While still hidden i watch as about 10 bats fight 15 bats.
'What in tarnation!?'
I could also see a bit further that 2 bats are in pieces.
'Jesus, there were 3 groups originaly?'
This is the only thing that makes sense at this point, the first group is the one with the five bats from which i killed 3, the second group is the one with the 10 bats and the third and last group is the one with 15 bats.
Either the second or the third group took out the other 2 bats from the first group, but why?
After contemplating this for a bit it finally dawned on me.
There is no longer any food left!
I had hunted down most of the lone monsters on the first floor and now i have hunted the only 2 tribes that aren't bat monsters.
I didn't notice anything unusual until now since the bats have been feeding on the last remaining lone monster that i had missed.
But now everything has changed, since there are no longer any lone monsters the bats are forced to take a risk and attack the big nests of other kind of monsters and since there are no longer any of these nest they are forced to hunt their own kind.
Thing aren't to the point yet where a bat would attack another bat from the same nest so they are naturaly killing bats from other nests.
My jaw dropped at my conclusion, i have fucked up the food chain to the point of cannibalism.
I still have plenty of food left, even if i were to sit in the safe-zone i would still be able to outlive all these bats but that would create another problem.
Since i wouldn't be killing them directly i wouldn't be able to get any EXP from them and i will way weaker in my fight with the floor boss.
I dropped my head in contemplation, this can be a huge opportunity for me or it can also be a huge disaster if handled incorrectly.
Filling through all the random shit from my previous life i finaly came up with a plan.
I would spread out bait, fill it with gluttonus aura and wait for the harvest.
What do you mean this is the same plan as with the apes, i don't understand what you are saying!
At this point the second group has lost 3 bats and the 3 group has lost 2 bats but they seem to be coming to some kind of truce.
Seeing this an idea quickly popped up in my mind, i quietly pulled out the dead bodies of bats from my previous fights and filled them with gluttonus aura, i did the same to the 2 bats that they had killed since it's quite a distance away from the battle before starting to make my way back to the safe-zone.
I don't know what kind of chaos this action of mine will cause but i feel that it would be a good idea to witness all of these things through the open door of the safe-zone.
You might think that i am exaggerating but you have to think cerefully of how the gluttonus aura works.
It will dissipate from either a spell like 'cleanse' or by finishing whatever it was 'eating'.
This originaly wouldn't be able to cause too much trouble.
The problem is that at this situation all dead bats would become food due to the lack of prey.
Meaning that a bat that eats the bait would naturaly die and the dead bat would be then eaten by another bat, this will make a never ending cycle until all the bats are dead.
Even if some of the smarter bats figure out something like the huge bat did when i used gluttony on it's hand it will of no use, why? Because if they don't eat they will starve.
They will be forced to drink poison to quence their thirst and i will be relaxing in my safe-zone.
Well not relaxing, since i will be getting infinite amound of mana i will be spamming spells like there is no tomorrow.
After all i suspect that the floor boss will be some kind of drake, although drakes aren't intelligent they possess incredible defence to magic, so if i want to affect it with magic i must evolve them futher.
Idealy i would like both of my arrow spells to be at the 'enhanced' version.
These were the thoughts in my mind while i was going back to the safe-zone, while i was going back i dropped a couple bodies filled with gluttonus aura just to make things faster.
.....
I swear to god, it hasn't even been 6 hours and it's pandemonium outside.
How do i know that, well truth be told i am not curtain but right now i am getting such a huge amount of energy that i can hardly put it all to use, as for mana i am currenty using 'light arrow' with my right hand and 'weak earth arrow' with my left hand with all my might so as to not waste any mana.
I can also hear crazed screams and i am periodically getting levels.
[Ding]
[Skill 'weak earth arrow' has reached level 10, complete the mission to evolve.]
[Mission: Cast the spell 10000.]
Now that i think about it i don't think that i have ever seen another type of mission for all the spells other than 'weak rejuvenation', not that i am complaining since it's easier for me this way.
.....
It has been 12 hours since i went to the safe-zone.
If previously the situation was comparable to americans visiting a store during black friday (look it up) then now it is like the introduction scene to a zombie apocalypse movie.
Whether it is energy or mana i can no longer handle the huge amount that is coming in, the voices are absolutely maddening and there is even fights right outside the safe-zone.
Honestly i am pretty scared even if i know that am completely safe.
[Ding]
[User has aquired skill 'fear tolerance']
...Holy shit!
[Ding]
[Skill 'Strong Body' has reached level 10, complete the mission to evolve.]
[Mission: Consume a monster who possesses the an evolved skill that constitutes 'Strong body'.]
[Ding]
[Mission has been complete, skill 'Strong Body' has evolved into 'Enhanced Body']
Before i could understand what was happening a huge amount of energy was now being absorbed by my body.
I don't know if it is because i have been through this again or because i got a level in 'pain resistance' but it didn't hurt nearly as much as the last time.
It didn't take long for the pain to stop, now after the skill evolved 'perfect body manipulation' also evolved meaning that i can finaly not waste all that energy coming to me.
[Ding]
[Skill 'light arrow' has reached level 10, complete the mission to evolve.]
[Mission: Cast the spell 10000.]
Although it might look the same as the evolution of 'weak earth arrow' it actualy needs way more mana to complete since it's an evolved version and needs more mana.
.....
It has been 24 hours since i went to the safe-zone.
Things are finaly starting to calm down or at least this is what it sounds like.
The reality couldn't be farther from this.
This is the calm before the storm, how do i know? Because i am currently getting the biggest amount of energy and mana i have ever had.
I can't realy point out the exact number but i feel like most of the bats have been 'infected' with gluttonus aura.
There will soon be the last wave of craziness before all tha bat monsters finaly die.
On another note, i finished the mission for the evolution of 'weak earth arrow' and then leved it up to level 10.
The mission is the exact same as last time so it will simply take some time to complete.
The exact same thing happened with 'Enhanced light arrow' and is on it's way to evolution.
'Enhanced body' on the other hand wasn't leveling up at all even with all the energy i have been giving it, i can't even begin to imagine how much energy it would need to evolve.
.....
It has been 48 hours since i went to the safe-zone.
My 'earth arrow' has now become 'enhanced earth arrow' i level it up until level 7 and then switched it with 'flash of light' which i promptly leveled up and evolved to the version the Rose had showed me 'blinding light'.
My 'enhanced light arrow' also evolved but this time it is different, it evolved into 2 different skills.
One is called 'weak light spear' which is a strong single target spell and the second 'weak light arrow barrage' which simply spawns 20 'weak light arrows' that shoot to a large area, basicaly it is an area of effect type of spell which i realy needed right now.
As for the current situation outside...
I turned my head and looked outside the door, corpses were pilled up like sand bag when a flood takes place.
At the middle of all of this are 2 huge bats, that are even bigger than the one i had fought.
They are duking it out without any regard for their life.
They only thing that annoys me is that out of the entire first floor all the bat monsters decided to do their last battle here.
I shake my head and go forward, stepping outside after 2 whole days.
Before the could even turn their head i casted 'weak light arrow barrage'.
The area that the arrows are distributed can be manipulated to a curtain extend so most of the arrows hit.
One of the big bats could take it and died, while the other looks like some kind of pumice stone.
Again i didn't wait for it to take action and casted 'weak light spear'.
It says weak but it pierced through the air with extreme speed and skewered the huge bat right to the wall.
I look around for a bit before putting most of the bodies away, i will search around for survivors and possible loot drops and after making abolutely sure that i didn't miss anything i will go fight the boss.