Chapter 27 :

Angry that he wasted another bit of mana, something that takes far too long to recover. Will checked his mana levels as he prepared for battle.

Mana : 8/20

(I just need to make enough spikes and stab them enough before they die...hehehehe...MEWHEHEHEHEHEHE! They will become the first monster that I will tame! Cause...yeah, I really need to have some kind of smart minions... )

After the events where all of his zombies got wiped out, Will had a pretty good idea what happened.

First they went out of the base. Walked around to find the “Spiky Needle Balls”, met the monsters. Ignored them, got crushed into pieces, died, and disappeared completely. And the entire time they didn’t say a single thing through the connection.

Yeah, he would be needing at least semi-intelligent minions, so for now he’ll just make the monsters that took out his zombies as substitutes.

Through, it’s a pity he could only tame one…

As for his weird sudden bipolar personality… well that's another story for later, keke.

(I’m gonna have to go with full strength, so…)

Walking to the pile of “Purple Bananas” he had set up near to edge of the clearing, Will began to devour the fruits, skin and all.

He was in a hurry, as there wasn't any indication that the monsters won't attack the base itself. As such, the food supply for the Beastkins will have to take the hit for them.

Swallowing his 6th “Purple Banana”, Will started creating his battle outfit-that ball of spikes that he tried wearing when he found the Beastkin girls. While it was kinda annoying walking around with it, and somewhat heavyish, it did give a good defense and protection against other potential predators.

Like those monsters that he didn’t really see, but know is there.

Rapidly, black spikes completely surrounded his body as they grew from his white fur. He quickly went from adorable white furred kitty cat to black spike covered walking ball thingy.

“PHOOSH!”

Will felt that his CUTENESS stock just plummeted…

(Ah, man...I’ll need to get that back later, for now it's time for a FIGHT!)

With all his preparations ready, Will easily ran up the bridge to the other side. Where the monsters were waiting.

Reaching to the spot where he thought the monsters were (or the spot where his skeleton took their last unbreathe), Will did a scan for enemies with his much unused mental “map”.

In the corner of his eye, was a blue dot in the center, and nearby it was 3 colored dots. A white and 2 green dots.

(I really want a color code for this thing...what does the color mean? Green = plants? White = ...ice cream? Who the hell knows? Hey system, any help?)

“CHIRP CHIRP” (I swear I took them all out with that insecticide nuke! REALLY! NO DON’T EAT ME! AAAAAHHHHHHH….*Silence*)

(Well that's no help...guess I’ll go with the see and reveal method..huff..I don’t get enough benefits for this. I choose minions EXACTLY because I DON’T want to do things like this.)

Signing, Will got ready for the battle as the “Blue Grapes” bush nearby began to rustle.

Almost instantly moving from under the bush to Will, the green jaguar like monster tried to smash the covering of spikes on Will’s body.

Sadly, the spikes have are surprising strong. As the green furred paw hit the point of a spike, the spike pierced right through.

The other two green jaguar like monster took this chance to try attacking Will from both sides. Which was a rather bad move on their part.

Concentrating, Will felt his food reserves drop again, as two sharp black spikes explode out of the ground in front of the charging jaguar like monsters, and stabbed through their front legs.

Now with two impaired, and the other stuck on his spike armor thingy. Will had the time to check out closely what he was dealing with.  

(Wow, they look like jaguars, but green...really not that big of a difference. Just a cat with a larger body who happens to have green fur. I wonder if I can get the fur and make clothing out of it?)

Thinking about the uses for their fur, well if he could get his little paws on any.

The green jaguar like monster that was stuck on to Will by its paw, opened it mouth and released a burst of strong wind from it.

(Magic? Though it really is weak…)

Unfazed by the “weak” attack, Will failed to notice that the spike armor that covered his entire body had a deep slash that almost spilt it into two. Nor did he realize that the “weak” attack that went past him, easily sliced through several trees before dissipating.

Well good thing he had a lot of luck right? (A.K.A Plot armor, both literal and hypothetical)

Once again, sliding right past the bullet, Will’s ignorance to close calls seems to be completely by luck, or due to his CUTENESS, after all even the world wouldn’t let such a adorable thing die.

That would be terrible, as CUTENESS should never be destroyed!

