Day 2

You wake up to the second day of your life, thankfully, without being attacked. A good thing too, since your head still ached slightly from where you were hit yesterday.

Though you were peckish again.

[HP: 96%]

[Hunger: Peckish]

Day 2 (3/3)


So, feeling the hunger again, the first thing you did was address the hunger.

Which you did, after a bout of following your instincts to stretch and loosen yourself, by slowly crawling up to one of the more covered branches, one which you knew would hide you from anything looking up from below, before going absolutely still.

Then you waited for something to appear under you, ready to pounce when something did appear.

And soon your wait was over as, below you, a small creature peaks out from some nearby smouldering shrubbery. Then it rushes out from its hiding place and begins to pick at one of the things that fell from the branch of the tree you were in.


You didn't jump immediately, instead taking a moment to observe the creature below you.

It was slightly smaller than you, the first thing you noticed, and seemed to be covered not in scales but something else. Its claws were small, and it didn't seem to possess much strength either, and you also notice that, instead of a tail, there seemed to be a blazing flame coming out of its behind.

A dangerous prey.

At least it would be, if it had noticed your presence. Instead, from what you could see, it was not only completely unaware of your presence but that, as it ate, it had completely exposed the back of its neck. An opportunity that your instincts drove you to pursue.

And they were absolutely correct in doing so as, when you launched yourself down directly at the opening, you were met with a loud crack. After which the thing went limp almost immediately, the flame out of its behind guttering out.

It didn't even get a chance to struggle, and you now had another meal in your den.

[You gained 51 XP]

[You gained: Fire squirrel corpse (restores two hunger states)]

[You reached level 7]

[ (Plus) 1 strength, (Plus) 1 magic]

[HP: 100%]

[Achievement: Giant feller] (Plus) 1 level

Day 2 (2/3)


Not that the new meal remained intact for long, seeing as your stomach gurgled the moment you finished dragging the body back into the tree branches.

So you began tearing into the new flesh with a hard bite.

A bite that lead you to eating half of the whole thing, but only because you instinctively knew that overstuffing yourself was not something you wanted… and the way it stung on the way down made that course of action far more appealing to follow even without your instincts.

[?: 3/10 - 1/10]

[?: 1/5]

[Hunger: Full]

Day 2 (1/3)


Regardless of how much you ate however, you were still full.

Which caused your instincts to rear back up again and, with the day coming to an end and your stomach full, you felt like you had to do something you knew would help make you stronger. Something you felt you needed to do.

You spat balls of sparking flame. Repeatedly.

You spat them at any random things, avoiding the few things your instincts told you were too dangerous, that came remotely near your den. And it was during this spitting spree that you also discovered that you were only able to [Spit fire] a couple of times before a strange sort of exhaustion set in.

Strange in that, while you felt tired, your body still felt like it could move without trouble. It was strange, and took you some time to recover from.

Still, by the time you finally stopped spitting and closed your eyes, to sleep, you did so with your instincts satisfied. Your ability to [spit fire] had, indeed, gotten stronger.

[Spit fire] (Plus) 1 level - [4/10]

Day 2 over


Day 3

Again, you awake to a normal day.

Normal in that you didn't get attacked in your sleep, which was a great thing as far as you were concerned. Almost as great as the satisfaction you felt at your body popping as you tensed all your muscles.

By the time you relaxed them you were fully awake.

[HP: 100%]

[Hunger: Peckish]

Day 3 (3/3)


Fully awake, the first thing you decided to do first thing in the day was to finally explore your surroundings. A thing you just knew was going to be important.

So you set out, crossing ash covered ground and climbing over large roots. Swiftly covering distance far easily than you had before, due in part to your increased strength and in other part to having picked the right direction.

But as you went along, all you really found was more of the same… until suddenly you found yourself falling.

Fortunately the fall wasn't too long, nor did you land on something hard. Instead you seemed to have fallen into a small pool of glowing blue liquid, which you quickly managed to scurry out of to take a look at your surrounding.

Which were far, far different from before as you had somehow found an entrance to a cave full of glowing crystals.

