Chapter 247: Undead Ritual (1)
Lucas had used his wits and willpower to overpower the sensation he felt from the mark.
It was telling him to just kill the creature like it was just a bag of meat that was made to get eaten.
But Lucas went past this sensation, something that looked easy yet difficult for the one who had to handle it.
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Dracupine
Level 1
Planet- Planet Quillara
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"I feel like I should help it level up. Do you want to level up, Spiky? What a good boy~" Ella said while scratching his open belly, where the skin looked normal, not like a rock at all.
Her skill kept surprising him further and Lucas couldn't help but feel envy toward her skill now, something that had not happened before.
"I can't believe its being so vulnerable with her, I gave it all my food and nothing happened," Lucas said while groaning, this time around, he wanted to be the one who tame this beast.
"What you did was a huge factor in taming spiky, Lucas. If you had not fed him till now, he wouldn't have known what it would get from being with us. I just had to make his greed help me with the taming." Ella said with a consoling voice, Spiky seemed to be very happy and safe in her arms as it snuggled. Even its eyes were closed.
"So you are saying I could have tamed it if I waited a little more?"
"Hmm… Now I wouldn't say that, I can tame it because I can directly talk in his mind or soul or something, I don't know. Happens with all of them. But that is because I have the skill, I don't know how to talk with it without the skill Lucas, sorry."
Lucas nodded, he could understand that not every skill could be learned just by practicing.
"No worries, Aunt Ella, If it's something that can happen naturally, I will try it, If not, then I have no problems. I just felt like having such creatures with me while I hunt alone will be more efficient."
"Oh! If that's the case, you can take them all with you. This way, they can level up too."
"… Are you sure? Don't you love them as if they are your kids?"
"I do, and that is why I want them to play like they are made. Duke and this little cutie are cute and loving, but they are wild-natured at the end of the day. I can't keep them cooped up all the time. And I trust that you won't let anything happen to them."
Lucas heard her and couldn't help but feel loved too. He didn't know how he could get the same feeling of his own mother from another. While his mother's and Ella's nature were different but when it came to their motherly nature, they were the same.
"I will keep them extremely safe, Aunt Ella. But not now, we are already late for Sandra's hunting."
"That's alright, you both be careful. We are going now."
Before John could even say anything, Ella kept the dracupine in his hands while dragging him back.
It seemed even he couldn't say anything in front of his wife, just like Lucas's father.
"Father…"
"What?"
"Nothing, let's go."
Lucas and Sandra started looking for yet another creature again.
While he was looking, he had only a single thought. It was about his father.
He had gone for the mission and hadn't returned till now. Lucas was scared for him now but according to his mother, the guy was not dead.
It didn't take long for Lucas to find one, it was yet another normal pack of normal furs.
"They have definitely become a pest in my territory."
"Why are there wolves here? Aren't we supposed to see some alien species?"
"You just saw one just a while ago, we even tamed it."
"Yeah, but these are wolves."
"Not wolves, look at their names and planet."
Sandra did and confirmed that these exactly wolf-looking creatures were not from their planet.
Lucas went to them and without even taking out his sword, he smacked them all to the verge of death.
He crouched down in front of one of the wolves and tried giving it a dried jerky too, his were finished, Sandra's wasn't.
"Free food." He muttered to the alive wolf who sniffed the piece of meat yet it growled at Lucas.
'Their pride is too high huh.'
Luca placed the jerky in his pouch again and with a chop with his hand to the neck, he killed it without any pain.
He did the same process with each of them yet there was no good result.
After all were dead, Sandra came to him and healed him. Her skill was low leveled so the healing was slow.
Not that Lucas needed it, he just liked getting healed because the feeling was very euphoric, it was as if he was high without getting any drugs.
"What is this obsession with taming these creatures?"
Lucas fell silent for a moment and answered with calmness, "I have a plan in mind, if its successful, each one of us will be protected with such a creature. Now that we have a chance of leveling them high and letting them talk just like us. It will be good to have them around."
"Hmm… how are you going to do that? We don't have a skill like Ella."
"We don't need one, Aunt Ella can give them commands of any type. She can even say, 'Follow this person's orders'. If the animal or monster is intelligent enough then they will follow us without any restraint as long as they get what they were contracted for.
But the main drawback is their intelligence level, with how Duke can only speak a few words at once makes me think it will be a while before something good happens."
"Yeah but aren't you happy these animals can even speak right now? It is an impossible feat, you know."
"Yeah, but it's happening, and the only thing we can do is to go with the flow."
Lucas walked to one of the wolf-like creatures to examine it.
Sandra stayed silent, her eyes down while she was fidgeting with her fingers.
Soon, she was able to speak too, "How are you able to adapt so well in this place?"