First Meal

It turned out that this place also had a circle of night and day. As per my

calculations, seven days had passed since I got trapped in this place. These

seven days had smashed my expectations to pieces.

Hunger did exist, and elixir alone was far from enough to fill my stomach. I

had already consumed the brown bread in my bag long ago.

I was starving right now. It felt like the skin of my abdomen was sticking to

my stomach.

Even after searching the area many times over, I couldn't even find a blade

of grass to eat. The only thing I saw was those caterpillars.

However, it was still too early to give up. Those caterpillars were

poisonous. Since I couldn't find anything on the surface, I decided to try

underground. There, I might be able to find bug larvae. I could still move; I

just needed to persevere for a bit more.

—Another fifteen days have passed. Digging all this time with an

[Unbreakable Stick] has been fruitless. I've run out of stamina to dig

anymore. I think I've finally reached my limit. I know that if I don't eat

anything, I will die in a few days.

I couldn't think properly because of the starvation haunting me every hour.

When I recalled this situation later on, I realized that this might have been

the main reason I did such a silly thing.

「KUHAHAHA! If I don't eat, I will die! I would rather have a quick death

than suffering such hell!!」

Currently, in my right hand, I was holding the caterpillar that seemed to be

enough for one mouthful. This caterpillar was an extremely poisonous bug

—a bug that contains an extremely strong poison capable of killing a

dragon in just a moment. Moreover, the bug had extreme nutritional value.

A poisonous bug capable of instantly killing a dragon. If I ate this, I knew

I'd die. Therefore, I drank elixir over and over again till my stomach was

full of it. And then, I swallowed that extremely poisonous bug at once.

THROB! THROB!

Suddenly, an unimaginable heat assailed my stomach. It felt as if magma

had been poured into my stomach. My vision turned red.

『You have met the requirement to get weak poison resistance. You gained

a skill―[Weak Poison Resistance].』

On the verge of passing out, I heard the voice of an inorganic woman.

「I'm still… alive?」

My head and my body hurt like hell, yet I was still alive.

The headache and nausea disappeared as soon as I drank elixir. The main

point was that I didn't feel hungry anymore.

The voice of the woman when I was about to pass out did say [Weak

Poison Resistance].

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・Skill―[Weak Poison Resistance]: Resistance against weak poison.

・Condition for skill acquisition: Survive even after eating a living creature

that contains poison over a thousand times more lethal than usual.

・Rank: Elementary rank

・Rank up condition: Survive even after eating a hundred living creatures

that contain poison over a thousand times more lethal than usual.

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Weak poison resistance, huh! I had gained that skill by surviving after

eating that bug with the help of elixir.

I had never even heard of a poison resistance skill, but then, no one could

survive poison a thousand times more lethal than usual without a miracle

drug called elixir. That must've been the main reason.

Anyhow, just one of those caterpillars was enough to fill my belly. With

this, I wouldn't have to worry about food for the time being. However, once

I ate all of those caterpillars, things would change.

—A hundred days have passed. Maybe because I acquired weak poison

resistance, I don't faint anymore as long as I drink elixir. Well, the headache

and the nausea are truly unbearable though.

In these hundred days, I had fulfilled the upgrade condition of [Weak

Poison Resistance] and acquired [Poison Resistance].

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・Skill―[Poison Resistance]: Resistance against poison.

・Condition for skill acquisition: Survive even after eating a hundred living

creatures that contain poison over thousand times more lethal than usual.

・Rank: Intermediate rank

・Rank up condition: Survive even after eating a thousand living creatures

that contain poison over a thousand times more lethal than usual.

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Now when I ate the caterpillar after drinking the elixir, I didn't feel

headache or nausea anymore.

Moreover, I understood something in these hundred days. The number of

those extremely poisonous bugs didn't decrease at all. Maybe they had

extreme fertility or it was the work of this bizarre space. Whatever the

reason was, their number remained constant in this place. Since the

caterpillars didn't seem to breed or transform into butterflies, I think the

latter reason was the cause of their constant number.

In this way, the [Extremely Poisonous Bug] became my indispensable

staple food.