Swift was sprinting atop cars littering the road. Jumping car to car like mimicking the wind. Like a hawk he watched for enemies.
All he passed was cars covered in rust and houses losing their paint, covered in vines.
He suddenly stopped seeing a couple of lv 5 NurealRats. 3 ft tall brown rat like monsters. The body of a raccoon, tail of a rat and face of a beaver. They have a minor paralyzing poison in their bite.
{They haven't noticed me yet}
He quickly slide off a room of a car, positioning the car between him and the NurealRats. They were chewing on the wood of a porch to the house. It was already half eaten. The door was chewed off showing a nest, almost like a birds nest, inside the house.
{Great. They made a den. NurealRats are known to live along the coasts of the world. I should message Grimm to see if he can make the minor poison resist potion.}
He messaged Grimm saying he found a NurealRat nest and they will need some minor poison resist potions for the future. Grimm said he'll make sure to get the ingredients and good luck hunting.
He closed the message and opened up his stat page.
{ Well I have six skill points and need to boast myself. I think I'll use four points for a new and I'll save the last two just in case.}
SwiftCodex lv9
Hp 375 Mana 160
Str 18 Dex 36 Con 20 Int 13 Mnd 12 lck 21
Wind Strike- able to use your sword and harness the power of air to make a ranged attack. Air becomes an extension of the blade, and just as sharp.
{Perfect. Now I should be able to de—}
Cutting his train of thought off he watched as a NurealRat BroodMother with a half eaten NurealRat baby in its mouth.
NurealRat BroodMother
Lv 16 Hp 600 Mana 170
{ Well fuck. That complicates things. There were no enemies back from where I came. I should use my new skill to kill some and then [kite] them away. Five rats and the mama. I should be able to do this.}
Swift jumped back up on the roof of the car next to him slashing his swords in the air activating his new skill. Two invisible streams of air flew towards 2 of the five NurealRats. As they turned towards the sound he made 2 of the rats heads slid off as they turned.
Squish
The sound of the heads falling to the ground broke the silence between the two enemies. In an instant the rats started screeching and charged towards Swift. The lower half of the baby rat was swallowed by the BroodMother. She pulled her cheeks and spat the bones at Swift.
Pat Pat Pat
Swift used his swords to try and slice some of the bone pieces, while taking some damage.
He launched more strikes of air killing one more rat but missing the other and swiftly turning on heels to start running.
The rats followed closely after him. The 2 remaining chased after him on either side of the row of cars as he hoped from roof to roof. The BroodMother started to eat the fallen rats and spiting the bones back at Swift as he ran. He jumped down to take some cover between the cars from the BroodMother. Bones shot through the metal of the cars. Glass was breaking around him as he used Sonic Dodge to dodge but still taking damage.
{Fuck I'm so close to leveling up. Just need two more kills and that should do it}
Diagonally to his left is the BroodMother, in front of him is a NurealRat and to his right on the other side of the car is the other Rat
{going to cut it close with this one}
With his left hand he activated Sonic Slash and with his right hand he used Wind Strike.
His left sword swung down slashing at the rat from the right shoulder through to its left hip. Cutting it in half. With his right sword he swung slashing a blade of air cutting a clean horizontal cut through the car, cutting the glass clean in half without shattering and cutting the other rat in half through the eyes.
{Finally! Just need to make some room to level up and then deal with the BroodMother}
Swift started to sprint away while looking back seeing the BroodMother eating the rats.
{Better stay close so it'll still follow me}
He jumped on a car making as much noise as he can before running into the nearby woods.
He opened his tab trying to make a quick decision on what to do. While looking he noticed something move in a bush not far from him. He closed the tab holding the swords up seeing a green monster step outside the bush.
Baby DinoGator
Lv 4 Hp 300 Mana 40
It stood 5ft tall with all four of its limbs on the ground not yet able to stand on its back legs fully. It looked at Swift with hunger in its eyes.
{Fuck. When did Lazy rub his luck on me?! Hope it's not the child of the one we killed. Maybe I can catch it}
He quickly turned running up the tree behind him as the baby DinoGator charged at him missing the tail of his scarf and biting the tree. Opening the jobs tab he quickly scrolled down finding the pet trainer job and purchasing it.
