81 Family

Jason had his fill of petting and got up and prepared to leave. The alpha wolf that he was petting looked at Jason in confusion as he got up to get ready to leave. It was night and he had created a shelter, but Jason wanted to go out and search for more monster dens. The more he could find the closer he would come to his ultimate goal. A monster free for all that was species-wide!,

Just thinking about the potential of the battle made him smile on thinking about how epic it was going to be.

The alpha wolf watched as Jason started walking. He barked at Jason, Jason turned around to see the alpha wolf behind him with the rest of the pack. Part of the pack split away and went to Jason's front and barred him from going any further. Not in a threatening way but in a peaceful way in which they used their own bodies to block him.

One of the wolves tugged at his pants and Jason was forced to follow the wolf in fear of the wolf tearing a hole in his pants. Jason was guided back to where his shelter was and was made to sit down again at his old spot this time with the alpha wolf lying his head in his lap.

Jason looked around and saw that again the wolves were in a circular formation around him. If he was going to try to escape he was definitely going to fail unless he could sneak through them like the snakes and got rid of the alpha wolf who had just fallen asleep on his lap.

He thought about attacking them, but he threw that thought away, they weren't trying to attack him, and he didn't think he was in danger, he was only facing a loss in time, which really didn't matter to Jason in the long run currently.

With nothing else to do, Jason talked to Boops and organized his inventory and stats.

"Hey Boops how far does can your map detect?"

'Okay if you're talking about me not seeing the wolves, I wasn't paying attention to the neutral grey dots on the map, I was more focused on the hostile creatures that might have come to you. and... yeah I totally forgot about the title's effect, I have a lot on my plate already'

Jason accepted Boops's defense even though he didn't need to make one in the first place.

"Yeah, I'm not blaming you, speaking of having a lot on your plate how are you doing with the massive influx of information you got?"

Jason could hear Boop's sigh and his voice got more and more dazed and tired as he talked

'God... it's like finishing a massive project and you get this sense of satisfaction and then somebody gives you 50 more assignments to do, over and over again every time you finish an assignment 100 more are added to your workload. AHHH IT'S NEVERENDING'

Boops ended his tangent with a little scream of frustration. After letting out his bottled up emotions he gave Jason the real report

'Okay, so I've finished sorting through the information and have classified them into categories that you can view whenever you want. You can view it as a book in your head or I can directly implant it as knowledge into your brain, which I think you already know has consequences'

"Ah, you must mean the screaming pain you feel every time you try it, yeah I'm not too big of a fan of downloading knowledge that I might not use into my brain at the price of not being able to move my body for the next few days."

'Okay the pain doesn't have that serious side effects, but yeah it does feel like that at the moment...'

The two thought about their experiences with what Boops now called 'brain transplant' because that was accurately how it felt to them (did Boops even have a brain?). Anyways Boops resumed talking about the information.

'yeah as I was saying the information is too large so I needed to separate it into categories. No, I haven't finished, theirs still a crap ton of books I need to classify, yeah I'm sorry that I don't instantly know everything. But then again I don't really care if you wanted me to be like that'

"Don't worry, I never expected you to do everything"

Boops replied affirmatively

'Good that already makes you better than most of them'

Jason asked about what he was curious about

"can I look at the categories?"

'yeah but there are allot, and by a lot, I mean like 2000 of them.'

"examples please?"

'swordsmanship, breathing in swordsmanship, magic in swordsmanship, aura in swordsmanship, blade magic, sword forms, imperial sword arts. Heck that's like 4% of just the sword classifications alone, I'm not sure about the origins of that library you got all of the info from, but whoever made that illusion probably put all of his knowledge and more in there, and holy crap he's definitely a big figure. There is stuff I don't understand, and other things I really didn't want to know'

Jason again let his curiosity take over

"Again examples on the things you don't want to know"

'you're to young, wait till your 18 or more'

"okay fine.... how about the stuff you don't understand?"

'it's just a bunch of squiggles and lines I can show you it if you want'

Jason nodded in affirmation

"yeah please do"

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Jason stared at the code in confusion, it felt familiar for some reason but the entire thing was just straight up confusing to him.

Boops commented while Jason stared at the code.

'so this code thingy was found in a random book that you found and read, parts of the pages were torn and missing so parts of the code might be weird or just straight-up wrong.'

"anything else?"

'Yeah but this one seems less important'

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"man I doubt anyone going to be able to crack those codes. They look freaking hard."

'yeah we will just have to wait and hope somebody smart can come and help us'

Jason browsed through the categories in his head. Looking through he could see that their really was a large amount of information. And now with everything being categorized Boops could spit out some useful information to Jason in seconds (Boops kept on mentioning how he could be so much faster with the calculation subsystem), Having a living dictionary in his head was going to be so useful to him.

Jason opened his eyes after looking through everything, he didn't need to close his eyes but to him, it was much easier to concentrate. It was nighttime already, and the wolves were still surrounding him with the alpha wolf still sleeping on his lap.

Jason gave the alpha wolf one last pet, he had to admit the alpha wolf had grown on him. Maybe it was his soft and fluffy tail or the rare happy expression it made when Jason petted him on the right spots. Whatever it was Jason could say that he had grown some attachment to the wolf.

He logged off and made sure that his avatar would stay where he was to not wake up the alpha wolf. When players logged out of WOW their characters would go to sleep. Just like real life they could die if they slept in a dangerous environment. Which was why at the beginner's town they would all try and sleep in inns.

Jason got out of the capsule. The sun had already set, and he didn't have time to head out unless he wanted to go out in the night which Jason was currently against doing. Jason grabbed some of the fresh ingredients that appeared on the table. The twins hadn't logged off yet so he was going to make them some food.

For ingredients, he was provided with some meat and vegetables along with dairy products like milk and flour. So now what was he going to make? Jason thought for a moment well he was obviously going to make some steak. Meat was always number one on his menu, but now he had to actually consider how he was going to use the vegetables.

That was the moment Jason realized he might have started to grow up. He started questioning his existence for a few minutes but later pulled himself together and made the accused green beans and broccoli.

He started chopping and heated up the pan. He had accidentally burned himself when he put the steak on the pan but it actually didn't hurt, he felt a bit warmth and then realized that his entire finger was in the oil. He successfully finished the meal and was surprised by a notification

[you have gained the cooking skill!]