Chapter 202: The Next Plan - Part 1

"Ah..."

"I see. So that's what you meant.", the Sword God understood after the explanation.

The mysterious being or person was being referred to again and again. No one said anything about that probably because they knew about him. Also, they refrained from mentioning the being specifically.

"Yes."

"Either 'He' is collecting all the strong beasts possible so that he can wage an all-out war or it is just a coincidence."

"Whatever, for now, we can't do anything."

"At least, not until the clan wars for all the races are over."

All of them nodded their heads and then went on their ways as if the meeting was now finally adjourned. But of course, there was more to the matter that they were discussing and thus all of them thought about investigating the matter on their own.

[ In the forest of Thuren ]

*yawns*

'That was a good sleep.'

'I feel completely refreshed! This is way different from healing.'

"Yes, sleeping and resting are really necessary."

Shin stretched his body as he thought these things. He then looked at the sky which was still dark. To be precise, the sun wasn't up in the sky yet.

'The stars sure are beautiful...', Shin smiled.

And seeing him smile, Alira approached him.

"Master, are you happy?", Alira asked all of a sudden while rubbing her body against his.

He wasn't startled by this because he had already sensed her walking towards him. Also, he used to do these sorts of things - rubbing fur against each other or licking - with Aella so it was not much of a shock.

"You've asked an interesting question...", his eyes seemed to have a sort of kindness or warmth in it.

They suddenly got small, not too small, enough small to give off a gentle vibe. 

He gazed at all the wolves that were lying around, sleeping soundly. Then he turned his gaze towards some of the elves that were on the ground and in the trees. Next Kaily, Terran, and Mo, and following them were the goblins.

He took turns in looking at all of them while recalling the funny adventure that he had so far.

His gazes finally stopped at Aella and after seeing her sleeping soundly, he chuckled and said, "I'm so damn happy at the moment!"

Seeing Shin smile, Alira felt a weird warmth inside her body. The feeling which had sprouted the first time they met, now grew further and this would continue to grow in the future as well.

She was young and failed to realize what this feeling was, yet, she would definitely realize it one day.

Shin resumed watching the stars in the sky. The view was just too beautiful to take your eyes off of them. 

"Do you see these stars, Alira?"

"They are just like jewels in the vast ocean-like sky."

"They are hidden in the day but appear in the night, in other words, hidden gems which can be seen only if certain conditions were met."

He continued his stargazing and expected Alira to watch the stars as well. But she did not do that. Instead, she continuously stared at Shin and his sparkly eyes.

Shin didn't notice her doing this since he was too busy looking at the stars.

This continued for another ten minutes or so after which Shin decided to stroll around a bit. By now, he was completely fearless. He had long before realized that he had too much of a strength for a normal wolf and by just leveling up, he would just get stronger.

And while thinking about that, he had something that was bothering him.

'I'm not leveling up anymore.'

This was surely a serious matter. Hunting beasts no longer gave him many experience points. Also, he was suffering from handicap all this time - the dual-class, which he had gained earlier, which was supposed to be like a cheat too, was disabled.

Yes, that was why he was no longer seen using those classes. This was a penalty for failing a mission and to make matter worse, the punishment included '90% Exp deduction'.

So every time he hunted anything, he would only get 10% of it.

He was initially pissed because of this but now, he no longer thought about that. This was because he knew that they would be reactivated soon enough.

[ Dual Skills are disabled for 4 months ]

[ Time left: 06:07:29:33 (6 days 7 hours 29 minutes 33 seconds) ]

[ 90% Exp deduction applied ]

[ Will be removed once the dual classes are regained ]

'I think, I shouldn't make too much effort for hunting anything for another 6 days since I won't reap any benefits.'

Well, the classes were supposed to give him cool skills or items but since he didn't have any exclusive inventory that time, it would have been useless. He wouldn't actually carry them on his body - that would be way too weird.

But now, it wouldn't be a problem, in fact, he could probably store them for quite a long period of time and that too many of them.

It seemed as if everything was happening in order yet again and probably the disabling of the classes was a boon.

"Sigh, I wonder, just how far can I go with this body..." - this was another thing he was worried about.

He had his fair share of troubles. Being a wolf wasn't an easy thing, now that he had got used to the body, it wasn't much of a problem, but there were very limited things that he could do.

Also, humans had a variety of cultures in this world and Shin wanted to go and see all those things. For that, he thought that being a human was necessary.

'Hmm, I want to go and see other races as well...'

'Since this is a fantasy world, there would be dwarves, elves, demons, dragons, and many other races with their own thinking and stuff.'

'I want to go and meet them too...'

'I don't know why I have this feeling, but something always keeps me pushing forward...'

'Something...'

'Something that wants to me rule over all those beings.', he had a gentle expression on his face till now but the moment he thought this line, a dark complexion suddenly covered his face.