NOVEL NEXT Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Petting the "cat".
"Commander Ebout." Muria stepped on the accelerator and called out to the Cloud Giant Commander who was hiding a short distance away.
"Your Highness Muria." The tall giant with staff in hand pushed aside the bushes in front of him and approached the fierce storm bear that had begun to tremble, which stood in front of Muria.
"Cure the bear." Muria pointed to the bear at her feet, whose snout was bleeding and whose nose seemed to have been pulled out of place by her blow.
"As I ordered." Hearing Muria's words, Commander Ebout began to cast a healing spell on the ferocious bear without a word.
That's right, this rugged-looking Cloud Giant Commander was actually a spell caster, but he was not a wizard, but a spell caster who cast spells with the power of his bloodline, although, there were restrictions on the types of spells he could learn, but the speed of spell casting was much faster.
Anyone foolish enough to treat this giant sorcerer as if he were as frail in melee as a human wizard would learn the power of a giant when he approached. Of course, no creature with his intelligence at stake would belittle the power of a giant wizard of this size when he saw it.
A healing spell that Muria could not see the level of, or recognize as such, was cast by Ebout, almost instantly.
The aquamarine light of the spell landed on the nose of the ferocious bear, causing the large, aggrieved creature to moan in comfort as the wound on its nose quickly recovered.
Muria sighed a little helplessly, his human mind had been influencing him to behave in a way that was almost laughable. He still hadn't quite adapted to who he was now.
"Commander Bolton, go get me some more fierce beasts. I want stronger ones." Muria ordered out of the corner of her eye towards Commander Bolton. Now she wanted to know well who he was during the battle.
And so, once again, the many cloud giants scattered with Muria's orders to find their targets ...
"Boom!" With a quick over-the-shoulder punch, Muria slammed a ferocious nine-meter gorilla to the ground, struggling dizzily to get up.
As the gorilla struggled dazedly to get to its feet, Muria stepped forward with a beautiful uppercut that caused the rather ugly-looking gorilla's head to tilt upward and a few yellow, bloody teeth to protrude from its mouth.
The ferocious gorilla then fell backwards and was knocked out alive directly by Muria.
"Ebout, heal him." Muria reached out and pointed to the gorilla he had beaten quite miserably, this was Muria's compensation for the poor gorilla.
So far, Muria had challenged four silver-ranked fierce beasts, or to be more precise, she had unilaterally defeated four fierce beasts.
This gorilla, the second ferocious beast of the fifth silver rank that he had challenged, was, this time, the last, for Muria was already completely sure of what his power represented at the silver level.
"Even though I'm only at the third silver rank now, whether it's my strength and speed, or my defensive capabilities, they are all far above the ferocious silver level beasts, and fighting them is completely crushing and pointless."
Muria raised his hand, looking at the white and tender, seemingly brittle skin of his hand, but it was this hand that could easily bring down any kind of ferocious beast, there was no animal that could fight with him, not even the ferocious elephant of the silver fifth rank that he had challenged before.
"Titans, and golden dragons, truly powerful and terrifying creatures." Muria smiled with glee, "I'm barely out of childhood, true, and I already possess such great power, how strong will I be when I reach adulthood?"
"Your Highness Muria. A Fierce Serpent has been found." He was informed by one of the Cloud Giant's guards.
"No need, go and inform all the cloud giants to go find me gold level monsters, the silver level fierce tyrants are no longer useful to me, fighting them is a waste of time." Muria ordered.
"Yes." The admiration of the giant cloud guard was overwhelming, Muria's words had made it clear that he was going to cross the range to challenge the gold level creatures.
"Your Highness Muria, isn't it too early to challenge a gold level monster?". Ebout, who had already finished healing the ferocious gorilla, frowned slightly and admonished.
"I came here for the purpose of practicing fighting techniques, but I can easily suppress a ferocious beast of the fifth silver rank with my strength alone, and in this case, there is no need for fighting techniques at all."
Muria scowled at Ebout, the Giant Commander he used entirely as a doctor, and who was responsible for healing all the ferocious beasts he had crippled.
"But, Highness Muria, the gold level is nothing like the silver level, and the gold level may be stronger than you think." Ebute admonished cryptically.
"How strong?" Muria asked with interest, who had already begun to revel in his powerful physique.
"..." At this point, Ebout didn't know what to answer, because he didn't know how to describe how powerful the Gold level was, for the Titans and also for the Golden Dragons, the Gold level was just an excessive stage of their life journey, telling Muria that this level of existence was Mighty? It was just a joke.
