Elias was holding the Mutated Rat's body in a way that only its leg was roasting, but he jolted away seeing the Cursed Chain Chest beside him. However, his body lacked any strength whatsoever to run.
He eyed the Cursed Chest that had become motionless after he was frightened. The pain he felt on his hand due to it, has left a long-lasting trauma in his mind, and it will take some time before the trauma leaves him.
After three seconds and it seems the Cursed Chest is no longer moving he calmed his mind and poked the Cursed Chest and said, "Friend, you frightened me!"
He poked it but he did not expect that the Cursed Chest would respond, but then the Cursed Chest opened its lid, and within the Chest was a mishmash of short sharp blades and spikes of all shapes and styles, but all connected with a chain.
Two chains come out from the Cursed Chest and grab the Mutated Rat, ripping it apart into bits by using the blades. The Chains then dragged the head, and torso of the Mutated Rat into the Chest while leaving the limbs behind. At the same time, a rectangular metal falls from the Mutated Rat's stomach.
Elias watched all that in bated breath, wondering is this how he would have been ripped and consumed if he did not manage to tame the Cursed Chest?
He took in the cold air, thanking God that he escaped a gruesome death without knowing!
Seeing the Cursed Chest not doing anything, he took the limbs and put them on fire to roast. While roasting he took a side glance at the Cursed Chest, from time to time, and then he sighed.
He roasted the limbs and put the thigh in his mouth but he quickly spits it out. The meat of Mutated Rat is extremely pungent.
He crawled his fat ass, as it jingled, to the puddle of water he transferred using his Wand from the Island he conquered and drank from it. Yet, his tongue felt numb as if he drank venom.
Elias cursed and picked up his Wand and pointed at the roasted limb.
[Roasted Mutated Rat Thigh]
Seeing it was not given him the information he wanted, he entered the Wand Shop and selected Intangible Items, where Information is.
He asked if Mutated Rat was edible. The answer made his mood foul, as it says no.
[Mutated Rats grow by eating other Mutated Animals. That made all Mutated Animals that feed on meat poisonous to normal humans. Except if the human is Enhanced. Look for Animals, Birds, and Insects that feed on grasses, even if they are mutated, they might be edible.]
'Fuck! How am I going to eat food now? I can't go on like this as I'm too tired to even stand!' He bemoaned.
His mind was going ballistic with thoughts on how to feed himself. He looked at the body of water that his Island is floating on, he speculated that maybe there is fish inside. He crawled there and was about to touch it, he remembered something.
The last time he touched the water his Island began sinking and he was forced to buy +10 Luck to find another Island to merge and that stopped him from drowning.
He looked and calculated that the fog is bright, which implies it was noon and it might take some time before tomorrow. He wanted to go and conquer an Island but he is afraid that he may end up dying against a Mutated Beast.
While he was cursing his bad luck he saw the Cursed Chest use its Chains and took the remaining limbs he couldn't eat and gobbled them down.
'Damn, this thing can eat, what will happen to me if there is no food for it to eat and it's hungry?' Elias grumbled.
With difficulty, he stands by leaning on the rock to peek if there is a shadow of an Island in the fog ten meters away from him. But, he did not see a single shadow.
"Do I have to wait for the next day to drive my Island to another Island?" He asked no one.
Elias was at a loss on what to do. But, he decided to just drive the Island around in hope of obtaining something. His Island moved forward gradually and the more he moved the fog cleared.
At first, he thought he was not moving because the similarity of fog within ten meters is so similar but with the water wave pattern due to his movement and also the wind that blew against his face, he recognized he was moving.
Suddenly he saw a shadow to his left, he slowed down the Island and observed the shadow. He only needs to move one meter and the Island will be within his ten-meter vision, without the obscurity of the fog.
But, Elias is too vigilant to make that rookie mistake. He knew the moment he notices whatever was on the Island, that thing will also notice him. So, he waited at a distance that would allow him to observe the shadow.
And he was right to do that, as what he saw was a giant shadow that resembled a bear. He quickly drives away his Island with sweat covering his forehead and fear gripping his heart!
He meets many Islands but his carefulness saved his ass. What he saw from the shadows were all dangerous and in his condition, he couldn't contend with them. As most of them are massive beasts.
Finally, he was in luck to meet an Island that has no shadow that indicates something was on. He moved carefully until the Island was within his ten-meter vision. He saw the Island was indeed empty.
He moved and connected his Island, suddenly his Island initiated merging with the other Island.
[Grade 0, level 1 Island]
Without looking at the Wand in his hand, a flash of information was sent to his mind.
It looks like if his Island absorbed the new Island it will level up.
"What is my level?" Elias asked as he looked at his Wand.
[Grade 0, level 10 Islander]
'Huh? Islander is that what they call me? And I'm level 10? What does that mean?'
He has so many questions but what he needed was to eat food, and drink water and maybe his brain will be clear.