[Hunger: Half-full]


Luckily, you weren't trapped in the caves as, though it took a small while, you managed to find a soft part of the wall which you were able to use, in combination with your claws, to climb out the very hole you fell through.

Though you didn't do so, instead deciding to hunt.

And so, despite already having some food back in your den, you set out to find prey. A task that proves effective almost immediately as you find a prey.

One that is completely unaware of you.


Slowly, you crawl up to it unnoticed. Step by step, until finally your within range and with a moment to aim you spit with all your might a ball of sparks right at it.

The sound manages to attract it's attention, but it's far too late as the ball of sparks hits it squarely in the body and sends it flying into a wall.

Perhaps harder than should be possible, as the impact is hard enough that, despite trying to, it doesn't manage to get up from where it landed. Not that you mind, as you simply decided to walk up to it's prone figure and try to drive your claws into it's body.

Try, because instead of stabbing it your claws simply skid off the first few time. At least until you stab it through the eyes instead, causing it to finally stop the annoying chirping it had started and cause it's colours to fade.

[Claws] (Plus) 1 level - [4/10]

[Spit fire] (Plus) 1 level - [5/10]

[ (Plus) 38 XP]

[You've reached level 8]

[You gained: Crystal bird corpse (restores one hunger states)]

[Gained passive skill: Stealth]

[Hunger: Empty]


It took a few more stabs through the things eye sockets until you were fully satisfied. Then, as you smelt the blood that leaked out of the hole you made in it's eyes it finally hit you how empty your stomach was.

Well, that wasn't that much of a problem seeing as you had something to fill it right in front of you. Even if it wasn't much.

Though, at least the birds death seemed to have made it lose the defence that allowed it to resist your claws allowing you to bite it in half and swallow it in two bites.

[? 1/2]

Unfortunately, the small size of the bird meant that you barely got anything from it, which was why you also ate the leftovers of the lizard upon returning to your den.

[Hunger: Full]

Leaving you full as you closed your eyes and lay in a tangle of branches to sleep.


Day 4

You shot up from your sleep as a distant roars echoed through your den, frantically looking around you in search of the source.

Yet, after a while spent surveying from your perch, all you managed to find were the various other creatures that seemed to running under, and past, your den from a single direction.

A direction that led deeper into the [ash forest].

[Due to going through all hunger states you can track your hunger better]

[Hunger: 4/5 (peckish)]

[King challenge event started]

[Map updated]


The next thing you had to do was obvious and so, hopping down from your den you head into the direction that everything seemed to be running from, despite what your instincts say and…

… you find a lot of nothing, and you keep finding nothing as almost everything on the way seems to be completely abandoned.

Den's, burrows and various other things you expect to be inhabited. All completely empty.

Eventually though, you begin to hear the sound of a familiar roar, accompanied by shrill sounds of things crashing against each other. Which only serves to cause you to speed up to reach the source, until finally you break into an enormous opening and see the source.


Before you are two huge leviathans, so large that you struggle to crane your neck to even see them. Though, unlike what you'd expect, their size didn't mean that they were slow in any way.

No, as you watched the winged one cross the distance between them, slash the other with it's claws and then return to it's original distance, you'd actually say that they were extremely fast.

A speed that was also apparent in their attacks, seeing how quickly the line of fire travelled from the winged ones claw and deflected off the other ones horn directly to-

[Your HP: 58% (Heavily injured)]

You blinked, barely able to breathe as you lay on your back. Finally, after laying there helplessly for a bit, you manage to catch enough of your breath to flip yourself over.

An effort that caused you to nearly go back to unconsciousness, though thankfully you managed to hang onto consciousness.

Once you were steady enough you quickly scurried in the opposite direction of the roar, ignoring the pain radiating from the burns across your form as you did so.


With massive burns across your body and you being nowhere near any of your shelters there was really only one thing you could do. Something you did with as quickly as you could, knowing that you were more or less defenceless out here.

