His claw ripped through the crocodiles hard scales, shattered the skull and pierced the brain. He opened his eyes wide with surprise. Although he believed he can do it he thought it would be harder.
But the scales barely put up any resistance. The crocodile cried once and it body slumped down. It had died almost immediately after.
The river got quiet, the remaining two sharks and the rest of the otter family watched him without moving. Then they all turned around and ran.
This surprised him, he thought they would continue trying to kill him but the death of the crocodile must've scared them shitless. He turned his attention to the remaining crocodiles.
They watched him apprehensively then ran away as well. He released a breath he didn't even know he was holding then dragged the corpse out.
It was harder than he had expected, it was not that the crocodile was heavy but his body was too wounded and he was too tired after losing that much blood.
When he reached ground he didn't wait to say grace and started eating the crocodile. Notification after notification appeared infront of him but he ignored them.
When he was done, his evolution points had increased to over 3. 'Status'
Name: Ved Zhakrii
Species: Poison lizard (0/223 years)( 37,3 cm/ 100 cm)
Rank: 1
Abilities(1/1): Trait Assimilation
Traits(3/3): Poison secretion, Herculean strength, Aquatic
Evolution points: (3.64/10)
(NOTICE: Host has consumed an energy infused substance, host body cannot contain energy type. Expelling energy) he could feel something invisible leave his body.
'This must be the reason the crocodile and the others were so strong, they had this energy or something. Also with the amount of points I got from the crocodile alone it must atleast be rank 1.
Does that mean if I want to hasten my growth I have to deal with creatures that powerful? It seems being the strongest will not be easy' he sighed and dragged his battered body to his hole.
It was a pity he lost all those other corpses, they were probably swept up by the currents by now. Back in his hole he replayed the fight in his head and realised he seriously lacked battle experience.
His first move wasted a powerful weapon, his poison because he didn't think things through then he thought back to the last attack.
No matter how he thought about it he couldn't understand what happened. He knew he didn't grow stronger, he had the same strength and his claws didn't get sharper.
But the crocodiles scales felt less resistant to his attack if that made sense. He sighed ' No use thinking about it now, I'll figure it out later'
He thought a bit more about the fight and the more he thought about it the more terrified he got, he realised how close he was to death and that scared him. On that moment he made a decision, a goal of sort, he would evolve and grow to be strongest.
He will stand at the pinnacle of all existence so nothing will ever threaten him, only then can his fear be truly conquered, only then can he live in peace with his harem. Unbeknownst to him that was the moment a decision that will shake all of existence was made, because a human turned lizard was almost killed by a group of rank 1 mortal beasts.
Then he drifted to sleep. When he woke up it was already noon the following day. Due to his wounds his body basically shut down to heal itself.
Although he wasn't fully healed yet it was enough to atleast get food. He dived into the river and came out with a large fish, time passed.
An entire week had gone by in a blink. His wounds had fully healed, even the scales ripped off by the otter had grown back. Today he had decided to scout the forest around him.
Ever since he got here he had been alternating between his hole and the river, he doesn't know anything about the forest and he was going to change that.
When the sun had fully risen he left, his little body darting between the tall trees. Along the way he had seen a few beautiful bird, frogs and insects.
He had ignored most of them and only ate the poisonous ones. Not only does eating poisonous substances increase the potenty of his poison it also regenerated it faster.
He had noticed how excruciatingly slow it natural regeneration was. He had traveled a few kilometres in when he decided to go back.
None of the animals he saw were worth his time. He will have search another area some other time but right now needed to go have some fish.
He was getting hungry. It didn't take long for him to reach the river, after getting a few fish he went back to his hole. He was done for the day and he will try again the following day.
Months passed, his daily routine had revolved around scouting the forest and hunting fish at the edge of the river. During this time he had barely risen his evolution points by 0.5.
While walking in the forest he sighed heavily in his mind. ' You can't keep avoiding it forever Ved, you going to be the strongest, you can't let mere animals intimidate you like this' he told himself.
Although he had pretended to be scouting the forest for the past few months deep down he knew that was an excuse. Truth is, he is afraid of going back to the depth of the river.
Facing enemies that could potentially kill him was not fun at all. Although he dreamt of being the strongest and having no one to threaten him he knew to do that he needed to face the risk of death right now.
But knowing that doesn't make it easier, he was still very much terrified of death especially when he felt it so close before. While lost in his thoughts he suddenly raised his head and smelled the air.
He could smell a familiar yet different scent in the air. He tried to recall where he felt it before and it came to him. It's the same as the one he felt from the crocodile and the other rank 1 beasts.
That meant there was a rank 1 beast around. His heartbeat rate rose at the thought, fear coursed through his veins but he steeled his heart and took a step forward.
He poked his head out of a bush and the scene he saw left him flabbergasted.