Part 10

It's evening, the mountains feel more colder as time begins to shifts. Every time air escape my mouth it becomes an ice vapour, not just me alone. The enemy in front feels the same thing.

The fight is a stalemate, dragging it to this long. I desperate to end this fight, if this continues both of me and the bear will probably be dead by exhaustion and the cold.

I still hold to my plans, searching for any opportunity but it seems the opportunity will never come. The bear didn't show any sign of weakness and so me too.

Both of our bodies are full of wound, for me, my face is in the worst state. It nearly got my eyes but it cost me my nose, it's bleeding. For the bear, I got its arm, my fangs successfully capture its arm and got some meat from it.

I deliberately target its arm even its cost me a heavy wound of my body. Its arms are crucial for my plans, what I desperately need now is the bear lowering its guard.

But it seems the bear didn't even lower its guard down a little bit even after the instant fight. But it must have a limit where it can maintain its guard, I just need a little bit of push to bring that.

Yet again I try to attack the bear. This time I will aim for its legs, its foothold. I carefully advance to the front, the bear attacks me, it swings its arm with its giant claw at the end of it. I jump to the side, if the bear swings its left hand I jump to my right and vice versa.

Even after seeing and tasting its attacks much time I still can't perfectly dodge it. Yet again another wound adds to my already wounded body. It hurt! But I must resist it till the very end.

Finally getting so close to the bear, I jump to the front aiming at its standing leg. I got the leg but not for long the bear quickly slam me with its hand. I let off the leg and jump in the same direction the hand go to minimise the impact.

Luckily it didn't fracture any bone, but it's still managed to crack many of it. Now we both standing on the death door, there is no hope for both of us. The bear knows that and it's still trying to survive.

For me, I still have my hope. My plans are already near complete it just needs the finals touch. Sorry for your bear, but you must die here and now.

"Awooooooooo"

A long howl to distract its attention, but it's not get distracted. As expected from the bear, I can only give a heavy sight. But that okay, if diversions don't work then frontal attacks will surely do the job.

This is a bet if I die, then so be it, but if I live, then I try to live to its fullest. Huh... Here I go bear! I go charge ahead dodging the attack, many of them create new wound to my body. I don't care I'm still charging ahead and the closer I got reckless the attack becomes.

I sacrifice myself and purposely attacked, that's all for the momentum for my jump. I pin the bear down then sliding to the bottom of the mountain, a bear ski. Not only that I use the opportunity to bite its neck with the goal of ending this fight and its life.

Of course, the bear tries to retaliate, but unfortunately, it can't. I already wounded its arm from earlier, now the bear can't attack in short-range or to be precise the bear can't bend its hand.

I keep biting the bear neck until I got to the bottom of the mountain. The bear is already hopeless it accepts its fate and dies before we got to the bottom of the mountain.

I let off my jaw and step back from the bear. Smile blossom across my mouth. I win! I really win, my plans work, in the end it works. Hell yeah!!!

I drop into the ground from the exhaustion, my adrenaline state gradually vanishing, from that it sends a shock of pain across my whole body. It hurts like hell!!! Ughhh, my body is on fire! Fuck!

Ahhh... Uhhh... It hurt. Like there was hot water poured into my body, it burns me. My body is literally shocking right now, it's difficult to control. I try to lick my closest wound to relieve some of its pain, but it didn't work great for me the more I lick it the more its hurts.

I stayed in that state for about a whole hours or more. I salute myself for not fainted at all. Seems like my guts got to level up since I live in this world. I hope my pain tolerance will level up too someday, really hope that happens.

After all of that, the overall situation is more calm, the wound still hurt though. Now I try to eat the bear, fortunately, the bear body is still intact with only many scar wound on its back.

I don't want my efforts to go to waste, especially after intense fighting and the bear got which I suspect a Skill. I really want to look at its memory with that maybe I can know or find my Skill too.