Thankfully you managed to find something relatively quickly, and without too much pain, in the form of a completely empty burrow. One which you only really managed to see due to literally falling into it, and that too only because the last occupant hadn't closed the opening.

It even has some food stored here!

Not that you could really even eat right now, too tired to even stay awake for longer than was needed to close the entrance and note the presence of food. After that, you just collapsed and fell asleep.

Despite the roars you could still hear.


Day 5

You woke in pain, much like how you went to sleep, albeit less than before.

What's more is that you could no longer hear the roars that you'd fell asleep hearing. Whether that'd be good or bad you'll have to see.

Something easier said than done since, when you looked out the den, you could barely see farther than the nearest tree due to the ash in the air.

[HP: 64%]

[Hunger: 2/5 (empty)]

[HP regen stopped]

[Ash fog event started]

Day 5 (3/3)


Looking out, you noted the fact that, what you instinctually knew to be, the ashy fog didn't really seem to hurt you and then turned back to the interior of your den.

You weren't dealing with that now, especially with an empty stomach.

So first thing first, you're going to push as much of the stored meat into your stomach as you possibly can.

[Hunger: 6/5 (Over-stuffed)]

[? 1/10 - 2/10]


It was a while later, after you'd massively reduce the food pile and were barely keeping in the food, that you stopped eating.

Then, feeling a lot better, you decided to sharpen your claws on the walls of the den. You were, after all, still not comfortable going outside in the state you were in and the ashy fog outside.

Which turned out to be a surprisingly good idea as the walls of the burrow seemed to be made of a material particularly good for sharpening your claws, to the point that they were slicing through the material by the time you stopped sharpening them.

You even managed to increase the size of the burrow while doing so, which was very appreciated.

[HP: 67%]

[Claws] (Plus) 1 level - [5/10]


With your claws sharpened, you decide to finish the day by make your only other weapon stronger. Which you did by poking your head out of the dens entrance and shooting any small critters that went by.

By the time the day was over however, you'd strengthened it to a point you didn't really expect to get in that time. To the point that you were actually beginning to singe the trees around the den when you hit them.

As you close your eyes to sleep, you can't help but wonder how much it'll damage your prey.

[Spit fire] (Plus) 3 Level's - [8/10]

[Reptilian regeneration] (Plus) 1 Level - [2/10]

[Hunger 5/5 (Full)]

[HP: 70%]

[Ash fog lessened]


Day 6

You woke up feeling far better than before, most of the burns across you scabbed over. In fact, when you actually got up you found more than a few of those scabs peeled off, not quite painlessly, to reveal freshly formed scale.

Scales that seemed to look stronger than they were before, as well as slightly duller.

[Scale armour] (Plus) 1 Level - [3/10]

[Hunger 4/5 (peckish)]

[HP: 83% (slightly wounded)

[Ash fog (lessened) active]

Day 6 (3/3)


The marked improvement and the restoration of your health seemed to be a good a sign as any for you to go hunting. Which you promptly do.

Specifically, you head towards the crystal caves, still remembering the crystal bird and how relatively easy it was to hunt. Thankfully, you reach the entrance without much effort and no sooner had you entered that you immediately found another crystal bird.

One that, like the previous one, was completely blind to your presence.

[Stealth] (Plus) 1 Level - [2/10]

It all seemed… very familiar.


[Crystal bird slain]

[Achievement: Ambush predator] gained


Unlike the previous time you'd done this, you didn't even need to close in to the bird since it was already in range of your fire spiting attack.

And so, taking a deep breath, you spat at it like you'd done it's predecessor, and just like it's predecessor the attack blasted it back into a wall.

In fact, it might have blasted it back a bit too hard because it seemed to have lost both it's wings upon slamming into it. What's more is that, unlike the last one, it'd also died from that single attack, going dull like the last one had on death.

Not that it mattered much to you, it was still dead after all.

[ (Plus) 24 xp gained]

[Level 8 (80%]

[You gained crystal bird corpse (restores 1 hunger)]

[Hunger 3/5 (half empty)]

[Your HP: 87% Slightly wounded]

Day 6 (2/3)


It was somewhat troublesome to keep the wings and the body of the bird in your mouth as you travelled back, but you managed to do so without dropping either.

