Inside of one of the holes in a wide passage of the dark cave system. A certain newborn Small lesser Gaia centipede shook its egg. The centipede raised its pincers and peeked outside of its small shell. What greeted the newly born centipede was a bright white light coming from the luminous ball floating over the egg where the Small lesser Gaia centipede was.
"Hello there, sleepyhead. Good day for a walk isn't it?"
A barrage of different kinds of magic struck the young centipede. Fire, water, and wind magic tossed the Small lesser Gaia centipede away. The Small lesser Gaia centipede was caught between the two walls and the only way to escape was to passed through the orb of light that was currently in the middle casting his relentless attacks.
The small lesser Gaia centipede could not do anything to fight back, due to the neverending barrage of magic attacks that rendered the centipede incapacitated to move. Out of its young instinct, the centipede tried to use its concealing ability, but in a situation where one could no longer move and the enemy knew its current position, its futile.
The Small lesser Gaia centipede roared as its last before the combination of water and thunder delivered the final blow. The centipede fell without any chance of fighting back. The centipede's life ends the moment it began.
[Species: Small Lesser Nature Spirit
Level: 2
Skills:
Pain nullification: Level: 1
Nature's blessing: Level: 3
Skill points: 0
Titles:
Traveler
Lifetime left: 26days
Evolve to prolong your life.
Next evolution: Level 10]
"That's the 3rd one. Still no level up? The experience requirements increased a lot. Last time I only need to kill one to level up, what's with the drastic change?"
He floated towards the exit of the hole. "Well, another round of nest hunting again."
He peeked his head outside for any signs of enemies. When confirmed that there were no enemies, he flew next to the wall where he could easily hide when danger suddenly appeared.
He had finally got out from the small path he was on before and currently traveling at the huge passages of the cave system.
He heard some footsteps sounds and quickly hid. He found a hole and went inside of it. The footsteps could clearly be heard from his position. The cave was covered in pitch black and all he could see was the orange lights coming from the owner of the footsteps' eyes.
[White wolf LVL 3]
The white wolf's growl resonated as it passed through the hole he was in. He got a brief glimpse at the white wolf's appearance and compared to the cave wolf he encountered before. The cave wolf would look like a pup in comparison. A towering 1.5 meters tall white-furred monster.
His eyes followed the white wolf until it finally out of his sight and released a sound of a sigh as the wolf was gone.
"Everything about it is screaming danger. Let's keep our distance on that one until I'm strong enough to face it."
He continued to wander and check every rifts and hole for any signs of life forms that he was confident that he could defeat, specifically Small lesser Gaia centipedes because he was more familiar with them.
After hours and hours of searching, he finally found one, but young Small lesser Gaia centipedes eggs were not the only ones in the nest.
He hid his luminous body on one of the stones while observing the gigantic monster inside the nest. A 3 meter long red monster with a terrifying numerous sharp dark yellow legs.
[Gaia Centipede level 4]
"And here I thought that the white wolf earlier is a giant. What's that thing eating to get that big?"
He watched as the Gaia centipede put some monsters' carcasses beside the eggs, most of them were from the species of wolves, the gray species named cave wolves, the white wolves, and there was also a different species that had a jet black fur.
"I see, she's a fan of wolf meats."
After some time, the Gaia centipede moved out leaving the eggs alone. He waited for another ten minutes and floated towards the eggs after confirming that the Gaia centipede finally left the area.
[Analyzing.]
[Quantity 37.]
"Just like the nest before, if there are monster corpses in it. It means they are about to hatch. All I need to do is to wait for them, just like what you said, guide lady, if I kill them while they are still in their eggs, I will never get any experience points, right?"
[Correct.]
"Unlike the nest before, this nest is considerably larger. Even if all of them hatched at once, I can just float and use nature's magic in a safe place."
But, he was not the only one waiting for the centipede to leave. With its muscular pair of legs, it jumped right to the ball of light floating right at the carcasses of wolves.
His body trembled as he saw the monster out of nowhere appeared behind him.
"Wha- what the is that!"
Towering half foot tall clad with thick skin and its humongous mouth that without a doubt could easily swallow a whole Small lesser centipede in one bite.
[Leather Skinned Frog LVL 2]
"It's directly looking at me! Please don't eat me. You are here for the centipede, right? Take them I don't care." He tried to fly away from the Leather skinned frog but its green eyes were already locked on him.
Without any hesitation, the Leather skinned frog extended its tongue and instantly swallowed him.
"Damn it!" He instantly felt the acid from the Leather Skinned frog's stomach attacking his body. "It hurts!"
He used Nature's blessing to attack the Leather Skinned frog from the inside. He released his magic aiming at all sides of the Leather skinned frog's body destroying its inner organs, while the Leather skinned frog was fighting back by dissolving him with its acidic substances in its stomach.
A few consecutive struck of thunder magic and intense fire magic that completely burned the inside of the Leather skinned frog did the work and forced the Leather skinned frog to spit him out. His body collided with the stone wall, he could no longer float and an abundance of white particles were coming out of his body.
He turned his gaze to the Leather skinned frog and found it shaking its head. The Leather skinned frog smashed its own head to the ground as if it trying to pull something inside its body.
"Raw outside, cooked inside. Roasted frog coming right up." He said as his body trembled due to extreme pain.
[Skill [Acid resistance LVL 1] was acquired.]
[Skill [Poison resistance LVL 1] was acquired.]
"Do you mean that thing has poison?"
He cast another barrage of skill to attack the Leather skinned frog but rather than fighting back, the Leather skinned frog jumped out and fled.
"Come back here, you bastard!"
His light started to fade and his sight slowly went blurred.
[Activating Species skill.]
[Hibernation.]
"This is bad. Of all the place why here?"
His body turned into its pearl-like state once more, but this time in the most dangerous place possible.
With his weakest voice. "Damn...it."
[Error.]
[Poison cannot be healed.]
[Warning.]
[Your life force is greatly depleting.]
[Warning.]
[Warning.]
[Warning.]
[The species skill, [Hibernation] is malfunctioning.]
[Emergency cancellation of species skill [Hibernation] has been initiated.]
[Warning.]
[Warning.]
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[You leveled up.]