Chapter 21: That Bestiary is Finally Here

[Sophia's POV]

After inspecting the abilities of my bunch of undead that became rather more systematic and realizing that my height did not grow any taller which I became angry about, we decided to prepare for departure, but before we left of course we prepared rations like goat meat and water, we may have an infinite amount of stamina, but that does not mean we, or no I specifically do not feel hunger.

Hunger is a mental thing and it cannot be snubbed by a baby like me, thus I have to eat every so often. These rations will be carried by Kabuto which he can store in his shadow, is a shadow space on its own?

I concluded it as affirmative but I can faintly see the floating images of the leaf-made bags we have... Anyway, after we confirmed that we are fully prepared and did not leave anything, I summoned Agilus.

"I HAVE COME! CHIRP!"

Soon, after I made a command to [Guide], a loud high pitched voice, the tone of a man emerged in the air as a small bird came landing on my head and peaked at it a few times.

"You're quite the lively one aren't you?"

I said in Agilus' mind, hearing an enthusiastic "CHIRP! CHIRP!", I smiled in my baby face whilst saying my intentions of his summon.

"Anyway, I want you to announce my command to the militia group of my first resource point. Add a rotation to the activities of the guards to look over the underground lake of the cave."

I looked at the top of my forehead Agilus is peeking at me as he asked me a question.

"I can do that if it is you so desire My Queen Chirp... But why do you want to guard that place?"

I looked at him for a second and then asked [Guide].

Why did he not know about the world notification?

[Master, because he is technically a skill and the system does not have a function to notify things (skills, titles, etc.) that are given by it.]

No I mean, why did he not know the world notification even though you know it? Aren't you two supposed to be the same skill?

[Master, the Takeover ability of mine did overtake the mind of Agilus, but the weakness of that ability is that, besides having a weaker mental capacity than you, after I took over a mind and you requested to give it another personality beside mine, my connection to that taken over mind will be cut off.

Of course, that mind will still have to report to me and will have a given undying loyalty to you.]

I see, so it is like that, anyway, after confirming that, I have no choice but to explain the reason for my command to Agilus.

So I explained that I am one of the Hero Prospects(even though I am all alone) and the challenge for my test caused the restraint put by undeads into the creatures of this forest to cease, thus making them run amok and travel from layers to layers freely, that also includes marine creatures of course.

"Thus I want you to make an additional militia activity to properly monitor the lake and restrict the activity of the civilians in the lake until our forces established their positions there, ask Bernardo to have soldiers escort people who intend to scoop out water for their daily necessities."

Agilus seems to understand my motives immediately as he straightened his back and used his little wing as a hand to salute as he said.

"I UNDERSTAND! I HEED AND OBEY!"

And then immediately flew back to the community, we are outside of the cave, so he just have to go inside, it was not that far so I heard a loud "CHIRP! CHIRP! LISTEN TO ME! HARA SOPHIA ORDERED THE MILITIA...."

I once again smiled lightly, he can just pass the order over to Bernardo and have the soldiers distribute it...

Anyway, I ignored the loud sound of my bird and then left on a journey once again, I have a new staff but it's still just a picked-up branch of a random tree, and then embarked on a journey to complete the test.

I made Lyra and Kabuto not track a safe route this time, after all, I am here to grind my way into becoming a hero, so I have to take a rather hard route so that I can temper myself. But still, I looked at the new environment of the forest after the Monarch Status of the Undead race was removed and it changed, drastically I must say.

At first, no monsters are blocking our way and you can see by how hard it is for me to evolve, and when I evolved I did not even grow up!

[Master, the right term is "barely grew".]

That's the same as not growing up at all you idiot!

Ahem... I diverted into the topic there, but anyway, the point is, because the first time I am here, there is an "Undead is Scary" energy coming out of those three so I can't level up. But now, even the goats that we encountered a relatively long while ago are here eating on bushes and climbing trees so that they can reach the fruits atop them.

