Chapter 3 - Watching From The Sidelines

After seeing the old rotten contents inside of the old dilapidated fridge, Jack Faust then started to hurl quite a bit, as he couldn't handle the smell of rotten old eggs and the decayed old refrigerator meat.

The old refrigerator meat despite being long since well expired, past its expiration date by a couple decades. It was in a whole lot much better conditions than the other old rotten foods.

The surface of old meat being darkish brown, almost completely black, due to being preserved in an air tight eniviroment and contained withinside a plastic box, but it is still not safe for consumption and quite inedible.

The eggs withinside the old dilapidated fridge have all become rotten, releasing a foul stench that is quite overwhelming, despite the egg's outer eggshell that remains completely the same for a couple decades.

The package of old oranges have all since lost its youthful orange tangy colour, now being steadily covered in dark greenish grey mould. With some old mouldy oranges having lost a bit of its round shape and became a bit deflated, like a balloon.

[Old Rotten Eggs]

[Old Rotten Mouldy Oranges]

[Old Moudly Bread]

[Old Preserved Meat in a Plastic Box]

[Old Rotten Mouldy Mayonnaise Bottle]

[Old Rotten Mouldy Tomato Ketchup Bottle]

[Aged Preserve Cheddar Cheese]

And then a curious little thought then suddenly pops up withinside his head, as he then rapidly closes the old dilapidated fridge's door in order to stop the bad smell from getting out.

'I wonder if I can upgrade the rotten old food with my upgrading power in order to restore it right back to being edible, like how I've restored and upgraded my broken pair of prescribed glasses to a much better quality.' He thought.

With that thought in mind, and going along the lines of testing his upgrading powers upon old long since expired foods.

[Would you like to upgrade the (Old Rotten Mouldy Orange) for 1 upgrade token?]

[The (Old Rotten Mouldy Oranges) has been upgraded to (Old Rotten Oranges)!]

[The grade of item has been increase white (common) ☆☆ grade!]

[1 upgrade token has thereby been consumed!]

After upgrading the old rotten mouldy oranges with his upgrading power, not much changes have occurred to the old mouldy oranges, apart from the dark greenish mould having been removed from the old rotten oranges.

The old rotten oranges is still rotten inside, so it is still completely inedible at the moment, but nevertheless, after a couple of upgrades with his upgrade power. The old rotten mouldy oranges would become something new, a fresh healthy orange.

[You now currently 1 upgrade tokens remaining!]

'The next upgrade would cost 2 upgrade tokens to necessarily upgrade the old rotten oranges to the next grade.' Jack Faust thought.

As he was thinking about this, Jack Faust's stomach then suddenly started rumbling, growling very loudly.

It was then that Jack Faust had suddenly remembered something. He had never ate anything since the moment that he had woken up, and cleaning up the dust withinside the living room had made him all the more hungry.

'I wonder do instant cup noodles ever go bad, is it still edible after it is way passed its own expiration date.' Jack Faust thought so to himself.

And then a thought just crossed his mind. 'I can always just upgrade old and expiring objects with my upgrading power to make it become brand new again, just like my old pair of broken prescribed glasses.'

'It takes at least 1 hour for my upgrade tokens to regenerate. so I plentiful of free time on hand.' He thought.

After thinking of this, Jack Faust then immediately walks on over towards balcony area of his housing studio flat apartment, but the balcony doors was already closed.

So he then immediately unlocks the balcony doors by simply sliding the metal door slide latch lock barrel bolt to the side, and then pressing down lightly on the balcony door handle to unlock the door.

There was already dust having gathered on top of the door handle. So when he pressed down lightly on the balcony door handle, some of the dust were then transferred to his hands.

Jack Faust didn't really mind getting his hands a little bit dirty, its just that water is kind of a precious commodity right at this moment, fresh drinking water is quite hard and difficult to find during a post-apocalyptic world.

'I shouldn't forget to place a bucket outside collect some rainwater to refill my drinking water.' He thought.

The floor of the apartment flat balcony was slightly wet and moist due to the rain in recent days, and piles of tree leaves have gathered on the floor.

Nevertheless, despite the apartment balcony floor being slightly wet and cold, he still walks onto the balcony to get some fresh air.

As he step upon the apartment balcony floor, wet cold moisture then gathers beneath his feet, but he doesn't mind. As fresh flowing air then blows against his body, touching his bare skin and face.

And then a thought had suddenly crossed his mind. 'How long ago was it since I've stepped outside? Was it after the lockdown restriction was lifted...'

It was at this time, unbeknownst to his daydreaming, something unexpected had happened on the ground that manages to spur up alot of noise to catch his attention.

A wild boar was being surrounded from all sides in a pincer attack by three giant rats.

With the high quality pair of super prescribed glasses, Jack Faust was easily able to identify the four wild monster like creatures on the ground.

[Stone Skin Fraiser Tusk Boar Lv.27]

[Porcupine Spike Tail Rat Lv.13]

[Porcupine Spike Tail Rat Lv.11]

[Porcupine Spike Tail Rat Lv.12]

The wild boar was a full grown male adult stone skin fraiser tusk boar. With the length of its body being the size of an average normal car.

