[Day 8]

Ah, H-

"Hey, Lux-"

"GOD WILL SOMEONE PLEASE LET ME HAVE AN INTERNAL MONOLOGUE FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE?!"

Ah, no good, I lost composure.

I look over to the Aviare kid that is now looking at me frightened and say.

"Sorry, just a bad morning."

The kid just nods and points to Jer who is calling me over.

I go over to where Jer is and sit next to him, waiting for him to say something but he just remains in silence for a few minutes before breaking that silence.

"You're smarter than the others..."

I give a playful smirk and reply.

"Tell me something I don't already know."

He gives a small laugh.

"Arrogant little shit..."

I reply with a small laugh as well.

"I'm surprised you even know what the word arrogant means."

He chuckles.

"Fuck you."

I simply laugh at the fact that he doesn't have a comeback, as my laugh dies down the solemn silence comes back.

"We ran out of food..."

I can feel my face changing from a smile into a frown.

"Oh..."

He simply nods.

"Yeah... That rabbit you guys brought yesterday gave us a day of food more, so thank you..."

Fuck, this is such an awkward conversation to have, it's like your dad telling you he lost his job.

Getting tired of the moping I stand up.

"Well, there's no use in just bitching about this stuff, I'm gonna start gathering the kids and teach them how to hunt, hopefully, you'll help me?"

The frown on Jer's face changes into his smug smirk as he too stands up.

"Heh, what do you know about hunting you little shit? Let the great Jer take care of the education, you protect them when they go hunt."

I simply laugh at his sudden change of expression and way of talking and walk away in Nobu's direction.

"Hey, Nobu, can you come with me for a minute?"

Nobu simply nods and bids goodbye to the other Aviare kids she was trying to convince to be her vassals, the kids look at each other and sigh in happiness and relief.

As we walk towards a more isolated I decide to tease her a bit.

"So, already planning on replacing me?"

This question seems to make Nobu confused and she just replies.

"What do you mean? How could I replace someone that is one of a kind?"

Wha-

"Wha-"

I see Nobu smirk as she replies with melodic tone to her voice.

"Oh~ Now I know what you're weak to~"

"Shut up..."

Fucking women, thinking they are so cute and adorable and lovel-

BRAIN STOP.

Okay, moving on.

I sit with Nobu at a corner of the cave and I start discussing with her what Jer told me.

"No food?"

I simply nod as Nobu replies with a complex expression on her face.

"That's bad..."

I nod again and reply.

"I need you right now Nobu."

"WHA-"

Nobu moves back as if hit by something and I realize the phrasing of that sentence.

"No no no no! I mean like I need your information on the forest so you can help me hunt! Just that!"

Nobu's embarrassed expression quickly changes to pouting and she replies with a slight tint of anger in her voice.

"So you're saying that the only thing you need me for is information and just that?"

I hastily reply.

"What?! No! I mean you're very helpful and all you're also very good company and you're pretty adorable when you get all smug-"

"Adorable?"

Ah fuck, what am I saying?

"Ah, no! That's not-"

Before I could finish speaking Nobu starts having a belly laugh as she hits the floor with a closed fist.

She... She was fucking with me.

God just end me, wait, no don't, Gods are real here and if some God thinks they can just be like "Hehe~ he asked for it~" then no, don't kill me, give me eternal life and overpowered skills you cuck!

Sighing to myself I just stand up and reply with a tired voice.

"Can we go hunt now..?"

With the smuggest smile she can manage to do, she just nods and I start following her lead through the forest.

Surprisingly Nobu now knows the skills of the rabbits, they apparently all have an innate skill named «Sixth Sense» which allows them to perceive things that are hidden and to move instinctively out of danger, so my plan now is different.

"I want to try something Nobu, if this works it might make hunting these rabbits easier and less time-consuming."

She simply nods and I come out of the bushes where we were hiding.

I start walking towards the rabbit as I concentrate my breathing and clear my mind.

Empty.

Empty.

