Morning soon came. Upon the first signs of daylight shining in the sky, Miche also woke up. His first attention landed on his Wild Dog and checked its current condition. The wounds that were present last time have finally disappeared, and the Wild Dog is now in stable health.
Also, the voice once again said another notification.
"[One stat point deposited]"
Miche wonders if he can only earn one stat point a day without any way to increase it but considering that he has no idea how he got this ability in the first place, he decided to ignore it for now.
Since the Wild Dog is still sleeping, Miche decided to cook some food using the remaining rations, dividing it with the Wild Dog.
"Right, I also needed to think of a good name for this little guy. Can't keep calling him a Wild Dog."
Since morning arrived, the students have reappeared once again and are now hunting their Mythias once more. Miche didn't need to hunt more Mythias. It's tempting but he needed to limit himself for now. Considering he has no prior experience in training Mythias, he needed to learn the advance and proper caring of them without fully overwhelming himself. He would tame another again once he is fully familiar with the intrinsics of the profession.
It didn't take long for the Wild Dog to wake up. At first it was a bit shy to Miche, but after he gave it food, the Wild Dog immediately acknowledged him as the new owner.
"Hmm, there are a lot of names that I can think of, but none of them seems to fit much on him. I hate to call him with a simple name," Miche mumbled as he looks at his Wild Dog while it was eating.
As he was trying to think of a good name, his eyes landed on the tablet that he used last night. He remembered the evolution paths of the Wild Dog and it seems they always ended into a hound Mythia. That's when Miche had an idea.
"Yeah, I think you should be called Setanta. You who will rise from your weakest form, I will train you like how his mentor trained him to become one of the strongest, you will not be treated as a weak dog in the future. You will become a dog that will turn into a hound that will haunt the nightmares of your enemies!"
"Arf!" The wild dog seems to like the new name he received. His tail is wagging and he started to lick Miche which the latter was happy and smiling while also trying to ensure he isn't soaked with saliva.
Then, the tablet rings, startling Miche and Setanta due to the sharp noise it released. Picking up the tablet, it was a mass announcement to all the students who went inside the forest.
"[To all the students who are still inside the forest, please return to the entrance as soon as possible.]"
The message was on point. And Miche has no need to think twice about it. He didn't want to keep staying inside the cave anyways and would love to sleep on a proper bed.
"Shall we go, Setanta?"
Setanta wags his tail and made an affirming bark. Miche smiled and started tidying up his belongings and extinguishing the fire on the campfire to avoid causing forest fires.
Once he is done cleaning up the place and ensuring that the place is not full of trash or anything that would cause harm to the wildlife, Miche left with Setanta as they track down their way back to the entrance.
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General Sanchez is currently recording each students who returns and collects all the tablets they currently have. He is also the one who is recording what Mythia has been tamed by the student and records them on their profile.
Miche arrived the entrance, around 15 minutes after he left the cave. Since Miche already memorized his path from the cave to the entrance, it didn't take him and Setanta to return. He even saw a few students who seemed to have failed with taming even a single Mythia in the process while he saw a few others who have tamed outrageous and strong looking Mythias.
Despite the clear difference in Mythia ranks that the other students managed to tame, Miche is not jealous at all. As a beginner, he would rather avoid choosing to get Mythias that would cause a lot of stir in the public eye and would cost a lot of money to maintain.
As he reach the entrance with Setanta, many students turned to look at him and his Mythia. Judging from their stares, he can tell they are already judging him lowly due to how low tier his tamed Mythia turned out to be. Miche even overheard a few students who didn't even hide their animosity and negative view at him.
"Would you look at that, someone decided to tame a useless dog. Looks like he has no knowledge that taming a Wild Dog is equivalent to trash already."
"Very useless indeed. Perhaps he has no choice and only decided to tame something like the wild dog since he can't defeat those higher tiers than him."
"Hahaha, a trash student and a trash mythia, perfect pairing I guess."
Although most words should have hurt Miche, he wasn't that fragile to care about criticisms. And besides, he does not believe that the Wild Dog Mythia are trash. Sure, they are F-rank, but a mere ranking is nothing compared to the hidden potential of a Mythia. It all comes down on how they are trained and taken care of.
General Sanchez approached Miche and looked at Setanta. Miche saw the former had a surprised look when he saw the Mythia before him. But he quickly recovered and looked at Miche.
"It seems you decided to tame a weak Mythia. What made you do so? Sure, the Mythias living in this forest are not that strong but many of them are higher tier compared to a Wild Dog."
Miche shook his head. "I don't believe in rankings or whatever that would measure its worth. What is important is how I treat it and how I will raise it. It doesn't matter if my Mythia is high rank or not if I can't properly take care of them in the process.
Although the General was quiet, he had a slight smirk on his face that he quickly replaced again with his stern face.
"Alright, give me the tablet and you can return to your dorm with your Mythia. Here is your tag that will record your Mythia's ownership and pass that will allow it to enter the dorm. You lot can have your rest today and officially start your classes tomorrow. Congratulations on taming your first Mythia!"
General Sanchez took the tablet from Miche and replaced it with a necklace that looks like dog tags to him. Afterwards, his attention changed to the other students. Miche wears the tags on his neck before he left with Setanta. Despite the attention he received, it was lukewarm compared to the attention of the other students who managed to tame a lot of different Mythia with high tiers, allowing them to completely forget and ignore Miche.
"Good riddance," Miche smirked as he left the entrance of the forest with Miche in tow. Now that the attention to him is lost, Miche returns to his room.
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Since another stat point was deposited earlier, he got access to the stat distribution screen. Miche uses his phone to check the stat points. Like how it happened on the tablet, his phone's screen flickered and changed to the same stat screen the last time he has seen it.
Distributing the single stat point to Setanta's Attack, he grows stronger again.
"Alright. But this will take some time before I can raise all of Setanta's stats just to evolve him to a different class breed. Perhaps I can manually train Setanta to raise his stats like normal and raise it without always relying on the daily stat points?"
Miche tried to check Setanta's stat points but he realized that he can't check it again.
"Wait, does that mean I can't access the stat screen without a stat point to distribute?"
As much as Miche wanted to recheck Setanta's status, he can't see it anymore. It is quite restrictive than he thought.
"Looks like I can only use that power as long as there is a stat point. Without it, I can't use it at all."
As he was contemplating on what he would do for his free time, he heard a knock on his door. Miche heads to the door and opens it, revealing the person knocking the door was none other than Natalia.
"Hello Miche, hope I didn't disturb you or anything?" Natalia smiled while carrying a small basket.
"Oh, not at all. Come in, so why are you here?"
Natalia smiled. An all knowing smile. A smile that Miche felt his skin crawl for some reason.
"I just came to check up on you and see your Mythia. Hope you don't mind?"