It has already been three days after Nate's fight with the whitebonez. Nothing much has happened since then and he was meanly busy teaching and explaining to Cab what his power was.
Apart from that, they are also the daily notification that nate receives every morning from the system.
[Exp= 760,000/3584000]
His experience point has increased by double since then, all thanks to his pledge members that distribute0 experience points to him daily. However, even with all this, he is yet to level up.
It will take him at least two to three weeks for the experience point to reach the ideal limit for the next level up. 'I don't want to wait that long, but what will I do?'
'Most of the beasts I have seen so far were not even able to trigger a bronze medal reward not to talk of ones that will increase my level,' Nate thought.
He has been helping the others to hunt down beasts and in all those hunts, never had the system rewarded him with anything since their target was a beast he could kill only with one punch. The system wouldn't find such a target as a challenge and therefore wouldn't grant nate any reward.
Things have been going normally, food wasn't a problem since Zuni who has a self-healing power was there. Although Nate does not demand any of it, Zuni will sometimes out on his own will cut off about a pound of flesh from his body and give it to Nate.
Since Nate usually helped them in hunting down the animals they are eating, and yet couldn't eat with them, Zuni in particular felt bad and decided to do that to repay Nate for his good work.
To some, it might seem awkward to watch someone eat the flesh that you voluntarily offered from your body, but Zuni in particular has seen worse things than that.
"So what do you have for us today?" Cab asked as they all surrounded nate while sitting in cross-leg posture.
Nate was holding a crystal in his hand, it was a beast crystal and he was planning to teach the three how to absorb them in return for power.
"This class will be about the beast and their crystal,"
"You guys might have noticed when eating that beast meat, they are some strong energizing feelings you get from it, right?" Nate asked.
"Yeah, and it made them even sweeter than any regular animal meat out there... Only if they are still normal animals out there," Zuni answered.
To be honest, Nate never know beast flesh could be used in preparing a meal and could be eaten by humans, especially normal humans. He only comes to realize this when meeting the three people in front of him.
He could still remember Zuni butchering the deer he killed the other day and using it to make a meal for the others to eat. Nate usually thought beast meats were kind of intoxicated and couldn't be eaten by normal humans except it was a superhuman, altered superhuman to be precise.
However, after coming to know that Cab want a superhuman and was eating a beast's flesh yet nothing happened to him, Nate felt like the forest base back in Panama City has just wasted many food supplies that could have sustained them for about two to three years without bothering them.
"So what do you want us to know about the beasts that we don't already know, like, most beasts were once gentle cute animals that know no harm, but now are deadly that they can destroy an entire city within a space of hours,"
Max who felt like there is nothing much to know about the beast lamented as he tilted his back on the wooden wall.
"You think that's all? I know you guys saw the weapon from earlier,"
On hearing nates questions, Max quickly sit up as he was interested in the weapon. Although they have thought of asking Nate about the weapon, after what happened and nate saving Cab's life, they feel like Nate has done too much for them with them doing absolutely not in return, and in the end, they decided not to ask him of the weapon, but now Nate was speaking of it himself, they wouldn't want to miss this opportunity of knowing the history of the weapon.
"It was made from beast crystal, that's not all, you can absorb beast crystal and it will increase your power. Abeast crystal is capable of creating superhuman, although I don't know how that is being done, I assure you, beast crystals are interesting crystals,"
"If you really want to survive this world, then look for beast crystal and you can also look for a meteorite stone, they work quite better together," Nate explained.
Zuni, Cab and Max were disappointed since Nate didn't throw more light on the weapon he was using, however, when thinking about what weapon they could make out of the ones they have, the three grown-up men turn to kids as they try securing some crystals out of the dozens of beast they have killed.
"Wait, who made your weapon for you?" Zuni asked.
Nate wouldn't tell them about the Mastercraft skill. "I created it myself," Nate answered shocking the others.
"Wait, I know you guys will suggest I create one for you guys but believe, if I were to make weapons for you guys, it will be useless, unless, I initiated you guys into my group," Nate explained further as he could already see through them that they want him to make one for them.
Of course, Nate has already explained the initiator to them since Cab was now a member.
"So, I'm the only person that can use a weapon created by you?" Cab asked feeling like he has more privilege than Max and Zuni.
"You're correct, I don't know what will happen if someone else were to use them so I would advise you guys not to take the chance," Nate said.
He went ahead to explain more things to them about the beast crystal, a few theories he figured out himself before they all started absorbing the crystal.
After that was done, two people walked up to nate and said. "We want to join your horde," Max and Zuni announced to Nate.
Nate wasn't surprised that the two came asking for him to initiate them, and neither was he going to reject them since this was the perfect thing he wanted before returning to Leo to give him his answers.
[Initiator activated]
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Soon, it was already night and Nate was currently showing the three people he just initiated into his horde something with the Mastercraft skill.
Nate has mandated that he will only craft a weapon out of a crystal they killed the beast. Of course, out of desperation, the three wandered off to hunt just like nate anticipated, Max was the only one that came back with a beast crystal he killed the beast.
Although Zuni and Cab didn't kill anything, they still watch as Nate crafted the weapon.
The only thing that might have become a problem was that Max's type of weapon was one Nate did not have its blueprint at hand, however, the problem was resolved as soon as it started.
It was a katana sword and Nate didn't have the blueprint, however, when Max brought a sample of the sword, all Nate has to do was make use of the new add-up-skill he got from the system.
[Blueprint duplicator]
The blueprint duplicator was the reward nate got from the gold medal the system rewarded him after killing the whitebonez.
Just like Nate states, it duplicates the blueprint of any material Nate comes in contact with and automatically saves it in the system.
With the help of the new skill, Nate was able to duplicate the katana blueprint and used it in making weapons. Of course, Nate didn't forget to chop all the beast bones into the skill mist as he craft the weapon.
Soon, all was done and the others just witnessed something that would have taken weeks to make was just done in a few minutes and if the weapon were to be used now, nothing will happen to it.
They all could feel the energy surging out from the sword as nate hold it, although it was not close to them of Nate it was still tempting for them to stand close to it.
Nate brought the sword close to Max. "It's your effort, you deserve it," he said and handed it over to him while he now looked at both Zuni and Cab. "Work hard, and you might even get your hands on weapons way stronger than this, as for the other crystals, you guys will be absu...," Nate wasn't able to finish what he was saying when his eyes caught something.
"What are you doing here?" he said frowning his face.
Meanwhile the other noticed this and looked back. "Leo!, you finally decided to visit us," Zuni shouted and walked over to Leo.
"You guys know him?" Nate was shocked.