Alex was shocked at being stared at by eight eyes. He quickly jumped back, just in time to dodge a large web shot out by the large spider.
He was about to get trapped just now. He barely dodged it, otherwise, it might have been the end for him.
It seems the spider was awaken due to being disturbed by Alex.
Just as the spider was about to attack Alex with it's webs once more, it was interrupted by a sudden attack to it's back.
It quickly turned around and saw a green bird flying just behind it. However, it thought Abigale was just another wild beast trying to snatch one of the fruits from the tree it was inhabiting and since it was only able to unleash a strong wind incapable of actually hurting it , so the spider didn't think much of it and ignored abigale's presence.
It's attention turned to the human infront of it once more.
Alex was thinking of what to do, when the spider suddenly jumped towards him all of a sudden. Alex, who had no time to think, could only use the single attacking skill he knew to actually use while slashing his hands towards the large spider.
'Wind slash'
The wind slash diretly hit the spider, still in mid air, was affected and had it's momentum slowed down by quite a bit. This gave Alex just enough time to take the rabbit horn from his rag and stab it towards the gap between the spider's hard carapace.
"Shreeeekkk"
The spider let out loud scream. It was so loud that Alex wanted to cover his ears right then there, but he knew that he would be done for if he actually did that, so he had to endure it.
He pushed it deeper in to the spider's body, trying to kill it quicker, the spider continued to struggle, but to no avail.
Less than a minute later, the spider stopped all movements.
He dropped on to the ground, completely exhausted. This was the first real fight he had so far, all the other encounters with monsters previously weren't true fights, they were just some extremely slow monkeys or some spiders trying to be sleeping beauty.
Abigale came down and sat next to him, Alex petted it's head while saying;
"Thanks buddy I truly couldn't have done it without you"
Abigale chirped happily. Alex truly wasn't exaggerating as, if it wasn't for abigale's interference, he might have had to pay a huge price for this victory.
He was now truly grateful to have helpful beast companion like Abigale.
after resting for about 30 minutes, he stoodup and ate one of the yellow fruits hanging the tree. It had a different taste than the rest of the fruits he had eaten so far.
All of a sudden, he felt his body strengthen
[Host has consumed an inferior grade treasure body vitalizing fruit]
[Strength+1
Endurance+1
Defence +1
Agility +1]
Alex was shocked, this was the first time he had even heard of a fruit capable of strengthing a cultivators body, moreover it was an inferior grade treasure. Though he didn't excatly know what that meant.
he quickly ate another one, and the same thing happened this time as well.
[Host has consumed an inferior grade treasure body vitalizing fruit]
[Strength+1
Endurance+1
Defence +1
Agility +1]
This process happened for about 8 times until
[The host's body has grown resistance to the body vitalizing fruit, the result gained from the further consumption of fruit will be diminished ]
Alex was a bit suprised, but it was understandable, since, if becoming stronger was this easy, there would have been powerful cultivators roaming everywhere.
But he still continued eating the fruits anyway but this time,
[Host has consumed an inferior grade treasure body vitalizing fruit.
Strength +0.4
Endurance +0.1
Defence+0.3
Agility +0]
The some of the effects of these fruits had been reduced by more than 60% while some have been reduced by 100% like agility. Alex speculated that it might be because his agility stat was on another league of it's own compared to the rest of his stats.
He understood that there would be no point in him consuming the rest of these fruits, so he just gave them all to Abigale. He wanted to see if Abigale could also be strengthen through this process as well. It did enhance abigale as well , but the increase in stats were something like this
[Strength +0.7
Endurance +0.6
Defence +0.7
Agility +0]
The increase in Abigale's stats weren't the same as Alex, perhaps it might have been due to the difference in cultivation level. And just as Abigale ate the 6th one,
[The body of the contracted beast: Abigale, has grown resistance to the body vitalizing fruit, the result gained from the further consumption of fruit will be diminished ]
It seems the number of fruits Abigale could consume without the effects being reduced was lesser than Alex as well.
After all of this, he finally decided to call it a day and find a place to spend a night. He searched for about 30 minutes, but he couldn't find a single suitable place, so he decided to use the quickest method he could think of, which was, to simply make his own!
With the help of Abigale, he quickly found a couple of tall rocks, and swiftly built a little hut.
After finally builting his little stone hut and covering the entrance, he decided to cultivate a bit before sleeping, and Abigale did the same thing as well. Only then did he he sleep. About 1 hour later, Abigale also slept after cultivating.