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Chapter 3: Rinse and repeat

Chapter 3: Rinse and repeat

After killing the wolf I started to remove its skin making A small hole. I take out some meat and we start eating it up on the tree. after finishing our meal we quietly wait. A bear appears it's size was about 39 inches big. We just let it eat we couldn't do anything against a bear they have a strong jaw and a strong body. After it finished eating it left, the only thing the bear didn't eat was the meat on the bones of the wolf.

Waiting another hour there were 3 foxes all looked to be adults all about 25 inches. That's strange foxes in my world hunted alone I think we can take them on. I look back at Alexis who is just cleaning her........self. I signal my attack which is basically me in a pouncing position and my tail lightly thumping the tree branch. Alexis just see's me and stops and get's ready. the wolfs and eating the left over's the bear left.

I first attack the one that seems to be leading them. Sticking my nails on its back and biting it's lower neck hoping I'd hit a vital spot. Alexis dose the same she learns quite fast. The fox's skin doesn't have much resistance so the fox fell still struggling for life I look back and see the third one is trying to escape while Alexis is still biting the the already half fox she attacked. I run behind him and do the same attack i usually do ending its life.

We dragged the dead bodies back to the river and hop back on the tree. I check my status nothing has changed we might need to kill stronger animals to level up. As we wait for another another few hours the sun went down and the moon was already up. It was a full moon so it wasn't too difficult to see. Another bear appeared this time it was 52-54 inches big. If I didn't push myself i won't get stronger. So i decided to attack I look back at the now sleeping Alexis I didn't want to drag her into this fight because i'm not sure I can deflate it, and it'll be harder to escape if Alexis is with me.

I wait for the bear to drop its guard and I pounced on its back and used ri-chomp biting the side of its neck. The bear Rolled over trying to squish me with its weight. I jumped off its back and seeing his neck wide open I use another ri-chomp on the side of its neck going a little deeper this time. The attack didn't pierce too deep into its skin there was too much muscle.  The Bear swings its paws at full force only missing me by a hair. It then gets back on its feet and roared at me while charging. I check my surrounding and see a tree I run towards it with the bear in full pursuit of me. I jump to the tree using it to do a backflip and landing on the bear's back I use another ri-chomp on the same exact spot as before, My nails teeth went deeper this time I could feel blood dripping. The bear roll's over again I dodge then  pounced and bit the side of its neck blood started gushing out. I backed off of it waiting for it to pass away. The bear slowly stopped its struggling and it's breathing stopped.

At this moment I asked myself why did I want to get stronger was It just because of my past life. I look back at the tree we've been sleeping in remembering me of my past life. I bit the bear and started pulling it to the pile of dead animals using its dead body for a workout, Can't say i didn't do worse things in my past life. I understood nature's law because I once lived in the wild. After the struggle of pulling the bear I was too worn out and curled up next to the now awake Alexis and slept for the night.

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Ah~ That was a nice nap no animals seem'ed to come after the bear. After last night's workout i'm sure I've gotten stronger. Ill check.

[ Status ]

[ Level ][ 2 ]

[ Health ][ 5/5 ]

[ Mana ][ 0/0 ]

[ strength ][ 8 ]

[ Dexterity ][ 7 ]

[ intelligence ][ ? ]

Oh! Im level 2 now. I have a theory of how it works, after adding my health, strength and dexterity they add up to 20. Right now I'm pretty sure I can kill a human. My claws are stronger and i'm a lot faster than before. It's just been two day in just the outskirts of the forest. After reaching level 2 I could feel myself become stronger I'm pretty sure I can kill a bear with 2 bites to the neck. I've been over estimating the bear's, but if it were a more intelligent animal with the bear strength I don't think I could handle it, if it wasn't for my intelligence and experience i'd still be eating out of the garbage.

Speaking of which here comes a pack of wolves, 3 adult wolves and two small ones. I'll attack the adult wolves and leave the young ones to Alexis. Oh wait! she's just a cat she wouldn't understand and I can use this as an opportunity to train her. All she does is use ri-chomp she need experience. So i'll kill off the pups and and one of the adults, and let her fight the two others i'll let her get some injuries but save her when she needs it. The wolf's seemed really intelligent 2 adults were walking in the front scouting, the pups were in the center and an adult behind them. The scouts and the pups started eating while the other wolf stayed on guard. So we won't be able to catch them off guard, doesn't  matter i'll just have to finish him off before he can sigle that there is danger.

