Chapter 20: Night of the hunt
When night falls, the only light is the burning firewood, surrounded by skewers of grilled fish.
"It's done, you can eat" - Pandora
"Wow, it smells so good!"- Marbas
"Let's eat together!" - Gamigin
The children enjoyed grilled fish, although the taste was nothing new, but this was the first simple dish after wandering in the Umbra Forest, when in that forest, only edible leaves were eaten.
Pandora looked in the direction of the small child who was looking at them from afar, who had woken up just now, and when he saw her, moved away again.
She motioned for the child to come closer but it still seemed timid, so she asked Agares.
"Hurry up and invite the child to eat with us, it looks like he's scared of me" - Pandora
"Yes!" - Agares
Agares took a stick of grilled fish and ran towards the small child, not knowing what she said, but the small child came closer, continuously eating grilled fish.
When approaching the firewood, the small child still kept a distance from Pandora, she did not force the child to come close, so she ignored it.
After eating, the children all fell asleep because of fatigue, she gently brought them into the tent and left, instead of going to sleep, she had other things to do.
She checked her own [Stats] line, but it changed to an extent that surprised her.
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Name: Pandora
Lv.???
HP: ???
MP: ???
EXP: ???
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'What is this? Why doesn't my status line show up?'- thought Pandora
Suddenly the [Skill] part was flashing indicating something, it turned out that the status of the [Unique Skill] had stopped working.
"What this?" - Pandora
She checked and saw that it showed a yellow message.
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[Notification]
[Currently shutting down [Paradox] due to lack of EXP, so [Stats] also fail, need more EXP to continue the error handling]
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'I need more EXP to be able to handle this, but where can I find monsters to fight?' - Pandora thought
She looked at the fire that was slowly burning down, and an idea flashed in her mind.
So Pandora went to cut more trees to get wood and then threw it into the bonfire, it created a huge fire, so the monsters were gradually attracted to the light, so they competed in that direction.
When she heard the sounds of monsters approaching, Pandora had time to create a soundproof ring so that the children would not be awakened by the noise, watching the children sleeping soundly made her a little more secure, gently stroked their cheeks one by one and then left the tent.
A swarm of monsters swooped forward and she held out her sharp hands in preparation for battle.
"They'll become my meals, now it's time to eat!" - Pandora
After saying that, she rushed to slaughter the unmerciful monsters, the more monsters rushed to her to kill and then kill them, just like that, the EXP continued to increase, not to mention the presence of monsters from the sea, making the battle difficult.
The next morning, it cannot be said to be morning because when there is no light of dawn, there are only gray clouds.
Agares was the first to get up, she stepped out of the tent and stopped, she called Baal to wake up.
"Brother Baal, wake up!"- Agares
"Hmm.....what's wrong?"- Baal
"You have take a look out here" - Agares
"Isn't Father Pandora out there already?" - Baal
"But Mother Pandora is not here! Come on!" - Agares
He thought he was about to go back to sleep again, but Agares had to drag her brother out of the tent.
"Quickly, look!" - Agares
Having to comply with his sister's wishes, Baal rubbed his eyes to look better, the scene before him made him extremely shocked.
There were terrible fatal blows around the tent, and there were also many corpses of sea monsters that were thrown ashore and were all killed.
Baal approached a sea creature to check, he wanted to know how it was possible to kill such huge creatures.
"Brother Baal! Something is swimming this way!!!"- Agares
He looked in the direction Agares said, and it was true that something was swimming very fast in this direction, without hesitation he went to wake up the rest of the siblings.
All six children ran near the edge of the forest to hide, Baal braced himself to prepare for what was coming.
The waves shot up, a black shadow jumped out of the water and then fell straight onto the sand, it was a giant fish that had lost half of its bottom half, stepping on the shore from the water was an extremely tall and familiar body.
"Father/Mother Pandora!"
The children happily ran to Pandora, closer, they saw that the hands, feet, and tail had fish scales, on the neck, there were fish gills, the skin was no longer as hard as usual, but instead a skin. smooth.
"Father Pandora, why does you have fish-like parts?" - Vassago
"You mean these? It's because I ate too much fish that's why it happened. Did you guys sleep well?" - Pandora
"Good night!" - Agares
"Yes! I had a beautiful dream!"- Gamigin
"Father Pandora, me too!" - Marbas
While the children competed to tell Pandora about sleep and dreams, the little girl timidly approached, just yesterday scared to be near her, the little girl grabbed the hem of Agares' shirt and made her notice idea.
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"It's okay, Mother Pandora is very gentle and kind, there's nothing to be afraid of" - Agares
Agares went ahead and the little girl timidly followed behind and approached Pandora, looking at the huge figure that scared the little girl, when she saw the big hand outstretched, she closed her eyes in fear.
But then that big hand touched the little girl's head and gently rubbed it.
"There's no need to be afraid, I won't do anything to you. Are you too scared? Being alone in the middle of this strange land makes you very lonely, isn't it?" - Pandora
Hearing those warm words, the baby couldn't hold back her tears but ran to hug Pandora, the little girl seemed to explode so she cried loudly, perhaps everything was too much for a child.
"There there, everything is ok now. Cry as much as you want"- Pandora