After spending a couple of hours in the dense jungle, we killed a lot of animals & I was thoroughly enjoying those shared kill exp points.
She was enjoying this hunt, as the amount of animals killed in one go, was a huge leap towards reaping a generous reward & we both knew that!
I even leveled up once while on the hunt but I didn't had time to look at it, I was in an adrenaline rush.
Everything was going smoothly...
At one point, Revati nervously grabbed my shoulder and whispered in my ears, "we should go now..."
There was a huge beast infront of us. Basically every wild animals or human foe had same red dot on my minimap. So it was bit complicated for me to know the exact difference.
I knew, what she meant was right but that wild bear infront of me was a juicy exp lottery with additional loots included.
I asked her, "can you climb trees?"
For a fraction of second she was surprised to see me ask this sort of question in a grave situation like this.
"What.."
"Can you climb trees?"
I firmly asked her again.
She mumbled,
"Y..yes I can."
"Fine, then go climb a tree tall enough and don't come down till I ask you to."
She paused for a while and then wen't on to climb a tall tree. I guess, she couldn't deny my caliber at the end.
It was an apex predator infront of me!
A vicious sloth bear, huge in stature, almost 6 feet in length. It should be around 300 pounds or so.
I was bit unsure of myself for the first time. If I back out now it would be shameful. For the first time I used my assessment skill before killing a target.
[Apex Predator: Sloth] [Lvl difference huge] [Risk: Hard]
Though the odds were against me, I still have proper firearm to slay something this big. Atleast I was not armed with some old age muskets or bow & arrows.
I crouched & crawled towards the bear while taking out my mp40 and pointing it's barrel towards the target. I rechecked & reloaded my mp40 clip for safety, 32 rounds in the clip and one in chamber. A total of (33) 9×19mm Parabellum cartridges were ready, to be showered upon it's foe with lethal accuracy.
Shooting with my rifle would be deadly as I might miss a shot & the bolt action is obviously slow in firing & reloading, so it would be damn risky. Using explosives or panzerschreck would be a waste because it would be overkill, plus it may damage the carcass beyond recovery.
Still bullet damages would be less compared to explosives, at the end of day.
Due to strenuous recoil MP40 was risky in long range. It was suitable in this mid ranged combat.
The bear was probably munching on some berries or fishes. I fixed my eye on the crosshairs and...
DHUGG-DHUGG-THUSS-THUSS
A repetive rattling sound was made by my submachine gun. Spent shells flew from the loading chamber, while blazes of flames were spewing from the barrel. Smell of gunpowder, lead and smoke consumed the moment.
A deadly notion ran through the minds of less aggressive wild animals. They screamed, howled, screeched in fear. As these jungles were not familiar to this lethal sounds of modern death machines.
While my slugs tore through the skin and flesh of that sloth bear without any restriction, like a knife going through butter. Crunching sounds of bones & blood splatters painted the path of the beasts trackway, fresh hot blood sprayed out of it's face & torso regions.
And in an intense pressure or you could say from my basic survival instinct, I had totally emptied my mp40 magazine into that beast.
TIKK TIKK TIKK
Due to an empty magazine, the firearm made a constant sound while I was pulling the trigger for some more seconds out of reflex, fear.
The animal was stilll charging towards me and it was unstoppable for sure and I was shit scared! I had made a macho move infront of Revati to flex my strength but never knew facing death would be so devastating. After all there's a huge difference in real and virtual.
The beast charged with an indomitable speed & came crashing on me with it's huge paw. The huge nails slashed through me. It hurt like hell, a sharp itch, sting could be felt. If, I could just look at my wound it would surely look like wolverines slash attack.
But, I was flat on the ground and there was an immense pain in my torso region, the animal roared infront of me after hitting me. Maybe it was proving it's superiority or it was shrieking in pain. As, lot of bullet wounds were in it's body too.
➖Ping➖
[-297 damage to host]
[Host will lose 10 HP for 45 seconds/ aftereffects damage]
It was a do or die situation for me, I never thought that I would get mowed down so easily. Afterall the a.i. had told me it was a hard target but I was the one, blind in greed.
My visions were bit blurry, while the bear had lost both it's eyes & the face was also riddled with holes from my mp40. But it had it's predatorial senses active. So, I played dead while it was near me.
"Hey, you fat fuck..."
It was Revati, she was cursing to catch the beast's attention.
The bear charged towards the sound.
Revati shot one arrow and fired two rounds at it. But, the beast slammed it's body in the tree and both the gun and bow fell off the tree. Luckily Revati didn't fell down and now she was totally unarmed and couldn't provide me cover.
Though it was a total gamble.
I slowly unholstered and took out the browning pistol. I was in such a pitiful condition that I couldn't stand up, while laying down I emptied my pistol at the beast.
The beast had tried to charge towards it's oppressor once again but this time within few steps it had succumbed to the grim reaper. With a earth shattering roar the bear finally collapsed on the ground.
➖Ping➖
[Host leveled up]
[Host leveled up]
[Earned 25000 exp+19920 soul points first time for killing an opponent 23 times stronger that host]
[Earned the title "John Ramgo"]
(Host will inflict 50% more damage to wild beasts in jungle terrain, 20% less chance to get shot from enemy fire on wildland, 10% more agile on jungle terrain)
[Earned 75k exp+40k soul points for slaying a sloth bear]
I was feeling very tired to add or check out any of the other stuffs like my stats or attribute points.
Revati came running towards me from the tree. She wiped her tears & was saying something, everything was inaudible. My eardrums couldn't catch those rambling sentences of her, I was too tired to understand anything at that point.
I was feeling sleepy & couldn't keep my eyes open...
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