Amil with Pumpkin in toe went inside the inner forest, there was not much difference aside from the atmosphere change, Amil could feel the ferocity in the air.
They went inside and looked at the change of trees, they were very tall reaching the height of 20 feet. They went a little ahead just to find a pack of wolves. The wolves were white and looked ferocious with 10 of them in the pack.
Wild Wolf
Level 2
EXP -50/50
"We can't move ahead right now, there are a lot of them," Amil said to the pumpkin who could somewhat understand due to their mind link.
They waited for a while hiding behind some bushes. After waiting for 10 minutes, Amil saw them leaving. He saw the last wolf who was moving with them snooping around everywhere. It seemed like it was hungry.
Amil thought and his eyes lit up. He moved the bushes near it to get its attention. The wolf looked towards him, and warily without his pack came towards him.
Amil just felt like he was a genius, he told pumpkin to spit on the wolf, then he will attack it. Pumpkin nodded in agreement.
After the wolf was dangerously close, he was able to start smelling someone near him. It stopped and was just going to growl when he felt some liquid in its eyes, it winced in pain as the poison went inside its eyes. Amil just thrust the sword inside the wolf's neck for stopping the unnecessary whining. The wolf went limp on the spot.
[ EXP + 16, +1 Mana]
Amil looked at pumpkin's status and saw that he even got more EXP than him by 4 and then remembered how much he got when he killed the boar sighing in envy and looking at pumpkin.
"We will make this our territory when I kill all those wolves, till I reach the next level." He said while clenching his scaly hand.
He looked towards pumpkin who was trying to eat the wolf's fury leg.
"NO! Not for you, we will sell it!"
Pumpkin was very offended and wrapped himself around Amil's tail. Amil looked at him with furrowed brows and looked at pumpkin with wide eyes.
"You are the reason I have my tail all sore in the morning, bastard!" He started wiggling his tail making pumpkin all dizzy. After some while, He felt pity for pumpkin.
"Whatever"
They went back running, 2 snakes were just in the way and Amil just tried to shove it at the side with his hand, but he froze on the contact, the snake ripped into 2 on his nail's contact.
[ EXP +10, +1 stamina]
"What the fuck? Am I dumb?" He said while facepalming.
After looking at the torn snake for a while, pumpkin saw a new side of his master and vowed to never come near his pointy nails.
Kyle went with the 2 corpses in tow to the merchant.
"Oh…. look who we have here, the young warrior. So, a wolf today, huh?" The merchant asked. His relationship with the merchant had been going pretty well as Amil brings him a lot of things that he profits from.
"10 gold coins for the wolf and 2 for the battered snake."
Amil accepted the deal as he knew that he messed up with the snake and the price of the wolf was good.
"Do you have something like a healing potion?" Amil asked with expectation. If he would get those potions, he won't have to come back again and again.
"Yeah, I sell many types of healing potions, it depends on your budget of which you can buy."
"I need something to heal myself quickly after a fight."
"Then I would recommend you a lesser potion of healing. At your level, you can heal from it quickly too. And it's 6 coins only."
"Fine, I will take 2, you give me the money for the corpses."
They did all the business quickly and chatted for a while.
"Kid, if you keep getting strong and rich like this, I might even give my daughter to you"
"Ur…Whatever, I have to go now" Amil said to which the merchant only chuckled. But when he saw Amil leaving, he furrowed his brows as pumpkin was all wrapped up on his tail making it look green.
'Weird kid'
Now Amil was moving towards the house and saw many eyes on him, he was never approached by others and was used to the stares, but it was the first time that this happened.
"How did you get a snake as a pet" Amil heard a male voice behind him. He saw him and confirmed that he was one of the kobolds at the training.
"Nice to meet you too, as, for the snake, I didn't do anything. It came to me first." Amil said and walked away, He didn't want to talk to the person who had such an attitude.
The young kobold gritted his teeth and went back with a grunt.
After going to the house, it was very eventless, Amil just ate and slept and talked to his parents.
In the morning it was time for the hunt again, he went to the inner forest to the place where he killed the wolf.
He looked everywhere around it but did not see the pack again.
" So, it seems this is my territory now," Amil said with a haughty tone.
He brought a big rock to sit in the center of the area. There were not many trees there, making it a little open. He put the leather backpack that he got from his mother on the ground near the rock and sat on it peacefully.
Pumpkin just kept trying to open the backpack for getting the food Amil's mother packed for them.
Time passed and about 30 minutes later, he heard growls from near. He looked to the right and saw the 9 wolves coming toward him.
"Now you all came, Bastards. Been waiting for a long time." Amil grinned from ear to ear at the expected arrival of the pack. Pumpkin was just palely looking at them and Amil, after seeing his master's crazy grin, thought of him as someone crazy.
Amil opened the backpack keeping 2 potions on the ground. He went dashing towards the wolves who looked at him as if he was dumb to reach them.
Amil went to one of them and slashed at it with his sword. The wolf just speedily dodged it but to his dismay, Amil grinned widely and pierced its neck with his pointy nails. His strength had increased a lot, making the wolf get up with his arm.
[ EXP + 16, +1 strength]
The other wolves maddened from the death of their comrade went to attack him. One of the wolves bit Amil's scaly leg. But the wolf had to put all his strength just to pierce the skin with his teeth. The kobolds looked weird with all the scales on them, but they had a lot of defense because of them.
Amil grunted from the pain and used his pointy nails to hit the wolf, the index fingernail just went inside the eye, reaching the brain. It died on the spot. The others were not silent and bit Amil various times, if not for the fact of less blood loss, he would be running for the potions till now.
After a while of intense fight, Amil was bit at various places making him grunt at various times. But he did not take the potion and took it as training.
Pumpkin was also spitting at the wolves again and again making them poisoned. If not for the fact of Amil keeping all of them busy, poor pumpkin would have died a thousand times till now.
After killing the last two wolves, he sighed in relief and went for the potions. His HP was down to 30 just from the bites and blood loss.
"I'm weak," Amil said to which pumpkin shook his head, if he was weak then what was pumpkin? A cheerleader?
He looked at all the notifications that he ignored during the fight.
[ EXP +16, +1 Mana]
[ EXP +16, +1 stamina]
[ EXP +16, +1 dexterity]
From all the killing, he got 3 points of stamina, 2 dexterity, 1 stamina, and 3 mana. But one of the notifications made his eyes glitter.
[ Skill iron nails detected, Acquire it?]
He clicked on the 'yes' without even looking at the description.
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