Ranch.

Feeding Brenda daily increased his animal handling skill, another good news was rabbit that started to accept its new reality. Little more attention and it would be completely tamed by him.

He built more cages for new specimens and left the space.

'It's time to get more animals. Getting ranch requires something to be done. Domesticated animals? I don't really care.' Having stable source of animal products was great part of his plan.

Easiest to domesticate were actually animals with kind nature. Rabbits, quails and other smaller ones would be perfect for this role. First generation of tamed animals will be growing inside of his space and later exchanged with villagers or other people. Quality meat could be even used as currency, meat was precious and hard to get.

The best way to capture small animals was to use traps. Aron was setting one of those, while he spotted small quail hundred meters away.

It was eating earthworm, while chirping happily. Distance was small, so boy decided to use his superior speed to catch unaware bird. Plan was simple, using stealth to close the distance and catch with hands. He found hole inside of his logic, his speed and strength were way above ordinary human. Simple movement could squash quail's body. This plan required great control and patience.

'It's not funny. I am increasing my strength, but I neglected control…' Killing someone by accident or breaking things because lack of precision would destroy his future.

'It's time to focus on controlling my strength and speed.' Using full body power wasn't hard, the problem was to use precise amount. Any further neglection of this field would make things harder to fix in the future.

Aron appeared before bird and caught its leg with precise movement. Forcing your body to stop, when your body's momentum wasn't pleasant.

The quail wasn't even struggling, getting caught was as good as being dead. It started to pretend to be dead.

"Don't worry. You won't be eaten in near future. Hahaha!" Bird didn't understand words and continued pretending its death.

[Quail]

[Gender: Female]

[Traits: Cautious, Smart]

'Not cautious enough, though!' It was put into one of cages inside of space.

It was easier to catch game with traps as control wasn't required, and putting traps with decoys would always lure some animals. Boy decided to set traps and track animals with help of his sight.

His senses found track of sow with piglets, probably one from his first visit in forest.

'I am stronger and faster than ordinary human. Younglings should be easier to tame than adult animals.' His decision was to capture piglets and try to domesticate them. You could consider boars as pigs with tusks and fur.

They weren't far as he caught up to them very fast. Sow was looking after its children while piglets were playing around with each other.

[Boar(Sow)]

[Age:5]

[Stats: STR 1.4, DEX 1.3, EEN 1.8]

[Traits: Vigorous, Big tusks, Overprotective]

[Skill: Berserk, Charge, Piercing Tusk]

'It's time to die. There is no place for sentiments in nature.' Getting bow from his bow and shooting few arrows at boar.

Swish! Swish! Swish! It had no time to react as its head was pierced by multiple arrows. Allowing your enemy go berserk was stupid and pointless. Finishing its life in seconds, it was time to catch shocked piglets.

[Boar(Piglet)]

[Age: 5 weeks]

[Attributes: STR 0.5, DEX 0.7, END 1]

Great speed allowed to cut distance in split of second, cubs couldn't comprehend situation at all. Seeing boy appearing before them caused them to fell into chaotic panic.

'Too late!' First piglet was captured by its leg and instantly teleported it into farming space. Another one was kicked with half of boy's strength and without any delay it ended inside of space.

'Two down. Three to go!' Using simple rock throw, another one was down. Only two of them were left to catch.

'Leaving? You will be eaten by one of predators in few hours.' It would be waste if he didn't catch them.

Their speed was low and running for longer time was impossible. Aron got them in no time, boy tied them and entered space. Their siblings were running around with horror in their eyes. Only one not moving was piglet with injured leg from stone projectile.

'Ok. All immobilized.' White-haired boy left space and took carcass of their mother. It would be great thing to exchange this for animal.

[Plundered: Berserk, Vigorous, Charge]

Caring around would be inconvenient so body was placed inside of storage. Kid took it out around outskirts of village, bringing such game caused uproar in village.

"I want animals and rare goods." Many villagers became disappointed after hearing this sentence. Having cow or sheep was privilege, not many around had such luck. Humans were dying fast and their animals were dying even faster.

'None is interested? Your loss!' It was tiring day, so he decided to rest for moment inside of his hut.

Little nap refreshed body and mind, time to dismantle game. Storage could keep it fresh for ages, however grinding skill was important. Inability to dismantle his own game properly was shameful.

It was done. Dismantling needed precision and experience, Aron lacked both of those things. It wasn't reason to worry, some practice will resolve both of those problems.

During his stroll around village, one of villagers told him interesting rumor. Some sheep got crazy and attacked their owners.

'It's good chance. Let's check what's wrong with it.' There was always cause of such behavior. It might be sick or poisoned.

White-haired hunter reached rumored ranch and knocked into the doors.

Knock. Knock. Middle-aged man opened doors and scanned boy with his eyes.

"Ymmm? I don't know you." Aron appearance changed with charisma being increased, some people were focused on their lives and they didn't care about most of things.

"I am Aron. I heard about your sheep. Are you maybe interested in selling it?" Man was little surprised, crazy animals was worthless in his eyes.

"I am Greg. Did you hear about it going crazy? It's possessed by devil! You cannot calm it down…Even village chief was helpless in this situation…it was really good animal…" Sheep was source of wool, precious material used in creation very comfortable clothes. Losing it was pretty sad for the man.

