The lions lowered their heads.
"Woah, it worked!" Nabil thought, but he felt a presence behind him.
He looked back and saw a bigger white lion with a horn on its head, creating energy from the horn to attack Nabil.
Realizing this, Nabil thought, "They honor him, not me."
The lion created an energy ball with its horn and threw it at Nabil, who dodged it.
"Ahh...shit. A white lion with a horn creating energy balls. I could never imagine things like this in my life," he said, stepping back.
The white lion started to run toward him, and Nabil started running without thinking.
The lion chased him.
Nabil climbed a tree, but the lion attacked the tree with its claws, causing the tree to fall.
"What the hell... He broke the tree in a single hit," said Nabil, jumping down.
He kept running, realizing that his speed had increased, allowing him to run faster than ever. But the lion almost caught him, throwing energy balls which Nabil dodged.
Nabil reached a dead end. He found himself at the top of a mountain, with the sea in front of him.
"Now what should I do? If I fall, I'll end up in that sea. I can't imagine going back to sea again," Nabil thought, looking at the sea.
The lion ran toward him and jumped to attack. Nabil and the lion collided, both falling into the sea.
While falling, Nabil said, "Create a boat," and pressed his inventory. The inventory created a boat, and Nabil hopped in. The boat, Nabil, and the lion fell into the water.
Nabil landed safely in the boat, but the lion fell into the sea.
Seeing the lion, Nabil thought, "Should I help him? Sure, the lion can get back to land by swimming. But what if it attacks me after I save him?"
The lion was swimming to float, and suddenly Nabil saw a shark heading toward them.
"Oh no, it's going to attack the lion because he's in the water."
The shark was close to the lion. Nabil grabbed the lion and pulled it onto the boat before the shark could bite.
The lion, now on the boat, looked aggressively at Nabil.
"Oh no," Nabil said, pulling a mango out of his inventory and giving it to the lion.
The lion didn't stop and was about to attack Nabil. Nabil touched the lion's head and said, "I won't harm you. Please, let's survive together."
The lion stopped and picked up the mango.
"Great, I stopped him," said Nabil with relief, but he saw the shark following them.
"Oh no."
The shark was hitting the boat with its teeth. Suddenly, a whale came from the sea and ate the shark alive. The wave caused by the whale's interference changed the boat's direction, taking them away from land.
"No, wait. It's taking the boat away from land," Nabil thought, trying to change the boat's direction, but the sea current was powerful, and his efforts were in vain.
The lion looked at him and started doing the same.
Nabil thought, "I think I've tamed the lion."
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Three hours later.
"The situation I'm in reminds me of a movie named 'Life of Pi.' The MC gets stuck at sea with a tiger, but in my case, it's a lion. The difference is, the lion I'm with isn't trying to harm me anymore. I've tamed him," said Nabil, while the lion was sleeping and the boat was moving with the current.
Nabil looked around and saw no land visible in his 360° view.
He checked his inventory and saw he had 12 woods, armor, a sword, an axe, a pickaxe, a hoe, and 15 mangoes.
"At least I have something compared to last time. I didn't store everything in the inventory, but with what I have, I can survive for up to three days. But what about him? What will I feed him? And this boat is small."
"I can make another boat, but I don't have any rope to tie both boats together."
"My life is so messed up."
Nabil, with a tired face, looked at the sea and saw the dolphin that had been with him earlier, leading more than 30 dolphins toward him.
"You're alive. Amazing. You came to save me again," said Nabil.
The dolphins started to pull the boat, following the lead dolphin.
"Hey, dolphin leader... Thanks for everything you've done for me, but I want you and your team to leave. I don't want any of you to die, so please stop. I don't want any of you to die," Nabil screamed.
The leader dolphin came to the boat and shook its head, indicating "no" in dolphin sign language.
Nabil touched the dolphin's head and said, "I am sorry. Because of me, all your previous friends died. Please forgive me."
The leader dolphin sprayed water on Nabil's face and started to lead the team again.
"Yeah, right, you will never listen to me. I will name you Spray from now on," said Nabil.
