Hey y'all, change in schedule, but from now on, I'll only be posting on Fridays. I know the chapters are short, and now they'll be less frequent to make up for it, however, my school work comes first. The chapters might be a little bit longer but no promises.
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*Shriek*
Another monster, after a long battle with the recent super predator that appeared, was helplessly pulled along into the maw of the mighty beast. The creature was normally one of the tougher herbivores in this area. It was large, intimidating, had a carapace shell to tank damage, and when it charged, it could crash through trees.
And now it was dead.
Eodum silently creeped back up to the canopy enjoying its fill of food for the time being. It creeped through the woods, and eventually, it arrived back at its new home. After settling down, Eodum noticed it had leveled up
[Congratulations, you have met the Xp requirement and leveled up!]
… Neat! Although, not as neat as it could be. Seriously, this was after killing and rampaging through all of this part of the forest for five days. Five. With all the monsters which didn't clear out now slaughtered, Eodum was mostly left alone here. While this was a pleasant break, not having to worry about life or death battles, Eodum could really just relax.
All this stress couldn't have been healthy.
This did mean a different kind of stress weighed down on Eodum. With it leveling this slowly, it wasn't sure how it was supposed to gain the strength to help Henry and Sheila. It was at the point that Eodum still wasn't sure if they were alive. Something about the thought of them being dead made the rat feel empty. Hollow. Not the hungry kind of empty either. Something different. Something new. Something worse.
Eodum knew it needed to find more enemies. Stronger enemies. As nice as this easy life has been, the need to save its friends was overwhelming and crushing. Fortunately, Eodum knew exactly where to find stronger enemies.
Scampering through the trees, Eodum arrived at the top of the mighty trees of the forest. Scanning the area, Eodum saw the spire-like mountain rising into the sky, piercing the heavens with dark, swirling thunder clouds whirling around it. Huge birds, giant serpents, and monstrous entities could be seen even from all the way where Eodum was.
In addition, even at the distance Eodum was from the stone tower, the thundering roars and clashes of monsters battling rumbled deep within the rat's body. Its bones vibrated with the deafening booms between the beasts.
Steeling itself, Eodum began its journey to the center of Kraude, slaughtering its way through the ecosystem around it.
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Kali sliced the throat of the creature whose spine she was crushing beneath her foot. Her foot was an interesting matter, it was like a strange mixture of a hoof and a dellich foot. The sole of her feet were hard and tough, but the shape and joints for the legs were like that of a dellich. The hoof, instead of having the cleft in the middle of the hoof, splitting it into two distinct parts, had four clear indents.
Did it matter what her foot looked like? No. Are some people happy with foot descriptions? Strangely, yes.
The end result is the same: she just used her weird forearm bone-spike thing to slit the throat of a strange horse-like monster.
And now it was dead.
[Congratulations, you have met the Xp requirement and leveled up!]
And now she's one level higher.
Picking up the strange wolf-like beast, she slung it over her shoulder and walked back to the cave she called home. It was vacant when she came upon it, but it was clear that someone had lived in it before her.
Doing her best to hang the wolf from the ceiling one-handed, she eventually had it dangling from its feet. Slicing its neck with her spike-arm again, the blood that was pouring out turned into a torrential downpour of blood, splashing and running down further into the cave. The blood soon found a groove in the stone floor, and following it as it's the path of least resistance, it filled up a vase.
Kali followed the blood, and once the last of it trickled into the pottery, she picked it up and went outside. Going to a pitfall trap she found, she put the blood over it as a lure.
She wasn't sure who had made these things and lived in this cave before her, but she was glad for their hard work in making her new life easier. She should probably try to figure out how to make things like this, seeing as how her life would be like this for quite a while.
The memory of the creature that had caused her misfortune made her shiver. Then, the memory of the village of Eman came to her. Her family had died; killed by the undead raised by the necromancers. She wouldn't stand for it. She would get stronger. She would end both that rat and those necromancers.
Walking back to the cave and moving the giant stone plate that acted as her door, she lit the fire in the middle of her home. Then, walking over to the monster dangling from the ceiling, she carved it up. It was tricky trying to use her bone-spike; it was more of a stabbing weapon. Here, however, she was using it to slice up tough skin and flesh of a monster.
Messily and poorly, she had the mangled organs, digestive track, and other undesirables separated from the edible stuff. She had also managed to get the bones out. They still had some bone on them, but it was as good as it was going to get.
She put the strange stone contraptions that the person before had ade over the fire. It was carved from stone and connected somehow. It had a plate like part that would be over the fire, and all she had to do was put some meat on the heated slab.
After eating and drinking some water that dripped from who knows where, she hit the hay. The next day, she came upon her pitfall trap and the small bear cub-like monster with red markings that had fallen into it.