Dawn came and the sunlight lightens up the whole Lush Green Forest. The forest looks like a Kingdom of Jade.
A small speck of sunlight dampened on Raliz's cheeks. Raliz opened her eyes and yawned. She stretched her body and stood up.
She put out the fire and washed her face.
Raliz went to the camp where Brick was supposed to be sleeping.
When Raliz pulled away the leaf curtain, she didn't see Brick.
Raliz's heart skipped a beat. She came out and looked everywhere. But there is no speck of trails that the Bear left behind.
Raliz couldn't get herself to calm down.
"Where did that bear go?"
Raliz sit on a log and tried to calm herself down. She knew that she shouldn't worry because of that bear's strength but everytime she recalls the creature underwater, she couldn't stop worrying.
Raliz covered her whole face with her palm.
Bang!
A body suddenly fell from the sky. It was a Red Stone Antler Deer. It was dead but fresh.
Raliz saw a large silhouette from the distance. She smiled suddenly.
She ran towards Brick and hugged it.
"You silly Bear! Don't go wandering around next time without my permission, okay?"Raliz scolded Brick.
Brick understood what Raliz said and nodded then licked Raliz face like a dog.
Brick went to the dead deer and kept pointing its nose to it while looking at Raliz.
"You want me to eat that?" Raliz asked. Brick nodded.
Raliz nodded her head and laughed.
"Okay. But not Raw. I'll cook it first."
The Deer's meat was just like the Venison in Earth but more delicious and has an excellent quality.
Raliz started a fire again and cut the meat with her Dagger.
The Venison of the Red Stone Antler Deer was really tender and more leaner than the usual meat that Raliz ate in Earth.
In the forest, Raliz had found some plants and herbs that have the same functions of the herbs and spices on Earth.
Those that could be used as seasonings and condiments.
Raliz used those plants and herbs in the Venison. She put it in the fire.
After a few minutes, a mouth-watering scent of meat spread around the lake.
All the Creatures who smelled it rose above the water, came out of the forest and dug out of the ground.
They were all looking at a human and a bear ravaging the savory meats on the sticks like barbeques.
All the Creatures' mouth watered and wanted to try some. They tried to get closer.
Raliz and Brick noticed the incoming monsters.
Raliz looked at Brick and Brick stopped eating.
Roar!!!
Roar!!!
Roar!!!
"[Intimidating Roar] was used consecutively. Mastery of the Basic Skill had risen a level. [Intimidating Roar] Lvl 3." Alpha announced.
Raliz raised an eyebrow. Brick grew really fast. When Brick came back with a body of a Red Stone Antler Deer, Raliz noticed that Brick leveled up to Level 10( Elite Rank). There isn't much of a change though.
Brick just got new skills and the last word 'Cub' on its name was changed into 'Bear'.
Its new skill [Intimidating Roar] was the same as the Blue Armor Alligator. It weakens the will of the prey. And as usual, Raliz got a resistance to it.
All the Creatures fell back and went back to where they belong. Some were still looking and hiding in the shadows.
An Idea popped on Raliz's mind. After finishing few sticks of meat, Raliz burped.
Raliz was satisfied and also was the Bear.
There are still remaining meat near the fire.
Raliz put out the fire and grabbed the rest of the meat. She grabbed it and throw it far away from her.
Raliz grabbed her things and patted the Bear's back.
"Let's go." Raliz told the Bear to get moving.
The Bear stood up and walked away from the place where they had rested.
Raliz looked at the place where the meat was thrown.
The Wild Beasts in front of them disappeared and raced to the leftover meat.
The Creatures were fighting over the leftover meat.
Raliz smirked and continued walking.
Raliz and Brick were setting off to Hundred Peaks Mountain Range.
...
Half way to the exit of the forest, Raliz and Brick stopped.
A sweet scent wafted in the air.
Raliz was mesmerized by that scent. It somehow smells like fruits. With Brick by her side, they found the source of the smell.
It was coming from a tree. But not just a tree, not just a tree with leaves and flowers and definitely not a tree with a kind of fruit but a tree with different kinds of fruits.
Raliz recognized some of the fruits on the tree. Raliz's eyes sparkled. She was getting more and more amazed about this world. It makes her want to know more about Alpha World.
The tree is a lot shorter than normal ones in Alpha. It looks more like a tree that could be seen on earth.
