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-Rawr-I woke up with a headache, I was wet in a kind of red chrysalis with blue veins, it looks like a heart of some kind, the liquid is transparent yellow, Aghh, it doesn't smell very good, I look at my surroundings remembering what I step into the dark place of evolution, There I look at the tree that crushed the enraged rat, the chrysalis seemed to absorb nutrients from the fallen tree and the rat's body, now it looks a bit small compared to before, or am I? bigger?, I'll have to check my status.

Demonic System Tax

[Main information]

Condition: lacking in nutrients

Name: Undetermined

Species: Grand Panthera leo (level 5)

Age: puppy

Gender: Male

Length: 24 in (head and body)

Height: 10 in

Weight: 19 lbs

[Status]/[Hidden Details]

Health: 76

Stamina: ~100%

Mana: 0% (Not Compatible)

Strength: 0.6

Defense: 0.4

Agility: 0.6

Resistance: 0.4

Vitality: 0.5

Intelligence :1.4

[Titles]/[Hidden Details]

[The Devil's Champion] [Hunter's Command] [Unique]

[Skills]/[Hidden Details]

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[Features]/[Hidden Details]

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Attribute Points Available: 2

hehehe, evolving forces growth, splendid!, now I'm a little independent hatchling, it was a very good general improvement, I should distribute my stats, let's see...

For now I should focus on my hunting ability as that will ensure I re-evolve, I will distribute 1 point to strength and 1 point to agility.

-[Do you want to allocate 1 stat point to strength and 1 stat point to agility?]

-To accept

Immediately I felt a tingling go through my whole body, my flesh and ligaments, about 10 seconds later the tingling stopped and I felt a cold go through my body, I see my body and I notice a little definition in me. It was still open so I saw the stats go up, though now I looked at my name and it didn't have any, Hmm, I'd like to change the name.

[Does the host wish to name himself?]

-Yes, I thought immediately.

Should I put on my old name, nah, I don't even want to remember that life, in the end, I was born with a defective body, I don't regret my lifestyle, after all, it was become a criminal or starve I don't regret killing my parents, they hurt me in many ways, they deserved it. but the disease that plagued me for a year before my death, brought down all my goals and aspirations, I wonder if someone will have come to my funeral, whatever, I will not think about things that do not make sense, I will call myself after my favorite character from an old game, I'll call myself "Gado"; I don't know why, but just when I said that, I felt a chill go through my body several times and after feeling a tickle in my heart I heard a system notification.

[The host name has changed from "Undetermined" to "Gado" successfully]

[You have unlocked the skill "Name"]

[Only sentient beings can name themselves, their descendants and subjects, naming yourself is free, naming others spends a lot of mana, so it's not normal for a being without mana to be sentient or able to name others. do it. You are the first coreless being to name itself, you have acquired a new trait, [Sublime].

Sublime? What does that trait mean?

[Sublime]

You are the only one to name yourself before having a nucleus, so all your offspring will have a minor nucleus from birth.

[Monsters that have a name have a stronger lineage]

[Name: +200% chance that your children will inherit your appearance and traits]

Hahaha, this system never ceases to amaze me, I even gained a trait, too bad I didn't gain a core for my trait since it only covers my offspring… Should I have children? According to my [unique] title it should be possible to have children with any mammal as long as it's not too small or too big, but with my current appearance I doubt very much that a human would want to mate with me... I'd better think about it another time.

Finally I put the unnecessary thoughts aside and go back to the real world, I try to look for the big rat from before and it's under the tree, it seems that the chrysalis I evolved from has blue roots spreading through its body, the tree was also affected, but to a lesser extent, I don't feel like eating it, it seems that the roots have absorbed a large part of the creature's vital energy, I turn around and decide to return to the place where the mother mouse was, I'm going to continue with my feast of biomass, I reach the hole which is now much bigger because the rat got out of it and I approach the hole and when I reach the edge a foul putrid smell hits me hard, reluctantly I go down the hole only to find the rat full of worms, it seems to have rotted... how long was I asleep evolving?

-[The host spent 2 days in the evolution chrysalis, normally it's only about 15 hours, but the host was very hurt and that's why it took longer, you were lucky that a corpse stronger than you was nearby, otherwise , all the accumulated biomass would have been used to cure him and if not enough, he would have remained absorbing nutrients from the earth, to try to complete the evolution, that state is not optimal, since it makes him very vulnerable, but it is better than dying] answered the monstrous voice of the system.

That makes sense, so I was lucky, next time I have to be more careful, system, how can I know when the conditions are optimal for evolution?-I asked mentally.

