Versatile: Alternate World

The area where we are in is starting to crumble due to the movements of the Venomous Devourer. It's no longer something I can just control and I don't want the whole place to collapse. I needed to finish this as quickly as possible or the risk of the mines collapsing will be really high.

One last bullet and the HP of the Venomous Devourer will be down to 500k and if I am lucky, might be a little bit lower than that. It is still a little bit too much but that would be for the best and I just needed my Versatile Weapon to do the rest of the work of lowering its HP as another shot with the abnormal gun would just send this one to oblivion.

BANG!

-you have dealt 634,991. Critical!

With that, it is almost down to 400k. To be safer, I needed to at least keep its HP around 5k or lower as that would be the weakest state of the Venomous Devourer.

"Partner, it looks like it is your time to shine now!"

As if it responded, I can feel the Versatile Weapon seems to lighten up a bit and exude its powers. I am not too sure if it was real or I was just imagining things.

With the Venomous Devourer still chasing me, I lured it towards its own body and grab the nearest scale. I started climbing on the top of the Venomous Devourer and despite being unstable due to how fast the Venomous Devourer moves, I still managed to stand on its body.

Once I am now in position, I started firing spells on the  Venomous Devourer's body and imbue the Versatile Weapon into flames using the [Flaming Sword] and swing it to the body. I made sure I didn't fire any strong spells and I might accidentally kill it.

"Come on! Show me what you got!"

...

Kokadokata can't properly sleep as he remained on his seat for a bit. He tried to close his eyes and forget all the tremors he keeps on feeling for quite a while but soon, it made him grit his teeth and he is now seething in anger.

"ARGH! That's it! I am now angry! I already told him to use the chance to steal an ore to the Alpha Rodola Vein while the guardian is sleeping, and yet, this little f*cker is provoking it! That's it, I will have to lecture this little piece of crap out of my mind. I doubt he died from that guy anyways."

Kokadokata can't stand noisy places that is why he usually stays in isolation. If things gets really noisy, he gets real pissed off and he will not hesitate to scold anyone even if they are part of a royalty or something close..

He stood up from his throne and stomped his feet towards the source of the noises. As he get closer to the place, the noises of the guardian is getting stronger. Based on its cries, he can easily tell that it is not in a good position though he is not too sure what the guy is doing for the guardian to roar loudly like that.

When he arrived, he almost fell into the ground if not for the staff he was carrying. There, he saw the young man from earlier, currently holding a gold chain, and currently tying it to the guardian's neck. The guardian is thrashing around the cave which is causing the tremors he is feeling right now. What made incomprehensible for him is to see the young man calm as he tries to reel in the guardian forcefully.

He squinted his eyes to see what kind of chain was that thing on his hands. That's when he realized that the chain that the young man was holding is none other than the [Chain of Taming], used to tame monsters. Seeing that the guy is actually trying to tame it, he can't help but grin.

"I didn't expect to see some hardcore sh*t right here! Better grab some popcorn and get myself into a good position to view the spectacle happening before me!"

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I grit my teeth when my first chain was snapped into pieces after I used it to the Venomous Devourer. I managed to bring its health back to 3k and I barely hit it dead but this guy is still a tough nut to crack. As soon as I try to use the chains, it keeps thrashing around the walls that I am fearing that the mine will fall sooner than expected. And if it did fall, I will have no more chances to mine the Alpha Rodola Ore without clearing away the rubble away.

Pulling out the second [Chain of Taming], I grit my teeth as I pour all my strength in reigning in the chain to its neck. Now that I have experienced the taming experience, I have now a massive respect to the players who tamed quite big monsters in the past timeline. Taming one using the usual way is just too hard and if luck is not on your side, you wasted resources and time over a wasted effort.

Then, just as the Venomous Devourer slam its body to the wall, the chain started shaking. I clicked my tongue as that means the chain failed again. But to my surprise, the [Chain of Taming] glows brightly and all of a sudden, expanded more in size and increased its length. The Venomous Devourer roared one last time before the [Chain of Taming] rolled to its neck fully and a system notification appeared before me.

-you have tamed a Venomous Devourer! Due to its critical state, you will have to wait for 12 hours real time before you can take out the tamed monster and rename it.

After that, the body of the Venomous Devourer disappeared and I, who was standing at the back of its neck, started falling  after losing its foothold. To avoid getting killed by falling or getting sprained in the leg, I transformed back to a bird form and fly around, avoiding my fall before returning to my human form to properly land on the ground.

"Nice show you did there boy, but it was just too noisy. I would have rated you with 100/100 if you did that but since you did it noisily, I would rate your performance 50/100."

"Kokadokata? Why are you here?"

"Oh? It seems you have a good memory for you to remember my name. Most people don't even bother using my whole name due to it being long and a bit of a tongue twister if they talk too fast. Anyways, I was here before to scold you for being too noisy. I was trying to sleep back where we first met but due to your ruckus, I can't properly sleep."

"I apologize if I disturbed your sleep. I just couldn't pass the opportunity to try taming that monster since it was still in its baby form and it was a good time to tame it easily."

"Well, whatever, you have given me a good show earlier so its not a big deal anyways. So how long are you going to wait until you mine that ore? Are you still waiting on another monster to guard it again? I doubt a weaker monster will try to claim it, so if that happens, a stronger monster compared to the guardian will only replace it."

"No worries, I didn't forget," after that, I pulled out the Pickaxe of Hephaestus and approached the vein of Alpha Rodola Ore.

I have never seen a rainbow colored ore before. It was quite an ore that you can easily mistake it for a prism or a precious gem sticking out on a vein deposit. Due to my curiosity, I returned the Pickaxe of Hephaestus and tried using a normal pickaxe to mine it.

DANG!

To my surprise, instead of the vein getting chipped some minerals from being hit by a pickaxe, the pickaxe was instead reduced to pieces as the tip hit the vein.

"Holy sh*t... this hard?" I exclaimed seeing the result. I expected the result of getting nothing from that but I didn't expect the Steel Pickaxe I made to crumble to pieces the moment it touched the Alpha Rodola Ore. It's not even at the end of its durability yet and I have just made that pickaxe and yet it crumbled like it hit something indestructible. Even if it is indestructible, it won't make a pickaxe break to pieces like that.

Kokadokata remained silent as he keep observing what I am doing. I didn't mind him checking out what I and doing and since he is not saying anything, I proceed to do the actual thing. I checked the vein for a good place to start hitting. so that I won't just get quite a small amount. Once I determined the positioning, I started swinging it.

TAK! TAK! TAK!

-you have obtained an Alpha Rodola Ore.

I wanted to start mining for a bit more and try to get one more piece of it when Kokadokata suddenly got alerted and aimed his staff on the entrance. I didn't feel anything so I frowned as I looked at what he was aiming.

"Hey boy, it seems mining that ore allowed you attract something troublesome."

"Troublesome? What are you talking about?"

"Look over there, those things are going to be troublesome if we don't do something about them.

He pointed his staff on the way we came from and on the walls and floors, a bunch of blue spider-looking things appeared crawling towards our direction. Anyone who has an Arachnophobia would shiver and cower in fear seeing this situation unfold before us.