Congrats, you have slain [Acid Spitter - Lv. 8]!

“That’s the third time I’ve been waken up by these fuckers,” Hans grumble. “You think that seeing the corpse of its fucking relatives nearby would make think twice about coming here, but no, it still decide to come in here, wake me up and het its dumbass killed.”

He pick up the corpse of a now recently dead acid spitter and fling it away from the entrance of his home. He watch it land splat on the ground, near its brethren, before turning around and crawl back into his hole.

“Night, Em.”

Silence greet him as usual.

Hans lay down, making himself comfortable, and began to rest for the night, well he was before a certain snake got the nerve to wake him. He close his eyes and let sleep take him.

The next day, Hans was out hunting again.

He travel through the desert and began tracking down preys through the vibrations that travel the earth. Not much longer, he found a group of jackalopes crowding around a dead lizard, eating every bit of flesh there was.

Hans stares at them for a moment, counting at least four of them and proceed to dig underground, heading straight toward them.

Once he arrived right underneath the rabbits, he launched himself upward and out from the ground, surprising the jackalopes, his tail moving quickly toward the nearest jackalope, skewering it.

Congrats, you have slain [Jackalope - Lv. 10]!

You Have Leveled Up! [Venomous Desert Scorpion - Lv. 11 —> Lv. —> 12]!

Hans threw the dead jackalope to the ground and then swing one of his claw straight into another jackalope, sending tumbling through the sands as its brethren lungs at him.

Using his other claw to protect himself as one of the two rabbits that lungs at him, and bite down on it. Hans was shocked when he felt its fang piercing through his exoskeleton.

He tried to shake the rabbit off and succeed doing so, flinging toward its friend, sending them both tumbling to the ground.

He then immediately turn around as his senses warn him about something approaching from behind him and saw the jackalope that sent flying earlier running at him, its antlers pointing at him.

The antlers stab into his other claw and moved him a few steps back.

“That barely hurt at all.”

Hans proceed to pry the jackalope from claw, coated his tail blade with venom and stab it deep into it. He then whirl around and throw the now poisoned jackalope at the other two jackalopes that were getting up.

You have learned [Fling - Lv. 1]!

[Fling - Lv. 1] - Throw something hard and fast at your enemies.

This hit one of them, sending it and the poisoned jackalope to the ground once again. The other jackalope got up, shake its head and ready itself to leap at Hans but stop as it notice that he was nowhere to be seen.

It was than pulled underground, letting out a shriek that cut mid-way as the sound of bones crunching filled the area.

Congrats, you have slain [Jackalope - Lv. 8]!

Congrats, you have slain [Jackalope - Lv. 7]!

[Crush - Lv. 8] Leveled Up!

[Sneak - Lv. 4] Leveled Up!

[Venom Slash - Lv. 2] Leveled Up!

Hans crawl out of the ground, holding the jackalope’s limp body and proceed to toss it to the ground. He then began to move toward the remaining jackalope who were bruised, and battered and a jackalope to its side.

The jackalope notice him and before it could run away, Hans lungs forward and stab it in the neck with his tail blade, killing it.

Congrats, you have slain [Jackalope - Lv. 12]!

You Have Leveled Up! [Venomous Desert Scorpion - Lv. 12 —> Lv. 13]!

Hans pull his tail out of the jackalope’s corpse, blood dripping off it.

“…Well, that went quite differently than I thought it would go,” Hans said. He then turn his gaze at his blood stained exoskeleton and tail blade.

“I really need a better way to clean the blood off other than rolling around in sands,” He mutter. “Because that takes way too long and it get everything…But I’ll deal with that later.”

Hans felt a grin creeping up on his face as he look around at the mess he made. “After all, I got a trap to make.”

“So…Em, how’ve your day been? Mine went pretty well, killed some things, level up, and with no trouble whatsoever.”

