Divine Beast Tamer - Chapter 37：Meeting the Assassins Again(1)

After Ronald arrived at the cave, he immediately sat and opened his status screen.

‘My level had finally increased today. My speed had really slowed down since I stepped level 50.’, Ronald thought before he sighed.

At that time when Ronald met the three assassins, Ronald was only at level 41. And during this month’s crazy hunting, Ronald had gained 16 levels increasing his level to 57.

After thinking for a while, Ronald started assigning the stat points that he had gained. When Ronald was still in the beginner stage, he had received 3 stat points more than a normal human, and when Ronald reached practitioner stage, he had received 5 stat points more than a normal human. A normal human at the practitioner stage only received 10 stat points every level while Ronald received 15 stat points every level. These extra points were due to Ronald’s bloodline.

Ronald put 5 stat points in strength and agility, 2 points in stamina and vitality and 1 in mentality.

Strength: 227 > 232

Agility: 227 > 232

Vitality: 87 > 89

Stamina: 104 > 106

Mentality: 71 > 72

Ronald came up with this distribution through careful considerations. He had asked Luna about the effect of increasing a specific stat before came up with this distribution.

He continued to balance his speed and agility just as usual, as he had already experienced the amazing feeling of having equal strength and agility. Though he preferred dodging than blocking he still assigned 2 points on stamina and vitality to ensure that he would have a minimum amount of defense. And although he didn’t have any magic attack skill, and his usage of mana isn’t that high, as he preferred physical attacks more than magical attacks, he still put 1 point to it as Luna said that every stats is important.

The next morning.

Ronald came out of the cave with Freya and Selena. As for Anteva, she was within an underground base that she made within the cave. She was tasked to guard the cave, where they stored all the corpse of the beast that they killed, as Ronald can’t store all those corpses within his inventory.

Even though they just stored the corpse there, the corpses wouldn’t rot as Anteva would eat them before the day their meat couldn’t be eaten anymore. All Anteva did during the whole month was to command her troops while eating some dead beast inside her underground base to increase her level and store more life energy. She also acted as Ronald’s scout, gathering information about the beast living in the area, which was also one of the reasons why Ronald’s hunting speed became faster and crazier than before. Though she was scouting, she didn’t catch the sight of the three people that attack Ronald, as those three were professional assassins, and as assassins, they were all good at hiding their tracks.

Today Ronald planned to hunt in a different area, but sadly while he was on his way, Luna’s voice appeared on his head.

“Ronald, their here.”, Luna said to Ronald with a calm tone, as she knew that those three weren’t a threat to Ronald anymore.

Just as Luna said those words, three humans appeared within Ronald’s enhanced vision.

These three humans were the three assassins that had tried to kill him 1 month ago.

Even though the three assassins didn’t saw Ronald’s figure yet, they immediately started to surround the area.

Through the clues that they gathered, they deduced that the person who left the clues was living close by. So, as to not let the person who left the clues escape, whether he is their target or not, they immediately decided to surround the area.

They became wary of Ronald’s strange skill, but they didn’t know that Ronald could only use it at night.

Ronald just stood on the spot and was just waiting for them to appear.

As Ronald watch the three people came closer and closer, Ronald whispered something to Freya.

After Freya heard what Ronald said, she immediately flew into a nearby tree and sat there looking at the place where one of the assassins would appear.

Sometime later, a man in black outfit appeared behind the bushes.

The man was confused when he saw Ronald looking at him as if he was expecting his arrival, he didn’t think that he would easily find Ronald and that Ronald wouldn’t hide or run. As it could be seen from Ronald’s expression that he knew that they would come, but he didn’t run or hide. He just stood there on his spot unmoving looking at him calmly.

The man’s name was Fengjun. In this world, only nobles or those that had made their name in the empire’s list could have a family name. And those who made on those lists were at least in the Master Stage of their occupation. If a person wanted to have her/his own identity, then he/she needed to prove that he/she deserves that identity. The Gods made these rule to encourage everyone to strive further and prove their worth.

Though people can just give themselves their own family name, it wouldn’t be recognized by the empire, as a family name that hadn’t been approved by the empire wouldn’t appear within his/her status screen. Though you can hide your own family name if you intended to.

Ronald didn’t know about this fact though, as he thought that it was just normal to hide his last name, as the kids and even the adults within the village didn’t mention anything about their last name, so he thought that they were also hiding their last name too.

Even though Fengjun was confused for a moment due to Ronald’s calm expression, he became wary of him and immediately retrieved a whistle from his Magic ring and blew it.

A magic ring is a ring made of rare materials that came from at least a spirit beast ranked beast that had been engraved with a rune by a Rune Engraver, one of the major production occupations within the continent.

Magic rings appeared in different varieties, some magic rings have the ability to increase the stats of the user, and some even allow the user to cast a skill that had been stored inside the magic ring.

“A magic ring can have anything a man can imagine.”

This was the last words of the last Grand Master Rune Engraver that appeared in the continent said before he died due to failing on a rune experiment.

The magic ring that Fengjun was wearing was only one of the most common magic ring. It was a magic ring called ‘magic ring of storage’ of the lowest grade which had a storage space of only 1 cubic meter.

Although the ring Fengjun was wearing was only of the lowest grade, a normal person or even an adventurer can afford it, as it cost a staggering amount of 50 golden crystal card.

A golden crystal card is equal to 100,000 gold coins.

The average price of a whole carcass of a Spirit Beast would amount to 1 golden crystal card, so in relation to this, one needed to kill 50 spirit beast before he/she can afford to buy the lowest grade magic ring of storage.

After Fengjun blew the whistle, a strange sound traveled within the area. The sound was very strange, as beast can’t hear the sound, even Freya didn’t hear anything, though Ronald heard it very clearly.

As Luna noticed Ronald’s confusion, Luna informed him that it was a rune item.

Through what Luna said to him, Ronald then came to a realization.

A moment later since the whistle has been blown the man with a huge sword on his back and the other man in black outfit came after one another.