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Chapter 4 - A Rat with a Side of Jell-O

[Congratulations, you have met the XP requirement and leveled up!]

[Your level is now 2!]

[You have gained 2 Sp and 10 Ap!]

[Skills: Shadow Strength, Body Strengthening, Vitality Check, Stealth, Bite, Scratch have all leveled up]

[All stats have been restored!]

[Status:]

Name: N/A

Race: Monster Rat

Gender: Male

Age: 1 hour

Level: 2

Hp: 60/60

St: 85/85

Mp: 5/5

Str: 5

Dex: 5

Agi: 5

Wis: 5

Int: 5

Cha: 5

Con: 5

Mnt: 5

Lck: 15

Skills: Burrow, Scratch 2, Bite 2, Glare, Vital Check 2, Stealth 2, Body Strengthening 2, Shadow Strength 2

Accomplishments: Genocide

SP: 2

AP: 10

… Neat! Within the first hour of life for the rat, it already leveled up. Many of its skills leveled up too! It can already feel the effects of [Shadow Strength 2] raising its abilities. This Unique Skill thing is really amazing! Of course it immediately starts to use its Ap on luck, but stops. It takes a moment to think about spending all its Ap on luck and if it really is a good decision. It proceeds to put 7 Ap in luck and 3 Ap in agility. It then looks at its Sp: only 2. It can't get any really powerful abilities with it, but the rat has yet to learn about waiting to spend Sp to save it up in the future. It applies the filter to the skill list and looks through it. It searches for a while before seeing something that catches its eye.

[Eagle Eye]

[Passive perception increases and can see farther. The user can focus and zoom in on a target.]

[Cost: 2 SP]

[You have obtained Eagle Eye!]

I'm done!

[Finalizing Process]

[Status:]

Name: N/A

Race: Monster Rat

Gender: Male

Age: 1 hour

Level: 2

Hp: 60/60

St: 85/85

Mp: 5/5

Str: 5

Dex: 5

Agi: 8

Wis: 5

Int: 5

Cha: 5

Con: 5

Mnt: 5

Lck: 22

Skills: Burrow, Scratch 2, Bite 2, Glare, Vital Check 2, Stealth 2, Body Strengthening 2, Shadow Strength 2, Eagle Eye

Accomplishments: Genocide

SP: 0

AP: 0

… Super neat! Time to test out a new skill. The rat then proceeded to use [Eagle Eye]. It looked through the green haze, and noticed it could see farther into it. Not only that, when focusing on a single point it field of view grew smaller as it looked like it would slowly get closer to that point. Its vision would zoom in by 50% at its max. The rat then looked at its body through [Vitality Check], and noticed things were more clear and easy to understand. Was this the result of an increased skill level? Nevermind that, its muscle has grown due to [Shadow Strength], and its eyes were significantly better than before. Its teeth also appear to be slightly stronger. It took its focus off its body and back on to its status. That was when it realized its folly. It saw its MP. It had gone up, so yay, but it had lost out the chance to increase it! FUCK! Idiot, idiot, idiot! The rat threw a tantrum, rolling back and forth in frustration. After a minute of anger and rage it calmed down and saw there was no reason to be acting out like this over the past. What had been done was done! Instead it began eating its spider prey, avoiding the sack of paralysis poison. Wait… poison. The rat was not aware of this before, but in the time using [Vitality Check] it must've noticed it. The increased level in the skill must mean that it's now able to see another creature's biological make up! To test this theory it forgot about its food and set off hunting again.

The rat sought out another living thing, making use of [Eagle Eyes] and eventually stumbled upon something. It was a strange blob, about the same size as the rat. It was a translucent aqua with bubbles forming in its body, but never quite reaching the top and just disappearing. It has a dead rat inside of it and the rat was fizzing away, dissolving into the blob slowly. This was a slime, a common low level monster. Our rat began sneaking up on it using [Stealth] and crept up to within a meter. It used [Vitality Check] like last time, however, it did not see details and such about the monster. It only saw a weak point which was the core in the center of the gelatinous thing. It thought to itself that maybe it could only understand monsters it had defeated. That would make sense as it only understood the spider once it had already been defeated by the rat. It concluded that must be it and then shifted its focus back on the slime. The creature had a clear weakness in the middle of its body, but that acidic property of it would be a hassle. The rat however, had no way of overcoming it, and the only answer was to charge in. It did exactly that. Attempting to pull off the same move it did against the spider, it launched itself at incredible speeds. Too incredible. The rat launched right through the slime, missing the slime's core by a few centimeters and went charging ahead. The rat had to use it's paws to stop its momentum, but couldn't hold on and crashed into the wall.

[You have suffered blunt damage -6 Hp]

The rat dazed from its accident got up just in time to see the slime leaping after it. The rat used [Body Strengthening] to jump to the left before the slime could get it. The slime crashed into the wall but seemed to suffer no damage, unlike a certain rat. The rat made the conclusion that it was because of the gel-like body the slime had. The rat turned off [Body Strengthening] and dashed up to the slime in a zig-zag pattern, and clawed into the body of the slime. The slime in response to this compressed its body and engulfed the rat. The rat then held its breath to keep from drowning, but could not ward off the damage from the acid. As it went clawing through the slime, it chased after the core which the slime was moving to keep away from the rat. While this game of tag was going on, the only thing the rat could hear beside the sloshing and fizzing of the slime was the words being read off the blue screen appearing in its mind.

[You are being dissolved in acid -1 HP]

[You are being dissolved in acid -1 HP]

[You are being dissolved in acid -1 HP]

[You are being dissolved in acid -1 HP]

With the constant stinging of its body melting it became gradually more and more levels up. It then remembered a certain skill: [Burrow]. It activated the skill and began flinging bits of the slime everywhere, tearing it apart. Eventually, all that was left of the monster was some Jell-O and a core. The rat scooped the entire slime in its jaws and clamped down, crushing the slime.

[Congratulations, you have killed a slime!]

[Skills: Burrow and Eagle Eye have all leveled up!]

… No level up?

[Status:]

Name: N/A

Race: Monster Rat

Gender: Male

Age: 3 hours

Level: 2

Hp:40/60

St:13/85

Mp: 5/5

Str: 5

Dex: 5

Agi: 8

Wis: 5

Int: 5

Cha: 5

Con: 5

Mnt: 5

Lck: 22

Skills: Burrow 2, Scratch 2, Bite 2, Glare, Vital Check 2, Stealth 2, Body Strengthening 2, Shadow Strength 2, Eagle Eye 2

Accomplishments: Genocide

SP: 0

AP: 0