Looking at the screen in front of I didn't see the desert that I had co to expect from Tama's evolutions. A world, vast in its dinsions, was teeming with life. Everywhere that I looked I could see so sort of creature. I could tell they were multiple tis stronger than I just by looking at them. Their very presence was intimidating, even just from looking at the screen I could tell that they could kill with their presence alone. Next to lia took into her arms, petting my head trying to comfort .
Though the perspective quickly changed to one overlooking Tama, I couldn't help but think back to the terrifying presences that I felt coming from the creatures that inhabited the evolutionary realm I had sent Tama to.
Even though I knew that Tama was strong in her own right I couldn't help but worry for her, for those creatures to make fear from that far away from a distance was terrifying.Thinking of it those terrifying presence that I had felt just from the screen must have been magnified dozens of tis in Tama's perspective with her being so close to them.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, all the while praying for Tama's safety.
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I grit my teeth and turned into my fox form. With the size of all the creatures around being as big as they were I would have a better chance of fleeing when I was as small as I was in my fox form.
I needed ti to adapt to the atmosphere, if the pressure that constantly pulled down was not there then I was confident that I could at least take a horde of those bugs but to take on the malford creature along with the bugs, there was no doubt that I would perish. It was the whole reason that I left the whole reason that I was trying to retreat from this situation.
I would adapt, then I would hunt every last one of these creatures down.
With careful steps I slowly struggled my way to the treeline, currently I was on what I assud to be an island or sothing similar. With the fresh sea water that was behind and the tropical trees that I was heading towards, what else could it be.
Although the trees were spaced generously apart, they were still big enough that I could burrow into them and the holes wouldn't be seen by those creatures. Especially with how small of spaces I could fit into. Those giant creatures would never be able to find , if they even knew I existed at all.
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It took a while, the trees being not surprisingly durable but eventually I was able to burrow a hole for to rest in while I adapted to the harsh conditions of this planet.
Luckily for Darwin's talent not only transferred to this realm but allowed to adapt at a much quicker pace than I would ever be able to on my own.
With quicker and quicker moves I maneuvered around the burrow that I had created for myself, each repetition allowing to get that much closer to my true speed. If I had to guess then it would take another day or two of constant exertion like what I was doing to completely adapt.
That's exactly what I did, without rest I practiced and practiced, each hour of the day completely filled by intense focus.
I did not neglect my aether either, I knew that with the realm being as it was there was a possibility that I would not be able to use my denial of reality, so to compensate for that I started to return to my basic illusions. Easy as they were, they would give an advantage against the beasts that I would be slaying.
Just like that two days passed, in both physical and ntal exercise. At the end of each day I would try my denial of reality, however it never worked, no matter how I tried I could not trick the world. It was frustrating, all the work that I had done to develop this skill was done in all because the world had a superior will.
I would not let that frustration cloud though, instead I channeled it into regaining my physical capabilities, for each failure that I experienced I tried that much harder.
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The sun rose and with a final kick of my leg I felt that I was back to my true strength, the pressure of the realm no longer bothering . I was ready to enter combat, to evolve in any way that I could.
Exiting the burrow that I had called ho for the last two days, I said goodbye. There was no chance that I would return to the tree. I would be too busy in combat, I had already decided I would not rest until I evolved.
Even if I died I knew that I would just be revived, and despite my distaste of relying on this, I still held it as a last resort option.
Shaking the thought of that out of my head I transform into my fox form, dashing on the roots of the plants searching for my first prey.
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It didn't take long, in fact it was within the first minutes of searching that I found my first prey.
It was the sa species of bug that I had encountered on my first day here but now I was ready.
With a kick off the ground I was off, my body barreling towards the bug. My claws were out, I had not used them in a while so they were dulled from the short period that I hadn't used them. However they were still as sharp as when I had still been using them, my evolution had sharpened them, but they were still not as sharp as they would have been if I had maintained them
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