Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 44

"Aotori! Come here!" Jyuuk yelled out while looking into the distance toward the mountain range that was coming oh so close. A few seconds later, he heard a familiar shriek and a blue blob came into sight.

In response, Jyuuk held out his left arm that was wrapped in ripped up leather strips while the Eagle Lady came into sight, preparing to land on her Master.

"Good girl!" Jyuuk smiled and gave his first tamed monster a small chunk of meat as a treat. During the past week, Jyuuk pretty much spent all his time hunting to level up Aotori, and was able to increase her rank a whole two times!

Whenever she ranked up, her nature changed. When she became Rank 1, she became an Ocean-Feathered Eagle, and her feathers became slightly lighter in color compared to before. In addition to that, she gained the INT and WIS stats and even got MP as well.

When her rank increased to 2, albeit literally just two hours ago, Aotori evolved into an Arctic-Feathered Eagle and gave off a cold air around her, while also growing slightly in size. The color of hear feathers became even lighter, and some of them turned slightly transparent and glittered in the sun like ice.

Of course, Aotori wasn't the only one that grew in strength! Jyuuk managed to reach Level 60 as well! After reaching the Level Cap of 15 for people without an occupation, he talked about it with Brak who pointed him in the direction of an apparent 'Master of Nature'! He was said to have connected with all the plants and animals in the jungle, so it sounded like he might be able to give Jyuuk the perfect occupation for him.

On his way there, Jyuuk found a few interesting things and creatures. First, he was able to tame something that looked like a Deer, but with overgrown branches replacing its antlers. It was incredibly fast while maneuvering the Forest, and was strong enough to do so while having Jyuuk ride on his back. With another quite straightforward name, he called his new companion Tsurishika. The only downside to him was that the limit of possible Tamed beasts had been reached with him. Whether that was because his skill rank needed to be higher or he simply needed a fitting occupation

After that, he also found an interesting egg. At least it seemed to be an egg, judging from the Appraisal of it, but it seemed too soft and fluffy to be one, with a texture somewhat like a marshmallow.

Jyuuk carefully placed it into his bag together with Aotori's eggs and then moved on to meet with that Master of Nature.

He trained with him for only a day and then was allowed to get his Occupation, Beast Master, which let him tame every type of animal, beast or monster there was. It also gave him a new skill, it was called Beast Connection, that let Jyuuk experience some of his Tamed Monster's senses, which he was using for reconnaissance with Aotori to see what she saw to figure out the best path going forward.

Once he got his occupation, Jyuuk decided to go on a Journey. There wasn't much for him to do in this area anymore, so he would love to move on to somewhere else and find what kind of amazing beasts and monsters could be found.

And now, another week had passed that was spent with Jyuuk simply doing his thing, journeying toward the mountain range in the east since it was the closest type of environment that was completely different to the Jungle he had been in up until now.

But before he would reach it completely, Jyuuk had to take care of something else. He heard a few cracking sounds coming from his Backpack.

In a hurry, he carefully placed the bag on the ground and took out the five eggs that he found in Aotori's nest, all of which seemed to be slowly hatching.

One after another, the four blue eggs hatched and the tiny blue-feathered eagle chicks laid on Jyuuk's hands while they got used to the outside world, but the single red egg seemed to be having trouble hatching.