[Exploring the sea floor]

Obsi woke up annoyed, not because it was loud or rumbling or anything like that at all. He was annoyed because his new companion had chosen him as a bed.

She has the whole damn cave to choose from and she sleeps on top of me...

Shaking Karka off he stretched and made his way out of the cave.

'alright then, what shall we do today?' Obsi asked Karka.

'umm, hunting?'

'sure. We'll probably have to search the sea bed as well today.'

'why?'

'because there's nothing worthwhile here.'

'but I can still level?'

'and I can't Karka.'

'oh...'

'oh indeed'

'umm, what level are you mister Obsi?'

'no need to call me mister, and level 8.'

'whoa that's a lot!'

'not in my opinion and I want to get to level 10 in at most a week.'

'can I reach level 10 too!?'

Obsi laughed at that, 'you should first reach maturity, but sure.'

They continued to chat like that until they found a suitable group of Tuna to attack. It was the first time Karka was going to fight swarm Tuna making Obsi quite anxious. On the other had Karka was excited to hunt together with Obsi.

The hunt had gone swimmingly, after taking down three more groups Karka reached level 5 and Obsi had gotten another level in tail whip as well as a new title.

Title 'ALPHA MALE' received:

-CONDITIONS:

BE CONSIDERED A LEADER BY MOST OF YOUR PACK, PROVIDE FOR YOUR PACK, TEACH A MEMBER OF YOUR PACK, PROTECT A MEMBER OF YOUR PACK.

EFFECTS:

YOU'RE RESPECTED BY YOUR KIN AND PACK MEMBERS, ENEMIES OF YOUR PACK FEAR YOU. AFFECTS EVOLUTION.

This title is weird as hell, it also gave confirmation that evolution exists. Also what pack? There's only one other leech besides me.

Finishing up their hunt Obsi and Karka chatted as they went back to the cave.

'hey Obsi! Why are we going back to the cave?'

'so we know from where we can orient ourselves. And besides, if we're mapping out the sea floor why not place our cave in the center of it?'

'that does make sense... You really are the pack leader!'

'the what now?!'

'the pack leader?'

'did you by any chance get a title?'

'i did! It's named member of the Obsidian pack!'

'haaa, so it's named after me... Whatever, let's begin our scouting!'

6 hours later they had moved a half circle around their cave in a 4 km radius, finding many notable thing. Amongst those are a few turfs of other predators. A scaly snake-like crocodile headed eel, a snake headed giant shrimp and last but not least a acid spitting catfish-like four legged tarantula. The deep really is stuff of nightmares.

They also found some other interesting places. One that had lot's of metal in the ground and small fish eating the metal, a place that glowed light blue and attracted many small fishys, a giant ribcage and a seemingly endless valley a few kilometres across. Definitely a lair of something.

Having had their fill of the scouting they headed back to the cave. On the way there Obsi smacked lots of fish with his tail (he smacked lots of fish throughout the scouting mission) and finally got a level up.

+1 LEVEL!

+2 ENDURANCE

+1 AGILITY

+1 STRENGTH

I should probably take a look at my status.

NAME: Obsi LEVEL: 9 RACE: DEEP SEA LEECH (VARIANT) HEALTH: 50 MANA: 190 STAMINA: 120

ATTRIBUTES:

STRENGTH: 15

VITALITY: 5

ENDURANCE: 12

AGILITY: 19

INTELLIGENCE: 17

WISDOM: 19

WILL: 16

How is my endurance so- oh yeah, the training. My stats are coming along nicely, although vitality could use a boost.

As Obsi and Karka neared the cave they continued chatting about status and stats. They also discussed Karka reaching maturity with her being level 5.

When they finally entered the cave Obsi instructed Karka to go to the other side of the cave, seeing the little leech deflate he explained his reasons.

'you will probably reach maturity and grow a lot bigger than you are now and I don't want to get crushed because you wanted to sleep next to me.'

A simple and sad 'okay' was all Obsi got as a response but he was fine with it. Settling down for the day Obsi began to drift into the dream realm, thinking about his possible evolutions and the effect 'alpha male' might have on them.

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Stupid titles...

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