…

”H-Hey why are you giving that look for? I can see it your eye, I really had no trouble doing that, after all, I just have to hide myself and ambush whoever comes by. And why would I have trouble with some few rabbits or—“

Hans flick the gore off his claws before whirling to face the last one and as he was able to kill it, it let out a screeching shriek.

Congrats, you have slain [Shrieking Mouse - Lv. 8]!

He slammed his claw into its face, killing it, and as he was able to return to the ground, he felt danger and a large group of something approaching.

Squinting his eyes, Hans saw hordes of mice, all with large fangs and long tongues rushing straight at him.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!” Hans let out a series of cusses as he immediately starts digging. Some got close to him but he fended them with his tail blade, slashing and poisoning any that got too close.

Congrats, you have slain [Shrieking Mouse - Lv. 8]!

Congrats, you have slain [Shrieking Mouse - Lv. 4]!

Congrats, you have slain [Shrieking Mouse - Lv. 6]!

Congrats, you have slain [Shrieking Mouse - Lv. 10]!

You Have Leveled Up! [Venomous Desert Scorpion - Lv. 13 —> Lv. 14]!

[Venom Slash - Lv. 3] Leveled Up!

[Venom Slash - Lv. 4] Leveled Up!

[Venom Slash - Lv. 5] Leveled Up!

And when he did manage to get underground, some even went into the hole he made just to kill him.

“Fucking hell, why are there so many of you!” They started to overwhelm him but thankfully, due to fact that he was digging at a fast pace, and that a wall had been created from dead bodies, prevented them from getting anywhere near him.

Although, he could hear them chewing through the dead bodies of their fallen comrades which just made him quicken his pace.

After what seemed to be several hours of digging, the mice finally stop chasing him. Hans slumped onto the ground, taking in a deep breath of air as he tries to relax.

“Well…Noted…Don’t let them…Open there and scream under any circumstances,” He said.

He didn’t expect that something like this would happen, and it made him feel embarrassed.

“Let’s just hope like that won’t again.”

“…And I definitely did not get my ass wrecked by a knock off Big Bird.”

“Get your fucking ass down here so I can kill you!”

Answering with a caw, the vulture flapped its wing, sending a mighty gust toward him to which he dodged, and throwing sands all over him.

Hans picks up a rock and threw it at the bird, which is easily dodged and sends another gust at him, sending the adoption sailing across the sky and landing on the ground with a grunt.

He got up and went underground, rushing straight toward the vulture as it land on the ground and began pecking at a dead acid spitter, picking off the flesh and swallowing it down its throat.

Then Hans burst out of the ground, grab one of its legs, and began pulling it underground with him.

The vulture squawk in surprise, and began flapping its wing to try and take off in the sky and pecking at him to let go.

It let out another squawk as Hans stab it with his tail blade, covered with venom. The vulture pecked at him at a greater speed, leaving scratches and cracks on his exoskeleton while he gave it many gashes and bloody wounds in return.

Bleeding, wounded, and growing weaker with each second, the vulture pecked at him one more time.

Hans grabs its beak and punches it, sending it to the ground, it tries to get up but weaken by venom, and its wound, it fails to do so and flops to the ground.

He crawls to it, causing the vulture to look at him before burying his tail blade in its neck, ending its life.

You have slain [Desert Sky Vulture - Lv. 15]!

You Have Leveled Up! [Venomous Desert Scorpion - Lv. 14 —> Lv. 15 —> 16]!

[Grapple - Lv. 7] Leveled Up!

[Grapple - Lv. 8] Leveled Up!

[Fling - Lv. 1] Leveled Up!

“Although, I did have one for lunch.”

Hans finished his rant with Em the crystal embryo staring at him with its eye as always. After a few minutes of silence, he awkwardly cleared his throat.

“So…What your type in women? Or men, I don’t judge.”

Silence.

“This is awkward you know with only one person talking in this admittedly one-sided conversation,” Hans said. “Hell, I don’t even know I’m talking to you considering you don’t even have a mouth!”

…

“Right, sorry…Um, uhh…What did you have for lunch today?”