Noctura.
When this name was given to the pup, many things about her changed and the first change was the increase in her intelligence. She was able to express herself more than any newborn would ever be able to.
If before she could only say 'mama' and 'papa', now she could say things like 'Want to eat', 'Want to walk', 'It feels good', etc. From the many things that changed about her, this was the only thing Alex knew, that was until now.
Noctura jumped from Alex's shoulder directly at the head of the dead jackal, which surprised and confused the girls.
'What happened?' Alex mentally asked Noctura whose reply was instantaneous.
'Eat, grow strong,' She spoke the best she could and tried to express herself.
'How do you know that?' Alex asked again.
'Don't know?' She sounded confused as to why she didn't know, but she still said what she felt.
'Try to think harder, Noctura.' Alex pressed on, but then…...
"Grrrrrr," He saw her growl as her expression contorted in pain, so he bent down and caressed her head which caused her to relax. But the girls grew more and more confused as they saw the whole interaction since they couldn't hear the conversation.
'What happened, pup?' Alex asked gently while still caressing her head and calming her with water healing.
'Thinking hurts,' She spoke with a scared voice. From her voice alone Alex could tell that the pain she felt was too much for her to deal with.
'It's all right, don't think.' Alex spoke and stood up.
'You can't tell me anything, right?' Alex asked as he already knew the answer, but he was surprised.
[…. It is one of the abilities she gained after you named her.] Sophia sounded sulking; Well, his words did sound a little sarcastic.
'I didn't mean it that way, you know that right?' Alex felt that he needed to clear things up with Sophia.
"What happened, Alex?" Alice suddenly asked as she saw Alex stand up, while Noctura also seemed to be waiting for Alex to say something.
[I know, but it sounded like that…] Sophia replied in a light tone.
"Well, she said she could grow stronger by eating the magic crystals," Alex answered Alice with a pondering look, however, it was just a cover for the chat he was having with Sophia.
'So, are there more abilities she had awakened due to the naming?' Alex asked. From Sophia's words earlier, he could interpret at least this much.
"WHAT?!" X2
But both Alice and Ann exclaimed not minding that they were inside a gate and their voice could attract monsters as they were shocked by the revelation.
If someone could grow stronger by eating magic stones, then wouldn't they just become the strongest in a day?
[Yes, but just like how you are unable to use your abilities to full capability, she also can't use any other ability because she is too weak.] Sophia replied again ignoring the exclamation of the girls.
"Well, there will be a limit as she can't just keep eating magic stones," Alex replied while he listened to Sophia's words.
His reply, however, was also a question for Sophia who understood and replied immediately.
[Yes, there is a limit, but how much is her limit? Well, that can only be answered by her.]
As Sophia spoke, Alex turned his head towards Noctura and smiled.
"You can eat, pup," Alex spoke gently.
"What's the limit?" Ann spoke after a while as it had taken both of them some time to digest Alex's words. Ann and Alice looked towards Alex intently, listening to whatever he was going to say.
"Only she can tell…." Alex said while looking at the girls with a smile, completely ignoring the fact that a cute creature like Noctura was making a bloody mess out of the dead jackal's head.
But the girls just dumbly looked at everything happening. It was when they saw Noctura eat the magic crystal of the B-ranked jackal and then jump back on Alex's shoulder did they broke out of their reverie.
"Well, looks like it's her limit," Alex spoke with a smile while caressing the head of Noctura who slowly entered the dream world. The girls also nodded their heads while sighing in relief.
They looked at Alex who was treating everything normally, but then they realised that he was the greatest enigma, so, how could something possibly surprise him?
"Let's move towards the Boss's layer directly." Alex suddenly spoke garnering a nod from both of the girls.
They also wanted to get this over with quickly and get Alex to cook something for them when they reached the villa.
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Alex moved towards the heart of the forest where a large village of Orcs was built, also known as Boss's layer of 'The forest of Orcs'.
This village was occupied by at least 100 Orcs of B to A rank, with two Mid-boss-type Commanders and a Boss-type Village chief.
As Alex, Alice and Ann ran towards Orc village, Alex continuously killed any other monster they came across. The only dominant monsters in this area are the Orcs, but that doesn't mean that it only had Orcs inside of it.
The large forest housed many kinds of monsters, from a small horned rabbit to Razer Hawks, however, there was one thing that was common in every monster here, they were none higher than B-rank.
They were livestock used by the Orcs, and orcs are not stupid enough to let their livestock grow as powerful as them. So, when a monster other than an Orc reaches the threshold of A-rank, they are quickly killed by the Orcs.
As they moved forward and Alex kept killing the monsters, they left the bodies of the monsters lying on the ground.
They knew the monsters were going to disappear in a while leaving only magic crystals and drops (If there are any) behind. This was also the reason why they were looking at Noctura with a strange dumb expression.
They knew that she didn't need to get bloody just for something that she could get even without getting bloodied, but they didn't know how to stop the little cute creature.
There is one more important thing to note, within the gates if someone from outside kills the beings inside the gate then they would disappear and turn into particles of light.
On the other hand, if the beings from inside of the gate were to kill each other, then the dead body wouldn't disappear, instead, it would stay as a normal dead body would.
There were still exceptions, such as the beasts from outside of the gate. If they were to enter and kill the monsters inside the gate, then they would not disappear into particles.
Suddenly Alex stopped moving which resulted in both Alice and Ann stopping and looking at Alex curiously while observing their surroundings with sharp eyes.
Alex didn't stop without a reason he stopped because he received a notification from the system.
'Again?' He asked with some surprise in his voice. He knew that a single quest in a day was normal, but getting two quests simultaneously in a time frame of one hour was not something normal…...
[It's a special kind of quest and you might like it as well.]
His intuition turned out to be true as he heard Sophia's words. Then he looked at the new quest he received with intrigue and as he saw the quest a smile automatically married his face.
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