As usual, I began eating it from the softest part, this time it's from the back where it's heavily wounded. Surprisingly bear meat taste very good it has a unique taste in it. But it bone is hard to crack it requires me to bite it numerous time for it to finally break.

Overall it got a nice score on my meal list and a quite high one at that. Very pleasing meal after an intense fight that nearly ended my life.

Headache attacks me again, this is the first time I literally got attack from two sides a psychical and a mental one. The bear memory flooding into my mind is quite uncomfortable but not so much.

After the headache this time my body experience something strange. I got a refreshing feeling rushing through my body, a very pleasant feeling to be honest and with it, I feel very very strong.

Ahhh... It feels great. At the same time, I feel my wound rapidly healing, some of the big wound in my face rapidly got close up. Right now there is no blood tickling from my body, it's amazing!

I know all of this, this is a level up. I already experienced it before, right after I kill the deer, my first prey. It has been a month since that time, what took you so long to show up. I did my daily hunting for a month and you only show up now.

It's rigid, what kind of level up that takes a month. I literally still a low-level monster, if it takes a month to level up when I still a low-level monster then how long will it take when I'm in mid-level or worse high-level monster. I can already see my future darken.

A level up means new stats right, I hope I get some huge boost with it. Well, the level up is still saved my life though, I don't know how long I can survive with that so many wounds.

The other great news is, I finally got shelter. Turns out the bear has a cave where it hibernates and in that cave, there is already some stock food the bear owns, it all fish though.

Finally, all of my problems got solved. Water problem, solved! Shelter problem solved too and last but not least food problem. I plan to relax more in the winter, for that matter I must stook a lot of food.

For now, let's go check the new shelter. From what I got from its memory the cave is quite huge and the bear only hibernates at the front suggesting that it might sense something dangerous inside.

My memory stealing ability has its weakness. It only steals a memory, not its sense. That's a good thing and a bad thing depending on how the situation is. Guess everything have its weakness, right?

I depart from my location to the cave. This is a perfect opportunity for me to test my new capabilities after levelling up. So I test it, first I jump and the results are quite interesting, I notice a significant difference from the jump before I level up.

But even so, I can't precisely tell how much I improve. So for the more accurate measurement, yet again I run. First I run slowly then gradually increasing my speed. I can certainly feel the heavy wind resistance even so I can cut it easily.

Hmmm, this is where the difference starts showing its nose. Before I level up, I certainly can cut the wind but that's no easy feat even for me. This time I can cut it easily, that's the difference was.

I try to combine the data and measure how much I improve from before. With some wild guess and instinct involved, I can say I improve 50% from before I level up, maybe.

I stopped my run, I look into my surroundings searching for a small to medium-sized tree. Quickly I found in the distance, that was a medium-sized tree not too big and not too small a perfect size for me.

I positioned myself so no tree could block me. I prepared my self physically and mentally, close my eyes and lower my head. All ready, I run straight toward the tree, run as fast as I could cut the wind resistance and bump my head to the tree.

Boom, I could hear the sound of the impact and I could definitely feel the impact too. My head hurts but it quickly fades away when I open my eyes. I see the tree falling to the ground, I did it. Yes! I did it.

Now I finally have a full grasp of my strength, it quite was impressive to me. Hahaha, with this strength I could defeat the bear easily, no, I could bully it.

Now, in this forest there only a few who can face me. No! Keep yourself calm, arrogant will only bring demise to me. Even if only a few who can face me now, there are a lot of monsters who can kill me.

I don't want to be like the bear, it let its anger take control and got killed by me, a monster who is weaker than the bear. Don't let any emotions consume me, in this world, in this unforgiving nature single mistake can bring anyone to death.

Even if I didn't make any mistakes, any bad luck can possibly get me killed, like the many monsters I eat. To survive in this world I must not let my guard down. I repeat don't let your guard down.

With that in mind, I depart again to the destination, the cave. I already have a full grasp of my ability, no need to shy I will run as fast as possible to the destination. Let's go!