Sun took a quick nap in the middle of the day and woke up around an hour or so after the sun went down. He looked and saw Marianne peacefully sleeping.
'How can she sleep so soundly despite being thrown through such a bizarre series of events...' Sun's tired expression slightly flickered.
He got up and looked around the cave before exiting it. He covered the front of the cave with shrubs and small bushes to hide it away from the eyes of the creatures in the forest. After that, he set out to look for the boar that chased him earlier.
'I'll check near the spot where I killed the rabbit at, maybe it's nearby...' Sun had no problem seeing in the darkness since he was an animal, a particularly special one at that. He walked cautiously through the forest and never stayed in the open for too long.
He remained behind trees or inside bushes for the most part despite it being dark out.
A while later, he came to the spot where he killed the rabbit. He knew this because he saw a small dried up bloodstain on the ground.
The rabbit's blood.
He wasn't an expert in investigation, but he knew that blood belonged to the rabbit.
'Didn't I receive that rabbit's skill earlier? I guess I should try it out for a bit until that boar shows up.' Sun activated the [ [Horn Creation] ] skill and watched as a small horn the size of two vertically placed water bottle caps appeared.
Since he was a baby dragon currently, he didn't have his horns and that new horn was rather big for his body. He swung his head playfully through the air, feeling the horn move through the wind.
Sun played around for a bit until he heard a strange noise coming from somewhere nearby. He stopped playing and hid inside of a bush and watched what was in front of him. His eyes sparkled with cruelty as he made out the silhouette of a familiar creature.
'That boar is finally here. It seems it truly cared for that rabbit, unfortunately this world is cruel for everyone.' Sun watched as the boar laid mournfully next to the bloodstain belonging to the rabbit.
It made his heart hurt to see that, but he knew there was no alternative to the fate of that rabbit.
Perhaps it was just made to be killed by Sun and eaten by Marianne.
"Hold still..." Sun whispered as he crawled through the bushes.
His pupils shrank when he heard the sound of multiple leaves crunching and moving around under his body. He then realized that he placed himself in a disadvantageous position without knowing it.
'Dammit. Is there anything I can do?' As Sun thought about possible solutions, he recalled a skill from his profile screen.
"Shadow Dive." Sun muttered hopefully. His gaze was directed towards the shadow of the boar, who was looking around for the source of the noise it just heard.
If Sun made anymore noise, the boar would either find out his location or flee.
In mere seconds, his body turned into dark light that melded into the shadows of the forest and traveled all the way into the shadow of the boar. Throughout this process, Sun was conscious and could see everything happening.
He felt like his entire body was underwater except for his eyes and he was looking out. Once he reached the boar's shadow, he stopped moving and felt his MP quickly decreasing.
'So it uses MP?' Sun prepared himself and deactivated the skill. Upon deactivating the skill, his body became physical again and rose from the boar's shadow; Sun made no sound throughout the process.
He completely opened his wings and his eyes shined with cruel light as he observed the boar. The boar was still unaware until it felt Sun's blazing killing intent envelop it.
Shivers ran down the boar's back and it immediately tried to scurry away, but unfortunately Sun didn't allow that. He wrapped his wings tightly around the boar, just like what he did with the rabbit, and sicked his sharp teeth into the boar's neck.
It was quite the funny sight from another person's point of view. A baby bat-looking creature was trying to restrain a small boar and trying to bite it.
Though, the sight quickly turned grim. Blood began to run from the boar's neck and it's pupils shrank in fear. Sun's fangs sank deeper and deeper into the fat neck of the boar and drew more and more blood until the boar's movement began to become sluggish.
After an hour endless struggling, the boar was finally on its dying breath. Sun was still latched onto it's body, like a blood-sucking parasite.
His mind was focused on one thing only; killing the boar. He was afraid of letting go as well, but more so preoccupied with killing the boar.
As he was restraining it, he realized that the power of getting the skills of other creatures after killing them wasn't normal.
Kill now, eat later.
Those words ran through Sun's mind until the boar stopped moving for good and a system message appeared.
[You killed a Green Forest Boar! +111 XP!]
[You gained 1 level.]
[All stats have been increased by 2 and 3 stat points were rewarded.]
[You gained the following skills: Blessing of the Green Forest, Enhanced Regeneration, Rage Mode]
Sun's expression brightened when he noticed that he gained a level. He was even more delighted when he saw the skills he received.
Each of them were a bit self-explanatory but still needed some studying over.
"The system said I could use specific commands to see certain things. Hopefully I can directly view the information regarding a specific skill." Sun said the words and information regarding his new skills immediately appeared.
All of the new skills made a large grin of delight appear on his face.
[Blessing of the Green Forest: The one blessed by the Green Forest will have a higher affinity with earth magic and nature magic. Nature related evolutions will also appear further down the line.]
[Enhanced Regeneration: All flesh wounds will heal at 2x the normal regeneration rate and internal wounds will heal at 0.3x the normal regeneration rate. Cuts and small punctures will heal almost immediately.]
[Rage Mode: When gravely injured or near death, you will be overcome by rage. Your strength and agility will increase drastically, but your mind will suffer and you won't be able to think correctly.]