"Phew, I'm finally finished"
Marlin wiped the sweat off his brow and stood up and looked at the three spears on the ground in front of him. Beside the spears were also 2 knives that he had fashioned. Overall, Marlin was quite happy with these weapons.
After being reborn he planned to immediately take down those wolves and take the first opportunity he could. He knew these wolves hadn't seen him as a 5-year-old yet so he could use this to his advantage. Marlin then picked up 2 spears and laid them down near a tree outside the cave of the wolves and then holding a spear in his right and a small knife in his left he waited for night to fall.
Marlin had been crafting these weapons for about a day and with a couple of failed attempts he had made three spears and a small knife. These wolves were just going to go on the defensive and wear him out if it was a fair three on one but that wasn't going to happen on Marlin's watch.
Marlin looked at the moon high in the sky and knew it was finally time and picked up his spear with his small child hand. Marlin was very grateful or that 'growing boy' perk. Without it he might've had to wait to die even 1000 times to get some more points, but he wasn't willing to be tortured like that.
Marlin saw as he poked his head over the tall grass on the outskirt of the cave and saw the three wolves all laying down comfortably with no care in the world. Marlin knew this was a good time to strike and with the 2 spears laying on the ground behind him and his knife in his left hand he took aim at the closest wolf with spear in his left hand.
Marlin then threw the spear with all the strength he could muster while gnashing his teeth together and his hand incredibly focused on aiming it towards the wolf he shot the spear towards the wolf. The spear then lodged itself quite deep in the back of the wolf and the wolf who was asleep barked in pain as it struggled around in pain.
The other two wolves woke up shortly after and looked around trying to see who threw it and seemed to have locked on to Marlin despite him being behind a tree.
"Hmm, it seems that they know where I am due to the life energy I have. That skill said I had died many times due to being detected by my life energy. These wolves can somehow detect it even when I'm behind objects. If I have enough points in the future it might come in handy."
Marlin then picked up another spear and aimed it towards the wolf who was struggling in pain. Marlin's spear had managed to reach very deep into the wolf, and it was currently in a very vulnerable state.
Marlin licked his lips in anticipation at the points he could potentially get and threw his second spear towards that wolf. However, this shot did not hit the wolf and was a hair length's away from the wolf.
Marlin could then see the other two wolves approaching planning to scare him away.
"I'm not afraid of you"
Marlin looked at them in the eye as if he was going to discipline his naughty son. Marlin then looked at the wolf that was laying on the ground in pain.
"It only works if you have three of you guys, but you only have two"
Marlin thought this and then had a plan in his head. Marlin smirked and ran at one of the wolves with his spear in hand with his eye on the other wolf who was right out the corner of his eye. The Marlin was startled and stepped back in fright but then realized this was a free meal bringing itself to its doorstep.
This though this was just a slightly bigger piece of meat than the other one. That's all it was. Plus, it was going to go into its mouth, although it had managed to hurt one of it's companions it was probably just pure luck. It would never happen again.
The wolf being startled gathered itself and met Marlin with a charge of its own biting towards Marlin's small body. Marlin was only about a meter tall, so he was quite short and was just taller than these wolves.
Marlin then met this wolf's charge with his spear and the wolf dodged to side barely dodging and bit down on the side of him. Marlin winced in pain but stormed through it and dropped the spear and stabbed the wolf in the head with his knife. The wolf's head cracked at the strike and still held on despite the strike but was on the brink of falling unconscious.
Marlin looked behind him and saw the wolf right there jumping towards him and while it was mid air he stabbed the wolf biting his side and one more and killed it but it was too late and the wolf had reached his neck and the last thing he hard was a loud crack.
Now Marlin was yet again in the black space and a sound dinged in his head.
[Post-Life Evaluation]
[User Granted 10 points]
[New Total: 10 points]
[Would you like to go to the shop or start a new life?]
Marlin stared at the screen and asked to go to the shop and was yet again greeted by the 3 pillars and the tome. Marlin quickly flipped through the tome and found a page title 'Painless Death'
"I can't believe I forgot to buy this one"
Marlin ripped out the page and saw it disappear into the third pillar and the same thing happened with the other pillar. Then after a bit there was some red lines in the pillar just like the first one.
"Ok I'm done now"
Marlin was then reborn once again and this time instead of crafting some new spears and sneaked his way over to the cave and found only one wolf there.
Marlin smirked and saw the spear he had dropped down previously was covered in dirt nearby and picked it up. Marlin grasped his hand even harder as he knew this last wolf was right in front of him. Marlin stalked closer than he did last time and aimed is spear as the grass rustled around him and the wind brushed past his short hair.
Marlin could see the sadness within the wolf's eyes as its comrades had all been killed by that small piece of meat. All its muscles were relaxed, its back was slouched and its ears were hanging down in its depressed mood. Marlin looked closer at the wolf and saw that it was looking skinny and realized the wolf couldn't get any food without any of its comrades. He could see it's ribs and he could see some flies hanging around it.
"That is the law of the jungle, eat or be eaten"
Marlin threw the spear with the same might as he did with his first spear and it lodged itself in its side. The wolf groaned in pain and looked around. It saw the small piece of meat yet again. Why had it returned? The wolf had accepted its fate at its point and looked at Marlin as he walked over to finish the job.
The wolf was surprised by the spear in the middle of its sleep but didn't have enough energy to fight back. This wolf had been living with its friends for a long time and this piece of meat had to ruin it but it was too late for that now.
It was too tired to move from the malnutrition and it had lost hope and meaning with it's friends dead so maybe it was better to die. The wolf's vision became more and more blurry and kept hearing footsteps within its ears becoming more and more deep until they stopped.
The wolf could sense the life energy within the piece of meat and rather than just looking at it from a superficial level the wolf then looked within the piece of meat's life energy hoping to gain insight of what this meat was feeling in his final moments.
What the wolf made it speechless.
The outside of the life energy was usually just a white colour but as you looked in deeper you could see the things that made up their life energy. You had to get very close to get to this level, but the wolf had never thought to look into it because he didn't really care as all he cared about was playing with its friends and eating and sleeping all day but what he saw was more beautiful than anything it saw before.
What is saw a bright flame so bright and big that it defied anything it had seen before. It felt like he was looking at a flame the size of the universe and he could see everything. He could see every little particle bouncing against each other. There were trillions upon trillions of particles smashing against each other as chaos reigned inside of him.
He could see everything like as if he was a god, but this was short-lived as its life was ended swiftly by Marlin. While the wolf was looking at Marlin's life energy, he had grabbed the spear and pulled it out after a couple of minutes of trying to pull out the spear. He then threw it at the wolf's head and ended its life.
"Phew, finally"
Marlin rubbed the sweat off his forehead and looked around himself. It had been a long journey. He had been a small baby being mercilessly killed by these wolves and then he finally came up with a plan to poison them with mushrooms when they ate him but that plan failed and as he lost all hope he went to the shop, he got the 'Growing Boy' trait and killed two of the wolves and then died. After his death he bought 'painless death and then killed this last wolf.
Now the question that riddled Marlin is what was he going to do now?