The dolphin seemed happy and agreed. With that, they started to move forward.
Afternoon-
Nabil landed on the ground, followed by the lion. He looked at the dolphins and then around, saying, "I never thought I would reach land this fast, but thanks to all of you. I'm sorry I can't repay you right now, but I want all of you to stay alive. Hopefully, we can meet again, and I can repay you."
All the dolphins were looking at him as he minimized the boat and sent it to the inventory.
Spray, the leader dolphin, gave a crystal to Nabil and started making dolphin sounds.
"Thanks, I'll keep it with me," Nabil said.
The dolphins began to return to the sea. Spray turned back and looked at Nabil, waving goodbye.
"I will miss you, Spray. Stay alive and stay safe. We'll meet again soon," Nabil called out loudly.
With that, Spray dived underwater. Nabil smiled and looked back at the land. The lion was watching him. Nabil touched the lion's head and started walking.
"After all this, I've realized that my pet ability works if I touch the head of a non-hostile animal or mob. I don't remember when I first touched a dolphin's head. Anyway, I should name the lion," Nabil thought.
The lion walked with Nabil, looking around to keep him safe.
"Hey, lion. I want to name you Leon. Is that okay?" Nabil asked.
The lion moved his head in agreement.
"Great, you're Leon from now on. I couldn't find a better name. My naming skills are bad, I know, but I think it's okay," Nabil said.
They started walking, surrounded by trees with no open spaces. They walked through the jungle, and many animals ran away upon seeing Leon.
"These trees don't have any fruits. The only fruit I've seen so far is mango," Nabil thought, looking at the trees.
They found a small pond.
"Whoa, a pond," Nabil said, reaching it.
Leon started drinking the water.
"Is this safe?" Nabil asked.
"Yeah, it's clean too," Nabil said and started drinking.
"Ahhh... after a long time, I am drinking water. I feel so good," Nabil said after drinking a lot.
"Ouch, I need to pee," he said and went to a corner.
Leon followed him, but Nabil pushed him away.
After relieving himself, he felt hungry but only had mangoes. He ate one and gave one to Leon.
"What about the shelter now? It's almost night," Nabil thought, looking at his axe, which had only 2% durability left.
"Now it's almost useless. I need to do something at least," Nabil said.
Leon started running toward the jungle.
"Hey Leon, wait! Where are you going?" Nabil called out, running after him.
They reached a large open space.
"Wow, this place looks good," Nabil said, looking at the green area.
Leon started breaking all the nearby trees with his claws, dropping them.
"Yeah, right, I forgot that you can break trees in one punch," Nabil said.
"The trees are useless now. We should keep moving. I won't be able to make pieces of the tree for crafting."
<+5,+5,+5, points
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"Wait, what? How are my points and coins increasing?" Nabil asked.
"Oh, I had no idea," Nabil said.
By now, night had fallen.
Nabil looked around and saw the entire place filled with dust.
"What's going on?" Nabil asked.
"Oh, I didn't know that," Nabil said as skeletons, zombies, a mob with four hands, and a mob with fire glowing in its body spawned.
Nabil put on his armor and prepared to fight.
Leon ran toward the mobs and started eating them one by one. The mobs attacked Leon, but he kept eating them.
Nabil saw this and started attacking the mobs as well. The fire-throwing mobs started throwing fire at them, but Leon countered with his energy power, throwing energy back at the mobs.
Nabil managed to kill some zombies because they were slow.
Arrows were shot at them, and a few hit Leon.
"Yeah, that's what I needed," Nabil said, crafting a shield. He guarded Leon while Leon shot energy balls at the enemies.
Leon started to get tired. Nabil said, "Take a rest. I'll handle them."
At that moment, some massive spiders entered the area. Leon, seeing them, started attacking and killing the spiders.
Nabil fought zombies and skeletons. The skeletons damaged his vest, and his armor's health decreased as the fight continued for an hour. Nabil's armor got destroyed completely, though he wasn't much harmed.
All the nearby zombies were dead, and all the spiders were killed by Leon. The skeletons remained unharmed because of the distance.