Chapter 21 :

(Wonder what happens when I reach level 100?)

Tilting his head cutely, Will wondered. However he was then distracted by the sounds of the beastkin girls shouts.

(Beastkin girl #4) “$*(&%(*&)$! *$&*$&%!”

The rest of the beastkins all looked over at Will, who cutely stared back with wide blinking eyes.

Unfortunately they couldn't see his cuteness with all those spike over him.

(Time to ditch this thing! The unveiling of my CUTENESS has come!)

All over his body, Will felt the movement of new spikes erupting from his body that threw the spikes above them off.

Shaking the remainder off his fur, Will returned his eyes back to the dumbfounded beaskins.

The ball of spike in front of them had suddenly became a adorable innocent white kittycat! This was something they had never experienced.

(“Yep, they can now behold my CUTENESS! ALL HAIL CUTENESS!)

Bowing down to the ground again, Will knocked his head against the ground several times in worship.

“GRUMPLE! GRR!”

The sound of his stomach stopped Will’s worshipping moment and he immediately grabbed the nearest thing to eat and bit it.

A “Red Apple” was crunched, chewed and swallowed.

Then realizing what he did, Will starting coughing trying to cough it back up.

It was pointless, the eaten apple went straight into his stomach. The beastkin girls nearby started looking at Will with pity.

This odd monster had just eaten what was pretty much lethal poison. Regardless of what had happened between the two groups they still pitied the stupid monster.

After all he did try to do something to them….they just weren't sure of the monster’s plan.

“COUGH COUGH!”

(WAIT! Thinking back, this doesn't have any effect on me! Yeah, I been eating this for a while so there shouldn;t have any kind of effect for my body…. though that picture of the spike melting keep getting back into my head….)

Calming himself down and ending his attempt of throwing up the food. Will peacefully went back to eating the rest of his fruit pile, to the bewildered looks from the beastkins.

Finishing the “Red Apple”, Will ate the rest of the fruit pile, he had overused his abilities too much and needed to replenish the materials.

“Grumble”

The sound of a beastkin’s belly was heard.

Will looked over and saw how the beastkin girl's body were really thin and dirty. They didn't seem to have eaten well at all for a while.

(What really happened to them? Looking closely, they seem to be on the last bits of their strength…. They really need to eat something, but the things I eat are, er, poisonous I think? I should test this out.)

Ordering his zombies to fetch more food, Will busily begun creating more spikes again.

Making a few dozen plates of black spikes, Will waited for his zombies to return.

Several minutes later, they arrived with fruits held in their jaws. The zombies laid them out in another pile like before next to Will.

Taking a “Blue Grape”, Will crushed it between his paw and a black plate. When the juice ran off the fruit, the parts that touched the plate froze.

(! Interesting! So this thing is like liquid nitrogen! What about the other ones?)

Grabbing another random fruit, a “Red Potato”, he again crushed it between his paws and a clean plate. This time, the juice ran off and stuck against the plate, then rapidly hardened.

(This seems like it can be eaten….I think. Though I have this weird feeling that I seen this kind of….covering? Around something…. )

Recalling an event he had recently experienced, Will opened his mouth and blew a spurt of fire from it.

The plate caught on fire and burned rapidly, the jellylike juice seemed to be growing the fire and spreading it around the plate.

(CRAP! I’m going to start a forest fire! What to do? What to do? AHA!)

Raising another plate of spikes, Will muffled the fire and quickly extinguished it before it could spread.

(Phew!)

Using his small paws, he did a humanlike action of wiping imaginary sweat off his forehead.

(That was close! Let's make these plates lie on something other than the ground and plants….)

Thinking about the ecosystem, and his life. Will did the smart thing and put down several of the remaining plates in a pile where he then placed another clean plate on.

Taking out a “Needle Ball” from the pile, Will looked at it. Then turned over and looked at the beasktins.

He chucked the ball away.

Returning to the pile, there were only the “Purple Banana” left untested.

Taking one, Will took the entire thing and smashed it against the plate.

Waiting for a reaction….

“CHIRP CHIRP” (Seriously where are those things? Are they ghosts or something?)

“MEW!” (Gotcha!)

Taking a whole bunch of “Purple Bananas” in his jaws, Will trotted over to the beastkins and dropped it at their feets.

Then pointing at it with his tail, Will made munching movements with his little cute kitty face.

They looked at the fruits, then at the proud looking white kittycat.

Seeing that he had tested out the different food, and that they had to eat something soon or die of starvation.

The beastkin girls gathered their resolve and took one each and began eating.

Will looked attentively as they ate, making sure that there was nothing wrong with the fruits.

Finishing their first meal after days of hunger, the beastkin girls started feeling sleepy. Once the adrenaline and terror that kept them awake in order to not get eaten, disappeared. Their bodies told them they needed to rest.

Without much resistance, they all nodded off and fell asleep on the edge of the clearing ground.

(Well they would be cute if I can see them… but whatever, I’ll take care of each problem at a time then. First the bridge! And food….)

Commanding his zombies to gather as much of the “Purple Bananas” as they could and pile it up, Will went back to building the handrail. Leaving 3 zombies to protect and look after the girls.