Warm blood trickling down its mouth as it ate every victim, the creature slowly grew addicted to the feeling of eating the flesh of an organism.
With each organism it gained the traits of what it ate, the creature ran through the lively forest eating every possible thing it can get its mouth on.
The creature had now grew a hide, a strong one because it had recently eaten an armadillo, it had also grew an exoskeleton because it had eaten a spider, and a regeneration factor from eating a roach.
With each organism it ate, the more powerful the creature became, noticeably so.
But was the creature on top of the food chain? So far it had only came across smaller organisms, things that couldn't fight back.
The creature was about the size of a house cat, since it was still in its baby stages and had yet to evolve yet.
The creature had yet to grow its survival instincts, it only moved on its hunger.
And that's when it finally saw something bigger, something stronger.
The organism it saw looked similar to that of a wolf, but due to this world being quite different, the wolf was much bigger, and had this fiery aura around it.
Though the creature wasn't intimidated… more so it was curious, and this curiosity lead it to lunge toward the creature at full speed.
The wolf, sensing the creature running toward it had simply swiped it away, easily so, showing no interest whatsoever.
The creature felt its own blood trickling down its body, it was a new sensation that it hadn't felt before, the pain.. the feeling of its own blood.
The creature screeched, not out of pain but out of confusion, it was just a baby after all.
Though due to its regeneration factor the injury slowly healed over time but the creature wouldn't forget this sense of defeat, it served as a reminder it wasn't invincible.
It served as a reminder that there are always others who will be stronger, you can't beat them directly but you can beat them if given time.
The creature grew a sense of survival instinct, it will be more cautious.. it will be more smart, and it will become strong enough to beat any organism.
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The scene suddenly flashes toward a young man, sitting in what seems to be a guild of adventurers, he had black hair and yellow eyes, he wielded a sword and wore some weird looking attire, a camping backpack, with a red shirt and black pants. He also wore a coat.
Suddenly a girl with silver looking hair approached him, her hair long, her eyes grey-ish, she had quite a beautiful face.
"Tarkan-Sama!" She said, she had a high pitched voice that felt soft, her words directed toward the black haired young man.
"What mission did you grab today?" She plopped right down next to Tarkan.
"I'm thinking of scouting out this forest for any magical beasts, so far we've got news that a huge amount of magical energy was felt around there, it's flagged as a C-Rank Mission."
"Really, then won't it be dangerous alone, let me join you!" She said, with puppy eyes.
He glanced at her, thinking about it before responding.
"Fine!" He continued. " But If you get hurt it won't be on me."
"Did you already forget who I am! When it comes to spells I'd say I'm the best in the guild!" She said triumphantly, though when she said this her nose grew.
In reality she was a D-Rank, and Tarkan the man she was speaking to was also a D-Rank, they are both desperate for a bit of cash so they're scouting out a mission that they have a high chance of losing too.
"The details of the mission says that we'll have to head out next week, so in the meantime let's gather supplies and get ready for the mission."
"Okie dokie!"
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The scene suddenly closes, and as if an eye was opening, the scene opens back up but at the perspective of the creature.
The creature had healed fully, it was hungry, the healing expended a bit of its energy so it was ready to fill its belly up.
It quickly left the cave that it was currently hiding in before quickly looking around for something to prey on.
It stumbled upon a pond, that a giant frog atleast the size of a 8 year old human is standing on a giant leaf, its eyes closed.
The creature was too hungry it wasn't thinking rationally before leaping forward, and the frog hearing the sound had opened up its mouth and suddenly the creature was grabbed by its long tongue.
And before it could react it was now swallowed whole by the frog, but the creature wasn't dead, if anything due to its hard and tough exterior the stomach acids weren't able to fully digest the creature.
It looked around in a dark unfamiliar environment, it felt trapped and confused, but it looked at the stomach acids and suddenly swallowed it.. though it was disgusting the creature drank it in hopes that it could gain something.
And miraculously it did, suddenly the creature felt a huge itch in its throat, and suddenly a new system formed in its throat, where the creatures acidic mucus was stored.
Using this acidic mucus it shot at the frog's interior in hopes of getting out, the frog jerked wildly and the creature flung around in its body.
The creature annoyed, decided to bite at the insides of the frog and after a while it managed to bite a hole through the frog big enough for it to leap out of, the frog was visibly injured.
The frog suddenly opened its mouth, a sort of waterfall forming from it, the creature was confused, do organisms here have the ability to do this?
Instinctively when the water ball was shot it dodged it, maybe it can gain this ability if it eats this giant frog.
Suddenly the creature gathered up a huge amount of acidic mucus before shooting it out at the frogs eyes, it had now landed on the frogs eyes.
The frog thrashed around, launching its tongue towards the creature in a sort of whip motion, the creature was struck and the attack did a good amount of damage.
After all the creature was small and weak compared to the frog, but the frog was now blinded and the creature had a chance to attack which it took.
In a swift motion it shot more acidic mucus toward the dome of the frog, burning through it and burning through some of its brain.
The frog fell, and twitched but soon it lost life, the creature began feasting on it, intending to leave nothing of the frog's remains.
After a long time of feasting the creature felt its body twitch and become stiff, it fell into the pond that it was standing in.. it felt a huge amount of energy gathering in its stomach area.
The creature couldn't drown, so it was just freely falling down the water, it felt strangely calming to the creature.
The creature suddenly felt a burst of energy surge out of its body, for the first time it had managed to gather magic in its body.
And due to it eating the frog who had an affinity for water, it gained that same ability, the creature pushing itself out from the water and floating above it… it had now gained a valuable ability.
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A day after back in the perspective of the guild, people were going wild, it seems the people who overseer magical powers in certain regions felt two huge power sources, one ranked D-Rank and the other one which was there before the recent power surge is C-Rank.
Tarkan had gotten news of this, so far he was the only one who had managed to get the mission, he stared back at the paper.
"Seems like I'll get some good profit from this." He said before smiling.