14 Yales Choice (1/2)

Yale carefully proceeded while hunting 1-star monsters, he didn't want to be overconfident and enrage many at the same time.

Yale was very efficient while hunting, it was difficult to believe that he didn't have any experience, his traps were still ineffective, but his arrows were deadly as they hit the monster's weak spots.

A few days after starting his hunting his Agility points reached nine. However, even if reaching nine points was difficult the true challenge was reaching ten.

The Beast Trial didn't disappoint Yale. In a month since starting the Beast Trial, due to his constant use of archery his Archer's Senses reached level three and Stealth reached level two.

That was very good, and after a few more days Yale finally reached ten points in Dexterity, reaching perfection in all the mind stats and upgrading his Magical Talent to high grade.

Until now the requirements to upgrade the Magical Talent were progressive, but when Yale tried to know how to upgrade it to perfect grade, he became shocked.

”The system won't upgrade the Magical Talent to the perfect grade; the user should find a way to upgrade it himself or be satisfied with the high grade. The only reward which can upgrade the Magical Talent to perfect grade is in the Main Chain Quest of the Magus Path, as the user chose the Origin Path that reward is unobtainable.”

That was the first time that the reliable system showed no way to help Yale. Upgrading it by himself to the perfect grade was virtually impossible for him because he didn't even know how, until high grade, there are records of people who upgraded it in the past, but in the books, Yale read no one reached the perfect grade in Magic Talent by upgrading it.

Yale was depressed, but he could only stop thinking about that and continue with the hunt. Yale sighed as he looked at the good part of the situation, he only needed two more stats to reach ten points to fulfill the Origin Path's conditions.

A few hours later, Yale didn't have time to think about anything related to his stats or Innate Talents anymore as he found a 2-star monster. The beast resembled a tiger but its body was bulkier than a normal tiger, and its fur was brown and red.

Yale also knew about that monster; it was a Fire-wood Tiger a monster with the ability to morph itself into something resembling wood and then ambush its preys by exploding with fire. It was quite infamous among the travelers in the outside world.

Of course, this Fire-wood Tiger was only a weak variant with only 2-stars, but it was enough to cause despair to anyone who did the Beast Trial.

It was very strong, but that wasn't something impossible to solve, it wasn't 3-stars, so it was possible to flee or defeat it in a normal battle, the worst thing was that usually the challengers were ambushed by it.

Yale was very cautious; therefore he didn't get ambushed, he noticed the Fire-wood Tiger ambushing a 1-star monster and set the tiger as his next target, he planned to ambush the tiger when it was distracted with its hunting.

The Fire-wood Tiger liked to ambush but also liked traditional hunting, Yale followed it for some days and became used to its habits.

The Fire-wood Tiger morphed into a wood-like form when resting and ambushed any beast who came near it, and when it wasn't resting, it acted like a normal tiger as it went hunting.

Sadly, it didn't get distracted when hunting since its preys weren't enough to make it spend any effort in hunting. However, Yale continued stalking it silently waiting for the best timing to attack.

Fortunately, Yale had the Stealth skill and was very good in archery, so even while following the Fire-wood Tiger he didn't need to suffer any hunger, Yale only needed to be careful that the Fire-wood Tiger didn't discover him, Yale hunted only the minimum possible to survive.

One day both Yale and the Fire-wood Tiger stopped as they encountered a very big white wolf, Yale wasn't sure of the exact species since he was still some distance away, but it was, without doubt, a 3-star monster although it seemed to be very weakened. Near it, there was a black wolf with red stripes on its body. However, this one was only a 2-star monster.