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Chapter 2 - 2. Hunting

Zion read over his stats a couple of extra times to make sure he understood it.

'So... my stats aren't actually that surprising. I kind of expected everything to be low.' He thought to himself.

There was the sound of a branch breaking near him leading to him immediately perking his ears up and turning his head towards the sound. He was extremely alert as he listened and stared towards where the sound came from.

After a moment of silence he frowned slightly, 'That was not nothing. Something is stalking me. Time to leave.' The second he made up his mind he turned and bolted towards the tree line.

There was a snarling sound behind him and the footsteps of something large rushed behind him.

He kept his view forward, not wanting to look back in case it slowed him down. He quickly spotted a good tree to climb nearby and rushed to it, pushing off the ground with his hind legs, he leapt up to the lowest branch he could reach.

He didn't wait to stop however as he jumped up another 3 branches before he stopped, breathing heavily he finally looked down at what was chasing him and saw the large grey wolf standing below him.

It leapt up at the lowest branch snarling and barking at him. From the wolf's appearance and hunting style, it was a lone wolf and didn't have a pack, otherwise, it would have been likely that other wolves would have surrounded him to prevent him from running.

He crouched down on the branch as he watched the wolf from above it. 'Alright... so I gotta wait till the wolf decides to find something easier to hunt. Damn it... if it was something smaller I probably could have fought it. I have no clue what its abilities and stats are... oh wait!' He suddenly thought of something.

'Hey, system, do I have some sort of analysing skill?' He thought, tilting his head.

[[Seaching for hosts request...]]

[[Skill not found. Creating a skill to meet hosts' requests...]]

'You can create skills too?!' His eyes widened in surprise.

[[Not all skills can be created by the system.]]

[[Skill created. Analysis: Analyse the item, creature or person in the host's line of sight to gain details of the target.]]

'Awesome.' Zion quickly looked down at the wolf which was now pacing below the tree, 'Analyse.' As soon as he finished speaking a transparent box appeared above the wolf.

[[Species: Grey Wolf.

Rank: D

HP: 42/80

STR: 10

AGI: 15

DEF: 8

Weakness: Due to hunger, the target is weak and thin, making its skin easy to pierce.]]

'That's... both a lot and no information. Doesn't give me any more stats apart from the main 4 things but does give a weakness as well... that's pretty good.' He nodded to himself and looked down at the wolf.

'Even so... it's still too strong for me.' He shook his head and sighed to himself, laying on the branch, 'Might as well get comfy. I'm probably going to be here a while.'

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2 hours pass as Zion just takes a small nap on the branch of the tree. He wakes up with a big yawn, which if anyone had seen, would have just thought he was adorable.

He looked down below him and saw nothing around him. He sat up and perked his ears up, listening for any signs of the wolf but heard nothing.

He leapt down to the lower two branches and then paused again. When there still was nothing he finally jumped down to the ground and looked around before nodding, 'Good it's gone. About time. I'm now starving...' He sighed hearing his stomach growl as he decided to hunt something.

After walking for a few minutes he caught the scent of something and paused, before crouching down and walking on his toes to keep silent as he walked towards the scent.

He looked through the grass and spotted a small dark green mouse-like creature. It had a long tail that kind of looked like a thorny branch and it was munching on what looked like some sort of berry.

He watched it in silence, 'Analyse.'

[[Species: Thorn-Tail Mouse.

Rank: E

HP: 15/15

STR: 2

AGI: 4

DEF: 3

Weakness: Once the tail is restrained, it has next to no defensive capabilities.]]

'Perfect... with my agility, I'll be able to restrain it pretty quickly, finishing it with a good enough bite to the head.' He waited a moment for the mouse to turn its head away, grabbing another berry then suddenly lunged out at it.

It heard the bushes move and instinctively reacted by letting out a loud squeaking sound and spun around suddenly, lashing its long tail out at whatever attacked it.

Zion spotted the tail lashing like a whip towards him so he quickly ducked under the tail and jumped on the back of the mouse, then used his large fluffy tail to hold the mouses tail down.

The mouse squeaked loudly and rapidly as it panicked after not hitting its attacker and then not being able to move its tail from whatever heavy thing held it down.

Zion paused as he looked at the mouse then shook his head, 'Urgh... I hope I don't throw up... eating this thing raw is bugging my mind.' He reached down and grabbed the mouse on the head then bit down hard.

He saw the HP of the mouse drop from 15 to 5 in an instant and the mouse squeaked even louder as blood filled Zions mouth.

He closed his eyes and bit down again, hearing the crunch and the feeling of its skull breaking under his jaw.

[[Thorn-Tailed Mouse (E) killed. EXP earned: 10.]]

[[First kill achieved. EXP earned: 20.]]