The stone skin fraiser tusk boar like its own name implies is covered in a hard layer of protective stone as armour. With a pair of two long tusks protruding outwards from the side of its mouth, resembling a stag beetles front pincers.

Whilst, on the other hand, the giant rats are the size of average dogs. They possess long protruding spike quills like a porcupine covering it own entire body, and a tail like an ankylosaurus covered in thick denser spikes.

'Oh, now this is very interesting, to think so much has changed whilst I was asleep.' Jack Faust thought, whilst leaning slightly against the guard rail of the balcony.

He then thought to himself, 'Sure wish there was some popcorn or at least something to eat whilst I watch this entertaining spectacles slowly unravels right before my eyes.'

The stone skin fraiser tusk boar was much higher level than the three porcupine spike tail rats, just about three times their total level combined.

The three porcupine spike tail rats were currently in the lead having the sole advantage over the lone single stone skin fraiser tusk boar. A 3 vs 1.

However, the stone skin fraiser tusk boar is much more higher than the three porcupine spike tail rats.

The stone skin fraiser tusk boar was on the defensive, taking one hit after another from the three porcupine spike tail rats fiercely swift attacks.

The porcupine spike tail rats were like a pack of fierce wolves, acting well co-ordinatedly with each other, as their long scissor like hands quickly but gradually chipping through the stone skin fraiser tusk boar's thick layer of defence.

And blood of the stone skin fraiser tusk boar was starting to seep out from the cut open wounds that it had incurred whilst fighting the three porcupine spike tail rats.

However, an unexpected event had occurred, which totally made Jack Faust to go eyes wide in surprise, whilst giving a very shocked look.

The large stone skin fraiser tusk boar then lifts its two front pair of legs upwards, a couple of feets into the air, before slamming it down harshly against the ground.

With the impact of the stone skin fraiser tusk boar managing to literally destroy the concrete stone pavement, and sending outwards a small shockwave of dust, dirt particles, alongside broken crushed debris of the destroyed concrete pavement.

The tiny small shockwave that was released off from the stone skin fraiser tusk boar stomping against the ground had temporarily paralysed the three porcupine spike tail rats, as they momentarily lost their balance and footing against the ground.

Taking the instantaneous change in advantage that was caused by its own shockwave, the stone skin fraiser tusk boar then begins its own frontal attack on the three porcupine spike tail rats.

The stone skin fraiser tusk boar then readily charges towards the nearest of the three porcupine spike tail rats.

And within seconds, the stone skin fraiser tusk boar had managed to arrive in front of one of the three porcupine spike tail rat's body. Mere inches away from the stone skin fraiser tusk boar's main body.

It didn't slam its giant car like body against the nearest porcupine spike tail rat, who was momentarily stun by its stomp attack, but rather the stone skin fraiser tusk boar then opens up its two large tusk like stag beetles.

The two large fraiser tusks then immediately wraps around the porcupine spike tail rat's dog size body, before clamping down hardly onto the porcupine spike tail rat like a vicious bear trap.

The portruding rough edges of the stone skin fraiser tusk boar's thick tusk then digs deeply into the porcupine spike tail rat's skin and flesh, completely ignoring the creatures porcupine like spikes defense that surrounds its entire body.

'The creature is dead.' Jack Faust immediately thought, assuming the poor creature's miserable fate has already been decided.

And within seconds, Jack Faust had unbelievably witnessed as the stone skin fraiser tusk boar had steadily crushed the porcupine spike tail rat to death, with its large pair of tusk.

However, the porcupine spike tail rat didn't immediately die, but has to go through the torturous process of having its own internal organs being slowly squashed to a pulp. As bits and pieces of flesh are sprung out upon the ground.

Its last dying cries were earth shattering, almost able to sends chills running down Jack Faust's spine.

"Oh, boy." Jack Faust said, as he slightly squel quite bit because of the gruesome sight.

Afterwards, seeing the death of one of it own companions, the other porcupine spike tail rat in a fit of rage then charges straight towards the stone skin fraiser tusk boar.

The rage and anger of seeing one of its own companion die, had clouded its judgment, thereby making the porcupine spike tail rat's movement all the more obvious.

A few seconds later, the enraged porcupine spike tail rat then ends up having its head and part of the upper torso being eaten by the stone skin fraiser tusk boar.

As the enraged porcupine spike tail rat was charging towards the stone skin fraiser tusk boar. It had not expected for the stone skin fraiser tusk boar to launch an unexpected surprise attack, as the stone skin fraiser tusk boar then slams the side of its large tusk towards the charging porcupine spike tail rat.

The charging porcupine spike tail rat was then immediately send flying backwards, hitting a nearby tree hard, thereby causing a momentarily concussion.

It left enough time for the stone skin fraiser tusk boar to approach the slightly knockout porcupine spike tail rat, before chomping on the head of the injured porcupine spike tail rat.

The other porcupine spike tail rat then retreated backwards and fled, after seeing the many deaths of its own companion.

'Well, goddamn...' Jack Faust thought. 'For ordinary animals and beasts to have evolved from simple creatures to wierdly powerful monsters.'

'So really how long was I out for this change to have occurred?' Jack Faust had asked himself an important question after watching that fight.