Chapter 2: End of Tutorial

“It’s a Fenrir” Toby and I shouted from the top of our lungs

Fenrir a wolf-like creature with massive proportions reaching 30 feet in height and 40 feet in length with paws bigger than our childish bodies and his claws are longer than our limbs. It has a silky smooth blue colored fur that sways in the air like a flowing water his under belly is white and the eyes are crystal-like so clear but so deep. This information has come to our family in a form of a book.

The books now in our generation are free to be borrowed to all who want to read with duration of time unless the book is damage or destroyed or missing, reparation is obliged by the borrower. Unlike the old times as our parents told us it is not a luxury for us commoner to even hold or touch the cover of the book as it was only for the privileged the nobles. Now with the opportunity to learn, our parents don’t want us, their children to become illiterate, we know now how to read and write and based on the expressions of our parents we see a vicarious achievement in their eyes.

‘Grrrrrrr….’

“No..no..no..no…” I cryingly muttered the words and before sanity leaves me also I snap from our current position and drag Toby as he was still sitting in the ground with his whole body shivering and discharging humungous sweats. But only few feet from our last position I bumped into an unknown wall ‘a transparent wall?!’ I tried running to the side leaving Toby to observe in a haste and sure it was a ‘transparent wall’ again I then assumed ‘we are prey trap in the box being fed the predator several meters away from us’. The thought of escaping is lost and shattered, obviously even without this ‘wall’ several meter is just like one step from a legendary fenrir.

“Please choose your weapon”

‘huh?’

Three weapons fall down from mid-air, a whip, a bow, and a sword. ‘ah from the tutorial’. It says that to increase the chance of taming a monster I must lower their health points. I can also just activate the skill by focusing my mind on the target and mutter the spell ‘constrain’.

“Constrain!” but to no avail. I muster all my concentration and shout from the top of my lungs

“CONSTRAIN!”

“You failed. Try again”

‘Is it mocking me?’ I thought as the notification pop-up ‘so it wants me to use violence’

‘Grrrrr…..’ it just growled and did not move from its standing position as like being restrained to act or just confidently let the attacker do their best on damaging him.

Without the second thought I ran towards the weapon and picked bow as it has the greater range the remaining two and immediately the two weapons disappeared just like that.

“You have chosen a long bow”

As to how I learn to use bow…I can’t reminisce properly now as my mind is in turmoil it’s like arguing on why on earth I have chosen to go against it.

“aaahh” I quickly ran towards the range that my long bow is capable of leaving behind the other self of me who is afraid to muster the courage to fight.

‘Swoosh’

‘Swoosh’

‘Swoosh’

I fired three bows at an interval at the direction where the critical spot of every animal has ‘the eyes’ “haaa” as I exhale from the trance of holding my breath.

‘crack, crack, crack’

Three arrows destroyed from just closing its eyes. ‘Even its eyelids were even this sturdy?! We are definitely dead. And it moved! It raised its paws and observes like a human observing their hands and marvel that just by thinking each fingers move. It looks towards Toby who is now unconscious ‘lucky Toby being freed from this dreadful situation’ as I thought. And its head turn towards me and made a devious grin.

‘ackk’

In an instant both Toby and me released the spirit from being contained in our now dismembered body.

‘lick, lick, lick’

I have woken up because of someone or something is disturbing me ‘so this is heaven I think, I did not even made an apology to my family from my mistakes, well I guess it’s the end regrets comes in the latter huh’ and then I felt and intense pain for a quick duration and it jolted me to raise my upper body and there I saw the same scenery with Toby besides me who still slumbering.

‘What happened everything now return to its normal state, was it was an illusion?’ my mind is trying to solve the puzzle…

“You have accomplished the tutorial and face the mighty Fenrir!”

“The merit for this accomplishment is now given”

“You have acquired a common wolf”

“What a common wolf?!”