After seeing that the bear had completely disappeared from his view, Ben went back to his subordinates. 

He wanted to test his strength and see how strong he became, now that his objective has been achieved he decided to return back and try finding out more about this place from the goblins.

Training to hunt? He could do that later after figuring out more about this forest so that he could avoid places with powerful beasts or existences while hunting in the future.

 

While he was walking normally, he noticed some more fights going on between wild beasts in the forest. He would wait to collect the urja from the dead beasts before moving away from the place.

In this way time passed, and he returned back to the place where his subordinates were waiting for him.

"Boss, you're back!" Said Bob excitedly, it seemed like he was relieved that Ben didn't run away leaving them behind.

"Ki!"

"Ka!"

The other two goblins also said something enthusiastically.

 

"Yes, I am back. Hey Bob, I am kinda curious about something."

Bob heard his words and asked "What are you curious about boss? Can you tell me? I will try my best to answer you."

Pop and job also calmed down, they curiously stared at Ben, wondering about what his confusion was.

Ben carefully stared at the three before opening his mouth.

"I am curious about why you three wanted to follow me and become my subordinates?....You should tell me by now right?"

"Oh...so that's Boss's confusion.."

The three goblins turned their heads to stare at each other, realisation dawned on their faces.

After a while, Bob opened his mouth to tell Ben about their reason.

"After having our den destroyed, we didn't know what to do anymore. We're used to following orders so after meeting 'you' our boss, someone who looks intelligent and powerful as compared to other mindless beasts, we decided to follow you for our own safety. You even gave me some kind of strange power, I can feel it inside my body, this strengthened mine and these two's determination to follow you even more."

They actually weren't sure about following Ben before, and were just going with the flow, but after realising that this powerful beast could give unique powers to others, these three goblins decided to stay and wholeheartedly follow him.

Afterall, everyone wants to become stronger, no one wants to be weak and become prey for others. If they could gain strength through following Ben, then they would do their best to follow his orders so that they could get his recognition.

 

"Hm, so you three wanting to follow me was a totally random decision?"

"...yes"

"Yas"

"Yas"

"Ok, let's leave it at that then. For now Bob, slowly tell me everything that you know about this world."

Ben sneakily ordered the system to record everything that Bob was going to say in the system database, to fill it with some knowledge regarding this world.

Hearing the order, Bob thought for a while before starting to describe whatever he knew about this world.

Ding!

[.....recording…..]

….

 

After a while

 

Ben gracefully sat down while looking disappointed at Bob.

'This guy doesn't even know much about this forest much less about the world that we are living in.'

Bob was only able to describe little about the forest that they were sitting in right now, that too with many unimportant informations like how rocks and shrubs were everywhere in this forest etc etc.

Ben could only get a few useful pieces of information like how Ogres ruled the east area of this forest, and Wolves were the majority in the west, which was also ruled by the grey wolves.

Ben and the three goblins were in the west area right now.

Earth Bears were the majority in the north whereas South was not ruled by any beasts tribe at least for now, and it was also the one with the largest land area.

Bob said that the reason was due to that area having many different kinds of strong beasts groups like giant snakes, Orcs, Goblins, Berserk Jackals etc etc. These four groups were the majority and the strongest in that area.

He also said that the beasts living here referred to this whole forest as the "Jasper forest" as many Jasper flowers could be found here.

Jasper flowers grew on Jasper grasses, these flowers could be used in many alchemy related activities or potion making experiments. Many outsiders come inside this forest on a day to day basis to collect these flowers, and also to kill some wild beasts before going back. Most of these outsiders included humans, elves, dwarves, and beast folks.

Bob and the two other goblins didn't know much about what was outside this forest so Ben stopped asking anymore questions.

 

After listening to everything that Bob said, he plans on travelling towards the south area, and increase his strength there because there weren't any rulers in that area, which could also mean that many fierce fights between different beast groups took place very frequently.

He could use this as a chance to hunt, fight, devour and become stronger everyday!

"You three, I have decided on our future plan. We will move towards the south of this forest."

 

Bob, job and pop heard him before enthusiastically replying.

"Yes boss!"

"Yas loss!"

"Yas loss!"

"Hm, good let's stay here for the night, we will start moving tomorrow."

After saying this, he stared at his interface information again.

Universal beast system

Owner: Ben clarckson

Ability: Flame thrower (+)

Skill: Basic physical skills

System ability: Absorb Urja, Language translator

Urja level: 135= 185

Power level: 270= 370

Create abilities/skills

Subordination limit: 2

..

..

