Atop the pillar of a stick, I looked down at the cat. The pain from the fight still crippling it. I almost feel pity for it but when I looked at my broken arm all I could feel was rage. We were animals, of different species and of different factions. It will kill me if it could and I have no reason to not do the same.
I cut some of the thorny vines, the vine plant really was wierd. The fruit growing from it wasn't just blue but it was also somewhat transparent. It looked like some sort of blue drink was frozen in the shape of an eggplant. I had to removed the blue eggplant from the vine I was cutting.
Jumping down hurts more than it should, no thanks to the broken arm. On my good arm I had the thorned vine, dragging it with me. When I reach the cat, I wrapped the vine around it. It's thorns poking the skin of the cat. It was crying in pain but I continued. It wouldn't be long now, so bare with me. It wasn't putting up much resistance so I manage to tie the vine rather tightly, making it difficult for the cat to move around.
I bit off one of the thorns of the vine and push it into the eye I bit in our first encounter. The sharp pain make the cat go into a frenzy once again. I wasn't strong enough to pierce its skin with the thorns but the cat in its struggled was, and the more it move the more tighter the vines constricting it gets, some of them eventually piercing the skin. The pain from it only wants the cat to struggle even more.
It goes on until the vine couldn't get any tighter and the cat couldn't move anymore. I know it was still alive so I go in for the kill. I bit it's neck, trying to get to its throat. The fur were in place making it extremely difficult for me to do it. But after much attempt I managed to do it, blood was flowing like crazy, I was drenched in it and I could hear the cat meowed its last meow.
[+1 Level]
With haste I read the stats.
[Name: Adrian Walts]
[Level: 2]
[Species: Rat rat (adolescent)]
[Skills: Bite(Level 1)]
[Ability: Flesh Stack(Level: 1))
[Partial Evolution: Monstrous muscles +1, Growth +3, Efficient stomach +1, Carving claws +2, Agile prehensile tail +2, Dextrouss limbs +1]
[Health: 3/5]
[Mana: 0]
[Strength: 6]
[Speed: 4]
[Durability: 1]
[Intellect: 14]
[Will: 5]
[Skill point: 1]
[Evolution point: 0]
[Stat point: 3]
Oh! I'll be able to upgrade which stat I want. This is good, I have three of them so I'll be able to upgrade three stats per level. For now I'll choose all the points to go to my mana. I really want to use magic, right here right now.
[Mana: 0/3]
Hmnnn... One stat point per point of mana is it. Also it's still zero. Meaning i still can't use it now. Gosh darn it. All of that for nothing.
While I was sulking I hear footsteps approaching, I hid in one of the thorny vines. The farmers must have heard the cat's loud meows during the fight, I was afraid they might look for revenge when they see their precious pet kill. Because I knew I would.
It wasn't an adult but a child, who had yet to reach her teenage years. She screemed when she saw the cat, surprise quickly turning to grief when she realised the cat was dead. She was sobbing now, and I just watch the whole thing with open mouth. The child picked up the cat, not even removing the thorny vines wrapped around it and hugged it tightly. She must have really loved the cat.
Dammit! I what the hell am I supposed to do now. The cat and I had this whole rivalry between us, it was my great enemy, my nemesis. The fight we had was epic and would be told for the years to come, it was a noble and honorable battle. I thought to myself desperately trying to drown out the sound of the child's cries, and I was failing hard, turns out it's hard to justify your actions when there was a literal child crying over said action.
Self defence I could say but I went in for the kill after the cat was blinded and could not longer fight. I am a rat and it a cat I could say but I have the memories, experience and the functioning mind of an adult human. It attacked me I could say and it sure did that but I am a rat and rat were major pest that spread disease and destroy crops, for all the cat knows it could very well be just protecting the farm. The truth was that I wanted to level up and that was all. But I did level up and it was amazing, sorry girl I'll make up to you in some way, despite being a rat I still have soft spots for children.
I left the scene no longer able to bear the cries of grief. I wanted to eat the cat but I kept that though to myself. I haven't eaten in a while and I need to eat to heal my wounds. Even though I made a promise to repay the child I couldn't do it right now, so I went straight to the chicken coop.
I'm stronger than when I first got here but my broken arm makes everything more difficult. I was still going for the eggs, now way I could take a chicken down as I am, and the one I killed before was already gone. You would think they would have increased security after the egg heist and the dead of a chicken but no, it's as if I never did anything here at all.
Don't need to use the plan I did before, I can simply cut the egg open form below and shove my head inside. Im not going for a week long stay here, I don't mind wasting a few. I just need to eat up and heal up.