Ben Frank survival instincts kicked and his thought process ability accelerated. With his devour ability, the first thing that he should have before strength and everything else is the best senses. With all of the best 5 senses then it will be a lot easier to survive in a world where almost everything is larger and stronger than his previous world. First, he must have the best eyes, ears, smell, taste, and then touch. Touch may be the hardest ability to find because the animals that he knew might not exist in this age. However, he knew that insects have one of the best evolutions because of their short lifespan and rapid reproduction. For the best sight, he thought of the best insect in the animal kingdom with the perfect sight, dragon-flies.
Now all he has to hope for is that he has to first hope that he can find one, yet alone catch one. Like most insects, they thrive when there is water so first he will have to find a large area with a body of water. Where there is water there is also bound to be several animals not too far off to.
He doubts that his machete will be able to cut deep into the skin of the long-neck dinosaur. Even if he is able to chip away it's life slowly, he doubts that he would be able to survive its large movements and may be crushed before he even gets the chance of killing it. He does not know if discovery channel or movies got their behavior right either because how could such a large herd of animals be afraid of a lone predator with teeth. Even a rabbit knows how to bite back if it is backed into a corner.
The scientist that discovered the long-neck dinosaur's bones have said that these large creatures can not support themselves on dry land so they will most likely live nest near the water as they submerge themselves into it to cool off. Hopefully they won't react badly to his presence. So, he first took a slow approach as he moved towards them and kept a fair distance away. Close enough for them to notice his presences, yet far enough to not have them feel threatened and for him to safely run away if needed.
While following the herd of dinosaurs, he couldn't help but be amazed at how far science has become and how far technology has evolved and could see so far into the past. They were exactly how it was depicted in movies. Short sturdy limbs with their hip low into the ground that he could probably touch the underbelly if he stood on a chair and jumped high into the air. It's long and study neck that went so high that if one would be able to stand on it's head that could easily be considered somewhat of a bird's eye view.
The animals moved with a slow and calm manner but their pace was moderately fast which must be because of their large stature and movements. After about half an hour, the large herd of animals soon reached a large body of water. It was really a beautiful sight. It looked like a preserved nature sight that was completely out of touch from man's touch. No sign of pollution or litter on the ground and everything was and looked natural and everything that was there played its role in maintaining balance.
Because of my ability to devour anything and become immune to any diseases and poison, it is safe for me to just drink the water from the source itself, without any need to boil the water. What a blessing this ability is. If the other people who have come before me have this ability then they must've been idiots to not be able to survive of simply have bad luck and encounter an apex predator right from the start.
The herd of long-neck dinosaurs slowly looked around themselves for a brief moment of time before approaching and entering the water. I sat nearly a few few from the water as I waited for signs of any other signs of life. Because of not knowing what to expect, it was all I can do with the information that I have. I could try to enter the forest and look for damp swamp areas but that would be a little too dangerous as there would probably be more predators there. If these large herbivores took the time to come out here and enjoy a nice water bath and cool off here then they must deem it safe enough to be here and not be attacked so suddenly.
Several long hours passed as nothing happened and the long neck dinosaurs were still cooling off and walked around drinking water and eating the leaves of the nearby trees. As the sun started to set loud insect chirps began to resound. Soon enough buzzing sounds was heard and the long neck dinosaurs started exiting the water. From the dense forest and nearby cattails insects started to emerge. A fast buzzing noise soon flew past me and started to dance on top of the water. It hovered and flew with sharp movements that was hard for untrained eyes to get a hold of. However, what surprised me was not these movements or the large buzzing sound of its wings. It was the size of it. Two large eyes that were almost the size of a soccer ball. With a size this large, you can get a better look at what it really looked like. The two eyes covered more than half of its head and a long three foot slender body that looked weightless despite its length. Large thin translucent wings that you could only see its image of because of the speed it flapped. Thin short legs that was enough for it to slowly hold up its body and move around on the stems of plants.
Although it looked a lot larger and colorful, I could tell right away from what it was. Looks like my guess was correct and I was lucky, it was indeed a dragonfly. I guess the oxygen level didn't just affect the bigger animals. It affected everything. Everything must be a lot bigger than what I have experienced in my life and I couldn't help be excited and be filled with adrenaline. However, I knew that I wouldn't be able to catch one with my bear hand without a plan.
I observed the dragonflies to determine their habits of flying and tried to adjust my eyes to their speed. I saw that several of them hovered in and out of several plants. I then went into a thick patch of the plants that have gathered the most dragonflies and crouched down with my hands out waiting for a chance. Even if one did come close enough, I knew that it would be too fast to be caught even if I did know it's flight pattern.
Therefore, I waited for what seemed to be like hours but it was really several minutes. There has to be a limit for when it can stay flying as almost no living being can run or walk forever. Soon enough, one of the large dragonflies gently landed on a stem and walked slowly to the flower petal. it's long straw-like mouth uncurled and poked towards the pistil of the petal. As it started to consume its nutrients, I used this chance to grab its long body.
Before it could use its chance to fly away, I grabbed the thin wings and used all my strength to tear it apart. I could not lose this chance after all even if I have to use inhumane methods. It's ability is what I need. As soon as this was done and as it tried to struggle out of by grasp with its small thin legs, I took a bite out of its eyes. After all, I don't know what I need to do to gain it's eye sight ability. If I eat its body, will I gain a slender and light body? I have no idea, so I went for the eyes first.
As I bit into its eyes, yellowish pus started to burst out. It was not sweet or bitter, but rather tasted a little like iron like how you would taste your blood. At least this taste did not make me want to puke. I continued to devour both eyes hungrily.
After a few seconds of eating the eyes, I waited for my devour ability to take affect. However, nothing happened. I tilted my head as I didn't understand what was happening. Why didn't my ability take effect. I closed my eyes as I started to focus my mind as I gathered my thought process. I started to think about things like certain movies or the short anime shows that I have watched and how they would 'focus' their eyes on to something.
Soon enough I felt a tingling sensation on my eyes as I opened my eyes once more, 'ding' ' You have gained the inherit eye ability of the dragonfly.' I smiled as I felt and saw the changes around me. I looked around me as I saw the different rays of light that the sunset had shown. I saw the different shades and blades of the grass and the shallow water and what was reflected so clearly. Seeing colors became a whole different story for me. The difference of the shades and the 'livliness' that I can see in the plants. Everything was elevated to another level. I could now see far into he distance. Where once where I looked was blurry, I could now see it so clearly. I quickly went towards the water to get a look on my eyes and I saw large dark pupils that covered my eye. Within the dark pupils, I saw several divided shapes.
I raised my hands and waved it in front of my face. I saw several different images of my hand waving, as if I was looking at the hand from multiple angles.
"So these are compound eyes?" I smiled, " Nice."
However, unlike a dragonfly who's eyes made up a larger portion of its body, my eyes's size did not change which was a good thing, as I don't want to look like a dragonfly or any type of creature who's eyes are too large for their body.
However, my range of eye sight was indeed impressive. By seeing images from multiple angles, it is as if I am seeing things at a rapid pace and at slow motion at the rate my eyes could capture and see.
Smiling I said, " Now this is what I'm talking about. One down, 4 more to go."