Along with seeing if they could fight with a honey bear, there was one other thing I wanted to confirm today. That was weather or not I could get points from the wolf and goblin defeating a monster.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that was the reason I trained the two in the first place. I went to check out the area inhabited by fang sheep. I moved towards the sea until the forest ended at bare rock, and I could see over a cliff. This might be a good spot for fishing.

Is there nothing around here? The wolf didn’t seem to like the smell of the ocean very much and was scrunching its nose. It was looking at me as if to say, ‘Can’t we go home soon?’ with its eyes.

…Well there doesn’t seem to be any monster around here in any case. We walked around the area for a bit. There weren’t any monsters around, but there were various unfamiliar plants.

They didn’t seem to be edible though. I moved along with the goblin and wolf as I enjoyed the scenery. …I could probably ride around on the wolf like the goblin if it were a little bit bigger.

As I continued further north while filling in my map, there was a reaction from perception technique. The wolf seemed to smell something too. There was a monster approaching. I knew that much… but from where? As I looked around, the wolf looked a certain direction and let out a growl.

“…So the monster has a form of a tree then.” I was able to figure it out thanks to the wolf. It had perfectly become a tree. I was able to see through to its true form with appraisal.

It was a monster called a woodhude. Looking really closely, I could tell that its leaves were a bit off, but I’d better be careful around these parts.

“Hey wolf, goblin. Want to try fighting it?”

“Gobu!”

“Woof”

After the two seemed to agree, they approached the woodhude. The goblin slammed its hammer into the wood of the woodhude causing it to crack. The wolf tried to bite it, but the woodhude seemed to be too hard.

It slammed the goblin away with an arm-like branch. I guess it must have a higher status than the goblin and the wolf. However, the goblin reached into a pouch on its back and pulled out a potion before drinking it. The wolf also had a pouch attached to a spot where it could drink a single potion.

I guess this might turn into a battle of attrition to so extent. I opened the gacha window and watched for whether or not I would be getting points from this. …Please beat it you two. I won’t be able to confirm the conditions needed to earn points if I lend a hand in this. The goblin and wolf continued to fight for about five minutes but somehow managed to bring it down in the end.

The goblin trampled the corpse of the defeated woodhude and rose its hammer into the air. The wolf came up to me and sat down, so I scratched its chin.

…As for my points, they went up. A whole 200 points. I really wish I could have gotten more from this, but it was nice that I could verify that I could still receive points from eligible monsters defeated by my tamed monsters. Now I don’t have to worry about hunting new monsters by myself.

This should raise my efficiency quite a bit. The only possibility would be if the goblin and wolf ended up getting too strong for me. We continued searching the area.

Adding myself into the mix, the three of us hunted some more woodhudes. …As expected it’s pretty easy. I’m guessing the woodhudes’ stats are around 130 points. Thanks to all the training I’d been doing they were absolutely no problem.

As I was searching for more woodhudes, I also kept an eye out for other monsters. There was another reaction from perception technique, and it wasn’t a woodhude. The wolf was looking in a certain direction… this time’s a rock huh. I pitched a rock at the jaggedy looking rock and it came to life.

It seemed to be a monster known as a stonerock. It looked towards me as its jagged portions became appendage-like things. …It looks pretty hard. I right away I carried out the play we’d practiced before this.

The stonerock glared at me and lowered its hips. It was probably about to do something, but before it could I activated summoner. Aiming right behind the stone rock, I summoned the goblin. As soon as the summoning was finished, the goblin appeared at the stonerock’s rear. Its not something we could pull of repeatedly, but it was pretty effective for a surprise attack.

As the goblin brought down its hammer the stonerock seemed to notice something was behind it. The goblin landed a blow, but the stone rock just received it. …As I thought it’s a pretty tough monster. The goblin took some distance from it, and then the stone rock opened its mouth and fired a stone out of it.

The goblin made a pained expression as it took a direct hit. I left recovering the goblin to the wolf and began preparing water magic. Level 3 magic was strong enough for me to use it in combat. I fired the water magic directly into the stonerock’s body, causing it to stagger. …Looks like magic’s pretty effective. I prepared for another shot of water magic while avoiding the stonerock’s attacks. The goblin and wolf took to the sidelines and watched the situation.

After receiving several hits of magic the stonerock stopped moving. …I guess that’s what it takes. Well, we managed to kill it. That earned me 200 points. …It still hasn’t gone up from 200? Its really leaving me in suspense here.

The stonerock was a bit of a pain to deal with. It was pretty resistant to melee damage. This made it difficult since the individual power of my magic attacks isn’t that high. I should be able to manage by using a lot of magic power but… Anyways, I need to re-examine my weapons.

I’ll do that when I get back to my base. The goblin took quite a bit of damage in that last fight, but it seems that was already taken care of with a potion. I didn’t want it to die of course, but I was kind of happy to have something that could test the waters against new monsters before me.

Up till now I’ve ended up blindsided several times by the new monsters I’ve faced. I managed to find several iron magic ores in the stonerock’s body. …Are these guys the source of iron magic ore? Or perhaps they simply eat the stuff?

Up till now I’ve been limited to collecting whatever I can find lying on the ground, but it stonerocks produce the stuff then that could change. I should kill some more of them to make sure.

“Goblin, wolf. How’re you feeling about the monsters around here?”

“Gobu”

“Woof”

The two of them had fire in their eyes. …Alright, they don’t seem like they’ll be done in by a monster. Their status will probably go up from fighting monsters around here too.