Ha! Good stuff! "Wayne, once I get my name clean let's go into the city and kill him again." 

    "Uh, no. We already revenged, let's not take it too far." 

    "Alright then! I'll leave him be as long as he doesn't offend us again! Let's get on with the grinding!" 

    I charged at a Thunder Mouse nearby and chopped at it. I continued to train after logging off and took a small rest at noon. Maybe feeling too bored, Wayne asked me to help catch a Companion for him, just for fun. 

    "How many Companions and Servants can you hold?"

     "One each." 

    "Well let's save it for later then! You can't change Companion once you claimed one. You got only one slot, if you wasted it on low leveled Companion you will have a hard time in the future. How about getting a Servant instead?" 

    "Let's do it then!" Wayne is disappointed, but he understood. Unlike me, I can take one or two Companions "just for fun". 

    "Help me catch an Iron Beast as a Servant!" 

    "Understood." I called Lucky, jumped onto his back and dragged Wayne up here. Me and my two Companions are level 113 now. It isn't hard for Lucky to support two people. We flew high and found several Iron Beasts packed together not far from us. I ordered Lucky to charge. 

    Me and Wayne cleared some minions around us, then focused on the big one. There are three Iron Beasts here, obviously bigger than the rest. Are these mutated monsters again? 

    With the help of Star Gaze my [Identify] has become more powerful too. I quickly got its information. Steel Beast, level 230, evolved from Iron Beast. Near absolute defense against both Physical and Magical attacks. Slightly faster than Iron Beasts. Weakpoint is its soft belly. 

    Belly? The monster's legs are hardly taller than the couchgrass on the ground, its belly is almost sweeping against the floor. How the heck do I attack its belly? 

    Without any options, I charged and [leap slash]'d at the beast. Clang! I was pushed back several steps by the backforce, and my hands are numb. I only did 47 damage, its HP appeared and read above 3k. That's almost as high as Lucky.

    "Um, Wayne? How about we find something else? This guy is so freaking solid!" 

    "Solid means good! It will help me more in the future!" With that, Wayne threw an ice cone at it, which was even worse than my sword. 15 damage. 

    Lucky charged and clawed at the beast, which caused a noise like when you hammer at an iron plate, with sparks. 

    That was only 65 damage. Now none of us can deal more than 100 damage to this thing! The beast bit Lucky when he's not noticing. Well Lucky's scaled body is no worse than this beast's defense, he only took 18 damage. But that bite totally pissed Lucky off. He quickly began to gain altitude, and started to dive toward us. Lucky sped up with his wings folded, when he reached us he abruptly spread his wings and swept against the grass. The current he caused pushed me and Wayne rolling on the ground. 

    When we got onto our feet we only saw two Steel Beasts. I looked up and saw Lucky holding something flying upwards. Using Star Gaze, I checked Lucky's claws, and finally made out the figure of a Steel Beast. Now I see Lucky turn around and started to dive down with that beast. Plus he is flapping his wings to gain speed. 

    I dragged Wayne. "RUN!" 

    We didn't stumble far before Lucky came down like a bomber jet. When he reached the ground he released the beast, and began to fly up again. The poor Steel Beast flew towards his two friends on the ground like a missile. The two guys on the ground saw it coming and began to get away, but surely they won't make it with that slow movement. The falling beast precisely hit in the middle of the two Steel Beasts. With a loud explosion, I felt the ground shake. Then debris and dirt began to wash down upon us. 

    My armor was hit over and over while giving out metal noises but I'm mostly fine. However Wayne's cloth robe didn't provide much protection. 

    "Ooof!" 

    "Awwweyy!" 

    "Yawwch!!!" 

    When the dust cleared up, the three beasts are already dead. I quickly started to use [Capture]. My skill level is pretty high now so it didn't take much effort for me to capture them as Servants. Three white dots came out of the three corpses and turned into white crystals in my hand. I can see the figure of a Steel Beast inside the crystal.

     "Here. Drop your blood on it and it will become your Servant. Take the rest too. If your Servant dies you can just summon another." (***) 

    Wayne took the crystals with excitement, and brushed one of them against his face. The poor dude's face is bleeding due to those debris. 

    The crystal vanished once it touched blood. Wayne quickly summoned his Steel Beast. Woah this thing became a lot bigger as a Servant. 

    We checked over its status. Its Defense surpasses mine by a lot! The only problem is it's too slow. But that's not an issue, for Wayne is a Wizard, he only needs it to stand there acting like a shield. The beast got super high Defense and HP. It's born to be a shield anyway. 

    Wayne took his new friend and charged into combat. Now I'm actually considering if I should catch one or two of these things to use as shield, too.

     With the new Servant, Wayne has lost himself in his grinding and completely forgot about me. So I left him be and went leveling myself. I'm feeling too tired by 10pm so I urged Wayne to log off, by which me, Lucky and Phantom have reached 118. Wayne on the other hand, is 93 now.

Chapter end