The great white tiger roared again, its blood flooding the surrounding ground.Luke observed the situation carefully. Obviously it was the tiger who had ihe monkeys' territory, a now it was about to die. The oute of the fight was decided, now it was a matter of time.

  Luke reparing to take a. The white tiger finally realized its impending end, but it would not go quietly. Its body began to swell and turn a reddish color. In the sky, bck clouds covered the entire firmament.

  "It's time for the st attack" said Luke, taking a little distance. He did not want to be caught in a massive attack by a careless act.

  The elemental monkey observed the ges in its enemy and began to stir. It began to beat its chest violently and its body began to be covered by what seemed to be a yer of crystal.

  With a roar, the clouds began to throw lightning in all dires. The elemental monkeys in the area were sughtered almost immediately.Only the rge level five elemental monkey remaianding, its body covered in crystals did not seem to have suffered any damage.

  The rge white tiger colpsed to the ground. It would not get up again.

  The elemental monkey saw its entire pack destroyed a out a scream full e and agony. It then pounced oiger, who was now lying motionless on the ground.

  However, before it could take two steps, a light pierced its neck at high speed. It was the bde of Luke's sword, which had decided to make its move.

  The moopped in surprise. It touched its ned found that it had not suffered any damage. That's right, Luke's attack had not mao pee its defenses.

  "Phew, I didn't expect its defeo have increased so much."On the system s, the elemental monkey's defense now showed "??" after its crystallization.

  The elemental monkey looked at the human standing before him without any fear or reverence, and immediately became ehe human, in his eyes, was no different from an ant.

  He attacked at high speed, but Luke disappeared from where he was standing and appeared o the tiger's body.

  The monkey felt that he was being disrespected and prepared to begin a series of elemental attacks that would destroy everything around him.

  Suddenly, before he could attack,several transparent s made of solidified spiritual energy emerged from the cardinal points and pletely restricted its movement. The monkey felt his power evaporate in an instant.

  Luke looked at the beast calmly.

  "If I were to face you in direbat of course I would not be your oppo"

  Luke began to expin. The monkey seemed to uand his words and had stopped his resistao listen to him.

  "But if you give me enough time to prepare, you obviously won't be my oppo. After all, I haven't lived this long without learning a trick or two."

  The moared at him unblinkingly, refusing to lower his gaze in front of a weak human.

  Luke sheathed his sword and took out the stick he had obtained as a reward from the system from his iory.

  The sword's bde was very weak, and he had no on he could use other than this stick. If he still couldn't destroy the monkey's defenses, Luke would have no choice but to use a rge amount of sword energy, which would hurt his body.

  He charged the stick with spiritual energy, ae using almost all of the reserve hehad, the stick seemed to be able to absorb the energy infinitely.

  He looked o time at the elemental monkey, who was the owner of this territory, and using a staff teique he attacked with all his might. The monkey's head broke away from its body and flew a great distance, crashing into an invisible barrier. It was the limit of the formation that Luke had spent hours setting up without the beasts notig.

  From the beginning, it didn't matter who won the fight between the beasts, the only winner would be Luke.

  He deactivated the formation, whied a great amount of mental power, and exhaled a breath of air. Even though he was always in trol of the situation, using all the advaeiques took a great deal of effort.

  Luke looked at the system s that showed the missiress 55,780/100,000

  "Wow, progress has increased quite a bit!"

  He felt that his efforts had not been in vain, now it was time to collect his rewards.

  He looked at the white tiger lying on the ground. It was still breathing, although very weakly. It wouldn't st long.

  He grabbed his stid set out to put the poor animal out of its misery, and earn a few points in the process.

  But just as he was about to finish it off, a system arm sounded in his mind, and a transparent s appeared before his eyes.

  *Mission 05 pleted*

  *Mount Obtaihunder DiviigerLevel: FiveBloodline: ExcellentPotential: Good**Mission Score: 8*

  Luke who was about to finish off the tiger immediately stopped.Mission pleted? But he hadn't made any tract with the beast. What's more, the tiger was unscious and couldn't initiate a tract.The damn system was failing again.

  Luke stopped his attack, but the tiger's injuries were too severe and it wouldn't survive even if he didn't take a.Sure enough, the moment another notification sounded.

