Reagan woke up from his slumber, he crawled out fo his hidey-hole feeling much better then he had before he slept. He felt awkward though, most likely due to the fact that he had grown to almost double his previous size. He started to roam around looking for something to fight as he was now full health, and on that note decided to check his status again.

Reagan lvl 3

Current health: 120/120

Species: Odontodactylus Scyllarus Titles: hunter of the weak Strength:30   Dexterity:17   Toughness:13   Intelligence:40   Wisdom:10

Reagan didn't really feel that he deserved such a title, nevertheless, he inspected it.

Hunter of the weak: increases all stats by +5 while fighting a creature that is physically weaker than the user.

It was after inspecting this that Reagan had the following realization: if creatures that were defeated were immediately digested then why did that baby barracuda have stomach acid? There should be no reason for it to have to digest stuff in the first place so why would it have that feature? It didn't matter though, no matter how much Reagan wanted to think about it he just couldn't think of a feasible answer other than whoever created this world forgot that it wouldn't need to digest it's food and wanted to add a sense of struggle to the fight and had only realized their blunder while writing the next chapter the system had finally activated.

Reagan continued to roam around for another hour before he found another baby barracuda to attack, now knowing that being swallowed wasn't the best idea he now attempted a new strategy. He threw the first two punches at the fish before it realized what happened and then leaped onto the fish and kept itself on it using his legs to dig into the skin using Reagan's high strength stat to keep Reagan on board. After that Reagan punched the poor baby until it died, taking around 10 or so seconds before he got the notification.

You have slain baby barracuda (minor) lvl 1 and gained 20 exp, 40% exp left to reach level 4

Reagan didn't know why the barracuda had the "minor" tag on it but knew that inspecting it would yield no results. He continued to roam around beat up the small barracudas in order to finally reach level 3, upon doing so he felt the growing pain he had felt the first time, but it was a lot less painful then it had been the first time, which Reagan attributed to having only leveled up once instead of having leveled up twice the first time he killed one. he had already done the math and if he was correct leveling up gave him +4 strength +2 dexterity and +3 toughness due to the passive that was called "calamity of nature" and although this name sounded scary it was actually a very detrimental skill. He would never be able to invest or buy skills using his skill points because Calamity of Nature would eat his points for size.

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No use crying over spilled milk though, all Reagan wanted to do was calculate how much he grew per level, but in order to do this he would actually require something that he could compare his size to, and because of this he decided to just keep roaming. He killed every baby fish he came across, most of them were not smart or fast enough to deal with Reagan's strategy.

It was an hour later that Reagan realized a serious flaw in his attack power, he was almost completely defenseless from the back and was currently suffering the consequences. Reagan had run into a fish that was much bigger then the other baby barracudas, if he had to guess then this would be a teenager barracuda. Although the stats did not change much physically the teenager barracuda was supposed to be much smarter and faster than his baby counterparts, as it was about five times Reagan's size he decided to leave it alone for the moment and keep hunting tiny fish.

Reagan had attacked and killed 3 BBs ( his new nickname for the baby barracudas) before he got a notification.

You have leveled up

A new passive skill has been unlocked: Ambush

Reagan immediately inspected it

Ambush: surprise attack bonuses are increased

It was very simple but overall was incredibly good. Reagan's current punches dealt 14 damage and the surprise attack bonus was 100% extra physical damage basically doubling his damage. Adding anything to this amount would be incredibly useful for hunting. After killing another fish Reagan reached level four and the growing pains he had worsened for the moment. He decided that he should get to sleep so that he could be at the top of his game for hunting.

While he was burrowing in the sand he gained a new passive skill.

New passive skill unlocked: Patience lvl1

He quickly inspected it before he drifted to sleep.

Patience lvl 1: increases the user's patience by 1 per level this skill gains, as long as the user is acting patient passive experience will be added to this skill.