9. Taming Attempt

(Maybe… if I can tame them, I can command them to do things for me. Scouting the surrounding forest, for example? Or better yet, have them communicate with other birds, and maybe even spread the word to other life forms deeper in the woods, eventually bringing them all to me!)

(Muahaha! If that actually works, I will soon become the Lord Castle of this entire Forest, controlling all the animals like a feathered army!)

“System! Is there a way to tame these birds?” I asked eagerly.

But nothing happened. The system did not reply to me at all.

I tried rephrasing the question several times — “How do I tame animals?” “Taming mechanics?” “Animal friendship system?” — but the result was exactly the same. Nothing. No answer. Complete silence.

It was useless.

But it’s not like I would give up that easily!

If the system wouldn’t tell me, then I’d just have to figure it out on my own through good old-fashioned trial and error.

(Now then… how do you usually tame animals?)

For some absurd reason, the first thing that came to mind was beating them half to death and then capturing them in red and white magic balls.

(But nah! That can’t be right.)

They were real, living birds, not pocket monsters from some children’s game! And besides, how was I supposed to beat anything when I didn’t even have arms or any way to physically interact with the world?

Which meant there was really only one practical thing I could do right now.

And that was…

FOOD!

Yes. FOOD!

Naturally, food was the universal method for taming animals or monsters. And luckily, I actually had a way to produce food!

With that promising idea in mind, I quickly checked the shop again.

At the moment, I had exactly 3 points, generated earlier by my Level 1 castle core’s point-generation skill.

With one point, I could convert it into one unit of food.

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And then with one unit of food, I could buy bread.

And with bread… I could finally feed the birds!

That sounded reasonable enough on paper.

But…

“URRGGH!”

I still hesitated badly. After all, spending precious Points on something as seemingly trivial as bread… Didn’t that feel like such a huge waste of my hard-earned resources?

Just a few days ago, I had even made a solemn promise to myself to stay strictly Free-to-Play! I had refused to let the greedy System win so easily!

But… I had no other choice! I needed to tame these birds if I wanted any chance of building connections in this lonely forest!

(Arrgh! Not like this!)

I couldn’t believe I would give in so soon after swearing to hoard every point.

(Alright, System! Take my damn Point! Convert it into Food!)

[Ding! Purchasing resource successful]

[-1 Point]

[+1 Food]

[Points remaining: 2]

Then, using that Food, I purchased two loaves of bread which were automatically stored inside my hidden inventory.