Reading my new companion's stats and title was not only surprising but fascinating to discover. Could I build an army of monster companions? I stopped that train of thought and laughed to myself. I'm getting way to ahead of myself.
Staring at the hellhound or should I say, queen, hellhound. I wondered what her perk could be? Could I raise her level? Would she get Exp for killing other monsters? Would she even attack other monsters? As I thought over these questions, I decided to see if there were any descriptions for her title of Queen of the hellhounds.
[Queen of the hellhounds]
[The queen of the hellhounds is a title that can only be acquired by killing the previous queen.]
+ 50% damage to hellhounds
+ 35% proficiency when using shadows
So nothing restricting her from attacking other hellhounds, good to know. Glancing down at the hellhound I begin to have a small smile appear on my face. Even if spending the drachmae was an accident. The gain was by far worth it. With my new companion by my side, it would make hunting much better. I could attack bigger packs or maybe a different monster. Who knows what loot I could get.
A growl from the queen broke my train of thought. Looking at her I saw her stare at some trees. There were two hellhounds at the tree line staring at me and my companion. Looking down at the hellhound queen I decided to test my new companion and see how a level 32 monster does.
"Attack them I said uncertainly", not sure what commands I could use or if any commands would work on my new companion.
Reika eyes seemed to bore into me. Her eyes almost seemed to say, really. Rising from her crouched position she seemed to lazily drag herself to the two hellhounds. Watching my companion I waited for something to happen maybe a skill or something. As if sensing me being anxious she turned looked at me then continued dragging herself to the hellhounds.
Finally, she arrived I thought to myself. She is sure taking her time. After reaching the hellhounds, the queen simply swiped with her claws. I stood still in amazement as the two hellhounds turned into golden dust. Never had I been so glad for making her my companion. If not for taming her, I might have attempted to have fought her. That would not have gone so well.
[Ding!] stopping as I heard the notification. I opened the bracelet.
[For your companion killing two hellhounds you have gained 1,500 dollars and 11 drachmae.]
[Your companion has made there first kill since being tamed. All Exp is split when killed by a companion.]
[Settings can be changed]
+ 50 Exp to Reika
+ 50 Exp
Reading the text I was surprised yet already thinking of ways I could put this to use. Would I not be able to have multiple tamed monsters, then having them farm and me getting half the Exp. Thinking this over I decided to experiment later, I have other more pressing matters for now.
Looking over the text I checked to see what setting I can set for Exp. It would not be good to split Exp all the time. I would slow down leveling by half. I picked the setting that looked to be the most helpful.
[You and your companion will only split Exp from beings that are killed by your companion.]
Nodding my head I decided that would do for now. As I raised my head I paused, Reika was in front of me now. Reaching my hand out I decided to test how much I could do with my companion. Just as I was about to touch her fur she took a step back and growled. Stopping my hand from moving forward any more I thought on why I could order Reika to attack but not pet her. Thinking over my memories I was glad to have raised my intelligence when I did. It would have been a nightmare trying to raise it in the wild.
Staring at Reika I was starting t become frustrated. I could not think of any reason I could not pet her. I mean it's not as If I have to build a relationship with the hellhound and get her to trust me right? Pausing I opened the relationship window hoping that was not what it is.
[Relationships]
Grover - 40/100
Chiron - 21/100
Reika - 10/100
Staring at Reika's ten out of a hundred I groaned to myself. How am I going to get her to like me? Remembering the relationship stats I was glad that although Reika did not care about me, she would respond to commands to attack other monsters.
I sat down on the grass and watched as Reika slept a couple feet away. How am I going to raise her stat It's not as if I could just give her something. When that thought occurred I opened the item shop. Scrolling through the shop I stared at all the different types of meat looking for one that would appeal to a hellhound. Seeing nothing labeled for hellhounds I bought a couple of rare slabs of meat for a 500 dollars all together.
Watching some of my money disappear I blinked as a flash of light appeared. In my hands were three pieces of meat. Standing up, I walked over to the hellhound. She seemed to wake as I drew near. She glanced at me and closed her eyed for a split second then reopened them and stared at the meat in my hands. Seeing that the meat was gaining her interest I made a mental note that she liked meat.
Slowly I placed the meat next to her and watched as she devoured the three large pieces of meat. As I was waiting to see what she would do next I heard a [Ding!].
[Relationship with Reika raised to 20/100]
Closing the window I thought on what I could hunt. Reika may not be as loyal now but she would after twenty plus pieces of meat. That would all have to be over time, for now, it's time to start hunting.
