'I wonder what their body is made of? Flesh or sothing else entirely.' Dustin said. He knew that the mont he moved from where he stood, he would get attacked, so he prepared himself well.
'Wait, what was that?' Dustin said in his mind.
The mont he was about to move to attack the creatures before him, he felt sothing off about one of his tad wolves, and following that, he felt another. It was a new feeling, but then it was also an inexplicable feeling, sothing he needed no explanation to know what it ant. One of his tad beast had just died, and it was clear that it had just been killed by one of the night creatures.
Dustin imdiately sent out an order asking all the wolves to return to his position. There was no need to lose more of his tad animals, even though he already expected deaths to occur for the wolves that were below E rank.
The night creatures were definitely of a higher tier when it ca to bloodline and things like that, so even though an E rank wolf faced an E rank night creature, the night creature will triumph over the wolf. The only chance the wolves have is if they don't co across any D rank night creature.
'It looks bad, but the highest rank achievable by the wild wolves is E rank. They will die eventually if stronger night creatures are to appear.' Dustin thought to himself.
One thing was clear, he had to train his other tad beasts to a higher rank. The serpent was a good one for example, and it seed to have a very high potential so it would last long, though Dustin did not know of this now, he would eventually co to realize it.
Just as he thought, the mont he moved, the night creature before him charged at him with a remarkable speed, though he seed to be faster than it by a lot. Using his taming skill, Dustin activated it and stopped the night creature half way before it got to him. In the end, these night creatures were a blessing, as they would beco his EXP, and the endless spawn of them would only serve as his EXP farm.
This, was Dustin's thoughts anyway. After activating his skill, the night creatures seed to not be affected by the taming skill, and after slowing down for a second, it resud its charge at Dustin without stopping.
Dustin was a little shocked at what he had just witnessed, but he had not been spoiled too much after getting his A rank taming skill, so he could still react on ti and dodge the night creature while burying one of his twin axe in its throat.
He skilfully turned his body after that, making a half crescent movent as he turned towards the side with more night creatures. Dashing forward, he was able to take out multiple night creatures before they could even react properly. It was evident that these were E rank night creatures, so he was confident in taking them head on. After a while of killing the night creature, the mound that they spawned from stopped bringing forth any night creatures.
By this ti, Dustin had completely killed the night creatures in the surrounding area, and each one he killed gave 50 exp. Looking at his status window, Dustin could almost call this a blessing that he was surrounded by these night creatures that were so hostile, too bad he couldn't just gather them together with his taming skill and kill them.
After the initial fight with the night creatures that turned out to be a one sided slaughter, Dustin was curious as to why his skill didn't work on the night creatures, despite them being a kind of beast or maybe beasts that were monsters. He had stopped using his skill while fighting against the beasts in the forest to prepare for things like this when his taming skill did not work, but he would have never guessed that it would fail here.
He asked the system if it knew why his skill failed, and the answer was that it was because of the night creatures attribution to darkness. Since they were practically creatures born from darkness, their affinity for it was just so high that it gave them an edge over many things. Normally, those with a darkness attribute were less susceptible to illusions and mind controls. Basically, things that controlled or confused the mind don't affect them much. But since the night creatures were monsters born from darkness, their resistance to these things was very and unnaturally high.
In a way, Dustin's taming skill was more of a controlling skill than one that make a bond with the beast or monster. It was just that the beast were also controlled to like him more, not that they even have a choice. Normal taming is done through creating a special bond with the beast or monster, and then both tar and the creature they are trying to ta would naturally form a pact. Apart from this thod of taming, there are other tars that forcefully enslave the monsters. Between these two types of tars, Dustin was neither of them, as he was sothing of a combination of both, since he practically did not ask for consent from the other party, but yet does not put them in a pact where they feel enslaved.
Overall, no matter the thod of taming, the night creatures were still going to be resistant to it in the end, so it didn't matter. Dustin waited for the wolves to co as he just walked normally instead of using the tiger. By the ti all the remaining wolves got to him, their number had greatly reduced. In the end, only about 200 of the wolves survived, and all of them were E class, with 9 among them being E rank.
After killing the night creatures, Dustin had gained so much experience points that he only needed so more before he reached his next level up. In addition to the experience points he attained from visiting the forest regularly instead of focussing on completing quests, the ones he got from killing the night creatures just brought him closer to the next level up.
Using his will, Dustin pulled up the status panel to check his stats.
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Level: 17 (8,470/8,960)
Na: Dustin
Title: Progenitor, Slaughterer
Class:
Nature: Cold-Blooded
Hp: 1,130
Mp: 1050
[Stat]
Strength: 27
Agility: 34
Sense: 26
Vitality: 27
Intelligence: 21
Unallocated stat point: 54
[Skill tab]
Passive: Bloodlust (A)
Active: Taming Master (A), Reality Manipulation (A)
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Dustin continued going towards the mound he had seen earlier from the first wolf that found it to see if it was still intact. He had a feeling that the night creatures must have destroyed it, so he just wanted to make sure.
After getting there, he found that the night creatures had truly destroyed the mound, and probably the sa thing that happened with the other one happened here to.
When Dustin confird this, he looked around and realised just how empty the entire place was. With the number of night creatures that erged from one mound alone, they should be everywhere by now, but even after looking around he couldn't find any. It only helped to emphasise how large this place was, wherever it was.
The more ti he spent here, the clearer it beca to him that this was not the second trial that the ssenger spoke of when the announcent was made, and it didn't seem like it would be easy to find his way back either. He looked to the sky, but the blankness of it just was not up lifting in the least. Maybe it was because of his cold hearted nature, but he wasn't feeling any particular emotion at the mont. He thought of what to do next, but there was nothing he could do. He returned to the magic circle from which he ca here, but to his surprise, the circle had disappeared leaving behind a patch on the ground and nothing else. Dustin was completely stranded.
After sitting around for a while, he ca to a conclusion. As there was no clear path to take going forward, there was only one thing he could do. In such a land where nothing seed to survive except the plants, it was clearly a barren land, and the only one who survive in such places where those who never stopped going forward, who never stopped moving. The worst thing to do right now was give up and remain in the sa situation, so he just had to move forward no matter what. Besides, there was soothing he noticed around the mounds.
The grass that grew close to the mounds had beco dead, almost like its life expired before its ti, like it was sucked away. The mound definitely had sothing to do with it, but it was not like Dustin knew, and also, he didn't know if this would spread to the surrounding area. Either way, he had made his decision to start moving.
Since there was nothing else to do, he could as well grow stronger while looking for a solution, and what better way to do so than hunt night crawler.
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