Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 43

"Ah, sure. Then come on, my shift starts soon." Brak said with a smile and stood by the door, waiting for Jyuuk.

Both of them made their way over to the gate where Jyuuk and Brak met the first time.

"Alright, be careful now. And come sprinting back here if you need any help, alright? Us guards will take care of the rest."

With a nod, Jyuuk left town and made his way through the thick grown jungle to look for some beasts. But he wouldn't try to kill them, oh no, he would try something else!

He would try to tame it! This was something that Jyuuk loved to do in any game that allowed it and specifically asked Prime Industries to consider creating an amazing Taming System.

And now he would try to figure out how it worked after they confirmed that they followed his wishes. The first thing that Jyuuk did was to activate his Racial skill. Now that he ranked it up to 2, his senses also became sharper in response to the activation.

He closed his eyes and felt the wind on his fur, and listened to the sounds of the birds that lived in the forest, together with the cries of other beasts in the distance. They might be a pain to capture, but at first, Jyuuk figured he should capture a bird, maybe an eagle. They wouldn't take up too much space, which was the most important part for now. He couldn't run around with an elephant following him, after all.

Jyuuk followed the noises that sounded like they came from an eagle-like bird, although it sounded a bit smaller than usual for an eagle.

After a few minutes, he reached the tree where it seemed to have built its nest and grabbed a small piece of raw meat to use as bait.

"Now I need to be slow and quiet..." Jyuuk muttered to himself and placed the meat onto the ground to wait for the eagle to react to its smell.

It took nearly half an hour until it even looked out of its nest, but then it immediately jumped down to grab the meat. And just like that, Jyuuk jumped forward and threw a blanket he prepared just for this over the eagle.

Covering a bird's eyes relaxed it, made it calm down. And this allowed Jyuuk to easily connect with it and make sure it couldn't escape while he figured out what to do next.

However, Jyuuk didn't know what to do next at all. How would taming work in this game? Earn its trust? Then maybe he should try to feed it.

Thinking that it wouldn't hurt to try a few options, Jyuuk grabbed another chunk of meat and ripped it into small enough pieces that the eagle could eat them properly.

Carefully, Jyuuk bound the blanket together at the bottom to make sure the Eagle couldn't fly away when its eyes were uncovered. So, Jyuuk slowly removed the blanket from the Eagle's head, and it immediately began to scream.

The Monkey Beastperson slowly moved his hand over the Eagle's head to try and calm it down and held one of the small chunks of meat in front of its beak. It took a while, but soon enough the Eagle began to eat. After a few chunks, it wasn't Jyuuk that held his hand against the Eagle's head anymore, but the Eagle pushed its head against Jyuuk's palm, releasing calm chirps.

[Congratulations! You tamed a Blue-Feathered Eagle!]

[Taming Skill Learned]

With a big smile on his face, Jyuuk removed the blanket and the Eagle spread its wings, allowing Jyuuk to get a good look at it. The feathers all over its body were a dark blue, and it was only about half as big as a regular eagle should be.

The eagle jumped on Jyuuk's shoulder and rubbed its head against his. With a smile, he closely looked at his new friend and a notification appeared.

[Name the Tamed Beast]

"Hmm... How about Aotori?"

In response to Jyuuk's suggestion, the eagle chirped happily as if it liked the name its new Master gave it immediately.

[The Tamed Beast has been named Aotori]

[Aotori]

[Race - Blue-Feathered Eagle][Owner - Jyuuk]

[Rank - 0][Level - 67]

[HP - 100]

[STR - 26][END - 19][AGI - 35]

[Skills]

-[Claw Attack][Rank - 0][Level - 53]

"Interesting... Come on, Aotori. Let's find something to test how strong you are." Jyuuk stood up and packed the blanket into his backpack, then closed his eyes to listen for some kind of animal in the distance. Not long after that, he heard something that seemed to be a rabbit not too far from where they were.

But before Jyuuk and Aotori were even a hundred meter away, Aotori flew back to its nest.

To Jyuuk, there was only really one explanation for this.

Aotori was a girl! And her eggs seemed to be in the nest.

Jyuuk sighed out loudly and followed her back to the tree. He decided to see if he could grab the nest, or at least the eggs and bring them with him. He wouldn't want to take Aotori's babies from her after all!

Jyuuk placed his staff on the ground and slowly climbed up the tree. In real life, he was a good climber already, but here in the game it seemed like his hands practically stuck to the surfaces he was trying to climb on, so it didn't take long for him to climb the five or so meters up the straight tree.

When he reached the level of Aotori's nest, he saw five eggs. Four of which were dark blue, but the last one was a bright red.

That one probably wasn't one of Aotori's eggs, but she still took care of it like any of the others, so Jyuuk would feel bad to take it away from her.

Maybe it was some kind of magical property of the Blue-Feathered Eagle that it layed eggs of other species? Probably not, but Jyuuk couldn't say for certain what the developers switched up in the game.

So, Jyuuk placed his backpack onto the branch and placed Aotori's eggs into the blanket he used to capture her. Usually, even a tamed animal would react agitated when someone would touch their eggs or cubs, but Aotori simply watched Jyuuk do what he was doing without reacting, and then sat down on top of the Backpack as if to protect the eggs from other things. She even sat there while Jyuuk was climbing back down the tree.

But for now, Jyuuk ignored this and decided to go look for that rabbit that he heard a few minutes beforehand.