-[When the host gets enough experience to evolve, it should make preparations to have an optimal environment, such as storing food, and digging or finding a safe place, when all that is secured, the system will notify the host and you can start the evolution process ]

That would have been very useful to know earlier, anyway, I'd better get out of here, I don't want to catch some disease from being next to a rotting corpse. This time I got completely out of the hole in a single jump, it seems that strength and agility do their job well, the jump was about a meter, it's not much, but to be a puppy to achieve it is quite impressive.

A little hungry, I choose a random direction and go into the forest in search of food, there is nothing interesting just trees, and some other small animal that sometimes I hear in the trees, since I am not very fast climbing I do not waste my time trying to hunt them, after 30 minutes of quiet walk, I hear a peculiar sound.

-Oink!, Oink!

Is it a pig?

I quickly copy the stealthy hunting posture that I saw in the television programs of the feline hunters, I stealthily approach an almost withered bush of brown leaves to try to camouflage myself, being a lion in the forest does not help much for that purpose, I enter gently in the bush, and I slightly poke my snout to see the animal that makes the sound.

There I see them, they are a group of 5 boars, 3 are light brown with small tusks, among the 3 there is one that is very small, probably the smallest calf; the other 2 are dark brown boars with a slightly larger body and tusks, they also have dark hair that runs along their spine, they are grazing absentmindedly, should I attack them?, there are 5 of them and the black ones don't give me confidence, but I'm sure that could kill the little one, although the whole group protects him, he should observe...

I decide to wait a while to see if I find an opportunity to attack the little one, but after 1 hour of waiting I'm fed up, I was about to leave when I see a group of 8 brown wolves jump from somewhere to fall on the boars, I hoped that the last run, but I see that the 2 dark brown boars protect their young while their tusks glow a soft red. They are a bit faster than wolves so every now and then they hit them and when they do they burn them a bit with their fangs, it seems to hurt, they peel for 3 minutes, and a wolf seems to get tired of this and jumps to bite the neck of a light brown boar, a dark brown boar penetrates the side with its tusks. This fact unleashed the real battle since the boar that stabbed the wolf was immediately bitten by 3 wolves, then 4 more wolves attacked the other dark brown boar, thus leaving the pups alone.

I'm sure I have a nasty smile on my face, as I finally get my chance, I run out of the bush and am amazed at my speed, I'm as fast as wolves, being me a pup and they look like adults, that amazes me, although judging by the above, no wolf seems to have evolved, unlike the dark brown boars, which if they seem to have, anyway, I approach the pups that were trying to attack the wolves and when I get close, I go for a big , I was going to attack the little calf, but with the wolves distracting its parents, there is nothing to stop me, I pounce and fall on the boar's neck, I try to bite it, but my teeth only scrape its skin, they seem to be hard , the boar starts running when he feels the bite and I go after him, getting away from the fight, well, that's better than fighting surrounded by enemies.

[Hunter's Command]

The commandment helps me close the distance with the boar faster than me and when I bite it again this time I do get through it and draw blood, Woah this is very broken. The boar gets angry when he feels the bite and tilts his head to the side to see me, and when he does, he stops short and turns around. It seems that the commandment was deactivated because I no longer feel the speed improvement, the boar looks at me and growls at me showing his fangs as he approaches me, it seems that he is not afraid of me, so why did he run? Did he mistake me for a wolf? Putting those thoughts aside, he growled back at him, and the boar doesn't seem affected, I don't even know why he growled, no one seems to be scared of that...

I approach slowly and throw a claw at him, the boar tries to dodge, but I'm very close and he can't, I only managed to scratch him and that makes him angrier, he tries to attack me, but I move aside and dodge, he keeps running, while tries to catch me with his fangs, I keep moving to avoid that result, looking for an opportunity to attack some vulnerable point like his eyes or something, we are in that state for 30 seconds and I start to get tired, the boar too, but I feel like I'm in my limit, that makes me slow down and that leaves a space for the boar to shoot me with its tusks.

-Arghh-I groan in pain unconsciously, as I have the boar I sink my claws into his eye and boar screams as he walks away and shakes his head, I weakly move away from the boar, I still can't kill him and I'm hurt, damn, it seems I bit more than I could chew.

I wander around the forest for a bit until I hear the sound of a damn boar again, I quickly hide, I don't want to fight those damned ones again, and after a while a small boar appears.

Oh, is he alone? I don't need an answer to that question, I don't think they would have let him wander around alone, I'm a little scared, that last confrontation left me traumatized to fight them again, so the adrenaline invades me, that makes me ignore the pain I felt on my side, I quickly bend my knees and run with everything I have towards the little boar, the little one sees me and runs immediately, but I'm still a little faster that he.

