Chapter 8

After all this time Sam took a step out of the cave and never felt happier to see the sun and feel the cooling breeze. Even though Tunger moon had been terraformed with an artificial atmosphere and it's air wasn't as pure as on planet Moryl that was naturally habitable by humans, Sam felt great by once again breathing the outside air.

He was impatient to try out his newly acquired strength and dashed towards the nearby forest, he had left the cave relatively close to where he had dropped and so he could see the mountain range from there but decided not to go back there, he didn't feel like explaining how he had survived and on top of that his uniform had two huge holes around his shoulder and his thighs but no injuries and he didn't know how to hide that.

Five minutes later he stopped walking and looked ahead of him, not too far he could see a rat with naked skin lying under a big tree, it had dried blood all over its body and Sam recognized it right away, after using it's hidden ability it looks completely defenseless.

Of course Sam didn't feel any remorse at kicking it against a tree while it was sleeping, that thing had almost killed him so he was allowed to kill it.

As he walked towards it both his legs started igniting, the fire reached from his sole to his upper thighs and with each step the grass beneath him was charred. When the Ruby rat finally felt the heat Sam's foot had already stuck its heavy body and blown it against a tree.

The rat laid down and didn't move or make anymore sound, it was completely dead.

"Hmm... I didn't really get to try it except for the insane strength it gives me, I need more beasts to fight !"

Sam pulled out his dagger and opened the chest of the beast, between it's heart and it's lungs was a small bead the size of a raisin, it was bright red in color and released a warm feeling in Sam's palm.

"This is only the beginning, I need a lot more ! I spent three hours running from my spawn to the mountains, then two hours setting camp and finally thirteen hours sleeping which means that I have approximately 150 hours left to gather as much beast cores as I can."

So Sam decided to keep hunting for beasts in this vicinity, he had access to underground water that flowed from the mountains so it was as good as the water of the pool and he could also use the cave as a shelter, this place was a lot better than the camp he had found earlier as he didn't have to meet anyone, he had always been a loner and it annoyed him to be close to other people.

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Later that day as Sam was patrolling around the cave while looking for beasts he felt something hard hitting his back, the hit was so strong that he almost felt like his spine was going to rip !

He rolled on the ground and jumped behind a tree while coughing blood, that hit had probably put a huge strain on his lungs and he was scared that it might have been punctured.

"Mechy can you check the state of my lungs ?"

Since Mechy had been able to heal him when he was in the cave he believed a little check up wouldn't be impossible.

[It's ok you're completely fine, the hit was quite strong but your body has been strengthened by the point you invested in defense.]

Sam heaved a sigh of relief and peeked from behind the tree while hoping to see what had hit him, although he couldn't see anything or anyone that could be the attacker he saw a rock this size of a fist laying on the ground where he was standing earlier.

"That was the weapon ? There are very few alien beasts that can throw things so is my opponent a human?"

As soon as he thought that he looked on a tree branch above him and an ape type beast was looking at him, it was very tall and lanky, at least 2 meters, it's fur was completely green in color and it had huge hands ! It's palms looked to be around 30 centimeters !

"Jade Ape !"

Sam looked at the beast with a grin, he had read about this beast on the Uninet more than once, it was a very common grade 1 beast and it's only special move was throwing stuff which made it a great beast to hunt for beast cores since it was so weak!

[Jade apes live in colonies, if you can follow this one back to it's lair you'll have a great opportunity to gather a fair amount of cores.]

Sam smiled, he knew enough about Jade apes and he was also thinking about that, usually Jade apes will hunt alone and if wounded they will run towards their friends to get help so Sam didn't hesitate and he rushed towards the rock that had been thrown at him, he picked it up and let it fall.

His right leg suddenly ignited and hit the rock that was suddenly propelled at an unbelievable speed towards the ape's leg, what Sam didn't expect was that the rock was so fast that it literally ripped the ape's leg before it could even think of dodging...

After it realized what had just happened the ape left out a horrible shriek of pain and used it's arms to jump from branch to branch while retreating but it was losing its blood at an alarming rate.

"Fuck! I didn't expect it to be that strong... this ape is probably going to die before it even reaches it's lair."

As he ran behind it Sam couldn't help but complain, even though he was complaining he had a huge smile plastered on his face. He was completely in love with the strength of this newly acquired skill !

He had heard that alien beast's skills were insanely strong but he didn't expect it to be this much! He had barely touched the stone that it had been sent flying at such a high speed, he believed it must have been as fast as a rifle's bullet if not faster !

Old school weapons had became completely useless after humans started using beasts cores to evolve themselves but still a first grade evolver definitely shouldn't be able to do this!

Still in an ecstatic mood Sam ran behind the beast for 10 minutes before it collapsed on the ground with its eyes wide open, after checking if it was completely dead he opened it's body and took the bright red core, this was only the second one of a long list.