The Goddess Granted Me the [Hatching] Skill and Somehow I Became the Strongest Tamer, Commanding Mythical and Divine Beasts - Chapter 124: The Voice That Catches My Attention

Chapter 124: The Voice That Catches My Attention

“Let’s do our best today too.”

When we returned to the lodging after striking out on the first day, the four who had challenged me to a match wore triumphant smiles.

He had tamed a C-rank monster called Landner and was proud of it.

“Even so, with that, they can’t do anything else now, can they?”

During that, his familiar got injured, so the other three could no longer deepen their bonds with monsters on the island afterward.

“They did it to beat Lord Klaus, right? Despite everything, they must be conscious of you too.”

I understood they pushed themselves to beat me. They aimed for a C-rank thinking a D-rank might end in a draw.

“On this uninhabited island, finding monsters above Landner might be tough, huh?”

In fact, on the first and second days as we looked around, we only encountered F-rank or E-rank monsters.

“By the way, I tamed this one on this island too.”

“Kyuu kyuu”

Charlotte petted Squarl on her shoulder. Squarl closed its eyes and let out a pleased cry.

“Still, this whole contest feels meaningless to me.”

She probably had her own thoughts on it too, but I had my ideas here.

“I’ll try a bit harder.”

I gently turned down her suggestion.

“Why? It’s a match Lord Klaus doesn’t need to take, right?”

She voiced her doubt and stared at me fixedly.

“I don’t think so.”

I told her clearly as she tilted her head.

“I think of Charlotte as a precious friend. I can’t just back down quietly when someone tells me to cut ties with that friend.”

Especially when I thought of the person who pressured the school students and made her feel lonely smirking about it, I couldn’t forgive that.

“It’s a great honor for you to say that, Lord Klaus. I also thought of you as a precious friend.”

“For now, we have no choice but to keep pushing on…”

At least, to satisfy them, I needed to tame a C-rank equivalent to Landner.

After walking for a while and going deep into the forest…

“Charlotte, did you hear something?”

“No, nothing for me?”

I faintly felt something like a pleading telepathy.

“Something… like when Feni or Purple communicated their will… but extremely faint?”

A presence so weak that if I wasn’t careful, I couldn’t detect it…

“I really can’t sense it.”

“Shh!”

I stopped her with one hand,

“It’s this way…”

I determined the direction the flow was coming from and headed there.

After advancing for about ten minutes, the path gradually became more rugged.

Trees grew thickly and blocked the sunlight, so the ground grew dark and muddy. We had to overcome steep slopes, which consumed our stamina.

“Haa haa haa haa”

Behind me, Charlotte breathed hard but somehow kept up. At this rate, her stamina wouldn’t hold out. But if I lost this telepathy once, I couldn’t track it again.

I couldn’t leave Charlotte alone in a place like this, so as the thought of giving up and turning back crossed my mind, we came out into an open area.

In front of us was a cliff, and the telepathy came from beyond the opposite shore.

“It’s too far to jump across, even for me.”

Considering the bad footing, I couldn’t imagine leaping to the other side. If Feni or Purple were here, they could carry us, but Koku and Riko, whom we brought this time, couldn’t fly.

“To get as close to nature as possible, they don’t build bridges or anything.”

She said they created areas where neither people nor monsters could enter to separate habitats.

“Well, what to do…?”

The flow of consciousness via telepathy came toward us from that side. That telepathy gradually weakened, and if this continued, it might disappear.

“Koku koku”

“Kyuu kyuu!”

“What is it?”

Koku and Riko and Squarl seemed to be talking about something.

From Koku and Riko, I only sensed overflowing motivation, so I asked Charlotte about what Squarl was saying.

“It seems like they’re saying ‘Leave it to us.'”

“But none of the three are flying monsters, right?”

I thought they meant to carry us and fly, but it didn’t look like that.

Koku and Riko and Squarl moved away from us and pressed their bodies together.