Since having to write corrupted before any creature that is a corrupted monster makes it kind of a mouthful, i will be shortening it to just “C.” like for example, C. Jungle Wolf. So other than that, enjoy the chapter.

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It’s been a few days since I've contracted the pack of wolves, and so far, they have been a great help. I had gained ten more levels from taming and hunting with them, two new traits, Hardened Leaf Armour and Razor Teeth, and two new abilities, Vine Control and Hunter’s Vision. Vine Control was gained from Draven, and allows me to shoot out a max of three vines from either hand and use them like Draven to either block, stab, or grab anything i can with them. Razor Teeth rapidly changes my teeth to become the same razor sharp teeth that the wolves have that allow me to bite through basic armour. Hardened Leaf Armour was an upgraded version of leaf armour i gained due to gaining more than one monster that had the same trait, so in turn, it evolved into a stronger version that instead of being able to block iron arrows, can now block up to steel tipped arrows and basic iron weapons. Knowing this, i as now excited to tame as many monsters as i could to see what other abilities could evolve into stronger variations. The final ability i had gained was Hunter’s Vision, which was also an upgraded version of the original version, Hunter’s Eyes. Hunter's Eyes allowed for the user to have a sense for about where a target's weak points are. Hunter's Vision builds upon this by allowing the user to see exactly where an enemy's weak points are and when a bit more mana is added to the eyes, the user's perception of time is slowed, allowing them to make a decision based on the situation in a fraction of a second. Along with these nifty new tricks, my two abilities that control these went up to the next level as well, and now allowed me to use two abilities and two traits at the same time now.

With all this combined, i was now able to hunt more easily when on hunts with everyone else. We would hunt for a day, rest the next, and then repeat. Over the next six days, we had continued hunting the corrupted, which tallied up to, ten C. Jungle Wolves, Seven C. Wild Earth Boars, fifthteen C. Jungle Spiders, and five C. Vine Vipers. Jungle spiders, Vine Vipers and Earth Boars were a couple new monsters i had found to exist on this island.

Starting with Vine Vipers, from what i could tell from fighting the corrupt versions, they tended to like pretending to be vines in the trees, waiting for anything to come near to attack. My first encounter with one scared the shit out of me. Had i not have Hunter’s Vision and slowed everything down fast enough to react in time, i would have been missing a good chunk of my throat. After a while, i was able to finally tell the difference between actual vines and Vine Vipers due to the subtle differences between the two. Vine vipers would have a different texture to them due to their scales that to someone not specifically looking for it, would not be seen. Regular Vine Vipers are a mix of greens and browns, all depending on the area they live in with the Corrupted ones having very faint purple veins running throughout the body that from far away and even up close sometimes were hard to see. But there are a few who had been corrupted for a long enough period of time to where the veins begin to be more visible from their scales, causing them to be easier to spot the longer they are corrupted.

The next of the monsters encountered were the Jungle Spiders. These little shits were even more annoying than the Vine Vipers. They would stay up high in the trees where they were impossible to spot and when you came right below them, they would jump right at your heads. Do you even understand how fucked up that is. It doesn’t even help that these fuckers are the size of a fucking Frisbee. They have a nasty habit of falling on your head and then start stabbing at it with their long legs which have sharpened tips. The only reason i haven’t died from the constant head attacks is because my defense stat was just high enough to where they couldn’t pierce my skull because i have seen a couple other times when C. Jungle Spiders would attack other monsters with a lower Defense stat than I and would be able to pierce right through their skin and even their bones after repeated stabbing that would weaken the spot they were aiming for. The little buggers were black with dark green stripes that ran across their bodies and at the tips of their legs. The corrupted version that a purple spots that the longer they have been corrupted, the larger they would become, causing some to appear completely purple where there should have been green. They didn’t have any poisons or toxins, and seemed to mainly rely on their sharpened legs to their the killing and then eat up whatever is left from the stabbed mess they leave after killing their prey.

The last of the new monsters i had encountered were the Earth Boars. From what Mira had told me, they technically weren’t even actual monsters. Yes, they had special abilities that normal creatures didn’t have, like the natural Boar, but their ability to control the earth was very minimal. The most any could do was to shift the ground under your feet to unbalance you and that was it except for the occasional boar that could fire rocks from the ground at you, but they were at the most nuisances with the leaf armor the wolves and i had and the rock armor Ruby had. They were still considered livestock by many of the other major races and were domesticated by many as a food source. After a few encounters with them, i could see why, they had little to no intelligence and simply lived to eat and breed. I would have to remember where i can find them later on as a possible food source once i take this island over.

The hunt would account for eight of the ten level ups, with the other two coming from taming the pack. Seeing as how each level up gave five free stats points , that meant that i had a total of fifty free stats points! Woop!

It was during the sixth day which had been designated as a rest day that i decided to allocate my free stats points. I placed five into luck, four into wisdom, ten into agility, nine into strength, seven into agility, five into intelligence, and ten into endurance.

Status WindowName:DavidAlignment:noneLevel:15Class:Monster TamerRace:HumanGender:MaleTitlesnoneFame:0Infamy:0-Health:2000 / 2000Health Regen:0.7 / SecMana:2500 / 2500Mana Regen:0.55 / SecStamina:190 / 190Stamina Regen:0.15 / Sec-Strength:22Agility:20Vitality:20Intelligence:20Wisdom:15Endurance:20Luck:15-Attack:42Defense:62Physical ResistancesSlashing:19Piercing:19Crushing:19Elemental ResistancesFire:5Water:5Wind:5Earth:5Light:5Darkness:5

Once those points were confirmed, i got ready for what this sort of power boost would feel, and when it passed through me, boy did it feel great!

