With the speed of the wolf and fox we could easier get through the group and vanish from sight before anyone could even hope to start coming after us.
To throw them off we ran into the forest before circling around the plains part of the way before unmounting and walking the rest of the way.
We let both our mounts do as they please. This was where they were born so they probably had some form of attachments.
I watched as Rama looked off at a burrow that had a fox family in it.
I was wondering why he was focused but then i figured out why.
Taking a look around i saw that this was the place we found him which meant that burrow was his old home he was left in.
I go over and pat him on the head.
“So you can still spot the place i found that tiny little fox who grew so strong huh.” I said patting him. He closed his eyes and leaned his head over to me to scratch the sweet spots. I treat him just a bit before we continue on.
A few minutes of walking and we finally saw it. Forming a large mound with small entrance was the burrow of the elite fox we fed long ago.
It really grew after I left. As we got close the fox at the front turned to us and flared their fur while growling but as soon as Rama stepped forward and returned their grow they shrank back with their tails behind their legs.
Rama blew out a huff releasing some fire from his nose and walked behind me again.
With another growl the two guards ran inside and after several minutes a few new fox appeared. With several strips on their body and two long tails, the elite fox had ranked up into two tailed fox.
When the small pack saw me the sniffed the air and seeing no one aggressive they slowly approached me. I stuck my hand out and let them sniff and instantly the lightened up and like the small pups i first met them as they brushed their heads against my hand.
To the immense surprise of the players that hunted the fox that strayed from the burrow i was more than comfortable with the fox since i have gone and played with far larger animals from Shai’s dungeon.
I even have several logs of many different monster that talk about many savage races like the bear races which are highly territorial so little has been learned from them.
I pet them all but since they out number the number of hands i have i can only do so many.
One of them, i guess it was a female took an interest of Rama as she went up to him and they both began to study each other and interact.
From what i learned this was typical of a fox that took interest in a male they would be willing to mate with.
This probably attitude probably wouldn’t change until they gain human level intelligence and maybe reason as well.
After a bit they calm down and allow us to sit nearby with them accompanying us.
They even allowed the fox pups inside the burrow to exit because they saw Rama and Megumi’s Fenrir as allies instead of enemies and were more than enough to keep everyone safe.
“Hey since we finally are here want to check out your stats and skills. I’m sure there were at least a few changes.” Megumi said as we sit down and rest on the pillows of ultimate fluffiness made by the amazing tails of the foxes.
“Okay let’s see.” I say and pull of the ID card and call up my entire stats window with traits and skills.
My life was totally ruined officially now. It was bad enough that Peach and Glop were the rapists of my lips but now for the system to make this serious unfunny joke is just too cruel.
I was in despair but Megumi was laughing as hard as she could seeing one of my new skills.
“AHAHAH!! It’s official, your lips are golden!!” Megumi says joking.
I didn’t really react as I was still in a daze.
After a bit she sits up and shakes me awake.
“So my cute adorable little sister, lets see how you look with those fairy wings. I bet it will only make you look cuter.” She says and pats me on the head.
I just nod and get up while storing the ID card with my stats.
[Summon Fairy Wings]
I call out and from my back four bright lights shine and take the shape of four small wings that are too small for me to take flight.
I looked back and spread them and flap them several times to test them out.
“They're really small huh?” I said and looked at Megumi.
“They're cute and fit my little sister perfectly. At least i know you won’t be flying away from me anytime soon.” Megumi says with blushing cheeks and a bright smile.
I let the wings vanish and sit down.
“What other new abilities did you get again?” Megumi asked.
“Hmm...the trait [Friends of the Wild] changed since i got the second blessing. Now if i put a small bit of mana into any animal i can hear what they say.” I tell her.
“Wow! That’s impressive. Skills that have similar effects can only be found in other Fairy races like Elves or Nature spirits like Dryads. I think the class Druid has that as well but that class is rather rare because someone needs to be really connected to nature.” Megumi says.
“Is it a magic class?” I ask.
“Hmm...from what i can remember it is a mixed class. Something created by humans to mimic the power of nature spirit races to greatly control nature. They're at their best inside a forest where they can get help from the trees. The mix is Mage, Tamer and Monk I think. I remember having a teacher like that. He left before I graduated so you wouldn’t see him.” Megumi says.
Well it sure seems like what i would end up ask. Maybe it will be even rarer since I kind of surpass the magic part but considering how many nature based skills I have, the minimum i might get would be Druid.
