Chapter 7 - Beast fight
Kyle has finally decided to move out of his cave. The whirlpool inside of him was rotating slower and slower and which each rotation he could feel that it was very slowly peeling off his insides energy. He had to do something fast. Otherwise, his lucky discovery would be his demise.
Kyle, with the weapon in his hand, ran toward his goal, the lake that was a drinking hole for the whole forest. Kyle knew that there were beats there, and he could get the energy needed, as well as test his new strength.
The path leading to the lake was quite dangerous with snakes and other beasts lying in wait.
Kyle knew that and was very vigilant, and as he expected while he was running and jumped over a tree root, a snake pounced on him. Kyle was already mid-air, and so he couldn't dodge. He punched out in the direction of the snake. He could feel the power behind that strike.
Once the fist and the snake collided, Kyle didn't feel any pain or numbness. His fist smashed the skull as well as the brain and teeth of the snake straight away. Kyle absorbed the energy from the dead snake, midair, and felt that whirlpool was only starting to rotate even faster, asking for more and more energy. This time was critical for Kyle; he had to take every advantage that he could get.
On the way to the Lake, he has already killed 2 snakes, a crow, and a rabbit that attacked him. It seemed as though this beasts knew where he was even before he came into their vision. As if something was attracting them.
Once he arrived close to the lake, bigger beasts, that he hasn't faced yet in this world started appearing.
The first one was a lone wolf that was limping. 'It seemed that it was hurt. This is my chance to test my strength against a real enemy. The energy a wolf should have should be plenty.' But before Kyle could make his move first, the wolf turned and with the roar attacked Kyle. The sudden turn was not expected, and the only choice Kyle had was to dodge.
Even though Kyle tried twisting and turning, in the end, he still got 2 deep claw marks on his shoulder. 'This was a close one. I have to be more decisive in my movements. I have to kill if I want to survive.'
Kyle rushed to the wolf with his wooden sword in his hands, stabbing straight at its head. The wolfs legs seemed to be even more weakened after the initial attack. It must have put all of its energy into that blow. Kyles sword went into the body of the wolf, and as soon as he was sure that it was inside, he turned the handle, ripping to pieces and arteries and organs that the sword touched. Doing this, made the hit deadly for the wolf. The sword broke down, and something that Kyle was going to be using for a while actually was completely useless even after a small fight with an already wounded enemy, 'I need to get a good weapon as soon as possible.'
That meant that the wolf got killed and Kyle could breathe out. Wolf become grey energy that entered into the whirlpool, now the core of it was the size of the large rice grain. Also on the spot where the wolfs body was, large wolfs fang was lying. This was very surprising to Kyle as he didn't remember any of the teeth breaking off, or Kyle hitting its head. Even if he did, usually, the whole body, with all of its parts, disappeared.
Kyle picked it up and put it into the jeans pocket as he had no backpack or anything yet. Suddenly he got a notification in front of him.
[ Would you like to combine items? ]
[Yes]
Kyle didn't see any use for the fang at the moment and whatever it wanted to combine it with shouldn't make his situation any worse. Kyle felt like his pocket got very hot with stabbing pain coming from it, and later small energy from his whirlpool sunk into the fang.
After all has finished, he inspected the results and was deeply surprised. The small purple crystal that he got from the bunny that he fought straight after arriving into this world, was now on the fang and was embedded into the handle of the fang. Also, the pocket from the jeans got converted into the denim and behaved as the handle cover. The tip of the fang was red with blood tear embedded onto the middle. This was amazing, just as his weapon got broken down, he got an opportunity to get something that he would never be able to get by himself.
'The system finally has mercy on me; maybe it is not totally useless.' Kyle grabbed the dagger in one hand and rushed further to the lake. The whirlpool did not stop in the slightest, and Kyle knew that it wanted to get as much energy as possible.
As he progressed closer, the enemies got progressively more difficult, as if those that are closer to the water have earned their right to live there.
It started with antelopes, then elks and then boars.
Antelopes and elks mostly run away from him too fast for him to catch up, but the boar as soon as it saw Kyle went into the frenzy charge straight away. That was very scary, to say the least. Beasts were of course not as intelligent as humans, and it was much easier to trick the, but beasts had a huge advantage from their lack of intelligence. Hyper-focused reflexes and genes inherited from their ancestors. How to fight and how to defend themselves was in their blood when they got born. It was as if they trained for 100 years straight.
After the first initial charge got dodged by Kyle, the boar used the terrain, to change directions much faster with smashing into the tree at a specific angle to attack in the faster rhythm.
'Boars are nothing like harmless bacon I imagined them to be, what a scary beast.' Kyle clicked his tongue, this was draining too much energy from him. He needed to finish this fast.
Kyle wasn't able to attack it while dodging so he decided to be a little smarter, he positioned himself just in front of the tree and bated the charge straight at him. At the last minute, he dodged the charge, and the boar smashed its head into the tree. The momentary stop was enough for Kyle to use the dagger to stab right into the body of the boar.
What followed was unbelievable for Kyle. Instead of a usual stab and turn that Kyle wanted to do, the dagger cut straight through the boar with all the insides spilling out, killing the boar with a simple slice. 'This was definitely not because of my strength. What in the world have a created?' Kyle looked at the dagger with a question in his mind.
The grey energy from the boar was intensive, it flowed right into Kyles body, feeling all of the absorbed energy inside going straight to the whirlpool. As Kyle was about to relax he felt a powerful sucking force from the whirlpool and the rice grain inside of him pulsated, sucking everything that whirlpool has accumulated into it, turning grey energy into its own power and increasing in size to the size of a small pea. The whirlpool, now without any energy started ripping parts of the flesh from inside Kyle, causing incredible pain and unbearable throbbing for him to sustain.
His whole body was in pain, the muscles, the head, the legs. Everything was hurting so much that Kyle dropped onto the ground and couldn't move. He could feel his muscles bulging and his body becoming stronger. 'I have to keep moving if I want to survive. That whirlpool is going to kill me otherwise.'
'I thought if I provided it with more energy, it will fill itself and stop doing that, but it only got worse. I don't know how to stop it, but it clearly needs more energy. I will just have to kill more beasts.' Kyle clenched the dagger in his hand even stronger and rushed further to the lake.