Chapter 289 – Side Story Part 2. Naked Newbie Life (02)
None.
No matter how much I look around, there is no one.
There is no mini-map displayed like in the game, nor is it possible to check the map.
“Holy shit!”
Even if you want to synchronize with someone to raise your abilities or have sex, there is no one to do it.
I don’t even know where to go to find someone.
So I just wandered around the grassland.
“Ha…”
I was abandoned by the world.
Lonely.
The background is just a grassland, but it feels like wandering in the middle of the desert.
“If it’s going to be played like a game, maybe give them some quests…”
It was a time when I was muttering to myself like that.
[Narrabbit]
As the name of the grassland was Unicorn Grassland, a monster with an obvious name appeared before my eyes.
“The fact that your name is White means you’re also level 1, right?”
It has horns as big as my dick, but it’s still a rabbit.
Could it be that I lose to the rabbit?
The rabbit perked up its ears and found me.
It seemed like he was responding to the voice.
Our distance is only about ten meters.
A normal wild rabbit would have run away, but this one was just staring at me blankly.
The red, slightly scary-looking, angry eyes tell me that it’s not an ordinary rabbit, but a dungeon monster, but I’m never embarrassed.
‘It’s about a level 1 rabbit…’
No matter how much I return to being an ordinary person, I still have time to eat.
As long as the opponent is not holding a weapon, and it is a 1v1 situation, I am confident that I will not lose even if I fight a goblin.
This is not bravado, but confidence that comes naturally from the experience of going in and out of dungeons while supporting the Awakened since the age of twenty.
While making eye contact with the guy, I slowly bent down and picked up a large rock rolling on the floor and held it in my hand.
‘At most, it’s clear that I can just stab it with that horn.’
This is a contest for the pride of the race.
As long as they are at the same level of 1, humans will never lose to a rabbit or something.
To prove it, I held a large stone in each hand and took a long stride towards him.
‘Throwing stones is a waste of time.’
I don’t have any information about the rabbit-type monster in my head, but since it has sharp and pointed horns, it is certain that it will attack you head-on.
That one time.
If I can avoid that single stab, then it’s my turn.
5 meters… 4 meters… 3 meters…
While the distance is getting closer.
“What the fuck…”
I couldn’t help but be shocked when I faced him from the front.
‘What kind of rabbit is this big?’
It is almost four times bigger than the rabbit I used to know.
3 meters.
The distance between me and this guy is not narrowing any further.
We waited that short interval, looking into each other’s eyes.
And.
Yung!
He rolled his red eyes, lowered his head, and kicked the tip of his horn toward me.
I tried to completely avoid the horns as if I had been waiting, but it was impossible to surpass the agility of the rushing rabbit with my current body.
“Ugh…”
I tried to avoid it, but the horn passed by, scratching my side for a long time, and a terrible pain came over me.
However, I did not give in and hit the guy hard on the back of his head with the rock in my hand.
There was no reaction once, so the beating started several times.
Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!
It struggled violently as it was large, but its horns were of moderate thickness, so it boasted a very good grip that could be held with one hand.
It was quite long, so there was no need to worry about missing it.
As I grabbed the monster’s horn with my left hand and swung the rock hard, the rabbit monster’s big eyes gradually lost focus.
[The rabbit hunt was successful.]
The fierce battle over the fate of the species ultimately ended in human victory.
[Your level has increased.]
[Physical power has increased by 2.]
[Maximum vitality and mental power have increased.]
“…”
A cool breeze blew and quickly cooled the sweat all over my body.
Fortunately, there was no bleeding, but the side where the guy scratched it was red and swollen.
If it were just a little bit late, you might have suffered a wound that looked like a knife cut.
“Ha… What are you doing?”
Looking down at the huge corpse of a rabbit, whose head, neck, and back were covered in blood, Hyeonta was pushed hard.
Growling – Even during this time, my belly was crying bitterly and my vitality, as shown in the system information, had dropped to less than half.
“Ha… Fuck.”
Humans need to eat to live.
No matter how I caught the rabbit, I couldn’t just leave it like this.
So I grabbed the horn that grew on its forehead and turned the body over.
I wanted to see where and how to disassemble it and cook it.
But suddenly the entire rabbit corpse turns into light and disappears.
“Fuck it. There’s no need for this to be game-like!”
Just when I was complaining that I too should make a living.
Several items were neatly placed where the body disappeared, waiting for me to retrieve them.
[Low unicorn horn], [Rabbit fur x 3], [Rabbit meat x 2]
[Rabbit meat]
– Meat obtained from hunting rabbits. Edible.
“Whew… I had a headache thinking about dismembering it without the blood, but at least it took me a while.”
I searched around and raked up dry wood.
Meanwhile, he made primitive clothes by roughly plaiting rabbit fur with the tree vines he discovered.
I was hit hard several times along the way, but I had no choice but to do it if I wanted to survive.