"Your Highness, did I hear that you want to challenge a Gold level monster?". With a smile on his face, he spared no words of praise, "As expected of a titan's son, even the gods of the heavens would be surprised and impressed by your bravery."
"Bolton, I don't need the praise of the sky gods, now I just need a gold level monster. Have you found one?" Muria was unfazed by Bolton's praise, and had no respect for the true gods and goddesses of this world.
"It has been found, Your Highness, it is a saber-toothed tiger."
"Where is it?" Muria was ecstatic.
... Never treat people like fools, or you will be one yourself.
Right now, Muria feels like a fool, Elasia has a very large number of intelligent races, even the beasts are extremely intelligent, certain powerful beasts, their intelligence is not inferior to humans in the slightest.
But then, this not being less than humans was itself problematic, knowing that there was an IQ gap between humans, so which human IQ was the standard for this beast's IQ.
Muria had always thought that those powerful beasts possessed intelligence comparable to that of some ordinary humans, but that was all, and nothing more.
Now, however, Muria discovered that he had underestimated what the book called "no less than human" intelligence.
Muria was led to the golden saber-toothed tiger that Commander Bolton had described.
He was a large, imposing-looking feline, lying lazily by a spring, not counting his tail, nearly ten meters tall, and with his snow-white saber teeth at the corners of his lips, he had the air of a king of the jungle.
But just as Muria was praising the appearance of the saber-toothed tiger, the "king of the forest" stood up immediately after seeing Muria's arrival, and then sniffed the air carefully.
Then, with amazing agility, the big cat caught up to Muria without a single giant cloud guard, including the two giant commanders, being able to stop it.
Just as the enraged cloud giants were about to attack, the saber-toothed tiger grazed Muria with its body, having stunned a field of cloud giant eyeballs.
The big cat lay shamelessly on the ground, showing its snow-white belly to Muria, a familiar sequence of actions that left Muria frozen for quite a while.
"Is that a pout for me...!" Muria looked uncertainly at the two giant commanders, a series of movements he was all too familiar with.
"... Yes, Your Highness." Ebout was silent for a moment and said in a dry voice.
"That's the first time I've ever seen a ... like that," Bolton looked down just in time to see the saber-toothed tiger squinting at him at Muria's feet and quickly changed his tone, "smart saber-toothed tiger."
"Isn't it a gold level being? Didn't the book say that animals of this level are already difficult to tame?". Muria looked incredulously at the saber-toothed tiger that kept pawing at her feet.
"Difficult to tame is for other races, the Titans are not included in that list." Ebout thought for a moment and said thus, "I think this saber-toothed tiger has sniffed the scent of your belonging to the Titans, Your Highness."
"Very sensible of you, big cat." Muria crouched down and looked at the saber-toothed tiger, "I know, you can understand what I'm saying, can you fight me?".
The saber-toothed tiger looked at Muria with an innocent face, and rubbed its head at him, really just like a big, well-behaved cat.
"Are you worried about the Titan bloodline in me? It's all right, even if you scratch me, no one will find you in trouble. Have a good fight with me."
However, the saber-toothed tiger remained completely unresponsive and had no intention of getting up to fight.
"You bastard, are you really gold level? Why are you such a coward!" Muria put her hand on the saber-toothed tiger's head angrily, and then started shaking the "cat" with her fur.
In a direction Muria could not see, the saber-toothed tiger turned its head to the side and rolled its eyes in an extremely humane manner.
But after rolling his eyes, he turned his face toward Muria again, and the saber-toothed tiger, which had been shaken by Muria from head to tail, had a very comfortable expression on his big, furry face.
"What do you think I should do, Commander Abbott, Commander Bolton?". Muria asked as she shook her "cat" and looked up. "The silver level ones can't beat me, and the fierce gold level animals don't want to fight me at all."
"Your Highness, indeed, if you want to refine your martial skills, but are too weak for silver level, is there another way?". Ebout hesitated, "Every one of us Cloud Giants is more than willing to be your sparring partner. In fact, any of the giants on the island would be willing."
"That's right, that will have to do." Muria nodded and said helplessly, for now, it seemed that she could only find giants to help her hammer her martial skills. But, their effect, it was really hard to tell.
Because with the way the giants were treating him, Muria felt that no matter how strong the giants were, they would "lose" to him.
It was because of this concern that Muria went in search of a ferocious beast that would not hesitate to attack him, but who would have thought that even a beast, at the gold level, would become such a thief.