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Chapter 71: Monster Hub
’Alfred, use Umbral Drifti and combo into Frostfire Scythe! Slow down all the snakes by hitting them with the scythes and freezing them.’
’Pymon, unleash Winged Tempest Blasters on snakes that get struck by Alfred.’
’Merc, focus on disabling them and trapping them.’
’The rest of you, just use offensive attacks and kill them.’
Although some Monsters were injured because these Prime-stage Silver-rank snakes were fairly fast and poisonous, once each of them was struck by Alfred’s Frostfire Scythes, they ultimately couldn’t match John’s gang of Monsters.
John extracted their soul crystals, absorbing five and giving the other five to Pymon.
"Let’s rest a bit in the Monster Paradise and move these threes there for now. Digger Worm, make sure you dig out all the roots of the tree. I don’t want to cut any of them."
In the end, John put the three trees into Monster Paradise.
With the ocean’s water channel keeping the water sufficient and running through his island, John also created a sandy beach, but it was around the big lake at the center.
"Nice development, brother John. I see you have expanded the habitats and biomes quite a lot," Chuthulos said as he also relaxed beside John.
"Yep. By the way, I brought in the trees, but I don’t know if they will give more fruits or disappear into ashes after I remove the fruits from them?"
"Unfortunately, these trees only give fruit once. Once you take off the fruits, they will scatter away. However, there’s a chance for the tree to leave behind a seed or two, which can grow into a tree as long as sufficient spirit energy is provided."
"I see...Well, I am not in a hurry to pull out the fruits. For now, let’s keep them to increase Molding Essence speed," John said.
Chuthulos nodded, his eyes reflecting the Prison Forest’s central ground where many monsters had gathered and were watching the diggers eating meat with envy.
"Hahaha, this idea of yours is quite good as well."
John grinned. "I am going to put a board of daily tasks. You said I will unlock something like Abyss where I have to explore and shit to get resources, right? I might as well put the monsters to work there in exchange for rewards."
"That is quite brilliant!" Chuthulos’ eyes shone. "Yes, you need indeed Eldritch Energy from Abyss Labyrinth, which these monsters can also go and collect until they hit the boss area or other tricky places inside. They can be explorers and farmers!"
"Holy, you got a brilliant idea, brother John."
Eldritch Gear Forge: A place to forge gears using Monsters’ soul cores, Geno Points, and Eldritch Energy, which must be gathered by entering the Abyss Labyrinth. (Abyss Labyrinth will unlock when you reach King-rank.)
John looked at the requirement and smiled. "Well, I need to reach King-rank first. A bit far, but until then, I will lay down the foundation for Monster Society so they will be ready for it."
"Sounds good. Monster Society, and Monster Adventurers, bwahahaha."
"Anyway, I’ll go and evolve Starry and her three sons first. They should be at Silver-rank now as their Gene Potential has been at 100 for days now."
John had plenty of Bronze and Silver rank replenishable resources in the garden, and he only needed twelve resources to evolve the four Silverwind Eagles.
Naturally, he decided to give different evolution pathways to each of them.
Bringing them into the Prison Forest, John gathered up the hundred-something Monster, as well as the new Twin-Fanged Snake Panther who was overwhelmed at first with all the words from other Monsters and how it could understand them.
"Buddy, just watch. This guy is a fucking god. He brings things out of the air."
"Is he really going to evolve all four of them?"
John was feeding the prepared resources to all four of them on floating glass platform he created to stay in the sky while the Monsters below watched everything and talked among themseleves.
Chuthulos was also enjoying the show while floating above.
As John fed them resources and infused Geno Points with different monsters in them, all four Silverwind Eagles turned into different cocoons, each one having Wind as a common attribute, but the second attribute being different for each!
"Holy fuck, he really evolved them!"
"All of them are different and successful!"
"Boss John, I want to evolve!"
"I just need resources, please evolve and rank me up to Gold-rank!"
"Make me your Pet Monster!"
John laughed and snapped his finger, silencing all of their mouths by spending some Molding Essence.
"Relax, everyone. We are all a big family here. I will certainly evolve all of you, but we need more resources and more Monsters here for that, you know?"
"I want to make all of you powerful and rank up to high ranks, but you all have to work together with me for that to happen."
"So...I will soon put up tasks here. The next task will require 20 agile and sneaky Monsters who can scout the area and search for resources. Each resource you find will give you contribution points as well as delicious meat."
"Once your contribution point hits a certain number, I will evolve you."
The Monsters looked at each other before nodding.
"Wonderful setup, brother John!" Chuthulos laughed.
John chuckled. He waved his hand and unsealed the mouths, allowing the Monsters to speak.
They instantly began an uproar, each one shouting, wanting to take the task.
"Calm down. I will come to select the twenty of you later. And don’t forget the rules here. Actually, I might as well put up a big rule board here. If you break those rules, you will be hunted and turned into food. Got it?"
...
John left the Monster Paradise. He had recovered his soul energy and stamina, so he returned to the cave with Alfred, Pymon, Crocky, Sony, and Merc.
There were two passages with five meters of height and walking space. First, John led the group into the left passage.
They encountered monsters in the passage and killed them. Afterward, they arrived in another cavern, an even bigger one, but closed.
However, there were many Ghost-type Monsters and insect-type monsters.
The total number reached over thirty.
’Damn, that’s a lot of soul crystals. I’d reach the peak of Silver-rank in Soul and Pymon might just enter the Prime-stage.’
However, this number was too much for John’s current group to handle alone as all of them were Silver-rank Prime stage, so John quickly escaped into Monster Paradise with the gang. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
"Alright, you all are in luck. I got a new emergency task and for it, I need 20 Monsters with Fire or Lightning attributes. Get in the line!" John announced as he floated in the Prison Forest.
Other Tamers couldn’t explore solo in such places with a large number of Monsters. And if they teamed up, which they usually do, they would need to share resources.
But John could just make an army of his own and get everything to himself!
Of course, John also created a bunch of healing leaves using his Lifebloom Enchantment talent. He created a total of 50 of them so he could use them in case anyone got injured.
"Alright, It’s time to rumble!"
...
John entered the cavern, appearing in the same spot from where he disappeared, but this time, he had 26 Silver-rank Monsters with him!
With so many new monsters appearing, the original natives panicked and turned chaotic while John accurately commanded his gang and finished off everyone.
"Good job!"
’Brother Chuthulos, can you make a contribution tracking system for me?’
’It shall be done, brother John. I will also make a big screen for tasks. Prison Forest can be turned into a Monster Hub now that these Monsters are all obedient and following the rules.’
’Yep. It’s time to allow them to roam into other habitats of their matching attributes and make their new homes wherever they want since they are following the rules now.’