[Hunter's Command]

Hohoho, a smile spread across my face as I picked up speed. I got closer quickly and when I was close to the back of the little boar, who was my size by the way, I pounced on him, I dug my claws into his back and bit his neck, it was a bit hard, but I managed to get through his skin and felt a hot stream of metallic taste in my jaws, I felt refreshed as its blood ran down my throat, this must be the 2nd passive of [Hunter's Command], the boar quickly fell and I continued to tighten my bite, it struggled for for a while and then I heard a crack!, followed by a notification.

[You have killed the fiery boar cub level 2]

[You have gained 2 experience]

[XP needed to level up 2.1/40]

"Hm?" "Why did I receive so little experience?"

-[Each time you level up, you receive less experience from beings with levels lower than yours, the experience depends largely on the level and the creature]

-*sigh*, I guess that makes sense-

I lower my head to find the motionless body of the boar, should I eat it? I would not like to be interrupted, I look around for a hole to eat my prey quietly, and I find nothing, there are only trees here... climbing trees like a leopard and eating upstairs is really very useful, did I make the right choice in my evolution?

I clear the useless thoughts from my mind and decide to eat as much of the boar as I can, I go over to its stomach and take a bite, *chomp* I struggle a bit to tear off the meat, but I succeed...yum!

It is much better than that of that rat and its young, although a little tougher.

20 minutes later

Phew, I feel very full, I haven't been able to finish eating yet, I only ate the stomach and part of the loin, there is still food for lunch a couple of times, but I can't stay here for a long time. I should be going...

… I'm a little thirsty, I should go to a lake or something to drink, but I don't know where to find water, I guess I should start planning my movements, I don't want to die of thirst, but how can I know where I'm going, this forest looks alike and without landmarks i could go around in circles and not know how can i mark the paths i've already been on? I think deeply about these doubts, so much so that my head hurts, but I can't find an answer, at that moment I feel like urinating and when I look for a bush to do it calmly, the question comes back to me and at that moment I realize it.

I had forgotten... when I was studying I read an article that explained that many animals urinated in key places in their territory to mark their territory, thus leaving their scent impregnated in it. I immediately go over to a tree and pee on it a little bit- ok so I'll go where the sun rises, in my world it would be east, but I don't know what it's called in this world so I'll assume it's east, the sun it's in the direction I choose, it's not dark yet, but I don't have much time to lose so I'll look for a shelter to be safer.

I walked a little more than 1 hour before finding a lake, in this there was an animal that I had never seen, it was an animal with an armored head and back, the head was bullet-shaped and its golden eyes are barely visible in its enormous body, it's about 5 meters tall and about 30 long, it's a monster, just seeing it makes my instincts scream at me to leave, and I'm not going to ignore them. I quickly left that place, although I am thirsty I am not suicidal, I took a detour to continue along the path, and I realized that a small river flows from the lake, I went ahead to drink it, the water is not bad, with my thirst quenched, I continue on my way, I had planned to settle in a place with water nearby but with that dangerous creature behind, I prefer to move a little away from this place, I walk for another hour, the river deviated from the road 10 minutes ago, and I plan to do from it my water source, so I decide to settle in this place, I approach a tree to mark it, but I smell a peculiar smell again, -Mmm?, it smells like... the mouse?, I approach the tree and I notice a place on the ground that is a little dug up, so I start digging it, after digging a little my paw doesn't feel anything on the ground, and I decide to widen the hole to get in, I go in and it has the same characteristics as the last nest of mouse that I entered, curious, I go into the hole, it is a little narrower than the other, I I go in a little more and there I find a rat with a swollen belly in a defensive posture, -Screech! The rat screeches, unconsciously a smile spreads across my face.

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Fufufu, really yesterday's feast was unparalleled, the rat was pregnant, it had pups inside, I ate it all, well most of it, because there is still half of the rat left, I just hope that no angry mouse interrupts me halfway through …

…I wasn't interrupted during my meal, that's good but also bad, I could have gotten more biomass, although it would be dangerous, I wonder if I could 1v1 that angry rat, *sigh* anyway, I've acquired 250 biomass , looks like the biomass still costs the same even if you level up that's fine I guess the hatchlings gave me 5 each and the mother gave me 200 biomass that's pretty cool considering how easy it was but as far as experience.

[XP needed to level up 3.5/40]

The mother gave me some biomass, even less than the fiery boar, and the calves gave me nothing, that's really sad, the only good thing about all this is that at least I'll be able to use this place as my home, although I'll have to make it a bit bigger first, since here I will store food, after that I could plan my next actions and my goal in this world.