6 Ch. 5 New Equipment and Double Teaming (2/2)

He manages to gouge an eye before retreating. Jareth quickly beats in the skull of his squirrel around the same time that Brutus swipes his squirrel's face, and so with his opponent already taken care of, he follows my directions and double teams the remaining squirrel that quickly falls due to being overwhelmed by two opponents while partially blinded. After inspecting my summons and seeing no serious damage to them, I decided we should have one or two more fights before turning in for the day.

We walk some more, all the while remaining firmly in the tier 2 area and manage to see a screaming coyote in the distance that hasn't yet noticed us. I have my two summons begin to sneak towards it slowly while I begin to plan an ambush for the monster. The primary reason for which is to prevent it from attacking with its sonic scream which can temporarily disable its' victim.

I begin by having Jareth sneak closer in order to throw his club at the coyote and stun it. Brutus, on the other hand, will be using his illusion to get the coyote to direct its scream away from us, to which Brutus will then rush in and rip out the throat of the coyote with its teeth.

Jareth eventually gets into range of the coyote while still remaining hidden due to the dense trees obstructing its' view along with being downwind of the monster. He waits for the coyote to get into his line of sight and clear of any trees, and when it eventually does, he throws the club as hard as he can in the general area of its head.

Either due to skill or luck, the club manages to stun the coyote with a head blow, with the heavy end of the solid wooden club. While the coyote is stunned and planning on retaliating with its sonic attack, Brutus comes in with his illusion emerging from the shadow of a tree in front of the monster and as the coyote prepares to attack the illusion.

Brutus rushes in and manages to catch the coyote unaware of its' impending doom until it feels the clamping of jaws on its' vulnerable yet muscle-clad throat. With a jerk of Brutus' head, the monsters' throat is ripped out and it quickly dies without even having had a chance to retaliate.

With the success of this latest hunt, I feel even more confident of our strength and capabilities, and after a small break, we continue along and finally end hunting for the day with a Drill rabbit that quickly dies in a direct confrontation between the two summons.

Once more, I begin the laborious task of removing the cores from all of the bodies, and after that is finally taken care of, we head back to the city and only once are we intercepted by a monster. It was a normal wolf that had likely been tracking the scent of blood clinging to us for some time, I let Brutus take care of it and even fed him the core for dinner.

To make things fair, I ended up giving Jareth the iron-hide boar core from the boar that they had previously killed today as a reward for his hard work and to hopefully speed up his evolution.

Once their meal was finished and we made it out of the forest, I reluctantly unsummon them and pass through the gate. I sold the remaining cores that we had earned that day to the core exchange and managed to earn myself 32 credits.

After that, I went to the Summoner association to sell the bodies in my storage, with 8 normal tier 1 monsters selling each for 3 credits, the 4 spiderlings selling for 6 credits. The iron-hide boar selling for 28 credits since all parts remained intact, the screaming coyote selling for only 12 credits since the only remaining valuable part is the hide since the throat was destroyed.

The drill rabbit selling for 16 credits, the two spike tailed squirrels selling for 18 each due to their hide being used in armor, and lastly the intact wolf selling for 6 credits. Making for an additional earning of 178 credits today, which is quite an impressive haul considering I'm still fairly new to summoning.

I decided to treat myself to a nice dinner and started to head towards a nice restaurant and ended up eating a pricey 3 credit meal that left my total credit amount at 211 credits.

While enjoying my meal of rabbit stew and thorny deer steak, I begin to ponder how I should spend my credits. Eventually, I decide to upgrade my storage 4 times, which leaves me with 111 credits after spending 100 credits on the four upgrades.

Heading home after my dinner, I quickly take care of rent for the month which is 25 credits by sending the funds to Mira, further draining my money and leaving 86 credits. I sigh in exasperation that despite all of the money I've made, it always seems to disappear right after it goes into my account.