(Is that it? Only a paw hit and a bit of wind? Man, I feel sad that my zombies are so weak...they can’t even do anything against these small fries…)

Looking at the limp body of the green jaguar like monster who was on the ground heavily panting. Will looked over to the other 2 monsters and saw that they were on the ground just lying there as the spikes had went right through the front legs and into their body.

All of the attacking monsters seemed to have no more will to fight and laid there waiting to be killed, as the rules of the wild dictated as such.

Will however didn’t come from the wild, nor did he ever read a rulebook. Hell, he didn’t even have much common sense, which will be uncovered as he meets an old acquaintance. That however will be seen much farther into the future.

(Alright, they are weakened! Time to catch them! Well...I can only get one, so I guess I’ll go with this one?)

Aiming for the closest monster, the one still stuck to him. Will was able to for the first time try out his other job of tamer.

“MEW!” (Tame!)

The feeling of his mana being depleted as in front of Will the jargar like monster was enclosed in white light. It also include it’s paw which was stuck to Will’s spike armor thingy, so it kinda looks like god was petting a ball of spikes for some reason.

Maybe god likes spiky things? Who knows?

The light vanished as a new screen popped into existence in front of Will.

DING!

The host has created a forced bond with a monster.

Current number of bonds :

-1/1

Does the host wish to give a name to the newly bonded monster? Yes/No

(Yay! New minions! For now I have one, in the future I will catch them all!!!)

Happy that he got brand new minions to do his bidding, Will then had the problem of how to heal his newly gained minion...yeah, that paw ain't fixing itself ya know? Not to mention the said paw is still on his spikes.

(First, get paw off...then heal? How do I heal them? With food or something? Hah, if I find out there was some sort of guide for things like this, I will be a very angry kitty cat!)

Testing his new loyal minion, Will tried communicating to it.

“Mew, mew nya, nyan nya!” (Take your paw and pull it off my spikes!)

The jaguar like monster just stared at him.

(Alright...let’s try something else. I feel like from those light novels I read, I should be able to telepathically communicate with them, I think…)

Staring intently at the now somewhat pained expression of his new minion, Will tried to mentally communicate to it.

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[Take your paw off my spike.]

[Yes, master.]

Surprised, Will looked at the jaguar like monster with interest, as it with difficulty pulled it’s paw out from the spike.

(Wow, he understood me! Any replied back! I have my first friend! Now my next goal is to make a 100 friends.)

With his paws on the starting line, Will made a resolution to make 100 friends. Though that idea rather quickly disappeared within his thoughts as he planned what to do with the other 2 monsters.  

(Will)  [Hey, what should we do with your buddies? Eat them?]

(Jaguar like monster) [NO! Please, they are part of my pack. I’m the pack leader and their are my subordinates. We hunt together and live together. They’re like family…]

(Will) [So we can’t eat them.]

(Jaguar like Monster) [Please do not master, instead why don’t they just follow my commands? That way they will be indirectly your subordinates as well.]

(That’s not such a bad idea, and I really don’t wanna eat them, isn’t it like cannibalism or something? Guess I’ll go with this, and I should give it a name...don’t just want to call it a monster and all…)

(Will) [Very well...from now on you will be called “Greeny”, and the others will follow you from now on. Just make sure they don't do anything stupid...By the way, were you always this smart?]

(Greeny) [I do not believe so master. I think that when you tamed me I gained a much higher intellect.]

(Didn’t know that tamed monsters get smarter...weird.)

Due to naming the tamed monster, Greeny.

The host can now access its status.

(That’s new...actually now that I think about it, shouldn’t as a reincarnated person, I get at least the “Appraisal” ability? It should’ve came with the reincarnation package right?)

Wondering about why his situation wasn’t like those people who were reincarnated or similar, Will checked out his new minion’s status…

(How do I open it?)

DING!

The host only needs to focus and think of pulling out the indicted monster’s or bonded status.

(So I just have to think of it? Wait...I feel like I really missed something important...oh well I guess I’ll figure it out later…)

Ignoring his feeling that he was missing something important Will opened up Greeny’s status.

