Competition

"I am full," Mary said as she cleaned her plate, I am full too. All the hunger I am feeling earlier has vanished; there is only satisfaction now.

"We have got a quite great haul in the juice of Central Root; it would have been amazing if we were able to get some fresh fruits too." She said. "I wish we could go back for the fruits." She added with regret.

Going back would be no less than suicide; no matter if we are sneaky, we will get caught. Our auras have spread far and wide, and even blood has spread to the ground. 

Normal monsters won't be able to track us, but there is no doubt those oldies meditating in roots will surely able to track us, and that time, we will not face one but several monsters of Copper Armored Apes caliber.

"Here, these fruits will help you some," I said, and a pile of twenty fruits appeared in front of the Mary.

"Gasp!"