After waking up 2 minutes later Frank started crying from pain he was feeling. His body felt like it was melting from the inside out. The rat's meat didn't help him to heal. He started looking for a way to live and finally saw a ray of hope.
Right opposite the door he came from was a bluish-golden door with blue fire-looking crown symbol at the top, he didn't notice it previously because he was too preoccupied with not dying from the giant rat. At the right side of a door was a wooden tablet with bloody-red words written on it.
[THE RUNIC ATRIFACT ROOM]
Coughing out some blackish-red substance from his mouth Frank started desperately crawling to the door of hope.
After going through the darkness once more, Frank started crawling faster, feeling death approaching him for real this time. Almost dead, Frank was lying under the stone pedestal inscribed with deep blue runes, holding strange gnawed leaf inscribed with A LOT of greenish-gray runes on it.
'I don't want to die...' Frank started tearing up from despair and hopelessness. He didn't know how a strange leaf could save him. But suddenly...
The leaf coming into contact with the blood that Frank coughed out exploded into millions of runic symbols that started flowing into Frank's tongue forming a leaf tatoo at it's upper side.
Astonished, Frank started turning into stone, slowly loosing his consciousness with the pain fading away.
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He woke up 3 days later feeling better than ever, aside from the lasting fear of death he was felling still. Suddenly, he felt his head splitting apart from pain, information forcefully going into it.
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[The Gnawed Leaf]
[Tier 2]
[The known abilities:]
[After recieving a critical injury the user will enter a Deep Hibernation state slowly healing all of his injuries and turning into a stone statue. The Deep Hibernation state doesn't use any energy. User can't feel anything while turned into stone and will not wake up until all injuries are healed. If another living soul with bad intentions will find the user while he's in deep hibernation, user will be forcefully woken up with injuries not healed completely and Weaken debuff will be applied on the user (all stats -20%) until the user enters into deep hibernation again] (I've changed it, because it has worked like this all the time, not following the previous rules (I'm dumb I know)).
[Other functions the user will need to discover by himself].
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This information was seating in Frank's head firmly not going anywhere, even then he tried to shoo it away. After 5 minutes it slowly faded into his subconsciousnes without any help, sitting there as firmly as before, just not as obsessively.
'How can I see my stats? I probably need to find some runic artifact for that. But, anyway, it's super cool! This artifact is the thing I needed the most, it will save my afterlife so many times in the future' thought Frank before noticing that something else have happened to him.
«Eh..?»
'My body feels like it have become almost 2 times stronger and my telekinesis can pick a pebble now!' happily noticed Frank.
'My senses are much better as well!' thought Frank while smiling widely, knowing that this will help him live his afterlife easier.
After all of this thinking, Frank noticed something - his sweater was almost torn because of his body swelling before. His lab coat still held strong though, only having a little puncture in the right sleeve, his pants were fine as well, aside from 2 punctures on the left leg. Feeling a little sad for his favourite sweater he went closer to the hateful rat.
He decided to call this scorpion-rat as [Scorat], lame but still better than nothing. Spiders he will still call as [Spiders], because they aren't different from normal ones, aside from them being big.
'I need to think less about such useless things...'
Anyways, Frank sat befere Scorat trying to cut its stinger away, which wasn't that hard with his new power. Following the cutting of the stinger, he proceeded taking the venom gland from it and storing it in his cocoon bag together with now not venomous stinger. (stinger wasn't that big compared to how lengthy the tail was)
After doing all of this he started looking around once more to see if he have missed something, and miss something he did. Lying in the center of the campfire formation was a copper-looking shiny key.
After pondering a little for what he might need it, he tossed it into his cocoon bag and choose another direction to go in. He choose to go left (or to the front, if the artifact room is to your right), into the room that was between the spiders and scorat room forming an explored cube.
After going through the darkness once more, not so scared of wounds, venoms, poisons or diseases now, he saw another identical room, but with large boulders at it's corners. At the center of the room stood very large human-like being. It was three meters tall, it's head scraping the ceiling, with pale skin, big disproportioned head with small void-like eyes, it's belly was bloated so much that Frank thought that it will blow up, the thing was emmiting strange reddish-black aura. Frank almost threw up after looking at the monstrocity.
Holding in his extreme urge to puke, Frank threw his TFK at its belly (he thought that it will blow up and the monstrocity will die). And...
*BLWROOOM*
It blew up into the storm of blood and guts covering the whole room. The arms of the abomination were torn off, the only thing holding the legs and the head together was a massive spine almost 10 cm thick, it had a strange metallic sheen to it. It's ribs were cracked all over, and opened like bloody wings. But the monster was still alive.
*GRAWR*
It roared by the means Frank couldn't understand, its guts were gone, lungs included.
Feeling extremely confused and nauseated Frank almost fell, but he knew that this thing will eat him in two bites, so he started running faster than ever, he arrived before his TFK, picked it up and threw it in the thing's mouth, cutting the back of it's throat. The monstrocity began chocking on it's own blood somehow, it started thrashing around trying to remove the TFK from it's throat. After understanding that it couldn't remove the TFK from its mouth it went into rampage, its monstrous aura filling the whole room.
Frank began feeling HUNGER.