Chapter 23 – Eggs and Jelly
7 AM.
23 Hours remaining until the end of the quest,
With nothing to do, Misha planked inside the oval room. Because of the boredom, she decided to grind her attribute status EXP a bit.
Since she would not gain any more EXP from the daily workout after the quest ended, this was the last chance to grind.
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Status
Name – Misha
Class – Unassigned Combat Class
Level – 25
EXP – 0/3,000
Free Attribute – 18
Attributes
STR – 150/1,002 (68.58%)
VIT – 152/1,002 (0%)
AGI – 197/1,000 (41.43%)
DEX – 165/1,000 (85.00%)
INT – 500/1,000 (0%)
WIS – 375/1,000 (31.61%)
Luck – 18/100
STM - 152/1000 (0%)
Skills
Self Regeneration – 3/100 (0%)
Pheromone – 5/100 (10%)
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Misha collapsed on the ground on her tumble. She panted as the exhaustion of the one-hour long planking was killing her back and her core.
*SCREECH*
Meanwhile, her roommates, the three green eggs at the size of one-meter each, stuck out their tentacle tongues and licked her sweaty body as they detected the odd smell of sweat.
"Stop, I'm not your food!"
Misha activated her [Pheromone] again, and all the tongues retreated.
For the past hours, these three eggs attempted to attack her whenever her [Pheromone] smell subsided. As a result, Misha had to keep releasing the green gas once every 10 minutes, which she leveled up this skill to five unintentionally.
Getting trapped in the oval room with monsters was stressing.
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8.30 AM
A gap opened on the wall, and several human-head-size tentacles dragged a hundred of blobs of green jelly inside. They threw the jelly to the eggs and Misha as if they were giving it to them.
The three eggs opened their mouth like baby chicks and scrambled for the jellies while Misha was dumbfounded by the event.
One of the jelly pieces landed on her lap. She picked it and smelled it.
"Still smell like a dead fish. Well, a cooked dead fish."
Misha checked her hunger status, it was already at 30%. Once it dropped to zero, she would begin starving and would die in a few in-game hours if she could not find something to eat.
Seeing how desperate her roommates competed for these pieces of blob objects, she put it in her mouth.
If ones did not mind the saltiness and rotting taste, the jelly texture was the same as puddings.
After eating a handful of jelly, Misha rechecked her hunger status.
80%
"Eating one of these increases my hunger bar?"
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"Ugh!?"
After seeing the result of the jelly, it took Misha a split of a second to know what she should do next. She rushed toward the scattering blobs of jelly, scrambling to collect as many jells as possible.
Fortunately, the tentacles tossed in several hundreds of jelly blobs, which Misha managed to secure twenty of them in her bosom and one in her mouth. The rest was collected and eaten by the glutton three baby eggs.
Misha retreated to the corner of the room as she chewed the jelly in her mouth. She looked around for a place to dig and hide her properties like a puppy with a bone.
One of the eggs noticed that Misha was collecting food. It expanded the tentacle outward to steal Misha's collection.
"They're mine. Scram!"
She ignored the noodle-like tentacles and kicked the greedy egg like a soccer ball. It was sent and hit to oval room wall and screeched in pain.
The other two wanted to take Misha's food, too. They snuck on of their tentacle tongue toward Misha in a snail pace, thinking that they would not be noticed.
Misha stomped her feet on the tongues as she patted her hands. The jelly in her mouth was already in her stomach.
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Her hand took another jelly into her mouth as Misha planned to finish them as soon as possible.
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Misha rechecked her hunger status.
130%
The number was in red instead of the usual white color, and it had a warning of overeating.
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Misha wanted to cry. She had 20 jellies that might increase her skills by another 20 levels, yet she could not eat it.
*SCREECH*
The three baby eggs stick their tentacle tongues at Misha's direction, wanting to fight her to steal the jelly.
Seeing their reaction, Misha cracked her knuckles.
"Fine. Exercise time after a meal."
*SCREECH*
The eggs opened their flower mouth, revealing their fangs and barbed tongue. They were serious.
"Okay, maybe not. You can have them."
Misha took one jelly and stuffed it in her mouth as she stepped aside for the eggs. She did not want to risk her life with these monster in their serious mode.
The three eggs rolled toward the last jelly pile, but their shell collided with each other.
*SCREECH*
Sibling-fight happened. They spat their acid fluid and tried to bite at each other.
Meanwhile, Misha sat in the corner as she enjoyed watching them struggling for the last pile of food.
As she continued to watch, Misha noticed their weakness.
Two of the eggs coiled one of its tongue around all tentacle tongues of its other sibling. Meanwhile, the other tentacles pushed the shell of the coiled tongue egg outward, yanking the slimy tentacles out of its innards.
It pulled the tentacles out, which the victim screamed and rolled around in pain. The crying egg size shrank as the liquid inside the egg spilled outside, which it stopped shrinking when its size reduced to a chicken egg.
Misha raised her eyebrows, "Is this what I ate at the base? But why did they burn my hand before they let me eat it?"
The chicken-size egg had not died yet. It trembled and wailed as it was crying for help from its mother.
Instead of crying in a strange monster scream, it sounded like a kitten.
*Mew*
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