Michael forgot to check the wolves level but he also forgot he had the skill to do that. He just kept going deeper into the cave and wasn't too worried about what came next.

A jet black wolf double the size of the others, appeared infront of him but this one didn't have a horn. He didn't know what to do, but remembered that he could see levels and stats this time.

"I wonder if this is their leader?"

Level: 50   Vit: 134 Mp: 50 Int: 63 Agi: 99 Str: 76 Def: 27

"I think it is... if it has mana, does that mean it can use magic?"

It slowly approached him and made eye contact the entire time. It came face to face with Michael who was still in the air, cold winds came from behind it.

Michael's wings were clipped off before he even knew what happened. He fell to the ground, and looked up at the wolf, it looked down at Michael with pitiful eyes as his wings grew back.

He sprouted out the rest of his vines and used them as limbs to pushed himself back, separating himself from it.

"Were my wings cut off? Is that it's magic?"

It held a stare down with him, before his wings were almost done recovering, it leaped at him with the intent to crush him between its jaws.

He used his vines to stab its eyes, blinding it. The wolf whimpered and backed off, then it released a mysterious fog from its mouth.

Michael's wings grew back and he used them to avoid the fog but it got to him as he took a deep breath.

His vision began to blur and he felt really dizzy. It knew where Michael was and bit down on him, shattering his shell then sent him crashing into the cave's wall.

Michael's shell was ruined and he was a bloody mess who was still suffering from the fogs effects. Michael used Blue Flames and aimlessly flailed it around until it hit something.

The wolf used a sensory type of skill to know where Michael was but it was too slow to avoid where the fire was coming from since not even Michael knew what was going on.

The flame hit it's front left leg and spread all over it before the wolf was able to extinguish it, its leg was burnt and became unusable.

Michael's shell regenerated and he was back to normal and his eye sight slowly came back to him as the fog faded. Michael used Sonic Shriek, thinking that it might do something, and the vibrations caused the fog to dissipate.

The sound caused the wolf to whimper to the floor and it left it's ears ringing. Michael's eye sight came back immediately after the fog disappeared, he saw it and took this as an opportunity to finish it off.

He used his vines to stab its head but before he could do that, a strong wind blew him away. It used one of its skills and activated some sort of buff in an effort to take him down with it.

The wolf picked itself back up with a red aura emanating from it. It ignored its pain and cut Michael's vines but couldn't sense his wings but still leaving him powerless.

It began attacking wildly and became more predictable but in return it became faster, But he's still barely to  avoid its attacks.

Michael tried using Sonic Shriek again but it was useless against the rage induced wolf who snarled at him and sent compressed air randomly at him. He tried to fly away but got his wings got cut off by wind.

He crashed into the ground and flipped over onto his shell, using its sensory skill it was able to tell where he was. Before his wings got clipped he managed to create a lot of distance between it.

It leap toward him but his wings grew back just in time and he flew away right before it bit down on him. It was pointless for him to run away because he was still caught by it and pinned him down as he was nearing the cave's entrance.

It had its paw down on Michael's shell and readied itself to bite down on him, but it suddenly stopped.

"Huh? What happened? I was about to cast flames before it ate me."

It collapsed to the side and he saw an arrow sticking out of the leg it used to pin him down.

"I wonder what happened here?"

"Me too."

"Who said that? They sound like girls... hmmmm."

Michael was still in the cave and looked to the entrance and was blinded by the bright light of the outside world. Slowly, he was able to see two girls approached him.

One of the girls were blonde and had light armor on with chain mail under it.

"What's a little guy like you doing here."

"Who are you talking too?"

Michael looked at the girls and they both seemed to be young and pretty cute too. The blonde girl put her bow away and picked Michael up and showed him to her friend. Who was a brunette wearing a black robe with the hood down along with chain mail underneath.

"Does it have wings?"

"Yeah, I think those are wings."

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"He's a turtle right?"

"I guess?"

Michael hid in his shell from embarrassment, he felt like he was being bullied by the pretty girls you find in school. The brunette then looked over to the wolf.

"Hey, did you do this?"

"Do what?"

"The wolf..."

"Nooooo, all I did was shoot the arrow. It was appraised but all it should have done was paralyzed it, I didn't try to kill it."

"Well, let's leave before whatever fucked this guy up comes for us too."

"Yeah."

The blonde put Michael down and the girls left, leaving him. He heard the blonde say that it's paralyzed, and force a vine out to finished it off by stabbing it's head with all his strength.

Level Up! 

Lv. 26

"6 levels! Damn, that's craaaaazzzzyyy."

New Skills Gained!

Ventus' Will: Allows the user to control the air around them for 5 minutes. Uses 10 mana.

