Perfect Teamwork

Kaito opened his eyes and checked his HP-

Health: 76/95

'That's good enough, seems like i regenerate quite quickly if i'm not in combat'. He'd only been sitting there for a few minutes.

He stood up and stretched his back, and as he looked up at the warm sun he heard cracking behind him.

Kaito could already guess exactly what his skeletons were doing but he turned around and checked anyways.

The two skeletons were helping each other stretch, it was like a scene from school, helping each other warm up before sports class, except, these weren't students, they were two undead skeletons.

Kaito shook his head and started thinking about their next move, he could probably fight a young wolf now that he had two skeletons, but they would probably lose if they met more than one wolf.

'Oh, there was an item that dropped, i should check that out' Kaito imagined his inventory and the Dagger appeared in his hand, as he looked at it a small window appeared-

〈Wolf Fang Dagger(common)〉﹀

﹝One Handed Dagger﹞

﹝Damage: 10-14﹞

﹝4% Critical Chance﹞﹀

〈A successful Critical Attack Results in dealing 200% Damage〉

"It's a pretty good weapon, maybe i could let one of my skeletons use it" Kaito handed the dagger to one of his skeletons, and then they made their way deeper into the forest.

They didn't need to walk for long before they spotted another wolf, the smell of the deer laying in the clearing made this spot alluring for predators.

Kaito crouched down and waited, he wanted to make sure that the wolf was alone.

They stalked their pray from the bushes and when Kaito was certain that the creature was alone, they attacked.

〚Young Wolf Lvl.3 HP: 150/150〛

The wolf got startled as a skeleton appeared right in it's path. It crouched low, ready to pounce whenever the enemy got in range, all of it's focus was gathered onto this skeletal creature.

That's when the whistle of a knife cutting through the air was heard, another skeleton had appeared behind the wolf and was slashing it with knife as the skeleton charged by.

-0

'What?' Kaito was confused, why didn't the skeleton do any damage?

As if the system had read his thoughts he received a message that appeared before him-

〈Summoned creatures can not use weapons from the world of the living〉

'Oh shit' He controlled the skeleton to throw the knife away and so it did.

The wolf started to charge towards the first skeleton, but his opponent quickly run behind a tree and into some bushes.

This spot wasn't as open as the clearing, it was dense with bushes and Kaito had though of a perfect strategy.

The wolf stopped as the skeleton disappeared, it heard sounds from the rustling bushes to the side and turned around, but just as it was in that motion a figure attacked it from behind.

-8

The skeleton dragged it's sharp fingers along the body of the wolf, leaving marks. Just when the wolf was about to counterattack and chase after the attacker it felt pain from it's blind side yet again.

-10!

The wolf was confused and infuriated, he tried to stay alert but was attacked over and over again.

-9

-11!

The wolf didn't even know how many opponents it was fighting, must have been 5 at least. The skeletons were weaving in and out of the bushes at perfect timing.

This only worked because of their perfect teamwork, it's like they were the same mind, which they were.

Kaito supervised the whole thing, controlling the skeletons to always attack the from the wolf's blindside.

It continued, the wolf was helpless to do anything, and as the wounds were starting to appear all over it's body it also became exhausted.

The skeletons continued hitting it relentlessly, never losing speed, they couldn't get tired after all, being dead and all that.

At last the wolf died, never even standing a chance.

〈Killed Young Wolf Lvl.3!〉

〈acquired 1 Wolf pelt〉

〈acquired 2 Wolf meat〉

〈Gained 20 Experience!〉

'That worked out really well' Kaito watched as the corpse of the wolf dissolved into light particles flowing upwards.

His gaze then turned towards his two skeletons, they where high fiving each other happily. Kaito rolled his eyes 'Let's move forward'.

But just as he took one step he stopped, he realized he was walking away from a golden opportunity, the scent of the dead deer laying in the forest clearing would surely attract more wolfs.

Kaito and the skeletons were quietly patrolling the perimeter around the clearing, and just as expected they soon spotted another hungry wolf who had caught the whiff of the deer carcass.

They attacked before the wolf reached the clearing, this was for the same reason as seen in the last battle. If they were surrounded by a thick forest the skeletons could weave in and out of combat, confusing the wolf.

This fight played out very much like last one, the wolf tried to attack the skeleton that it could see but wasn't able to before the other skeleton hit it from the other side.

Soon the wolf's body became limp as it slumped to the ground and it's fur started to transform into pixels of light.

〈Killed Young Wolf Lvl.3!〉

〈acquired 1 Wolf pelt〉

〈acquired 2 Wolf meat〉

〈Gained 20 Experience!〉

Kaito thought about how much wolf meat he needed for the quest that Baldrum had given him-

〈Current Quest : Baldrum's Meat Buffet ! Wolf Meat (6/20)〉

'Only 7 more wolfs to go to be done with the quest. They give a good amount of experience, perhaps i should stay here until i level up', Kaito looked at his level-

Level: 1 Experience: 61/250

"Right, let's continue" Kaito and the skeletons continued sneaking around, killing all the wolfs that had found their way to the forest clearing.

Howls of dying wolfs spread throughout the forest as Kaito and his summons hunted wolf after wolf.

Kaito had no idea that young wolfs were quite hard to find in a normal case, groups of players in different towns around the game had started hunting wolfs as well, but they were usually in a group of 3 players and had to search for along time before finding a young wolf walking around alone.

So was right now using the deer carcass to kill more wolfs than anyone else in the game, not to mention that Kaito got solo experience as he was hunting alone.

Well, alone except his two skeletons. Kaito's group continued forward, killing the wolfs that were seeking out the cause of the delicious scent coming from the deer.

A familiar sound that was pleasing to the ear was suddenly heard-

〈Congratulations! You leveled up! Lvl.2!〉

〈Receiving 10 stat points!〉

'Oh, i leveled up? It seems like i've lost track of time' Kaito looked up toward the sky, the light had become a warmer orange and the sun was beginning to set.

"I can allocate my skill points later, let's head back into town for now"

Kaito looked at his skeletons before starting to walk, one of them were looking upwards towards the sky, the other was looking at his wrist, possibly inspecting an imaginary wristwatch.

The group starting to walk back to town.