Quiet.
It almost even winds avoided this place.
On top of his nest, Komo was sleeping soundly. If this was normal desert, such action was obviously death inviting. But here, other than Lawo alike, Komo hadn't see any other flying creatures.
So it's absolutely safe to sleep just like that.
And really, even if a eagle did fly up there and attack him, will it able to pass through his armor?
Speaking of sleep, it was too hot inside his nest. Although it was desert with practically no water, Komo hadn't feel real thirst yet. Kalasir's blood always enough, and he has enough heat resistance to resist the heat. But compared to feeling like stuck in a small hot room inside his nest, outside certainly better.
Komo wakes up when the sun almost down.
"Already?" he lazily got up.
Feels hunger, he hesitated for a bit befo jumped down on sand surface. And yes, he got few Kalasir.
Small, medium, adult.
None capable threaten him again.
"Let's hope no Elder or ancient one appeared!" without further ado, he began killing and brought them to his nest.
[Ding! Host has gained 1 biomass.]
[Ding! Host has gained 2 biomass.]
Before long, it was sunset.
"Should I join it later?" he was thinking deeply.
Even though this day was quite crazy, like crawled to someone nose and survive from such a titanic worm, in actuality Komo didn't do anything worth of testing his power. Yes there was fight over that breakfast, but then he leveled up twice, obviously he's stronger now.
So, should he go out later at night and join the routine party?
"…. let's not."
Too dangerous.
Far too dangerous.
Even worm like Cingla are able to pull off his plate armor, not to mention a even bigger creatures.
So in the end, Komo burrowed deep just as before.
Soon night came, and outside get bustling with life.
Komo did his best to stay awake and ready for dangers, but today's really a long day. So he slept quickly. However, he awakened by sudden interruptions from above his head.
"Another guy actually came here!" he began feeling the weight on him to decided the creature's threat, and in the end, "Eh, whatever. It'll probably be gone in the morning."
Komo was just too sleepy.
Other than safety, there's another reason why he burrowed deep into sand when asleep.
Noises.
At night, there's to much noises.
Yes, usually he stayed awake so it won't bother his sleep. But sometimes outside could be real mess that he can't stand it. On the first day, he didn't even get five hours worth of sleep. And these sands also came in handy when he's sleepy like this.
…
When Komo wakes up, the sun barely up.
"Huh? What are these?" the first thing he saw in the morning was strange transparent liquid littered around his nest, dirtying everything.
"…" frustrated, he frowned, "It must be that guy last night. Ah, whatever, it'll dried up at noon anyway. But really, fuck, it's too fishy I'm about to puke!"
He crawled out of his nest, stretched his body lazily and looked around. Yes, his usual morning.
"Alright, let's have a breakfast," he was about to climb down when an idea struck him.
He immediately activated [Size Manipulation] and transformed into kitten sized komodo. Then, climbed down and walked towards a corpse of bird like flying creatures, all while ignoring the meaningless attack from Kalasirs on him.
Well not really meaningless.
They really a bother, especially if it was swarm, not dangerous, but disturbing his way.
"….safe?" he looked around vigilantly.
But yes, clearly because he's too small now, almost nobody cares about him. Each of these scavenger busy having breakfast themselves.
"Then I would dig in!"
But just then, he noticed something from corner of his eyes.
A scavenger, a big salamander at least twice his size walked towards his nest. It's body coated in something like goo that flowed down, leaving trails behind.
[Target locked. Ohan, can provide 50 biomass.]
"That liquid.." immediately, a idea formed in his mind, "No way, did he wanted to stay at my nest?!"
And just as he watch dumbly, that salamander like thing climbed his rock and entered his cave.
"…" Komo immediately cursed, "Fuck you! You're the first fellow four legged dragon descendants I've ever met and the first thing you did was steal my nest? Oh you're gonna be so cooked I tell ya!"
But even after becoming a Komodo, his brain stay with him. So even though he's upset, Komo didn't immediately take actions.