I keep walking towards the rabbit and then it notices me, and just as I expected it doesn't run, I keep walking towards it while chanting and concentrating in my brain.

Empty.

Empty.

I kneel next to the rabbit and start touching it and testing it, it doesn't move or tries to run away, I move my claw and take the rabbit by the throat as I stop chanting, it immediately tries to run away but can, I rip the drills off its arm so it doesn't stab me with it and then break its neck.

"What the fuck..."

I hear Nobu whisper as she comes close to me.

"How did you just do that?"

Before I could reply, the pulse starts going off in my head and I start to salivate a lot, without thinking it twice I open my mouth and swallow the rabbit whole.

[Your stomach has been modified by «Adapt», the contents in your stomach are now instantly adapted!]

[«Adapt» has finished processing the contents in your stomach!]

{Results}
[«Sixth Sense» has been added to skills!]
[«Dash» has been added to skills!]
[«Novice Piercing Proficiency» has been added to skills!]
[«Escape Tactics» has been added to skills!]
[«Silent Step» has been added to skills!]

[«?» could not be completed, requirements not met!]

The wave of information hits my head like Truck-kun delivering Japanese highschoolers to another world and I fall kneeling to the ground.

"Lux-kun! Are you okay?"

I see up and see Nobu's worried expression and reply.

"Yeah, just information overload."

She makes an expression as if telling me she understands, most probable because she does.

I stand up and start explaining how I got to get close enough to the rabbit.

"Meditation and chanting? are you a Monk now?"

I just sigh and tell her to trust me as we come close enough to another Drainul.

I see Nobu start to calm herself and slowly move towards it as she breathes and mutters under her breath.

She slowly kneels next to the rabbit and then snatches it by the neck successfully, after that she takes out the drill appendages and starts absorbing its blood.

"Hahaha! Good job Nobu!"

As I come close to Nobu she quickly turns around.

"We gotta leave now!"

Not understanding what she means I open my mouth to reply, only to be silenced by a snarl.

"Oh fuck not again..."

I quickly turn around toward where the tingling sensation in my brain is pointing and I see one of the armoured wolves, I quickly move next to Nobu and whisper.

"How many are there?"

"Just one, it separated from the pack."

Suddenly my fear turns into something else, and that something else is the basis of all humans, one of the original sins, greed.

Just what kind of skills could I get from this Wolf?

I start smiling to myself without realizing, I whisper to Nobu.

"Do you trust me?"

Without waiting she replies certainly.

"With my life."

I can feel the smile almost break my face as I start to salivate.

"I'll distract it, you jump on him from a tree use the drills we got from the rabbits."

She quickly starts running catching the wolf's attention, I use «Dash» and scratch the wolf's face with my claw so the attention is brought back to me.

"Come here puppy, let's play catch."

The wolf charges at me and without thinking my body simply move to avoid the hit, this continues for a few seconds until the wolf starts slowly moving around me, «Dash» + «Sixth Sense» is truly OP.

"What's wrong, little bitch? Too tired to continue?"

The wolf roars and throws itself on me again, instead of dodging I use the Street Fighter Ryu throw and throw the wolf on its back.

"NOW NOBU!"

Nobu quickly jumps from the trees and stabs the wolf's unarmored stomach with the 2 drills of the Drainul, and rolls away as she falls to the ground.

As the Wolf moves to stand up I quickly mount its back and use my claws to grab onto his skull by his eyes hard, the wolf gives a sharp cry of pain as it tries to throw me off its back like a Bull on a Bullriding event.

But like I said before, bloodloss is a bitch.

Eventually, the wolf fell to the ground and died.

I stood up and looked at Nobu with an ear to ear grin, she simply shook her head with a smile and proceeded to use her First and Second Step to move the wolf back to the cave.

Well, guess that's food for the day.

Although I wanted to eat it all...

Sucks but I guess it'd be pretty shitty of me to eat the food of our village-colony-home thing huh?

As we walk back to the cave we discuss strategy especially now that Jer is training the kids.

