Zion watched the Swift Rabbit as it moved around. With their damaged hearing, he felt he could probably successfully pounce on it.
He slowly moved around the bushes till he reached a reasonable distance, then suddenly leapt over the bushes, landing straight onto the rabbit's back.
It made a strange squeak-like sound as it suddenly felt its whole body pushed into the ground. It didn't even get a chance to fight back as suddenly, sharp teeth dug into the back of its neck, and then there was a cracking sound as the rabbit immediately went still.
[[Swift Rabbit (F)killed, 15 EXP gained.]]
'Downside of ranking up... I don't get extra EXP for killing the same rank. And 15 is minuscule... I need to hunt something more significant. Although this did help me adjust a bit to my body, killing it in two hits isn't helpful.' He thought through this as he started eating the rabbit.
He was no longer that bothered about eating animals whole anymore. He finished the rabbit in 3 minutes, leaving just the bones and guts behind. He got up and decided to try to hunt something more significant.
He walked around for 45 minutes, only coming across smaller beasts that wouldn't give him much of a challenge until he finally found one that looked tricky, 'Ooh. Analysis.'
[[Species: Iron Spear Porcupine.
Rank: D
HP: 60/60
STR: 15
AGI: 10
DEF: 22
Weakness: The front half of its body has no quills to defend with.]]
'DEF so high my attack won't get through it instantly... Its ATK is pretty strong, too. Enough to be wary, at least... AGI is nothing compared to me. However, those quills are dangerous. I better watch out for that.' He instantly thought all that through as he watched the strange spikey rodent.
This one had a cream-coloured body, and each quill was primarily black with small white stripes.
'Although the front is its weakness, it will try to keep its quills facing me at all times. Gotta get around it to go for its head while avoiding those long quills.' He made his battle plan as he moved towards the front of the beast.
As it leaned down to munch on the grass, he quickly dashed out at the porcupine beast, feeling his agility jump slightly from the skills boost.
The porcupine made a strange 'mee' sound and, surprisingly quick, turned and managed to aim at least the left side of its quills towards him, but due to his boosted agility, he knew he could dodge the quills and kept running.
Oddly enough, when it saw he didn't move or retreat, the porcupine again made that strange 'mee' sound before its quills hardened and turned grey, then suddenly shot off its body. The speed of the shot quills was surprising as Zion had to quickly dodge to the right to avoid being hit by a couple of the now iron-hard quills that looked like miniature spears.
'I guess that's where its name comes from.' He thought as he glanced at the spear-like quills.
With Zion having to dodge that attack, the porcupine took this moment to face its whole back towards him and started running away.
'Oh no you don't.' Noticing it trying to escape, he immediately ran after it, although Dashes time had run out, so his little boost was gone.
The porcupine kept making that weird noise whenever he got close enough to swipe it, and when he tried to approach it from the sides, it would harden its quills and shoot them, forcing him to slow down to make sure he didn't get hit by anything.
He finally got a chance when he ran ahead of the porcupine and suddenly spun around, flicking it in the face with his tail.
It let out that weird 'mee' sound again, and its movements immediately paused as it closed its eyes due to the fur hitting its eyes.
Zion took this chance to rush in once again and pounced on its neck, slashing at its neck a couple of times with his claws.
It 'mee'ed in pain as it felt the claws dig into its body and immediately shook itself while spinning around.
Zion had to back off quickly to avoid being hit by the beast's quills. The porcupine recovered from the blindness and glared at Zion before starting to run again.
This repeated a few times. It would run, he would hit it with his tail, then slash it. He thought about biting it but realised it takes at least 3 seconds to get his teeth out of a body, so he would get hit by quills before he even took his mouth away from it if he had taken a bite.
As the porcupine got ready to once again shoot its quills Zion had an idea and suddenly leapt over its head, the quills shooting in the spot he had been before.
It looked around trying to finf him, not trusting the silence.
Suddenly from above, Zion landed on the porcupines head and bit at its neck just as it loudly called 'Mee!'
Soon it was dead and once again he heard the enjoyable ding.
[[Iron Spear Porcupine (D) killed. 25 EXP gained.]]
'Phew... that's not bad. Now let's take a rest.' He laid on the ground tiredly as he looked at his stats.
[[Status]]
Race: All Seeing Rainbow Fox
Name: Zion
Level: 5 (EXP: 60/500)
Rank: D
Magic Affinity: None
HP: 240/240
Mana: 230/230
STR: 18
AGL: 22
CON: 18
DEF: 19
INT: 23
CHA: 25
....]]
'Still going to be a while before I level up a bit. Oh well, slow and steady wins the race. Plus it's not like I'm in a hurry, plenty of safe-ish beasts to hunt.' He smiled to himself.