"The fuck is Ventus?"

Magic Sense: The user is able to sense magic in living beings.

Hallucinogenic Fog: The user releases a fog that causes others' vision to blur and feel dizzy when inhaled. The effects don't affect the user.

Maniac's Rage: This skill cannot be activated by the user. It activates when the user experiences extreme  stress or emotions. Enhances the user's Str and Agi stat but in return the user loses their mind and becomes immobilized for several days or even weeks after the user feels relaxed.

"Damn, that's crazy."

Stats Gained!

+99 Agi +63 Int +76 Str +27 Def +50 MP

Michael didn't bother checking his profile and flew out of the cave. He spotted the girls walking east of the cave's enterence through the forest.

He tried his best to stay hidden and stayed near the ground to not attract that much attention.

He thought about how the blonde girl was able to paralyze the wolf so easily. He looked at her stats using Observation, just out of curiosity.

Level: 127   Vit: 305 Mp: 250 Int: 199 Agi: 276 Str: 213 Def: 178

"O shit... bruh, I feel like shit now. Well, what about the next girl."

Level: 131   Vit: 335 Mp: 890 Int: 432 Agi: 62 Str: 21 Def: 112

"Y'know what, I couldn't expect less."

"Hey."

"What's wrong?"

"I feel like something's following us..."

"Yeah, its been following us ever since we left that cave."

"You think it's the monster that attacked the wolf."

"It could be, who knows."

Michael heard their conversations from behind a tree and wondered how they knew we was there. The blonde girl turned around to draw her bow and aimed at the tree. 

The arrow blasts through the tree with ease and flew right over Michael, buring itself into the ground. Michael was scared shitless.

"Just come out."

"Yeah, or do you want me to aim lower?"

Michael was reluctant but he didn't want to get left behind by them, so he came out from behind the tree and tried to look as harmless as he could.

"Oh, it's you."

The blonde lowered her bow.

"Why is it following us?"

"Maybe it wants protection?"

"From what tho?"

"I dunno? Everything I guess , it's a turtle after all."

"But it has wings..."

"He's probably just a whimp."

"Yeah."

"Should we let him follow us."

"Why?"

"He's gonna follow us anyway. Plus, it feels uncomfortable being watched."

"He doesn't look like he could cause trouble, so, sure."

The blonde went to pick up her arrow and the three of them continued through the forest. It was vast and really peaceful, nothing really got in their way since it was always like that.

A few hours of traveling go by and the girls stopped to take a break. The brunette sits on the ground.

"Man my legs are killing me."

"You serious?"

"What do you mean?"

"Are you really that tired."

"Yeah! Of course I am!"

"I might as well sit down too I guess."

Michael doesn't mind stopping since he's been meaning to check his stats for a while now.

"Profile."

Player 1 Level: 26 Passive Skills Skills Immortality  Absorption   Lv. 4 Photosynthesis  Sonic Shriek   Lv. 3 Flight Blue Flames   Lv. 3 Pyrokinesis Crunch   Lv. 12 Observation  Vine Whips   Lv. 8 Secrete Poison  Ventus' Will   Lv. 1 Maniac's Rage   Magic Sensory   Hallucinogenic Fog    Stats   Vit: ??? MP: 110 Int: 141 Agi: 278 Str: 209 Def: 108

"O, I guess I'm not too far from them either. So I'm not trash after all."

The brunette drinks some water from a flask and just sat there next to the blonde for a minute or two. Then the blonde gets up.

"I think that's enough rest for now."

"Okay."

They continued walking and came across a dirt road.

"Where was this the whole time?"

They walk down it and after a while, Michael saw tall walls in the distance. They headed towards it and he guessed that, that's where they're going.

They reach the wall gates and get greeted by a sweet old man.

"Helloooo, welcome back, hope you've been doing well."

The blonde smiled.

"We've been doing well! What have you been up to."

"O nothing really, just the usual routine."

"Thats nice."

"What did you girls do?"

"We took a job to take care of raiders that attacked a small village, it was pretty far to be honest."

"You adventurers really are somtheing else, an old man like me could never understand."

"Don't worry bout it." Said the brunette. 

"Is that your pet?"

He pointed at Michael and the blonde was confused but she just forgot he was following them.

"Umm, yeah his is."

"Well, don't let me hold you up, you may pass."

"See ya, have a nice day sir."

The three made their way into town and talked to each other.

"Do you even know his name?"

"No, but he doesn't know our names either."

"True, I guess he's just really nice."

"We should get to know him one day."

"We wouldn't have the time since we're always taking jobs."

Michael closely followed the girls since he didn't want to get lost in the hustle and bustle of the towns folk. The girls entered a big building and he followed closely.