(Time skip) 13 days later
Where are they I thought to myself? I have been tracking hellhounds for the past two days with no success. That may not seem like much but it is when I used to be attacked every couple of hours.
Rekia was right behind me as we walked through the woods. After giving more meat over the past week her relationship raised to 60/100. Although I noticed that it seemed to rise by one when I made sure she did not get hurt when fighting hellhounds. Not that she could get hurt from them, after all, they are weaker than her.
Sighing, I went over to Reika and opened both our stats to see the changes.
[Name: Reika] Lv.33 Exp 1,100/20,000
[Age: 21] [Race: Hellhound] [Titles: Queen of the Hellhound] [Companion of Percy Jackson]
[HP: 2,025/2,025]
[Mana: 500/500]
[Stats]
Strength - 38
Vitality - 81
Dexterity - 26
Intelligence - 25
Wisdom - 10
Charisma - 0
Luck - 8
Stat Points - 10
[Skills]
Slash Lv-4 (76%)
Skill Points - 0
[Special Abilities]
Can travel through shadows
Proficiency level (25%) + (35%) = (60%)
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
[For becoming your companion Reika had gained a perk]
[Perk unknown]
Closing Reika's window I looked at my proficiency level compared to hers. I really need to level that.
[The demigod System]
[Character Status]
[Name: Percy Jackson] Lv.19 Exp 5,100/6,000
[Age: 15] [Race: demigod] [Title: Monster Hunter] [Companion: Reika]
[HP: 1,100/1,100] (Health Regen: 4.9 per min)
[Stamina: 650/650] (Stamina Regen 8.4 per min)
[Mana: 900/900] (Mana Regen 2.2 per min)
[Affinity - Water]
[Stats]
Strength - 22
Vitality - 44
Dexterity - 14
Intelligence - 45
Wisdom - 22
Charisma - 12
Luck - 60
Stat Points - 40
[Skills]
Presence Lv-1 (73%)
Tracking Lv-4 (87%)
Knife throwing Lv-Max
Archery Lv-1 (0%)
Sword Novice Lv-1 (0%)
Eavesdrop Lv-1 (0%)
Observe Lv-9 (12%)
Running Lv-8 (51%)
Cooking Lv-5 (61%)
Languages: English Lv-Max, Latin Lv-2
Skill Points - 0
[Special Abilities]
Can control water
Proficiency level (1%)
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
Knowledge Absorber Lv-1 [You can learn skills from books, the more advanced the book the higher the skill you get is.] Can raise skill level by absorbing books for that skill.
Physical Endurance Lv-11 [You take 22% less damage from physical attacks]
[Resistance]
Fire resistance Lv-4 [You are 40% resistant to fire]
[Items]
Credit Card, 24 Celestial bronze knives,
[Item shop]
[Relationships]
Grover - 40/100
Chiron - 21/100
Reika - 60/100
[Reputation]
God reputation 1%
demigod reputation 2%
Monster reputation 9%
Titan reputation 0%
Primordial reputation 0%
Money: $328,000
Drachma: 190
I still have not found out what Reika's perk is. Out of all the information there, that seemed to be the most important. Scratching Reika's fur, which I could now do. I headed out of the woods and back to the same clearing I have been staying at for the past few weeks.
I trained presence but I did not level up. Looking at my Items I sighed. Getting those knives was a great Idea but all the other items were very expensive. A single celestial bronze sword was a thousand drachmae. It was much better to use my knives. I kept buying the knives instead of saving drachmae for a sword because I was hoping to unlock a knife skill, so far no luck.
If only I could buy one. As I thought of that I heard a [Ding!]. Opening my notifications I read the window growing more excited as I read.
[Quest Alert!]
[A [Unknown] has appeared near your location. Kill the monster to gain reward]
[Reward]
+ 1 Skill point
+ 5,000 Exp
[Failure]
You will regret not going till you die
Shock could not describe what I was feeling at the moment. A Skill point. It has been months since I have got the bracelet. Yet this is the first time I have seen a chance to even get a Skill point. Stat points yes, skill points not so much.
Closing the window I looked towards Reika. During these past few days, I have started talking to the hellhound.
"Hey Reika, it seems that we will be hunting for a new monster. no longer will we track hellhounds anymore.", I said with a small smile on my face.
I heard her huff and quietly come to my side. "Say Reika, you would not happen to know where we could find other monsters than hellhounds", I said to her hoping one of us knew what to do.
I may have the tracking skill but this was some unknown monster. I have no clue what the tracks would look like. Come to think of it how have I not run into any monster other than hellhounds. As I was thinking over how strange this all was, I heard a roar.
"ROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHH,".
