Starting from Zero Volume 4 Chapter 7
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Book 4, Chapter 7
The Dart
Note: "Dart" should be the name of the new pet. But this is not mentioned in this chapter.
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"AHHH!"
Elfy and I were knocked
flying by a strong force. Night Shade hopped to me in time and caught me on his
back, while Hawk saved Elfy with a skillful volleyball save.
"What
was that?" I look around. "Saw anything?"
"Not
me." Hawk is searching around the area too, nervously. "There was
just something blurry in front my eyes, and you two were in the air before I
know it."
"I
think it was some kind of small animal." Elfy steadied herself and took
out a strange-shaped arrow from her quiver. "I touched it. At least it was
something with fur."
Nope.
The woods around us is totally silent.
"Rosy, look out the area for us."
The dirt around us began to s.h.i.+ft, then tentacles with crystal eyes crawled
onto each of the trees within the perimeter. They began to look around like
cameras.
"Noticed
something?" Hawk asked.
A
bigger tentacle raised in front of us, an image appeared in the crystal ball. We
saw a shadow flying among the trees. It's too fast for us to make it out. The
moving image is apparently made up from continuous pictures shot by different
tentacles. Now that's surprising, I got myself a living camera.
Elfy let out a warning. "Watch it! It's coming!"
From
the "Camera", I saw the black shadow approaching from our backs.
I
drew my swords. "Let's back up each other and leave no blind spots. Lucky,
take down all the trees around. Oh and, throw them away so they don't get in
our way. Phantom, come out and look for the target. See if you can control it. Phiona,
watch us from above. Loong'er cast your gravity field around us. Knights, spread
out!"
Lucky
is the fastest one to move as always--the trees are already falling down in bundles like wheat. Rosy
helped cut off all the roots so Lucky only needs to carry the trunks and throw
them off the mountain, creating an open area for us.
"Over
there!" One of the knights caught sight of the shadow and threw his spear
at the same time, without hitting it. Not surprising, as the spear is almost as thick
as the monster itself.
"There!"
That was Elfy.
A series of spears went over. Still nothing.
"Above!" I saw it this time. I wanted to check on Phiona, but a black stuff
blocked my sight when I raised my head.
Phiona
created a strong gust using her wings and disrupted the shadow's movement. Something
showed up from the shadow. It's a...white, furry...ball?
"[Shadow
Barrage]!"
Elfy released her arrow which she has been holding for some time.
I only hear one shot, but a wave of dense arrows went past me. This is a
powerful Archer skill used to restrict the movement of any fast target. Only
half of the arrows are real, though whoever got caught inside the wave probably
doesn't have the time to judge it.
However, the speed and size of the figure
still allowed it to slip past the attack.
I'm
helpless now. I never knew how to deal with fast targets. I've fight with
monsters with high HP or high attack but I'm yet to figure out how to catch
something I can't even see.
The shadow made a turn and went at Elfy. Looks
like it wants some revenge.
Rosy's vine blocked its way just before it
reaches Elfy. This forced the shadow to change it's course--it used the
tentacle as a platform and jumped towards elsewhere.
The
Phantom Knight leader pointed at somewhere. "[Iron Cage] ready up! Seven, two-three,
launch!"
Schhhh! 10 spears shot themselves out in unite. From the looks of
it, their landing point is the estimated location where the black shadow is
about to reach. The shadow realized it too. But apparently it can't fly--it can
only adjust it's postures but not change
its direction in mid-air.
They
reached the ground at almost the exact same moment--the spears cl.u.s.tered
into a round cage-like structure, trapping the shadow inside. Phiona dropped from
the sky and landed on top of the cage, which is the only open exit.
"Aha!
No where to run now." I walked to the "cage" and peeked inside.
It's
a white little animal that looks like a squirrel. But no squirrel has such long and
silky fur. It looks more like a s...o...b..ll, actually. It's tail is even bigger
than it's own body. That should be why it was so agile. There are two miniature
b.a.l.l.s on it head, probably ears. Those eyes...are big, round, with the color of
sapphires. The brightness of the eyes made it appear like the critter is about
to cry.
"This--oof!"
"Awwww it's so cute!" Elfy pushed me and Hawk aside with abnormal strength. Her
eyes are literally s.h.i.+ning. "Aren't you adorable, little friend. Will you come with
big sis?"
It jumped around the cage, obviously saying "no". That's not
gonna work though.
"Hey dear, call your friend NOW! I want it as my
companion!"
"Um?
Oh!"
I stopped Hawk
as he tries to make a call. "No need. My side cla.s.s is Breeder, remember?"
"Oh
yeah, You said you are Soul Manipulator which is transferred from Tamer. As far
as I remember, all Tamers would choose Breeder as a side cla.s.s."
"Yup.
Tamers will need companions to fight. Surely no one would want to buy companion
from others every time they need one."
"Makes
sense."
"What
are you two doing?? Help me capture it!" Elfy pushed Hawk aside (again) and
dragged me over. "Quick! Do it!"
"Okay
okay, don't pus.h.!.+"
I began to cast [Capture] at the little thing. It
got more violent as I try. The cage is shaking from its struggling.
Looks like
it's not really a strong monster. It only took me a dozen tries, probably
because of my level 17 [Capture]. I saw it somewhere that you won't find many
people who got the skill over level 10 at the current stage. This is not
surprising if you look at my companions though, each one of them would give me
some serious skill exp, especially Night Shade--he just stood there for an
entire afternoon, waiting for me to spam skills on him.
