Capheus kept on exploring the forest. He kept looking and finally found a huge beast sleeping in a cave near a river. The beast had two small babies.

It was a level 6 magic beast. It was a white tiger with black stripes. Its paws were big and the nails looked very sharp and long. It looked injured on the back. It was bleeding from sword cuts which looked fresh. " I don't have to worry, after all its a 600-year-old beast." I couldn't have possibly killed it if it were a 900 or 1000-year-old beast.

The babies were asleep. Capheus came near the beast crouching, so that the beast would not notice him and he can kill the beast without any harm to himself. He came closer and closer, and that's when he heard a voice speaking to him in his mind.

"Why are you here, Human?" said the voice. "Who are you?" replied Capheus with a question back. The voice answered, "I am the tiger that is in front of you." Capheus was shocked at the reply. He knew that these beasts could talk at will but never knew they could talk telepathically even with humans.

Capheus calmed himself and asked, "Why are you not killing me, if you saw me already?" The beast replied, "I'm too weak to even move right now I could not fight back even if you attacked me". "But I'm after your core," said Capheus with a serious face. "I will die soon and you can have my core, but promise me this, that you will take care of my babies."

Capheus promised to protect the babies. He took the core from the beast after it passed away. And carried the babies in his arms and headed straight back to the village.

"Ah, it's already getting dark. I have to find shelter." thought Capheus to himself.

Capheus was standing near a river. He thought that if he followed its direction, he might be able to find something. Capheus followed the river for half an hour, when he could see a person lying there wounded near a tent.

He hurried there with the babies and took out a herb from his spatial ring, and after mixing with water from the nearby river he gave it to the wounded man. After smelling the herb his wounds were healed but there was still a bit of pain.

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The herb that Capheus took out was a herb grown in special conditions personally by Capheus himself. If he were to sell it he might get a 1000 golds for it.

The common currency in the kingdom is silver coins and gold coins with crystals being the highest in currency.

"Who are you? And why were you attacked?" asked Capheus with concern.

"I'm Hirako, a merchant from the east. I thank you for saving my life. I was attacked by a strange animal that could vanish within a blink of an eye. It had cold blue eyes, with a huge white body." said Hirako with a scared face.

"Here take these gold coins as a gratitude for saving my life," said Hirako kindly.

Capheus refused to accept it, but he was forced to keep them anyway. "If there's anything that I can help you with, Please do not hesitate to come to my place."

Hirako gave Capheus a green ring and said: "Whenever you need something, you can contact me through this ring."

Next morning,

Hirako headed out towards east with his belongings. Capheus fed the baby tiger with some of the meats that he collected from beasts. And then headed towards the village. He reached after a few hours.

Everyone was busy with their daily schedules. But when they saw Capheus they were very happy. Capheus met with Asahi and Ryousei. Capheus gifted one tiger cub each to both Ryousei and Misty.

While Misty and Ryousei were playing with their new pets, Capheus called Asahi aside to say him about the incident in the forest. He also showed him the level 6 core from the dead beast. Asahi was very happy to see an actual level 6 core. Usually, when he used to hunt for beasts the maximum level core he could find was a level 5 beast's core.

Cores help to create potions and enhance armors and swords. People trade these items to get money in rural areas. In rural areas, people are mostly busy hunting. As that's the only way to have food if there's no money.

Asahi was very happy seeing a level 6 core. Asahi told Capheus that he will make an enhanced armor for Capheus. Capheus kept the other lower level cores with himself as he had decided to make potions for his patients.

Ryousei and Misty gave each of their baby tigers their own names

Ryousei called his one Rei while Misty decided to call her new pet Dew as it had a connection to her name and it was also a girl while Ryousei's was a boy.

Beasts, if taken care of properly can be pretty powerful without any training. Beasts have long life span. Some special types live more than 1000 years. The more aged the beast is the the more power it gains. The beast's powers is double of what humans achieve through training.

Even if the beast is a level 1 magical beast, it has power that equals to a level 2 mage.

Capheus was happy to see that they got a new mate to play with. Capheus also knew that if the Rei is loyal to Ryousei, Rei will protect his beloved master with his own life.