Chapter 189: A Wolf taking her Wolves out for a Walk.

Chapter 189: A Wolf taking her Wolves out for a Walk.

Custom spell gained: [Hadean Dragon Thunder]

Max level of Jobs [Shadow Warrior],[Worker] has been reached

Individual [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa] has switched her Main Job to [Cook]

Main Job benefits have been updated due to Job change

Cook Level: 0/5

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Stygian-Scaled Fenrir, Saori Segawa]s Job [Cook] has risen from [Level 0] to [Level 5]

Attributes have increased due to level up

Max level of Job [Cook] has been reached

Acquisition requirement fulfilled. [Penumbral Armament] gained. 3350 SP remaining

Mutation acquired. Merging [Penumbral Armament] into unique racial skill [Shadow Armament]

Are you actually considering transforming into a katzune, Kazumi-san? I know Im not their teacher anymore, a technicality due to the fact that I was no longer Segawa Saori the teacher as a result of my previous bodys untimely death, but I couldnt help but act like I still was their teacher around them. I knew I shouldnt. You will need [Beastialization] and then either invest a certain amount of SP into it or spend a large amount of time transformed to level the skill to fully gain all the benefits of being a beastman. It is a substantial investment.

Whether youre a teacher or an adventurer, knowing when you needed to take a break was an important skill to possess. While Hestia and Tasianna have criticized me for being a workaholic, it isnt that I enjoy working so much that I would become stressed out if I wasnt, but rather I work a lot because I want to make sure were not poor. Simply because we have the money now does not mean we will have enough later on.

Ive also heard from Hestia yesterday that she received two of the listed items for Farrons medicine from Yorshka. According to the latter, the amount she spent would have turned us bankrupt five times over. The restaurant business is stable and allows us to make money anywhere, but it isnt overly lucrative. All the alternatives, though, have various disadvantages.

Adventurers Quests above C rank have incredible pay, especially from nobles, but they require us to risk our lives against extreme odds. Selling high-ranking monster materials could fill up our wallet, but, as Hestia explained to me, losing out on valuable materials for equipment upgrades would be a shame and weaken our partys capabilities. Potion brewing could make us more money but Tasianna would need to put in most of her effort into perfecting her craft and the potion ingredients arent cheap, either. We already have a trading deal to sell luxury commodities like fulinoe leaves to the Sarlenzia company, but production speed was the bottleneck.

There were also Hestias future concerts to consider. In my opinion, that will almost definitely be our biggest source of income, especially if we can market Hestia well enough. The money from the Firwood concert showed that we cant just rely on the common people, we also need to give concerts for nobles, the big spenders. We need performances for the former to increase Hestias follower count and the latter for money. Aurora needs to prepare for this.

Money will always be something I worry about. Farron has been our partys benefactor, so I also want to repay him in some way. Yorshka doesnt have the funds now to give them to us for the rest of the items, but shell manage it someday. Being a dragonewt, she has the time to earn all the money well need to spend for the mana water and alcohol components of the potion.

However, I can worry about that later. For now, I, Saori Segawa, a fenrir in wolfkin form, am just trying to enjoy my break after having to fight a B rank volchark and rachonoid queen in what felt like a single day.

Five days have passed since that huge raid battle. On floor five of Cedarailles Emerald-Flare Forest Dungeon, my garms, my former students, and I were taking it easy. Well, I was taking it easy while everybody else was doing whatever they wanted, whether hunting or playing around.

Since we hadnt met in nearly a year, or over a year, depending on whos counting, my former students and I were simply catching up. It felt good hanging out with other Japanese, and with me turning back to an 18-year-old in my wolfkin form, were practically the same age now. Well, sort of. All of them already had their birthdays in Peolynca and were 19 now. I was younger than them, both as a fenrir and wolfkin. How ironic.

I was currently speaking with Kazumi, a girl who managed to persuade her parents to adopt three cats that she wanted to take care of. Being the cat lover that she was, she was asking me for advice with the skill [Beastialization]. While it was a transformation skill like [Humanization], there was a rather notable difference: according to the description as well as Cernust, you were able to choose your preferred beastman race.

