Chapter 119 : Contracting the Dragonblood Horse! 【Beast Taming】 Upgrade
Chapter 119: Contracting the Dragonblood Horse! 【Beast Taming】 Upgrade
At this moment, Leo looked down from a position a hundred meters above. Those Goblins resembled busy insects, and the entire underground palace looked like a massive hive.
It seemed that this spherical underground palace was the public activity area for all the Goblins, while those tunnels were where they usually lived.
It was somewhat like a Goblin version of a castle and the Knight Hall.
It appeared that he had found the Goblins’ lair.
Leo lowered his body and revealed half an eye, continuing to observe below.
The dozen or so large pots were boiling unknown substances.
They looked sticky and disgusting.
But soon, Leo witnessed something even more unbelievable.
At a distant tunnel entrance, several Goblins worked together to push aside a stone block.
Immediately afterward, a tall, sturdy horse squeezed in through the tunnel.
Then a second, a third…
Horses poured endlessly into the underground palace, quickly surrounding the large pots.
These Goblins made chattering noises that Leo could not understand.
It seemed they were directing the horses to eat the contents of the pots.
Leo roughly counted—there were over two hundred horses.
How could there be so many horses here?
As a professional horse breeder and a knight, Leo found it difficult to watch these horses eating what looked like pig feed.
Yet every horse ate with great relish.
The scene before him felt absurd, yet it was happening right in front of his eyes.
At that moment, Leo also noticed that his panel seemed to flicker.
Just now, he had found the Goblin he had previously marked.
After another ten minutes, Leo watched as the hundreds of horses completely devoured everything in the pots.
Then, each Goblin led a horse back through the tunnels the way they came.
From a professional Mount Control perspective—
Were they taking them out for a walk after feeding?
Could it be that these Goblins were his peers?
All horse breeders?
This…
Why were they raising so many horses—so potatoes could ride big horses?
Filled with questions, Leo retraced his path through the tunnel.
Meanwhile, Fulei, scouting from the air, had already located where these horses were being taken.
They were led out through another tunnel entrance two kilometers away.
Then, after eating their fill, the horses began to wander through the forest under the guidance of the Goblins.
Leo emerged from the tunnel entrance and quickly headed toward that forest.
According to the map, this area was already near the Centaur Plateau. Leo silently marked it in his mind.
These horses were being raised here.
Could this be related to the Centaurs?
Leo pondered as he moved swiftly through the forest.
In his field of vision, the Goblins wandered aimlessly with the horses, seemingly following some kind of forced command.
He soon found a lone Goblin and horse.
Crack.
Relying on his strength and agility, Leo moved behind it, grabbed the Goblin’s neck, and gave a light squeeze—instantly shutting down the unfortunate little stablehand.
Then Leo quickly controlled the horse and read fragments of its memory.
He understood.
In the memory fragments, a Wilderness Knight had ridden this horse just yesterday to deliver a letter to another forest.
This place was connected to the Wilderness Knight Order.
It seemed…
Leo had uncovered a secret.
Could this place be a large-scale horse breeding base of the Wilderness Knight Order?
But how were the Wilderness Knights able to command these Goblins?
It felt surreal—Leo felt as though he had uncovered a corner of this fantasy world.
He continued gathering intelligence and soon found the Goblin occupying his tracking slot, casually crushing it to death.
These Level 1 Beastkin had no vigilance at all—their combat strength was even inferior to Human civilians.
This time, through the horse’s memory fragments, he discovered another secret.
Among these horses, there was a peculiar “noble” of the herd.
No—it wasn’t exactly a noble, but rather an anomaly among horses.
Following the description from the “spectator” horse in front of him, Leo looked into the distance.
He spotted an ordinary-looking black horse being led by a Goblin.
It appeared completely unremarkable—perhaps even shorter than average horses.
Unlike the others, there were no horses within dozens of meters around it.
Because all the horses knew—
This horse came from Blackstone City and was a specially protected individual.
However, the Wilderness Knights had mixed it in here to better conceal it.
Its true identity was a dragon—or rather, a future dragon.
Due to its special status, it had received exceptional treatment since birth.
Even here, it was treated with a peculiar mixture of respect and isolation by the other horses.
At this moment, it lowered its head, pulling at the grass by its feet.
Recently, it had been in a good mood, because the food here was much better than in Blackstone City.
Compared to ordinary feed, it preferred the food with the faint scent of rotten meat.
And compared to being raised alone in Blackstone City,
there were many horses here.
Even though none dared approach it,
it still felt like it was living among a herd.
It was no longer a solitary horse.
It liked this place—the forest, the mountains, the Goblins. Even if the food was crude, it didn’t mind.
It hoped to live well here until that so-called day arrived.
But suddenly, it felt as though it had connected with another powerful soul.
“Soul Link!”
……
Blackstone City, Knight Hall.
Leo returned from his first hunting trip.
However, he had not fully completed all his tasks.
He had accepted three missions, two of which involved hunting Level 3 Beastkin.
But he only completed one—the mission to hunt a Headhunter.
On the way back, he had used a Sedative Potion to capture a Headhunter alive and handed it over to the Knight Hall.
Leo discovered a drawback of completing team missions alone.
Transportation.
He could not bring back large prey by himself.
To drag back a stunned Centaur would require the strength of at least five horses.
It seemed there was a reason why team missions required teams.
So this time, Leo did not waste time capturing large targets and hauling them back.
But that did not mean he gained nothing.
On the contrary, his gains were immense.
First, Beastkin meat.
From just the Level 3 Beastkin alone, Leo had harvested a large amount.
In total, he obtained over ten jin of edible meat.
Additionally, there were dozens of jin of Level 2 Headhunter meat.
Even after drying reduced the weight,
this supply could support several months of cultivation.
Altogether, it was worth thousands of silver coins.
Secondly, his 【Hunting】, 【Tracking】, and 【Basic Archery】 skills all received massive improvements during this hunt.
Although all three were White-tier skills, both archery and tracking directly increased attributes.
The effects were immediate and powerful.
Moreover, for Leo, there was an unexpected and massive gain.
His Beast Taming skill had also broken through.
When he contracted that Dragonblood Horse,
the experience for 【Beast Taming】 surged wildly, increasing by 85 points.
It not only reached Level 2 but also gained an additional 3 points of experience.
Currently:
【Beast Taming Level 2 3/100, can forcibly establish Soul Contracts with two animals or two Level 1 Beastkin, cooldown linked to Spirit Attribute. When forming a new contract, old contracts are automatically released. Experience gained is linked to the target’s spiritual strength】
The legendary Dragonblood Horse still belonged to the category of animals.
But its spiritual power was terrifying—Leo felt as if he had contracted a different race among animals.
Moreover, after this skill upgrade, Leo’s number of Soul Contracts had increased to two.
Originally, Leo had been worried that Fulei would flee after the contract was broken.
But after successfully contracting the Dragonblood Horse, that concern was resolved.
Leo immediately re-established the contract with Fulei.
Now, Leo had two Soul Contract slots.
If one slot was permanently occupied by the Dragonblood Horse, the other remained flexible.
“The missing Dragonblood Horse—Blackstone City sent four knights to search the wilderness for so long without finding it… yet I discovered it so easily and even made it my soul companion.”