Name : Greeny

Age : 3

Gender : Male

Race : Wind Jaguar (Monster)

Level : 89

Skills :

-Hide Presense (Level 32)

-Wind Blade (Level 8)

Mana : 0/50

Current State :

-Tamed By Will

(Well...that’s kinda unfair. He has WAY more mana then I do, and is a higher level...whatever that does. But he has so little skills and they are kinda low for his level and age. So is he weak? Strong? Both? This is annoying...well I just need him to recover, not figure out these little details.)

(Will) [Greeny, can you walk? What do you normally eat?]

(Greeny) [Master, I can somewhat walk, but my 2 subordinates will need to have those things remove first. Otherwise they might die from over bleeding…]

(Great...can’t let them die. Cause I might be able to use them for future use...Why am I thinking like that? All fluffy things have a good amount of CUTENESS! They should be helped! Yep, yep...now to heal them, I need some kind of medicine at least. But I don’t even know what the plants here do...maybe I can just put on random herbs on them? Wait…)

Like a jolt of lightning, Will noticed that he DID have herbs...well kinda.

Recalling that he was able to make rather strong leaves first, then getting rid of them with softer leaves. Along with the rather cushy leaves he tried making for a bed. There might be a possible way to create a medical herb that could heal wounds!

But then again...it goes back to the problem of what herbs help and what doesn’t. Didn’t want another “Red Apple” truth reveal show…

(Will) [Hey Greeny is there any kind of plants that can heal wounds?]

Will asked Greeny as he was attempting to pull out the long black spike from one of the other Wind Jaguar’s body.

With a quick twist and pull using his mouth, the spike was quickly taken out.

Dark red blood flowed out from the hole, luckily for the monster the spike didn’t go in very deeply. It only had it’s front left leg and shoulders stabbed. So all it’s vitals were unharmed.

(Greeny) [I don’t know master, when we get hurt normally we die soon after…]

(BRRR...that’s cold. They just leave them alone? Or force them away? Am I missing something?)

(Will) [So if someone is hurt then you’ll just leave them?]

Padding over to the other injured Wind Jaguar, Greeny replied as he pulled out the black spike that stabbed through the right front paw and into the right shoulder. Like the other one, both weren’t embed deeply so they could be easily removed. The problem was the bleeding.

(Greeny) [No, that’s not it. It’s just that other hunters aim for the weaker ones. So they are the first to be targeted. We try to protect them, but normally the wounds are heavy and we something can’t even stop the bleeding by licking it…]

(So they do try to help them...well the wild sure is a harsh place. I wonder if they know the code of CUTENESS! Thou shalt not kill CUTENESS without a extremely good reason. Whatever, I’ll just try nursing them and wait for good old natural healing to do the job.)

With that thought, Will decided that it was best to stop the bleeding before they lose too much blood.

Walking over, he created clean, soft green leaves for each of them and with a little nudge from Greeny to cut off their protest, they put it on the wounds.

The leaves did their job well as quickly the flow of blood stopped. Ensuring that the 3 Wind Jaguars wouldn’t die due to excessive bleeding.

(Well then time to get them back to base...wonder how the Beastkin girls are doing? They didn’t stir for a while and I been out here for...10 minutes? 15?)

(Will) [Greeny, get the other two and come with me. We’re going back to base.]

(Greeny) [As you wish master.]

Together, the 4 together went back to the base and one by one stepped on the black bridge to the other side.

Well that was what they hoped, but in reality because the bridge was only made to hold much lighter things. And was only a few feet across.

Greeny, the largest had a length of 3 meters and a width of a meter, most certainly can not cross the bridge. He also was far too tall to have a good balance to cross the bridge at 1 and a half meters.

As for the other 2. They both were about the same size, each about a meter wide and 2 and a half meters long. While they were shorter than Greeny they still were about a meter tall from their head to the ground.

(Guess then they’ll have to stay outside? Or I can expand the bridge...let’s go with that.)

(Will) [Greeny! You guys go and find any kind of fruits that’s nearby and bring it here. I’ll use it to expand and strengthen the bridge. While you do so, I need to check up on my...acquaintances?]

(Greeny) [As you wish master.]

With a nudge of his head, Greeny and the 2 other Wind Jaguars ran...er limped off to find the nearby fruits. Hopefully they survive...as our little kitty cat sure is a airhead, but it's alright cause he’s cute and cuddly.

Will didn’t really think much of his orders as he again crossed the bridge to the other side.