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37.

The next day.

Chris woke up early.

I think I was more tired than I thought.

I was so worried about Howard and the black crystal that I fell into a deep sleep.

I fell asleep without even dreaming, and when I woke up it was still dawn and the sun had not yet risen.

Looking to the side, Lily and Ray were fast asleep.

Chris got out of the tent quietly so as not to wake the two people.

Chris took his summoning staff and headed to an open space a short distance from the research base.

Since I didn’t have anything to do, I thought I’d do some morning practice.

On my way to the vacant lot, I ran into Riel and Lisa.

The two were wearing winter clothes and adventure gear.

It seemed like he had come out early in the morning to do some homework.

“Did you sleep well?”

Riel nodded at Chris.

“Are you going to do your homework from dawn?”

“We’re trying to collect Ice Squirrels. They’re monsters that hide during the day and are hard to see, so we have to move around during this time to find them. ”

“You must have been really surprised yesterday. Wouldn’t it be better to rest a little more?”

Chris said worriedly.

“I feel like my mind gets more complicated if I stay still. I think it would be better to move my body. And if I stay at the research base, I feel like people’s attention will be too much.”

Riel said with a sad smile.

“Don’t overdo it. You need to rest when you have time to rest, so that you can get up again.”

“Thank you Chris Youngsik. Well, that’s it for us… .”

Riel and his party left for the snowy field.

Chris thought that Riel Youngae had a stronger personality than she appeared on the outside.

‘You got up right away even after going through such a hard time yesterday… This isn’t something that can be done normally… .’

Chris did some basic mana practice with his summoning staff until the sun rose.

Create a sphere of mana,

Spin the ball around and around.

He made the sphere of mana rise upwards and also made it plummet to the ground.

It was a class that cadets with a magician-type combat job finished in childhood as a basic mana training method.

But since Chris had never learned it, he had no choice but to take his time and do basic training little by little.

Fortunately, Ray was also very knowledgeable about magic, so he was kind enough to teach me things I didn’t know while training on my own.

Although he was a nag, he was a good teacher.

As I returned to the tent after finishing my dawn training, a delicious smell wafted in the air.

The academy cadets living in tents around the research base seemed busy preparing their own breakfast.

In front of Chris’s tent, Lily was busy making curry in a large pot.

-Woohoohoo!

The Yeti was delighted to smell the curry when it arrived.

Chris took out his notebook and took notes.

-Research on Yeti.

Yetis seem to like curry.

“Master, where have you been since this morning? ”

“I woke up a little early, so I went to stretch a little.”

Ray was delighted by Chris’ words.

“Chris is a very sincere summoner, he will surely become great in the future.”

Chris and his group shared curry for breakfast.

“It was delicious!”

-Woohaha!

Now I had to do the assignments given by the Academy.

Now that we’ve found the first monster, the Yeti, we need to study the ecology and characteristics of the remaining four monsters.

First of all, the most common and frequently seen monster in the Northmünster snowfields was the Snow Rabbit.

‘I guess I should catch a snow rabbit first? “

-Woohaha.

The Yeti seemed to want to say something.

“They say Yeti knows exactly what kind of monsters live around here.”

“Oh really? Then Yeti, I’ll only trust you.”

-Hahahaha.

Yeti confidently led Chris and his group to the snowy field.

-Woohaha.

There were several tunnels where the Yeti pointed.

“You want me to investigate this tunnel?”

Chris investigated the tunnels in the snowfield floor.

-Kiririk!

There was a snow rabbit in the cave.

“Wow! Found it!”

Chris pulled out the snow rabbit.

-Kirk kirik!

The snow rabbit bristled with a wary expression.

“Hey, stay quiet.”

Chris used a hold spell to keep the snow rabbit from escaping.

Then he placed the snow rabbit on the snowy ground.

Chris investigated Snow Rabbit’s height, weight, and appearance.

And I explored the inside of the burrow the snow rabbit had made.

Snow Rabbit’s rabbit hole was covered in bushes, camouflaging it and making it difficult to find.

The rabbit hole seemed to be about 1.5 meters deep.

Considering that Snow Rabbit is about 40cm tall, it was quite a spacious space.

Chris sketched the shape of the rabbit hole in his notebook and wrote down its features.

“Ice Arrow Executes.”

Chris created an ice missile and attacked Snow Rabbit.