Though it was useful once you finally got back to your passion tree den as you didn't have to break it apart with your teeth which, while possible, wasn't too pleasant for your jaws. But as it stood now, all you had to do was swallow the three pieces whole.

[? 1/2 - 2/2]

Then, to fill the last of the emptiness in your stomach, you proceeded to devour the last of the squirrel.

[? 2/5]

And so, with your stomach finally full, you closed your eyes for the day.

[HP: 90% (slightly wounded)]

Day 6 (1/3)


Day 7

When you awoke, it was to the glorious feeling of being fully healed as the last of the dried scabs slid off you. No more did you have the constant ache of the burns.

[HP 100% (healthy)]

And to make it even better, you noticed that your scale were noticeably thicker and seemed to have a new shine to them.

[Ash fog finished]
[Hunger 5/5 (full)]

Day 7 (3/3)


With your newly strengthened scales and the ash fog cleared out you decided that the first thing you'd do was hunt, so you set out to stalk the forest around you.

And stalk you did, climbing silently from tree to tree, until you finally found what seemed to be a particularly good prey.

Or rather preys, as you saw the two things below you nipping and chasing each other.


Slowly you edge closer to where they were until you were just above them, and then you wait for the right time. Something that arrives almost immediately as one of the two passes right beneath you.

Immediately you leap from your place in the trees, claws extended, and land on the back of the one beneath you. Your claws dug deep into it's shoulder.

Though they don't stay there for long as you pull them out to slice at the other one, which had tried to leap at you, sending it tumbling aside while leaving an eye behind. An eye you end up having to shake off from where it's skewered on your claw.

Unfortunately, during the few scant moments you take to do so you had momentarily forgotten the creature that you had jumped on. Something that it didn't seem to appreciate.

And as a testament to that lack of appreciation you found yourself being pushed over, despite your efforts, and once you had you back on it, now above you, went for your lower underside…

Which ended up being useless anyways, seeing as it's fangs just skidded off your newly strengthened scales, and resulted in it getting your back claw to it's body that managed to hurt it quite badly, at least judging by the way it sunk into it's body with a sharp crack.

But before you had the chance to capitalize on that you were tackled off the nearly dead creature below you by the other one, which had collected itself from your previous, devastating, blow.

But you simply ignore it's pathetic attempts to pierce your scales.

Instead you focus on your previous quarry, which had taken the chance to try to limp away from the fight, and begin to aim and prepare to [spit fire].

Which turned out to be a mistake.


One moment, you were breathing in and pooling saliva into your mouth in preparation for a spit, and the next, a powerful impact to the underside of your maw sends stars across your vision and causes your own fiery saliva to burn your entire face as you feel something piercing into your neck.

Fortunately, your blind thrashing is enough put a stop to that. At least long enough for you to get most of the saliva off your face and be able to see who nearly killed you.

Which turns out to be the very enemy you'd ignored and deemed to be not dangerous. You narrow your eye, the action sending twinges of pain across your face due to the burns, as it growls pathetically at you. Then you notice that the one you'd targeted with your fire spit had managed to get away, causing you to let out a huff in rage.

Without hesitation you rush towards the pathetic thing in front of you, bowling through any defences it tries to put up, and ram it straight into a tree before letting it fall limply onto the ground.

Not satisfied with just that, you don't even let it hit the ground before your claws tear towards it's exposed underbelly and, after briefly getting your claw stuck in a soft fleshy bit, tear it open to spill it's content all over the floor. Only then do you back off and look at it again.

Somehow, it was still alive, even making annoying high-pitched sounds as it lay there.

Something which only managed to annoy you. But not to the point where you wasted time letting it continue suffering.

[? lowered]

Instead you just ended it by jamming one of your claws into it's already empty eye socket and twisting until it stopped.


