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Jerry hesitated for a moment before doing an action that I didn't expect, he grabbed my cloak and started trying to pull me away from the wolves' territory, of course he didn't have the strength for that but his attitude made Leo give up. a smile before continuing walking and this time causing Jerry to follow behind.

" Do not be afraid." I said to the little mouse and with confident steps I passed through the rocky terrain and guided us into a half-hidden cave, as soon as we got close we started to hear the noise of movement, crying and the smell of food circulated in the air.

" Home Sweet Home!" Leo stated before entering the cave with Jerry and the sight in front of him almost made the wild rat have his whole concept of life broken, inside the cave 3 dozen giant rats worked non-stop.

Guided by my instructions they separate into small groups with different duties, the first group that besides me had 4 more mice went out hunting every day, the second group with 13 mice focused on collecting resources that I ordered around the cave. .

Big or sharp rocks, gravel and long branches, vines and edible plants they would take all of these and bring back to the cave, group three consisting of the rest of the rats were instructed in cave duties like cleaning and cooking game, learning to make stone and wood tools, take care of baby mice that by the way were born 2 to 4 a week and so on.

I myself didn't expect that I could turn these wild and unintelligent giant rats into an organized tribe in a few weeks, "It must be because of the system." I thought and packed my hunt in a big cloth and instructed 2 mice on how to dismantle the animal with their stone knives.

"Leo!" I heard 4 excited voices coming from the back of the cave and 4 little mice came running towards me, they were the 4 newborns I rescued 3 weeks ago and now they were entering adolescence according to the life stages of mice.

"Rick, Theo, Maja and Tom how are you." I said the name of each one I personally baptized and rubbed their heads making them make little noises of happiness, "We've learned almost all the vocabulary you gave us and we can talk normally!" Tom said showing a small notebook made of leather where I put the basics of the giant rat language.

I did this so that everyone in the cave could learn basic language and communicate, but I was very surprised that these 4 children already learned before all the adults, "Impressive, in a short time you will be able to apply for the hunting party." I said thinking that by the end of winter they should have become full adults.

Leaving the kids aside for a bit, I opened the system interface and took a look at my quests tab.

(Quest establish a camp.

Description: Every civilization starts from a small tribe or camp, gather mice and develop your species.

Reward: One advisor, level 1 agricultural knowledge.)

(Quest Status: Complete!)

A notification indicating the completion of the mission fell in my ears and I smiled seeing that I could summon a new advisor but I decided not to summon him now, it was better to wait for the end of winter before choosing.

"With the knowledge of agriculture I don't think we will go hungry after winter, I think we can start a migration in a month and a half." I thought and looked at the other mission I still had to complete.

(Special mission!

Description: Destroy a dungeon near your location.

Rewards: ???)

"I didn't think there would be a dungeon around here." I thought and let out a long sigh, dungeons were a very problematic thing in the game, they only spawn in places with a lot of mana and if left unattended for too long they explode with hordes of monsters. This ends up forcing players to have to explore and destroy them.

"But they also contain a lot of treasures and sometimes even lost technology which is very useful too." I thought as I rubbed my chin, the benefits and problems brought by exploring a dungeon were of equivalent fact and while I'm planning on migrating it's not a good idea to leave such an unstable factor behind.

"In the end I have to explore it, but we'll do that when the winter is over." I resolved it and called the hunters of the tribe to inform them of the dungeon attack in addition to training them as I always do every day.

Including me there were 5 hunters total in the cave, the first being Hardy an old mouse with dark brown fur who although not strong and fast like his colleagues was the first to understand the concept of traps and start to apply capturing various prey to the cave.

Two others were Ninpo and Mimpo, two brothers and excellent archers that I personally guided, they had very gray fur which made them camouflage well in the snow and on the ground making hunting easier, the only problem is that they are not good with steering and that's why always have to hunt with someone else.

The fourth hunter was Tir a very strong black furred rat, I just gave him a spear and a club and Tir turned into a fierce fighter and although he is not very good at hunting he is great at following instructions and orders so he always catches some big fangs.

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