{Thank goodness I saved those points. I'll move my last point into my con stat}
Swift pulled out the lasso from his newly acquired pet training bag. Jumping off the tree he lassoed the rope around the Dinos mouth while jumping on its back. It started to buck and try to knock him off. While doing this a bar appeared in front of his eyes.
Taming Process 10%
Taming Process 30%
Taming Process 50%
{almost there}
The baby Dino started to slam Swift into the trees around them dealing damage trying to get him off.
Taming Process 70%
Taming Process 90%
Taming Process 100%
Successful Tamed. Please name your pet.
{Oh fuck yes!! I will name you Tantrum}
Tantrum
Lv 4 Hp 300 Mana 40
Str 22 Dex 18 Con 24 Int 10 Mnd 9 Lck 2
Tantrum started to calm down. Swift started to take the the lasso off and turn them into reins.
"Okay Tantrum. Once our fight is over I'll get a saddle for you. Won't hav to hurt my balls anymore" he moved the reins to direct Tantrum towards the direction of the BroodMother. As soon as he started moving a tree was blown apart by shooting bones. As it fell the BroodMother walked out looking more vicious.
Enraged NurealRat BroodMother
Lv 18 Hp 700 Mana 170
It screeched at the two of them shooting bones while charging. Bones pierced the scales of Tantrum while it hissed in pain instantly charging the monster. Swift used his swords to block some of the bones from him and Tantrum but not being able to protect Tantrum as much as him. Swift launched two wind strikes at the monster. Barely able to break the hide of this beast, only leaving two scratches. Tantrum activated Swift's swift as the wind ability closing the distance between the two instantly. Swift was caught off guard seeing a monster able to use his ability. Not even in-game could a monster do that. The BroodMother bit down on Tantrum dealing massive damage to it. In return Tantrum also used Swift's Sonic Slash for its bite while Swift did the same with his swords. Swift held his two swords together slicing down on the left side of the monster while Tantrum bit down on the other side. Swift jumped off of Tantrum dashing a few yards away. As he turned around he saw Tantrum [deatnrolling] the monster on the ground. He stood watching for a couple seconds as Tantrum let go, letting the BroodMother stand up. It was covered in blood in dirt. Swift saw his chance. He launched two more wind strikes, charged following close behind readying his swords to use sonic slash as well. Almost like they were in sync with one another Tantrum rushed forward using sonic slash for its bite.
The wind strikes cut off the arms off the BroodMother. Tantrums bite pierced through the chest of the monster while Swift's blades slashed through the neck of the monster decapitating it.
Swift wiped the sweat off his brow watching Tantrum eat the corpse of the monster.
"Wow. That was amazing. So fucking glad I got you! Who's a good boy! You are!" Swift started to pet Tantrum. His tail started to wag back and forth happily. "Well I made it to level 12 and look at you! Leveled up to level 7! That's amazing!"
Swift sat down and started to browse through his stats. He earned 2 skill points but had 1 remaining from before.
{Hmm. Being level twelve now I should start to focus on my Dex to keep increasing my damage. Hopefully Tantrum leans to being more Dex based but I hope it naturally gets higher strength based off its race. Can't wait for it to fully grow and have a giant Dino as a Mount."
SwiftCodex
Lv 12 Hp 400 Mana 175
Str 19 Dex 41 Con 25 Int 13 Mnd 13 Lck 21
Tantrum
Lv 6 Hp 400 Mana 60
Str 26 Dex 22 Con 26 Int 10 Mnd 9 Lck 2
Swift jumped on the back of Tantrum holding on the reins. "Okay boy. Let's go to that nest and see what we find.
After traveling back to the nest he let Tantrum eat the corpses he left behind from earlier. He started to kick some of the twigs of the nest making room for him walking in. In the center of the living room he saw a pile of shiny rocks, clear gems and some eggs. He took the clear gems and the eggs, thinking they'll be good for breakfast, and left the stones. Only being well polished stones they had no value.
He messaged Lazy saying he has some gems for him and surprise.