"you were missing fir two whole days, child" Alen's dad Alex said in an angry tone
"Dad the thing is that I was gonna tell you but my phone broke and mission was hard one it took time" Alen was making excuses
"Stop it, don't make excuses" Alen's dad said in Angry tone.
"Sorry dad" Alen said in sad tone.
"Don't worry, Mayour called me and told me you took the mission, next time tell me if you are going on mission" his dad replied
"Sure dad, I am going to sleep and I am full" Alen said and rushed towards his room because he did not want his dad to see his wounds.
Alen went to his room and started doing Cosmo breathing and he was able to feel his wounds healing.
Next morning.....
Alen went to the mayor's house and he showed Mayor all the horns of rabbits he has killed.
"You are an excellent mage Allen just like your dad it's still surprising that you are manage to kill so many one horned rabbit. Here is your reward and bonus" said Mayor
Alen received 600 Cosmo coin and a thought struck in his mind "fck this is thrice the amount of my monthly pocket money that why mages are so rich ad. This is not the best thing loot will be sold for a lot"
"Thankyou Mr. Mayor. I will be going then" Alen said in his jolly tone.
"Ok, train hard and become a good mage. Bye Alen" Mayor said
"Yeah I will, Bye" Alen replied
Duke was hiding near trees, Alen went near him. "Let's go to the market" said Alen
Market was near the town but it was different, this market was only place in this whole area to sell and buy beast items or mage items. Even though town was small but market was big, due to it's location being in middle of a evergreen forest and mountains.
A lot of mages comes here to kill beast and make a living it's a good training place for mid level mages as there was no reports of any Apex level monster in the forest and even predator level are rare too.
As Alen entered market he saw a shop with an old man sweeping it.
He entered the shop and said "hello mister, I am here to sell something"
Old man take a thorough look at Alen and said "Kid, no prank will be tolerated only beast material can sold and bought in my shop. Go somewhere."
Alen was not shocked, it was barely fifteen days after awakening even a hardworking basic mage only learn to launch a spell in this time. Well Alen was exception because of his talent and Cosmo breathing.
Without wasting any time he opened his bag and put it in table there were around 30 horns in it. The shopkeeper was so surprised that his mouth was open.
Then Alen went to Duke and took another two bags from Duke's back and return to shop owner.
"So should we trade now" said Alen
The shopkeeper closed his mouth and said "As standard price five Cosmo coin for a horn and another five if you have hide too"
"I have thirty of them both, you can have them all" said Alen
" Ok, you can have these 300 do you have anything more" shopkeeper asked
Alen was not surprised by rate as horned rabbits are one of the most weakest beast that even normal humans can kill them if they can catch one.
Alen now put in table the horn and hide of two horned rabbit which shocked the shop owner more
"I can see you are a powerful tamer mage but is your tamed beast powerful enough" after seeing Duke the shopkeeper had mistaken Alen for a tamer beast.
"Let's keep our buisness to trade and I don't wish to tell my beasts ability" Alen said in a serious tone
"Mages and mysterious are synonyms that's one thing I learned. I can give you 1000 coins for them." Shop owner replied
"Fine, how about it's blood" Alen asked
"Listen kid let me be honest a beast's blood alone would sell for 1000 Cosmo coin or more but your one look elemental one so it will be more expensive" said shop owner .
"I know that much, so come to point" Alen replied
"Well the thing is I don't have enough money right now but I can give you something of equal exchange." Shopkeeper said and went to back of his store
"Have this, this is said to be blood of a powerful horse beast and you can use it make your horse beast's lineage purer"
Shop owner said.
"You don't exactly know what it is so how can I trust you? " Alen asked
Shopkeeper went to a deep thought " I am seeing your hoarse don't have a saddle too have this high quality saddle
It with bags on two side so you can store things during traveling. It is made of beast leather so it heat durable and scratch proof."
"Fine by me, have it" said Alen
Then after collecting money and item Alen went to Duke "here is your saddle" Alen said
Duke's eye lit up "thanks Alen, Human's craftsmanship is good"
Alen laughed and said "now let's go to a blacksmith."
Alen right now have have two thousand Cosmo coin. One thousand nine hundred from Mayor and shopkeeper and hundred his own.
They went to blacksmith. The blacksmith was a masculare guy as tall as Alen and he was hammering something.
"Hello, I am here to buy something" said Alen
Blacksmith first looked at Alen and then looked at Duke then said "I do not make anything related to beasts so go to someother place"
"I want something for my self" Alen said
"Tamer mages are not supposed to be a Combat mage, anyways you are a customer so welcome" said Blacksmith in suprise.
Alen went inside the shop without caring about blacksmith's remark
"So what do you want me to make?" Blacksmith asked
"Do you have a paper and pencil I will draw it for you" Alen replied
Without questioning Alen blacksmith gave him a copy and pencil because most of time mages have some specifications on traditional weapons to make it more useful.
Alen draw two short sword with heavy chains attached to it.
Blacksmith looked in suprise the drawing was flawless and model was great too but chains concept was wierd
"Chains will make it very heavy. if you were a combat earth mage then It would be fine but for you it will be hard" blacksmith
"I am buying them for a friend" Alen laughed wirly he did not want to reveal that with help of Cosmo breathing he can be stronger than what humans can naturally achieve.
"Fine they will be done in seven days and since you have made the design yourself and gave me new idea I will give you a discount" blacksmith said
"Thankyou, so what will be the price" Alen asked
"If your friend is a basic mage fifteen percent pure Cosmo metals will enough, around six feet long chains." Blacksmith was in a deep thought "just give me two thousand Cosmo coin" blacksmith finalized price.
Alen facial expressions went blank as he handed all his money, he was rich for a teenager a few seconds back and now he is poor again. Anyways Alen thanked blacksmith and went to Duke
As they were returning Duke said "You have to be with for a few days in mountain"
"Why is that ?" Alen asked
"Absorbing the seeds takes time and you will be vulnerable during that period so you have to be near me so I can absorb it safely." Duke answered
"So that's why two horned beast did not absorbed it he was making the beasts that can harm him leave that side of forest and humans were also a threat to him so he attacked farms." Allen concluded.
"Exactly that's the reason" Duke said
"Fine I will go ask permission from dad and also will take meat of two horned rabbit and will absorb it in mean time."
"Absorbing meat will not be that easy, you have to use Cosmo breathing while eating it and then practice dash and jump. You are not beast like us so our energy can harmful to you if stored inside of you"
Alen went to his dad to ask permission
"Dad, can I go to mountains for someday to train, " Alen asked his dad politely
Alen's dad looked at Alen from up and down and a thought came to his mind
"He is getting bigger day by day, one day he will leave for journey to become strong as every mage do"
"Fine son, just remember to call me everyday atleast once" dad replied in warm tone
Alan packed two horned beast's meat and went to mountain
"Duke, here is your seed and this is something I bought for you, it is a blood of a powerful beast of your kind" sadi Alen
"When you bought it and why I am not feeling anything special from it" asked Duke
"Have it, it's not likely gonna harm you". Alen answered
"Fine I am going to absorb these things" Duke said before he closed his eyes and Alen put both of things in Duke's mouth.
Duke went to a deep slumber like state where his body glowing.
Alen too went to his training, where he eats the meat while doing Cosmo breathing then train dash, sprint and jump.
One thing he discovered during this time was there was no need to sleep for him, he could train during both day and night without any problem.
Another things was this time was not same as last time. Last time his muscles only grow at very fast rate but this time his bones, joint, cartilage of legs everything was changing and improving fir better.