"Get yourselves ready, we're moving out in an hour!" a mounted soldier is running around the camp yelling on top of his lungs.
"Hey, make sure you and your brother comes to my place before seven pm tonight" Michael suddenly to Tina, who is busy chatting with Emma and the rest.
"Huh? Why?" Tina turned towards him and said.
"It's because my *cough* friends are holding a party tonight, a housewarming party" Michael suddenly felt weird when remembered that most of his friends are ten to twenty years older than him.
"Housewarming party? Okay, I'll tell Dylan about it later!" Tina said a little bit excited. After all, she can't go to most parties except if it's either Casey's or Emma's party, and it was all because of her overprotective brother.
'If it's just a housewarming party then it would certainly be okay, especially if my brother is coming with me, and the party wouldn't be boring if it's the friends of Michael, who has been kind of cool lately, right?' Tina thought, a little bit excited for the upcoming party tonight.
"Hey! What about us!? Aren't you gonna invite us too?" Emma said to Michael with her hands on her waist, and her face looking quite stern.
Michael slightly spread his arms and said with a laugh, "It's a housewarming party. It's not gonna be enjoyable like your high school parties"
"Hmmp! How would you know that we're not gonna enjoy it?" Emma snorted, even Casey is nodding from the side in agreement to her statement.
"Hey, we shouldn't imp-"
"Shut it"
Emma turned her head towards Rick, her voice full of authority as she cut him off mid sentence.
While Harrison just watched from the side, shaking his head at Rick's stupidity sometimes, because even he could see that Emma certainly likes Michael, and not him.
Michael could also see it, that's the reason why he doesn't want to invite them, especially Emma.
It was because he had already learned who she is from the reports of Genesis' informants.
The sole heiress of East West Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Northern Rica Principality, and in the world. Her family owns or has a voting power of exactly seventy six percent shares of the group, making her family one of the most influential in both in the underworld and in the surface.
East West Group is also a backer of the organization, War Temple. Whose power can mostly be seen in the world of virtual gaming.
And Michael didn't want to associate himself too much with them as these kinds of people are all trouble, especially outside of the game.
"Come on, it's gonna be fun Mike"
Michael was about to reject them when Tina suddenly beat him into saying something and looked at him with those puppy eyes.
Michael massage his temples and said, "Fine"
"Alright, you already agreed. You can't take back your words anymore" Emma laughed happily with her two bestfriends, while Rick's expression looked dark and gloomy and Harrison still has that expression like he doesn't care at all.
'So troublesome' Michael just sighed helplessly as he opened his Inventory and took out something.
"Wow! Where did you get them? So cute!" Tina said when she suddenly noticed the three wolf cubs peeking their heads out from the basket that Michael is now holding in his arms.
"They are cubs of the blood wolves, suitable to become mounts once they grow up" Michael smiled.
"Really? That's awesome" Emma said, as the three girls started petting them while Rick and Harrison are looking at the three cubs with greed in their eyes when they heard what Michael had said.
There were even users who are looking at him with envy when they heard what Michael said to the girls.
"Take one each, they're yours now"
Michael suddenly said something which stunned the people around him.
"My god, now that is some next level shit. He's literally trying to flirt with the three of them at the same time"
"Exactly, he's even giving them cubs that will become mounts when they raise their levels"
"Uhmm...I heard that even the most common beast mount could sell for a million dollars at the auction site"
"This guy...is a legit ladies man"
"I hope a guy would also give me a mount"
"You bet. I'm even willing to become his girlfriend!"
"You should really look at yourself in the mirror"
"Bastard!"
The users around them started whispering among themselves, the male users looked at him with envy, jealousy and amazement, while the female user looked at the three girls with envy when they saw that Michael is giving them a mount, a mount that's worth a million dollars or more.
'This people....the heck are you guys talking about? Ladies man your a**!' Michael cursed at them angrily inside, as he tried to ignore them and had the girls pick the cub they fancy.
"Are you really giving them to us?" Casey said as she picked up wolf cub that has a shuriken like mark on its forehead, similar to their red stripes in color.
"Yes, so take the cub that you want" Michael said smiling at them.
"I'll take this one then, she looks awesome" Emma said, as she took the only female cub among them the three, and this one looks like it has socks because half of her legs are covered in red fur.
"Then I guess I'll take this one. We're gonna be with each other from now on little guy" Tina said as she picked up the last wolf cub. It was the most common looking among the three, as its stripes aren't any different from the wolves that had chased after Michael last night.
"You guys can go and tame them by asking for Colonel Shin's help. He's a beast tamer, but you'll probably need to pay for his services," Michael said to them after he saw that they finally got the cubs that they wanted.
Other than owning pets by hatching them from their eggs. There's also another way to tame them, and that is by asking a Beast Tamer's help, where users could find them at every cities and prosperous towns, but they would need to pay for their services depending on how powerful the monsters the users have brought with them.
There were even some lucky players who managed to acquire the Hidden Class - Beast Tamer, and are using their beast taming skills to earn money. It was because players can't tame a monster unless they have a specific skill for beast taming, and without that, their only choice is to ask a Beast Tamer.
"Really? Then we'll go see him quickly!"
Tina, Emma and Casey hastily made their way towards the direction of Shin's tent in excitement.
"Hey, since when did you get those cubs?" Rick asked Michael, his voice sounded really annoyed. Michael could even see it in his eyes that the punk in front of him really hates his guts.
"Captured them last night" Michael said, then ignored him which infuriated the latter more, but didn't say anything when Rick noticed that Harrison is smiling towards him.
A magic circle suddenly appeared and started to spin before Michael, as a small shadow suddenly jumped out of the magic circle and appeared on Michael's shoulders.
"Arodan!"
It was Michael's little pet who's cute, annoying and a little bit of a perv at the same time, and somehow doesn't like Michael sometimes.
"It's that little bastard!" Rick said through gritted teeth when it saw Michael's pet, as he remembered how Michael's pet almost tortured him to death by blasting him with its lightning during the last few days
Michael smiled hearing his comment, and the Dual Horned Elemental Rabbit slapped Michael's hand who were trying to rub its head.
*****
Awoo! Awoo! Awoo!
Countless howls of wolves are echoing at every direction of the Blood Forest, while the expedition troops are cautiously marching inside the Blood Wolves territory with taun nerves especially to the users, and at the same time, some of the wolves are also watching them from a distance, as they had also started gathering their tribe members under the lead of their strongest.
"Be on high alert! Keep your eyes open for those wolves!"
"How thrilling" Tina mumbled as she stuck close to Michael.
Michael just ignored her as his eyes continued to observe the changes in their surroundings.
'They will be attacking us soon'
*****
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