[Feed it, you can accelerate its growth!]
Ethan suddenly remembered the baby eagle's prompt.
He immediately pulled out all the edible food he had on him and placed them one by one in front of the chick.
A handful of nuts, some hides, poisonous fangs and such.
There was no meat.
The snake meat he had hunted yesterday and the mackerel he had traded for this morning, either he had eaten them or traded them for water.
"Anyway, this little thing even ate eggshells, so these items should be edible too, right?"
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The chick, which had grown from palm-sized to the size of a soccer ball, glanced at the food and disdainfully turned its head.
It looked like it had no interest in the things in front of it.
"You don't want to eat?", Ethan scratched his head, helpless, "Do you insist on meat?"
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The chick nodded vigorously, as if it understood human speech.
Now Ethan was the one in trouble.
A pet that understood human speech would be great, but he didn't have any meat on him.
He couldn't just kill an animal on the spot to feed it, could he?
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The chick kept circling Ethan, its beak opening and closing constantly like it was begging for a meal.
This made Ethan wonder, "Could it be that I have what you want on me?"
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The chick nodded again.
Ethan immediately took out a little of everything and put them all in front of the chick.
The moment he took out the white spirit stone, the chick's eyes lit up; it grabbed the spirit stone and swallowed it whole.
Crunch!
Crack! Crack!
The chick treated the spirit stone like a snack and bit it up.
At the moment the spirit stone was crushed, Ethan even saw a holy white light flash inside the chick's mouth.
'Could that white light be the true essence of the spirit stone?'
"Chirp! Chirp!"
After eating the spirit stone, the chick rapidly grew, like an inflated balloon, getting taller and bigger nonstop.
Its gray fluffy down shed in clumps.
In almost the blink of an eye, white feathers sprouted all over the chick, each long and strong, very beautiful.
Less than half a minute after eating the spirit stone, the chick had become a real hawk.
A white hawk, over one meter tall, strong and powerful!
[Ding! Chick has grown.]
[Owner gained Eagle-Eye ability.]
"Eagle-Eye ability?"
Ethan opened his status panel.
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[ID: 888]
[Strength: 7/10]
[Agility: 8/10]
[Satiety: 7/10]
[Poison Resistance: 1/10]
[Special Ability: Eagle-Eye]
[Status Assessment: Slightly fatigued, somewhat mentally tense, please return to residence to rest.]
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Sure enough, a special skill called Eagle-Eye had appeared on the attribute panel.
He expanded the Eagle-Eye section to read the description.
[Eagle-Eye: When activated, grants White-Eagle vision.]
"This skill is nice."
Since Ethan couldn't speak bird language, and the white hawk couldn't speak human language, even if the hawk saw something it would be hard to tell Ethan.
But now, by activating Eagle-Eye, Ethan could observe the surrounding situation.
It was absolutely like having an extra reconnaissance drone.
'Awesome! Awesome!'
[Common Spirit Pet, White Hawk (juvenile): Expert at scouting and hunting. Talons have extremely powerful attack strength, can easily kill a goat. Food: meat, any energetic substance.]
[Loyalty to owner: 100%. If the owner abuses it or starves it long-term, loyalty will decrease.]
[If loyalty drops below 50%, the spirit pet will run away. If below 20%, the spirit pet may attack the owner.]
[Can merge with other spirit pets to upgrade!]
"Pfft!"
Reading the white hawk's description, loyalty and food requirements were fine.
But that last line —
"Can merge with other spirit pets to upgrade?"
"What the hell?"
"Does that mean if I find a fox, it can merge with the white hawk?"
'Merge into what?'
'A fox-hawk?'
Just imagining it made Ethan feel like his eyes would pop out.
Really, that picture is too amazing; he didn't dare to look.
Whoosh!
The white hawk spread its wings, and countless downy feathers flew off its body.
Only when it spread its wings did Ethan see the wingspan, meters wide.
[Down: Can be collected.]
[Down +10]
[Down: Can be used to make down jackets, down pillows, down quilts, etc. It's the best insulating material.]
"Not bad!"
"I needed a pillow, didn't expect such top-quality pillow material to arrive so quickly."
"White hawk, go!", Ethan commanded the fluff-shaking hawk, "Go check ahead for me. What the hell is at eighty-seven meters in front?"
"Chirp!"
The white hawk replied once.
Then it spread its wings and flew higher and higher, until it disappeared into the mist.
[Eagle-Eye effect, activated!]
When the white hawk flew into the fog, Ethan immediately activated the Eagle-Eye effect.
A strange vision appeared in his mind.
Like playing VR, a scene popped up in his head as if a second pair of eyes were watching.
It was a bird's-eye view.
Everything around was white and hazy, except for a dim glow in Ethan's direction.
That must have been the torch in Ethan's hand.
Looking down at himself from above felt really weird.
Soon, Ethan saw the white hawk circle once in the air and descend slightly.
About eighty-seven meters away there was a spot where the mist was thinner.
The white hawk dove toward that spot.
The mist was blown aside by the hawk's huge wingbeats.
Only then did Ethan see clearly, the place was actually a small black mound.
[Prompt: Magnet discovered. Mine it?]
"Those black things are magnetite?"
'They are exactly the key material for making a compass.'
But Ethan was nearly a hundred meters away; he could only see this through the hawk's eyes and couldn't mine it himself.
As the hawk flew lower, Ethan finally saw someone standing on the black little mound, a short, "Person?"
[Prompt: Dwarf tribe discovered. Likes collecting treasures, digs for gold, good at running away, crafts all kinds of exquisite tools. Can be enslaved.]
[PS: Beware the dwarves' trickery. They are very cunning and love to create illusions to scare off enemies.]
"Create illusions?"
Reading this prompt, Ethan immediately understood.
No wonder he couldn't get past earlier, it turned out these dwarves used the magnet mountain's principle to make him lose his way in this mist forest.
And the "unpredictable danger ahead" was probably made by these little dwarves.
"You almost got me killed in this damned place."
"F**k you!"
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