Chapter 164 Elk Hunting

"It's actually quite simple, we're gonna kill the commander."

"Huh, that's it, no how or when?" Wolf suddenly asks as he looks at the crystal with irritation.

"Well I don't have all the details now, but luckily for us the first part of the plan worked flawlessly, after all of them saw my condition and all the corpses they wholeheartedly believed that you were able to defeat us, and since you guys also acted all injured and battered up they also believe that me and that bastard Grauh will be able to take you on together."

"You do know that everybody will suspect you if you survive right?"

"Of course, that's why I will disappear after that, don't worry, my brethren and I have created a couple of hideouts in the town in case we ever need them, and now they will come into use."

"How do you plan on helping us defeat the chieftain then?" Reign asks as he looks at the crystal.

"Well my men are slowly trying to make a hidden entrance, when that is finished we can simply enter through there and take them by surprise."

"Seems like you have most of it planned."

"Well, of course, this isn't something I decided on the spot, I have been planning this ever since I became the vice-commander after all."

Ding!

[ Hidden quest initiated, "Overthrow the Chieftain" ]

Description: The vice-commander of the orcs Magokur has asked for your help in overthrowing the chieftain and creating an alliance between your territory and the orcs. Help Magokur defeat the chieftain and create an alliance between the two of you.

"A hidden quest huh, seems like everything is true." Reign looks at Wolf who nods in agreement, a quest being created gave them more confidence that Magokur was truthful and that he wouldn't betray them, of course, they still weren't going to blindly trust him, they were still unsure whether the system's quest was absolute after all.

"Anyway, nothing should be happening in the following couple of days, the chieftain has decided to let the troops recuperate and come up with a plan first. I will contact you when I know more about it."

"Alright, we'll talk later then," Reign says as the crystal stops shining. He puts it back in his pocket as they all look at each other.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Shadow asks them as he yawns in boredom.

"I guess we can try hunting in the grasslands?" Beast suddenly proposes as everyone looks at him with a weird expression. It was weird for Beast to propose anything to be honest so they were quite surprised.

"What?" Beast asks them as he looks uncomfortable with their staring.

"Nothing, I agree with you, it's just weird that you would propose something like that." Shadow shrugs his shoulders as he looks at Beast who smiles slightly.

"Well, it's because of my ability." He suddenly says, "I knew there had to be some limitations and now I know them, I can only tame one more beast for now."

"Oh, well that actually makes sense, if you could simply tame as many as you wanted then I don't know if anyone would be able to defeat you." Wolf chips in from the side as he chuckles lightly.

"I guess you will be able to tame more after it levels up a couple more times?" Reign suddenly sits next to Beast as he asks, the latter nods in agreement before talking.

"It seems so, but I have no idea what level I need to get more slots, compared to your abilities mine doesn't really show improvements the same way, the only thing that I can feel is that with each level it's easier to command my beasts and that it's a bit easier to tame them, but just a little bit."

"Yeah, it seems your ability is one that starts off strong but then needs some time to visibly improve, contrary to ours which were quite weak in the beginning." Wolf nods his head at Beast while speaking, he had always thought that Beast's ability was a bit weird in how it worked, another one was similar to it, "You too Tank, yours seems to be quite similar to Beast's in that regard."

"Mhm." Tank simply nods in agreement to what Wolf has said, his ability gave him a good amount of defense since the beginning, it has improved since then, of course, now even his organs were strong and could take a lot of damage while his skin had a darker color every time he used the ability.

"Well, I let's go to sleep, we'll go back to the grasslands tomorrow." Reign yawns a bit as he slowly makes his way towards his room. The others do the same and fall asleep, tomorrow was going to be an exciting day.

"Well, do you think we should try fighting it?" Shadow asks as they all lay low on the grass. A massive elk was in front of them, the huge body of the elk was packed with muscles while the blood-red horns on its head gave off a feeling of danger to anyone that looked at them.

[ Lvl 35, Blood Elk ]

"A lvl 35, and definitely not a normal monster, its definitely a variant, the only question is how strong of a variant species is it?" Reign asks as he looks at the elk, variant species were quite weird, some of them were weaker compared to normal monsters, while others could be as strong as a mini-boss, the problem with them was that you could never know in advance how strong they are.

"Well does it really matter that much, even if it is a stronger variant we can still defeat it right?" Shadow asks as he scratches the back of his head in confusion.

"Well yes, but what if the fight gets prolonged and more enemies come, did you forget about the hyenas and other monsters that inhabit this place?" Wolf asks Shadow as he reprimands him, the worst possible thing that could happen is for one of those dinosaur-looking monsters to appear and attack them.

"Oh, I see." Shadow nods a couple of times as he looks at the elk with a disappointed gaze.

"No monsters are in the vicinity." Beast opens his eyes as he gets his bow out, everyone looked at him with a smile as they got ready to fight, his eagle was truly the best beast when it came to scouting out their surroundings.

"Alright, remember, we're going to try to immobilize it before letting Beast try and tame it, so don't aim at the head and try not to injure it too deeply alright?" Reign looks back as they all nod in agreement, they all scatter around and make sure that the elk is completely surrounded before attacking.

"Beast had his two green wolves next to him while Blackie and Fluffy were sent towards the elk. Tank was also charging with his four soldiers from another side while everyone else used their skills to attack, everyone except for Wolf, his flames could hurt the elk too much, not to mention that he could create a wildfire if the grass caught on fire, so he abstained from using it for now.

Shadow uses his bind skill to immobilize the elk for a short period of time, because of the level difference and the elk's strength he couldn't hold it for too long. Reign was using his lightning as he immediately showed up in front of the elk, he used the blunt side of his katana and the wide part of his sword to hit the elk and shock it before quickly dodging the terrifying antlers that were coming at him.

A red light could be seen coming from the antlers as the elk suddenly breaks free from the binds that Shadow had created, quickly it charges towards Reign as red vapor starts being emitted from the antlers.

Reign dodges the elk's attacks as he tries his best not to hurt the animal too much. Luckily Tank manages to arrive at that point, he blocks the elk's attack while his soldiers quickly attack it. Each of them knew that they should try their best not to injure the beast too much and they made sure to use the blunt parts of their weapons for it.

"Quickly, get away from it!" Reign suddenly shouts as he could see the red vapor suddenly shine, the vapor quickly gets condensed back to the elk before an explosion takes place. Tank and his soldiers were all thrown back as the elk suddenly charged out from the dust cloud and attacked them again.

"Down boy!" Wolf shouts as he jumps from the side and hits the elk with the blunt side of his greatsword, the elk's legs buckle as the immense force almost makes it fall down on the ground.

Suddenly more shadows appear beneath the elk as they now try to bind and force the legs down, the elk suddenly starts glowing completely red as it stomps the ground in fury.

Bam!