Chapter 20: “Taming The Second Beast”
This was such a fitting skill for people who awakened [The Survivor] talent!
However, since it could only ensure that people wouldn't starve to death in the dungeon, the system only rated it as a B-rank skill.
[The food isn't that useful for us, but it should be useful for you to level up.]
Maybe other beasts also wouldn't benefit from the food. Only the slimes.
Thinking again, wasn't this fate?
[Even if you can't copy his personal skill, just for this small advantage alone, I suggest you also tame him.]
John started to "seduce" Neo to tame another hunter so that he wouldn't be the only one bearing this bad luck.
Neo was indeed tempted.
Even if the food only gave 1 EXP points and as he consumed more of the same materials, the points given dropped to decimals, a mosquito meat was still a meat!
It was rare to find someone who could feed him and assist him to level up just by eating random raw materials from the dungeon.
If there was no Charlie, Neo still had to eat weapons and props processed from the dungeon's raw materials, which would be expensive even for elite awakened hunters.
With Charlie, maybe they could save up some money!
Neo's eyes brightened and he immediately asked John for help.
[Good! I have decided to take him into our team. You have to help me trick him!]
It is better to strike when the pan is still hot.
John immediately agreed to help Neo and after waiting for the other hunters to be immersed in eating, he beckoned to Charlie with a hand gesture.
Charlie had finished his job as a chef of the team and was about to go back to clean up the slime corpses when he saw John's sneaky gesture.
The young boy's heart stopped beating for a second and he broke into a cold sweat.
Ah! What's wrong? Why is that fierce hunter calling him to come over?
Did this hunter notice that he lost one slime corpse?
Is he going to raise the issue now?
Charlie didn't want to go, but he found himself sneakily trotted to John's side with trembling calves.
Then, the boy immediately squatted next to John, with his head lowered to his knees.
In John and Neo's eyes, the boy suddenly cosplayed as an ostrich.
Neo was speechless. He had thought of various ways to trick Charlie to bow his head, but before he could even implement his brilliant plan...
The useless boy actually lowered his head on his own!
So worry-free!
Neo sighed as he patted John's head and casually activated the [Beast Taming] skill with Charlie as the target.
Anyway, he was sitting on John's head, much taller than Charlie, who was "bowing" to him.
It all went smoothly.
Once again, John helped Neo to block the special effect of [Beast Taming].
Even Charlie didn't see it because he carefully buried his head to his arms, hugging his knees while squatting, not daring to look at the fierce John.
And so, he missed the strange special effect of a BDSM-flavor slime holding a whip and hitting his head a few times.
Charlie only noticed something wrong when the same system notification that John got before also sounded in his mind.
DING! [The beast-taming contract is successful.]
[Dear Charlie, please greet your new master! It's your luck to be chosen as your master's second tamed beast~]
The system's advice for Charlie and John were different, but Charlie didn't know this.
When he heard the cheerful voice of the system, he subconsciously opened his system panel like what John did before and found something unbelievable...
His hunter status had changed.
Name: Charlie Jerfran
[Slime Neo's second contracted beast]
Neo also received another system notification, telling him that the contract was successful, but this time, the system added a different set of words.
DING! [Congratulations for taming your second beast!]
[PS: Dear beast tamer, please don't be picky, favoring humans over beasts. Try to tame real beasts next!]
Then, in Neo's [Beast Tamer Library], Charlie's photo filled the second slot, the last slot available.
The system also skillfully opened Neo's second contracted beast space.
The slime didn't pay attention to other things and only twitched his lips at the system's earnest advice to tame a real beast the next time he attempted to tame one.
Hahaha. It's not like he's unfair, okay? He just didn't want to tame a slime and waste a slot! Who told him to be trapped in a slime dungeon for now?
While Neo was cursing the system for being naughty, Charlie was looking at his system panel in disbelief.
He abruptly raised his head from his knees and even accidentally fell on his butt.
"This— this— what is this??"
Charlie wanted to raise his voice and scream, but John immediately covered the boy's mouth with his palm.
John acted so swift and decisive that Charlie was caught off guard.
"Umm! Umm!" The boy could only look at John with wide eyes, questioning his sudden action.
What's going on??
John didn't let go of his palm that was covering the boy's mouth and instead, he quickly used telepathy to connect with Charlie.
Yes. Even among fellow "tamed beasts", they could talk using telepathy, but the master would still be able to eavesdrop openly.
It was like a group chat.
[Hush! Don't make a noise! I'll explain it to you.]
John didn't let Neo torture the poor boy's heart and explained things as fast as possible.
He also repeatedly comforted Charlie, as if he wasn't the one "selling" the boy to Neo.
[In short, you're now my colleagues. I won't hurt you, and your master, Slime Neo, also won't hurt you.]
John was good at coaxing people, especially weak ones like Charlie.
He even threw out a temptation that Charlie wouldn't refuse.
[Charlie. I know you're eager to survive and are afraid of death, right?]