Looking at the direction I heard it from, I saw birds flying in the air out of the safety of the trees.
Glancing down at Reika I asked her, "any monster you recognize. Because I sure don't,".
"Let's go", I said. walking towards the sound of the roar hoping it was the monster I needed to hunt.
Slowly I headed to the area trying to not make a sound. I cringed every time I crushed a leaf or stepped on a twig. Looking behind me I was Reika moving through the woods as she always did, with almost no noise. How is she doing this I thought to myself? She should be louder than me, she's not even trying. I pushed the feeling of envy I had for my companion's ability away, now was not the time.
As we approached where the roar was heard I saw an empty clearing. Nothing was here, walking forwards I no longer tried sneaking. It's not like it would have worked, anyway. Looking around, I stopped dead in my tracks as I saw large claw-like marks on the trunks of some trees.
Reaching out I touched the marks feeling how the tree felt against my skin. If whatever monster clawed this tree, then what could they do to me. I felt a shiver go up my spine at the thought. Turning around, I stared at the monster a couple hundred feet away from me in the clearing.
How did I miss that I thought to myself, was the monster hiding in the trees? Looking more closely at the beast I thought for a second about taming it. It seemed to be some horned monster though it did stand on two legs instead of four. As I was considering the chances of taming the monster. It roared and charged.
Not good, I thought to myself. Looking up at the tree I was under I started to climb it. I had barely made it up a quarter of the way up when the monster slammed into the tree. I heard some creaking, and the tree swayed but it stayed. Sweating a little I laughed at myself. That was a very close call. Turning my head down I saw the monster punching and clawing the tree. Every hit seemed to make the tree sway more and more.
Looking around, I saw more trees in reach that I could move to long before he pushed this tree down. Steading my feet I prepared to move to the next tree when I remembered to use the observe skill and see how much health this monster had.
[Name: Minotaur] Lv.40
[Age: 21] [Race: Bull/human] [Titles: Monster for the Titans]
[HP: 2,200/2,200]
[Mana: 220/220]
[Stats]
Strength - 60
Vitality - 88
Dexterity - 30
Intelligence - 11
Wisdom - 3
Charisma - 0
Luck - 0
I looked at the now titled Minotaur which I really should have recognized and back to the window. I was not sure I I could beat this monster. Not only did it have more health than me it had triple my strength. Turning my body I faced the trees preparing myself to cross over.
All my plans crashed to a stop when I saw Reika crouched, looking ready to pounce on the Minotaur. What was she doing, could she actually take him down? I sighed looks like we would attack a monster that could probably kill me in one or two hits. Grabbing my knives from my items I pelted the Minotaur with knives.
-150 HP! Critical Strike
-100 HP!
-100 HP!
-150 HP! Critical Strike
-100 HP!
-100 HP!
-150 HP! Critical Strike
-150 HP! Critical Strike
-100 HP!
That's it I thought to myself in surprise. I had thought I would have done a lot more damage than 1,100 damage. Reaching for another knife I was which I was glad to have bought so many of. I was about to throw the knife at the Minotaur who looked ridiculous with 10 knives all over his body when Reika attacked.
She jumped and bit into the Minotaur's shoulder putting her claws onto his back and clamping on to him. The Minotaur roared in surprise and tried swinging her off of him. All that did was make her clamp down harder than before. Falling to his knees the Minotaur lost his strength. As I was watching the fight, I completely forgot that I needed to get the last strike for the Exp, and climbed down the tree.
Once I hit the ground, I looked to Reika who seemed to almost have a wide bloody grin on her face. I had no clue hellhounds could grin. Maybe it was just the queen. Moving away she stared at the Minotaur. Curious I looked at him to try and see why she had not killed him yet. Not seeing anything I used the observe skill on him.
[Name: Minotaur] Lv.40
[Age: 21] [Race: Bull/human] [Titles: Monster for the Titans]
[HP: 95/2,200]
[Mana: 220/220]
[Bleed affect caused] -10 damage per sec
[Bleed Duration] - 1 min
Seeing how low his health was, I was about to tell her to finish him when I noticed the bleed effect.
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
-10 HP!
Looking towards Reika I ignored the Minotaur exploding into golden dust [Ding!] and the notification for the moment. How could she cause bleed damage? Was this because she became my companion? Or did she always have the ability to do this? If so, I would have to be much more cautious when fighting monsters. If the Minotaur could do that and assuming I did not die after the first hit I would have bled to death.
Shivering, I decided that researching armor of some sort was an important project for the future. Opening my notifications I checked to see how much Exp, and items I got.
