Chapter 3: The Great Unbeatable Pincer Knife

{Rake pov}

Memory: [Poisonous Pincer]

Memory Rank: Dormant

Memory Type: Weapon

Memory Description: [A memory taken from the weakest beast. A poor crab. This memory was forced into existence by a higher power.]

Enchantment: [Slightly Poisonous].

Enchantment Description: [Beings poisoned by it will be slightly poisoned.]

Woah, that looks strong. Since it's poisonous, I'll be able to kill everything. Cause I can't die. All I have to do is scratch something, and it will die eventually.

Mua ha ha ha. Nothing can stop me now. 

Let's summon it. 

As he waited, a beautiful white dagger that had a handguard that looked like a crab's pincer, appeared.

{image}.

Woah, that looks beautiful. But the blade seems a bit small. 

Well, no need to worry, I just gotta stab them with it. 

**

{Omni pov}

As Rake was still admiring the dagger, filled with optimism, giant tentacles could be seen slowly surrounding the rock that he was inhabiting. 

The area was rocky and the rocks were most likely formed by corals. Hence the water was quite shallow most of the time. 

Only if you were at the edge of the coral area, could you be attacked by large beasts. This is the exact situation Rake was in, in his previous time. If only he had escaped from there he wouldn't have been killed by a shark.

But that does not make the shallow waters safe. It makes it somewhat less dangerous. 

This area also has a top predator. A creature that has a soft internal body. And can survive both in and out of water. A creature that is extremely corrupted, has tentacles and can spread poisonous ink. 

A giant octopus. 

But that is not enough. It does not have 8 tentacles, it has hundreds. It's a giant creature that takes up a very large area of the rocky shore. The entire Rocky shore is its hunting ground. And it has no predators.

And so, slowly the tentacles are surrounding the most delicious-smelling prey in the entire rocky shore. 

And that would be Rake. 

Fate is forced to serve him and so it despises Rake. So, it can only punish Rake in subtle ways. And one of those methods is that almost every monster in Rake's vicinity is attracted to him. 

And that's why no matter what Rake does or receives, he will be found by the monsters in the area and be killed. 

That is the reason that he keeps dying in mere moments. He has barely managed to check his status after 3 deaths. And the first time he died, he was unconscious and didn't even feel it. 

He has at most been awake for 10 minutes.

**

{Rake pov}

'Hmm, is the water turning black? Am I being attacked again?'

And that's when a tentacle grabbed his leg instantly putting him out of balance and started to pull him. 

"Aggh."

Before he could scream anymore, he was dragged underwater. 

More and more tentacles strangled him. But the Knife was still in his hand. 

'Arrrgh, again! I'll kill you!!'

Enraged by being attacked constantly, Rake randomly flailed the knife around. He tried to cut the tentacles but to no avail. He could at most scratch it but there were no cuts. The enchantment was not working. 

Because it had to pierce the skin at least to poison the creature. Without that, it's just a dormant rank trash knife even though it looked extremely beautiful. 

And eventually, the tentacles subdued his hands. No matter how much he struggled, he could not move. He was captured. 

Rake opened his eyes. He instinctively closed them when he was dragged into the water. 

But he should not have done that. He was better off closing his eyes. There was a giant skull with three eyesockets. 

It was completely black and the moment he laid his eyes upon the monster, he regretted it immensely. It's hard to describe with words the horror the creature instilled in Rake. 

The creature was still not done. After observing Rake, the new thing that smelled so delicious, it decided to finally kill Rake. 

And in just a moment, Rake was ripped apart. 

His legs were pulled sideways, and he was ripped starting from his groin. His spine was still attached to his left leg, and then his right side was attached to his right leg. 

This death was not as quick as Rake would've liked it to be. It took a couple of moments for him to lose consciousness even after being ripped in half. Moments of agony and terror. 

In that split second, his [Talented] attribute kicked in.

Creating some last moments when he realized what his fate would be if he didn't finish the trial soon. 

He will die a dog's death again and again for eternity.

**

{omni pov}

As Rake was getting killed in a horrifying manner, his hands did not let go of the weapon. 

The weapon stayed in his hand when he was being devoured. And the moment it reached the giant creature's tooth, it broke into very tiny pieces. 

And one of those small pieces managed to get lodged between the teeth. The next time, the creature chewed, the force managed to knick into the gum. Causing such a small cut that the creature didn't even notice it. 

Yet the cut was made. Whether that tiny knick would be able to do anything, no one knew. But it was made regardless.

**

[Memory: [Poisonous Pincer] has been destroyed.]

[You have died. Your trial begins anew.]

[Death count: 6]

**

And again, Rake awoke in the jungle area. 

Disgruntled and still reeling from the recent death. The trauma paralyzed him. This time he was awake. He felt it. It was neither instant nor painless.

For a 16-year-old who grew up without relatively experiencing much physical pain, this was debilitating. 

He couldn't escape from this reality. And he could not cope. This was too much for his young mind. 

Yet, reality didn't wait for him to cope. Two centipedes 2 meters in length, emerged from the rotten tree he was sitting next to. 

And yet again, before he could react, his two legs were caught by the pincers of these two centipedes. 

**

"Arrgh, arrgh, Leave me alone. That hurts. 

No, not my legs, Stop biting. Please. 

I can't take it anymore. Aaaah, aaaagh, no no.

Please. *sob* hick, no stop. 

Stop hurting me. Kill me, please. Please make it faster."

But Rake had no need to worry. It was going to end soon. He had already been poisoned. 

He only had to get through 3 minutes of being eaten alive. The two centipedes bit into his two legs.

As he thrashed amidst sobbing and crying. His tendons were quickly bit off. His bones were broken, and he could no longer move his legs. 

He tried to crawl. But it didn't work. He was pulled back by the centipedes, who, after having eaten most of the flesh in his legs, then moved on to his stomach and internal organs. 

In mere moments, he could no longer scream as his lungs were punctured and his guts spilled.

He missed his first couple of deaths very much. Quick beheading, quick poison and painless deaths.

This....This was too painful.

And this time, his last words were once again," *sob* Please let me die."

And the last thing he saw and heard was this.

[You have died. Your trial begins anew.]

[Death count: 7]