  *Your mount has died in bat*

  *Your mount, who has apanied you for so long has died after being attacked by a pack of beasts. The Host is still too weak to protect his loved ones. New geed quests*

  *Quest 08 - Giant Steps:How much longer will you have to suffer for your weakness?

  Objective: Go to Amu Temple in the Giants' Realm and obtain the god's divine prote"

  Reward: Increased cultivation speed, increased innate ability, stick*1.*

  *Quest 09 - A Master's Responsibility:

  A mount is an irrepceable panion, you must es well-being.

  Objective: Increase your mount's happiness and well-being up to 100 points

  Reward: Random mount box. *

  Luke looked at the dead tiger, and at the system messages a a great tiredness invade him.

  "The system was also malfuning in my past lives, but now it's even worse! "

  Luke looked through the previous messages, reted to mission 05, that he hadn't read and was gd to see that at least the rewards for pletion had been distributed.

  He took out the core from the tiger's head, and then began to collee of the materials from its body, which could be sold for a high price.As he did this work, he noticed a detail that had until then escaped him. This tiger... Was female!And not only that, she regnant.

  Luke immediately made an incision in the beast's belly, and removed two small balls of fur. The two little tigers were still alive.Luke took them in his arms and decided to form a tract with them. If he left them here they would surely die, prey to a more powerful beast.

  He cut his finger just enough for a little blood to flow out, then drew a symbol otle tigers' foreheads, and activated his spiritual power. Within a short moment the tract was plete.

  However, after pleting the tract, the system did nhe little tigers as a "mount" but instead pced them uhe bel of "pet".

  "Is the system bugged again? Why doesn't it reize the tigers as a mount?"

  Luke looked at the information in the system

  *Pet:Thunder Diviiger.Level: 1Bloodline: ExcellentPotential: Excellent*

  Both tigers had the same description.

  "Well, I have to leave this pce for now."

  Luke was afraid that the people who had been watg him would return to tinue following him relentlessly. Now that he had finished his task in this pce, it was best to leave as soon as possible.

  He picked up the elemental monkey's spiritual core and took some materials from both beasts, then hurriedly left in the dire of the epiter of the region he was in. He wao see which beast occupied the highest p the food of this area.

  Along the way he accepted the rewards for mission 05.To his disappoi all the methods and teiques he received from the system were already known to him. Only a cultivatiohod tailored for the mount was of any use. Luckily the cultivatiohod that the system had created specifically for the mother of the little tigers could be used by the cubs due to them sharing the same blood lineage. If Luke had made a tract with any other beast, that reward would have been, like the others, pletely useless.

  As part of the cultivatiohod for the divihuiger, there was the ption and refi of certain natural treasures. Luke thought of the fruit that both beasts had fought to the death over.

  "It's not ripe yet, I'll pick it up ter to give it to these little tigers" He thought.................................

  Fynn woke up with a tremendous headache

  He opened his eyes and looked around. He was inside a dark cave, where the only source of light was some is that flew around the room, dimly illuminating it.He tried to move his body but he aralyzed and couldn't even move his mouth to scream for help.

  When his eyes adjusted a little more to the darkness, he could see more clearly the situation ihe rge cave. A rge number of people were lying on the ground, unscious. Many others, like him, were motionless but with their eyes open.There must have been at least fifty people, the vast majority were dressed as hunters, but there were also merts, monks, and he could eveify a young man who looked like a noble.Further away, in a er, there was also a group ed children. His brothers.

  If only he hadn't dragged them into this situation, they would be in the orphanage right now. They would be starving, but safe, far from all this madness.

  How had they gotten into this situation? His fused mind recalled the events of that day.

  That day, Fly his brother Luca, who had been decred dead by the authorities.Luca told him how he had go into the world outside of Lunaria, how he served a noble, and how his life had improved so much that it seemed like a dream. Fly envious as he thought of how he spent his days at the orphanage, w hard to be able to eat one more piece of bread, always hungry.That day Luca gave him food, for him and for the other children at the orphahen he left saying that he would see him again the day. That night was the first and st time in a long time that everyo the orphae until they were satisfied.