[you gained 49 XP]

[You reached level 10]

[ (Plus) 1 strength, (Plus) 1 magic]

[ (Plus) 1 to all stats]

[Claws] (Plus) 2 Level's - [7/10]

[Claw combat] (Plus) 1 Level - [2/10]

[You gained fire pup's corpse (refills 3 hunger)]

Day 7 (2/3)

[Health: 65% (Wounded)]

[Hunger: 4/5 (peckish)]


Here you were again, wounded significantly and with a meal in front of you, and again you weren't going to eat.

This time however, it wasn't due to sleep. No, nothing as small as that.

This time it was to finish what you started and so, after dragging your current meal to the den and coming back, you began tracking the one that escaped you.

And despite your complete inexperience in it you managed to find her relatively quickly.

Though that could likely be attributed to the horrendous job it did getting away. That and the fact that it was just lying there in the open when you found it, barely conscious enough to try to growl at you.

Which you replied to by holding it's head down and spitting fire in it's face until it stopped moving.

[You get 35 XP]

[You reached level 11]

[Spit fire] (Plus) 1 Level - [9/10]

[You gained another fire pup's corpse (refills 3 hunger)]

Day 7 (1/3)

[Health: 68% (Wounded)]

[Hunger: 3/5 (half-empty)]


Dragging the runner in your jaws you felt great, feeling the satisfaction from finishing a hunt.

You felt even better when you got back to your den and began ripping apart it's flesh and scarfing it down. Forcing every little bit down your gullet, until finally your stomach was filled to the very brim and nothing was left but a couple of scraps and bones.

[? 4/5]

[Hunger: 6/5 (overstuffed)]

Which you got rid of quickly, before making yourself as comfortable as you can and going to sleep

[HP 71% (wounded)]


Day 8

You woke up, once again, covered in dried scabs. But unlike before, these required you to scrape them off with your claws which, while painful, resulted in your feeling far better than before.

[HP: 84% (slightly injured)]

With that done you began to survey your surroundings, noting the increase in the ambient sounds of the forest.

[Bounty rush event started]

[Hunger: 6/5 (over-stuffed)]

Day 8 (3/3)


Deciding not to try too hard for the day you simply move into the familiar ambush spot and wait for something to arrive below you.

And below you something arrives… before immediately getting pounced on, and killed by, another creature.

But in the end it didn't really matter if the thing beneath you had just been ambushed, it didn't stop you from leaping at them with your claws poised at vitals.

It did, however, mean that you found yourself slamming into the ground instead, seeing as the creature had managed to avoid your pounce. Which ultimately didn't matter as the creature just stood there and made sounds at you instead of actual attacking you.

Not that you minded, particularly when it allowed you rake your claws quickly across the, uncomfortably hot, flesh of it's face.

And apparently that turned out to be enough to cause the thing to try and turn to run, full presenting you the it's tail. A tail you pierced with your claw and used to pull it back towards you.

After that it was just a matter of finishing it, which you swiftly did with a standard claw to the eye socket, and move it and the thing it'd ambushed into your den.

[You gained fire cat corpse (refill 3 hunger)]

[You gained squirrel corpse (refill 2 hunger)]

[Hunger: 5/5 (full)]

[You gained 33 XP]

[HP: 86% (slightly wounded)]

[Claws] (Plus) 1 Level - [8/10]

[Claw combat] (Plus) 1 Level - [3/10]

Day 8 (2/3)


Once you'd ensured that the, now no longer burning corpse, wasn't going to slip off you looked down at claw. The same claw that you'd used to end the creature, the one that had resisted it's burning pelt.

You knew that it was only because of your scales that you had taken no damage from that, and that you'd likely need to improve the protection they provided for any future encounter. Especially because of how often you get really badly hurt. Fortunately, you knew exactly how to do so.

First, you climb to the very top of your den. Something you do with great ease and rapidity.

Secondly, you find just the right spot on the ground below.

Then you leap straight off and try to hit that spot, which turned out to be just hard enough to rattle you but soft enough to not actually hurt you.

Then you repeat it again, and again, and again.

By the time you finish you are, decidedly, very rattled, but the results speak for themseLeveles. You barely even feel the impact the last few times.

