10: Finishing the tutorial

"Hmmm…"

They made a mess out of the creature so even he could not make heads or tails out of what was left of its body.

"It should have been around one meter in length and seeing the wings, it should have been similar to a grasshopper by design, but like a big goose by size."

The system called it a poisonous bug, but that should be just what the system calls creatures like these.

There should be something else players and natives call them, but he won't know about it anytime soon.

"Seeing the jaw structure, it seems like they are carnivorous."

At this moment, a little further away in the lake but not too deep that the shore would become invisible, he was looking down at the butchered body of a dead poisonous bug.

"There should still be some poison left in its poison glands so let's take it along."

Unlike usual games, creatures did not disappear after getting killed in <NO >. 

They also did not drop any items either, since their entire body was left after being killed.

Though, in very rare cases, some creatures left behind a [Spirit orb]. Something that contained a power that the creatures possessed.

Successfully absorbing these special orbs granted one a {Skill} of that creature. However, those things were pretty rare in this game.

"Hmmm. Should I have the other things as well? Do you eat anything other than that moss?"

He was asking his slime friends, and the slimes instinctively understood what he was asking as well so as if to say 'no' they stayed still in their place.

As he had observed, when they agreed with something he was saying or wanted to answer positively, they would start jumping.

When they wanted to say something mundane, they would move their bodies in a certain way… though he yet did not know what they all wanted to tell him with those movements.

"You don't? Well, looks like you have adapted to that moss for some reason."

Well, that was fine. 

If they did not want this creature that they had hunted themselves, he did not mind having it all for himself.

"Though, where will I put these things now?"

He got what he wanted and moved back to his camp.

The creatures did not come out of the water even now, so he had confirmed that they were only limited to the water surface.

"Hmmm…"

His inventory was already filled with those Jade Lotus and some other things that he found catchy.

The inventory space that one receives at the start was limited and he will have to reach the town before he could upgrade his inventory.

"Well, let's leave them here for now."

He had selected all the things in his inventory after careful consideration and he had also talked about them with Alex so he knew it was better to have them than some byproducts of a creature.

It surely wasn't like this was some very special bug that could only be found in this lake, so there was no need to pay too much attention to the things related to this.

"Anyway, do you all know if there are more creatures out there? Can you lure them here?"

"Bling!"

"Blong."

"Bling!"

Some of them jumped enthusiastically while some did not show any special reaction to his question. 

"So Az, Can and I know what I am saying? Can you three bring some creatures, preferably weaker than that bug here?"

"Bling!"

"Bliing!"

"Blingg!"

They jumped again, as if replying to him positively.

"Alright then, let's do something like this…"

He knew what he had to do now that he was done with nearly everything he wanted here. So he explained to the slimes what he wanted them to do… interracial communication wasn't possible normally unless both beings knew a common language, and when it came to creatures, things were even more difficult.

Few creatures were smart enough to understand what someone was saying. Even fewer could respond back to the speaker in some way.

Even the tamed beasts weren't any different from the normal creatures of their kind. They were merely trained by someone to follow certain instructions and give certain responses to those instructions.

It was simple classical conditioning, pairing of a stimulant with a random action.

Slimes did not get smarter or become special after being tamed. They were still the same slimes, however, the tamed ones recognised the tamer and knew what kind of actions would earn them a snack from their tamers.

"Alright go."

"Bling!"

"Blingg!"

-Shrrrrr…!

The three ran away deep in the lake waters while Elio and the rest of the company prepared for their return.

This time, he was wearing clothes.

The shield was still in his hands, but he had climbed the tree and was now on a tree branch, watching the slimes that were still on the shore waters.

They all waited for a while, and thankfully, they did not have to wait for too long.

-Shrrrrrr…!

After only a few minutes of going away, the three slimes were back.

-Splush! Splush! Splush!

And right behind them were three creatures that, once again, did not look like anything one would want to look at.

"What is that thing now?"

Possessing legs resembling a frog's while a body that resembled a fish's, the creature that they had brought back with them was one of the most disproportionate things he had ever seen.

"Damn…"

There was a strange uniqueness to this creature.

Something he had not seen before and perhaps also something he might not have ever even imagined the existence of if he had not seen one like this.

[Ding.]

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[Brown tree Brass]: (Level:30)

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"...wait, what?"

He stared at them a little too much so he ended up Identifying the creature. And when he did, he knew this thing was not something he was supposed to mess with.

"Abort! Abort! Go away! Hide, damn it!"

He could clearly tell they had somehow lured these creatures here after messing with them. 

From the looks of it, the fish-frogs weren't happy right now and the way they were chasing the slimes did not seem good either.

There were two of them and both of them were (Level-30). 

They most certainly weren't something he was supposed to mess with at his level even though they were only as big as a big dog.

Who knew what kind of abilities these creatures had… and he had no intention of finding it out for himself either.

"Alex was right." He sighed as he threw some moss in the distance as a signal for the slimes to hide in the locations they had decided previously.

The slimes thankfully reacted to his signal and hid away in time, and even though the fish-frogs were angry, after a moment of stomping their feet and messing up with water, they went back to where they had come from without causing any big scene.

"Looks like I'll have to show them what 'weak' means for this to work."

These innocent creatures did not understand what he meant when he asked them to lure weak creatures here.

'They perhaps brought the strongest ones they could find.'

It's absurd how things like them live so close to this place. 

'It's not safe to stretch things for long…'

He knew he had to end things now. So, as soon as he confirmed that the frog-fish had gone from his higher position, he came down and gathered his slimes once again.

He was going to make sure they knew what weak meant this time so that they don't make a dangerous mistake like this one again.

It was dangerous this time. 

Who knows if he will live if something similar happens again.