(Chapter 5)

'Ordinary creature Purple-Skin Toad was killed. No Beast Soul gained. Eat the flesh of Ordinary Purple-Skin Toad to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'

With calculated time in his mind, it's already lunchtime after Shyrveen killed the sixth toad.

Shyrveen realized why these toads are in the third rank of danger scale... 'The moment they know is something is hunting them, they are grouping and releasing the poison at the same time that turned into mist, and will only split up again after 1 to 2 hours of no activity in their senses...'

He needs to hide his body behind the big trees from the toads while he is not using the camouflage from time to time. After all, he can't sustain the ability for more than fifty-five minutes a day since it's consuming his stamina continuously via on his Gene Points. Even though fifty-five minutes is used but if the stamina is still bigger, he will be fine for not being so tired after using the abilities.

Han Sen said to him that in general, for Primitive Beast Souls, the number of minutes the body could withstand the ability was equal to the number of Primitive Geno Points gained. In addition, one Mutant Geno Point could support ten minutes of the ability with Primitive Beast Souls; and in turn, ten Primitive Geno Points could support one minute of the ability with Mutant Beast Souls. The same applies to the other categories.

He pulled back away from the swamp and went back to the creek to cook and eat the meats of the toads. This is one of the things as common sense in this place that Han Sen told him about... Creatures here are edible no matter how bad they look.

'Purple-Skin Toad flesh was eaten. Three Ordinary Geno Points gained.'

But his wild game was reduced by one unit because when he was aiming for the third kill, the Azure-Tailed Eagle swiftly snatch one. He can only watch the bird flew away while looking back at him with a smug glare. He wants to get angry but he can't anymore and sighed in resignation and made an eye to eye contact with the rest of the eagles that waiting smartly and schemingly at him for when they can get a free labored meat while staying on the branches of the trees around him...

After one hour of resting, he can only consume three bodies and left him two pieces. The body of the toad was three to five times bigger than the normal size of the toad in his world. And so, he can only decide to dig a hole in the middle of the groundwater stream of the creek and put the two bodies of the toads inside of it and covered with rocks. To lower the temperature of the meats using the water as semi-refrigerator.

'For the time being that I'm in this creek, I can see there's no water creatures swimming around here that was enough to dig out the meats. So, the meats might be still here when I'm done and got back again from the swamp...'

When Shyrveen got back to the same spot, he looks up first to check the avian predators and saw that they were reduced to half of five heads from ten heads compared to earlier. Then started to hunt again.

But when he's ready to kill for the third time again, his awareness for the eagles snaps and controls the wrist that it's already on its way for the neck of the toad, to a sudden shift in direction and throws it at the spot to where he calculated the eagle will be harvested.

The camouflage disappeared and shocked the toad and release the mist, but fortunately for Shyrveen, there's no wind to bring the poison mist to his direction and didn't care about the toad anymore and sprint towards the corpses of the two toads and throws the second sickle to the same direction but different trajectory.

The Azure-Tailed Eagle that dove is smart, every one of them. But they didn't know how the human's mind near the swamp works. It saw the flying sickle that gave it a danger sense that if it still continues to dive, it will be killed and so it flaps its wings to stop in midair to dodge the sickle as it passed by in its front but was confused for why its primal instinct is still ringing like crazy and turns its head to Shyrveen that at the same time, its head flew away from its body and both fell on the ground.

'Ordinary creature Azure-Tailed Eagle was killed. Beast Soul of Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle gained. Eat the flesh of Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle to gain 0 to 10 Geno Points randomly.'

Shyrveen wants to feel elated after gaining the third Beast Soul for one time killing the first eagle but he can't do so and decided to ignore it for a while. "No matter how big you are, unless you are Primitive creatures. You all will only die in my claw..." He murmured but loud enough that he thinks for the eagles above to hear him, he doesn't care if they understand him or not. Then he picks up the headless body of Azure-Tailed Eagle with his left hand and the sickle with his right hand. After that, he looks at each other's eagle's eyes one by one while he stabs the body of their kin and slowly pulling the sickle down vertically to its body.

Intimidation... And observation. Shyrveen is using intimidation that telling indirectly to the eagles that he is a hunter that can hunt them. And the observation after he got a gist of their personalities and attitude to each other.

Not like the toads that have teamwork. These Azure-Tailed Eagle are more selfish and prideful from each other. Now that he is seeing them flapping their three times bigger wings than the normal eagle from his world, to intimidate him too. The eagles are angry but stayed on their branches and didn't attack him. 'More on like, they are angry about how dare me to intimidate them and not from killing their kin...'

Even though he really wants to add angry emotion and killing intent to intimidation. He can't for the killing intent needs to be powered up by such emotions. Since he can only act, it's useless. He already tried everything on how to release or obtain one but he was unsuccessful for ten years, and add that this is only the time that he can start to feel more dangerous compared to the creatures of the past Earth before the dungeons stuck.

With the sparks of two kinds of predators in the swamp area, the toads are much more inclined into grouping and releasing the poison mist with time intervals and leaving Shyrveen no choice to kill none no matter how long he waited. Even if he throws the sickles, it's only two and the headcount of the toads is five.

And so, without changes in the number of his game after another three hours of waiting, he decided to go back as he carries the two toads by their feet with his left hand and on his right hand are the head by its beak and the body of the eagle by its leg too.

He went back to the creek and put down his games on the ground after seeing the different positions of the rocks that he placed according to what he wants in the groundwater stream. He sighed and checked out the meats inside just to feel weirder than his expectation.

