56 Taming

"I guess I can just continue with the same training as before."

"I don't think that will work. After all next week will be the newcomer tournament and for that you should reach at least level 200 or you will only embarrass yourselves. Besides that getting a good ranking in it will also help you to proceed since the resources allocated as well as the possible mission depend on it. At least for the first year."

"What the? And you only tell me now? There is no way I can increase my stat to above level 50 with that training in one week."

"Well remember that you theoretically only need one stat above 50 to reach level 50. But you should think about it carefully since it may have a surprising amount of influence on your future."

"What do you mean? I have never heard about that before."

"That's no surprise since most people aren't aware of it, but according to some research the alliance did it does have a slight influence on your cells. If one reaches 50 first in strength then ones cells gain a bit more explosive strength while endurance slightly increases the regeneration of cells. Agility will slightly increase your reaction speed. But in my opinion magic power is the best since it not only increases the rate at which one can absorb power from the surroundings, it can also slightly increase ones ability of comprehension. Of course this is balanced by the fact that it is much harder to raise."

As soon as Ivan heard the benefits on raising ones magic power first he decided to do that. During his time in the wilderness he had already discovered that crafting pills the way he did had strong requirements on ones magic power and as such also significantly increased it. Besides that it was already his highest stat even though it was only at 26.

Of course trying to raise his stats also meant that he would have to be careful not to die since that could destroy all the progress he had made.

"Then shouldn't I postpone going into the dungeon until I have reached level 50?", he thought about it and this was the best course of action he could find.

"Not at all. After all the others too will have a pet so if you don't have any then you will be in a serious disadvantage. Of course only taming the pet isn't enough. You will have to train it and get used to fighting together with it."

These words made sense to Ivan, so he could only nod his head.

"Now get going, the less time you waste the better. If you can't manage to get into the top ten of the tournament then I will find something to punish you."

As soon as he heard this threat Ivan ran.

Because he didn't dare to delay he was unable to see his mentor shaking his head in amusement.

He then rushed to the transfer station and teleported to the dungeon. Since he had to it many times before it was easy for him to go through it until he once again reached the boss room.

As usual the boss sat on his stone in the center of the room. Ivan then started casting Tame. As soon as he started casting his mana left his body and formed into a dark blue rune which then moved towards the boss. It then entered the body of the boss and at the same moment it did the boss stood up.

After standing up it's body then did swell until it had double the size as before. It's eyes turned red and the fur on it stood up. This was the enraged state any creature would enter if someone tried to tame it.

On Ivan's HUD a clock appeared which counted down from five minutes. This was the time required for the tame spell to finish and the time he had to defend against the bat's attacks.

While going through the rest of the dungeon he had already thought about how to fight the enraged boss and he had decided on first trying to run around it to waste it times as well as collect more information on how it had changed compared to the usual boss.

He soon realized that one of the changes was it's speed as while he usually was able to run away from it now he wasn't able to and the boss managed to close the gap again and again. So he could only try to dodge it's attack and use his sword when necessary to parry it's attack.

Because of it's speed and strength he could only defend and had no way to counterattack.

Slowly the seconds ticked by and soon he had already lasted two minutes. But even though he had managed to not get injured by the enraged boss he too had done no damage to it and his stamina was much more depleted than its judging by the way both of them moved.

"Damn, this won't work.", he called out in frustration. If he continued this way his stamina would run out before the tame skill finished and the enraged boss would have an easy time to kill him.

As such he choose to change his tactic, and he stopped running. Instead he found one of the crevices in the wall he had used before, when he fought against the boss at the beginning. They were small enough that the bat wasn't able to attack one with both wings but could only use one which reduced the difficulty of defending. Of course he too wasn't able to dodge, so he had to block.

Luckily even though the boss had been enraged his strength was reduced by the awkward angel it had to attack from since his wings too had increased in size.

Of course even so he was only able to withstand a few hit's before his arm started to hurt. As soon as that happened he used his mana to create a barrier which could withstand a few hits as well.