Miles returned to the stronghold the next day after eting up with Cale, Lucy, and Quinn. At night, they said their goodbyes, and everyone went to their own lodgings. Thankfully, Quinn and Miles managed to fool Lucy to take over the helm with a lot of pampering, and Cale watched from the side with a chuckle.
The day of the auction was around the corner, and Miles was getting ready to increase his weapons. He already bookmarked lots of orbs that would suit his choices. But for the ti being, he wouldnt hunt. Hunting was unpredictable and any mishap could delay Miless return. For he had to be in the auction, he tried to spend a little ti with his one and only pet, thus he ca to the Umbra Forest to visit Culga, the black panther.
After entering the forest, a pair of shining gold eyes appeared in front of him. Miles had long switched to dark vision, so he could see his pet was standing in front of him, despite the dark forest. Culgas appearance of course wasn't a coincidence. Miles and Culga had a physical bond connecting them, so Culga knew Miles was coming.
In little over more than a month, Culga conquered the forest. Umbra Forest wasnt that strong, and after the death of the overlord of the forest, the humanoid vampire monster, the forest was as good as abandoned, so Culgas reign wasnt questioned after she let her aura out.
She was already at the peak of the Grunt-Rank and the feeling she was giving off was stronger than the weakest Frenzy-Rank monsters. It wasnt surprising for others to bow in front of her, especially when she wasnt trying to enslave other monsters, and only took over the best place in the forest and from ti to ti ordered them.
Today was an odd one, as the Queen of the forest left her nest to co to the periphery. It made many monsters worry, and they were hiding while shivering. Normally the sll of prey would excite them and all of them would try their chances to see if they could cope with the intruder, but since the Queen was at such a close distance to the human, none dared to approach.
How are you Culga? How was your ti in your new ho? Miles started to scratch back Culga's ear as he petted her. If other monsters in the forest were to see their queen like this, they would kill themselves by smashing their heads into rocks.
The lofty and noble queen was enjoying her master pet and making weird sounds. From their psychic link, Miles could perceive her emotions and understood she was having a good ti in her stay. It was to be expected, Umbra forest was much better than her previous ho thanks to its dark elental nature. She could strengthen her elent in the forest at least twice faster. But Miles wasnt sure if it was enough.
Lately, he was researching monsters and their evolutions. Miles wasnt the first person ever tad a monster. There was a special type of rare orb with psychic elents that allowed people to ta monsters. Of course, there were many limitations on the usage of the orb, but it was still better than nothing. In the last few decades, close to a hundred beasts were tad, and they were researched to be evolved. After all, the stronger the beast, the stronger was the owner.
One of the most obvious solutions to this would be elental minerals. As can be understood from monsters behavior of taking over the minerals as their nest, minerals were helpful to let monsters understand their innate elents, thus leveling up.
The other easiest way was, using natural treasures growing up in Portal World to strengthen their elents. Of course, monsters with the sa elent were included in this, just like how humans gained more mastery over energy by consuming monster flesh. But ever since moving here, Culga was feeding on many of the dark elent monsters, so she was already doing that.
Unlike humans, monsters could also eat monster cores to strengthen their own. By consuming the sa elental monster cores, monsters could advance to the next step.
The least favorite way was to teach monsters their elents. For example, a fire elental monster could be educated through a psychic link and taught specifics. By adding experints with different kinds of fires, monsters could broaden their horizons to level up.
But there were many limitations to this, and in Culgas case, Miles didnt know much about her elent. What was darkness? Lack of light, was pretty much everything he knew, but in this fantasy world, elents had more than what humans could perceive, so instead of clouding Culgas judgnt, he decided to keep his mouth shut.
Unfortunately for Miles, he didnt have a dark elent mineral, nor did he know if there was one in the Endless Mountain cave. So, he could only let Culga feed on monsters and live in Umbra Forest to level up on her own.
Wait a second. Miles thought sothing all of a sudden.
What happened? Coin asked after noticing Miless accelerating heartbeat.
What is darkness? Miles asked, wheels were turning in his head.
Lack of light. Coin answered tersely.
Exactly, Miles exclaid and called Culga. Culga co over here for a second. Culga approached Miles and crouched to the ground. She was giant for a cat, so she had to prostrate on the ground for Miles to talk to her face to face.
Your main elent is darkness, and your secondary elents are nightmare and tal, right? Miles asked without expecting an answer, but the giant cat nodded her head and looked at Miles with expectation.
Nightmare is such a rare elent and I cant help you train it at all, and tal can be trained by consuming tals, but they have to have dark attributes also it is weaker than others too, so you have to cultivate darkness to level up, right? Culga nodded once again.
I know this might sound absurd for you because your way of thinking is different, but I have an idea, Miles said and fished out a shiny piece of stone from his bag. With the sight of stone, darkness in the forest withdrew, and part of the forest could be seen. As if a miniature sun born into the forest. But the most drastic reaction ca from Culga. She hissed and jumped back.
Easy girl, easy. Miles tried to calm her down and patted her nose. He could feel terror from their link. Culga was afraid of stone more than anything.
Light is the counter of the darkness, and its presence might damage your very existence, but that in itself is also helpful to you. By resisting light and trying to overco it, you can strengthen your own elent and have new ways to use your elent. Darkness isnt the lack of light, light is the lack of darkness. If you manage to quench this light, you will get into another realm. Miles explained softly and tried to appease the pet.
Culga looked at him like a madman and pondered over Miles's words. She wasnt as smart as a humanoid monster, nor was she in a position to refuse. She couldnt overco that barrier limiting her growth. From her birth, it only took two years for her to reach pinnacle-tier, but even after five years, she was nowhere close to Frenzy-Rank. Her eyes changed and beca more resolute. She approached Miles and placed her paw on a shining stone.
Sizzle, sizzle.
An actual sizzling sound was heard and Culga grimaced in pain. Take to your nest, and I will bury this stone there. By living on top of it, you will manage to strengthen your elent and will reach that tier.
Culga nodded and Miles hopped onto her back. After arriving at the center of the forest, Miles dug a hole and placed the Light elental stone there. He covered it with tree barks and if Culga wanted, she could remove the barks to train with the stone, and when she was resting, she would close it back.
After taking Miles back to the entrance of the forest, with great determination, Culga returned to his nest to train. This decision was her first step to get stronger.
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