Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 116

Eisen looked forward and began to smile while the Monkey-Beastperson Jyuuk jumped off of his Stag's back. "Hello there, Jyuuk! Thanks for getting here so fast!" He laughed, while Jyuuk came closer and noddded while smiling softly.

"Of course. I was passing by anyway, and Tsurishika became a lot faster after becoming rank 4." Jyuuk explained before Eisen looked around him and the Stag in confusion.

"Erm, talking about monsters, where are the others?" He asked, and Jyuuk chuckled softly before he pulled up his sleeve, revealing his, surprisingly hairless, arm that was covered in different tattoos, each representing one monster that he had tamed, beside Tsurishika. "I can explain this to you later, just know that they are always with me. But what about you? Have you changed to being a tamer? Because there's a lot of monsters there..."

After Jyuuk asked this, Eisen slowly nodded and then looked over at the group of monsters behind him, before carefully explaining the situation. How he had met Komer, and then chose to see what his brother was up to, before then finding the Monster Shop. Eisen only glanced over most things, since it was only really important for Jyuuk to know the rough situation to get what Eisen wanted from him.

"All these monsters here are actually quite harmless, at least for now. That's why I didn't want to kill them. But I can't tame any monsters anymore right now, so I wanted to see if you can tame some of them." Eisen asked, and Jyuuk seemed to think for a while before nodding in the end.

"Yeah, I can definitely tame them, I just can't have them out all the time. These tattoos are 'storage' of my tamed monsters, and as long as there's space on my skin left, I can store as many monsters as I want, but I can only have about ten out at any time." He explained before walking over to the group of monsters together with Eisen and took a look at them.

"These are all really interesting monsters though. An Aerial Carp, an Earth Bull, oh, and a Hobgoblin even!" Jyuuk said excitedly as he smiled at all of the monsters that had been nervously backing away the closer he came.

"Don't worry, all of you, Jyuuk is a good guy. I can't tame you, but I trust him enough to let him tame you, so you should as well." Eisen smiled softly, and immediately the Monsters began coming closer to Jyuuk on their own, seemingly all offering themselves to be tamed by him after being prompted to do so by Eisen.

One after another, the monsters then disappeared in a stream of light before new tattoos appeared on Jyuuk's skin, until all of them were gone with the exception of the Hobgoblin, since Eisen asked Jyuuk not to store him until his wounds were healed at the least to an extent.

"Thanks for that, Jyuuk. So, tell me, what have you been up to?" Eisen asked curiously as he sat down, leaning against the same rock as before.

From Around the Web

Jyuuk nodded and sat down cross-legged in front of him, before he began to talk about everything. "Well, at first, I basically spent most of my time in the dungeon in Melroe, and then later I was simply grinding up my skills for a while. I had to bring three skills up to Rank 3, Taming, Necromancy and Plant Control. And then I had to bring a few to Rank 2, which were Soul Arts, Herbalism, Beast Connection and my Magic Element 'Circle of Life'. I also needed to have a certain amount of beasts tamed and then had to create a very specific type of undead, which was quite hard to find."

After explaining this, Jyuuk demonstrated some things that he learned. First, since the skeletons that he had been making with Necromancy were so weak, he decided to strengthen them with Plant Control so that the bones were practically tied together. In the end, everything acted somewhat like plant-muscles to the skeletons and strengthened their overall performance. When Jyuuk was capable of creating zombies, he also integrated plants into them to patch up whatever parts of their bodies were unusable.