The night was indeed lucky, at least Jin woke up without any incidents, moreover, there was a small game stuck on one of the small stakes.
"I guess the creatures of this world are suicidal. But I'm really grateful." Jin lampooned while cutting the throat and releasing the insides of the rabbit-like creature. It looked the same with the only difference – it had purple eyes and striped fur.
The stake stuck right into its' mouth and must have damaged the brain. Despite being rabbit-like it didn't look cute at all, when Jin took the stake out it was covered with burn or corrosion marks, making him doubt that the creature was an herbivore.
Soon he finished cleaning the creature and tried to make makeshift ropes from the thorny bush, cutting the thorns and weaving the stern together. He was not planning to use this rope for long, so the task was not too arduous, and he did it fast.
Jin looked around his camp and a sudden sense of pride overflowed, making him blush. He made it – survived the first day, killed the prey, protected his territory. The world was at his feet! Sudden roar faraway killed his dreamlike state in the bud. "Humility, I need to stay humble. Living humbly is better than being a dead hero." He mumbled and started packing up.
Then an unexpected problem stuck him - he could not lift the damn hog monster that attacked him, it was too big to carry. Jins first thought was to abandon the animal, but then his hands shook. He clenched his fists and a determined look surfaced in his eyes. "I just cut it in pieces I can carry.
The lower part has more muscles, so I'll take it and the part of the abdomen- the muscles there are more tender. What a pity – I can cook just fine, but can't make fire. I'll just find a river and try to find humans."
He didn't stop slicing the hog into two parts, trying to cut accurately, without hacking at it. He thought he can spoil the sword by hacking the bones, and he did cut down the meat at home, having the idea how to do it, alas not on the professional level. [Butchering leveled up]
"God I only now noticed how manly this guy was. I wonder if locals have some Chinese superstitions and love eating big manhoods to raise theirs. Come to think of it. What if I can level up some skills just by eating something." Not thinking too much he tried to drink a little bit of a little rabbits' blood, fortunately – it was fresh.
Suddenly he felt like his innards want to leave him.[Self-destruct leveled up]"Well from some perspective – I was right." He rinsed his mouth with wine but the moment he tried to spit out he got spasm all over his body and drank the blood with wine. [Poisoning leveled up] "GOD DAMN IT!" He tried to scream, but his voice was muffled by spasms.
"I wonder if I'm going to die. Well, I have nothing to lose, so might as well drink the hog's blood" He didn't hesitate but his movements were slower and slower. The bag with hogs blood fell down. Jin tried to pick it, only to drop it again, accidentally unscrewing it. Hogs blood tickled down slowly, forming a little pool. "Fuck it, I'll just drink it from the pool!". Muddy taste of earth mixed up with rancid iron of blood. The moment the blood reached his stomach, Jin felt like fire was burning his blood.[Poison digestion leveled up][Poison digestion leveled up]He couldn't believe his luck, each popup was washing his body with relaxation."Oh, I knew that would work, fortune is on my side!"
The pain didn't subside fully, but the spasm now felt like washing out his body, making him more comfortable. It felt like the little muscles he had first bulked up a bit and then compressed, making him look even thinner than he already was. Then his bones started to make constant cracking sounds.
The comfortable feeling of muscles relaxing and power flooding his body passed too quickly and the feeling of pain covered him whole, making even his thoughts vanish. While he tried to scream and shout, wriggling like a snake, digging the earth with his fingers, until they turned bloody, no sound came from his mouth. It looked like a zombification process from some zombie game or film. [Pain tolerance leveled up][Poison blood leveled up][Shadow blood leveled up][Poison blood consumed][Shadow blood consumed].
Suddenly everything disappeared. He couldn't feel anything, neither pain nor even the smell of the forest."Fortune my ass!" He mumbled, feeling numb all over. While lying in embryo pose, Jin looked kind of cute with his eyes red and tears and snot running down his cheeks. "I must be looking like an emo-boy now. Hey, can you hear the silence? Can you see the dark? Can you fix the broken? Can you feel my heart? Maybe my brain short-circuits and now I'm officially retarded..." He mumbled half-consciously, looking at the mocking mug of the deadly poison rabbit.
Several minutes passed while he was hearing music inside his head. Only when the song has finished, he finally regained clarity."I wonder what did I gain? Status!" immediately status screen rose before him. He started reading."Now that's some good stuff!"
[Name: Jin Kurogane
Race: Dark Human/D
Class: Black Swordfiend (Locked)/ Footman
Title: The dark gods' joke. The exile. The stubborn. The oddball. The maniac.
Level: 3
Str: 4/12
Con: 1/10
Agi: 4/12
Int: 7/14
Wis: 7/14
Poison blood 0/1
Shadow blood 0/1
Skills: Self-destruct lvl 1
Running lvl 1
Carpentry lvl 0
Sword mastery lvl 1
Jumping lvl 2
Trapping lvl 2
Hunting lvl 2
Coldblooded lvl 1
Butchering lvl 2
Pain tolerance lvl 1
Poison blood lvl 1
Shadow blood lvl 1]
"Having poison and shadow blood should be good, right? My stats cap increased, and all stats increased too! Wait a minute, my constitution dropped! I better not experiment with this stuff until I have a higher constitution again, I bet zero Con means I'm dead. Let's think that overall it's a good trade." He didn't dwell on this topic too much and started stretching.
Feelings seemed to come back to him, alas diluted."I think a low constitution means my senses are diminished. I can hear less, see less, and feel less, so I have to be more vigilant. I'm so smart to think of this stuff, it's no wonder my int and wis stats are the highest!" He finally could get up, and started packing up.
When he finished and looked up at the sun, he realized – not much time has passed up, it was the pain that distorted his biorhythms, making him feel like several hours passed since the start of his experiments."No time to lose!" He fixed the bag and lifted the tied-up bodies.
Soon he found a problem – with lower constitution he had less stamina to spare. It's not like he was a stayer, to begin with."Half the body and the dick it is!" He chuckled self-deprecating, cutting the hog into two parts leaving one leg and one side to the denizens of the forest as a present.