" Hey Raphael, can't I check TIMY'S stats?" while looking forward to see what Timy hunted last night, Maruti asked Raphael something that he was curious about.
Raphael appeared while blinking around his face and said, " Master! Haven't you checked your status panel." She looked at Maruti raising her eyebrow.
"Well first thing first, do your thing, you can check TIMY'S stat anytime."
Maruti nodded his head and patter,Timy's back, and Timy ran even faster.
Soon, they had crossed over 5 kms within 2 minutes.
A forest came into their view, but there was a patch where several trees were uprooted.
Maruti felt his blood dried up and asked, "Timy, is that where you fought boy."
"Woof woof"
"Aha! , just what monster you fought that uprooted those trees." Maruti was shuddering with fear, when he felt Timy's emotion.
"What you didn't fought with it? Oh! So it was like this. You are really lucky my boy!" after understanding what had happened Maruti relaxed and a smile formed on his face.
Raphael was curious but she didn't ask and waited.
Timy slowed his speed, when they were reaching the spot of fight. Maruti asked Timy to do a surrounding check first before entering.
Maruti showed extreme caution but he didn't know this was all due to his passive skills. Mainly due to Light novel lover.
Timy quickly scanned the area around 500 hundred meters and came.
Then they both went to the scene to confirm Timy's kill.
When they reached the scene, they quickly came to a conclusion. Raphael also nodded her head as she finally understood.
"Oh my God.!!!"
A big Bear of about 5 meters tall was crushed under 2 large trees.
"So it was like this, you must have finished it off, then timy." Maruti looked at the bear's neck and asked.
"woof woof" Timy barked happily.
"So didn't it drop any equipment or materials like in game.?"
Raphael chimmed in, "Well in a fight between monsters, materials or items or anything doesn't fall."
"But you can definitely check if it has a beast core."
"Beast core-?" Maruti was about to ask when he automatically came to understand as to what it may be.
So rather than asking he Pulled a a short knife and went near to the bear.
When he was almost a foot near, he heard a low growl under the bear.
He tried to look under the bear but couldn't see what there was so he asked Timy to lift one of the bears arm. And he backed of 5 foot away.
When Timy Lifted one of the bears hand, Maruti saw a Bear cub, a Tiny cub of about 1 meter.
He finally understood, what happened and how this mighty bear came under such tree.
"It seems this mother gave away its life while protecting its cub's life. Such a brave mother."
The cub was unconscious so, Maruti quickly got to work, he first tried to open up the skull of the Bear and striked hard on it.
Pang!!
The knife bent and slipped away from his hands.
" That's really hard. That was a brand new knife. Are all the mutated monster like thisone? "Maruti feared that, he might have to go back to his family and see other way.
When Raphael gave him confidence,"Don't worry this one seems to be special case and is of high level, it gives the aura of a someone
Who is almost close to its second evolution ."
"Monsters 1st evolve when they reach level 10, and 2nd evolution of the monsters occur at Level 25, then at 50 is the 3rd evolution. Etc"
"Few then, I guess we still have a chance."
Maruti said while he took his Machete out kf his bag and pierced the bears skull with great difficulty, to check if it has a beast core.
His hand soon became bloody, he felt that he will puke but surprisingly again his urge to puke was suppressed.
He put his hand and to his luck his hand found a seemingly hard crystal of about his fist.
He pulled it out.
When Timy saw the crystal in Maruti's hand his mouth drooled but he didn't do anything and Maruti kept it in his backpack.
"So what should we do, should we kill this cub? "
Raphael screamed, "You stupid master, did you forgot, that you could form bond with beasts now. As the cub is young. It will definitely think that you are close as he will find his mother's scent on you."
"Even if it doesn't, look at it it's exhausted and unconscious if you fed it something and took care of it. It will definitely care for you."
"Ok ok Raphael san, stop screaming."
Well whatever, he took out the bear cub slowly,
And Saw that it was perfectly fine. Its height was more than the average dog.
"So what should we do about the bear. If we eat it this little one will definitely not be happy. Well we will let it be as we can't even bury her properly as the trees are still on her."
Maruti then shook his head and pulled the bear cub.
" Okay let me feed this cub something, and wake it up."
He looked at Timy and it hid behind them so that the cub won't see him. Just to be safe if the cub had seen Timy yesterday then he will lose a bond.
He sprinkled water, on the cubs face and made it drink water.
After sometime the cub woke up and coughed.
When opened its eyes, it saw its mother lying on the ground under the trees and a hand was holding her.
It growled and quickly sprang away from Maruti. And showed its fangs to him as if saying 'don't come closer to me or I will kill you.'