There's something more important.
"You wait, gooey bastard. I will get bigger and stronger first before I kick your ass!"
Maintaining his size, Komo began feasted on the corpse in front of him. It was a creature as big as goat, with skin like shark or dolphin, totally a wonder how such creature could ended up here.
[Ding! Host has gained 1 biomass.]
He was as big as kitten right now after all, of course his bite gonna be as small as that.
Even so, he didn't want to risk it like yesterday.
Minutes later…
[Ding! Detected that Host has enough biomass, level-up conditions are met. This process will take 40 minutes, please ensure the safety of surrounding environment before leveling up.]
[Do you want to level up?]
"Finally…" While eating, Komo never let his guard down.
After all, he didn't want to spend another minutes inside somebody nose.
What he didn't notice though, while he was busy looking everywhere, a small gooey salamander also entered his nest.
"Should I continue?"
After all this corpse could provide 50 points and he only take merely 15.
"No, these little shit gonna ate it all up!" with that, he began cleaning all the small Kalasir around.
[Ding! Host has gained 0,5 biomass.]
[Ding! Host has gained 1 biomass.]
While eating, he noticed that there are less and less scavenger around, "Where did they go?"
It was his question since day one.
As far eyes can see, there's nothing.
No tree, no mountain, no hills, no seas, no water, no jungle, not even a mirage. Just barren desert littered with rocks. And these Scavenger who's clearly not underground sand dweller, always come at dawn and gone before noon.
However, where they go or even how, is a big question.
They're like ghost actually.
There's even a moment when Komo fixed his eyes on a fish like scavenger but when he blinked, that creature was gone as if nothing was even there from the start.
It was truly mysteries.
"Come at dawn to harvest death, huh."
Well at least fact said that they ain't no ghost, as sand dweller upon prey upon them.
Keeping his guard up the entire time, Komo managed to fulfill another leveling requirements. He looked around and only saw like four scavenger left.
"This system really is handy," he said as he pat his stomach.
After all, with his kitten size, how much meat he could stuff into his mouth? But because of the system, his stomach was basically a bottomless abyss.
"Should I level-up first or just kick his ass?" he thought as he walked home.
But then—the sand below him exploded and, "SHIT", gaping insect fang like scissors instantly cut at his rib. Fortunately he had his armour or he'll become two chuck of mini meat right now.
"Ah, fuck! How come they always managed to do that? I'm literally so guarded up!"
Komo activated [Size Manipulation] to make himself as big as possibly, ultimately breaking the creature mouth. Then he minimized himself again and run as fast as he can towards his nest.
"That's should be mine!" he screamed at scavenger who immediately bite the creature he killed.
Fresh.
Such temptations.
But just a beat later, ground below him exploded and that scavenger was no more.
"…." Komo feel like crying.
He really feel like shit, unless he take this feeling on someone—
The first thing he meet when he get close to his nest was a weird, squeaking sounds like dolphin getting beaten up. Curious, he climbed and peered inside, only to see a big and small salamander having gooey sex.
Komo eyelids twitched wildly.
They did it.
Ooey-gooey one even.
Komo looked up, the sunlight practically burned his eyes but he didn't care. He just silent, tears rolling down his cheeks. He felt really bad, complicated and totally bad that he couldn't find a word to express it.
"Fuck…."
While he was out here suffering, these guys are having fun indulging in worldly pleasure.
On that note, he also realized that while he was crying inside somebody's nostril, his girlfriend in another world could have probably got another guy and they totally banged. While he was suffering, they banged like monkey in Sahara heat.
"You guys, you guys…" eyes red, he gritted his teeth while casts venomous gaze towards both salamander.
"If I don't kill you today, I will change my name to Cuckold -Enjoyer! System, start my level-up! Also, tell me, was there any Komodo in this world? I wanna fuck as well, let me have some fun too damnit!"
Just like that, ten days passed calmly.