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I take a look back at Alexis who is licking her...... Cleaning herself. didn't signal an attack so she's just relaxing. I jump from the tree using it as my cover so the wolf that is garding won't see me. I get closer to him using the shrubs to hide me I move silently not even the grass beneath my feet making a sound. I jump up at the guard wolf biting into his throat, he just went limp and fell to his death. But the two adult wolves smelled the scent of blood. As the two adults turned their heads to look at the dead adult wolf I pass them and finish the two pups. They turn their heads back to me before Alexis jumps on one of the wolves backs biting into the side of its neck. The other wolf ignored me and went to attack Alexis I got ready to pounce if needed. Alexis surprisingly let go of the wolf she was bitting into and rammed into the other wolf then she proceeded to bite its neck killing it. The other wolf was losing blood from its neck but it wasn't going down without a fight, it charged at Alexis but Alexis wasn't paying attention to her surrounding I pounced at the wolf killing it half an inch away from Alexis hoping she would learn from this. Alexis looks back at me and starts licking my face like my mother would is this praise?. We dragged the wolves I say we but I made Alexis do it as punishment.

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After a while of thinking I came up with a training regiment it consisted of running, jumping and attacking animals and trees. It might sound simple but I don't think cat's can do push ups or any other form of training. I jump off the tree and Alexis just follows behind me I swear this cat is so loyal it's scary, cats in my world were just lazy and slept all day and ate garbage just like mother. I take another look at Alexis before I start running I kept going faster and faster trying to see if she could keep up with me. I've been using Alexis as a cushion for my head so I can't just leave her behind.

While we run I jump on a tree and I look back to check on Alexis who is following behind. Now we start the jumping training I jump from tree to tree while Alexis just followed silently. I was getting pretty exhausted I could see Alexis slowing down so we stopped for a rest. After catching our breaths we drank some water from the river we made our way back the same way we came. After a short nap on our tree I felt refreshed and checked on my status. 

[ Status ]

[ Level ][ 2 ]

[ Health ][ 5/5 ]

[ Mana ][ 0/0 ]

[ strength ][ 8 ]

[ Dexterity ][ 8 ]

[ intelligence ][ ? ]

So just my dexterity changed I need to find a way to do strength training If I don't this corpse pile will keep increasing. After pondering on it for a while i came up with an Idea. It was dark out Alexis was awake I nudge her and hop down from the tree and start running in the direction of the city. She follows behind when we made it out of the forest I could see the city It was round and quite big I think from my view it was big. We ran on the flat grass lands till we reached the city. we reached quite early I didn't want to come in at night so the we would stick out for the guards to shoo us. It really felt weird worry about something like that. So I just took a cat nap on the grass outside the city gates, this was one of the things I like about being a cat I could sleep whenever I wanted.

When the sun came up I saw a fancy carriage making it's way in I smack the sleeping Alexis and run towards the wagon. I got under the the carriage using it as cover to get into the city Alexis just follows as usual. We got into the city first thing i did was go to the alleyway I lived in to check on mother.

I got to the alleyway I couldn't find mother. Her scent was gone but there i checked all the sewers, she wasn't there either. She must of left to another area of the city. Ill give up on the search for now and continue on with the plan.

Alexis and I walked till we got to the adventurer's guild. Yes i'm gonna become an adventurer, the adventurers guild was made of stone like much of the city buildings, It was two stories high and had big open doors. I stroll into the building with Alexis walking behind me, the guards looking at us from the corners of their eyes not knowing if they should shoo us. The inside of the guild there was a bar with wooden tables and chairs. There were stairs going up but i wasn't interested in that I put my eyes on the teller.

I walked to the teller and jumped on the table, It was a woman who looked to be in her 20's she had white skin and light brown hair. When she saw us from behind the glass window her head tilted in confusion.

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AN: This took me so long to write please comment and tell me your thoughts :)

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