VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?
Chapter 10: Tamed creatures

[Ding.]

[Ding.]

[Ding.]

A few status windows popped up before him right when he logged back in the next day.

'Haaa…'

Not only did his mistake yesterday cost him a good night's rest, she also did not make any breakfast for him and he had to order in.

"Even the best restaurants in the city are no match for her cooking."

He was the more artistic one and cooking was an art, and yet, she was somehow so good with it that he still could not understand how the hell she puts all those flavors in those simple things.

"Haaa…"

She was mad at him for now, but that was a regular occurrence.

He knew she would get back to her normal self after a few days. And actually, now that she was upset, he knew she wouldn't disturb him while he was playing this game.

"Bling."

"Blong."

-Splash. Splash. Splash.

"Hello guys."

The moment he came back to his tutorial area in the same forest, before the same lake, and on the same ground from where he had left, he was greeted by his new companions that seemed to have been waiting for him in the waters of the lake shore.

"Did you all wait for me?"

He removed his clothes and put them in his inventory as he entered the lake waters.

Then he counted them one by one and called them by a name he had given them during their training.

"Az, Bobo, Can, Do, Em, Fi, Gg, Hu, I… Looks like everyone is still alive and well."

All nine of them were here. And yet, when he did the headcount, he found not nine but twelve slimes present around him.

"Hmm? Why are there more of them? Did they have babies in the time I was gone?"

That could not have been the case since he knew even creatures with fast reproductive rates like Slimes did not grow as big as their parents in a few days.

He was confused for a moment, but then he realized that he had received a few messages from the system when he logged in and called them up.

[Ding.]

[Tamed Manawater slime has subjugated a (Level-3) Manawater slime.]

[Tamed Manawater slimes have subjugated a (Level-7) Manawater Poisonous Bug.]

[You have received a portion of Exp as the tamer.]

[Tamed Manawater slime has dominated a (Level-3) Manawater slime.]

[Tamed Manawater slime has dominated a (Level-2) Manawater slime.]

[Tamed Manawater slime has dominated a (Level-2) Manawater slime.]

[You have received a portion of Exp as the tamer.]

[Ding.]

[Your Tamed creatures have formed a (Family).]

[Your Tamed creatures have dominated creatures of the same kind and added them to the (Family).]

[As the tamer, all Exp obtained from the (Family) under your command will be increased slightly.]

[As the tamer, you will receive extra Exp from creatures that were added to the (Family) by a creature you had tamed previously.]

[Ding!]

[Level up!]

[(Level-6) > (Level-7).]

[Subjugation target: 11/30.]

"..."

In <NO> the concept of classes was surely a thing.

There were sword users, there were mages, there were people who did miscellaneous things, and there were people who just explored the world.

The natives of this world referred to the Players as [Foreigners]. People who were cursed to revive upon their deaths.

Just like every other game, they had an <Adventurer's association> but it was only one of the many associations that the players could join.

Basically, these associations offered a path to the Players just like it did to every other native.

"You guys formed a family on your own when I was out?"

If someone wanted to pursue the path of sword, there was a knight's association. If someone wanted to practice magic, there was the mage's tower.

If someone wanted to explore the world without having to get access permissions from the other nations every time, they joined the adventurer's association.

There were no restrictions to what association one could join or how many they could be part of at one time, however, after becoming part of these places, many services that only these places could offer became available to them.

<Professional training> one of the important aspects of this world, was only possible after one became part of these associations– or somehow found a native that could teach them directly.

But replaceing independent natives like them was near impossible, so players opted for the associations.

"Bling!"

"Blong!"

<Taming> was one of the rare professions, but not as rare as <Summoners> or <Researchers> who also dealt with the creatures of this world.

"Wow~. Aren't you bunch amazing?"

Much like in the real world, there were many creatures in this world that could be tamed through various means.

Those who tamed the creatures, the beasts, the monsters, or even the 'slaves' were called Tamers.

"Bling!"

"Bling!"

He was feeding them more moss now that he was here.

But, just like before, he was giving them their own portions individually.

"Bing?"

The three new slimes had no idea what the rest of them were doing or what this strange being was. But they knew instinctively that if the others weren't harming him, then it meant he was not to be harmed.

"..."

Seeing so much moss stunned them and they wanted to jump at the big portions, but they did not dare do that when the rest of them were eating it.

They were new to this system and did not know much about it, but after a few hours of teaching and support from his already tamed slimes, the three new ones had also learned how to react to his clues.

"Can you show me the poison bug you all killed?"

"Bling!'

"Blong!"

They were jumping on the water surface which produced a funny sound.

And, if one listened closely, these sounds were distinct from one another. Something that almost acted like their voice.

"It isn't far, right?"

"Blong!"

Through the previous messages, he had learned that the creatures that they killed were counted as his subjugations as well. However, the creatures that they dominated were not counted as the creatures that he subjugated.

It simply meant that he could use their help in the subjugation process and finish this quest a little more easily. Which made things pretty easy for him.

There was apparently no time limit to this tutorial, which was rare. However, even if he could stay here for a little more, he had to get out of here and reach the starter town where she had been waiting for him.

He had obtained good enough subordinates for now which will help him clear this quest. So he had to hurry and prepare to leave now.

-Shrrrrrr…!

"Hey, hey. Slow down! I can't swim like you all!"

Through the notifications earlier and from the warnings of his girlfriend, he knew the slimes weren't the only creatures in this mana filled lake.

There were many more.

"Wow. That's a big bug, alright."

And unlike the adorable, harmless slimes, these other kinds of creatures were just as dangerous as one might expect to replace in a deep forest area like this one.

"Yak."

And surely, neither their alive bodies nor their dead selves were something one might want to look at for long…