke up bright and early to tend to my crops and do other miscellaneous chores around the farm that's when I got the idea to bring Luna with Ash and me for our daily hunting trip, I left the farm to Scar and Cloud and we set off.
(Forest)
*sneaking* -ok you two stay down we are going to hunt that peak tier 2 Titanoboa, first Ash I want you to use
-*in unison* Got it!-
"Now, Attack!"
Roar!
Hisss!
Boom! Crash! Bam!
Fireball!
-15 mana
*Explosion noises*
hisss! hissss!
boom!
even though the serpent was being bombarded it still retaliated and sent its devasting tail in the direction of me and that's when I unlocked a new skill by circulating the mana in my body to make me faster and escape and to my surprise, it worked very well.
[Ding! new skill
[Mana Reinforcement]
- A skill that circulates mana through the body making it tougher and faster as well as enhancing attack strength. This skill can evolve over time if experimented with. Cost 5 mana a minute.
After reading the description I had mixed feelings about this power because it could drain my mana if I'm engaged in a fight and I'm using magic but I guess it's just something else I need to adapt to over time.
After I read over the notification I focused back on the giant serpent fighting my familiars.
-Ash, Luna move I'm about to bombard it with magic arrows!-
-Roger! Ok!-
Magic Arrow x4!
-20 mana
BOOM!
Hisssss...
[Ding! Lvl 19 Titanoboa has been slain!]
[Ding! Companion Ash has leveled up!]
[Ding! Companion Luna has leveled up x2!]
[Ding! Host has leveled up!]
[Ding! Skill
"Wow, that's a lot of notifications! While I'm at it system put 3 points into agility and 2 into strength."
[Strength: 34 -> 36]
[Agility: 32-> 35]
[Ding! Companion Ash(Adult Dire wolf) has met the requirements to evolve, would you like to proceed?]
Yes!
[choose an evolution path]
- Fully developed Dire wolf
- Giant wolf
- Magic wolf
Looking over the choices I decided to rule out the first because it wouldn't give Ash the biggest power boost, next the second one I really liked since that would be the first step towards a truly powerful creature like the tempest wolf I saw that one time, and lastly the Giant wolf it sounded interesting so before I chose I looked over the description.
[Giant wolf]
- as the name implies the Giant wolf is an evolved wolf bigger then a brown bear sitting at around 2 meters on all fours, they have no magic while instead using mana to strengthen their attacks and they mostly use brute force in fights, they are good war creatures but are almost always beat out by well trained magic wolves.
At first, the Giant wolf evolution interested me but then I was surprised at how direct it was about the strength of magic wolves so instead I went with the second choose and put Ash on the path of magic.
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Authors note: thank you all for who have read my book and I hope you enjoyed the chapter, first I wanted to ask for feedback on if you wanted to see Luna's parents have an evolution that was special or one that is within the three, and lastly don't forget to send feedback on the overall book I would really appreciate it! Enjoy!