5 Ch.5
"What!"
"It's closing in quick so get ready!" Elder Luke shouted to everyone.
Running up to the wall a crashing sound could be heard in the distance. Creatures stirred and grew restless trying to run away from the danger.
'Oh fuck' It was the only thought that could describe what he was feeling.
A raptor, skin a sickly red, burst from the trees standing about as tall as a full grown moose and the length of a pickup.
Letting out a horrific screech Clay felt his ear drums burst.
Prometheus the Red (raptor-alpha variant) lvl.283 12,386/12,386
'So I can see more info, Huh" Clay thought "wait... it has a name?!?"
Clay grabbed his crossbow from his inventory and lined a shot up.
Thunk
The arrow flew true and struck Prometheus in the chest or more so bounced off. The thunk of a volley of arrows came from the rest of the hunters having regained focus.
"It's not doing anything!"
"Oh god!"
"We're dead!"
"Calm the hell down please!" Elder Luke shouted over the noise. "We must lead it away, we can't kill it!"
Clay ran over to the pale elder. "What do you need me to do?"
"Run, I need you to run and get it to follow you" he said
"What!" He responded "might as well kill me now!"
A scream rang out as a section of the wall collapsed taking a few hunters with it. The alpha lept on to the wall and started tearing through the hunters like a scythe through wheat.
"You must," Luke said, gripping Clay's arm.
A sickening crunch rang out as an unfortunate hunter was turned into a paste on the ground.
"I-i can't, no way in hell.." Clay mumbled awestruck by the sheer power the alpha was.
"Please." He asked in a small voice "don't make me do this."
Clay looked around realizing his moment of indecision cost the lives of two more hunters and a third one getting his arm torn right from the socket in a viscous spray of blood.
Breathing deeply he finally agreed.
"Ok."
Loading the crossbow again he lined up a shot, hands shaking out of pure fear his arrow went wide hitting the ground beside. The raptor turned its head curiously to the side as if deciding if it should waste it's time or not, ultimately the primal beast took over the intelligence and it charged blindly at him.
'Fuck' he thought.
Taking off in a sprint he ran until his stamina ran out. Clay sprinted under a log as the loud thuds of the raptor could be heard charging through the dense jungle like foliage. A mental countdown of how long he had till he could run again and how much time he had till Prometheus was here.
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The thuds grew louder and more frequent. Clay, crawling out from underneath the log, got ready to run
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'GO!' He mentally shouted. Running full sprint the alpha burst from the trees and gave chase.
Running he looked back preparing for the pain and death message but to his surprise he was doing it, Prometheus was close but not in pounce range.
'I can do this!' Clay thought.
Suddenly the world turned upside down and went black.
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Pain and light.
Those were the two things that Clay felt when he finally regained consciousness. A soft pink sun was either rising or lowering in the distance, Clay couldn't tell.
"Stats." He barely croaked out.
Name:Clay Highboorne
Species: Homo Sapien
Number: 3629272
Lvl.3
Health: 3/180
Stamina:120/150
Food:40/100
Water:32/100
Strength: 10kg/150kg
Movement speed:100%
Resistance: 10%
—-WARNING: Damage to host body critical. Please address immediately.—-
'How the hell am I alive?' he thought. Looking up he noticed the amount of branches that broke his fall.
"Fuck, I think everything is broken" Clay sighed "might just lie here for a bit..."
Then Clay heard a light croaking sound. What he mistook for a log was actually the alpha splayed across the ground.
Prometheus the Red (raptor-alpha variant) lvl.283 37/12,386
'Oh no' he thought 'guess it's a battle to see who can heal up enough to finish the other!'
Minutes dragged on into hours, the only time either of them moved was when Clay grabbed some soup from his storage.
Finally after god knows how long Clay could move, his leg bones mended and his arms were movable with minimal pain.
'So if I level higher can I heal faster?' Clay finally got up using his sword as a makeshift cane. Walking over to the raptor he saw it got a lot worse punishment from the fall then he did and considering he broke both his arms and legs it was saying a lot.
Prometheus the Red (raptor-alpha variant) lvl.283 235/12,386
"Should I kill it?"
Walking up to the Alpha he saw both its legs were shrivels to pool noodle size and a chunk of its chest was collapsed in ,the only indication it was still alive was the shallow breaths it produced.
"I will be doing it curtsy....." Clay let out a sigh.
Going over to its head the raptors eyes looked at Clay, the savage beast gone, replaced by a creature suffering.
Lifting his sword Clay drove it down through its eye and straight into Prometheus's brain.
-You are now lvl.24-
210 Stat points to assign.
"Huh!?!"
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As Prometheus lay dying next to the simple creature it considered prey it wondered, why?
He knew better then to chase this insect off the ledge but he couldn't stop himself.
Something had driven him, something beyond his own control.
It was a shame he thought, all the death and suffering he caused through his life was for not. First all the siblings he killed in order to grow stronger, then his parents who were to weak to stop him, the creatures that simply wished to live to see another day that he so violently killed in order to become stronger. The message from the system that let him become something greater then any of his fellow raptors at the price of his freedom.
As the two legged bug stood up with its steel claw he knew his fate.
Death.
He mentally chuckled to himself. 'Tho I may die, I have met many predators in my life and this "thing" will become more dangerous then them all!'
As the claw pierced Prometheus's lungs he realized he was finally happy.
