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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: Leveling Up

The bruises from the wolf-beast encounter were still fresh, a dull ache that served as a constant reminder of his mistake. A claw had torn across his upper arm, shallow but painful. Kael had cleaned it with water and wrapped it in layers of bark and woven grass, doing his best to avoid infection.

He hadn't slept well. Every crack in the forest made him flinch. But fear could only hold him still for so long.

By morning, Kael forced himself to move. To act.

He needed strength.

And the only way to gain it in this world was through experience.

He started by hunting smaller beasts. Not wolves, not tigers. Things more manageable. Rabbit-sized creatures with scale-plated backs and long ears. Squirrel-like things with barbed tails. Skittish lizard-birds that nested in trees.

They were quick, but not clever.

Kael didn't fight them head-on. Instead, he relied on patience, planning, and his skills.

He practiced teleporting rocks above them and letting gravity finish the work. He used Omni-Vision to study their anatomy and learn how they moved, where their weak points were, how they reacted to sound. Then, he learned something new.

While watching a squirrel-lizard through Omni-Vision, he focused on a pebble and teleported it into the creature's chest.

The animal dropped instantly.

Kael recoiled. But the effect was undeniable.

He couldn't teleport living things.

But he could teleport into them.

Into their lungs. Into their throats. Into their mouths.

He sat down hard and rubbed his face.

"I could have ended the wolf-beast in seconds."

He had fought with fear. Fled with desperation. When all along, he could have dropped a stone into the back of its throat.

The realization left him feeling foolish.

But he wouldn't make that mistake again.

Later, while toying with another stone, he had a different idea.

He dropped it. Then teleported it back to its starting position. Then dropped it again. Then again.

A loop.

Each time, the stone fell further before reappearing back at the top. Faster. And faster. Until eventually, when he canceled the loop and let it fall, the stone slammed into the ground hard enough to crack the earth.

He blinked.

A weapon from the sky. Made with nothing but patience and momentum.

That night, the notification came.

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[Level: 2]

Unallocated Stat Points: 3

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Kael smiled for the first time in days.

It wasn't much. But it was proof he could grow stronger.

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