Chapter 376: CH.369 Level Ups and Installs

With our little sidequest of seeing horses done, HomeBase was once again in full swing preparing both for my meeting with the Prime Minister and the Royal Knight captain, and of course the eventual HomeBase grand reveal. But now with a few more tamed monsters living here, we had some new things to do.

The horse I tamed, whom I named Rani for … I actually have no idea what it means, it just felt correct. Anyway, Rani was simple. She is a gentle girl and both Molly and Cina love her, so they almost stole her from me. Thank god Rani still ran to me when she had to choose between the three of us. And because of Rani’s exceptional behavior, I was planning on using her to teach HomeBase residents to ride a horse.

The two hippogriffs we brought home on the other hand… well, they were a bit more high maintenance. And they weren’t quite as willing to listen to reason. I named mine Glad because he was gladly tamed, but now I’m almost regretting that name, as Glad really didn’t listen to anyone but me. And Agunan, but I think that is more survival instinct than actual subservience. 

Unika named hers Nitrum, which really got me questioning her naming convention. I mean, her iron foxes are named Fer and Rum, resulting in Ferrum or Latin for iron. I questioned how she knew that, until Laura pointed out that in the local language, iron is ferrum. As in, when I don’t use Language Comprehension (humanoid) to understand what is spoken, if someone speaks of iron, I’d hear ferrum. I still question how the exact same term is used in a completely different world, but considering both myself and the Hero, there is a full chance others like us have ended up here, and one of us might have been a scientist that made this world’s equivalent to the periodic table and named all of the elements.

 

Anyway, back to Glad and Nitrum. The two of them, both males by the way, butted heads a lot. It was their common pastime, and most of my workers really didn’t want to get between two C-rank monsters when they fought. Sure Unika could easily stop them, if she shot them with paralyzing arrows, and Agunan could deal with the two easily. I could stop them with Telekinesis or just by yelling. Well, yelling didn’t work everytime, but most of the time the two stopped, and they were getting better with it. I think Ria, Lua and Alice could also stop the two hippogriffs, but they are away currently, so I don’t know for sure.

But to deal with the clear superiority fight the two were having, and just to burn off some of their excess energy, I ended up taking the two inside the HomeBase dungeon. It has plenty of monsters for the two to burn energy on, so that was nice. … if they didn’t get scared any time a B-rank monster showed up. And in HomeBase, B-rank monsters are common, even on the early floors. Sure most monsters on the early, and even some of the later floors, are C-rank, but there are B-rank monsters starting from floor 1, so there was no C-rank only floor. 

But despite the trips to inside HomeBase often ending with the hippogriffs running, and hiding behind Unika and I, it was still effective. Because while Unika had some difficulty dealing with B-rank monsters, I dealt with them quite easily, increasing the respect the two hippogriffs had for me.

 

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Then there were Molly and Cina. As I decided earlier, I was now going to start leveling the two up. I mean, they wanted to evolve into centaurs, I wanted them to be stronger, so our interests align.

 

For that, I of course asked the two to come to my office and had them reveal their status to me. Molly was quite open about it, but Cina did question why I needed to see their status, but also agreed after I explained that it was necessary for me to help them evolve, like I had done with Einar, Eline and Wilma.