Beastialization

A morphing-type skill allowing the user to transform themselves into a specific beastman race, including obtaining certain racial features. The beastman race can be specified upon the first usage, however, it will be locked to this race and cannot be changed

Well, I will not stop you, but you have seen racism against beastman, right, Kazumi-san. My personal experience was rather tame compared to how brazen it was in the Lecartiglio Duchy when you described it, I admitted to Kazumi. Sure, there were a few villagers in Carine Village who didnt like beastmen, those very people had a hard time accepting Hestia as a priestess when she gave her first sermon, but none of them resorted to violence, only mumblings. I guess knowing we were nobles and the ones responsible for stopping the bandits also helped.

It did remind me of Zeathers warning, that the Lecartiglio duchy did not accept any beastman outside of Arvisian. Zeathers sister, Quini, even received a scar when they were both slaves in the Kingdom of Atadoro, the country south of Artorias which bordered Lecartiglio.

Kazumi played with her hair, twisting it around as she considered my words. If I remember correctly, the racism was usually directed to the full animalistic beastmen. Those who look like humanoid animals instead of humans with animal features. Human beastmen werent liked, but the animal beastmen had it the worst, rarely did anybody show any sympathy for the latter group.

Fear of the others. The less similar somebody is to you, the less you are willing to put yourself in their place. Also, they are thugs, they pick on anybody vulnerable. Even if beastmen have superior physical stats, if they are not a bear or a rhinoceros, any untrained civilian will lose against a group of fighters.

At the end of the day, thats the truth, right? That was how the world worked.This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.

Still, somebody has to do something, Sensei. Hestia-chans job in this world is to reform Goddess Aurenas church, right? She told us that this very Goddess hadnt summoned us, that somebody else did, but their intentions are completely foreign to us. We cant even fully trust that the church will send us back to Earth at this rate. All five of them were currently thinking this very thought after everything that happened, unsure of what to do next. At the very least, I want to use this heroic status of mine for something more meaningful than being a propaganda and religious tool. A katzune helping the heroes sounds cool.

Even from an objective view, fighting in a beastman form should change up her stats for the better. Hestia, Tasianna, and I all had our original forms stats altered after our transformation, so it should affect Kazumi, too. A human turning into a Katzune most likely will have higher Agility, beneficial for the rogue Kazumi.

I cant help but feel glad the kids havent changed too drastically. Its a relief.

In the end, Kazumi bought [Beastialization] from the SP shop and tried it out for the first time. Unlike my progression which made me less furry with every level, Kazumi only received sharper nails and canines with her [Beastialization Lv. 1]. Her disappointment was entertaining to watch, to be honest.

I wanted some cat ears I could hear her mumble. She needed to level it up to level three for the skill to change her race to katzune, giving her sound-sensitive cat ears, better night vision, claws, and a tail. She still looked like a cosplayer to me.

After a while of her playing around with her new body, testing out if she became more nimble or not, the others returned from their hunt, all riding on the backs of my garms. Unlike Aurora, The Magical Biscuit was a responsible adventurer party who frequently accepted Quests and fulfilled them for money and guild points.

Were back, Nishio announced as he dismounted Song.

Riding Uno and the others has been amazing, Sensei! Tamae proclaimed, ruffling the horse-sized, scarred garms fur. Despite being giant wolves, my supposedly normal students were acting more comfortable around them than most hunters I met inside this dungeon.

Kohaku, Kazumis best friend, also dismounted after expressing her liking of the garms, but immediately burst into laughter when she first saw Kazumi. Ahahahahahaha! I-I cant believe youre actually cosplaying as a katzune inside a dungeon, Kohaku-chan! Ehehe, when did you prepare all of them, where did you put your tail and why is it moving like th-Ooooooh.

My former students were as lively as always.

Since they finished the Quests they took for today, we decided to have some lunch. Tamae, deciding I should rest up more, began preparations for a dish using the local knopbries as the main ingredient. Having been taught cooking by her two professional chef parents who love traveling to taste a foreign countrys cuisine and inheriting this trait from them, Tamae believed that trying out various different Peolyncian ingredients would help her step out of the shadows of her parents to become a first-rate chef who was standing on her own feet.

Well, I welcomed her offer. Honestly, it feels good to have somebody else cook for me.

Hmm, its been a while. Lets check on the garms levels, I thought as I opened up my party bracelet and accessed a new function in it: the tamer menu.

