Chapter 355: CH.349 Big Orc Hunt

With the meeting with the Queen done, the next thing waiting for me would be meeting the King. At least as far as I’ve understood my job in the capital. And after that is done, I’ll no longer have to officially be in the capital. 

But that was a waiting game, as I didn’t know when I’d get to meet the King, so I had to come up with something else to occupy my time.

 

And today that came in the form of an outing with Einar, Eline and Unika. It started with Einar and Eline asking me to take them out somewhere where they could fight with their tigers, and when Unika heard of that, she wanted to come along.

At first, my idea was that we could head into the Green Dungeon and kill some monsters there, but Unika was against it, so instead we headed for the capital’s adventurer’s guild and checked it out for some quests. Maybe we can find something good to hunt.

 

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We found a handful of good quests, but the one we ended up taking was a search and destroy for a B-rank monster. Specifically a big orc, as well as the handful of orcs that were with it. 

Of course a search and destroy is nothing difficult for me. I can just summon Gradius, a B.E.S. monster, or even have HomeBase move a bit and we could use their OP sensors to locate the monsters in no time at all, but this time, I was out here because I’d been asked to take Einar and Eline for a hunt. And for that, I wasn’t going to ruin the fun. If we need the help, I’ll summon something, but until that happens, we are on foot and looking with the help of Lumi, Fer and Rum.

I guess you could look at what we were doing as a test, in a way. I was kind of like the ‘overseer’ adventurer, looking after a group of junior adventurers taking on a quest beyond their rank. And because of that, I was only planning on cutting in if they needed me.

 

So by extension of me hanging back, Unika became the party leader, as she was the most experienced. Actually, she is more experienced than I am, so even if I was taking part, if we were going by experience, she should still be the one in the lead.

As we began moving in the direction where some other adventuring party had spotted the big orc, Unika began letting out some strange sounds. They almost sounded like bird chirps.

And that was exactly what they were. Because for some reason, Unika was speaking bird at this moment. I knew Unika had Language Comprehension (beast), I learned that when we were testing out Summoning Magic, but I still didn’t really get why she was speaking bird.

The reason was revealed to me soon, as a few birds began to fly close to us, one of them even coming and landing on Unika’s shoulder. These birds were nothing more special than small birds you would find on earth. Technically they were F-rank monsters, but they never really attack humans, because they are too weak. People also don’t hunt them, because it really isn’t worth it, unless you are desperate or level 1. And even if the birds did attack you, the worst they could do is peck you. As I said, they are just regular birds.

Unika then softly petted the bird. At first I was wondering what she was doing, but then I quickly realized. She was taming the bird.

 

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“... why are you taming it?” I asked.

“For scouting. And it is just a temporary tame.” Unika answered.

“... you can do that?” Admittedly, I didn’t know you could just temporarily tame a monster.

“Yes. Tamed monsters aren’t like the summoned ones you use. You have to take care of them after you tame them. So if you don’t want a permanent monster you’ll have to feed, you can tame them temporarily and let them go afterwards.”

“That’s a useful trick.” I commented.

“I think summoning is still better.” Unika said. “Once you make the contract, you can just summon the monster whenever you want for just a bit of mana.”

“It can be bad if you rely on mana for combat.” I pointed out. “Some summons can be costly to summon, while tamed monsters don’t take any after they are tamed, right?”

“It takes just a bit of mana to command them. At least at first. As they get more used to you, you can command them without.” Unika said. “But with temporary tames, that isn’t really an option, so you are somewhat wrong.”

“Well, can’t know everything. I’m not a tamer.”

“Have you ever tried?” Unika asked. “I think you could do it, since you are such a good summoner.”

“... Well, maybe I should test it out. Is there something like monsters I should aim for?”

“Yes. … but we won’t know what it is until we try.” Unika said, and then began to explain things to me.

 

In short, for taming, every person had a group of monsters that they were more attuned to. It was basically affinity, but for monsters. For beast-folk, the rule was simple. They were always attuned to monsters of their own race. So a fox-kin is attuned to fox-type monsters, with a bit less of an attunement towards other canines, while someone like Einar, who was a cat-folk, would have the same towards cat-type monsters, with a lesser affinity attunement towards other carnivorous animals like hyenas and mongooses.