Shyrveen stared at the one body of the toad that he raised by his right hand. He thought that the meats inside the creek was gone but only to found one... With nothing to feel like irritation and anger in his body but his limit of ignoring the pair of eyes glued at him all this time from the start of when he went outside of the inn till this time, was snap. Without anger in his voice but already tired of playing with his watcher, he finally said loudly but not in a shouting manner. "Are you teasing me? Please, whoever you are stop this now already and give me back my game that you stole. No matter how skillfully you hide your presence, the stare of your eyes can't be ignored unless you can see with your eyes closed while using echolocation..."

But nothing replied to him but the stare is still aimed at him. For a few minutes of standing there waiting for nothing, Shyrveen gave up. "Do whatever you like, it seems that you don't have malicious intent-..." He tried to say the fact while taking off his upper clothes to train again in the water stream but only to feel the stare changes as he said the 'malicious intent' word.

He finally snaps his head to look at the location of the eyes but only to see a damn nothing than trees and branches with leaves swaying and dancing with the wind, but still he stared back at the location of where the eyes are coming from.

"... You're stare... Are you a woman?" He asks again but still nothing answered him. 'Did someone was charmed again by my face?... But I already disguised myself to look like an average man...' Shyrveen said in his mind, because except from the eyes of the monsters back then, eyes of the women are included too. He lost his emotions but it didn't mean that he lost the feeling to received such emotions. 'I don't dare to expose this face of mine again after experiencing the worst thing than a nightmare after five years ago... So, how come there is one woman and for the first time that who can see through my disguise?' He didn't know why but the moment he ignored everything when he started to train harder, his face started to charm half of the women population in the place where he is...

For fifteen minutes of Shyrveen not breaking his stare to the location, that sometimes he will follow it too if the stare is moving. To the point of the thought that his watcher is testing him, but each time he follows the stare the 'Adore' emotion it releases at him is getting stronger than ever.

'Better stops this... I might be assaulted soon in my room in the inn when I get back here next week... But today is the day that this thing got started... What a problem... I should find another quiet place... No, it's useless... That person is so skillful that I'll be killed in a blink of an eye if she wants to kill me... Her stare jumps a stage from 'Admire' stare into 'Adore' stage... That might be evolved into the 'Obsession' stage, which is the worst and last stage of the stare that I created for the women... It's already good that she doesn't want to kill me...' He thought so deeply and gave up at the end and released a sighed of resignation again.

Then he continues his training to the fullest with his muscle memories while he ignored the stare and thinks deeply for the plans for how to avoid the person next time...

At the same time while in the Sunset Slope, Han Sen was running away from the chase of Son of Heaven and his group and other people from the rest of the gangs in the shelter after he kill-steal the Sacred-Blood creature and snatching its weapon that is a Sacred-Blood Axe Gear and gaining its Sacred-Blood Beast Soul.

He had eight Sacred Geno Points that he got from the Sacred-Blood Black Beetle's meat which was the golden beetle a few days ago, which could last him only for eight minutes for shapeshifting as a Sacred-Blood Blood Slayer creature. Even adding the Ordinary, and Primitive genes he had gained altogether, he could shapeshift for less than ten minutes.

It was enough for escaping, but if he were to fight a gang of people, he could only kill one or two before his time was up.

No one could see a Sacred-Blood Beast Soul if it wasn't summoned, yet the golden axe could not be turned invisible. The person he mainly had offended was Son of Heaven, yet the campaign was a joint one, and the axe should've been the mutual gain of all three gangs. Hence, Han Sen had pissed off all of them and could only bury the axe in that spot for the time being.

'If I could sell the giant golden axe, it should easily bring at least two million.' Han Sen was still excited after burying the axe.

A Sacred-Blood Gear was not as valuable as a Sacred-Blood Beast Soul, but still considered almost priceless. If he could sell it, two million would be a small amount that he really needs now...

Returning to Steel Armor Shelter while the sun is setting, he saw Luo Tianyang, a henchman and old acquaintance in the Alliance of Son of Heaven, was one of those whom he sent to beat him up, is guarding the gate with others. Everyone who tried to enter the shelter was interrogated.

A young man stops Han Sen and searched his body but was pushed after Luo Tianyang shouted at the young man and didn't forget to insult him that he is the Ass Freak that is weak and will not be the strong person who kill-steal them, name 'Doll'.

Han Sen sneered at Luo Tianyang as he enters the shelter. 'Morons! And... Damn you, Su Xiaoqiao! Who told you to call me 'Doll'?' He thought after hearing the murmurs of the talks of the shelter for what happened in the Sunset Slope. And was happy to know that Son of Heaven was furious and strode back to his room just to see the note of his friend, Shyrveen Yñiguez...

While the cursed man that was called Su Xiaoqiao was standing in front of the woman name Qin Xuan as she asked the whereabouts of the 'Dollar' which is the real name that they got and the name that spreading around the shelter 'Doll'.

"But I really do not know where he is!" Su Xiaoqiao answered sadly.

"Then go find him. Don't let anyone know about this and go look for him secretly. If you manage the task, I'll reward you." Qin Xuan showed Su Xiaoqiao out after she gave the order, not waiting for his reply.

But when Su Xiaoqiao was getting out of the room, Qin Xuan saw Yang Manli, her right-hand woman in the gang, feels and releasing a different aura while still maintaining her graceful act as a woman while her eyes are closed and standing at the side of the door. "You seem... Different?"

Yang Manli opens her eyes and coughed. "Nothing. About the person..."

Almost at the same time, Fist Guy sent his men to look for Dollar in secret, trying to buy the Sacred-Blood Beast Soul and Sacred-Blood Gear from him while thinking. 'Although it was a joint action, the only one who suffered a loss here was Son of Heaven... His luck today is really too bad for him.'