MARUTI saw this and slowly stood up, and showed one hand towards the bear, and slowly neared it. The bear sniffed its arm.
It didn't feel any hostility from the human. And looked at the water bottle.
Maruti quickly understood the bear cub's thinking. He held the bottle and opened its mouth and slowly closed in to the cub while showing the bottle.
The bear cub was thirsty and as Maruti didn't have any bad intention the Bear cub let him come close.
Maruti held the bear and let it drink the water and and he took out bread.
The bear ate the bread. And slowly it came to understand that Maruti meant no harm. And it thought that it could trust this human.
So after eating he licked Maruti's face. As if waiting for this.
He soon cut his finger and dropped 3 drops of blood on its forehead.
The bear cubs eyes flickered and Maruti also started reading the alert
YOU HAVE ACTIVATED BOND FORMATION.
IF THE TARGET BEAST DOESN'T ACCEPTS YOUR BOND. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO FORM BOND WITH IT AGAIN.
Maruti panicked when he saw that, he could fail and lose so much time.
But the bear slowly put its head in Maruti's embrance.
Congratulations
You have successfully formed a bond with
Archaic Bear Cub.
Please Give your Cub a Name.
...
"Oyeahh!!!! " Maruti screamed in joy as the bond formation was successful.
He then lifted the bear and called Timy, fortunately the cub didn't react angry.
Maruti Introduced both of them and then started to think a name.
"How about... Brownie? Well your fur is brown too do you like it ?"
The cub seemed to like the name so it licked Maruti's face.
Will You Set 'Brownie' as the name of your Second Bond?
Yes/No
...
Maruti quickly confirmed. And he got the same feeling which he felt during the bond formation with Timy.
"Well Raphael san, show me The status of both the bond."
"Here you go master." Raphael swirled her finger and the status screen came in front of him.
[STATUS]
BONDS : 2
1. TIMY : LEVEL 13 SHADOW DOG
STR : 58. AGI : 71
STA : 105 MP : 65.
VIT : 150 Dex : 42
HP : 600 MANA : 195
ACTIVE SKILLS :
1. SONIC ROAR LV1 : RELEASES A HOWL STRONG ENOUGH TO CAUSE DIZZINESS AND STUN EFFECT TO ENEMIES. THE POWER IN THE HOWL HAVE A RANGE OF 10 METERS.
2. RAGING CLAWS LV1 : RELEASES HIGH TEMPERATURE ENERGY IN THE SHAPE OF CLAW. CAN EVEN TURN A CAR INTO SCRAP METAL. IT'S POWER DIMINISHES AFTER IT'S EFFECTIVE RANGE OF 5 METERS. CAN SEVERELY INJURE A LV15 BEAST.
3. DEATH BITE : DIGS THE FANGS INTO THE ENEMY. ADDS BLEEDING EFFECT.
DEALING 30 DAMAGE PER SECOND.
IGNORES 30 PERCENT DEFENCE AGAINST SAME LEVEL ENEMIES AND 15 PERCENT AGAINST ENEMIES MORE THAN 5 LEVELS.
PASSIVE SKILLS :
1. SHADOW LV1 : BLENDS IN THE SHADOWS AND ERASES PRESENCE. IT'S EFFECT IS SIMILAR TO HIGH LEVEL STEALTH.
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2. Brownie : Lv1 Archaic Bear Cub
STR : 15 AGI : 08
STA : 70. MP : 25
VIT : 50 Dex : 06
HP : 200. MANA : 125
ACTIVE SKILLS :
1. STEEL SKIN LV1 : HARDENS THE FUR AND SKIN BELOW AS HARD AS STEEL. NEGATES SOME AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL DAMAGE. GIVES STURDY MUSCLES.
PASSIVE SKILLS :
1 : LONELY BEAR LV 1 : UNIQUE SKILL :
THIS BEAR WAS SEPARATED FROM ITS MOTHER DURING THE EVOLUTION OF EARTH. ITS INSTINCT GUIDED IT TOWARDS ITS MOTHER.
THIS SKILL HELPS THE BEAR TO LOCATE ANY PERSON HE ONCE MET IN HIS LIFE TIME. THE POWER OF LOCATING VARIES WITH DISTANCE. THE MORE THE DISTANCE THE LESS ACCURATE THE LOCATION.
CAN BE USED ONCE A DAY.
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After seeing both of his bonds stats and skills.
Maruti has now got a sturdy tank and an explosive damage dealer.
With their help Maruti will soon began to level up both himself and his family.
So for now he told both of his bonds,
"Let's get started."
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