It's been a couple days already in the new zone, my stats went up a decent bit from adapting to the environment. It feel like earths gravity but bit better due to my perks and passive. My lung capacity increasing to match the thinner air. I felt like I could hold my breath for hours, a little over 3 hours to be somewhat precise, if I wanted to, and still do just fine. I still haven't exercised at all in the last 4 days. But I have found a small cave area which isn't inhabited by any creatures so far. Which was great.
Another fortunate event that happened, was that their were no creatures so far, or any I have spotted but, I have heard them from afar, and it does not sound anything close to what creatures on earth sound like which was slightly expected. Though I wasn't sure if my luck attributed to them for not finding me. Though, its still extremely low, only being a measly 2 so far so I had my doubts... .
The creatures from what I could hear, do not seem to like the light reasons being, that it was much quieter in the day or what I had assumed to be day. A weird assumption but it was a start. The second anomaly was the day cycle in this zone, it was different. I estimated that the total hours for a day here was actually 36 rather than 24. The sky was a light purple in the day and dark red during the night, could be due to its moon or sun being close or far from the planet, but I didn't care enough to discover any more.
'It should be another hour before its day, waiting for the hour to pass to get my exercise done. After the hour finally passing. I had prepped myself to head out and fina-'
{EMERGENCY QUEST INITIATED}
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A CREATURE HAS STALKED YOU FROM THE DAY YOU ARRIVED, AND UNFORTUNATLY FOR YOU, IT IS THE APEX PREDATOR FOR THIS ZONE. SURVIVE THE MANTICRUX FOR 10 MINUTES.
REWARD: DEMON SERUM X 1, ADAPTIVE TRAINING WEIGHTS X 5 AND YOUR LIFE INTACT :)
PENALTY: YOU DIE AND YOUR SOUL WILL END UP IN THE 'A#$*)*&^!HF ZONE' FOR 100 SECONDS
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"WHAT?!", I started looking around frantically, until hearing noise from above me. I didn't even bother to check, only knowing I had been found by a beast, and the strongest beast at that. The rest of the information for the quest eluding me, as I had started running far faster than I had ever did before.
Now 200 meters a way from my cave, I turned around to see the body of a gorilla that was approximately 13 feet tall with a scorpions tail, a head of a eagle and hands of human. The thing was an amalgamation from what I could see. And it was terrifying. I started darting again, hearing a ding sound in my head, feeling current going through my legs, before I started going even faster than before.
'I started to use my precognition to help map out the most efficient routes I could use before hearing a familiar sound. The sound of the sound barrier breaking behind me. My body instinctively dodging to the right, before running towards another path'.
~ 8 minutes left ~
'I was sweating buckets, I wasn't prepped for this, and it didn't make me feel better when this creature was stalking me for days without my knowledge at all, and even worse, it was hot on my tail, With its poison or acid still sizzling on the ground from the amount of times it tried to pierce me'.
~ 5 minutes left ~
WOOSH! BOOM!! A loud crack echoed in the forest like area.
'That was the twentieth time I had dodged its assault, I turned around to face what was ahead of me. I saw a river about 20 meters up ahead, with closer inspection, it's water contents looking like sulfur instead, Getting closer to it, I jumped with the creature easily doing the same. But I couldn't keep up this chase for ever, I was getting tired, my legs starting to feel a little numb after all that running, as well as the injuries I had picked up from cutting my self from the surrounding environment.'
~ 1 minute left ~
I was sweating bullets, it wasn't easy dodging that many attacks from a creature that had seemingly endless stamina. The fucker was fast though, almost rivaling me in speed too, but with its build I could abuse that a bit since it was built for power, rather. Just pure unfiltered strength. I ran with my life on the line before running towards a dead end. I looked left and right with no where to go. I was in unfamiliar territory with my back against the wall.
~ 30 seconds left ~
I prepped myself to dodge the creature as much as I could, since I didn't have any choice in the matter really. Before It finally caught up and readied it's stinger as well. Not wanting to end up on the receiving end of it.
~ 20 seconds left ~
I was parrying as much as I could, my body struggling to keep up with its strength, easily cracking the pure steel like wall behind me. Just one hit and I was as good as dead, my adrenaline running out after the shit I was went through earlier.
~ 5 seconds left ~
My back was now against the wall with my body finally giving out, 4... . I had nothing more to give, My energy ran out completely, my regeneration couldn't help much now, 3... . It was preparing its finale strike, it's stinger, after steadying itself, now launching it at me, 2... . I saw it closing in, my body refusing to move. Not even a BS power up to save me now, wondering, if this really my end. Now it's stinger barely penetrating my body, before a white light emerged as I was being enveloped in it. Before waking up in a dark area that was dimly lit, finally losing my consciousness. whispering.
" I did it..."
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{QUEST COMPLETE, AN ADDITIONAL REWAD HAS BEEN GENERATED DUE TO YOUR PERFORMANCE. SINCE HOSTS LIFE IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS WILL BE INITIATED UNTIL HOST IS HEALTHY. AUTOMATICALLY ACCEPTING REWARDS... ANALYZING REWARDS... SELECTING THE MOST APPROPRIATE REWARD... REWARD 'DEMON SERUM' HAS BEEN UTILIZED... .}
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