Black Forest

Alex only walked for a short time before arriving at the town's gate.

A long line of people is what greeted Alex.

They were waiting for their time to get inside the town while being inspected one by one by the garrison.

In this world, if one wants to enter a town or a city, there are two ways.

First is to show proof that you're a resident of the city you are entering.

It can be in the form of an identification card or residential certificate as long as it will show that you live there.

Second is to pay some coins and receive a temporary pass.

However, as its name suggests, this pass is temporary and can only last for 7 days before you have to either leave or go back to the garrison to pay for another pass.

Anyway, when leaving the town, inspection is not necessary and they can just directly walk out.

Of course this is not absolute, sometimes there are also inspections due to some events.

Alex passed through the gate without any scruples and arrived outside.

The large land outside Kupido town immediately welcomed Alex to the outside world.

The wind was gentle and blew Alex's hair.

Closing his eyes, Alex sighed relaxedly, "Ha~, the air outside is a lot more relaxing than the air inside the town!"

This is his first time stepping out of town and for some time, it felt novel for him.

Not long after, Alex started moving towards one of the hunting grounds near Kupido town.

15 minutes after walking on foot, Alex arrived at his destination.

"This is really a huge forest. I guess this is bigger than Kupido town by more than 10 times."

Looking around, Alex said with some awe to his voice.

The place that Alex went to this time is a hunting ground called Black Forest.

Here, there are quite a lot of monsters such as goblins, fanged rabbits, wind wolves, orc, slime, etc.

The deeper you go into the forest, the stronger the monsters you'll encounter.

That's why most of the adventurers here tend to stay at the outer layer of the forest.

About adventurers, let's talk about that some other time.

Alex shook his head at this time and said, "I should stop getting distracted, I have to start looking for monsters and increase my level."

No longer dilly dallying, Alex started moving.

Less than a minute later, Alex finally found a monster.

It was a monster everyone is probably familiar with.

Green skin, 1 meter in height, pointed ears, and an ugly face.

It was none other than a goblin!

Alex's eyes lit up after seeing the goblin, "A goblin for my first monster, this really gives the fantasy vibe!"

When Alex noticed the goblin, the goblin also noticed him.

Holding a wooden club, the goblin snarls at Alex.

"Grahh!"

Immediately, the goblin raised its club and charged towards Alex.

The distance between it and Alex is only less than 5 meters.

Soon, the goblin arrived near Alex.

Narrowing his eyes, Alex didn't use his gun this time.

This time, Alex wants to try using his skill [Monster Manipulation].

Looking at the goblin, Alex thought about what he wants to happen and casted his skill,

"Goblin, obey me, [Monster Manipulation]!"

The next moment, mana started pouring out of Alex.

And the goblin who was charging at him just seconds ago suddenly stopped.

Then, a surprising scene appeared in front of Alex.

The aggressive goblin bent its knees and bowed to Alex.

Seeing that, Alex's eyes lit up, "It seems like it was a success!"

As if to confirm his words, a notification appeared in front of his eyes.

[You successfully used Monster Manipulation on Goblin LV.7!]

Seeing that, Alex was filled with excitement.

Wanting to try it out, Alex ordered the goblin.

"Stand up."

Immediately, the goblin stood up with a poker face.

"Yes, it really worked!"

Alex cheered after seeing that the goblin really listened to his order.

With a smile, he said, "Now, all I have to do is stand in the back and watch as the goblin fights for me."

Next, Alex checked the stats of the goblin.

[Goblin LV.7]

[Strength: 27] [Constitution: 23] [Agility: 17] [Intelligence: 6]

…

Seeing the 4 basic attributes of the goblin, Alex nodded, "This much power is good enough for now."

"Now then, it's about time to start leveling up for real!"

With that said, Alex continued moving with the goblin in front.

After walking for several minutes, Alex found a pack of wolves with green fur.

"Wind wolves, huh." Alex said to himself as he observed the pack from behind a bush.

From the dungeon core before, one of the pieces of information that Alex got was a whole encyclopedia of monsters in this world.

Because of that, he is familiar with the monsters here.

There are twelve wind wolves in front and one of them is twice as big as the others.

Obviously, it is the leader of this pack.

"12 wolves, I guess a goblin will just be beaten if I threw it out there, huh." Alex said.

Rubbing his chin, Alex thought about what he should do.

"Hmm, maybe I can lure them one by one and kill them?"

"But since the leader is there, that probably won't work."

Turning his eyes at the wind wolves, Alex said, "Their levels are around 4 to 6 while the leader's level is the highest, level 9."

Compared to him who's only LV.2, Alex felt the huge gap in strength.

Alex let out a sigh while shaking his head.

"I guess I can use my Monster Manipulation again to control a few more wolves."

"That way, I won't be at a disadvantage in numbers."

"I only have 130 mana remaining, so I can only cast Monster Manipulation 6 more times."

Thinking of that, a smile appeared on Alex's face.

"It's just the right number to remove the number advantage the wolves have."

Without delaying any longer, Alex casted his skills on 6 wind wolves.

Immediately, those wind wolves fell under Alex's control.

Two of those six were level 6 while the others were level 4 wind wolves.

Alex took a look at their stats and found that agility is the most dominant stats of these wind wolves.

Clearly, they are specialized in speed which is honestly not surprising.

Anyway, Alex didn't want to waste anymore time.

Controlling the wind wolves,he ordered them to attack the other wolves around them.

"Growl!"

"Grarg!"

"Argh!"

At the same time, the goblin beside him also charged towards the pack of wolves.