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT KID?! IS THAT A FUCKING BREWULF?!"

The first thing that greets us as we enter the vicinity of the cave is Jer's shouting and awestruck face.

I get my smuggest possible smirk and reply.

"I'm smarter than the others after all..."

Jer's face is a mix of being annoyed and happy as he replies.

"Wipe that smug smile off your face before I beat it out of you."

I simply laugh and reply mockingly.

"Yes, sir."

I go down and lay on my back for a bit looking at the cave and thinking of the situation as Nobu talks with Jer and lays the Wolf corpse on the ground.

We obviously can't keep hunting forever, eventually, the food chain will be reduced enough to the point where the superpredator will have to start hunting us.

We need a more constant and secure form of acquiring food and I don't see that happening any time soon.

Wait, Farming.

But how? That's the main question... I barely know anything about the plants and the things we can eat around here and the skill I acquired from the baldy barely gives me any information into farming...

Sighing to myself I close my eyes and decide to take a nap.

"So that's what I've been thinking about, any thoughts?"

As I said that to Nobu and Jer I bit a piece of wolf leg that Jer bought me after he roasted it, it wasn't as bad as eating it raw but it wasn't good either.

"Farming huh?"

Nobu scratches her chin as she adopts a thoughtful expression, Jer quickly replies.

"We've thought of Farming before but... There haven't been any Aviare born with farming skills or knowledge."

In a too long didn't read manner, we're fucked, at least for the moment.

"Okay then, we need to find a way to get a permanent supply of food."

Nobu takes the opportunity to jump in.

"And weapons, we can't keep hunting with our claws, it's too dangerous, especially if we're gonna have more people join in."

I solemnly nod and stand up finishing the last bit of the Briwhatever Wolf.

The information quickly appears in my head.

[«Adapt» has finished processing the contents in your stomach!]

{Results}
[«Brewulf Roar» has been added to skills!]
[«Charge» has been added to skills!]

[«?» could not be completed, requirements not met!]

What the fuck is the question mark, I keep assuming it's the Third Step but I honestly have no idea...

It seems like the quantity of what you eat matters in learning skills too.

Sigh... everything is slowly becoming really bothersome...

Gotta man up and start thinking hard then I guess, but for the moment, sleep.

Saying my goodbyes to Jer and Nobu I head to a corner of the Cave to sleep.

[You've gained the «██████ Protection from the ██████████ ███ of █████»!]

[Day 9]

It's weird you know, since coming here I haven't had a single dream, not that I had many before coming here but still, it seems odd...

As I wake up and stand up from the ground I see most people are sleeping except one of us.

Nobu has something on her hands and is moving it around and tightening it with some kinda rope, as I come close I notice what she's making, a spear.

The head of the spear seems to be one of the rabbit drill-like appendages and the other part seems to be a solid looking stick, using these two she's tightening them up with a string apparently made by some kind of tree bark.

As Nobu finishes the spear she smiles to herself and whispers a small "yatta!" under her breath.

"That looks pretty good."

My whisper took her by surprise as she instantly picks the weapon up and takes a stab at me while standing up, fortunately for me, «Sixth Sense» has my back covered, so my head moves automatically a bit and the spear goes by my head not without leaving the dramatic cut on my cheek though.

"Whoa there tiger! Calm down!"

Nobu looks at me angrily and replies in a whisper as to not wake up anyone else.

"Are you crazy?! You don't take a warrior from behind without expecting an attack!"

Whoops

"Whoops."

She just stops pointing the spear at me and sighs, her expression has a sudden change as a crooked smile appears on her face while she twirls the spear.

"Hey, wanna go hunting?"

I simply smile back.

"You know it."

I go pick up the Rusted Sword and my body automatically knows the basic slashes and how to handle it, after giving it a few test swings I keep it on my right hand while following Nobu into the forest.

Getting close to the rabbit I slice it's head off in one strike, that makes 3 now.

"Well, this seems easier now that we have weapons doesn't it?"

Nobu just gives a quick smile and a nod.