The sheep was strongly tied to wooden fence. It was still struggling to free itself, its eyes were full of madness.

'What's wrong with it? It's not natural.' Her behavior wasn't natural, still boy couldn't find a problem.

[Sheep]

[Attributes: STR…]

[Traits: …]

Appraisal didn't help him either, nothing in basic categories was unusual. Is this animal crazy?

'Something isn't right. Crazy should be trait, probably.' His mind couldn't accept defeat, there must be solution somewhere within his reach.

'Wait a minute. I still have Skill points. Will it improve appraisal to next level?'

[Affirmative. Every level up below 10th level cost 1 SP. There are some exceptions, however appraisal isn't one of them. Do you wish use skill point to level up Appraisal?]

'Yes. Every level brings more information.'

[Appraisal lv.6(1/100K)]

[Sheep]

[State: Berserk(Demon Fever)]

[Attributes: …]

[Traits: …]

'As I thought…It's sick…Demon fever? It's first time hearing this name…' Boy focused on appraising sickness, getting more information would be crucial in decision about sheep's fate.

[Demon Fever]

[Desc: Sickness with unknown origin. Untreated causes death, after week of suffering.]

[Symptoms: High fever, Berserk, Death]

[Treatment: Feeding the animal with a mix of Blue mint, Bristle, yew leaves and water.]

[Contagious: No]

'It's not contagious. Unknown origin? How did it get sick?' It was quite intriguing, there was always cause behind everything. Unknown was only temporary term, someday he will find out real origin.

"How long is it acting this way?" Preparing cure needed time as he lacked blue mint, remaining time was important.

"Something around three days…Are you still interested? It's curse from devil!" Greg thought Aron would abandon the idea of buying it.

"Actually, yes. I can give you some meat for it. Not much…but it's still better than nothing." Kid decided to trade, though this time with rules of normal trading. Giving someone a finger will cause him taking your entire arm. They didn't deserve any kindness from him.

"Yes. It's sad…I liked her wool!" White-haired hunter shook his head and said.

"Give me few minutes. I will bring you some boar's meat." Nothing could be done. Devil's curse for ordinary people could be only cured by people with knowledge how-to. He took two chunks of meat and threw it into wooden bucket.

"It's more than enough. None will give you this much for CURSED animal." Aron emphasized on fact of curse to show his generosity to the man. Most people would get rid of animal to stop spreading devil disease.

"I am grateful…Thank you. Do you need any help in caring it? Or will you kill it here?" Man wanted to show his sincerity.

"Let's drag it to my hut!" They strengthened binds on body of animal and dragged it before Aron's hut.

Greg left with satisfaction on his face, crazy sheep wasn't his problem anymore. Boy inserted sheep into space and decided to visit chief to ask about blue mint.

"Blue mint…I have some in my cottage. It's quite uncommon though. I found few stalks near mountains." Blue mint grew only near mountains, so getting it would be hard as nearest mountain was few kilometers away.

"Can you lend me a little bit? I need it!" Carl made weird expression and asked.

"You need it? For what? It's good for fever, however it has weird side effects on humans." It wasn't problem to lend some to Aron. He wanted to know reason behind sudden question of boy.

"I bough sheep from Greg…Yes, crazy one…It has high fever, so maybe getting rid of fever will cure it from its madness." Sometimes, truth was better than smartest lie. Refusal will cause only change of way of getting herb, it was always possible to borrow it from him in other way.

"You want to cure it? Do you know shit about herbs? Stop messing around…" Carl felt little insulted as he thought that Aron is treating herbology as game.

"Actually. I do! Sometimes, I catch animals alive. I test effects of various herbs on them." Aron explained his method of getting knowledge. It was little hard to believe excuse, still old man stopped questioning him.

"How did you find out effects of blue mint?" This question hit the mark, boy decided to use Roger as source of his guess.

"Whatever. I will lend you little bit…Come later and tell me about your results…" Carl decided to believe kid and handed him few leaves. Losing little of herbs could give him cure for this weird condition and he was interested in Aron's strange ways.

White-haired boy followed prescription from system and mixed right cure. Only thing left was way to feed the patient.

'Modern world has plastic tubes…' Those were useful in situations like this one. Patient was unable or unwilling to consume oral medications and only way was to forcefully insert them into bloodstream or throat.

'It doesn't need to be flexible. It needs to reach its throat.' He pondered for a moment and created wooden tube and pushed it into its mouth. Sheep tried to gnaw through it without results. Mixture was poured through tube straight to throat.

A few moments later, animal eyes changed and it became sleepy.

'YES! It's working!' Ending of berserk and possible aftereffects of sickness forced it into sleep.

The treatment of this disease needed to be carried for few days to completely get rid of disease from patient's body.

'No vet profession? What's up system?'

[You didn't actually cure it yourself, host. It could be considered as feeding…]

Piglets were closed in cages and taming them was hard. His space currently had rabbit, quail, five piglets, pig and sheep. Boy got used to taking care of those animals, animal handling soared to 5th level. Unfortunately, it became locked like other skills.

'Another locked skill…'

[Animal Handling lv.5(Locked)]

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