I gritted my teeth and held on, recalling countless examples of people being rescued in dungeons and then coming back alive dramatically.
“But… How do you start a fire…”
* * *
Squishy, squishy.
“It’s so tough.”
Starting a fire was surprisingly not difficult.
I put a dry tree branch in my palm and rubbed it hard, and it caught fire easily.
It is presumed that this is because the level has increased by one level and the physical power has increased slightly.
But the problem was something else.
“Wow…”
Forcefully swallows the meat that is about to fall.
[Remaining health has increased by 1%.]
Meat grilled over a raw fire without salt, pepper, or grill was not only tasteless but also extremely tough.
However, I had to eat at least this to restore some of my vitality in order to look forward to the next one, so I chewed and swallowed two pieces of rabbit meat without leaving a single piece of it.
“Ha…”
Unfortunately, increasing the level did not increase vitality.
“If I keep doing this, I’m going to die again…”
In order to survive here, you have to hunt and secure food, and if you get seriously injured while doing so, it’s a huge deal.
Two lives left.
I guess I should be thankful that it isn’t just one.
I don’t know what this means.
It may seem like a game system that we have often seen, but since there has been no news of the return of the awakened people who disappeared from the dungeon, it is impossible to turn on the delusional hope circuit that they will return to their original place when they spend the three lives given.
Life is literally life.
If you lose everything, then you will die forever.
I lifted the rabbit fur that was covering my dick and let out some air.
Even if the ventilation is not bad, sweat builds up in the groin area, so rabbit fur is definitely a suitable material for winter clothing.
“Whew… Let’s try moving again.”
After confirming that my groin had become soft, I grabbed the lowly unicorn’s horn and started marching again.
I managed to replenish my moisture by eating fruit from trees I found, and thanks to that, I was able to recover some of my vitality.
However, as I dealt with the rabbits that appeared one after another, my vitality actually decreased compared to before I ate. The good news was that as the number of rabbits I hunted reached five, my level rose again.
[Your level has increased.]
[Physical power increased by 3.]
The abilities that increase each time the level increases seem to be random.
That part was a little annoying, but the good news is that thanks to the increase in physical strength to 6, it became very easy to deal with the rabbit.
‘It seems that physical strength includes not only strength but also agility.’
As physical power increased, it became very easy to avoid rabbit attacks.
It was natural that the attack power increased due to the increase in strength, and it seemed as if not only the speed of the body, but also the visual acuity of the body had also increased.
A new enemy I encountered while crossing the grassland.
[Narrabbit Leader Rabbit]
The moment I discovered it, a new system message appeared.
[Named monster found.]
[You can obtain special rewards by defeating named monsters.]
I’ve reached level 3, but will I really be able to hunt him?
Should I run away or attack?
After thinking about it, I ultimately chose the latter.
Fuck. You can’t just hunt rabbits forever.
Now is the fateful moment that will decide my future.
It was time to risk my life and take the gamble of a lifetime.
“That makes you a rabbit!”
The battle that started like that was truly close to a bloody fight.
What made him special wasn’t that he was stronger or faster than other rabbits.
True to his name, he showed off ridiculous special abilities and skills.
“Fuck, what kind of rabbit is teleporting and damn it!”
I was pushed to the point where I was almost on the verge of death.
Through teleportation, it suddenly appeared from a blind spot behind my back and stabbed me with its horns. I tried to dodge it based on my increased physical power, but before I knew it, countless scratches were created all over my body.
Blood was flowing from my broken skin here and there, and my vitality was quickly disappearing.
‘Haa… Haa… If I keep doing this… Aren’t I really going to die again?’
It was then.
[One paranormal ability information was obtained through the battle with Named.]
A message that suddenly occurred to me.
I checked the information I had obtained by rolling around on the floor to avoid being attacked even if the guy suddenly appeared.
[You have not selected a paranormal ability yet. You can always choose one of the countless paranormal abilities listed below to make it your own. Once a paranormal ability is selected, it cannot be changed forever.]
1. (New) Space manipulation
2. ??
3. ??
4. ??
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What is this?
There is no choice, right?
But there was no reason to hesitate here.
I immediately chose the paranormal ability.
Of course, there may be better abilities.
But you don’t know how much time and effort it will take to find out, and if you hesitate here and lose one more life, then you will be in a real corner.
‘First, you must survive and find something to synchronize with.’
[You have selected a paranormal ability.]
[From now on, you can manipulate space. Each time you use this ability, mental power is consumed, and a powerful synergy effect occurs when you use skills of the same series.]
[Paranormal ability: ‘Space leap’, the most basic skill in space manipulation, has been automatically added to the skill list.]
Ravich disappeared from my sight again.
The guy who moved into my blind spot rushed to stab me with his horns, and I calculated the timing and activated the new skill ‘Space Leap’.