 

His urja level increased from 135 to 185 and power level became 370 from 270

It seems like his Power level was kind of proportional to his Urja level as it always stays double the amount of his urja level. 

He also noticed his subordination limit increased to 2, now he could choose either Pop or job to get acknowledged by the system, and give them a random ability.

'Hm...let's go with Job then, a male and a female to balance things out. I can do that tomorrow morning before we begin travelling to the south area.'

After thinking of this he stared at his urja level and power levels.

'Hm...should I try creating a skill or an ability? Or should I upgrade my flame thrower ability?....hm..let's leave it for now, I will decide what to do while travelling."

Ben decided to think about this the next day, for now he should go for a few more hunts before sleeping.

In the past, he wanted to visit their destroyed goblin den but after some thought he decided against it as there could still be grey wolves roaming in that area, and he had heard of how big their leader was from the goblins.

Ben didn't wanted to take strong risks for now, he wanted to get stronger peacefully without much stress involved.

….

 

At a plain area of small green grasses, there was a big pond situated there with the whole tribe of grey coloured wolves.

Being the absolute rulers of this area, it was obvious that their tribe would get special treatment.

The pond was very clear, even clear reflections of the fishes could be seen swimming inside.

Radiance of the sun was slowly going out, the small wolf cubs stopped playing, and went back to rest inside their respective houses that were made up of woods, muds and rocks.

The adult wolves guarding the area stopped moving and carefully stared at the front.

They saw their leader 'Rak' return with the other wolves before howling loudly to alert others about their return.

Awoo!

Huff huff

Many grey wolves came out to greet them excitedly. They knew that some goblins had killed a few of their tribe members a few days ago, this incident had enraged Rak, which prompted him to lead some of the members to go and kill those goblins. 

He searched for many goblin dens before destroying them to give a warning to the other races living in the forest.

Awoo!

Seeing that everyone was coming outside to greet them, Rak howled back loudly to greet them.

Awoo! Awoo! Awoo!

 

Many grey wolves behind Rak also howled loudly to greet them. The three humans were being carried on the backs of some wolves. They were smiling awkwardly with half closed eyes while looking at the happy reunion going on between them.

Before getting out of the destroyed goblin den, they had worn some torn up clothes to cover up their bodies.

'I wonder whether they will be hostile towards us?' thought the mature woman. She turned her head to look at the other two, and noticed that their faces were pale.

'Sigh...I don't know whether I can count on these two.'

The other two were nervous and afraid, they couldn't do anything other than staring silently at these large numbers of grey wolves.

The other grey wolves also saw the three of humans but didn't look too much bothered about their presence.

"Huff..they don't look hostile for now, what a relief." The mature woman breathed out a sigh of relief.

….

 

After reaching the place, Rak first met his wife and the kids. His wife was large as well but not as large as Rak. Rak was an abomination among the grey wolves. He was actually even larger than the adult rhinoceros back on earth, almost reaching the size of an elephant.

"Was there any trouble during the journey?" Asked Maria, Rak's wife. She was concerned about Rak even though she knew that he was very strong, but still what can she do? Not be worried about her husband? Anyone would be worried about their loved ones right?

 

"No, there wasn't any trouble on the way. The goblins here turned out to be much weaker than we thought, just hobgoblins were present in some of the stronger dens while most other dens had only normal goblins as their leader. I didn't even need to make a move, scar alone with some other pack members destroyed most of the dens including the ones with hobgoblins."

 

Hearing his words, Maria nodded "No matter, it is still not so easy to defeat so many goblins. Scar is a powerful aid of yours along with Fur and eater."

He nodded his head to agree with his wife's statement. "Yes, we are all lucky to have those three as our tribe's most powerful warriors and protectors...including you, you are also very powerful my dear wife." Rak smiled showing his teeth.

 

"Stop teasing me Rak, I am just slightly larger than average grey wolves. I am not as powerful or skillful as anyone of you. All I have is above average strength among the grey wolves."

 

Rak almost choked after hearing her words 'You call that above average strength? Yeah sure! Being able to throw around an adult earth bear like it is some small creature is surely just an above average strength among the grey wolves!'

Although thinking of this, he did not say it to her face. His wife was strong, Rak knew that, otherwise he would not have dared to leave the safety of his tribe's home ground at her hands.

 

"Daddy, you're back! How were the goblins!?"

"Can we also go with you next time!?"

"Yes! yes! We want to go too!"

Hearing some little, cute shouts coming from below, Rak looked down to stare at the three mischievous fellows below his feet.

"First grow up kids only then will I let you three to travel with me, otherwise forget about it."

Rak seriously shook his head.