"Here."
I gave the egg to Elfy. The size is similar to either a small watermelon, or a
really big apple.
"Yay!!"
Elfy wiped her hands clean before carefully taking the egg. I was giving out a
relieved sigh, when her words choked it back down my throat.
"How long do
I have to stay on it to hatch? Do I hold it against my stomach? On my laps? Hug
it all the time? Can I ask someone else for help?"
"Baahahaha!
Haaa-cough cough cough--eww cough--"
I crouched and held my abdomen to ease the pain caused by that laughter.
"Ok, now I see why you said companion eggs are super rare out
there. You--*sn.i.g.g.e.r*-- you never seen anyone hatching an egg in the game did you?"
More
confusion is now written on Hawk's face. "Hatch? We don't even see many
players carrying real companions! Do you know how you scared the heck out of us
when you showed your companion team this morning? Last time I checked, an egg
between level 300 and 400 worth 30k crystals! CRYSTALS! And you won't get one easy even if you can offer that price. No one has high level
capture skill yet, and NPCs only sell eggs below level 200. Good ones are
on really short supply."
Weird.
I know eggs are hard to come by but this is a little TOO scarce, if you ask me.
"You can capture any monsters into companions right? Is it so hard to
produce eggs?"
"You...wait I'll explain. You have to cut down the monster HP to 1 or 2 points when trying to
capture, or it will just try to self-destruct or something. Those who don't
explode will just get furious and go into berserk mode, making it impossible to
proceed. You need to be very careful how much damage you do and how much HP the
monster regenerates. One tiny mistake and you will kill it by accident, or
leave too much HP. Now wait a second,
that little thing didn't get angry or explode did it now?"
"I
don't know..." I looked at the egg. "I never seen any monsters
explode on capture. Maybe there are some hidden requirements or attributes you need?"
"Let's
leave those questions later!" Elfy is still obsessed with her egg. "Tell
me how to get it hatched first!"
"Oh,
that's simple." I grinned. "Find some hay and build a chicken coop. Sit on the egg for three hours."
Elfy
rolled her eyes and kicked at me. " The truth! Now!"
"Sorry!
I-I surrender! Make a cut on your finger and drop blood on the egg. It will
hatch once it gets some blood."
...Was that too obvious?
"Hey
hawk! Come here!" Elfy grasped Hawk's hand and took our her dagger. I
don't think she's going to just "make a cut", with that kind of movement.
I
quickly s.n.a.t.c.hed the egg away. "What the heck are you doing??"
"Get some blood of course?"
"You...don't
want the egg then? The companion will consider whoever dropped his or her own
blood as master. If you cut Hawk, he will become its master instead."
"Tell
me that earlier!" Elfy patted her chest in relief. But she noticed something on her
dagger. "Is
this...blood? Hawk, did I cut you?"
Crack!
The egg broke in my hands. A furball jumped around a bit, then crawled onto my
shoulder and began to hug my face.
But...! My hands...!
"Ahhhh! You cut MY hand!"
I took off my gauntlets to raise the success rate for [Capture], and Elfy's dagger left a 1-inch long laceration wound on the back of my hand when I was taking the egg back!
"What the-- Why is this happening?? I don't want a pet dog using up my slot!
Noooo!"
Phantom
interrupted me: "Hey master, this little one is no pet dog. It--I mean, he,
is a level 700 Aurora Fox. That's higher than me at least. I heard about this
species before. They're the champion in this world when it comes to speed."
"No kidding?"
I opened it's status window.
[Aurora Fox], level 0.
Attack: 15-25,
Defense: 10,
Speed: 750,
HP: 300,
MP: 50.
The other attributes are ordinary, even worse than
common monsters. That speed though...that's twice as fast than Night Shade! With
the proper attacks, no one would notice what got him.
Elfy
looked at the furry creature and whined. "Nnnnn...but I want it!"
"No worries. We can find another.
You saw how easy I captured it right?"
"Glad
to hear it but, are we really going to find one?"
"You
said the monsters would sp.a.w.n non-stop on this mountain right? That pretty much
told us there would be more of it."
"Well
that was for normal monsters." Hawk looks worried. "I don't think
this little one is a normal monster. The strongest monster we met before would
be somewhere like level 500 or so, a level 700 is unheard of."
"Now
you mentioned it...What happened to the mob waves you were so afraid of? We
walked so far and this thing is the only monster we encountered. According to
you two, our paths should be filled with all kinds of ghosts 'n' goblins by now."
Elfy
looked about. "I...don't know. That's what happened last time. And we didn't
even reach this far before we were driven out."
I
turned to Phiona: "Scout from above, let's see where the monster ran off
to."
"Alrighty."
A strong current caused us to lose balance a bit. Phiona turned into a black dot in a flash.
She came down after a brief moment. "There are a
group of players fighting with monsters on the other side of the mountain. A lot
of them. All the monsters elsewhere are marching towards them like tidal waves!"
"Ohh.
So someone is doing the job for us..." Hawk mumbled.
Elfy
jumped onto his shoulder. "Quick! Now we'd better not waste their effort. Let's
get up there and claim whatever treasure lies ahead!"
"Right.
Let's hurry it up." I hopped on Night Shade too. "Onward! Here I
come my precious!!"
"Hey--wait
for us!"
I charged ahead out of too much excitement, leaving the couple a good distance behind.
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