While Daniel was making these preparations, Danny came in, "Daniel, have you noticed? When you're in charge of the body, you're faster and stronger than me. I'm sure it's because of the difference in tiers."

Daniel thought for a moment, "What do you mean, Danny?" Danny had grown rapidly mentally over the course of a month. He realized that the only way to survive was to be useful and strong.

Danny said, "I think I'll take the job of hunting these wogs, I'm sure I'll tier up when I kill them all."

This made Daniel smile. "Danny, I wonder if you can use my power, please move this pebble with your mind." Danny started to sweat, focusing with all his strength, he could only lift it five centimeters.

Danny said with a sad expression, "I'm sorry Daniel. I don't know why I can't, I've been able to use your other abilities like moving silently and throwing things very accurately, but not this one." "You don't need to apologize, you don't need to be sorry, you are trying to use a tier of power without a tier. And you're succeeding a little bit, which means that if you tier up, you can use my power and I can use yours."

Danny was very happy to hear this, it meant that Daniel had a reason to keep making Danny step up and make him stronger.

Danny did the week's training instead of Daniel, smashing short dummy targets very quickly, and when he got tired he would build thick hide armor while he rested.

At the end of the week he put on his armor, equipped his sword and axe duo. He began to track the wogs.

Danny had never been a hunter, he had encountered wogs before but they had fled because of his size.

But he had spent so long in the forest that he could easily recognize some differences. Information that had entered his subconscious when he was stupid, but which he could not use, was now available to him. It took him only half a day to track the wogs.

The Wogs were in tent-like structures made of twigs, leaves and mud. Danny counted twenty. He took a deep breath. He was about to kill these creatures and he didn't like killing them.

He reminded himself how sad he had been when the Wogs had killed Bessi the cow. He had found the mutilated carcass and cried for days. He took a deep breath. "It is me or them."

Using Daniel's silent movement, he came to a Wog some distance away from the camp. Daniel always said that if there was an advantage you could use, use it. Being good doesn't preclude getting hurt. In short, it was wise to do whatever you could to reduce the number of enemies before the main battle began.

While Wog was busy urinating, Danny plunged his sword into the creature's back. Although incredibly strong, he was surprised by the thickness of the creature's skin and its durability. The creature didn't make a sound as its lung was punctured. It collapsed to the ground. Danny cut off its head with a second thrust.

Watching the blood flow made him want to collapse. He didn't like the bloodshed. 'I have to do this if I want to live,' he said to himself.

He waited patiently around the camp, killing four Wogs, one by one, for three hours, cleaning and sharpening his sword each time. He knew he would need every advantage.

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But eventually the creatures decided that something was wrong. Ten of the sixteen Wogs that had appeared in the camp grabbed their weapons and went after their missing comrades. Danny watched them go in the wrong direction and calmly made his way to the camp.

When he reached the camp, he saw that the remaining creatures had picked up their stone-tipped spears and axes. One of them also had a large metal knife that he guessed had been stolen from the humans.

The creatures were alert. It was past time to hunt them silently, one by one. Danny charged with a shout, using the first shock to decapitate a creature between his axe and sword.

The other creatures attacked him, barking and howling. He swung his weapons as he had practiced in training, using wide arcs.

The wogs could not find an opening and could not get close. Seeing an opportunity, Danny swung the sword forward and stabbed a Wog. But as he did so, a Wog threw its stone-tipped spear at Danny.

Danny's thick armor easily stopped the spear. But Danny made the unarmed Wog pay for this by bringing an axe down on its head. The creature fell to the ground with its skull split open.

The three remaining creatures looked at each other. It was obvious they would want to escape. But Danny couldn't leave any of them alive. In one swift move, Danny disemboweled another Wog.

As the other two tried to run away, he threw the spear he had picked up from the ground at another.

As the last one was about to flee, Daniel took control and used his power to fill the creature with rage. When the creature started to turn back quickly, he gave control back to Danny.

Creature gave up on running on its two legs and runned in all fours and in one motion Danny disemboweled the last creature as it ran at him like a madman on all fours.

Howls and the sounds of fighting must have been heard in the distance as the remaining ten Wogs came running back on all fours.

Watching them run like that, Danny realized why they had strings tied to their spears, so that they would not be left behind as they ran.

Danny picked up the spears from the ground. He was amazed at how well they could be thrown. About fifty meters from the oncoming animals, he threw them one after the other in rapid succession.

When he had finished throwing, he was only ten meters away and two creatures were wounded and on the ground.

Danny grabbed his axe and sword and began to fight, swinging his weapons in wildly wide arcs. He was taking a lot of hits this time, both because he was outnumbered and because the search party was made up of better fighters, but he didn't feel much thanks to his armor.

One by one the creatures fell.

The biggest of them threw a spear and then jumped up and latched onto Danny's back, claws flailing.

Danny grabbed the creature by the throat. He squeezed with all his might. The creature's eyes seemed to bulge. But before they did, it suffocated and died.

Seeing the Alpha dead, the remaining Wogs wanted to flee, but Danny didn't give them the chance. He threw axes and spears and knocked the creatures down. He then used his sword to execute the wounded creatures one by one.

It was towards the end of the battle that he felt the power building up inside him. Danny was going to tier up.

Danny focused inward. Daniel had so many elements, so many options. Inside Danny there was a great sadness, he had done so much for the sake of those he loved and for his own survival, even though he had never meant to harm anyone.

And his sadness had turned into a single element. A flame. A very hot flame that burned white and blue.

Danny chose this flame because he had no other choice. Raising his hand and focusing it, he began to burn the Wogs' huts one by one.

The fire was so hot that even on the first tier it started a fire in a few seconds, even though its size was only slightly larger than a candle flame.

Meanwhile, something happened that horrified Danny. Out of the burning sheds came four wog puppies, barking and howling.

Danny felt he couldn't take it anymore "Daniel, I said I'd kill them all, but..." Daniel took back control, "But you're not going to kill these puppies, you're going to let them suffer and starve to death in the jungle for a long time."

Danny realized in that moment that Daniel was right. Yes, if he didn't kill them, the creatures would still die, but they would die more painfully.

While Danny was thinking this, Daniel calmed the creatures with his hand, using his power.

Danny asked Daniel "What are you doing?" Daniel smiled "These creatures are very susceptible to mind control, you can't strengthen any ability without using it. I intend to use these creatures."

Daniel took the Wog puppies to the woodcutter's hut. There he gave them the parts of their prey he would not eat.

The wogs were big enough, Daniel had no intention of telling Danny, but if there were any wogs too small to be fed without their mother's milk, they probably died of smoke inhalation when Danny burned the sheds. These puppies were big enough.

He left the puppies around his hut and went to the burnt wog camp. There he skinned all the wogs one by one. These thick, strong skins made good armor.

Daniel knew that the key to strength was good preparation. The warriors of this world were not to be underestimated, and he would not act on his plans unless he believed he could defeat at least two first-tier men at once.