-Keeek!

Snow Rabbit was hit by the ice mana, but it seemed to take no damage and cried sharply.

“Ice magic is definitely resistant.”

Chris wrote down the results of his experiment in his notebook.

“Fireball Execute.”

Sparks flew from Chris’s hand.

-Keeek!

Snow Rabbit was in distress.

“As expected, it’s weak to fire attribute magic.”

I wrote it down in my notebook.

The day was almost over as I was conducting various experiments and tracking the ecology of the Snow Rabbit.

“The sun sets early in the snowy area. Should we go back now?”

It was dangerous at night.

There was also the incident yesterday where Riel was attacked by Howard, so I thought it would be better to be careful for the time being.

Chris let go of Snow Rabbit and returned to the research base.

#

After that, for four days, Chris investigated three more types of monsters in the snowy area: the white boar, the snow fox, and the winter eagle.

As a result of my hard work, the report has become quite thorough.

“Now that my research is over, I should return to the academy.”

-Wooo… .

The Yeti looked sullen as if it had noticed that Chris and his group were leaving.

“Don’t worry, Yeti. The Yeti is Master Chris’s summon, so you’ll be seeing him often in the future.”

Lily comforted the sullen yeti.

-Woohaha!

Chris and his group waved goodbye to the Yeti.

“See you again Yeti!”

“Stay healthy!”

“Next time I’m summoned, I’ll make you an apple pie.”

#

The capital, Midreddin.

Academy.

Chris submitted his report to Professor Berriol.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Professor Berriol’s eyes widened as he quickly skimmed through Chris’s report.

“Yeti? Chris, you’ve been researching Yetis, haven’t you?”

“But why are you like that?”

“The Yeti is an endangered species and is a monster that is hard to find these days, but you’ve researched its ecology. This is valuable data that can be sent to the Royal Library!”

Professor Berriol spoke in a heated voice.

“Really? I just happened to get hit by a summoner.”

“Let’s send this to the Royal Library. If the library accepts it, Chris, you will become a researcher whose paper is housed in the Royal Library.”

“Yes. I guess I should send it.”

Chris nodded with an expression that said, “Is that right?”

“I’ll send it instead. Instead, how about you join me in conducting research on the Yeti? If you summon it as a summon, I think you can summon it often and conduct research… .”

Professor Berriol suggested with a selfish look on his face.

Perhaps he needed his own research results, and Chris seemed to have provided some good research materials.

‘Well, I guess it can’t hurt to do Professor Berriol a favor.’

Chris accepted Professor Berriol’s offer.

“Hahaha, that’s a good idea. I’ll tell the Royal Library to give them the proper compensation for the paper’s value.”

Professor Berriol was smiling brightly.

“But Professor. Why did the Yeti become an endangered monster? It was a powerful A-rank monster, wasn’t it?”

I didn’t understand.

There is no higher-level being in the natural world powerful enough to hunt and eat yetis, so why are their numbers decreasing?

“That’s….”

Professor Berriol made a sad expression.

“Yeti society is said to be a fiercely competitive society. So male Yetis without ability are not chosen by the females and are gradually eliminated….”

“Were eliminated?”

Chris was startled by the terrible word.

“Do female Yetis think it’s better to live and die alone than to conceive a child of an incompetent male? The numbers of Yetis must have decreased because they stopped mating with each other. According to research, more than half of male Yetis die without finding a mate.”

“Ah… ”

Now that I think about it, there was a scene that crossed Chris’ mind.

The yeti danced his courtship dance so hard to impress the female yeti, but in the end, the female did not choose him.

In the shock, didn’t the Yeti kidnap Lily, a member of this species?

How difficult must it have been for them to kidnap a different species and force them into slavery?

Chris felt like crying when he thought of the Yeti.

“I will definitely find Yeti a match. How hard it must be for him to be young and energetic without a girlfriend.”

Professor Berriol nodded.

“The birth rate needs to be raised to sustain the species. Ah! I think I have an idea!”

“Yes?”

“Our research topic! The relationship between Yeti’s love life, married life, and birth rate. How can we save Yeti from extinction? It would be good to study such a theme! ”

Professor Berriol spoke in a heated tone.

“Good. I’d also like to help find a Yeti girlfriend.”

The two priests decided to become the Yeti’s love cupids.