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“What about bones or stones?” Silver asked as he remembered seeing something like that once in his previous life on the internet.
“Those two things are either hard to make the right shape or too time-consuming to grind into shape. The result is still not as good as metal ones. Besides, metal arrowheads are not that expensive, so you can definitely buy a few with some Valis. So, yeah, those were inconvenient and not as good,” the hunter explained patiently with detail.
“Understood. Metal ones are good; costs no time, just a few Valis,” Silver repeated with a serious look as he nodded in understanding.
“It’s good that you learn quickly. It took me some time and experience to remember these things,” the hunter said with a sigh.
“You try making one too. Then we go find another prey, with you doing the tracking this time. After all, you must have other things to do, right? I will just stay here hunting for the whole day. Then let’s meet up again tomorrow morning. We can then head a bit deeper into the forest.”
Silver nodded as he started trying to make an arrow.
The hunter was correcting whenever he made a mistake.
It took him a few tries before finally managing to make an acceptable one.
When he just finished, he saw that the hunter was letting the puppy smell the carcass of the pheasant.
The hunter noticed that he was looking curiously, so he explained, “I am making him familiar with the smell of the pheasant so that the little guy would be able to find it himself by smelling.
The merchant who gifted me this little guy said that it has some dire wolf blood in its veins.
I did not believe it before; I thought he was just bragging, but when this little guy found the squirrel earlier, I suddenly realized that he might be telling me the truth.
“So this cute little guy is that amazing?” Silver said with raised brows.
“Hehehe…” The hunter suddenly chuckled as he stroked the puppy and put it back into his vest pocket with only its head showing.
“What’s funny?” Silver asked curiously as they continued moving again.
“Well… I just suddenly remembered before that I dreamed of having a hellhound as a hunting partner, but my old master quickly lectured me about monsters. Monsters and normal lives can only kill each other. Because normal animals have other instincts like reproducing or defecating, but monsters only know how to kill any normal life they find. Unless, of course, if you are a tamer. But you need to be an adventurer and reach level two before you can become one. There is also no such thing as a hybrid, as I just said; monsters only kill.”
The whole day followed as planned.
And this continued for at least a week. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
Silver managed to take down a lone wolf, two boars, and a huge snake.
He also asked old Butch to have someone make something from the wolf, the boar, and the snake.
The snake was made into a leather belt.
The wolf fur was made into a vest, and the boar hide was made into a simple hide armor just like the ones used by the hunter.
He is still young and small, so not much hide was used, so the rest was sold directly.
Just hunt another boar when he needs a new one.
The hunter also finally noticed that Silver was just ten years old, which shocked him very much because the bow that he gave to Silver for use is something he only used when he was fourteen.
Even then, he was not strong enough to pull the string many times in succession.
“Well, damn it. So you are stronger than I was when I was fourteen?! Your training must be very hard, right?! Because I can see the difference so clearly!” are the hunter’s exact words at that time.
At the present.
It is already the last day for the hunter’s careful guidance.
They are already quite deep into the forest, where they had to climb the treetops just to see the town walls in the distance.
The hunter signaled Silver to stop and be quiet, as he noticed that the surroundings were suddenly drowned in silence.
The silence had gone on for a while, but he could not find the source, so he was already starting to sweat from nervousness as he thought that they might have encountered a bear or a tiger!
He really hopes not.
Silver was also starting to get nervous as he saw the state of the hunter.
There they found a lone wolf in confrontation with something green and ugly.
“So, it was a goblin; now I understand why the surroundings became quiet,” the hunter said in realization, and then he quietly explained to Silver beside him why that is so.
“Monsters have a different aura about them, and animals are very sensitive, so even if it’s just a weak goblin, they will still feel it clearly.”
“Oh, so… Do we make a move or…?” Silver responded with understanding.
“Well, don’t you find it strange that this wolf did not run but instead confronted the goblin?” The hunter asked with a knowing look.
“Now that you mentioned it…” Silver said with a look of realization.
“Why is that?”
“This is something you would never encounter when you go to Orario.
Magical beasts!
You know that before, the dungeon was open; it was only sealed later by the gods.
When it was open, the monsters were rampant on the surface.
We humans and other sentient beings teamed up and came up with our own ways to deal with them.
But what about the various ordinary animals?
Animals were not like us using knowledge and experience to adapt.
They can only use instincts and reproduction to adapt and survive.
And the way they adapted is becoming a magical beast.
Magical beasts are extraordinary animals.
To become one, they need to eat a magic stone and survive without turning into a monster.”
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