Chapter 454 A Mysterious Little Wyvern

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While eating, we were deciding various things and planning, however, as we enjoyed our food, someone suddenly sneaked inside our camp.

"Groar!"

We were not even able to detect this little monster, a creature resembling a small wyvern the size of a dog entered the camp and began to groan at us innocently.

"Huh?! Eh?! What's that?!" I ended panicking, as everyone else jumped out of their seats when they saw the little creature.

Partner quickly pointed her spear at the creature as the monster slowly stepped back afraid.

"A monster sneaked inside! I'll kill it!" Partner said, as she ran towards the creature to impale it.

"W-Wait a second!" I asked, quickly stopping Partner. "Don't you see it is not aggressive? Also I am fairly sure there are only moles here… Where did this little guy came from?"

"It looks strangely wyvern-like…" Said Lucifer.

"I heard there are various Wyvern nests around these mountains, could this be a wyvern pup that ended following us over here?" Emeraldine wondered. "Uwah, it is so cute…"

"Groar!"

The wyvern began waving his long tail as if it could understand Emeraldine praising him.

He seemed slightly old though, or was it my idea? Its red scales were discolored, and its eyes slightly grayish as well… it also had a few patches over its body where there were no scales. Could this be a weaker wyvern thrown away of his nest?

"Yeah, it is not attacking…" Lucifer said. The wyvern slowly approached him, as he began licking his fingers while he was on his human form. "Ah…"

Lucifer suddenly felt slightly moved, as he petted the wyvern's little head.

"Are you hungry?" I wondered. The wyvern immediately responded to my words while groaning, and walking to my side.

"I see, so you were attracted by the smell of meat most likely… Here you go!" I gave the wyvern a big steak as he immediately devoured it entirely, munching the meat, his eyes shone brightly, he seemed quite happy.

"Groar!"

He groaned again, as if asking for seconds.

"Haha, can wyverns eat stew?" I wondered, serving him a bit of stew over a small plate.

"Groaaarrr!"

The wyvern immediately began digging in without reservations, drinking the stew's broth, eating both potatoes, carrots, and everything else without any problems. At the end, the little scaled friend licked his mouth happily.

"Well, this is unexpected… Did we just tamed this creature?" I wondered. "I think this is the first time ever I make a monster friend that is not an Undead-"

Ding!

[You have learned the [Taming: Lv1] Skill]

[You acquired the [Gotta Catch Them All!: Lv1] Title Skill]

"…Seriously?"

FLASH!

Suddenly, a flash of bright light reached the small wyvern, hitting its head and forming a small mark. For a second there, I felt some sort of connection. However, the little wyvern panicked and canceled the taming, so it ended being unsuccessful. Did the system just tried to forcefully tame him for me?!

"Groar! GRAR!"

The little wyvern got slightly angry, spreading his wings, and waving his tail angrily, even furrowing his "eyebrows" which were just thicker scales.

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"I'm sorry! I didn't really had the intention to forcefully tame you!" I sighed. "(Also System, what the heck was that?)"

[Because you've tamed many Undead you've been almost getting this skill, but you required the other requirement, actually taming a living monster, and it just appeared due to this, don't blame me. The Skill was activated automatically.]

"(Hahh… Well, whatever.)"

"So what do we do with this guy?" Wondered Emeraldine. "C-Can we keep him?"

Emeraldine approached the wyvern and she succeed in petting him. At the end, everyone petted our new scaly friend, and even the twins were charmed by its small cuteness. It really looked like a small wyvern, although it had some strangely similar aspects to Lucifer, but I guess that's something that all dragon-types share. Wyverns are considered more animal than intelligent dragons, like the equivalents of apes to humans I guess.

"Alright, we'll keep him. He seems to love Lucifer; he can't get enough of him." I laughed, seeing the little wyvern licking Lucifer's face.

"Ahahaha… You're quite the playful little brat… You kind of remind me of my sister… when she was small." Sighed Lucifer, suddenly recalling a bit of his infancy.

After having recruited a new friend which we had yet to pick a name for, we decided to move forward after having our meals and feeling better. I had already decided to make a specialized formation for our entire group. I will be standing in the front with Lucifer, while Partner is right behind us. She'll mostly also protect Emeraldine while Emeraldine offers support with her Magic and Archery from afar, all while the kids protect her in the back.

I know the two are weaker than the us, but thanks to Laura's Unique Skill: [Twin Connection], she can share all Skills and Magic with Takeshi and vice versa, so they can actually become even stronger when together. Recently she even told me they can share 50% of one another's total Stats as long as they're closer by around 20 meters range, so that's already insane enough.

Unique Skills are really heaven-defying sometimes to be honest, so it was totally possible that such an effect existed, I guess… I have yet to find any other people with Unique Skills though, but I am fairly sure the twins won't be the only ones. But for now, our formation seems pretty good.

After packing everything inside my Inventory, we made our way across the grasslands of the first dungeon floor atop Lucifer's large back, reaching the large entrance that led us even deeper.

"Here we are… Let's go!"

Lucifer didn't falter, as he quickly delved inside the cave, we quickly reached deeper and deeper, until we finally arrived in yet another open landscape, this time, it resembled a big forest, with lakes, rivers, and mountains in the background. The songs of birds could be heard around beautifully.

"Woah, such a beautiful forest!" Said Partner.

"If we could really conquer this dungeon, we would have all of this for ourselves…" Emeraldine.

"And yeah, there are monsters too!" I pointed out, pointing at the group of creatures which quickly detected us, they resembled giant flightless birds with colorful feathers and enormously deadly golden-colored beaks, each one was at least three meters tall!

"I guess we can't really take a break and enjoy the scenery, huh?" Lucifer said, as we all got ready to yet another EXP grind.

Hm, and even more, behind those giant birds, I can clearly feel the presence of something strong and darker…

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