Living With An Immortal Dragon Soul - Chapter 10 Hunters And Hunted

Why are you still kneeling Gabe. Is it really that uncommon to see a descendant of ancient nobility? There should be many just as there are many nobles among humans”

He had a weird look in his eyes and told me:

No, Milord! It is extremely rare to see a descendant of the ancestors of the days of old when magic wassss ssstill unknown to mankind. The firssst humansss were told about magic by the first descandantssss of the noble bloodlines. Their namessss have been forgotten throughout the millennia and only the desssscendantsss of magic creaturessss know of the godssss of the ancient era, the noble creaturesss of the passst.

From thissss day on the naga of thisss world sssshall fall under the rule of Valentinus Drake Reptilion’, a ssson of the godsss of old, a liberator of the magic creaturesss who are suppresssssed by the humansss who received everything from usss and took even more in return”

Whoa calm down old fella! We aren’t a freaking messiah’

Drake had a point but I didn’t want to shut Gabe down like that.

I pondered about what I could say to divert the topic from this whole bloodline nobility thing and then it dawned upon me: We still haven’t found anything to eat.

Damn it.

I am still hungry but now I have a mount and a pet that might be useful for hunting.

These thoughts were nice and good but even with complete hunter gear we wouldn’t be able to fill our stomachs because we couldn’t find any living creature that was big enough for us.

After about five hours of fruitless wandering and exploring in the forest while I scanned the surroundings for edible plants, herbs and other things I deemed important we finally found something worth hunting but Gabriel quickly told me that this was a creature that was absolutely immune to mental attacks.

Only brute force could hide its fur.

It was a grizzly or rather a Sabre Tooth Black Bear how this species was called according to Gabriel.

He explained that this was a very strong being in this forest that he would rather not hunt. It had a strong defence and its tusk-like fangs and giant paws would be striking harder and being more destructive than a car crashing into a tree.

This wasn’t very interesting in my opinion. I instead pondered about which weaknesses the best might have.

The first weakness was obvious: it was a slow moving creature.

In case of emergency we would just bolt and leave the angry bear in the dust to try attacking it later on again.

The second weakness was his strength. It was oblivious to the fact that there were four relatively big lifeforms near it although we didn’t hide our presence.

If it was a human I would simply say that they are arrogant but it was merely a beast and therefore simply believed that there were no beings except for his rivals of his own species that could harm it.

I was truly happy about the fact that the bear wasn’t in the slightest worried about our existence near it.

As long as it didn’t attack us we would just follow it around for a while to get to know more of its weaknesses. We slept (taking turns) when it slept we drank some water from the lake when we were there when it was thirsty and we would eat when it decided to eat. It was, in contrast to what I expected mostly, a herbivore. It ate lots of berries and very rarely got a fish from the lake.

I thought of poisoning some fish but that wouldn’t be very efficient since I would not know if the bear would know the poisons in this forest.

It probably knew them better than I did right now because it would be in its instincts.

Finally the bear revealed its fatal weakness.

In comparison to its hide that was very resistant as Gabriel told me his face was very sensitive.

It walked around for a while and when it sniffed a flower it suddenly roared because there was a bee hiding there and this bee had stung the bear’s nose.

It roared furiously and wanted to attack the being that caused its pain but the bee was already dying after it had lost its stinger.

Gabriel told me that these bees were called stingerflies’.

The bear calmed down after a few minutes which confirmed that some places of it were weaker.

Now I had a plan to slay it. The only thing that was important now was time and maybe a hint of luck.

It was indeed my lucky day. Thirty minutes later the bear trotted towards a tree and climbed it.

The reason wasn’t that there were fruit on this tree. No! It was something else the beast wanted.

Honey. It had located a bee hive hidden between the leaves and now it ascended to steal some of it. It was clumsy in comparison to my blessed athletic body and I climbed past it in no time.

I focussed as hard as I could and for the first time felt a little exhausted but my plan was completed.

When the bear had finally arrived it dipped its face in the honey which was leaking from the hive. It had its eyes closed and covered its nose while doing so because it feared getting stung even more.

At first it was happy but after a few seconds the tree of my labor held fruit.

It roared like it never had before. It dropped from the tree and started having a seizure on the ground.

Gabriel was shocked. what did you do?!?”

I smiled and answered pretty happy. I hypnotized most of the swarm and commanded them to hide in the honey. When the bear had eaten enough I commanded the hundreds of bees that survived to sting his mouth his throat and his stomach from the inside.”

The outside would have been pretty tough to handle but the bears inside couldn’t resist the hundreds of stingers, destroying its insides and causing them to swell.

Finally with one lost *thud* the bear dropped to the ground, dead. We tried skinning it but it was a lot of work so we decided we would do that in the two Naga’s cave where we would have more utensils to skin and prepare the bear.

It took as until dawn to go back all the way we came but fortunately Gabriel knew this forest like the back of his hand.

When we arrived at the cave Gabriel suddenly stood still humansss!! I can ssssmell them”

We looked at each other and entered the cave cautiously. Natalie was nowhere to be found but Gabriel noticed that her dagger was in the back of a cave…

…stuck in man’s ribcage. The man wore a leather armour but the dagger pierced through it nevertheless because the armour was of low quality. It would only take care of wooden sticks or arrows of low quality.

I could smell the blood but it wasn’t only human blood.

Natalie’s blood was on the hilt of the dagger and it was quite the quantity.

Ssshee wasss kidnapped. This guy looks like a professional hunter” Gabriel sighed.

They travel in groupsss and among thossse that are willing to enter thissss foressst even a sssingle one isss harddd to defeat.”

I was wondering: shall we try to safe her?”

I could’ve slapped myself for this question because there was no way a brother would not want to safe his littler sister.

The answer was pretty depressing: I might die but I want you to sssafe Nat at all cosstsss, Milord!”

Fine then. Let’s hunt them down.”

I would gladly help the Naga siblings because they were very honest and hospitable towards me.