“OHOHOHOHOH YEAH! Now that hits the spot!”

A ripple could be seen going throughout my body, with muscle mass quickly forming, causing my body that had once been somewhat unfit to look like that of someone who participated in a weightlifting club. I examined by body, giddy over finally seeing it with a lot more muscle than i thought i would ever see on it. I could see the muscle growth without even having to flex my arms. I almost had a tear drop form from all this.

“This is just fucking beautiful, haha!”

“Congrats on the new powerup David, but you should probably start getting ready to put that plan you made into action.”

“You're most certainly right about that Mira. The faster i put my plan into motion, the faster i can take over this island and figure out a way off of it.”

The plan was quite simple really, figure out what's causing the corruption on this island forcing once friendly monsters to slaughter each other for no reason, kick its ass if it has an ass to kick, and use that as leverage to take over this island. The reason for this was simple, every non corrupted monster i had seen so far were scared. Scared of being found by the corrupted. It could be seen in their quivering eyes, fear, the fear that at any moment, a pack of corrupted would find them and tear them apart and continue on. It was obviously apparent that this supposed monster alliance which was formed in order to combat whatever was causing this wasn't working. The entire time i had spent here, i had not seen one organized group of uncorrupted monsters who either weren't torn to shreds after encountering a group of corrupted, or weren't looking out for just themselves. On multiple occasions we saw monsters turning on their own due to the lack of food and safe shelter. If i can put a stop to whatever is causing the corruption before their monster alliance, I would look better to the monsters as a leader once i start taking over, and if not, well then, who am i to care, i will only care for those that align themselves with me. Anyone against me can suck it! Now then, let's get started.

“Draven!”

“You called master.”

“Call the pack, it’s about time i evolved you guys to your next tier, hehe.”

With a look of both surprise and giddiness, Draven responded happily to this order.

“Yes, right away master!”

It didn’t take long for everyone to come to the clearing i was in. Draven sat in front of me with Daxius, Rex and Fang to his left, and Blitz and Rogue to his right. Ruby sat right besides me watching over the wolves.

“Alright, now that everyone is here, it's time to begin. Yo Mira, you ready?”

“Ready when you are.”

Once Mira had responded, I activated my evolution ability and entered my little mind lab and began checking on the evolution paths for the wolves.

In order for the Jungle Wolves to evolve, their requirement was to reach level 30 in which they were fully set on that, which meant that i did not have to spend any extra mana to help them evolve other than to push them into the evolution process.

I wanted to create something a bit more humanoid, so i made them bipedal as well as giving them opposable thumbs. I then gave a few enhancements to their muscles, making them stronger and faster than what a normal evolution upgrade would provide. I darkened their fur till it was completely pitch black except for Draven, who i had placed Green streaks in so he had something to show that he had evolved from a variant of the jungle wolves and that he had some power in earth magic. I placed a few more enhancements that would allow them to move swiftly through any environment, plains, grasslands, forest, jungles or deserts, they would be able to move quickly and silently. In order to make it foolproof, i had it made as an extra ability that they would gain from their evolution called, Swift Silence. I had them keep their leaf armour and had it cover up more of their body. Originally, it would have only protected their shoulders and shins. I made to where it would be able to cover their chest, thighs, forearms, upper arms, and back with the plus that it could be retracted into their body at will, which i thought was a nice touch, an instant armour, which became another ability for them. Their armor would allow them to survive strikes from anything equal to or lesser than the average steel type weapon such as arrow tips and swords and the like. Anything greater would begin to scratch at their armour and chip away at it, possibly breaking it, which would cause them to have to wait a cooldown before another set of armour could be made. Finally, i enhanced their brains, making things such as their frontal cortexs a little bigger, and improving its abilities at retaining memory and problem solving capabilities. It’s always hard finding smart and loyal henchmen, why not make them am I right? All in all, i was pretty happy with the custom class i made. As i had made a new class, i decided to give it a name that i thought would fit it best and was not already taken by any other pre-existing species. I named them, the Nox Kobolds. For the five Jungle Wolves, it would cost me 2000mp which would require me to wait almost an hour between each evolution so i could replenish enough mana to evolve the next. For Draven, being a Variant type and all, would require an extra 400mp, which put me right before my mana cap which was good seeing as i didn’t want to go through a another mana starvation induced brain stabbing session again.

“And……..we’re done! So...how do you all feel, great right?”

Right till the last of them were evolved, they had been checking their new bodies, with Rogue being the last to get the evolution. They were now much taller, Rogue being the shortest of the pack, was 5 ft 9in while i was 5ft 6in. The tallest being Draven being 6ft 4in. He was quite the intimidating being, in fact they all were. Their dark skin with their pitch black fur made them look deadly. Their eyes had changed into a golden color that made them almost look like noble beings if it wasn’t for their fear inducing looks. Their sharp teeth that showed when they smiled didn’t help to improve that image. Everything about them only helped to either make them look like majestic beings or fearsome monsters. I fucking loved it. These powerful, noble looking, fear inducing beings were under my complete control, and the amount of power that each of them held was immense. They each had the fighting power to take on entire packs of C. Jungle wolves without breaking a sweat. After getting accustomed to their new bodies, they all faced me kneeled before me.

All together

“We thank you master for these new bodies, please order us to do as you please so we may thank you for this new power that flows through us.”

Man, whenever they all talk in unison it makes me shiver in excitement from how cool it sounds.

“Good to hear. Now then, your new orders are to assist me in entering the Corrupt Cave and help me take out whatever is causing all this shit to happen. Understood?”

All together

“Yes Master!”

“Good. Now march! Onwards to the Corrupt Cave!”