Stone Village Ruins

You might be wondering what has made him so confident to discuss all this without panicking.

One of the reasons is that he now knows something about skills.

When he got {Archery}, he had already felt that getting a skill can happen in multiple ways.

One of the ways is to get it in a single moment, sending yourself in hyperdrive.

The other is to continue developing and then get the skill through a moment of utter concentration or luck.

It is not easy to define how and what is this concentration. This was the way he got {Archery}.

He doesn't know if only just continuing to practice without any special incident would be enough or not.

Now, his confidence comes from the fact that he got a new skill through using the above information.

He has been doing everything possible, trying to focus on each of his actions, trying to do it in a perfect way.

His opinion is that the closer to perfection his ability is the easier to get that skill.

Experience is also another factor. Albeit luck is also important.

He has been learning about other people's specialities from them as much as possible.

He is one of the first in the group to realize the way to learn skills.

He doesn't know for how long other will be oblivious. He must pull up ahead of them as quickly as possible.

The result was new skill he has realized. Alex played a part in this.

Cayne has felt that he has been running too much since the moment he came into this world.

To capitalize on this, he had asked Alex to tell him on how to sprint fast, the posture, breathing and everything.

Some days before while he was travelling alone and practicing sprinting, he came across a wolf.

This was an adult wolf much fearsome than the others.

He had already sprinted a lot, and cam too far in the jungle. He was also very much spent, but survival triumphed.

He ran like his life depended on it. It of course was dependent on it.

To his luck the wolf didn't chase too far. But he didn't stop sprinting.

In between sprinting, he felt something click when he was on the verge of fainting.

His body & mind were totally tired, still he continued to run.

He knew what that was. An inspiration or concentration of accumulation of skill.

He felt it much better than the time of getting archery. It was a feeling as if a cycle has been completed.

While previously the circle was irregular, this time it was smooth and faster.

The screen flashed in front of his eyes.

" 

Name- Cayne

Mortal Human

Mortal- {Quick Hands},{Calculation},{Archery},{Sprint}

"

A new skill. {Sprint} was different from {Running} of Alex.

This allowed him to run at a very fast pace for a very short distance. He can't run for a very long time.

The skill was best for ditching others in danger. His chance at survival was much greater with this.

There was also another thing he noticed.

The increase he has been feeling in his body from the moment of coming to this world was greater than before getting new skill.

Conclusively, having greater number of skills is important.

Because of this, it has to be concluded that Robert is pulling ahead of others and has much greater advantage.

Of course, Reid might be equal to him or even greater in strength.

After all this he returned to the camp without showing anything different.

...…

Two days later.

There was a piece of information from Steven & Alex.

They had spotted an old structure, a village sort of made from stones on the other side of river.

Everybody was very much excited. This could be one of the major breakthroughs.

The final decision was that those who could fight will go.

No one wanted to miss on this chance, but it was ultimately dangerous.

It was decided that Me, Robert, Alex and Reid will go.

After crossing the river and travelling for two hours. We finally spotted the stone village.

Yes, there were buildings made of stone. It was a small village. We were able to spot 10 to 15 houses, many were broken. The buildings were made completely from stones.

Many were too damaged. But the two centre buildings were best protected.

They might have been the most important buildings or rather the village centre. There was just one obstacle between us and the buildings.

The reason we didn't enter was the presence of a predator. A lion was in the middle of the village lying on a stone platform.

This was also the reason Steven & Alex didn't try to enter the village on their own.

We have to kill the beast. How?

Before coming here, we had already decided how to kill it. I took out a bag inside this was all the poison I had left.

I injected it all in a big rabbit. Hopefully this will be enough to kill it.

After that throwing the rabbit, which was now already dead, we retreated to a faraway tree.

The lion sniffed the air. I had made a cut on the rabbit, to let the smell of blood out. The lion moved towards the rabbit.

It sniffed it, opened its mouth and bit on the rabbit, tore away a big chunk, and ate it.

Immediately after that it looked like it didn't like the taste. It thrashed the remaining corpse in the air.

Plan completed but partially. This much poison will kill it or not. Anxiety was eating away on us it was our last chance for now.

Robert spoke at this moment, "Looks like your plan failed."

I replied in a composed tone, "It worked, partially. Look there."

Everyone looked at the lion and noticed that it was now looking a little hazy and trembling while walking.

"This is our chance we will have to attack and kill it." I concluded in a serious tone.

Hopefully no one dies, at least I should not.