This Beast-Tamer is a Little Strange

Kain followed behind a small group of large grotesque creature as black as ink except for their armour.

Their body was covered with glowing bone armor, the right hand was similar to a dragon claw, but without scales, and the left arm was a huge bone blade.

There was a huge single horn on their head, no nose, exposed fangs in their mouth, and a golden single eye.

Behind each one, was a tail that was tens of feet long, also covered in bone armor, and the end was like a sharp spear tip!

'Damn its ugly…I've never seen an Abyssal creature wear armour before though.' Not to mention this one seems a lot more intelligent than the corrupted spiritual creatures and people Kain had seen in the Dragon's territory.

The corrupted creatures in the dragons' territory had been relentless, but ultimately, they had acted on pure instinct—devouring, spreading, corrupting. But these creatures? They moved like an organized unit. They weren't just wandering aimlessly or attacking whatever they saw.

For the past few days, Kain and the others had been following traces of the abyssal creatures in order to get clues about how to leave this relic.

Moreover, Abyssal creatures hadn't appeared in the world in centuries, therefore not much was known about them.

Kain and the others also wanted to take this opportunity to learn about them as possible.

Do they have a larger goal? What are their weaknesses? What exactly is the Abyss?

Although they likely wouldn't be able to get all of their questions answered, any bit of information they obtained may end up playing a crucial role in the war against them when they returned back home.

Currently, based on the pressure they emanated, the group that Kain was responsible for following would be the equivalent of a blue-grade spiritual creatures, or 6-star beast-tamers.

Therefore, Kain was being extra careful to not be caught and kept his distance from them as much as possible.

Instead, he'd been monitoring their movements and keeping track of them using birds and other easily ignorable creatures controlled by Bea, and having her feedback what she saw through the splits into his mind.

Meanwhile, Kain stayed far behind, outside of the creatures' sensory ranges.

A spiritual creature resembling a cheetah slowly crept up behind Kain, getting ready to pounce on him.

However, before it could even reveal itself, its 'prey' quickly turned around and stuck a spear into its head.

'How could a red-grade spiritual creature seriously expect to defeat me?' Kain thought with a roll of his eyes.

*Ding. Received 1 GP.*

After Kain had reached 4-stars, the amount of points received for killing spiritual creatures had drastically decreased.

He received only 1 GP for red-grade spiritual creatures (he used to receive 5 GP), 10 GP for orange grade (30 GP previously), and 30 GP for yellow grade (100 GP previously). Kain once again realized that once the level difference between him and the spiritual creature was too great, he would get a lesser amount of points, while the reward he'd receive for defeating creatures stronger than him was substantial.

For example, each blue-grade spiritual creature that Kain had managed to defeat would grant him 500 GP.

Considering that the upgrade points had been increasing while the items in the store got more expensive as their level increased, the discovery of the decrease in points rewarded had completely pissed him off.

Every time he saw he only got 1 GP per red-grade spiritual creature when he used to receive 5, made him feel like smashing something, and so he'd turned off the system notifications to avoid going crazy with rage.

Instead, if he needed to check if a powerful spiritual creature was dead, he'd have to open the System menu and look at the recent notifications, which was a bit more of a hassle.

Unfortunately, since Kain had lost his memories while in this relic, he hadn't remembered even having a system and so hadn't checked it.

Kain couldn't help but think if he hadn't silenced the notifications, then he may have been able to come to his senses sooner.

At the very least he'd begin investigating why a strange Ding and some points would be given every time he'd kill something.

The System was intimately tied with Kain and his biggest secret, it would have done a far better job at making him remember than the Pathfinder badge.

Therefore, despite how annoying he found the notifications, he decided to activate them before entering any relics in the future—maybe even all of the time.

While continuing the kill various weak creatures that tried to attack him, Kain followed the hulking group of Abyssal creatures from a distance while the birds, mice, and insects infected by Bea got much closer.

Kain had the various animals follow the creatures for hours before he saw them walk behind a massive boulder.

However, after almost a minute their figures didn't reappear on the other side.

'The boulder wasn't that big...not to mention they're huge! They should have walked past it by now…'

Kain had Bea direct one of the birds to fly around the massive boulder, but the huge figures of their targets were not found. They had completely disappeared.

Bea directed one of the squirrels she controlled to go much closer to the boulder, but nothing outside of the ordinary could be identified. Experience new tales on My Virtual Library Empire

That was until a massive foot that resembled the clawed feet of a giant bird came out from the wall of the boulder and stepped on the investigating squirrel, squishing it into a puddle of flesh and blood.

After killing the squirrel the foot retracted back inside of the boulder.

Kain was now certain that there was more than met the eye with this boulder, but no matter what creature he sent to investigate, they'd be quickly discovered and destroyed before they could even touch the boulder.

Kain clearly didn't currently have the ability to investigate.

At least not on his own.