The next major trip Micky went on was a raid group outing to cull some monster colonies. The Ants had in fact culled out most of the monsters in their own bid for power, however this caused problems of it’s own. Because the ants had culled monsters much like a forest wouldn’t suddenly make a small grove when a single old tree dies, all the tiny little monsters that produced fast were repopulating before the larger more powerful monsters could cull them. This caused many incidents and could even cause a goblin wave like what wiped out the kingdom that was here three kingdoms ago.

This means that there will be mass culling missions sent out to take care of all of the small ‘feeder’ monsters to make sure that they don’t form a wave. Because waves will have a small or a large impact. However by culling enough space and allowing the higher tier monsters to grow back in and fill it you can make a ‘breakwater’ for the monster waves.

So Micky was being taken out and guided on one by an instructor. With the help of Yolanda, he was back into ship shape and storming the class. Unfortunately all that enthusiasm went out the window when things went back to normal. However, this month was something he was actually looking forward too. As he had been going to dungeons there was nothing new, not even a new type of dungeon. But this type of large scale culling mission didn’t happen often for anyone not a career adventurer that had been on for several years.

Of course while it was mentioned the barony was also at war. It had been an attack by the northwestern neighbor to release the isekai and consequent monster invasion in order to weaken the southern border so as to not be able to reinforce the north. This failed in every way but to piss off the baron. Worse the ‘restitution’ money sent over did not make it to the baron. Said money wasn’t even something the baron would have even known about had it not been negotiated without him or the king approving of it. Safe to say it was a bit of a mess now. But the baron had his targets and was now rallying an army to send up north.

Oh, another thing of note was the tried to volentell Micky and his as well as the class to go north to prepare for war. The adventurer’s guild nixed that right quick. Then they told the guild to hand over the students from the north. Yet again the guild nixed that, even quicker and more viscous. So until things cool down, the ‘northern traitor spies’ a laying low in the guild hostel. Though that didn’t mean the guild didn’t investigate and hand over any spies they did find, after a trial by the guild itself of course. The guild does not abide by politics and doesn’t like when people use them for it. Luckily non of those that were in ‘the class’ were spies or the guild itself might have gone to war, at least so says the guild master in another drunken rave as she/he stormed through the guild hall.

So now Micky is on an adventure. He has been looking forward to being outside the walls for a while. He will spend a week with the class as a whole as they send out raids and organize. In addition they will be showing leadership to a select few. Micky and Prin were both ‘pre-selected’ but they had to at least show an effort. Because though it was rigged for them (and literally nobody else, not for a lack of trying from certain individuals) they had to at least show the commoners an effort that would sway their opinions enough that they say ‘meh, maybe it wasn’t rigged, I still don’t like it!’. Of course, just Micky’s class is going to make them scream it’s rigged no matter how well he does. But as the ‘sponsor’ Micky isn’t going to get out of the training either way.

So now Micky is in a culling squad on it’s way to destroy a goblin village that had cropped up. Of course it had to be goblins. Micky was starting to have a hatred for goblins bordering on a compulsion. If he didn’t really like that one goblin trader that had come around with all the cool toys he actually let all the kids play with, Micky would probably turn murderous at just the word goblin. But luckily for all goblin kind, or really just Micky, he was somewhat able to control himself. Though he did get the twitches and became a little bit more trigger happy.

Oh yes, and on the way he tamed a new monster. This brought him up to three total monsters. The goblin didn’t count since he murdered it. Dead monsters don’t count towards [Tamer].

So now that he arrived at the goblin tribe…

Oh, you want to hear about the new monster and all of that? It’s not enough that it was mentioned? You want to actually see the shiny new MC tamed companion? Fine…

So Micky and his group were walking along when they heard a rawr. Out of the treeling pops a furry beast. This beast walks like a guerrilla. With two long front limbs and shot back ones. However besides it’s long furry coat it’s other features can’t be identified. However while it seems to be in a bit of a furry it doesn’t seem to be immediately aggressive towards Micky and the class. So Micky yells for them to stop. He is only actually in charge of one party for this rotation but the raid is stopped by the instructor who gives Micky the ‘If this isn’t important your ass is going to be mounted on a pike’ look.

“It’s not hostile and I’m working to be a [Tamer] sir.” Said Micky.

The instructor said “Hurry up then. If you don’t finish this fast or about to be killed it’s [Dead].” With the nonchalant of someone deciding whether they would be giving someone the stew or the day’s special.

Micky hurried up to the creature quickly casting [Charm] to calm it down. Micky having put a bond through the connection was feeling how frantic the beast was but it was not something he could understand with just the charm side of the bond. Quickly assessing what the beasts conditions might be for taming Micky moved closer. And while the beast didn’t seem to be less frantic it did seem to be willing to stay where it was.

Now that Micky had the time he got a closer look at the beast while he was working up to the [Enrage] bond and finally the [Hybrid Bonding +-]. She, and yes it was indeed a she by the giant breasts on it’s chest, was a [Furry Furie]. It was a mildly rare monster of the holy domain. This was something rare within monsters. However, rare was not so rare after a monster culling. Actually rare was common and it was common monsters that became more… rare… Anyway, she was about a Micky and a half in height. Her arms were long and ended in cat like paws that were mixed with human hands with long claws that could be extended into… longer claws. Her feet were very woflish like a werewolf. Although semi humanoid they had the extra ankle like thing that reversed the leg. The foot itself was long and with the paw it looked human ish if not monsterfied and without the ball of the foot touching. You know how a werewolf looks, don’t judge me! It’s not my job to describe things, ok! Anyway, the claws were again long, and could again extend longer. And then there was the face, how to describe it? But ugly scrunched up wrinkly thing? With hair everywhere around the edge? That about sums it up.

After Micky applied the [Enrage Bond] variant spell the furie looked at Micky no longer so anxious. She was bonding with him and he felt the [Bond] snap into place. There where emotions there and Micky did not know how to describe them. Because he did not yet understand them. Then an arrow flew by and barly missed Micky’s head.

Micky turned around and saw an archer type that had his bow smacked out of his hands by the instructor. He was actually really lucky that was all that happened because if it was more the bond might have broke and Micky would be [Dead]. As it was although he could see the boy open his mouth to say something Micky did not yet have time to understand what he was trying to say. Because things happened really quickly. First Micky was picked up and obsconded with by the monster. Second, Micky found out what it was that it wanted Micky to do to fully bond with it. It wanted a mate. Micky did not want a mate.

So Micky did the third thing and screamed “Help It wants to mate with me! But don’t hurt it I have already bonded! Just get it to stop so I can talk with it!”

And the fourth thing was Micky was that Micky heard what the kid was trying to say “Why does he get all of the rewards from it? EXP we can share but if he tames it what can we share?” Which is when Micky figured out the fifth thing. He was an entitled prick and remembered that he was one of the top 20 (After the casualty report) and working on entering the top 10. Something like the top 13th? Micky wasn’t sure even though he was kept apprised of the numbers. All Micky knew was that he was pissed off by another self entitled prick. This seems to be a pattern.