Chapitre 21: Chapter 21 – Yeb. They are wary of me.
(Fuck me… Things got complicated, by a lot!)
(The humans will finally know about my existence and there is nothing I can do about this!)
(!)
(Right! I lost my horns! Maybe-)
(…)
(The horns are missing…. Did they took them…?)
(…)
(I do have a bit of horn remaining and its very visible sticking out of my head… They will realize that those things were mine….)
(FUCK!)
(This is bad!)
(This is very bad!)
(There was still that poodle of blood there! It already dried up and all, but the blood marks are visible and there were also the parts of human body everywhere!)
(Oh my fuking god… There is the fact that thing didn't minded hunting humans, so there may be more victims beside the remains I found.)
(Don't tell me, they will think it was all my doing?!)
(FUCK!)
(Even after dying, that son of a bitch is still somehow showing me a middle finger!)
(Fuck me…..)
(…)
(There is nothing I can do about the human finding out about me.)
(The only thing I can do is to get stronger.)
(I don't know how long it will take humans to send an extermination squad to deal with me, but those humans first need to get to the settlement.)
(I think that the human settlement is somewhere near that location where I hunted those weakest monsters, those slimes and bunny monsters.)
(It will take some time to get to humans get from here to there and there to here.)
(I also don't know how the stuff works with something like adventurer guild or something, do they send adventures from get go? Or they have to confirm something or do paper works?)
(Either way, I should be able to eat that bastard corpse in time and evolve, but I don't know how much I would have time left afterworlds.)
(Would I end up waking up to the group of adventures right next to me that are ready to kill me?)
(I got to hurry!)
I quickly grabbed the centipede bastard corpse and began dragging it around until I arrived at the location I scouted before.
Through the entire day, I was eating that bastard corpse.
I also decided to turn off the [Flesh Enjoyer].
I know this is my recovery skill and all, but I kind of thought of something.
What if: by any chance the [Flesh Enjoyer] is slowing down my unlocking rate?
What if not only I need to eat but also digest consumed food? But then if [Flesh Enjoyer] devours the food I consumed to boost my regeneration.
Just for safe side, I decided to turn it off.
Well, with my current state I should be still able to deal with monsters around here.
However, the problem is that it will take bit more time to consume the entire thing then, since I wouldn't be able eat as much as before.
Well, better safe than sorry.
However, while I was minding my own business, something was happening in the human settlement.
"WHAT?! THERE IS A SECOND CHILD OF THOUSAND BLACK LEGS?!" – said the guild master.
"Y-yes!" – said the nun.
"It was smaller and its shell was grey, but it was definitely the same monster species as the monster corpse of the child of thousand black legs that was shown in the town in last time." – said a young man that was wearing an armor and has taken off his helmet.
"Shit! How is this possible?!" – said the guild master.
"Just how?!"
"…"
"Secretary. Go and inform- "
"Em… There is still more." – said the young girl.
"?"
"It was already killed."
"?!"
"Wait what?!"
"How?!"
"It may have been a child, but there is no monsters in here that could even put up a fight against "THAT" child!"
"Did you by any chance killed it?!"
"N-no. It also wasn't a doing of adventurer."
"I inspected the corpse and I can definitely say it was doing of a monster."
"Not only that, we also saw the culprit who did that." – said the armor wearing young man.
"It was some sort of weird wolf monster that looked like it a mix between the deer and a wolf. Its body also looked like it was made out of plants"
"?!"
"What?!"
"We saw its injuries as well as these laying around. It was missing both these horns as well as this limb. It seems to have lost them from the fight with the centipede." – said the girl
The girl took out a pair of deerwolf antlers as well as its missing feet that they took before they had to run away.
The guild master took the both the antlers and limb and began inspecting them carefully.
(There are some wolf monsters in this place, but not deer! There are no deer monsters in this place! On top of that, a body that appears to be made of plants?)
(I can say that feet isn't a normal flesh, but a plant flesh! That was indeed a plant monster!)
(Not only that, but this horn has an acid marks on it, while this one was crushed by something powerful and sharp. There is no mistaking it. It was doing of the child of thousand black legs. So that means that thing fought it and really killed it!)
"…"
"There is no mistaking it, the monster that you saw must have been the very same that killed the child of thousand black legs." – said the guild master.
"Not only that, there is no monster that match your description that live in this forest."
