Just like so, days passed and the creatures army had grown even more than before as he looked at the system panel
[Organism: Unknown
Skills: Puppeting, Domineering Roar, Regeneration (Low Grade), Revatalize(Low Grade)
Puppets: 6×Feral Rats, 3× Moose, 5× Mole
Subordinates: 4× Forest Elk, Forest Elk(Mutated)
Items: Bones ×20, Incomplete Heart ×13]
The creature saw the panel and felt a little proud as a few days ago such a large group would have been a dream to him and he would still be hunting on his own
"It's still a long time perhaps for me to gain power, i should try to get more people under my command as at one point I might need the minerals under the ground to strengthen myself beyond just numbers" the Creature thought to itself as the wall moved and a large Black Rock with silver clusters were extracted from it and the creature examined it, it tried to press it and smash it but it didn't bulge so it used the panel
[Mineral Name: Salecite Ore
Charecteristics: A Iron ore that mutated due to exposure to the outside and was buried by natural processes, it has a dense structure that allows it to be a commonly used item for forging weapons and has a high value amongst the various domains]
The creature read and realised it was a valuable treasure as it thought to itself "I may have found a gold mine, there should be more nearby I should probably hire some earth beasts to assist me in the extraction deep in the ground" as it stored the ore in its inventory
In the distance, the puppets were rushing after the sparrow as they tried to bring more prey for the creature but the nearby areas of the cave were already cleaned so they had to move further away into the inner area of the forest
"This is the first time we are venturing outside our territory, remember to maintain caution at all times especially when there are dangers" the puppet spoke and the others nodded as they all ran through the woods
The sparrow flew infront to spot prey but still nothing and it was not before long it came across a bizarre scene, it was a large area of forest but something felt odd so it moved back and flew over the puppet
The puppet saw it's expression and asked "what's wrong? I have never seen you be this alert, is there enemies?" But the sparrow shook it's head and spoke "no enemies, it's the forest... It feels odd really odd you all should be alert" and the puppet hearing this spoke "Master had told me that you guys are very sensitive to danger which is why you all have large groups so if that's case, we should not underestimate your words" and it signaled the others to increase their vigilance
Within minutes, the group had entered the forest, the puppet understood the sparrows words as the forest was quiet... Too quiet not a single shadow was nearby and the entire group slowed down their advance
In their way they passed through multiple trees but they all had deep cuts on their stems, the puppet use his own blade he had made from the horns of a Wild Boar and the Spine of a Wild Tusk Rhino to cut the tree branch and as expected the trees withstood the attack with minor damage
"The one who did this is far stronger than Me, It seems there was a fight from how many sounds there are" he spoke as he looked at the sparrow and spoke "You are fast, much faster than us try to look ahead for any danger"
The sparrow nodded and flew through the trees and the marks only increased, the sparrow seeing this scene was confused as it thought to itself "what kind of battle even happened here for this many marks to be left?!" But as it flew, it's mind rang as it dodged with only one word though "A killing intent?!"
The shadow that almost cut it if it had not dodged the attack range but the shadow moved swiftly and attacked once more and the sparrow barely dodged it's head as a few feathers of its head was cut off
"Tsk... What is a creature known to live in the depths of the Alben Forest doing here? Are you their spy?!" The shadow yelled as it held its sword and rushed at the sparrow
The sparrow used it's fast speed to dodge it's attacks but the shadow was much more fluent in its movement as it kept attacking the sparrow, the sparrow got hit by the edge of the blade at a point as it jerked in pain before getting kicked into the ground
The shadow closed the distance and raised its blade at the wounded sparrow as it spoke "You cannot report to those bastards if you are already dead" and swung it's blade but the puppet got up and blocked the attack and yelled "Get back, the Deer will heal you leave it to us" and the sparrow flew with all its force as it flew in terror to the herd
The shadow was caught offguard as it saw its blade being held down by a Skeleton beast as it spoke "What are you even... I have never seen creatures like you in any books that records the beasts of various kinds... Especially one that can speak at that" But the puppet spoke "Intresting... You can understand me huh? Well you don't need to understand it as we are not here to harm you" but the shadow yelled "BULLSHIT!" and increased its attack
To be Continued-->