There are also fruits that is new to Raliz's knowledge. It looks like the tree contains all of the fruits of the universe.
Raliz used [Inspect] on the tree but Alpha couldn't gave her the exact detail of the tree. Alpha only gave her its name.
Plant: God's Tree.
Raliz didn't know what is the origin of that tree and Alpha didn't know, too. It keeps saying, "Your Level is insufficient."
Raliz didn't mind it though.
She climbed up and reached for a fruit that she knew, an Apple.
Raliz bit the apple. Delicious, crunchy sound echoed.
The juice lashed onto Raliz's tongue. And Raliz's eyes widened.
"It's delicious!" Raliz almost fell off the tree.
It was so delicious that she felt she was in heaven. It was juicy.
Raliz reached out for those fruits she knew.
She ate them one by one. Everytime she ate one, her face turned into a smile that will creep out everyone. Raliz is a glutton herself. Aside from learning how to cook, she really likes food too.
Everytime she ate a food that approved to her taste, her face changed into a creepy one.
It was a very strange expression.
Maybe its the effect of her being such a glutton. The only reason she didn't get so fat out of loving food because of the intense training she got from her Grandpa.
Everytime her parents bring her in the villa, she arrived looking like a baby pig that was over fed but when the summer ends, everyone would thought that she used a gadget that had sucked all her fats away and returned with a sexy body.
Brick just stared at Raliz gorging the fruits on the tree. Brick salivated eventually.
Brick couldn't take it anymore and growled.
Raliz looked down at Brick. Her face turned red and felt embarrassed. Because of her being a glutton, she forgot Brick who couldn't even climbed.
"Sorry, Brick!" Raliz scratched her head.
She threw an Apple to Brick. Brick saw that its master threw an apple and it opened its mouth.
Brick stayed in that position for the longest time but no apple get into its mouth.
Brick opened its eyes in wonder and found its owner was eating an apple. It thought it has been tricked and agitatedly roared.
It charged at the tree and bang!
Brick stopped. Blood flows down to its head and Brick fell unconscious.
Raliz who saw Brick did that twitched.
"Brick!"
Raliz was worried as well as shocked. This tree isn't an ordinary tree indeed. Aside from its ability to bear different kinds of fruits, it is hard as the hardest metal too.
Could this tree be really a plant of a God? Raliz guessed.
Raliz took out a herb with an ugly stench of smell.
Raliz snapped it and the odor became more rancid. Raliz threw up. Brick woke up and ran away.
The smelly plant was called [Awakening Odor Plant]. It is very useful for those who got unconscious.
She still didn't get it though how the fruit didn't landed on Brick.
Raliz once again threw an apple, it was just half-way through the air when it suddenly disappeared. She looked into her hands. It was the apple that she threw to Brick.
"Oh my! How did it do that?" Raliz was surprised.
Raliz went down with the apple and walk away from the tree. When she reached Brick, the apple was still on her hand.
"Guess it won't teleport back to the tree even if I go further or away with it. I don't think there is a barrier."
Raliz decided to do her last experiment.
She gave the apple to Brick. The Apple fell into Brick's mouth. Before Brick could digest it, the apple appeared once again in Raliz's hand.
"What the?!" Raliz was confused. She sniffed the apple and checked it, it was just an ordinary apple. How did it teleported back onto my hand?
"Maybe the only one who can eat the tree's fruits are the one's who picked them."Raliz guessed. She saw a little green bird landed on one of the tree's branch.
Using its beak, it ate a berry-like fruit. The bird tweeted happily after that and ate another one.
It plucked another berry and tossed it in the air, aiming down to its mouth. When the berry was about to land, a bird swiftly snatched the berry.
It was the same as the little Green bird on the tree. The snatcher bird tried to ate the berry but the berry disappeared on its beak.
It looked everywhere because it thought it must have dropped it.
The Bird on the tree felt something on its beak. It was the stolen berry!
Raliz saw this and her guess was correct. The only way to eat the fruit, one must put an effort to pick it.
Raliz told the bear of what she had learned. The bear only nodded. Raliz didn't know if Brick understood what she said though.
Brick ran away from Raliz and went to a large tree. It used its strength and broke the tree apart and fell.
The fallen tree landed on an another tree. The tree's position was slant, inclined to the top of another large tree.
The Bear climbed the fallen tree and rushed to the top of an another large tree.
Brick made it to the top and jumped.
Brick landed on the God's Tree.