I snuck back down the tree and shrunk my body. I’ll take out the two patrolling on the periter first. I don’t want them to run the mont I start wreaking havoc. My plan is to pick off as many of them as possible without the rest finding out. I’m not that worried that they will overwhelm , I just don’t want to deal with ten people scattering in different directions…
Once I reached the two n I waited until the pair were in a spot on their patrol where no one could see them. In one slash I decapitated the pair of them. I’m still about two ters tall at my smallest. It looks like my growth is slowing down, probably because the prey wasn’t that big relative to my full size.
After taking care of these two I grew a little larger so I can scarf their bodies down faster. I don’t want anyone finding the bodies early, this way there would only be blood stains. Still a red flag but not as bad as corpses. It would at least lead to so confusion before the panic sets in.
With that settled I turned around. I climbed up a nearby tree and looked for a good spot to land when I jumped over. I saw one man walking off the side to take a piss on the wall. I leapt over the wall and drove one of my blades through his head and held his body in place to stop it from falling. I then dragged the body behind a house in a shadowy spot and left it there.
I’ll be back for it later…
I renengaged my invisibility and snuck out into the middle of the camp. I saw one of the bandits approaching the pen and I had a suspicion he was about to grab one of the won to have so fun. Well usually when a man decides to have so fun with the fairer sex they would want so privacy…
Sure enough he grabbed a young woman with curly matted brown hair and she sobbed in protest as he dragged the woman to her feet. He dragged her over to a nearby hut, I could tell he was looking to enter this one. So I slipped ahead of the pair and crept through the window. It was just large enough for to slip through. Luckily my body was long and not wide, so I still could fit.
With that I waited in the corner of the room and sure enough the door opened. The man dragged the sobbing woman in and yanked her towards a nearby bed made of wood and straw. The woman tried to struggle but the man backhanded her across the face and tossed her onto the bed. The woman now bleeding from a split lip quietly sobbed on the bed as the man began taking his pants off.
I got behind him and increased in size so I could tower over the bed. I had a plan on how to kill them both at once but I needed to be big enough…
The man growled as he climbed onto the bed and pulled her legs apart. He then tried to position his mber at her entrance and as he did so he leaned forward slightly. There’s the mont I’m looking for…
I raised my blade which was almost half a ter long and I stabbed in through the man’s back. I kept pushing forward the blade skewered the woman underneath him. The woman let out a scream of pain as she felt the blade stab into her chest.
“OI QUIET IT DOWN IN THERE!” I heard another man shout from outside.
With that I brought down another blade and stabbed it into her face. Her body twitched for a mont before stilling. I’ll just leave these two here for the mont…
With that I crawled back out the window, I don’t have much ti now. The bandits will eventually notice that those are now silent. Which ans I need to start my rampage soon. I saw a group of five of them sitting together at the fire. I guess I’ll start with them…
I slithered up behind them and grew to my full size and saw that I was now towering five ters tall. I’ll take them out and then fire so spines at the guy on the watchtower. Don’t want him to escape. The rest will still have to get the gate open. That should buy ti to kill them.
So I raised my blade and slashed at the five of them, my blades now two ters long cut through them like a hot knife through butter. The bandits around imdiately shouted in alarm as my massive form materialised in thin air. I turned and fired a wave of spikes at the man at the watchtower. He was thrown back and was pinned to the side of the watchtower, at this size my spines were the size of a man’s forearm.
The bandits which I hoped will at least try to fight all turned and ran…
Well so much for that…
I hurtled through the camp blades flashing and spines firing. Bodies dropped to the ground in pieces or flew back and were pinned to nearby walls by my spines. Their screams and raw terror was intoxicating.
As I expected I saw about half of them run for the gate. The ones who got there first tried to get the gate open but the ones behind yanked them back and tried to get the door open themselves in panic. In their blind panic they ended up getting in each other’s way, well all the more easier for …
I sped towards the gate, blades drawn and the n turned and saw my charging form. Their eyes widened in terror, faces now pale as parchnt. I could see their pupils dilate as they realised they were about to die… and they scread…
I slashed at the group of n with all four hands. I ended up cutting them to pieces, demolished the gate and part of the wall behind them. I also accidentally collapsed the watchtower to my right as I caught the supports of the watchtower with my backswing. As I took in the wrecked wall and watchtower I realised my body is harder to control at this size. I guess it makes sense, the smaller sothing is the easier it is to ss sothing up when you try to handle it.
