18 The Ranch.

He was feeding the pig daily and his skill grew slowly. The hare started to eat, however, in his presence, it was going crazy. After two days the passive grinding started to show the results.

[Farmer level up. Farmer lv.6(1/10000)]

[Farming lv.5(33455/50000)]

'A few more days and I will get another level in the profession. If I worked by myself I would get at least two levels. It's still better as I have more time to train and do other things.'

He prepared more cages and decided to catch some wild animals in the forest. His first target was actually a quail. The tricky part was that it could fly, it was enough to escape from most of the predators.

It was chirping happily while eating a bug, boy was trying to get close to as close as possible without getting noticed. Suddenly, he sprinted towards the bird with his high agility and running speed bonus, his speed soared to unbelievable speed.

The boy was careful and fast but the bird noticed him in the last moment and started to fly. It wasn't best, yet it came with the strategy of flying on the tree.

'NO, YOU WON'T ESCAPE!' He screamed inside his mind and tried to catch it.

'Succes! Oh no!' BANG! He slammed with his body at the tree.

"FUCK! YOU STUPID BIRD." The pain wasn't high, however, feeling being almost tricked by a bird was humiliating.

The quail wasn't even struggling. It was caught, so in most of the cases, it would be dead. Seeing anger from its aggressor. It closed the eyes and played dead.

'Don't you dare play dead now!'

Aron entered the space and put the quail into the cage.

[Quail(hen)]

[Traits: Cautious, Smart]

'So it's a smart one. I need a male one to create a pair of them.'

It was easier to kill the quail than catch it alive. However, he was determined to catch animals and try to domesticate them. In the worst case, he will kill them.

The next quails weren't so hard to catch, or he was more prepared after the tricky first one.

After searching for some time, he found the trails of a sow with piglets. Aron followed the trail and finally spotted the small boar family next to the small pond.

[Boar(Sow)]

[Age:5]

[Stats: Str 1.4, Agi 1.3, End 1.8]

[Traits: Strong, Big tusks]

[Skill: Berserk, Charge, Piercing Tusk]

'I need to be careful. I won't be able to steal these piglets from it.'

He took out his bow and decided to kill the sow and try to catch a few of the piglets.

[Boar(Piglet)]

[Age: 5 weeks]

[Stats: STR 0.5, Agi 0.7, End 1]

Swish two arrows pierced the sow head. It tried to run, yet it fell with a loud thud. The piglets didn't know what to do. Aron didn't wait and started his game. He arrived before piglets, in this time they finally started to run.

'Too late!' He jumped at the first one when he got to hold on it. He inserted it into space and started running after the next one.

Kick! Strong kick stopped one of the piglets and another one was already inside space.

'2 Down, 3 to go.'

He picked the small stone and threw it into the leg of a smaller one. While he was inserting it, into space other two ran away.

'It's your loss...without overprotective mother, your life will end in few hours.'

He entered space, there were 3 piglets running around, and he didn't want them to destroy any plants on the farm. The one that received his kick was still unconscious.

'I probably didn't control my strength properly.'

He put into a wooden cage and started chasing the second one. This one was actually, the first to fall but it didn't mean that it was weaker. Aron used the element of surprise to catch it.

The boy jumped and caught piglet's leg. It was trying to struggle, however, the boy just threw into the cage and continued.

The last piglet was actually tired and laying on the ground. Aron attacked its leg before and the obvious ending was it to fall after that. It was an easy catch, and he had three piglets in the cages. It didn't actually end of work. There was actually a big body of the sow still waiting for him outside.

He inserted carcass into space and decided to leave the forest. The noise he made was too big, real predators could come and his role would change that time.

It was tiring day, for him. There was a person that wanted to trade sheep for meat. Although, there were rumors about sheep recent losing control and attacking its owner. He decided to check it out himself.

Knock. Knock.

"Hello. How can I help you?" A middle-aged man got out and asked the boy.

"I am Aron. I came here to buy your sheep."

"Hello. My name is Greg, and I am sorry but after you see this crazy sheep. You will probably refuse to buy it."

They went to the sheep and Aron saw that something is wrong with it. The sheep was tied and struggling to free itself. There was chaos inside of its eyes.

'What's wrong with it.'

[Sheep]

[Stats:...]

[Traits:...]

'I cannot see anything wrong all stats are normal and there are nothing in traits.'

He was looking at this sheep and thinking.

'Right! I have 1 skill point. Can I use it on the appraisal?'

[It's possible.]

[Appraisal lv.6(1/100000)]

[Sheep]

[State: Sick(Demon Fever)]

'It's sick, I didn't hear about this sickness. It might be unique to animals. If it's fever I could help it somehow.'

[Demon Fever]

[Desc: Weird sickness that causes an animal's aggression and high fever. After a week, the animal's will eye will become white and a few hours later. Eventually causing death.]

[Treatment: Feeding the animal with a mix of Blue mint, Bristle, yew leaves and water.]

[Contagious: No]

'Lucky, it's not contagious.'

"It's weird, how long it's acting this way?" Aron asked he needed to create a cure for it.

"3 days. It's like some kind of curse. Do you want to trade for it?:

"It will be hard to do anything in its state. However, I can give you some meat for it. How about I don't know it's a weight around 100 kg. What about half of it in meat?"

"It's regretful but I will be forced to kill it. If you won't kill her, I asked the chief, and he didn't know how to deal with it."

"Ok. I will bring meat in a few minutes."

He went to space but before dismantling the sow, he decided to plunder skill.

[Charge]

[Desc: Run with 150% of your speed in one direction.]

[WE cost: 100]

[Skill Charge generated. Charge lv.0(0/200)]

The dismantling was smooth, and he loaded meat to the wooden container and left.

"This is the meat. Can you help me, take it to my hut?"

"Yeah. They tied it properly and dragged it to Aron's hut."

"Thank you. If you need meat come to me. I am a new hunter so we can trade."

Before inserting the sheep into space, he went to the village chief asked him about the blue mind. He had a normal mind but only one person that could have blue mind would be chief.

"Blue mint. I have some dried inside the cottage. It's uncommon and it grows in closer mountains."

"Can you borrow me a little? I need it for something."

"You need it for what? It's good for treating fever, the effect on humans are weird."

"It's not for me. I bought sheep from Greg and it has a fever and I want to try to cure it."

"Cure it? How? Do you know anything about animal sicknesses?"

"No. I tested some effects of plants on animals. It's aggressive, so I thought about yew leaves and high fever cannot be treated by weak herb, so I thought of strong blue mint."

"Interesting. If we follow your logic, it will be probably healed."

He entered his hut and brought a small pouch and took out a few bluish leaves and put hem into Aron's hand.

"Test it. If it works come to me. I need to record the treatment for the future."

"Ok"

He went back and entered the space with sheep. The mix was ready and the worst part was feeding it to the animal. It was immobilized, so he decided to go with a very weird way. He carved a wooden tube and inserted it into sheep's mouth.

"Try to throw up and I will create longer one."

The poured mix into its throat and it entered its stomach after a moment. He took out the tube and watched it. After a moment it became sleepy and lost consciousness.

A few days later of this treatment the sheep was back to health. Thanks to taking care of animals in space, his skill leveled up a few times.

[Animal Handling lv.5(Locked)]

Farming leveled up and Farmer leveled up too. He didn't have much time for woodworking recently.

[WE: 3344]

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