In the morning, Amil woke up and saw Pumpkin sleeping beside him. He knew that he wasn't giving much attention to him these days. But there was a lot on his mind, he did not even know if he needed pumpkin's strength to fight now.
"Wake up…"
"Hiss!"
Pumpkin lazily hissed wanting to sleep more. Amil looked at him and smiled. He knew how he had to make him wake up.
"I am making roasted flesh right now" He got up and went to the lobby, pumpkin swiftly got off the bed too at the thought of eating the savory roasted flesh again after a while.
"Good morning~"
"Good morning"
Amil saw his father giving him a manly nod rather than normal greetings and responded with manliness too.
"Hm…where is big sister?"
"Emil just went out saying she will come back before dawn"
"I have time to spend with you all now, I might have to leave again after some days."
Kamil and Drax nodded, they knew as the leader first told her and asked her permission before telling Amil.
With pumpkin in tow, Amil went to the kitchen, there was not really a stove or anything in there, just some mud utensils and some firewood.
Amil collected the fire word in a place and placed the mud utensil on it. With a small fireball of less power….no, it could be called just a spark, the firewood ignited.
Amil took the flesh out and skinned it. He was surprised that he didn't get a skill of skinning till now but did not have time to dilly-dally as Pumpkin kept trying to eat the flesh raw.
With a small smack on the head now and then, Pumpkin kept his mouth closed reluctantly. After a while the food was ready.
"Here you go"
He placed all of it on the table where they all sat together every dinner.
Kamil took a bite of the flesh, her eyes shone with satisfaction. With a lot of praise from Kamil and many 'Hum!' from Drax. The breakfast was over.
"My friend said that she will meet you near the Tribe's entrance"
'Tribe's entrance?' Amil thought but after shrugging left for his destination. Before leaving, he gave some orders to Pumpkin like to level up and not pester the tribe by killing level 1s while being level 3.
After reaching the entrance, he looked around trying to find his mother's friend in the big crowd. He felt a pat on his shoulder, moving his head to the left, he saw a female kobold of his mother's age. But the surprising thing was that she actually had a scabbard holding a sword in it. The female kobold saw his gaze and understood laughing a little.
"What? Saw a person actually having his weapon with him for the first time?"
"Actually, yeah" Amil chuckled, all he had ever seen was everyone materializing their weapon from the ring.
"Name's Makeena, the crazy bitch contacted me out of nowhere yesterday."
Amil frowned listening to this person calling his mother a bitch. But without any disrespect, went on with his introduction.
"Nice to meet you, I a- "
"Amil Basil, the new crazy rookie of the tribe. I have heard about you various times, you are not only from the crazy family but even crazier."
Amil couldn't handle his emotions now, furrowing his brows like a constipated person.
"How so?"
"What do you mean how so, Taming a snake, a boar, and even a human. Pfftt…and the latest bloodlust that you keep spouting unknowing to yourself."
Amil could not bear the embarrassment, stopping the eye contact and moving his head to the right. Makeena laughed heartily at the reaction she was looking for.
"Your mother has withdrawn one of the favors I owed her, she just wants me to teach you about the basics of crafting. Now come with me to the forest, your first lesson starts there."
Amil followed behind her, they both entered the forest opening in silence. Makeena kept looking for something until her eyes fell on a level 1 snake.
"Go to the snake and kill it, and do not ruing its hide, just behead it."
Amil nodded and went towards it, the snake looked at him coming and froze, it couldn't even move due to the intimidating aura. A level 1 could not really handle the aura of a level 6, especially in Amil's case.
He sped forward becoming a blur for the snake. The next thing, it felt like the world moving in circles. The head was cut cleanly which went flying until hitting the ground. Amil just picked up the corpse and went to Makeena who was looking at him indifferently.
"Good, always remember to bring as little damage to the fur and hide as possible. Now keep looking."
She took the corpse and placed it on the ground. After bringing out a small curvy knife which looked exactly like something to be used for skinning, she made a vertical cut from the top to the bottom.
"Now's the time to be more careful, when you eat, you don't care if the flesh is still on the hide or not, but here, it matters."
She cut the inner part of the snake from the top softly, and proficiently went to the bottom in one go. The hide from one side came out as the snake was not that big. Amil became surprised seeing the hide all clean without a single piece of flesh on it. Makeena just did the same with the other half, at the end, a little wide hide was in her hand with the flesh on the ground oozing blood.
"You have to be careful while skinning or you won't even be able to get the 1st level of the skill."
Amil gulped and nodded like a child, finally getting the reason for not getting the skill till now.
"I will save this hide for later when we go to the next part, first get the skill by skinning the corpses properly. Here." Makeena threw the skinning life towards that he caught with his two fingers. Just like she said, Amil went to work, trying to find more snakes.
After a while, with 3 corpses in tow, he started his work while sitting down on a rock. He had to be very careful, unlike Makeena who had experience beforehand. The first corpse's skin tore because of the lack of strength control. The second one was a little success with one side taken out without any problem. And the third with the same results.
Amil went on a killing spree again just this time there was no fun in it. On his 10th corpse, the heavenly notification resounded in his mind making him relieved.
[ Skill 'Skinning (level 1) acquired]
"Sigh…."
"It took you 2 hours, not that hopeless huh? Now back to the tribe in my workshop, I will teach you the real deal that you signed up for."
Amil started walking behind Makeena thinking of the various overpowered gear he will make for himself.
They entered the tribe, and Amil kept following her around until they reached a relatively large hut.
"Come in"
Upon entering, he saw various tools everywhere. On the left, there was a lump of metal that he thought to be an anvil. On the other side, a big furnace made from mud or clay. It was filled with firewood. He could see various other machines but did not know what they were for. All was going great until he heard a sound from his side.
"You know, I'm without a mate right now"
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