[Task: Choose one of the beings.]

Twelve caterpillars were summoned before me and, well… they were caterpillars.

“How do I have to choose one of them? On what basis?”

There was no answer when he asked the question, only silence. They were not answering and the task window was frozen in place unlike the previous one that had disappeared.

“At least tell me something about them? Is this just a test of confidence? Courage? Decision making?

And what do you mean by being? Do these caterpillars represent something else? Is this a choice of some certain thing?”

The Trial window had only wanted him to choose one of the creatures, and he could not do it unless he knew what exactly this choice of his would mean.

“Well…”

He needed more information, and if he was not going to get it from the trial, he would have to figure things out himself.

“So, what are you, little ones?”

He sat down before the twelve insects that were moving on the green carpet, crawling like any normal caterpillar.

These creatures were at least not some simple thing that many people might find disgusting or dangerous.

They were colorful, all twelve of them had their unique color and there was a strange symbol on their foreheads.

Six of them were as big as his palm, while three were a little bigger.

The rest of the three were pretty small, but they were the most attractive ones among them.

“I should do the observation first…”

He needed to know something about them and wasting an appraisal scroll on them was neither appropriate nor suitable.

He still did not know what this trial wanted from him so he needed to avoid using items as much as he could.

“Hmmm.”

He decided on what he needed to do, admired the cute caterpillars a little, and then started observing them, what they were doing, trying to look at them from different sides, and while he was doing it…

[Effects of the title <Merciful tamer> will be applied.]

The caterpillars who were only crawling aimlessly around the carpet started showing some interest in him.

They started crawling in his direction and in no time, all twelve of them had gathered before him, looking up at this unique yet approachable big human with interest.

“Oh?”

This was not the first time the effects of the title were triggered for him.

Every time he met any creature that was friendly towards humans, was someone else’s pet, or were something that could be tamed, the effects were triggered.

He could use this opportunity to tame these creatures if he wanted to, but he did not want to take advantage of the creatures that were only attracted to him because of some unique power that made them interested in him.

They did not need to be forced to do something just because of some title’s effect, so, even though he could, he avoided taking advantage of the interests of the creatures.

“Hello there.”

Just like him or any other being, they also deserved their freedom.

“How are you all?”

He gently petted the little creatures with his gloved hands and smiled at them warmly.

“Looks like they aren’t very sensitive to touch.”

He can tell they could not understand what he was saying either so ultimately, they were not as intelligent as Az or Miu.

They were caterpillars and they might soon evolve into a unique lifeform like some butterfly, bee, or something else.

He did not know what they were, but at least, they did not seem harmful.

“Can you tell me more about yourself?”

He placed his palm before them and asked them something that he knew they would not understand anyway.

Still, as if to have understood his intentions, one of the big caterpillars with white body and spiky blue fibers covering its body walked on top of his palm.

“Hello.”

He greeted the little creature happily.

He did not know what he should do with them, but he at least knew they weren’t harmful to him, so he continued his observation while he showed various edible things he had to the creatures in search of something that they might like.

[Ding!]

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[White Caterpillar]: (Level:12)

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“Oh? Aren’t you a high level caterpillar?”

At least, he was sure they weren’t normal creatures with this.

“You’re like a snow leopard.”

The white one was white like snow and the blue spike seemed like the white leopards that the players could find in the mountain regions around the north of the kingdom.

Then there was a red one that seemed like a bright red fish that they can find in the great central lake near one of the most popular main cities.

The three smallest ones resembled jewels of various kinds: A dimon, a blue topaz, and an Aquamarine.

They were the prettiest of them all and strangely, Elio found them to be especially attractive.

Surely they were unattractive caterpillars in some normal eyes, but they were a special natural element in his eyes.

They were special, he could tell just that much from his observations.

“Oh? Looks like you do eat something after all.”

And, after a while of showing them various things, all twelve of them strangely reacted to something that he was expecting the least.

“Are you like Az then?”

The thing that they had reacted to was a Mana crystal, a rare and costly mineral that contained dense Mana inside of them.

“Hey wait wait. I have more. Don’t be too exci-.”

They got a little too excited when he took out that Mana crystal and jumped the human as he fell backwards.

It was more costly and special than the Mana stones that Az eats, but he did not mind them having these costly things.

He was saving them for sometime later, but he will get some more from Alex later if he needed.

“Hahaha, you all are funny.”

They shared the Mana crystals and it did not take long for them to finish their meals.

Watching the little insects eat an important material like these was a unique experience to him, and especially seeing how each of them glowed and produced a unique effect while they were eating.

“All of you are (Arcane Silkworms) I see.”

He was not certain yet, but the unique nature of these creatures was something that was studied extensively by the [Researchers].

They could eat Mana crystals, something that contained dense Mana.

While eating, the fibers around their body glowed, indicating a successful instantaneous digestion process.

He had not seen them produce the extremely rare kind of silks with unique properties that they were famous for, but he knew they Might be the same creatures that do produce it.

And if that was the case…

“I cannot choose just one of them. Not even if I wanted to.”

The test wanted him to choose one of them, but they were so precious that just choosing one of them would be unfair to the rest of these pretty and gentle creatures in every manner possible.

[Task: Choose one of the beings.]

But the task window was still in the same place it froze as soon as it appeared before him.

“Doesn’t seem like I can choose all of them when they specifically mentioned one.”

This was a problem then.

But, he had a solution to this problem.

“I’ve made my choice.”

He did not know what would happen to these precious creatures after his choice, so, did not gamble their lives.

And just made a choice…

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