"There is no mistaking it. This weird monster you encounter must be a new species of monsters."
"And that new species of monsters was able to kill child of thousand black legs by itself. It maybe have been still a young child according to your report, but that monster can still easily kill a human."
"…"
"What happened afterwords?"
"W-well… After it realized that we spotted it, it left its hiding spot and began approaching us." – said the priest.
"It looked at me and him, before then launching some sort of leaves attack at me, but Aman come to my rescue and blocked the attack."
"That monster didn't seem like a simple brainless idiot. It was thinking, so I guess it possess some level of intelligent." – said the young man.
"We didn't knew how powerfully that monster was nor we knew if we could finish it off after fighting the centipede monster, so we chose to escape."
"Honestly, that thing was set on killing us, I could tell from its gaze."
"I think the only reason why we managed to survive was because it was injured and it was missing a limb."
"Hm… Good choice. It may have been injured, but it killed the child of thousand black legs, so it means that thing maybe was above your level. There would be a good chance that you would have died if you fought back then with it." – said guild master.
"Good work for coming back alive and informing me about this."
"You will be called later on when your reward would be deiced, but for now rest and do not go near the deeper parts of the forest."
"I guess I may have no option but to ban access to the forest again."
"Fuck's sake…. We just deal with one massive problem, so why the fuck we have yet another problem!"
(People will not like this, but if I don't do that then there will be casualties and panic will spread among the people.) – though the guild master.
(But a fear will definitely spread among the people.)
(That monster may have killed much younger version of the child of thousand black legs, unlike the one that was killed before, but the problem was that thing managed to kill it!)
(That young child was standing on top of the food chain among the monsters living in this forest.)
(And yet you are telling me that there was even scarier monster out there that took it out?!)
(Not only that, many people who went into the deeper parts of the forest today and yesterday have not came back. Were they killed by that unknown monster or centipede?! Either way, people will find out that people are missing and even more panic will spread.)
(Things are not looking good.)
(There are some stronger adventures stationing in the town in case of emergency, but will they be able to deal with that monster?)
(I may have no choice but to request once again an assistance from higher ranking adventurer party to deal with that monster, just like I did before with the previous child of thousand black legs.)
(Please goodness. Please have mercy on us.)
[Meanwhile]
"…"
(Another freaking group of monsters coming after the centipede corpse.)
(They probably also though that I was easy target, since I'm injured and all.)
(However, it seems some of them instantly gave up after I made example out of their comrades, that I can kill them without any effort.)
(Maybe the situation will calm a bit for now?)
(Still… Night fallen quiet while ago.)
(Like what? 4? 5 hours passed after the sun went down?)
(Normally I would tire right now, but thanks to those monsters being so below my level, I'm barely sweating.)
(Still, those wounds are annoying and make me look weak to them.)
(Honestly, I want to eat the corpse of the monsters I killed to recover, but I need to make room in my stomach for this bastard.)
(On top of that, I don't know when humans will make their move. So, I have to be ready to face worst case scenario.)
Entire day. Entire night.
I was eating that bastard corpse and defeating some monsters that were bothering me.
However, while dealing with those bastards. My magic and leaves skills leveled up and not only that.
[Skill [Basic Plant Magic] LEVEL 10 has evolved into [Intermediate Plant Magic] LEVEL 1.]
(?)
(Oh? It leveled up and evolved? That was bit sudden?)
(I can…. I can feel the difference? Wow… I wonder what I can do right now?)
(Oh right. Some of my skills also got leveled up. Let check…)
(…)
(Okay. What the fuck?)
[Evolution]
[Nature Great Plant Wolf]
[Nature Great Plant Deer]
[Nature Plant Bear]
[Nature Plant Boar]
(WTF?! I unlocked the variant evolutions suddenly?!)
(But I didn't finished eating that bastard corpse!?)
(!)
(Wait! By any chance its related to my skills?!)
(I did leveled them up and made one of them evolve! So, by any chance the reason why I unlocked variant evolution was because I have "Specific Skills"?)
"…"
(Its possible and very likely.)
(…)
(Should I evolve now?)
(I did unlocked variant evolutions….)
(NO!)
(I have to finish eating this fucker and find out if my theory is correct!)
(I have to risk it!)
(There is also a chance that I will unlock a stronger variant form, so let's not change plans.)
