[ Evolution Series has started ]
[ New mission ]
[ Nine Tails ]
[ -> Eat 500 red-tailed foxes ]
[ Reward ]
[ -> Gain Nine Tails ]
'Evolution series?'
'What the heck?'
Shin was utterly confused because he had no idea about what the system was doing right now.
The system definitely knew that Shin was in a hurry. He had to go and meet up with the rest of his group. He was worried about them since the ones that killed the foxes could be just behind them and might have wanted to chase and kill them too.
He was way too anxious but the system, without considering these things, ended up showing an entirely different thing.
With the mention of the evolution series, Shin noticed that the system wanted Shin to eat all the foxes that were present here.
Perhaps there would be a certain change in his body, but he wasn't sure about it.
After looking at the rest of the notification, he realized that there was no timer which meant that it was not necessary for him to eat the foxes right now.
Also, there weren't enough foxes there, to begin with. He had to eat 500 foxes while only the bodies of mere 439 foxes were present. Thus, even if he did eat right now, it was not as if something was going to happen.
Besides, if he were to leave them here, they would end up getting eaten by other beasts that lived nearby. Thus after thinking for a while, he came up with an idea of storing the bodies of the foxes in his inventory and eating them sometime later when he gets free or after he had regrouped with his pack.
He stored the bodies and then started running forward.
Of course, he didn't even take a good look at the evolution series that the system displayed.
Well, after using the skill just for once, he ended up finding his people.
But of course, they weren't free enough to greet him.
*Bam*
*Fwoosh*
A lot of spears were being thrown from one direction. When Shin arrived at the scene, he was completely surprised by the ones that were throwing the spears – Ogres!
'What the heck?'
'Ogres?'
'Why are they using the weapons made by humans?', Shin asked.
How was he so sure that the Ogres were using weapons made by humans? Simple, it was because, when Shin had visited places like Lenovia or Loria, he had seen the spears that the adventurers or the guards used.
All of them had distinct designs as if they were carved by some special blacksmith. Of course, similar designs were present on the spears that were being thrown.
"Your Highness!"
Alira shouted as she noticed Shin. Well, Deoras and Aella had felt his presence as well including his scent, but they were a tad bit busy in dodging the spears and protecting their fellow friends from the attacks.
All of them turned towards Shin and after seeing him, they suddenly felt a gush of energy in their entire body.
The ogres, that were throwing spheres and were using strong magic, has no choice but to take a step back when they saw the wolves' tenacity.
There were about fifty ogres. They were green in color just like the goblins but had incredible physiques.
They were extremely strong when it comes to magic casting and brute strength.
Though, they weren't that smart and usual acts based on instincts. But that didn't mean they wouldn't get smarter if they lived long or leveled up.
Shin glared at them the moment he came. The ogres that had thrown away their spears, continued to take steps back.
The wolves slowly walked forward as they growled.
The ogres all of a sudden ran as fast as they could upon seeing which, the wolves were about to run towards them.
Shin then said, "Stop. Everyone, return."
Right after hearing that, all the wolves that were about to chase the ogres, walked towards Shin instead of chasing them.
Some of the wolves were confused. They thought that they could kill the ogres and level up by gaining a lot of experience. Yes, they somewhat doubted Shin's decision.
But what Shin did was the right thing. He thought about it for a moment and immediately stopped then from following.
Why? Because he pitied them? Of course no.
Shin is not the type of being that would pity his foe. He wouldn't show any sympathy and instead think about eating them as if they were just another snack.
As there were various snacks out there in the bakeries or shops on Earth, the beasts in the forests were in a sense comparable to them when the matter was regarding Shin.
In any case, Shin had started doubting the moment he laid his eyes on the ogres. They seemed too afraid to do something like this on their own.
With little intelligence, they would never dare to attack a group of beasts, especially if there were a lot of them.
While Shin's pack was indeed small, it still contained a lot of members. Attacking them wouldn't be something the ogres would consider.
Also, the fact that they attacked a group that was at least four times bigger than themselves – the red-tailed foxes – and successfully killed them, was either a sort of miracle or there was a deep scheme behind the act.
'Why would the Orcs fire the spear aimlessly?', was the first thing that Shin asked himself as he saw the ogres throwing the spears in bizarre directions where not even a single wolf was present.
'Weird…'
'In the previous place, not even a single spear missed its target…', Shin recalled the scene from the previous place.
'Hmm…'
And when the Ogres abandoned the remaining spears and ran away, it looked way too unnatural.
'Huh?'
'Don't they know that showing back to an enemy is the worst thing that one could do?'
'Especially if you want to become prey, then that is exactly what you need to do.'
'Are they idiots…?'
'Well, not that I expect them to have any intelligence…'
And just as he had thought this, he looked at the intelligence stats of the ogres that were running away.
'Huh…?'
'These…'
'These are idiots?', Shin was utterly surprised after that.
[ Int: 97 || Max. Int: 99 ]
After seeing the common stats, Shin realized that something was wrong.
'It's not that they are running away…'
'Do they want us to follow them?'
Shin realized that this might have been a trap.
After realizing all these things, he took the decision and prevented the massacre of the wolves. Yes, the ogres who thought that the wolves would follow them, were in the end, disappointed.
They were by no means some noobs. Instead, it was as if everything that did was planned.
Of course, the wolves soon forgot about the group that tried to attack them and started conversing with Shin. The three shadow wolves emerged out of the shadow and narrated the story of how Shin defeated, not only the mountain God but also a strong Boar King.
The stories were bound to be exaggerated. Shin made no comments in what they said or was asked. He was just glad that all of them were safe until he arrived.
"Your Highness…"
"We are hungry…", Alira said after approaching Shin again.
"Huh?"
"Hungry?"
Shin then suddenly realized that he had not given the meat to them earlier.
"Didn't you hunt?", he asked.
Alira shook her head in denial.
Shin almost immediately looked at Deoras who was leading the group.
All of a sudden, he lowered his gazes. Well, he couldn't do anything since he wasn't explicitly ordered by Shin.
But he should have at least thought about the food, or did he think that everyone would be fine without hunting?
Deoras isn't an idiot to make such weird decisions.
Shin walked towards him and asked, "Deoras, why didn't you hunt yesterday?"
Deoras, with his head lowered, said, "Actually your highness, I did search the nearby areas, but not even a single beast was found."
"Ha!?"
"Do you even understand what you are saying?", Shin asked.
"This is the forest of Islea, one of the largest forests in the world!"
"It is populated with tons of beasts. Even at the edge of the forest you would find hundreds of beasts and you are giving me an excuse that you didn't find a beast to hunt?", Shin asked with a raised voice because Deoras' excuse sounded too lame.
"No your highness, I am speaking the truth."
"When I went hunting yesterday with one or two other shadow wolves, there was no beast that we could find."
"It was as if all the beasts that previously existed in this place had disappeared.", Deoras said.
'Deoras is not the one to lie…'
'Come to think of it, I didn't encounter any beast on my way.'
'The system too mentioned that the foxes were dead and their bodies were around for about twenty to thirty minutes…'
'Usually, even a minute was more than enough for beasts to swarm around.'
'Weird…'
Shin drowned in his own thoughts after that.
"…"
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