As the sll of that red scarlet nectar washed over , I felt a kind of weird feral happiness. I laughed and turned around to see the last remaining few bandits trying to climb over a section of wall. Again these idiots tried to get up first and ended up slowing each other down. I charged them with my vision now turning red and their hearts pulsing brighter than ever in my vision. I could have used my spines to kill them but it was so much more fun to use my blades…
When I was upon the four of them I opened my jaws and snapped up the one at the top of the wall. I closed my teeth around his body and it was snapped clean in half, his lower body tumbling back down into the dirt. The others shouted as they tried to run, three quick slashes later and there were now six pieces staining the dirt red.
Unable to resist, I snapped up one torso as a quick snack and I turned around to see a few stragglers running for the now destroyed gate. One of them even managed to get a horse and was riding towards the opening. Well horse or no, I was much faster and soon I was upon him. I opened my maw and snapped up the man right off the horse. At the sa ti I slashed at the horse and the horse’s body rolled away in two halves. I raised my head and swallowed his whole body. Enjoying the feeling of his body sliding down my throat. The few remaining behind were now running towards the large house, as far as I could sense there were only these few left and I could sll sothing in the big house.
I charged those remaining and easily cut them down. All this fighting was making quite hungry so I snapped up one of the bodies in my jaws savouring the delectable taste. With that I looked around and saw no more bandits. I turned and saw the won all cowering in their pen, the scent of ammonia thick around them like a miasma. Well they weren’t going anywhere… that just leaves the house…
I switched my blades back to my claws and I tore the wall open, not bothering to shrink down to go through the door. When I entered the room, the whole place reeked of soone’s scent. I saw on the bed there was a girl's legs spread and splayed on the bed. I noted she looked the youngest amongst all the won. She had a smaller fra and a childlike face, her breasts were also small, with an overall petite appearance. I guess the bandit leader couldn’t actually get his hands on any kids so he settled for the next best thing.
I realised the sll was emanating from between her legs, and as I got close I realised the bandit leader had just probably finished up when I started to attack. The girl was still panting and her eyes were rolled up into her head. His leftovers looked fresh… Now that left the real question, where the hell was he?
Then I saw a trail leading out the window… ah... so he ran…
I turned and smashed my way through the wall and saw the trail went over the nearby wall. Well he had only two choices honestly...
He could die in that room…
OR HE COULD DIE RUNNING...
With that thought and a laugh I smashed through the wood wall, the logs that made up the wall splintering like a bunch of toothpicks. I looked to the trail and I could see a figure sprinting away from the camp.
Now this is much more fun…
I instinctively let out a roar and started chasing him. In just a few seconds I have obliterated whatever pathetic lead he could muster on his puny legs. He turned and scread just as I opened my maw and closed it around him. The last thing he saw was my teeth as I snatched him up and tore him in half…
Leader or no, he dies all the sa…
With the hunt over and as I devoured the bandit leader’s other half. I felt the elation of the hunt start to fade and my vision started to lose it’s red tinge. Gradually I felt my mind clear and I realised I lost control a little there. Is this what they call a feeding frenzy? Like when sharks sll a drop of blood in the water or sothing? This is a little scary…
I guess I’ll figure this out later, I still had a feast and few loose ends to tie up back at the camp. When I got back to the camp I spotted the won in the pen had escaped and they were standing in the middle of the camp. They froze when they saw their eyes filling with fear. Well I had no intention of allowing them to walk away, if they left and told soone about . Then I think I will have to deal with more than just bandits…
One of the won ran forward and picked up one of the fallen swords of the bandits. She scrambled to raise the sword and I smiled. This was quite the sight, this woman was stark naked, covered in filth and her sword was shaking like a leaf in the wind. I transford my hands into blades and her face crumpled. The sword fell down to the earth listlessly and I saw whatever faint desperate hope in her eyes shatter into a thousand pieces. The woman looked down at the sword then raised it again. At first I thought she was going to try to fight but then she grabbed the sword by the blade and to my surprise she ramd the tip of the blade into her throat.
She choked and gagged for a mont before crumpling to the ground, choking and gasping as her life drained away. So better to die by the blade than to my teeth? Well it would be less painful...
The other won looked at the soon to be corpse in mute horror then their gaze shifted to . At that mont I felt a little bad, these won just had the worst luck in the world…
Once again as quickly it ca the feeling faded and I took aim with my spikes. I fired a wave of spines impaling the remaining won. They were instantly thrown against the dirt as my spines knocked them off their feet. They gasped and twitched before stilling, I saw one give one last look of terror before her eyes softened and the light left her eyes. Again I was struck with that slightly bad feeling, I guess this is just the vestiges of my old self.
