Chapter 12 - Aftermath

Ridding my mind of delicious thoughts, a confident smirk had replaced my gluttonous expression while I felt a warm sensation run down my leg. So comforting yet so deadly. As soon as the mutt disappeared into it's shadow after leaving another wound on my perfect body, I immediately made a feint to the left before bursting off towards the right to grab my weapon.

Just as I blasted off towards the right at insane speeds thanks to 'adrenaline boost', the cocky mutt subconsciously attacked towards where my feint should have been. This left the mutt startled, not for long though as I could sense that it was coming straight at me which I confirmed with my sight. However what the mutt didn't know was that behind me was it's demise.

Just as it was reaching halfway to me, I too closed the distance between us before thrusting my spear forward only to stab it in the ground. The mutt did not expect this as it jumped out of instinct seeing me thrust my spear at it. Voting of my spear, I cast my tier 2 flame magic 'flame ball' and directly hit the wolf right in it's elevated face.

"Ehhhahh" The mutt wimperd in extreme pain as the ball of flame struck it in the face directly leaving it with third degree burns and scars across it's once majestic face.

However my sadistic side was born. As soon as the the mutt raised it's paws to stoke it's burnt face, I let out all my inner demons.

"Lightning whip" I roared

With a barrage of electricity charged whips, I started my retaliation against this disobedient mutt as it howled and whelped in pain while I striked the underside of it.

"Hahahaaa...you like it don't you...how does it feel to be treated like the mutt you know you are...more...more...i want to hear your very soul scream as I break you completely. I'll show you hell!!!" I roared and screamed like a mad man without stopping my attacks for a single second till my mana depleted.

I watched in delight as it's body dropped to the ground and spasmed frantically as gold wisps moved across it's trembling body." He-he, I'm not done yet." I said staring at it's body, still alive on the ground. With my spear now in my hand and a crazy expression plastered on my bleeding face, I impaled the mutt's brain with my weapon as notifications rang out in my head like a broken telephone.

"Phew, I am worn out." I said as my body uncontrollably dropped to my knees as my skill 'adrenaline boost' had ended, leaving me fatigued.

"You have leveled up."

"You have leveled up."

"You have leveled up."

"You have leveled up."

"You have leveled up."

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"You have leveled up."

When the voices in my head faded into nothingness, I grew exstatic and bewildered by the amount of times that I leveled up instantly.

"Haha, 14 levels and one of them was for defeating an opponent 40 levels higher than myself. To think that that mutt was over level 50, haha what a disgrace." I chuckled. Even though I said that, I knew I was outmatched as it was not taking me serious from the get go.

Not thinking to much about it, I decided to put 16 points in each of my 5 stats, distributing it evenly once more.

"Status, skill store"

With all my skill points, I felt extremely excited to upgrade my skill arsenal once again as I had an enormous amount of points to use however I wish.

"Instant skill take uh, but damn 30 points...but like it's a good investment for the future I'd say." I spent the rest of my time buying and upgrading skills since he had more than enough points to go around.

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Letting out an evil laugh I closed the panel infront of me, however it was quickly overshadowed by my own notorious hunger. Turning towards the tasty looking wolf, I got of the ground and walked there slowly due to my injuries still recuperating and took out a glossy core from within it's heart.

Staring deeply into the monster core, I was fascinated by it's color and asthetics. It was pitch black, like the fur on its coat with a bluish color inside giving it a majestic vibe.

"Incredible, this would make a lovely decor item." I mutter before storing away the baseball size core in my handy item-box.

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Opening my eyes, I noticed that the sun was starting to peep at me which meant I must have gotten about half of an hour of rest. Noticing that my mana was once again full, I cast 'Iron skin' on my palms covering them in sheets of metal which I used to rip of the wolf's fangs without injuring myself. Using my spear I crudely cut parts of it's meat that I could separate, thou there was not much, since I was an amateur at butchering anything, especially using a spear.

"Blaze"

With my tier-1 flame magic I set ablaze some wooded branches and smoked the wolf's meat which was hanging above the fire on a skewer like stick.

'Yeah I very well know that this is probably the worst cooked meal but my water is literally watering just watching the meat cook. Maybe an effect of hunger...who knows?'

Licking my lips like a starving dog, I lightly blow on the meat as I just removed it from the fire. It indeed looked smoked, but not masterchef worthy, nevertheless to me it was fine dining. I gulped as I bit into the meat of the wolf which felt very tough and dry as well. It reeked of a pungent gamy odor but it was much better than raw so I filled my stomach till the meat had vanished from the leaf-like plate.

With my hunger now satisfied, I realized how dehydrated I was, and ended up drinking a ton of it's blood which remained. Although I felt like puking, I continued drinking it straight from it's corpse till my heart could take no more. Honestly it was disgusting, from it's bitter taste to it's rotten smell, it was honestly too much for me. The crimson liquid spilled and splashed all over my face but it was addicting yet at the same time repelling.