Thank you, so let's get going to your cave after all it's getting dark and can you do me a favour and bring this baby along with us?" I asked.
"Heh? You wanna bring that with us?" asked the first one.
"That's our prey, we were going to eat it, we won't be able to do that now" complained the second but not in an aggressive manner.
"Yeah, we've not eaten for some days now" said the third in a very sad tone.
They really stopped talking formally with me and the way they talked was making me reconsider things on how to let them talk.
But I didn't want to oppress them to change their personality and behavior, and after all they are a bit funny to be honest, so I let it be.
"Is it true what they're saying?" I asked the two females of the group, after all they were the only one with brains in here.
"Yes, we haven't eaten for five days, if we don't bring food back to our cave, the pups and those who can't fight will starve to death" the fourth wolf answered to my question.
"This seems like a big jungle, aren't there any preys and waht about the fruits and herbs that are growing here, can't you eat that?" I asked in concern.
"For some reason, the wildlife is migrating towards the center of the forest, and we're only limited to hunting in a particular area, as they're under different the control of different beasts and it could cause clan wars between us, which we can't afford " the fifth one answered.
"And as for the vegetation, we can't tell apart the poisonous ones from the good ones, so it's useless trying to forage those fruits and berries" the fourth one added.
This made me wondered something and I wanted to try it out to see if it could work or not as going to another hunting zone and angering the beasts there wasn't a good idea.
I was too unexperienced to understand my own capabilities and I thought that I could take the whole pack on by myself .
And I was wrong to think that, if the alpha would not have challenged me to a one on one then I would've been thir food by now.
And thankfully the pack was too afraid to attack me as they didn't had any idea about my full power or that I was in a bad shape.
Even though I was bleeding and wounds, the wolves chose to be cautious as they didn't know which skills I had.
"I've an idea, is there any place nearby where lost of fruits and berries grow? it would be good if it's on the way to your cave" I asked the five wolves.
"There is one nearby" said the first one.
"It's around the river where we get our water from" the second one said.
"All sorts of fruits and berries grow there" the third one finally added.
"Okay then take me there" I said to them.
"But the poisonous ones are mixed with them, we can't risk eating them" the fourth one said.
"And if the other territories got to know that our numbers have decreased, then a war will be unavoidable " the fifth one said.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing, you just have to trust me a little, okay?" I asked.
"If you say so" the fourth one said.
"We will trust you after all you're are leader now" the fifth one said.
" Yeah!!" the first three said in unison.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!!" I said and we took off with the three wolves carrying their former alpha and the baby rhinoceros.
When we reached there, I was awestruck by the scene in front of me, I thought the forest was magical looking, but this place makes the forest pales in comparison.
There was huge river with beautiful glowing crystals growing on the river bed and there were not so many trees and those that were there had beautiful fruits dangling from their branches .
"Okay let's get to it " I said while slithering towards the fruit near me, it looked like an oval custard apple, whic was white in color and had a pinkish hue on its bumps.
The wonderful idea that I had was to use this wonderful gift given to me by those two wonderful figures, [Unique Skill: Inspect], and soon as I had done that, a screen popped up in front of me containing the information on the fruit just as I had thought .
[ Caldiver Berry:
• This berry tends to grow near high mana concentrated regions and are very hard to find.
• They are consider a delicacy for their sweet taste and are in high demand.
• The seeds contains a potent poison, if not removed properly then it can cause death.
• Gives +2 Defence for 20 minutes. ]
Definitely not this one, none of us in our groups have proper hands to remove the seeds from fruit, so it's a no go.
I used the same method on many fruits which were growing here and there and we were able to accumulate a lot of food that should be able to last the wolves for quite a while.
Carrying wasn't much of a problem with super special [Unique Skill: Storage] so I stored all the fruits that weren't poisonous
I checked the place to find another fruit, then I saw one, it was a single fruit growing from a small plant which had twisted branches.
The fruit resembled a mango from my world, but it was definitely not one, as it was cyan colored and it was giving out a very strong aura.
I could tell that there was something really special about this fruit, and it was not the cyan color or the strong aura but the presence of this fruit alone was affecting time around it.
It was not at a large scale so it couldn't be perceived through normal vision, but I had Snake's Vision skill to help me out here, so I could tell that easily.
There was also a feeling that was creeping up inside of me that wanted to consume this fruit and I was so enchanted by it that i was nearly going to.
