Miles and Alex were walking with a bear on the former's shoulder. The baby bear was still small, so although it was a Frenzy-Rank creature, it wasn’t dangerous at all. After clearing the factory and looting more than 400 monster cores, Miles grabbed the bear and left the city with Alex.

“You sure it will be safe? You don’t have a taming orb, right?” Alex asked.

“Yeah, it will be fine,” Miles said. Although he hasn't practiced to the fourth step yet, thanks to the baby bear’s low mental age, and lack of defense, Miles could imprint himself in its mind all the same. It would be impossible in normal cases, but thanks to Jelly’s mother sharing her aura with her once, Miles was able to tame Culga. Now with the same experience, he imprinted himself into the baby bear. After all, it had a good bloodline and was born from a Frenzy-Rank monster. If trained by Miles, it would be a lot stronger.

“What will you name him?” Alex played with the bear lazing on Miles's shoulder. It was as big as a puppy, so it could sleep on Miles's shoulder just fine. Alex stretched out his finger to poke its cheek, but the baby bear tried to bite him. “Oi, that is unasked for!” Alex jumped back in fear, while Miles chuckled.

“I want to name him something awe striking, but he is just so cute.” Miles held his chin as he thought. “Makwa! Yep, Makwa is good.” Miles nodded. The baby bear growled in approval.

“You like it, Makwa?” Miles asked as he held the bear from its neck. It was all white and had a birthmark resembling wind on its forehead. Even the mother bear didn’t have that, so Miles was quite hopeful to see it grow.

Miles placed the bear on his shoulder again and they kept on walking. When they were near the stronghold, a monster appeared with a growl. Because the stronghold was close to the G-Circle, there were some monsters still in Grunt-Rank. The monster was also the same. Although it was at the peak of it, it was still Grunt-Rank after all.

Alex was about to finish it in one quick attack, but Miles stopped him. “Let’s see if a baby Frenzy-Rank can kill it or not,” Miles said and placed Makwa on the ground. Makwa looked at Miles with its head tilted, then turned to look at the monster with a growl.

The monster roared angrily as it felt underestimated. In its simple brain, no Frenzy-Rank creature could appear in such weak form, thus it only thought the baby bear was Grunt-Runk. It felt that being challenged by a baby was insulting.

Not showing any mercy, the tiger-like monster pounced on Makwa with fire surrounding its body. Makwa looked at the tiger, then stood on its hind legs. It raised one of its front paws and a small sword appeared in the air. Not long after the sword appeared, it vanished before appearing behind the tiger-like monster. The attack was so fast, even Alex and Miles almost failed to see it.

“What the hell? Even the mother bear wasn’t as fast as this without using the green wind.” Alex exclaimed in surprise.

“This cute thing is actually this strong.” Miles also felt lucky the baby wasn’t that old. It looked like the baby was more talented than the mother bear.

“You sure you can control it when it grows up?” Alex asked. He felt the terror of the monster.

“It will be fine,” Miles reassured him as he removed the core from the tiger-like monster and fed it to Makwa. It glutinously ate the core and looked at Miles with pitiful eyes. “Sigh, this little insatiable will dry my funds.” Miles sighed and gave another two Frenzy-Rank cores.

Because Miles used the bomb core on the bear, Alex offered Miles to take three-quarters of the cores. After all, the bomb type of orb was too valuable, and Miles used it to acquire cores for both of them. In the end, Alex took 100 cores, while Miles took around 300. This was enough to make him rich.

Unlike Grunt-Rank cores, Frenzy-Rank cores would give more merit points. It was because firstly, Grunt-Rank cores almost had no use in the academy, secondly, the academy wanted to encourage students to hunt Frenzy-Rank monsters. After all, every student enrolled there was in Form-Rank.

When Miles and Alex returned to the stronghold, students were looking at Miles weirdly, but no one said anything. Only when they arrived at the portal did guards look at Makwa in trepidation.

“Is it your summon?” One of the guards asked.

“No, he is my pet,” Miles said.

“Do you have an orb to control it?” Guard asked again.

“I tamed him with secret art. He is safe.” Miles patiently explained.

“What kind of secret art is that? Why haven’t I heard it before?” Guard asked with a little bit of anger. His aura descended on Miles, but later didn’t even budge. Makwa, on the other hand, growled at guard and raised its paw.

“Makwa, stop,” Miles said calmly, but there was cold killing intent in his voice. “What kind of secret would it be if any lowlife knew it?” Miles said calmly to the guard.

“Are you asking for a beating, brat?” Guard gnashed its teeth as he removed the sword from his belt, but other guards stopped it.

“You may pass.” The second guard said.

“What are you saying, Aaron? What if it attacked a citizen?” The first guard started to stop Miles, but the second guard said, “Haven’t you seen him controlling the bear under your pressure? They may pass.”

The first guard looked at the second one but didn’t say anything. They moved aside and let the trio pass. Miles nodded towards the second guard and disregarded the first one. When he walked out of the portal, he looked at Makwa to see if it was feeling uncomfortable, but he was still lazily sitting on Miles’s shoulder. Since it was okay, he kept on walking.

“Oh, nice pet bro, don’t forget to register it. The system shows it is unregistered, all right.” When Miles passed through the security, one of the guards said.

“Where should I register it?” Miles asked.

“Just go to the building on the right, it shouldn’t take long,” Guard said and Miles nodded. “Before that, we want to cash in our monster cores,” Miles said.

To prevent people from getting cores from others and exchanging them with merits, a team of clerks would wait near the portal to record them. It was the most cheat-proof system, thus Miles reminded them before leaving their sight.

Not long after, a clerk arrived and counted their cores. Guards and clerks were looking at the duo with their eyes open like saucers. There were 400 cores in their bags, and the lowest was low-tier Frenzy-Rank.

After the exchange, Miles earned 2500 merits, while Alex earned 855. And Miles only exchanged 250 of them, keeping the 70 he deemed useful.

After registering Makwa Miles and Alex returned to the academy once again. As he was walking a yelp sounded at the side. “Such a cute monster!”

Miles turned to look at the source of the voice to be shocked. He looked at the fluttering rainbow of hairs and green eyes tainted with silver. He failed to move his eyes from the person appearing in front of him, and if it wasn’t for the similar reaction he was receiving from the other person, he would think he was dreaming.