[Crystal-lined scale armour] (Plus) 2 Level's - [5/10]

[Hunger: 4/5 (peckish)]

[Achievement: Sweat today] gained

[HP: 89% (slightly injured)]

Day 8 (1/3)


[Crit used]

Taking a couple moments to recover from the strain of repeated landings you proceed to the next thing to improve, as much as you didn't want to.

Because while your scales would protect you from it, they couldn't protect you from anything. Something made abundantly clear by the amount of damage you'd taken from just being relatively near the battle between the two leviathans.

Which was why you needed to improve your ability to recover from damage, in case something like that happened again.

And as it just so happened, your instincts also told you how to do that. It's just going to be incredibly painful.

But needs must, and so you go look for what you need and quickly find it.

A grotto filled to the brim with green tinged razor sharp rocks.

Reluctantly, you walked up to the wall and, after internally bracing yourself, began scraping yourself against it, hissing as the things dug shallow furrows through scale and into flesh.

Only for the furrows to rapidly, and quite painfully, begin closing when you stepped away from the wall. A few moments later all that was left was a scratch in your scales and a dull throb of pain.

Then you did it again.

By the time you were back in your den to sleep, you'd begun to feel phantom pains all across your sides.

[Reptilian regeneration] (Plus) 3 Level's - [5/10]

[HP: 81% (slightly injured)]

[Hunger: 3/5 (Half empty)]


Day 9

You woke up with your sides still throbbing in pain, despite most of the scratches from yesterday being gone.

[Hunger: 2/5 (empty)]

[HP: 97% (slightly injured)]

Day 9 (3/3)


The first thing you do is eat one of the multiple meals you have stored, specifically you quickly devour the partner of the pair you'd killed two days ago. Which is more than enough to leave you comfortably full.

What's more is that the burn as it goes down is far mellower this time.

[? 5/5]

Over all a great meal, one that you feel great by the end of.

[Hunger: 5/5 (full)]

[HP: 100% (healthy)]

Day 9 (2/3)


So, with your stomach full, the phantom pains gone, mood high and your health fully restored you decide that now's the perfect time to continue were you left off yesterday.

And apparently experience, or your good mood, made the whole experience much better as by the time you left the grotto you barely had some aches in your side. You didn't even have scratches on your scales like yesterday.

Although, that last part was likely due to your rapidly improving recovery ability. Which is still a great thing.

[You take no health damage]

[Reptilian regeneration] (Plus) 2 Level's - [7/10]

[Achievement: Hard to keep down] Gained

Day 9 (1/3)


It doesn't take you long to return from the grotto and climb into your den, and once you do you go and perch on a familiar tangle of branches.

It was time to wait for prey to walk into your ambush, which it eventually does.

But it's unlike anything you've ever seen.


For one, it's just sitting there on the branch.

Right. In. Front. Of. You.

It's not attacking you, it's not running from you. Even when you raise a claw to attack it, it does nothing.

Maybe it's friendly?

Yeah, that seems possible. Maybe you should share some of your food with, since it's soo friendly. Maybe you'd even let it crawl onto your head.

Yeah, maybe- wait, no. Why would you do that?

instinctively, you smack the thing away from you with all your strength, sending the thing messing with your mind crashing into the ground, and quickly jump after it.

Only to realize that maybe you shouldn't kill it. After all, it hadn't attacked you at all and you don't attack things that don't attack you first- yes you do.

With a splat, you crush half the thing under your claw, causing it to let out a spray of brightly glowing fluids. Then, with it finally dead, you look at it again and question what you should do with it.

Do you store it, or eat it now?

It's small enough that it won't even come close to filling your stomach so there's no point in doing either… but you could.


Well, no matter how small it was, it was still food and so you quickly popped the thing into your maw. before licking your claws clean.

Then you went to sleep.

[? 6/6 altered]

[You gained 147 xp]

[Level 14 reached]

[ (Plus) 1 strength, (Plus) 1 magic]

[ (Plus) 1 Agility for repeated successful ambushes]

[Achievement: giant feller] (Plus) 1