A scary snake was standing next to Leo
Or so it was what he thought. Due to his uncontrollable skill (Insight) he felt like the snake was right near him, but turns out it was standing tall raising it's body towards a certain animal.
That animal happened to be just like Leo guessed, it was a rabbit.
Unlike ordinary rabbit, it had sharp teeth as comparable to dogs and it's claws were pretty sharp. It's almost like a carnivorous rabbit.
The snake was so black that just from looking it, one could say that it's venoms were extremely deadly.
Leo was standing behind a rock as he quietly observes.
The snake quickly finds an opening and stings it's mouth towards the rabbit's leg and in an instant levitates it's body towards the rabbit's body as he intended to quickly wrapped him.
The rabbit was stronger than an ordinary rabbit, it quickly moves it's legs and as the snake's grip loosens he kicked it straight in it's face.
Leo slowly takes out his sword and starts getting his body ready to move anytime.
One could see that the snake is clearly the predato here, but what he wasn't sure of was why isn't the rabbit running away.
'Could this hole be the rabbit's home? Then there must be the rabbit's children.'
Leo remembers how he killed both the bird's previously and left the eggs all on it's own.
Leo felt bad as he had just ruined a living being's family. 'Guess I'm no different from the snake.'
As the snake falls far off, it raises it's head once more and slowly moves towards the rabbit.
The rabbit was starting to feel the effects of the poison, it's vision was starting to waver.
The snake immediately crawls towards the rabbit as soon as the distance between them got closer.
The snake had already gotten a slightly injury from the rabbit's claws, so Leo was only waiting for that moment when he gets as much injury as possible.
After a long struggle the rabbit gives in, it's body was wrapped around by the snake's body. The snake had gotten injury in four different areas and blood could be seen all around the injured areas.
Leo however still didn't attacked and just kept waiting.
'As soon as the snake starts to digest the rabbit it would be able to move around it's body freely.' Leo was well aware of it and just continued waiting.
One hour later,
'It's finally time' Leo takes out it's sword and rushes towards the snake. Leo swings his sword towards the snake's head with full strength.
The snake barely dodges it but received a small cut.
Leo quickly moves back 2 feet from the spot as he sensed the poison coming from the snake's mouth.
Leo evades the poison and strikes once more.
The cut was deeper than before. It was a success.
The snake knew it's currently self is not ready to fight him head on so it tries to vomit the rabbit.
Leo didn't knew what the snake was trying to do and kept a distance thinking it was trying to spill a large amount of poison.
Leo took a stance and starts observing the unnatural behaviour of the snake.
As soon as he realises what the snake was trying to do, he starts to cut of the snake's head with full strength.
[Congratulations! You have successfully defeated a white core snake!]
[You have gained +1 Strength]
[You have gained +1 Agility]
[You have gained +7 exp]
[You have leveled up!]
Leo just stood there with amazement. His body was starting to change like crazy.
[All your stats will increase by +2]
[You have gained +5 Vitality]
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Name : Skeleton Soldier
Level : 2 (4/50)
Vitality : 15/15
Stats : -
Strength : 8
Stamina : 4
Agility : 5
Skills : -
Insight : Lvl 0
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'Amazing, my entire body feels refreshed, even my vitality has been fully recovered?'
Leo could feel like his body is tingling, as if he just got a shower or something. His body was letting out some shining glow for a moment.
Even his body had grown by 10 cm longer.
63 centimeter tall (2'1 feet)
This body transformation was an extremely significant improvement so far. And with all his stats being increased, his body didn't feel weak anymore.
'I might even be able to kill another snake even before it starts digesting it's prey.'
[Due to killing a white core monster you're rank has been promoted]
[Name : Skeleton Head Soldier]
[You have gained a new passive skill]
[Resistance : Lvl 0]
'Resistance?? So is it because I hunted the snake or perhaps some of the poison got into my body earlier?'
'With a constantly growing body you never know. Well either way I wouldn't have to hide anymore like before.'
As soon he thought about it, he remembers the moment when he met the large monster when he first came here.
He could still remember the sensation of the humongous monster's movement that shake the entire area.
'Or I guess not.' With a slight worry Leo concluded his unfinished statement.
As he looked around the place, he could heard some noises coming from the hole.
He could see red eyes shining from the hole.
'Two? Three? No four??' Don't tell me those are.'
It turns out the rabbit was protecting his babies from the snake all this time. All four of them were innocent looking rabbits with glowing red eyes yet there teeth were sharp like dogs teeth.
Before he starts going back to his journey, Leo picks up all kinds of fruits from the nearby and gathers it inside the hole.
As he covers the hole area with grasses in hopes to let them survive, he also throws the snake and the rabbit's body somewhere far away.
'I don't want other monsters come here searching for the flesh.'
After all the preparations were done, Leo starts heading back towards his journey.
Originally, Leo's idea was to just keep moving until he reach somewhere save and train his physical body by doing work out or something.
But seeing there's no save place, and now thanks to his insight skill he could sense multiple strong enemies everywhere.
It's just that his skill isn't strong enough to locate the place of the monster nor know what kind of monsters they are, all he could sense was some really strong ones.
'My insight have also improved ever since I leveled up, the monsters I am sensing are extremely strong to the point it still crawls all over my body.'
'Seeing as to there's no actual save place here in this place, all I can do from here on out is level up like crazy'
'I'll kill any weak monster I meet and won't leave a single monster alive.'
"I've come this far, there's no turning back."