Chapter 7: Exploration and hunting
Chapter 7: Exploration and hunting
After an hour of training my body, I finally got a sense of my new strength, I tried to push a box that a child could carry, and I was able to push it with some effort, which means I must have the strength of a human child for the less, then the strength of an adult must be double my stats.
I also tried to run, but I had to get used to dragging myself quickly as I don’t have any legs anymore, which took a while to get used to.
After finishing the training I decided to explore, not the ruins that I found out to be a big temple complex, it doesn’t seem like there are any other creatures besides me here, for some reason they keep away from the ruins, so now I’m heading towards the forest to see if I can find another rabbit.
But first, let me see my skills.
<[ PASSIVE ABILITIES: [ Leech: 1 ] [ Leech Belly: 3 ] [ Weak Hunger Resistance: 1 ] [ Weak Paralysis Resistance: 1 ] [ Weak Blood Elemental Affinity: 1 ] [ Weak Mana Sense: 1 ] [ Weak affinity with curse: 1 ]
ACTIVE SKILLS:
[ Weak Leech Bite: 3 ] [ Weak Paralyzing Poison Secretion: 2 ] [ Weak Blood Detection: 1 ] [ Swim: 1] [ Weak Blood Control: 1 ] [ Aura of Judgment: 1 ]
UNIQUE SKILLS:
[ □▪︎●□○ ] [ Chaotic Devourer ]
BLESSINGS: [ □■●○■¤ ] ]>
Before testing any of these new skills I must first look for something to eat, so when I’m tired I can recover, one of reasons I chose to hunt a Rabbit with a horn is that I want to test the skill [ Leech: 1 ] that I never managed to level up, the leeches I’ve killed so far didn’t have much blood in them, so I haven’t been able to level this skill so far.
I’ll try to explore the forest just around the ruins and see if I can find a horned Rabbit to drink his blood.
Deciding myself I start my journey of exploration leaving the ruins, passing through the puddles, and heading to the forest, but always keeping an eye on the sky, so as not to be eaten by a bird.
Arriving in the forest I noticed a lot of tall grass and some animal tracks or I should say monsters, I can see various types of footprints on these tracks, hoof footprints, crossbow footprints of all sizes, and humanoid footprints.
I’m going to avoid these trails until I’m strong enough, as all these footprints are big, even the Horned Rabbit I’m thinking about hunting is bigger than me.
I will crawl with my head down in this undergrowth, as stealthily as possible, to avoid being found by a creature I am unable to defeat.
Doing a quick scan around, I realized that I’m not the only one using the tall grass to hide. A green caterpillar appeared that was bigger than me, was about eight inches tall, it didn’t attack me when we met, it seemed to be watching me while it ate some plants, prepared to defend itself if needed. I decided to kill her to see if I can learn some skills from other races besides the leech.
Without underestimating the caterpillar for its appearance, I try to pretend I’m gone and circle it through the bush, out of sight to its back, as soon as I’m in the position I catch myself biting and gripping the tip of its tail with my teeth as I use it four times. of weak paralyzing venom: 2 ], as soon as the paralysis takes effect, I go up to her neck and bite down, sucking all the blood dry.
Glub! Glub!
Ding!
<[ You gained 1 EXP from killing silk caterpillar ]>
The blood wasn’t as disgusting as the flesh and blood of the leeches I killed and ate yesterday, I’ve already started to get used to these things after everything I went through yesterday.
After drinking all the blood, I ate various parts of the caterpillar’s body like the brain, heart, and organs that are softer and easier to swallow.
Nhac! Nhac!
Ding!
<[ You have learned the following Silk Caterpillar skills:
• [ Line production: 1 ] ]>
I just learned this skill, but how do I use it? I’m going to try to activate it and the moment I activate this ability, a line comes out of my mouth that gets tangled in the bush in front, when I get close I realize that these threads are strong and smooth, now I understand the name of the caterpillar having “silk” in the name, this thread looks like silk from my old world, but it seems more resistant, it ended up costing one STM per one meter of thread.
I’ll test [Weak Mana Sense: 1] in the late afternoon when I’m back at base, now I’ll continue exploring.
Continuing to explore I activated it every twenty minutes [ Poor blood detection: 1 ], and the third time I activated I felt the presence of blood four meters or so to my right, followed that direction carefully, and tried not to make any noise.
When I arrived at the place that my skill pointed I saw a spider of a foot or so tall, black, and was eating a caterpillar just like the one I killed, the spider has legs that look like spears, and it had a jaw full of sharp teeth.