Looking around at the foxes around me I see them all looking my way.
Seeing no better time for this i stretch out my hand and put it on the head of Rama and the female that has grown attached to him.
I then get a small bit of mana and push it inside of them. It is quickly absorbed into their large bodies.
They felt the disturbance but since nothing happened they calmed down.
”Did you do something master?” A deep adult male voice suddenly spoke in my mind.
“Wow! I really did hear Rama’s thoughts!” I said excited.
”You can understand, master?” He asked me confused.
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“I gained an ability that lets me hear you speak in my head.” I tell him.
”So does that mean you can hear me as well, great one?” A female voice called coming from the female two tails.
“Yes i can but it’s only those that i put a bit of my mana inside. That is what I did before.” I tell them.
The other fox behind me growl a bit to the female.
”My siblings also wish to possess this connection.” She said.
I look at the other 3 fox. I place my hands on two of them and like before I push a small bit of mana into their bodies and do the same for the last one.
“Done.” I say.
”So the great one hears us now?” The voice of the male on the right said.
”It is our honor to be able to speak to you, great one.” The middle fox said. This fox had a lighter tone but still male.
”This is a great occasion indeed.” The last one said. She had a gentle tone like her sister and showed a mature atmosphere.
The four two-tailed foxes were all happy to get to speak with me.
On the other hand Megumi was frowning since she couldn’t hear them.
I make sure to include her by telling her what the fox say.
“Well, well! What do we have here! Two girls captured by fierce monsters and unable to get away.” Said a sudden voice coming from the direction of the town.
We look to the direction of the voices and what we find is a group. One mage that was talking, two warriors, no knights, two archers, or now Hunters, and one thief, no assassin.
The looked with nasty grins as the eye every monster.
Suddenly i began feeling deja vu as if this happened.
“I feel like this happened before?! Where was it??” I said out loud
“Hey, you ladies should know it’s dangerous here. Don’t worry, we shall save you!” The mage leader said like some cliche hero.
“AH!! NOW I REMEMBER THESE SIX CLOWNS!! Megumi, these are the six idiots that attacked me because i didn’t get out of the way when they wanted to kill the fox here.” I tell her and everyone instantly reacted.
First Megumi’s confused expression turned sour as a bit of killing intent began to leak. As for the six idiots all of them turned from the kind heros that would save the girls captured by the monsters to the men and women that would murder these two.
…
“Clowns...YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!” He began saying in a deadly low tone. “YOU TRAPPED US IN JAIL FOR A FUCKING MONTH AFTER THAT!!! YOU EVEN TOOK OUR THINGS WE DROPPED!!” The leader shouts as he charges his magic.
I quickly reach into my bag and grab the Nature Princesses Wand since I would be hard pressed to use a low quality on to defend.
He aimed his staff my way and released a torrent of fire towards us.
[Hell Incineration]
I wave my wand forward.
At the last second the perfectly white wand turned into several entwined oak branches and a message appeared but I already activated my spell.
[Earth Dome]
From the ground in front of us the ground crumble and a huge tremor as several [Earth Domes] activated Simultaneously and within all of them very thick vines filled with sharp thorns were jutting out.
We felt the impact of the mage's spell on my shield and after a moment the pressure on the wall vanished and the wall began to crumble.
"Kuroko! That's...HIDE IT NOW! I'LL DEAL WITH THEM SO PUT THAT AWAY!!" Megumi warned me while getting up.
I quickly store the wand in my inventory as Megumi stands up and her Fenrir does the same.
As the wall returns to the ground the mage appeared with a shocked face.
It was clear that he was shocked I blocked his attack. Truthfully, so was I, the power of that little wand is really scary and I still need to check what that message was because it was clearly the cause of the massive change.
"Hey you six boneheads. Leave now and we might not kill you!!" Megumi shouted.
This snaps them out of their daze and looking at Megumi and using Identify on her they all grin.
"Like hell we will back down with just a weakling level 189 Spirit Monk telling us what to do!" The male knight shouted.
"Not like we are afraid of that mutt who is only level 233!" The female knight said following her companions.
"Um, Megumi how do you plan on beating them?" I asked a bit worried.
"I'll just call a friend stronger then them." She says with a grin.
"But isn't he your best?" I asked.
"He definitely is my top dog among the canines i tamed. Not like i will summon a dog." She says.
The next moment a flash of light spread from Megumi's feet through the crumbled earth in front of her.
