After a number of steps that seemed a lot to me at first, I saw a woman enter the tent left unguarded by the servant.
A tall and slender beauty, she had long peach-pink hair in a ponytail, her robes were white and yellow, covering her body but still showing most of her body curves and lines.
From her waistline, a small pendant like jade hang, it was proof that she was an inner-sect disciple.
"Xiao Chen!"
She walked in with a fake and almost disgusting smile, but once she noticed that Chen Yu wasn't there, her face turned far from what it was before; it was an angry grin that appeared on her.
She saw me and clicked her tongue, then she started to walk towards the bed, I didn't know how to react, but once I heard
"What's this filthy creature doing here?" I choose to not move, I had to show that I was domestic, and running away would have only brought me more trouble under this point of view.
Seeing that I didn't run away she slowed down, she also noticed the bowl where the kind servant brought my food and let out a sigh.
"He's all cold towards everyone and then he has a fox? Are you joking?" she clicked her tongue and then left, as she left the room I started to move my paws to stretch my back, then after a little, I fell asleep.
I wasn't that tired anymore, having this much stamina, I had the possibility to move and much more stuff, still, I could understand by how much running at my full speed consumed, that my stamina was probably lower than an adult fox.
I woke up pretty early and I could hear two servants say that their masters would come back in two days from now, I had the confirm that Chen Yu would come back the same day as well by the servant that brought me my food.
This time it wasn't the kind servant but the coward one from the evening before, but I didn't pay it much mind.
"Don't worry fluff, dada will come back in two days, be patient" probably the fact that I woke up early and I was sitting on the bed waiting for food made him misunderstand something.
'Hey, who did u just call fluff?' I try to say still forgetting after almost two months, that I couldn't talk yet.
I see the food and this time it was something awfully smelly, I almost immediately understood that something was off, then after he saw my reaction to the food he watched me with an apologetic look in his eyes.
'That woman, does she have to treat me like this out of jealousy? Come on, I'm a fox, at that also a male, I mean, I have nothing against but I doubt that with his looks Chen likes males even a little' since I was in my previous life, I always had bad luck in love, also being a man that like other men didn't help at all.
So with time, I started to always undervalue chances of love to the point that I would almost stop all my social activities, studying and working almost full time.
But now that's in the past, once the servant left the room I directly went out to train, this time my goal was to level up, yesterday, when I killed the demon squirrel I understood that filling the required exp to level up was becoming harder and harder.
After my arrival at the forest, I managed to hunt down another demon squirrel, but as probably other creatures heard our fight, for almost two hours I couldn't find any soul beast in the surroundings.
I also noticed that my stamina was starting to run loose, so I decided to go back.
But right after I started to go back, a big creature placed itself between me and the camp path; it was a horrendously huge white snake.
[Analyze]
-]Cloud-Eating Snake
Level: 9
Tier: Common Low-Level Soul-Beast
State: Hungry, Focused
An evolution of the common white snake, it has keen reptile senses, it also has a very powerful poison which gives him high-level poison resistance and a highly poisoned meat.
[More info requires a higher level of [Analyze] skill]
'Oh no-' but before I could think of anything let alone an escaping route he was already jumping towards fangs in front.
I managed to jump left and make some distance by jumping several times, I tried to think about a good plan to attack.
Keeping in mind that I was not allowed to bite due to his poisoned meat, I saw the snake jumping back at me, I dodged again, and as soon as I did that I realized that he was faster than me, but his attack pattern was repetitive and easy to dodge due to my brain working in a human-like way.
[Leaf Blade]
I started to charge the blade, now at level 3, it could actually cut a small tree, once the snake attacked again.
I dodged and trow the energy slash at him, aiming at his side, due to his long body and slash being in a vertical position I managed to cut through his scales leaving a medium-deep cut wound.
I didn't have the time to cheer that his long tail sent me flying backward, the pain was awfully strong but it didn't even compare with the evolution pain I experienced before.
[The host gained Pain Resistance lv.1]
After that small notification appeared I felt the pain reduce almost by half but as a cruel predator, the snake, that was bleeding from his side jumped in my direction and tried to bite me.
Thanks to my quick thinking I managed to dodge just enough to not be bitten, instead, his body hit me, making me fall on the ground a few meters from there.
I stood as fast as I could and I almost immediately evoked my only offensive skill.
[Leaf Blade]
This time I waited for him to jump at me, and probably thanks to the adrenaline rush, as he jumped to bite me again, I managed to jump a little higher than him and smash my tail, with the energy blade underneath it, right on his head.
The blade pierced his cranium right in half, making his brain almost visible.
In the cranium chamber, there was his core, a green looking sphere, I took it out with help of my paw, in a way that would not stain my fur and put it in the system storage.
[+Exp... +Exp... Level up 7 --> 8]
[+4 stat points, +2 skill points]
'Uhh... I almost forgot about the skill points, gonna check them as soon as I arrive home'
Since I couldn't eat his body I left the place where we fought before his blood could attract other creatures.
My body ached a lot but once it laid on the silken bed everything felt better.
'Status'
--[Host Status Chart]--
-]Name: ???
-]Title: The Reincarnated One; The Wise; The Sickly Pup; Scavenger
-]Class: None
-]Level: 8
-]Race: Leaf Fox Pup, Male
-]Tier: Rare Soul-Beast
-]Cultivation: None
-]Skill: (*10 skill point)
Analyze lv. 4, Leaf Blade lv. 3
-]Passive Skills:
Pain Resistance lv.1
-]Languages: Common Monster lv. 4
-]State: Curious, Confused
-]Stats: (*5 stats point)
Defense: 15
Strength: 15
Agility: 31
[Stamina: 22/145 Hp: 48/80]
'Ouch... it was harsher than I thought, well let's check what the skill points do'
I thought as I laid my paw on them...