Spiders are usually fast and have good reflexes, so I was as stealthy as I could, and I went towards her from behind, I positioned myself and when I was distracted I took a piece of the caterpillar off and I reached under it and used [Low bite from Leech: 3 ] on the underside of her barrel which is the softest part of the spider’s body, when she was stunned by the unexpected attack I used the ability to increase the size of the hole I made in her barrel a second time, and before that she managed to attack me her organs started to fall out of the big hole I made and she collapsed on the floor on top of me and died.
Ding!
<[ You gained 3 EXP from killing Little Spider ]>
Then I started eating spider parts to get their abilities.
Nhac! Nhac!
Ding!
<[ You have learned the following skills from Little Spider:
• [ Sticky line production: 1 ]
• [ Line control: 1 ] ]>
It gave me good skills, I decided to test a little, as soon as I activated the skill [Production of sticky thread: 1 ] it came out of my mouth just like the skill I received from the previous caterpillar, the thread stuck to everything that touched and had the same cost of an STM as my other line skill.
I tried to control the sticky thread this time with [ Thread control: 1 ], and I felt when activating the ability that energy was flowing from me to the thread I was producing, and suddenly I could control the sticky thread as if it were a part of me, but my control was raw like a newborn trying to learn to walk, I tested to see if the [ Line Production: 1 ] skill could also be controlled and it seems to work the same for all line skills.
I decided to look at the stats to see my energy chaste.
<[NAME: NONE
BREED: Small Poisonous Leech (Variant)
LEVEL: 1/10
EXP: 4/15
LINEAGE: [ ○□■□●☆ ] [ Evil Leech: 100% ]
HP: 20/20
MP: 3/5
Stamina: 10/15
Strength: 11
Dexterity: 10
Agility: 12
Defense: 9
Intelligence: 16
magic defense: 2
Charm: 0
Luck: -20
CONDITION: HEALTHY
TITLES:
[ □□○☆•○● ] [ ■□■□¤●□¤▪︎☆○●□ ] [ World breaker ] [ Last of his kind ] [ First of his kind ] [ He who brings chaos ]
]>
It seems that [Line control: 1 ] uses mana instead of STM as the lines, that is to say, the energy that I felt leaving my body and going through the lines was mana, I still remember the feeling of that energy and it goes to me. help train later.
The spider gave me more EXP than this caterpillar, I think I will stop hunting caterpillars and I will try to hunt spiders until I find the Horned Rabbit.
Resuming my exploration journey I went back to using [ Poor blood detection: 1 ] but twice and the second time it detected blood from two meters ahead, so I went there and I could see humanoid beings with big pointed ears, big nose, lots of warts, green skin and being between fifty to sixty centimeters tall, there were three of them and they wore ragged loincloths that barely covered them and one had a rusty sword and the other two had big thick branches that they must use as a club, this view is so classic and nostalgic that I can only call them Goblins.
“Gi gi giiigi ggi.”
Gii gigigiii”
When I saw them I hid quickly, by the way, they hold their weapons and imagining the weight they had to have I estimated that their strength is only a little stronger than mine, but in addition to being in greater numbers, the fact that they give arms and legs that they allow a greater range of movements than mine and also have weapons while I would have to attack with my teeth.
I don’t need to be a genius to see that it would be a one-sided spanking followed by my death.
I sneaked away from them before they noticed me, and went back to using my [ Poor blood detection: 1 ] twice more before detecting anything, what I found when I got two spiders were fighting a horned Rabbit that had a wounded hind leg and could not escape.
Pow!
While patiently waiting for an opportunity to attack I saw that the Horned Rabbit threw a load with his horn at a spider that died from the blow, but the other spider used a sticky web to bind its paws preventing it from moving.
With the result of the fight already decided I move behind the spider as it goes towards the Rabbit, use it twice [ Sticky thread production: 1 ] and control them using twice as well [ Thread control: 1 ] and tie them all the spider’s folders, immobilizing it as it did the Rabbit. Wasting no time I go to the spider’s head and use [Leech Bite: 3] to finish it, and I go towards Rabbit, bite his injured leg, and start kicking and drinking all his blood.
Chomp!
Glub! Glub! Glub!
Ding! Ding!
<[ You gained 3 EXP from killing Little Spider ]>
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<[ You gained 4 EXP from killing Horned Rabbit ]>
Ding!
<[ Your skill leveled up [ Leech: 1 > 2 ] ]>
Ding!
<[ You learned the following skills from Horned Rabbit:
• [Weak body load: 1 ] ]>
Ding!
<[ You acquired the lineage [ Rabbit Horn: 10% ] ]>