The next moment a heavy tremor pushed the ground up.
The group of six and the nearby newbies and a large number of upper level players who were probably guild members of the six ran away to a safe distance.
Moments later an unmistakable roar came from the ground and the from the spot in front of us a small Drake appeared.
First the large head then the front arms which dragged it out of the ground and finally the rest of the body.
The body resembles a Komodo dragon but the size is much larger than normal but not nearly close enough to be a dragon.
At 6 meters high and from nose to the tip of the tail being 17 meters long, with short muscular arms covered by bulky earth scales boosting its endurance to near dragon like qualities the Drake slowly turned and looked back at us annoyed.
"Oi girly!! Why did you call me and wake me up!!" He said in human language with a really irritated tone.
Megumi pointed at the party.
"They threatened to kill me and my little sister. Crush them." Megumi says.
Slowly the Drake shifted ts gaze to the party.
"You only send me to problems you are too weak to handle. Grow a backbone and go train girl!" He said getting more annoyed.
"I do train but what I cant beat I can't beat." Megumi says with a giggle.
Well it certainly is true. Players level as quick as monsters so we can't keep up to their pace. I can still bet that she can fight a player 50 level higher and win though. Quality of quantity that is how we work.
"Tch, i guess i wouldn't have reached where I am if it wasn't for your love of training your followers instead of yourself." He says.
"That's mean!! I train my skills while i let you guys level up!" She says pouting.
They were completely ignoring the party which i thought was funny. So funny i began laughing and drew his attention to me.
"Ho~?! Is this the sister you mentioned?" He asked and looked at me.
"Yep, this is my little prodigy that discovered the booster i used on you to make you so strong." Megumi says proud.
"Ho~! So this is the little one? Now that I take a good look at you, it feels like you breath nature energy." He says.
"I'll tell you why later. Mind getting rid of the pests first." Megumi asks.
"Fine." He says a bit irritated.
He turns back and looks at the party and seeing them he stops.
"Where is the last one? The little assassin?" He says and starts to look around he takes a step to the left and looks right and left.
"Shit! Kuroko let's go now! You guys to, move back!" Megumi says and we all run back and to the edge of the forest.
The drake keeps looking and walking to the left while stealth curling his tail.
"Where is he?...OH! HERE!" He suddenly shouts before puts his whole body behind it and swinging his tail with unexpected terrifying speed and precision.
The tail smashes into the ground and the force makes a large crater where the tail landed.
"Kekeke, right on him." The drake says while turning his body all the while keeping his tail down so he can look at his catch.
Facing the crater he lifted the tail and right where his tail was laid an assassin with his legs broken with exposed bones and his right arm bent in a strange angle.
"Oh~! Tough bastard! Still alive after that huh?" He says and slowly lifts his body up and balls up his right paw and drops his weight down.
A moment before the two knights ran out after receiving buff magic from the mage.
The stood over the assassin and blocked the impact.
They kept the assassin from dying but at the cost of half their HP being shaved away and probably some fractured bones in the arms or legs since they needed to support the massive weight behind the punch.
Not only that the knights were pushed knee deep into the dirt.
I just stared with my jaw hanging while i watch Megumi's Drake play with the party.
"How?!" Was all i could ask.
"How what?" Megumi asked.
"How is he so fast?! He walks so slowly but attacks so fast!" I say.
"Thats his fighting style. I found him alone, he was originally a Benhido Lizard from this forest. I found him about a week after i left. He was rather nasty but from feeding him i tamed him. Using slime wolf milk and dipping meat chunks i slowly fed him and by adult age he was classified as a boss class. He has ranked up two times since then. First into a Basilisk making him lose his legs and arms for earth magic and petrification skills then into an earth drake gaining earth magic mastery and a dragon scale skill. I later trained myself with mana coating and taught him as well so he can also use that. His scales are probably as hard as regular dragon scales." Megumi says.
My eyes were shining seeing this mass of power before me.
Dragons are every child's fantasy of seeing. Seeing a really cool one is even better.
"Megumi! Later can you go and get me some of those lizards?!" I asked with shining eyes. "I want to give some to Shai, my dungeon, and breed some Wyverns and dragons!" I said with sparkling eyes.
"Sorry kiddo but no can do. Dad said to keep you from getting those because of this exact reason. At least until you graduate." She says.
I start sulking but she looks the other way to not see so the guilt game wasn't working.
