Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 113

While ignoring Merc who was yelling at him as he was leaving the room, Eisen looked around to see what he should do. He may have said that he would kill the monsters, but he felt somewhat bad for them. After all, they were simply taken away from their homes and caged to be sold, so he couldn't really blame them to be aggressive toward people. But nonetheless, they were monsters, beings that were said to be pure evil.

And although Eisen knew that wasn't the case since he knew examples of multiple creatures that were technically monsters but not in the slightest evil, he still felt that he should slay these monsters, at the very least those that didn't seem to have a mind on their own and were pure beasts that couldn't do anything but kill.

It wasn't really hard to find those, if Eisen was going to be honest. The far majority of the monsters kept and sold here belonged to that category, and since they were caged, Eisen only had to stab them through the bars to kill them. Not only did this let Eisen level up a few times until he reached level 79 and added 8 points onto each of his stats, but he could also collect a few mana crystals. He didn't really care for the other materials all that much, since if he collected all of those, he would just have a wild mess of dozens and dozens of different types, most of which would just end up going to waste. However, the materials that he did collect were things that should come in quite useful other than generic materials such as leather.

For example the claws or horns of some creatures, which was the main thing that Eisen ended up collecting beside the mana crystals.

But there weren't only purely aggressive monsters there, some of them even actively attempted to be tamed by Eisen, seeing how he saved them. But each time this happened, Eisen received a notification.

[A Monster has offered itself to be tamed, but as you have already reached the current upper limit of monsters that can be tamed by you, this is impossible. However, this specific Monster will not be aggressive toward you without reason, and can be told what to do to an extent. If the monster will truly follow the command is unsure]

In total, Eisen read this notification about a dozen times, for creatures of all kind. A Lizard covered in metal ores, or a bull that looked to be made of earth, or a fish swimming through the air. Eisen didn't know what to do with them, but he didn't want to kill them, considering that they were quite harmless to him.

After a while of thinking, Eisen ended up opening his chat option and decided to message the one person that might know what to do, Jyuuk.

The moment that a small see-through keyboard apeared in front of him, Eisen began to type.

[Eisen] Hello Jyuuk, there is a situation going on in Ornier, and I could need your help. Are you already in the wasteland you talked about?

As Eisen was waiting for an answer, he continued with the business that he had in the monster shop. This general exhibit was already nearly cleared out, and the only thing that was left was the one filled with 'high-grade products' as Merc called them.

It wasn't especially hard to find that door either, it was just a little bit hidden behind a few empty cages. So, Eisen quickly opened that door up and took a look around. In this room, there were only ten cages in total, and they seemed to be many, many times stronger than the ones he just saw before.

And that also counted for the monsters themselves. Different to the creatures in the room before, these were all immediately calm and simply staring at Eisen without making a single sound.

When Eisen got to the first cage, he saw a young child with dark green skin and pointed ears, with no hair whatsoever growing on its body. According to what his appraisal of it told Eisen, this was called a 'Hobgoblin', and once Eisen figured that out, he did manage to see similarities to regular goblins. This kid didn't seem to be harmful in the slightest, other than normal goblins, and basically instantly tried to be tamed by Eisen. Thus, he opened the cage and told the child to wait by the door.