But then I remembered that there was a chance that It could be poisonous, so I used my all knowing skill Inspect on the fruit.
[#######'s ###### Fruit:
• This fruit is the first one to come to be in existence.
• ####### used ### ###### power to seal a very small piece of ### magic in a form of fruit.
• It grants the consumer [Temporal Resistance Lv.1]
• There is also a small chance that it grants the consumere [Time Magic Lv.1]
• There is no harm in eating this. ]
"What the heck? Why is the name of the fruit and the info on it blurred and even the pronouns of the its creator is blurred? "
Well it's not like it matters, as I will be getting two skills from just eating it and plus there's no harm in it.
I used Inspect on the two skills to check them out.
[Tenporal Domain Lv.1:
A skill registered in the system's database.
This skill allows the host to create a domain, within which the time I controlled by the host.
The control over time inside the domain and its size is dependent on the levelof the skill, the better the proficiencyof the skill is, the stronger will be the resultof this skill. ]
[Time Magic Lv.1:
A skill registered in the system's database.
This skill allows the host to wield time magic, which is considered one of the most rarest of magic. Only one in a billion people have this type of magic.
This allows the host to manipulate time and also create temporal anomalies. ]
"OH MY GOD! I really hit the jackpot!" I exclaimed inside my mind, I'm pretty sure if had actual vocal chords then my voice would be ringing across the forest, because I was just that much excited after knowing that eating this fruit would grant me one of the most rare magic in this world.
For someone whose luck stat is at zero, I'm pretty lucky to find this extra special fruit in the wilderness.
I quickly ate the fruit and as soon as I did my body started to shine in cyan color, the wolves who were standing by the side got afraid.
But the light quickly died down, even I was caught of guard because of the suddenly outburst of light, the description should have been more thorough.
I didn't spent too much time complaining about the outburst of light, as I was disturbed by the notifications from the system.
Ding!
You acquired the skill [Temporal Domain Lv.1]!
"It seems like i wasn't able to get the time magic skill" I thought and I was so sad but then I got another notification.
Ding!
You acquired the skill [Time Magic Lv.1] !
"Wait a minute, but how? does the system respond to my emotions as well?" my mind was suddenly clouded with a lot of questions.
"No it must be something else, otherwise a system like that would be too broken " I thought and then a thought suddenly came to me.
It must be because of my [Unique Skill: Consume], as it allows me to assimilate the essence of anything I consume, so that must be how I ended up getting [Time Magic Lv.1] as well.
"Is everything alright? " the fifth wolf asked because to them I stopped moving for some minutes and then I ate a fruit and started glowing out of nowhere, they must have been really worried about me by now.
"Oh I'm really sorry for making you guys worry, everything's alright, no it's better than alright, its really good" I said with a grin in my snake face and unintentionally my tongue also came out while I was grinning, so it made me look very creepy.
"What was that fruit that you ate?" asked the fourth wolf in a bit of an afraid tone.
"Well I got Time Magic from eating that fruit and also another skill from it" I replied in a very joyous tone.
"What's time magic?" the three wolves asked in unison.
"Well it's a magic that al....I don't wanna explain so I'm just gonna show it to you, try to move now" I said to the three wolves as I casted a small spell on the thre that would slow them down a bit.
As they tried they were surprised because of their slow reaction.
"What's happening? " the first one said in dragged way as his ability to speak was also slowed down.
"Why am I so slow?" the second said in the same manner.
"Help me!" the third on shrieked in the same manner as the other two.
It was a very funny scene to see and I burdened out laughing and before I could do anything, I started to loose consciousness and the world suddenly went dark.
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When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a dark damp cave, I was woken up by the licks of the wolf pups who were currently surrounding me.
The trio came and barked at them, ordering them to stop licking me and move away from me, and the pups followed their orders like trained soldiers.
Then I was greeted by the fourth and fifth wolf, with their alpha standing in between them, who i was quite surprised seeing awake.
"You're finally awake" said the third in a worried tone.
"Yeah we were so worried about you when you fell unconscious out of nowhere " said the fifth.
And before i could anything, the alpha bowed down before me as a gesture to show all the wolfs in the cave that who was the boss.
"You don't have to do that you know, you're just embarrassing yourself" I said to him in a bit of flustered tone through telepathy.