Suddenly the sound of a huge explosion draws our attention and I look at the drake and see that the make had just dropped a huge spell on him far stronger then the spell he used to try and roast us.
As the smoke cleared the drake appeared completely unfazed. To tell the truth he was actually chuckling.
"Nice you just barely got over my defense with that attack. Coming from one of you otherworld brats that is impressive. Now let me show you a bit of power." He says and lifts his right fist before punching the bare ground
As soon as his fist hit the ground chaos followed.
All around him a forest of stone spikes rose up. The six nearby player were easker caught in it.
The assassin died instantly with the spike piercing his gut. The knights survived by had the sever bleeding status. The same could be said about the mage and hunters.
Ironically just as the first time guards appear but in larger scale.
A battalion of armored knights ready for heavy battle appeared.
The captain walked forward.
"Drake leave or we will fight to kill!" The captain shouted.
"You are the captain of this battalion? Just so you know i was summoned by that girl who as trained me from young." He said.
Seeing the attention thrown to us we walk forward and stand in front of the captain after the forest of stone was lowered.
"Why did you summon a drake here miss Melody!" The captain said in a threatening tone.
"This party of miscreants appeared and tried to kill my tamed animals as well as my little sisters just because they were high leveled." She said.
He looked at me and i looked back.
"Wait, wasn't there a similar incident with your sister some years back?" One knight said.
"Yeah, it was the same six idiots that attacked now." I told me.
The look they gave the players was close to a death stare.
"Huh! Grew into famous adventurers but they fall just as easy as they rise. MEN TAKE THEM AWAY! Make sure those heavily injured ones have their wound closed but don't fully heal them." The captain ordered.
Some guards began to move and gather the humiliated players.
While this happened the drake nudged Megumi.
"My job is done so send me back. This will help them relax a bit. We can speak later." He said.
Megumi nodded and recalled him sending him back into the pocket space.
Like he said the guards visibly relaxed while the players watching us began scrambling as they talked about what happened
This was sure to go on all the forums. The tamed drake, i can already feel the noblemen appearing at our doorstep wanting to marry big sis because of her high leveled pets.
I continue petting Rama and the female who were each on one side.
"So how will you four fare after this. I'm sure they will come more often to try and draw us out to fight." I ask them.
"I personally wish to return with this one. Finding a strong mate is difficult in these areas." the female i was petting said.
"This one feels my path is following the great one." One of the males said.
"We all wish to follow the great one" the other female said.
"I must agree with all, my place is with the great ones pack. You granted us power and we will return that debt by serving you great one." the last male fox said.
At once four messages of me taming appeared and one message showed I leveled up taming as well.
"Will you leave all your family?" I asked.
"No, those in our burrow follow our will and as we join you, so do they" Rama's mate said.
Suddenly a single window appeared telling me i conquered the fox burrow dungeon and gained a level and all the fox are now tamed.
"If it is like that then ok, Rama i will send you and all the other fox back to Shai, expand the fox burrow to house everyone." I say.
"As you wish master." He replies and bows.
I leave Megumi who was talking with the captain and walk close to the burrow. All the fox were pouring out, pups, adolescent, adult and even a few elite fox.
I recall all them and send them to Shai.
I quickly call he as well.
"Shai, did Rama and a hoard of fox appear there?" I asked.
"Yes mistress, Rama formed a link to me and passed the message to expand the fox den. I suggest making new dens each ruled by one of the tailed fox while spreading the slime fox within to increase the quality of monsters being born from them." She says.
"Do that then. Will help to evenly spread the fox. Have Rama live in a den near the dungeon core on the second floor. Two dens on the first floor and one on the surface." Ii tell her.
"Yes mistress, I will get to it immediately." She said cheerfully.
I walk back next to Megumi who was just about finished explaining her part to the captain and a young squire who was writing everything down.
"I see, well please come to the court tomorrow for their trial. The young miss doesn't need to come due to age but as you are an adult witness you must come." The captain says to Megumi.
"I'll be there sure." She replies.
"9 o'clock don't forget." He says and leaves with all the guards.
"Well that was fun. My morning tomorrow is booked then." She says.
"Yep but today we are clear so let's go just a bit into the forest and check "it" out. I think it upgraded from the blessing and how much i grew from the first and only time i held it." I say.
"Nope, at the guild basement. It block magic from escaping so the churches won't notice it. You shouldn't have even pulled it out here. Let's go." She says not even giving me a choice and picks me up and after recalling her Fenrir she teleports us.