"Duel me," Crown commanded staring at the green-furred wolfman.
He looked confused at the request.
"Duel? Like Y*-Gi-Oh?" asked the wolfman.
"No, fight me! Do you even know how to play Y*-Gi-Oh?!" Crown demanded.
"Does anyone? I just collected the cool-looking cards..." shrugged the wolfman.
"Anyway, I want to test out my goose abilities, so duel me," she reiterated.
"Hmmm... What level are you?" he asked.
"Twenty-three," Crown replied.
The wolfman crossed his arms.
"...well, I guess that's close enough," he sighed.
They stood next to the statues and near the small beach of the massive lake.
"Just as a heads up, I'm a druid of the harvest, so I'm more suited to damage-dealing," Larry explained.
Crown nodded.
"Plus since you're technically a bit higher level than me, I won't be holding back much!" he added.
"Sure, whatever," she shrugged.
Larry was wearing a white shirt with a brown, leather vest over it.
He got into his fighting stance, getting near the ground, with one hand behind his back and one on the ground.
"He has a fighting-style?! He must be a fist class-druid combo!" Crown speculated.
"How'd he figure out the fighting-style in the isekai land?!" she thought.
He looked more feral than ever before.
"HERE I COME!" he exclaimed bearing his fangs as he lunged forward, tearing up the grass behind him.
Crown barely dodged the hit, upon making contact with the ground, Larry performed a quick roll and was immediately in position to jump again.
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Crown jumped back dodging another hit from Larry who zoomed past her, slashing the grass into bits, he now landed on a tree to which he clung, defying gravity as he aimed for her once more.
Moments later he jumped down again, narrowly missing Crown who was forced to fall down and roll away last second.
"Damn it, he's too fast!"
Larry was about to lunge again but was stopped by something grabbing him from behind, his eyes darted to the object grabbing onto his vest, a goose was growing out of the very grass on which he stood.
It's body starting out as a strange tangled grass statue of a goose and slowly resembling a real, breathing goose more the higher up its body you looked.
Its bill was unusually strong, capable of holding down a grown man.
"So that's the goose skill?!" He asked in a mix of awe and excitement as he clawed at the goose, cutting it as if it was grass and causing it to disintegrate into a green mass.
He lunged at Crown, she rolled to the side, dodging his attack as he heard the sound of half a dozen grass-geese snapping their bills shut below him.
"Damn! If I tried to land back there I would have been torn to bits!" he thought landing on the bark of a tree once more, burying his claws in the wood to remain attached.
"Not bad!" Larry exclaimed, he was back to his friendly, polite self.
"Thanks... you're not half bad yourself..." Crown said in between gasps, that was more physical activity than she had to do in a while.
Seeing his chance to strike a grin spread across Larry's face.
He lunged forward at Crown once more, much to his surprise he was grabbed by multiple geese, they felt even stronger, this time they consisted of just their heads and abnormally long necks which stretched like tentacles from the very bark of the trees around him.
"HONK!" exclaimed a goose below him as it manifested in the grass and smashed head-first into his gut knocking the air out of the man.
The geese let go of him causing him to land on the soft, long grass below.
"Those goose-tentacles over-wrote the root and vine-control skill, though I guess they're mechanically similar..." Crown thought.
"That... was impressive..." Larry amitted getting off the ground.
"Yeah, except I wanted to be a better healer..." Crown remarked.
"Oh..." Larry replied awkwardly.
"Didn't you get any healing spells at all?" he asked.
Crown let out a sigh.
"Oh, I did..." she replied with a forced smile and twitching brow.
She snapped her fingers and a dozen little baby geese appeared, they waddled over to Larry, little bandage strips and vitamin pills in their bills.
The geese wore little army-hats with a red cross on them and a little cloth on their back with a red cross as well as some medical supplies like thread and needles for sewing wounds.
"..."
"..."
"They are fucking adorable..." Larry thought reaching out to pet one of them, much, to everyone's surprise, it didn't bite him.
"The spell's called healing-company..." Crown sighed.
"What use is this going to be in a real fight?" she asked desperately.
"Like, how will this help me in a raid?!" she added.
"I don't know, but I like it!" Larry exclaimed as the healing-company began treating the goose-bites on his arms.
One goose waddled up with a billfull of white liquid which it spit on his wound, another used a cotton ball it carried in its bill to rub the liquid in.
The next applied a bandage, this routine was repeated for each bite-wound.
"Woah! These are amazing!" Larry said again, he reached into his pocket.
"Can I give them some bread?" he asked holding out a tiny loaf of white bread.
Crown squinted.
"They're magical ethereal monsters, not my pets, you can feet them crack for all I care..." she sighed.
Larry took that for a yes and threw them some bread.
Each goose ate some bread and suddenly became a bit bigger.
"...Woah... That's weird..." Larry remarked as the geese snatched the remaining bread from his hand and ate it.
Crown dismissed them just as they were about to become full-sized.
"Shit, sorry!" she said.
"Nah, don't worry about it," he laughed.
Crown then felt the strange urge to consume bread, she marched up to the mangled slice of bread on the ground and picked it up.
"No need to throw it away, the birds will eat it," Larry assured Crown as she placed the entire slice of bread in her mouth.
"...gross..." he remarked as he saw it.
Behind crown appeared the silhouette of a human, but where their head would have once been was now the long neck of a goose.
It had massive muscles, pecks thick enough to block bullets, a twelve-pack and biceps strong enough to crack-open cargo containers as if they were soda cans.
"W-w-what is that?!" Larry demanded trembling.
Crown looked back and saw the massive beast, she turned around but it did the same, it stood behind her like a ghost.
"My god... it's a st*nd!" she exclaimed.
"IT'S A MONSTER!" Larry exclaimed.
"No, it's..."
"Magician's Bread!"
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