CH 32: taming

John's HP was lowering every second but his regen skills were working at full power causing his HP to go up and down like a roller coaster.

*SLICE*

John managed to get a few more hits on the wolf whilst using his energy drain skill. A second later time felt like it slowed down as a silver thread connected his sword to the wolfs front right leg.

[skill (open thread) activated]

John sent his sword forward as fast as he could cutting through the thread. Faster and faster his sword drew closer as he sent out his killing intent with full force. Noticing the attack the wolf attempted to move backwards but it was futile as his sword had already reached the knee joint. John's sword cut into the knee and stopped part way through.

[current HP: 4]

Johns breath was ragged as he struggled to stay standing. Everyone looked on in suspense as it seemed like the fight had stopped. The two stood still staring at each other in suspense. A second passed which turned into a minute as the alpha stared into John's eyes with a strange intelligence.

[side quest: complete

You have gained the alpha wolfs respect ]

The wolf stepped back and bent its front legs with its head bowed down to the floor, the rest of the wolves done the same thing before they all stood up straight and ran behind the alpha.

John stood infront of his party and was about the leave as they and the pack had started to back away from each other but John then remembered something. The (mount taming) skill he gained from those gods, two of the conditions were met but his stats weren't higher than the alpha wolfs but what if him beating the alpha in combat counted as him being stronger.

[skill (mount taming) activated]

[target (lower alpha flame wolf)]

The Alpha wolf was surprised at the magic used on it but decided to accept. The wolfs eyes flashed green for a second before reverting back to its usual red colour, after which John received a new notification.

[taming successful]

[new tab (bond(s) )]

[new title (monster tamer)]

[new skill (bond telepathy) passive]

[new skill (wolf affinity) passive]

John smiled at his new title and skills but most of all at the success of the taming.

'm-master' John heard in his head and was confused until he saw the wolf infront of him looking into his face

"hello there." John spoke out loud which still worked as the wolf could understand him.

'hello master. I serve you. No we serve you."

It spoke once again before bowing down

[a wolf pack has pledged allegiance to you]

[+3 stat points]

[+1 to each stat]

[+1 to each stat for party members]

John smiled and quickly explained his taming skill to his party members as they were highly confused. One of the betas had been killed earlier so now there were only six wolf's instead of the previous seven. With there being six wolf's everyone paired up as the wolf's had plenty of strength and space on their backs to carry two at a time. They all decided to stay in a building for a few hours as they wolf's had to heal from their heavy injurys. The healing process was sped up by John's (minor regen) skill aswell as their natural regen on top of them eating some meat which seemed to heal them many times quicker than before.

Once everyone was all set they decided to leave and head towards the quest zone as they had lost lots of time that day. During the ride John decided to check his status to check out the skills he had gained during the fight.

[name: John meyley

Class: PREDATOR

Subclass: NONE

Title(s): (party leader)(settlement leader)(teacher)(bloodthirsty)(monster tamer)

Innate Talent: REGRESSION

LV 15 (22,845/52,480 xp)

HP: 18/18 (+4) -> 18/22

STR: 18 (+2) -> 20

AGI : 17 -> 19 (+2) -> 21

MAG: 12/12

DEF: 18 -> 19 (+3) -> 22 (+4)

KIN: 2.4 (please increase to 5.0 for more info)

Stat points: 3 -> 0

special bonuses: (+10% xp booster)

Bond(s):

(name: UNNAMED

race: lower alpha flame wolf

class: monster is unwilling to share

Subclass: monster is unwilling to share

Title(s): monster is unwilling to share

Innate Talent: monster is unwilling to share

HP: 22/22

STR: 27

AGI: 22

MAG: 20/20

DEF: 19

[day 8 time 17:57]

Passive skills: monster is unwilling to share

Resistances: monster is unwilling to share

Skills: monster is unwilling to share

Note: a monster who only follows you out of their own free will. they do not trust you fully yet. Be careful as they may betray you in the future.

Advice: give them nice food and let them fight alot. Follow this advice and they will be more willing to stay with you )

Passive skills:(dagger proficiency Lv:10)

(sword proficiency Lv:10)(bestiary Lv:MAX)

(magic strengthening Lv:3)(dagger throw Lv:5)

(battle concentration Lv:4)

(pain tolerance Lv:5)(goblin skin Lv:2)

(heightened senses Lv:3)(glutton Lv:1)

(true leader Lv:2)(leaders orders Lv:1)

(passive regen Lv:2)(iron will Lv:2)

Resistances: (heat resistance Lv:2)

(burn resistance Lv:2)(bleed resistance Lv:2)

Skills:(inspect Lv:2)(war shout Lv:5)

(morale boost Lv:4)(true team Lv:4)

(magic tracking Lv:MAX)(dash Lv:4)(strengthening Lv:5)(meditation Lv:7)

(magic control Lv:10)(war speech Lv:2)

(settlement creation Lv:3)(light steps Lv:10)

(tracking Lv:3)(scared shout Lv2)

(fast regen Lv:2)(dagger throw Lv:3)

(bond telepathy Lv:1)(wolf affinity Lv:3)

(mount taming Lv:2)(energy drain Lv:1)

(open thread Lv:1)(inspect Lv:2)

Skills Ready for evolution:

Passive: (dagger proficiency Lv:10)

(sword proficiency Lv:10)

Resistances: NONE

Skills: (magic control Lv:10)(light steps Lv:10)]

Looking at his continuously expanding status page John began to get a headache.

'how the hell am I supposed to keep track of all this.' he thought in distress as they continued to travel

Once night fell they decided to travel for an hour or two longer before they found an abandoned building. John had been riding with Terry the entire time. David had been riding with josh. Ole had been riding with Jake. Jack had been riding with katlyn. James had been riding with rosey And the last two Jeff and Jackie rode together. During the entire ride John felt highly anxious as he could feel Terry hold on to him from behind in order to prevent falling off.

They managed to find a building large enough for the pack to enter and they settled down whilst cooking some left over goblin meat on a large open fire. They had of course had the meat cooking outside on a large stick making a spit roast. Now that they could rest John was able to get a better idea of how his new skills worked.

(true leader) was a skill that made him stronger when fighting against an enemy that threatens his team.

(leaders orders) was the same as last Time allowing him to strengthen people with a speech.

(passive regen) done what it's name suggested, it naturally healed him over time.

(iron will) decreased any fear whilst also increasing his defense by one for every one HP lost which is what the (+4) next to his total defense signified.

The (bleed) (heat) and (burn) resistances done what they said, decreased the effectiveness of these ailments or attacks.

He also looked at the evolution and found out that he could use something called skill points to evolve them as couldn't level up to Lv:11 without evolving.

After realising that his magic stat was lagging behind John decided to look towards the magic books to see if there was a way to increase magic quicker than before.

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Hello author here.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please comment if I've made any spelling mistakes and if you would like anything explained a bit more such as how magic works or how people can increase their stats if they can't level up like John.

Thank you for your support and see you in the next chapter. :-P