[Core Manifestation]

Somehow, Kai managed to annihilate the Panther Rabbit's existence in this dungeon. By doing the 180-degree spinning slash, the sword rusty sword landed on the monster's vital point which was the neck.

He kicked the monster's body away from him, after that, he leaned his back against the wall. Kai was thinking about the problem he was currently taking.

Kai's dilemma here, he had inevitably used the strength he conserved in order to kill the monster. Added by his wounds and extreme hungriness, his stamina was dramatically decreasing. Yes, all of them were related to his mind which means if he failed to consume food or intake something to cure his wounds, it would surely drop to zero percent.

Suddenly, he was starting to have a hazy vision and heavy eyes, can't help to fee sleep for some reason.

Bam! Bam!

He hardly slapped his face afraid of the scenario that he might not open again his eyes as soon as he slept here. First, monsters can attack him while he was sleeping. Second, the thing was that his heart will stop beating because of his current situation.

"No, is this not the right time to sleep. I have a long way to go I should endure it no matter what!" He tried to courage himself by these words, however, he wasn't dumb to didn't realize that there were no remaining options left for him.

Shit!

It was the only word could spit out from his mouth after he saw a new problem given by the screen.

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[Warning! Bleeding effect activated!]

[Your health power will reduce by 1 every 8 minutes!]

[Suggestion! Stop the bleeding!]

In the game, a player can drink a red liquid called Health Potions. With this, it could help the player to instantly regain the amount of health power lost to them along with the effect of closing wounds.

Well, if he just got that item he was certain he'll be not having a hard time conquering this perilous dungeon. On top of that, he had no idea if there was any like that existed in the world he was standing in.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of fabrics cutting by a keen metallic thing occurred to his ears. Kai had no choice, he ripped apart his long robe to create improvised bandages for his wounds. He might not sure it will work, at least he tried, that was his reason.

He looked at his leg and saw it was still slowly dripping some blood into his foot. First, he wrapped around the bandages in the part where the monster sliced him. After that, he did the same thing to his body to cover up the three straight wounds that obviously came from the monster's claws.

At this point, it never touched his mind that dirt that was plastered on his brown robe would affect his wounds. What he could do? He can't see anything that could help him to disinfect the bacteria.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down himself in the given circumstance. Yet, it doesn't enough as the air can replenish this hungry.

Kai slightly bowed his head, looking at the monster's corpse that was lying on the ground. "What if eat this monster? What would happen to me?" He said in a curious tone, then went closer to the monster.

In front of him, the monster was releasing black blood which gave him an idea that the monster's flesh wasn't edible. To describe it, the blood color was way darker than the ink could release by the squid.

In the RPG online, none of the players could think of an idea to eat the monster's flesh by just simply knowing that some of them consisted of toxins, poison, etc that could harm a certain player.

"Yeah... I know this is a suicide." He squatted in front of the monster before continuing. "But what if, is this the only way for me to survive here?"

That question stuck inside his head for a couple of seconds until he decided to start cutting the monster's flesh. He was dressing the creature in the fastest way he knew.

To begin with, he used his sword to separate the rabbit's head, then he next its arms and legs. Everything was fine even though black blood spilling out of it. But it changed as soon as he cut the monster's body in the middle part.

"Shit! It stinks!"

He pinched his nose after smelling the bad odor released by the monsters that smelled like rotten fish. But it wasn't ended with that, his eyes were widened as he saw the worms swimming in all organs of this monster.

He was going to throw up so he kicked the monster's body away from him.

Huff... Huff... Huff...

He was heavily panting as he held his breath for a second. "This is bullshit! I just got killed that monster 20 minutes ago and now it was already decomposing? Fuck off!"

Kai was frustrated as the only way to wash away his hungriness disappeared in just a blink of an eye. Also, he was quite right that the monsters in this world were had a fast decomposing process.

"What would I do? I tried my best to do all the possible ways to survive in this dungeon. B-But, no matter how I tried my current situation never changed, I'm still in the brick of death."

Although the bandages can help him to stop the bleeding, still, he can't escape from the reality that he was nowhere to go. He was dumbfounded at the wall, accepting this was the end of his life here.

"Well, for some reason I felt that I'm happy with the life given to me, though I couldn't remember a single one of them." He reclined his head into the wall before adding. "If recovered some strength I'll try to--"

Kai paused for a second as there was a violet thing that piqued his attention. To be exact, he saw a violet gleaming light over the monster's corpse. Of course, he thought again he was just having hallucinations as he was now starting to hear a sound that doesn't exist. So he blinked his eyes to make sure that weren't deceiving him.

Alas, he found out that gleaming light was really there. He slightly pinched his nose before going to that area.

In front of him, his eyes were filled with the gleaming violet crystal that seemed to be the monster's core. It was surrounded by the monster's veins under its left rib.

At first glance, you could easily say the core has a hard component. However, it changed when he poked it with his sword and penetrated it a bit. Yes, it was hard but hard as the crystal.

Since it was surrounded by veins, the blood overflowing blood on the monster's chest wasn't reached the core. He held his breath and carefully seized the core.

Meanwhile, Kai immediately found a place where he can release his breath and avoid the foul odor given by the monster's corpse. In his grasp was the crystal had the size of 7 centimeters and along with the idea to eat it. Because why not? Is this the most presentable part he could see from the monster. Aside from that, he can't stop his body from starving.

"I-I have no choice." He said in a deep tone and could notice the desperate expression on his face.

Suddenly, he closed his eyes and opened his mouth. Without making any second thought, he took a bite to a crystal with the following sound of glass cracking.

Crack! Crack!

While chewing it, he can feel the rough texture inside of his mouth. Yet, it had a sweet flavor like candy so he continued what he was doing.

"Despite the monster's foul odor, there's something inside it that edible." He gulped it.

And all of a sudden, Kai was holding his neck as felt someone was choking him after eating the core. "What the hell is going on? I-I can't breathe-"

Thud!

He fell to the ground while having a pale skin tone. His mouth was widened open and his saliva dripped out of his mouth.

"Water..."

He crouched, trying to find something where he can drink some water. His vision was getting blurred and his body was getting weak. But as soon as he was going to pass out, a new interface appeared in front of him.

[Great! Passive skill acquired!]

[Core manifestation]

Eh?

Core what...?

Blag!