  The day, true to his promise, Luca appeared again. This time he did n food, but bad news. Acc to his sources of information, one of the nobles who was in flict with the church, po un atta the orphanage as a warnihod. After all, eliminating a bunch of useless brats wouldn't cause a major flict, but it would serve to send a message. After all, it was a matter of pride for the noble who ran the orphanage for the church.

  Upon hearing the news, Fynn didn't know what to do and began to despair. His first thought was to run away, but where would they go? Without a pce to live, without food, how could they survive. Besides, if it was true that someone wao harm them to send a message, no matter where a small group of children without es hid, within the big city they would be found sooner rather than ter.

  Luca was the one who offered him the solution. Acc to him, his master lived outside the city, in a vilge he city of the Ferali. If they traveled there, his master could give them asylum, and although their lives would not bee a bed of roses, and they would still have to work for their food, at least they could avoid the disaster that was ing their way.Flyated. He didn't know if he could trust Luca, after all he had appeared so suddenly, it was too ve.Luca saw his doubt and didn't get angry with him. Instead, he took him to spy on the orphanage's caretakers, who were having a secret meeting with a hooded person. They were making a transa. A bag of s was handed over, and in exge the figure got the promise that no one would interfere with his pns to wipe out the orphans.

  Fynn found himself between a rod a hard pce. Without too many options, he decided to accept Luca's offer.That same night Fynn and his brothers headed from the orphao the east gate of the city, which was the least guarded. Ohere Luca shot down the guards using a strange spell, and the children escaped uhe cover of night, heading towards the forest.

  In the royal pace, at that moment, Queen Zara turned her gaze to where the children were running away from and stood up solemnly. However, she did not tinue advang. She sat down again and an irritated expression was drawn on her face.

  "These damn causal knots are annoying me!"He looked resignedly out the window, the grey sky forecasting an immi rain."I hope those children survive" She muttered.

  The sound of footsteps sounding on the damp floor of the cave brought Fynn back from his memories.He looked at the approag figure and no longer felt fear, but a tremendous reje. It was a reje that came from deep within his soul, as if the very essence of the being in front of him was bsphemous. It was strange, he had not felt that same reje when he had ied with him before.

  The figure that had ehe cave and was noroag him was, of course, Luca.

  "Oh? you tell the difference? As expected of a child of destiny!"

  Fynn looked at Luca carefully and came to the clusion that this was the first time he had ied with this person. He was not Luca, and he was not the fake Luca who had captured them and brought them here. He was another entity. Something much worse.

  "Who is this person? What is he pnning?" Fynn thought tremblingly

  "Ooh, so many questions. Young people are curious. Who am I? Nobody, maybe that is why you feel such reje"

  Fynn opened his eyes in surprise. Could this man read his mind?

  "Don't be so surprised boy, reality is more plex than you could imagine. As for your sed question. That is the right question, what I want is freedom. I don't think it is such a crazy wish, right? I think we all deserve freedom, and I am the messiah who will give freedom to all the people in this miserable world!"

  Luca began to speak in an agitated manner, his emotional state was not very stable.It took a few moments for him to calm down. Flynn watched him unblinkingly."Well, it's a shame you ever have freedom, though. After all, the dogs of the universe only find freedom ih, right?"

  Luca extended his hand and a bde made of dark energy formed on his palm.Just as he prepared to make his move, the bde suddenly vanished. Luca frowned.

  "It seems I'm not strong enough to disrupt the causal knots yet."

  Then his expression rexed again and a smile appeared on his face.

  "But never mind, it won't be long before I destroy reality with my own hands. For now, I'll tinue pying the game these bastards have desighey want to use me as a pie their board? Be careful, because you might end up with your precious board on fire!"

  Luca excimed and started ughing maniacally.

  "See you ter, dog. I wonder if your master will mao save you or if he no longer has enough power to even protect his dogs. I would pray if i were you, because whatever the case, the truth is that you are on the wrong side of the war, boy."

  He ughed again, but this time darkly.The ughter cut off abruptly and Luca colpsed to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.

  Fynn watched as an almost transparent thread that seemed to be made of light approached Luca's body that was lying on the ground and embedded itself in the back of his neck.Immediately Luca's body came back to life. Only this time, Fynn no longer felt that feeling of reje when looking at him. He had returo being the old Luot his brother, but the false Luca who had kidhem.