I continue guarding and eating the centipede bastard corpse for hours and before I realized, the sun reemerged, however I was still not finished with that bastard corpse and I still didn't saw any changes.
Honestly, I was having doubts about the whole situation. What if I can only have variant choice available at the time? However, I didn't gave up. I needed to see if my theory is correct at all cost!
So, I continue eating and eating him for hours.
I ate about 80%? Or maybe around 85% of its body?
I don't know, but what I do know that this happened!
[Great Plant Wolf]
[Great Plant Deer]
[Plant Bear]
[Plant Boar]
[Great Plant Deerwolf
[Dark Forest Great Plant Wolf]
[Dark Forest Great Plant Deer]
[Dark Forest Plant Bear]
[Dark Forest Plant Boar]
[Nature Great Plant Wolf]
[Nature Great Plant Deer]
[Nature Plant Bear]
[Nature Plant Boar]
(!)
(I unlocked conditions!)
(But, I haven't ate the entire bastard body?)
(So I guess the condition to unlock a variant is to eat X amount of flesh from specific target?)
(Or maybe kill and eat the prey?)
(Still, my theory is maybe right! I maybe have to eat specific thing or hunt and eat it!)
(This is a huge discovery!)
(There is also a fact that I can still pick "Nature" variant option! So, there can be multiple options when it comes to variants AND there is also the fact that you can unlock variants by developing skills!)
(Ton of usefully info just hit me right in the face!)
(…)
(Okay. Calm down.)
(Now it's not the time.)
(I didn't unlocked new evolution paths, but I did unlocked variants I can take and that is something!)
(Now, it is time for me to evolve!)
(But first thing first, I need to check what do I have here. Firstly: Evolution paths.)
[Great Plant Wolf.]
[Upgraded version of plant wolf. Possess more strength and agility as well as sharper fangs and claws.]
[Great Plant Deer]
[Upgraded version of plant deer. Possess a stronger talent for magic as well as handling mana.]
[Plant Bear.]
[Upgraded version of plant wolf. Bigger body and increased power as well as endurance.]
[Plant Boar.]
[Upgraded version of plant deer. Possess increased endurance, speed and attack power, but does not increase magic poetical.]
(Hm… This seem quite good.)
(Honestly, I want to pick the [Great Plant Deer], since I need magic badly, but for the second pick… I'm thinking of taking the plant bear.)
(I need endurance to take a hit as well as power so I can destroy my enemies with ease.)
(However… I will have no choice but to pick great plant wolf.)
(I need speed in case the worst case scenario happening and me having no choice to run from the adventures.)
(So I have to go with Great Plant Wolf and Great Plant Deer)
(Anyway, next thing. The variants.
[Nature.]
[A variant that possess a connection to the nature as well as magic related to nature.]
[Dark Forest.]
[A variant that specializes in killing and ambushes.]
(Hm… Interesting.)
(So if I pick a nature variant, the evolution path will be influenced by it and may develop stronger natural related skills and magic.)
(But if I pick the dark forest variant, the evolution path will get mutated and become bit more offensive and sneakier.)
(Both of these option are good.)
(…)
(Wait.)
(So how would that work? I mean with my [New Evolution] skill?)
(If I were to pick the [Nature] twice, would I get double benefit?)
(Or if I were to pick both paths with different variants, would the variant only affect the thing I chose it with or it would affect two paths at the same time?)
(Or even better question, can I chose two same paths but both belonging to different variants? Like dark forest plant bear and nature plant bear? Would that work? Would I be a double bear or something?)
(Hm….)
(Fuck me… I really want to experiment, but it's not like evolution is something I can mess with since it's too important to me.)
(Lets go like this.)
(I will pick the "Nature" deer, since it should work well together with each other and I will chose the "Dark Forest" wolf, since having higher offensive power from my fangs and claws will be extremely important.)
(I don't know if two different variant options will affect only their paths or will affect both paths, but it's not like I have way to check it.)
(I will have to see it after I evolved.)
[Skill: [New Evolution] has been activated.]
[First evolution path chosen: Nature Great Plant Deer]
[Second evolution path chosen: Dark Forest Great Plant Wolf]
[Evolution shall commence.]
(Now then… Let's hope I will not wake up in stupid situation, just like the previous two times….)
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I lost consciousness and fell asleep while my body began undergoing evolution.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
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