As I pick up the rabbit off the floor my «Sixth Sense» activates and I drop to the floor.

"Fuck I missed..."

As I look up I realize what's in front of me.

3 men, one in robes, one in leather armour and a Zweihänder and the final one has a bow and quiver on his side.

I look to Nobu and see she's okay and wondering what to do as well, slowly the men start to surround us as the man with the Zweihänder taunts us.

"Come here little coin bag, come to daddy!"

This would be a good time for the «Escape Tactics» wouldn't it?

Too bad I'm already using it and I'm not finding a way out, haha.

I look to Nobu as she looks at me with an unrecognizable expression, seemingly waiting for orders.

Fuck, can't act weak now, time to strategize.

"Okay, Nobu listen to me closely because I'm gonna talk really fast."

She simply nods with hurry and I speed up my way of speaking as to rely all the information needed quickly.

"Hit and run tactics, stab jump back dodge stab again, don't try to clash weapons as yours will obviously lose, do this on the big one until he's tired, the most troublesome is the mage, we don't know anything about magic so it could be dangerous, leave that to me, every time the archer tries to hit you hide behind the big one and make him shoot him, if he starts targeting me don't worry, I have it covered, now, GO!"

As I say that I use «Charge» and «Dash» at the same time, if I had to be compared to anyone I'd say I'm about 5 meters per second faster than Usain Bolt.

As I become a blur of speed I charge the mage catching him off guard, I burry the rusted sword deep inside his chest and quickly pull out.

I duck down as my «Sixth Sense» tells me an arrow is coming and it passes right by my head, you aim for the centre of mass not the head, dumbass.

I quickly use the «Charge» and «Dash» combination again but this time I'm surprised as I fly past the archer and realize something, not an archer, a rogue.

I touch my side and realize I have a large gash from one of the two steel daggers the man is using.

Fuck, a little bit closer and I'd be done for, thank God for «Sixth Sense»...

The little bitch in front of me is now smirking to himself seeing the gash he left on my side.

"What are you smirking at whore? Did you see yourself in the mirror and thought you saw life's greatest joke?"

[«Taunt» has been added to skills!]

Hehe, free skills.

As the smirk becomes a frown the rogue dashes toward me with both the daggers pointing towards me, since he's taller than me I can do something he can't, I use the combination of skills again and instead of going for his head or arms I go for his legs, the sword strikes his shin and gets stuck as the man falls to the ground and one of his daggers rolls away, as the man moves to remove the sword I quickly run towards the Dagger and pick it up.

I switch the dagger to an icepick grip and stab the man on the head as he tries to stand up, ending his life.

I'm really out of breath and barely standing at this point, oh yeah, the wound, fuck.

I look over to where Nobu is and she looks tired to, but the hulking mass of muscle is tired as well and has multiple cuts all along his body, niceu niceu Nobu-chan.

I pick the other dagger off the corpse of the man and quickly switch it to an icepick grip too, using «Charge» and «Dash» again I jump on his back and stab the place where his lungs are supposed to be and pull.

I quickly get back as the hulking mass of muscle tries to hit me but thanks to «Sixth Sense» + «Dash» he can barely keep up, eventually it seems like his lungs collapsed and he falls to the ground.

I look over the aftermath as I lay on the ground and smile, my smile quickly turns into a laugh and that laugh into a full-on belly laugh.

"WE DID IT NOBU! WE FUCKING DID IT!"

She starts laughing too and falls on her back completely exhausted.

What a fucking day.

Author's ██████: Well I hope you guys like this chapter, sorry if it's a little late, got a bit sick and couldn't write.

Also, quick thing, if anyone is interested in the map of the world I've kinda created, here's the link.

imgur-com/a/jv3vdss

Adrian King1: Well, in my head I thought 130cm was still pretty small, in this case, I guess you can just imagine very big chickens with 2 opposable thumb-claws.
I appreciate the support a lot and hope you like this chapter!
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Well, that about does it for the 3rd chapter, hope you guys are having an amazing week! See you next time!