Those climbing the trees are the children and not the adult, the branch will break if they did climb.

Hey is that... Xenocryst? I looked at the crystal-looking horns of an adult goat and I stare at it intently. Let me explain, Xenocryst is a type of Xenolith.

Xenoliths are torn from deep cracks, or pipes, in the Earth's surface. Magma rises to the Earth's surface through these pipes between the Earth's crust and mantle. As the molten material rises, it tears off bits and pieces of the magma pipe in which it is traveling. These bits and pieces, trapped in the magma but not melting into it, become xenoliths. Crystals that are torn from the sides of magma pipes are called xenocrysts.*

It is considered the hardest igneous rock, you thought the hardest is diamond? No, those are metaphoric, you idiot sandwich. Anyway, [Guide], say, how big do these goats can grow?

[Master, Xenocryst Horned Goats can grow up to 1.50 meters in height in normal bases.

They're being named will give them better evolution choices and thus can grow more than the said height.]

So as big as a warhorse and can get bigger depending on if they got a master and have a better evolution tree huh...

Lately, I have had this intent for these goats to capture them, however, because they are too afraid of my undeads and are too elusive for my slaves, they cannot catch a glimpse of these goats, hell they did not even report that the horns of this goat are made out of igneous rock, well that's beside the point.

Anyway, these goats have sturdy horns, plus they can climb trees as a baby, of course, all goats can do that even in my previous world, but the point is, do you know how versatile goats can be if dumped into a world in which they are not domesticated and just wild? With magic and swords not less, plus they can grow as big as Mongolian Warhorses.

You still can't guess what I am saying? I want to make a cavalry unit with goats as "warhorses", yeah, well, I mean they are not as slow as any other mounts like wolves, they can become an All Terrain Unit, though goats are afraid of water because of preservation instincts, that can be fixed.

Furthermore, their use is not only for cavalry, their horns are weapons on themselves, so if some of them wanted it, they can become an individual and official warrior.

Kabuto, come here. After simulating all of the possible ticks and tacks of my cavalry-forming strategy, I immediately went and called Kabuto who is inside my shadow.

"My Lady."

Find another lair of those goats and make the soldiers of the first point catch them, instruct them about basic stealth strategies so that they won't startle the lair.

"But... How about those bunch that is in front of us."

I raised my brow, looking at him, and then looked at a goat who has a dolomite horn eating a berry peacefully.

"Oh, those bunch?"

I then looked at Kabuto once again as a wide smile appeared on my face, I then snapped my fingers and a spear made out of water appeared on top of the Dolomite Horned Goat (Non-Evolved form) I just looked at and descended at top speed impaling the back of the goat, causing blood to flow out like mad killing it instantly.

Notice [You have successfully killed a Dolomite Horned Goat +34 EXP.]

"Don't worry about them, they are our EXP. bags."

All of my subordinates glanced at me, staring for a second, and then collectively grinned.

They just nodded their heads and immediately attacked, I killed all the adults so that they will kill the small children and still relatively young goats.

Philo started to use [Sprint] to lure the attack of the Xenocryst and then will use [Ram] if the horn of his target is stuck on the ground by him luring it to attack, effectively destroying the neck of the unfortunate soul, dying in an instant.

Lyra stood beside me as I cast several magic projectiles made out of the four elements I mastered, she uses her bow and arrow, coats the arrow with curse, and then shoot it, unavoidably hitting its target even if Lyra's eyes is closed, that's how cool she is.

"HA! HA! HA! You can praise me if you want!"

I immediately made a thumbs up whilst hitting a Xenocryst who came too close to its death and said.

"Yes, that is incredible, keep it up."

I said in her mind which she immediately went beet red, which is strange because the undead doesn't have any blood to make the skin blush, but it's not any less cute that way, so I don't delve deeper into it."F-Fwegh!? Y-you don't have to mention it, kyaaaaahn~"

She immediately went into a frenzy, so she immediately depleted her ammunition.