[For hunting down the Minotaur you have gained]
+ 35 Drachmae
+ 15,000 Dollars
+ 1% Monster reputation
[Monsters are now slightly cautious in your presence. Does not include companions.]
[Rewards]
+ 1 Skill point
+ 5,000 Exp
[For killing the Minotaur Reika has gained]
+ 10,000 Exp
+ 1 skill
[For not abandoning Reika to fight alone you have gained]
+ 10 relationship points
Reika - 70/100
I looked at the window then at Reika. Why, Why did I not finish the Minotaur? I could have gotten a new skill with a bonus of 10,000 thousand Exp. Staring at Reika I sighed. Although having that skill whatever it is would most likely help. Having my companion get it is not bad either., The reputation for monsters was very interesting, could I raise it to where they run in fear from me? [Ding!]
Hearing another notification I opened it and read the new text.
[You have leveled up!]
And that was disappointing I was hoping for something more. [Ding!]
Getting excited I opened the notification. Who knows what this could be.
[For reaching level 20 you have gained]
+ 5% proficiency to water
[Reika's Perk has been revealed]
Reading the text I thought about how It could have been worse, it had taken me days to raise my water proficiency to 1%.
I moved towards a tree and sat down with Reika sitting a little to my side. Resting against the tree I grew curious about what skill Reika had gained and what her perk was.
[Name: Reika] Lv.33 Exp 11,100/20,000
[Age: 21] [Race: Hellhound] [Titles: Queen of the Hellhound] [Companion of Percy Jackson]
[HP: 2,025/2,025]
[Mana: 500/500]
[Stats]
Strength - 38
Vitality - 81
Dexterity - 26
Intelligence - 25
Wisdom - 10
Charisma - 0
Luck - 8
Stat Points - 10
[Skills]
Slash Lv-4 (76%)
Pounce Lv-1 (0%)
Skill Points - 0
[Special Abilities]
Can travel through shadows
Proficiency level (25%) + (35%) = (60%)
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
Stealth Lv-2 [Reika's movement is muffled. The higher the level the less noise made.]
Reading her new skill made little sense. She had already pounced on the Minotaur would this skill really make much of a difference. Thinking it over I thought on how I felt after learning new skills. Maybe Reika will feel like she was practicing the skill for years as well.
Seeing her lay down and sleep made me realize how tired I am. Laying down against the tree I knew after spending almost two weeks together that she would warn me if we were in danger. As I was drifting off to sleep, I heard a [Ding!] Before I could think about what the sound meant I fell asleep, completely forgetting about my skill point.
[The demigod System]
[Character Status]
[Name: Percy Jackson] Lv.20 Exp 4,100/7,000
[Age: 15] [Race: demigod] [Title: Monster Hunter] [Companion: Reika]
[HP: 1,125/1,125] (Health Regen: 5 per min)
[Stamina: 662.5/662.5] (Stamina Regen 8.6 per min)
[Mana: 900/900] (Mana Regen 2.2 per min)
[Affinity - Water]
[Stats]
Strength - 22
Vitality - 44
Dexterity - 14
Intelligence - 45
Wisdom - 22
Charisma - 12
Luck - 60
Stat Points - 45
[Skills]
Presence Lv-1 (73%)
Tracking Lv-4 (89%)
Knife throwing Lv-Max
Archery Lv-1 (0%)
Sword Novice Lv-1 (0%)
Eavesdrop Lv-1 (0%)
Observe Lv-9 (19%)
Running Lv-8 (52%)
Cooking Lv-5 (61%)
Languages: English Lv-Max, Latin Lv-2
Skill Points - 1
[Special Abilities]
Can control water
Proficiency level (6%)
Special Ability Points - 0
[Perks]
Knowledge Absorber Lv-1 [You can learn skills from books, the more advanced the book the higher the skill you get is.] Can raise skill level by absorbing books for that skill.
Physical Endurance Lv-11 [You take 22% less damage from physical attacks]
[Resistance]
Fire resistance Lv-4 [You are 40% resistant to fire]
[Items]
Credit Card, 24 Celestial bronze knives,
[Item shop]
[Relationships]
Grover - 40/100
Chiron - 21/100
Reika - 70/100
[Reputation]
God reputation 1%
demigod reputation 2%
Monster reputation 10% [Monsters are now slightly cautious in your presence. Does not include companions.]
Titan reputation 0%
Primordial reputation 0%
Money: $343,000
Drachma: 225
(Do monsters like the Minotaur bleed Ichor or blood I could not find a definite answer)
(Should I make the chapter's longer? If so, how long?)
(Thanks for reading.)