Undying Warlord

[Nightvision] Ungraded★★★★✭✭

Upgrade requirements

1) Absorb Darkness Essence crystals (91/500)

2) Absorb Essence crystals of Tier-1 monsters with enhanced sight (38/100)

3) Kill monsters on the darkest night (6432/10,000)

Dilan looked at the upgrade requirements of [Nightvision] while the Werewolves approached him.

He noticed that all the requirements were a bit weird because he was pretty sure that he should have been able to see the upgrade requirements of [Nightvision] much earlier by meeting one or two requirements when the ability was still Ungraded and at one star.

It was weird and needed some further investigation later because it might allow them to know a lot more abilities than they were aware of.

However, Dilan also knew that now was not the time to play around.

He looked at the Werewolves for a short while before his attention diverted somewhere else.

The weak and pitiful sound of injured monsters reached his ear, and he quickly found something that attracted his attention much more than the approaching Werewolves.

‘I was thinking about getting some mounts but I thought that it would be necessary to tame adult monsters. Maybe…this won’t be necessary…’ Dilan thought, clearly perceiving that a dying monster was using its last bits of strength to give birth to its children.

The Werewolves and Vampires hadn’t paid much attention to their surroundings when they fought against each other. They killed far more monsters in their surroundings than they first presumed, but only the lizard-like monster attracted his attention.

The monster didn’t lay dozens or hundreds of eggs but just a bunch of small lizards that had the same long legs as its mother.

“A Tierless monster…well, what does it matter?” Dilan thought with a faint smile on his lips. Monsters could become stronger by absorbing Essence crystals as well. As long as they were tamed and raised to become ferocious but loyal beasts, it should be possible to make use of their existence.

Dilan felt that this was quite interesting, far more interesting than the Werewolves. He approached the dying monster that looked at Dilan with weak eyes while lifting its head with all its might. The mother monster saw Dilan approaching her newborn children and she desperately wanted to move and save her babies.

However, she quickly realized that it was impossible for her to move. Dilan picked up one of the newborn monsters, who were still enveloped in a slimy, sticky membrane. They had yet to open their eyes and were hardly moving as they had just been born.

“Seems like it was a good idea to store a car inside my storage ring,” Dilan thought with a faint smile on his face as he looked at the small batch of 6 monster cubs.

It wouldn’t be feasible to bring them back to Shiron while running with all his might. This would kill the poor monster cubs as they would get tossed and turned if he could even pick up all of them simultaneously.

None of them would survive the wind pressure when he ran with the speed of the wind itself.

Thus, Dilan was already thinking of different ways to carry them along with himself.

‘Running while they’re inside my backpack will probably kill them as well…a car it is then, I guess,’ Dilan thought while feeling a bit elated in his heart.

Earlier he had thought that it might be easier to raise and train monsters from birth but it was not really a feasible idea because neither he nor the others had seen monster eggs or cubs of suitable monsters before.

The long-legged lizards had a physique similar to horses, which made them the best animals for traveling.

Furthermore, as they were reptiles, Dilan began to imagine that they had the possibility of turning into full-fledged Dragons as long as they kept evolving using the highest possible occupation, or evolution path when advancing through the Tiers.

It was unlikely for the lizards to be able to become dragons but Dilan was mostly daydreaming which wasn’t necessarily bad. It only strengthened his resolve to bring the Lizard cubs back to the base.

Dilan retrieved a backpack from his storage ring and gently placed the lizards inside. He was not sure how much heat they needed as newborns, which made things a bit difficult but he put in a small [Isolated torch], which was basically a flame surrounded by a sphere-like membrane of mana.

It was one of the non-combat creations one of the blacksmiths created to be able to work during the night as well. Some Survivors were more night workers, which was why their base, including the alloy factory, had to be well illuminated at night as well.

The Isolated torch radiated some warmth after Dilan had inserted bits of his mana inside it.

‘That should be enough…I hope,’ he thought before he turned his head in the direction of the Werewolves, who were patiently waiting for him to resume the fight.

They didn’t seem bothered that he was more focused on some dying monster, or the fact that he had just collected a batch of newborn monster cubs.

Rather, a trace of interest flickered in their eyes because they had begun to wonder why someone as strong as Dilan felt the need to pick up a batch of Tierless monster cubs.

It didn’t make sense to them but it definitely had some deeper meaning that eluded them, considering that a powerful existence bothered to halt the fight midway and pick up the newborn cubs.

“Raising them might relax some of the tense Survivors, and they’re somewhat cute, so the women will be more relaxed looking at them, I guess…” Dilan mumbled before a plan began to form in his mind.

‘I will bring them back and return here to take a look if there are many more Vampires on their way toward us. If not, it might be worth taking a look at the Sanctum…’

That was the plan Dilan had come up with, but he was quickly interrupted by the Werewolves’ pack leader, a middle-aged man with fierce red irises.

“Thank you for supporting us in the fight against the noble clans of the Shikan plains. Without your help, all of us would have died!” The Alpha of the Werewolves acknowledged, not hiding the bitter truth.

However, Dilan didn’t accept this. He looked straight into the Alpha’s eyes.

“If you knew that all of you would die, why did you attack them, in the first place? The Vampires were on their way to me and my group. I genuinely doubt that these Clans cared about your existence to begin with. Their sole aim was to get their hands on the Sanctum keys earlier than others!” Dilan didn’t really think about being overly nice to the Alpha, especially since it looked like he had purposely attacked a large group of Vampires that was close to ten times in number than that his own.

This was beyond stupid and it was not something Dilan could understand.

“They attacked and killed one of our youngest Wolves. We had to do something!” The Alpha growled while coiling his fist, not hiding his hatred for the Vampires.

With this, Dilan could tell that he would only further provoke the Alpha of a pack with more than 400 Werewolves if he continued to discuss whatever was on his mind.

However, that didn’t really bother him because it seemed like the Alpha was even dumber than he was. And that was quite difficult in Dilan’s opinion.