[And you say you hate your father for being a playboy?]

What does that cuck have to do with Lyra not having any more arrows? I used [Pebble Magic] to retrieve the arrows by having the tentacle-like things slither with the arrows and submerged them in the sand and then went in front of Lyra.

"Here you go."

I said to her in my mind and she nodded in embarrassment saying just flustered: "O-okay... Thank you..."

And then continued to slaughter the goats.

Meanwhile, Kabuto leaped in and out of the shadows of the goats and precisely hit the carotid of the goats.

Notice [You have successfully killed a Xenocryst Horned Goat +41 EXP.]

Notice [You have successfully killed a Xenocryst Horned Goat +48 EXP.]

Notice [You have successfully killed a Dolomite Horned Goat +35 EXP.]

Countless notifications notifying me about my kills resounded, alongside the notifications that my subordinates killed someone and then shared the EXP with me.

Notice [Undead Philo killed a Dolomite Horned Goat +20 EXP.]

Notice [Undead...

Things continued like that until we finally killed the odd thirty to forty goats in the vicinity, the kids are the Dolomite Horned ones, and the Adults are the Xenocryst Horned Goats, of course, what will I make the goblin use as mount are the adults, though the babies are big, not so big to use as mounts, there are many Xeno dudes out there so its a harvest.

Anyway, after that slaughter, we then continued to travel, without Kabuto because of my order, and then continued to kill goats or bunnies, of course, some came running away by seeing our slaughter but were kind of territorial even though it a way they are sitting on and attacked us and of course, we killed them.

[Master, the Beastiary of the Five-Pronged Forest Monsters is now available. Any monster you will see will register into the Beastiary and a description will appear immediately.]

Oh Yeah! Finally! Damnit why did it take so long?

[Master, this Beastiary is only permitted because of the Hero's Test.]

Oh, and by the way, what about the monsters outside of this forest?

[Master, I will update the Beastiary about them myself.]

I see thank you, and so I read the bestiary and of course, all of it are monsters in the first layer I saw.

Goblins: Weak creatures of the first layer of the five-pronged forest, maintained their position as the highest predator of the first layer because of their intelligence.

Common Bunny: The weakest creature of the Five-Pronged Forest, with weak instincts, thus culled by almost any being, whether for food or just out of spite. Have an incredible vertical leap.

Dolomite Horned Goat: A goat monster with Dolomite for horns, this horn is made of Dolomites slightly strengthen by mana and slightly coated with keratin.

Orc: Creatures known for their stupidity, they are so stupid that they will forget the face of their spouses and will attack them thinking they are intruders. Can only make them smart by evolution.

No stats can be seen because surely, no statistic expert is bold enough to go into a forest to monitor the stats of at least 500 to 1,000 monsters who have the hardest rocks as their fucking horns for data.

As I was pondering about this, a question rang out in my head.

"Master, This is Kabuto. We have captured the first batch of goats, do you want me to sort out the strongest to be honored and be your mount?"

My mount huh... I thought so and decided not yet to use a mount but keep the strongest in reserve for me.

Why? Because I am not yet strong enough to have a mount, I mean, using magic in amount is not ideal, because when you are on a mount the most dangerous area is in the feet part of the mount because naturally, the enemies will try to put you down, and if I use my magic, I'll hit the feet of my mount and will quite literally shooting my feet.

So I have to learn Martial Arts properly

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*Source: National Geographic

Note: I did not list down the evolved forms because they are still classified as the same monster, like [Guide] said about Lyra's evolution, she is still a goblin, just cuter.

Meaning that in the bestiary, she is still a goblin, just stronger.

And yeah, Philo's new race is not a native of the forest, so the entry will come when [Guide] updated it.

Side Story:

Rimuru: Have Wolves as mounts for his goblins.

Kereina(From Epic of Caterpillar): Have a giant lioness as a mount.

Meanwhile Sophia: ENVY MAH GOATS MADAFAKAS!