I wonder if this is because I’m eating humans and getting improved [Advanced Cognition]? I doubt I will fully sympathise with humans, my mind just seed too attracted to the idea of killing and eating for to realistically abstain from killing humans. I may end up preferring other prey but I sohow just knew I would never be above killing them.
I then turned away from the sight of the dead won and I looked around and saw there were still so horses struggling against the ropes that tied them to nearby posts. I fired another wave of spines and the horses all collapsed, their bodies covered in my spines. That leaves this weird bear thing, it was quite large and it was horned. Odd looking creature, it was terrified, I could see in its eyes. It was backed against the back of its iron cage and it was shaking. It’s fur was brown like a normal bear, if you ignore the horns and its size it would pass for a normal bear…
Well let’s see what it gives …
I slashed at the cage and the crude iron was cut through like paper. I swapped two of my blades back into taloned hands and pulled the cage apart. I then brought my blade down, skewering the bear against the floor. I grabbed it, bringing it up to my mouth and began to eat it, fur, horns and all. I just tore into it like it was a baked potato or sothing.
After I finished I heard the voice again…
Ursus Cornutum Essence acquired
Insufficient essence for assimilation
Well I guess I need a few more of those. I then went on to the horses after I ate the second last horse. I heard the voice in my head again.
Achieved [Equus Geno] Level: 1 / 10
[Muscle Strength] improved
[Bone Density] improved
Well those were pretty boring upgrades…
Then again I guess horses were boring…
After I finished up the horses I moved on to the human corpses. This ti there were more than thirty bodies for to eat. So I was sure I would get another geno upgrade. I got halfway through the bodies when I heard the voice sound off in my head.
Achieved [Human Geno] Level: 3 / 10
[Advance Cognition] improved
[Colour Perception] improved
[Fine Motor Skills] improved
[Auditory Communication] improved
Ok so more of the sa, pretty boring. When I finished the rest of the bodies nothing else happened. It looks like the requirents for upgrades increase as the stages go up. I guess for stage 10 I’ll have to eat a whole city or sothing… that’ll take awhile…
Would that be even worth the effort? I an that would probably take days… or maybe stronger humans are worth more? Like those Gold Ranked adventures? Well I’ll find out if that's true at so point, I an the plan doesn’t change. I just have to keep eating them…
That leaves one last thing, the unconcious girl in the house. I didn’t sense any movent in the house the entire ti I was eating, I guess she’s out cold. Well I might as well finish her off and move on. Judging by the sky it’s going to be night soon, I guess soon I’ll be a day old. Feels like more has happened today than my entire past life…
I wonder what my life will be like in this world? Will I just live alone? Maybe I’ll make so friends. I have a feeling this life will be quite lonely…
Wait wait wait… did I just think about being lonely and having friends? Is this the [Advance Cognition] talking? Well I do have a way to test this… it’s lying unconscious in that house…
When I reentered the house I saw the girl was still unconscious on the bed. I could see bruises have ford around her throat, making a blue and black ring around her neck. Her nethers were also red and swollen probably from what that bandit did to her.
Well I should probably kill her and get this over with. I transford one of my hands into blades and raised it preparing to stab her in the head. Then I saw her shift slightly and she turned to the side. Her eyes scrunched together and she curled up into a fetal position. I could tell her eyes were darting around under her closed eyelids. It looks like she’s having a nightmare, then I saw tears flow out from under her eyelids. Again I felt bad for her, this ti the feeling was stronger…
Crap looks like my suspicions were right, eating humans makes grow a conscience. This is quite ironic… I get the ability to feel guilty about killing humans by eating humans…
To be fair she was unconscious the mont I found her. I think that bandit lord probably choked her out while he was defiling her. She won’t know what I am, she’ll just wake up to this destroyed camp…
I don’t really have a reason to kill her… if she saw then I know I can easily kill her because she’ll put in danger. But now… she’s no threat to , and I don’t really want to keep eating humans. The last thing I want now is a full blown conscience.
I an even now what I feel isn’t exactly pity it’s more like I feel it would be a pointless kill. Like why kill her? There’s not much reason for it, she’s so small she probably won’t make a dent in my growth. If I keep eating humans this feeling bad thing is going to get worse so I don’t think I want to eat her because of that. So what? I just kill her and leave her corpse here? What’s the point in that?
With a sigh I turned my blade into my taloned hands and turned away. At the opening I turned back to take one last look at her and pondered how this is the first living thing I let live so far. For better or worse I’m smarter now and not so dumb ferocious monster. Being smart is good, right? When I really need it I will be able to better strategise…
I took a final look at the quietly crying girl on the bed and muttered one last thing.
Good luck...
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