Caught! 100 Balloon whale stored... Caught 300 Balloon whale stored ...1000 caught... 2000 caught... 3500 caught.
It took me a whopping 1 and a half weeks obsessed with watching the bank account increase endlessly until I had 1.5 Billion Gold in my account, while storing 500 golden balloon whales in my infinite storage just in case.
Having grown closer to the old man after a week and a half of having meals together and chatting, I bid my farewells and secretly left a 100,000 gold behind the shack with a note telling him to live well and live comfortably.
Making a short pitstop to the dark forest of Hyperborea, as I remembered I had promised Europa some rare shadow leopard parts.
Traversing the wild landscape and plains encountering a variety of monsters, a few hornet giraffes, spotted a demon panda, a silver crotch gorilla and even a family of wild shadow pigs which I stabbed open like Christmas presents hoping to find my lost 500 gold.
Finally reaching the apex of the mountain nestled in the deep forest, I silently ventured into the cave one arm equipped with the Divine shield of the unsullied, another with a handful of cyclops flesh scattering them on the ground as bait to lure the Shadow leopard out of hiding.
That was when I saw them, the gleaming reflective eyes in the darkness.
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Monster: Ancient Shadow Leopard
HP: 2800/10,000
DMG: 3950/10,000
DEF: 2100/10,000
SPD: 3999/10,000
Skill: Shadow sneak - Able to hide and jump from and into Shadows
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Like an angry hornet it jumped straight towards me, unleashing shadow claw strikes over and over while I guarded against its attack with my Divine shield.
This attracted another 4 shadow leopards to appear and stalk cautiously around me, while in the dark a Legendary Alpha Shadow Leopard lurked, probably waiting to deliver a decisive blow while its clan weakens me.
"Retrieve draconic acid fang" gripping the blade with a flourish.
Catching all of them off guard with my speed, I was 5 times faster than they were, darting around using the entire cave as footholds and swiftly decapitated all 5 ancient shadow leopards.
Watching the Legendary Alpha Shadow Leopard approach, my mind began to wonder, about the cyclops I had chopped up and his summoning skill. A skill I had previously witnessed Bellerophon use for summoning the mythical Pegasus a God class beast in its own right.
"Do these people simply catch a beast and raise them to their level? or do they have some secret summing technique using blood, or perhaps you have to purchase one from the guild." Distracted...
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Monster: Legendary Alpha Shadow Leopard
HP: 5500/10,000
DMG: 5900/10,000
DEF: 4500/10,000
SPD: 5999/10,000
Skill: Shadow sneak - Able to hide and jump from and into Shadows
Extra Skill: Shadow tag, instant teleport into the enemy's shadow (Assassination damage x3)
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The Alpha Shadow Leopard sensed my lost of focus and used its shadow tag to silently teleport behind me unleashing its secret technique - Panther Lilium a magical blast that gathers magicubes shaped like a lily before firing off like a laser.
Distracted it hits me right in the back. (8000 x 3 = 24,000 Damage... Hit! Nullified Magical damage reduction to 12,000 ... Damage 0.) If not for me equipping the divine shield of the unsullied that would have slightly hurt me.
"Very impressive, I think I'll keep you for further studies... Overlord space time creation magic - Kairos, forge stasis cube!" Boxing the Legendary Alpha Shadow Leopard mid jump.
"I can't store you in my infinite storage box, seems I will have to teleport us back together. I got too excited about the new equipment and forgotten what Echidna mentioned, to get Minato's contact from Europa. Perhaps he is able to tame this beast and domesticate this beast first."
Absorbing the remaining loots in the area, I tossed the coin on the ground and teleported us back into the Tauros Horns blacksmithing shop.
Landing safely back in the shop without a problem, I laid the cube down.
"Retrieve draconic poison fang" perfectly timing it, "release stasis" swiftly jabbing the Alpha Shadow Leopard in the side, releasing a strain of anesthetic poison.
Watching it trying to escape, but weak in its knees and too drowsy to act.
"Europa!? You here!?"
"Yuujiro!?" as she makes her way from the back of the shop to greet me at the counter.
"I thought you died, look I even mourned you." pointing at a horribly made metal sculpture with an unrecognizable face, on a shrine with tea and rice balls as offerings.
"Ah...thanks I guess, anyways here are the rare shadow leopard parts, see what you can make with them, and you can keep the rest."
Scoffing and giving me a dirty look, "Yuujiro don't you remember that you still owe me 60,000 gold hmph such audacity."
Jabbing my finger on her cheeks, "You little shit! Not too long ago you were tits up in debt!"
Acting high and might I brought out the draconic leather wallet, "Behold peasant! Drown in my riches and wealth."
Unzipping the wallet, "withdraw 1 Million gold!" with that command, perfectly spherical gold flooded the shop to our ankle height.
Never having seen this much wealth in her life, Europa jumps onto my back resting her voluptuous titties gently on my head.
"WOAHH Yuujiro how did you get this much gold!? Did you rob the guild's bank?"
With a smirk, "Hmph that's a trade secret my dear trusty blacksmith."
"Of course, of course Master Yuujiro" as she gives me a head massage.
"Master sounds fitting for someone like me MUAHAHHAHA." as I continue to laugh deliriously while Europa strokes my ego.
"Anyways keep all these golds and put it on my tab for future deductions." turning around as I catch her sneaking a gold sphere between her boobs.
"Heh of course that's exactly what I'm doing sir!"
As she cleans up the laid-out gold, finally noticing for the first time the large Legendary Alpha Shadow Leopard underneath. Sleeping soundly with slight bruises on its face, probably because I accidentally unloaded all those gold on top of it.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That's really dangerous bringing such a high-level monster alive in town!"
"Calm down, I already heavily sedated it, it's as harmless as a kitten."
Doubt written all over Europa's face as she carefully pokes it with an iron pole, "Yes well it's a legendary kitten capable of destroying half this town."
"Actually, I intentionally brought it here because Echidna mentioned your distant relative Minato the Alpha demon bull, and that his family are beast tamers."
"I would like to try and domesticate as well as summon this monster."
Sweetly smiling "Sure, Yuujiro with the way you helped out the previous time, I'm sure he'll be happy to help."
Scribbling onto a piece of paper, she took an iron stamp with the emblem of the demon bull family crest, basically just a poorly drawn cow. Heated the iron and stamped onto the paper infusing with magicube.
Watching the paper incinerate and dissipate into the air, "There message sent, he should be arriving in half a day. Meanwhile let me work on your new parts."
"Alright, then in that case I'll be back in a few hours, I'm going to take a look around town and spend some money."