3 Setting Off
The little Taotie had just sat down in a crevice in the side of the wall when his stomach grumbled out with a deep roar. His mouth was salivating so much that it puddled around his front legs and onto the crane in front of it. The idea of getting stronger and having the ability to hunt stronger and more tastier satisfied this creature to no end. His conscience was blurry and currently had no complex emotions, only desire. And it oh so desired to eat this crane. His little legs were practically shaking just looking at the crane, and he finally couldn't hold himself back anymore and just bit in. The essence that he gained from the crane flowed throughout his body and congregated at his wound slowly mending it and creating new flesh that was once ripped out by the crane. Also he seemed to have broken through a barrier and was able to see new memories. Eating more unlocked the races traits as they grew more powerful and the bloodline strengthened.
What the little guy was currently watching was a mature Taotie that looked around it with disdain, almost as if it was a deity looking down on the mortal world. It opened its mouth and everything around it directly turned into essence and flew into his mouth. The memory then cut off and the young Taotie sat there a little dumbfounded. It was so overwhelmed that its head started to hurt and it had to lay down for a while.
When it awoke, he tried to do what he saw in the picture. He was expecting a grand scene of everything dying and him becoming invincible, but reality was cruel. The only thing that happened was a leaf lifted itself off the ground and flew into his mouth and down his throat witch almost made him choke until it reached his stomach and turned into essence. That leaf provided him with essence and it made him an omnivore that could eat plants ass well, but the taste was so atrocious that this little foodie vowed to never eat another plant for his life. Even whilst walking he subconsciously stayed away from the bigger plants in fear of accidentally swallowing one.
After eating the crane he grew, not much, but still bigger in size. His claws and teeth became a littler sharper as well. This little guy looked at the world with plates in his eyes. He wanted to eat everything and be able to taste everything. He happily looked around himself to only find that he was currently alone with nothing near him which put a damper on his mood because he couldn't even taste anything else to get the leaf taste out of his mouth. It still haunted him about how bad it was, so he set of to try to find ANYTHING to eat.
Walking out of the valley that he was born in gave it some odd fluctuations in his heart, just like a kid leaving his home for college, he felt like he left home. He looked back at the valley one more time before firming his heart and setting off to discover the delicacies of the world.
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At a large body of water, a large alligator with six legs was currently rushing around and devouring anything that got close to the watering hole. He had just finished off a black striped wolf when he saw a little animal coming closer on the side of the shore. He observed it and eventually came to the conclusion that it was like that wolf that it had just eaten and he started to inwardly rejoice. Moving across the floor bed he slowly made his way closer towards the unsuspecting prey.
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The Toatie had just finished catching a one horned bunny and made its way over to the water to get a drink. It found that drinking water wasn't as enjoyable as meat, but it was way better than leaves. He was eating the bunny when he saw the water shimmer and then slowly ripples started to appear. The alligators body was so large that when it moved it made small little wakes behind it that alerted the "prey." The Taotie had realized what was about to happen and started to salivate right onto the ground in front of him. He wanted to be like the mature Taotie that was so powerful that he could eat anything, so he was ready to take action when the "predator" was going to take action.
The water rippled fiercely as the confident predator exploded from the surface of the water straight at the Taotie. The alligator opened its mouth wide and clamped them down so hard that he was going to end this battle in one move, but when he closed his mouth there wasn't the satisfying crunch like the last wolf. He looked left and saw to his surprise that the "wolf" had evaded his strike, making furious because he was sure that he was the best predator there was and this little wolf was mocking him right in front of his face!
Twisting his body to the right he wanted to end him with a tail slap that would directly shatter bones. CRACK... the ground split open but he hit no "wolf." At this point the alligator was seething with anger and directly opened his mouth and roared out.
ROAR
The grass in front of him were uprooted flew backwards following the direction of the sound waves. This move would've stunned the Taotie if it were in front of it, but it took the time to climb onto his back and used his sharp claws to latch onto the back of the alligator. He then opened his jaws and clamped down onto back and directly ripped through the scales and got right into the meat. He felt a tingling sensation in his mouth and instinctively used his "devouring" method he saw in the memory and he felt like little candies were rolling on his tongue as he was directly sucking out all of the essence in the alligators body. The skin around his mouth started the wither and wrinkle, the skin looked age, but it only lost all of its essence in its flesh. If the alligator had time to eat other prey he could return to his former glory, but the Taotie wasn't going to give him the chance.
The alligator flipped onto it back and jumbled the Taotie free. He fiercely glared back at him, but in his eyes one could see fear. This alligator deeply feared this "wolf." Trying to run back into the water it turned and gave a tail slap towards the Taotie before using his six legs to run into the water. He was just at the shore when one of his back legs was ripped off, he was in so much pain that he stumble onto the ground. He used all of his strength to try to pull himself in, but he didn't get too far before Taotie jumped on its back and went for its neck. The time with the crane show hime the neck was a vital point, so he targeted it and crunched his jaws down ripping and tearing at the flesh.
They were both underwater before the alligator stopped moving. The Taotie had almost ripped its head off before it had stopped. His prize truly was big, and he only had knicks and bruises, nothing severe. He pulled with all of its might, which underwater drastically was hindered, before he finally pulled his spoils out of the water to consume.