Name: Uno Level: 13 Race: Shadow Garm

Health: 3841/3841 Mana: 1194/1194 Stamina: 2126/2126

Name: Song Level: 12 Race: Shadow Garm

Health: 3663/3663 Mana: 1309/1309 Stamina: 1964/1964

Name: Sarasa Level: 13 Race: Shadow Garm

Health: 4058/4058 Mana: 967/967 Stamina: 2371/2371

Name: Quatre Level: 9 Race: Shadow Garm

Health: 3666/3666 Mana: 1045/1045 Stamina: 2389/2389

The garms, minus Quatre, have been with me ever since our fight against the Alchemist guild branch master, Davison. Quatre joined us after my [Shadow Pack] leveled up, allowing me to turn him into a shadow beast after his faefolk form was injured by Davison.

Of course, their levels seemed quite low after everything weve done, defeating three B ranks in the form of the High Ogre, the Volchark, and the Rachonoid Queen. However, it seemed normal to me. It was the unfortunate truth of a C rank monster without Hestias or my experience booster; leveling up naturally was hard, making me respect people with high levels even more.

Although the garms called me the Alpha of the pack, as I am a descendant of Belzac the Fenrir, I was also the tamer in our relationship. The tamers collars around their neck, white and well-decorated by me to contrast their black fur, werent just there to inform city officials and guards that they werent feral monsters. They also allowed a party system similar to the party bracelets. I was able to monitor my garms Health while also allowing the experience to be shared amongst us.

Id already experimented with these functions when I first tried it out and already set a good percentage between us. This meant the experience I gained through Aurora was sent to me and then divided amongst my garms, and vice versa, and any experience my garms gained would be sent to me before being divided amongst Aurora. It was, to say the least, pretty confusing at first.

Of course, all of this can only work while I have my party bracelet on; it wont work while Im in fenrir form. It does drive my total experience gain down a bit, but my garms were also my strength. Once they evolve into B rank monsters, the amount of power Aurora will have will be massive. My training goal for them was to help them find a unique or mutation evolution like mine.

Youre so lazy, Sarasa, hehe.

Watching the garms using this downtime in whatever way they want really makes me acknowledge these guys arent just mindless drones screaming Alpha! or We must protect the Alpha all the time. I honestly thought they would be that way. That was, after all, my impression of them when I first agreed to take them in.

The garms bodies died during the garm massacre seven or eight years ago when Davison commissioned the hunter guild to prepare an assault force against the A rank fenrir named Grim Messenger. That was what Farron told me. While it didnt mean anything to me, it did seem to have affected the garms, or more specifically, the onnikai who possessed their bodies.

After talking with them a bit more, the garms admitted they had no idea of the garms fate when they first found them close to the edge of the Belzac forest. They were skeletons and seemed strong to the onnikai. Using Kiiros, the leading onnikai in the Rashan Village attack, mana slime, the onnikai were able to regenerate the skeletal remains into zombies. The lingering malice for humans, or so they called it, made the bodies near perfect for the vengeful onnikai.

Since I wasnt a necromancer, I couldnt explain this malice at all, neither could the garms. They were able to feel it, similar to sensing a fellow onnikai, but they couldnt understand it. Either way, I personally believed this might be why Ilsaphones plan to create a patron race sort of worked with these garms. The onnikais managed to fuse with their bodies memories and become the bodys previous owners.

We then returned to our inn for the day. Tamae suggested we celebrate their meeting with me with an actual party and proposed to cook a huge meal for everybody. To say the least, it was amazing. Sure, I helped out a bit, but Tamae really knows her way in the kitchen. I managed to pick up a tip or two from her.

When Hestias group returned from the dungeon, they informed us Grimnir was staying with the local blacksmiths to craft Ellaines armor, and required multiple days with all the materials we gave him to create an absolute product to make Bleidla rage out in jealousy. It was sad to not have everybody from Aurora together, but the party was nonetheless still a success, even if it was a bit cramped as we had to celebrate everything in a single room at the inn. This might be similar to a hotel, but it wasnt as large as Hestias room in Firwood.

What a feast. What a day. However, every vacation had to end eventually. It was time for restaurant Aurora to finally open up again.

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Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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