Demon Lord: Hana Lv. 1
| Health Points(HP): 2/2(20) | Strength: 1/1(10) |
| Mana Points(MP): 2/2(20) | Intelligence: 1/1(10) |
| Stamina Points(SP): 2/2(20) | Agility: 1/1(10) |
| Willpower Points(WP): 2/2(20) | Resistance: 10%(100%) |
| Skill Points: 1 | |
| Skills: Mana Capacitator; Arachnophobia Lv. MAX; Vulka Lv.1; Intuition Lv. 1; Strong Will Lv. 1; Cornered Animal Lv. 1; Analysis Lv. 3 | |
| Statuses: Divine Retribution | |
Where am I even trying to go? I had made various turns, chosen between multiple paths, but there wasn’t any sign of something… something more. You can’t be serious. Is the den of the Newbie-Killer spider the only way up? It was definitely a long drop down that tunnel, but there’s more serious problems than just trying to climb up that. It’s an undisputable no for going that way. I couldn’t find my way back if I wanted to.
It’s not like I could have left bread crumbs behind to mark my path. It would have been put to better use in my stomach than uselessly lining the ground. Not that it would be that much more useful, my stomach had already ceased growling. Hours ago? Days? That much time hasn’t passed yet… probably.
Did you know? When you start to ignore your stomach, it will begin to make noises to notify you that it’s hungry. Honestly, you’re supposed to eat way before you hear your stomach make sounds. But let’s say you continue to ignore your stomach. Soon you will have the distinct feeling of your stomach cramping up, which is followed up by excruciating pain. This can last up to a few hours, but once you pass this phase, your stomach will shrink in size and cause you less pain even though there’s no food.
That’s because the gastric acids have started to eat away at the stomach lining. Surprisingly, it takes quite a while for medical symptoms to develop from this. The stomach lining is naturally resistant to acid after all. But when you don’t eat food, the acid begins to corrode the protective mucus membrane, before eventually burning into the walls themselves.
Well before your stomach develops holes though, the body will suffer from a deficiency of nutrients and energy. Usually this results in the burning of sugars and fats, but given enough time, it will be forced to break down the bonds in muscles for energy, causing rapid tissue atrophy. Some time after, the person will die from organ failure if not treated.
In short, I couldn’t bear to stay hungry for much longer. How long has it been since I ate food? I don’t know! The entire process of death by starvation is relatively long, taking up to 40-50 days assuming you have a source of water. Without water, your life expectation is cut down. A lot. You can expect 3-4 days before you die from lack of hydration.
I’m begrudgingly thankful for the sewer water. A source of clean water right next to me. It’s kind of amazing. I tried dipping the slime I’d been holding onto in a section of visible water to see what would happen. It sucked up the water, then it spewed out the contaminants out one spout hole, and water out the outer. Slightly slime flavored clean water.
In hindsight, I realized how careless it was to do that to the slime without knowing what would happen. I’m not even sure how it feels about the whole situation to begin with, since I still can’t communicate with them. <<Analyze>> can’t read anything off them either because they have a higher level. But’s its so exciting to me. How does the slime naturally purify water? Is its inner membrane able to be that selective and separate out minute particles from water?
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It wasn’t until a flickering light in the distance appeared that I woke up from my ponderings. Wow, that is really bright, I feel slightly blinded by that. <<Vulca>> felt more like a low powered night light compared to this thing.
I had no way of knowing that I had been followed on my wayward walk this entire time until I was tackled backwards right into a slimy cushion behind me. The loud roar of crashing water echoed throughout the tunnel as a giant crocodile’s maw snapped shut on where I had been A slimy, slitted eye glared at me as it slowly drew away, the snout of the monster pulling away from the smashed wall it had plowed into. It sunk back into the cloudy water, using its short finned front legs to push itself off the ledge. Within seconds, the ripples on the water disappeared and the only thing I could hear was the beat of my heart racing.
Oh. And the redhead girl who was on top of me breathing heavily.
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Ya nai. It’s not like that you guys! Even if she’s got a pretty face with chiseled features and has me pinned down, it’s not like that! Both my hands were held down to the ground above my head. There’s an uncomfortable pain in my left hand which I realized is the pole of her metal spear pressing into it.
It finally registers that she’s been yelling something at me. Ahh, she’s cute even if she’s angry. … Noooooo, it’s not like that! Nothing that she says is anything I can understand though. Dammit, that Focker is so useless. I don’t even have a translation skill as a natural ability, but it would be something I have to learn. I’m not willing to spend my last skill point on that though.
I try to eloquently introduce myself given the circumstances.
“Hi.”
The beautiful girl is perplexed.
Recastdev 