Feeling the murderous gazes of other players, his feathers ruffle slightly.
The players are stunned to see a large black bird suddenly arrive and steal their prey.
"Kill that bird!"
One player yells loudly.
"Maintain your positions!" A white-haired man who seems to be the team leader shouts, "Ignore the bird for now. If we deal with it now, our formation will become vulnerable and collapse!"
Hearing the white-haired man, the other members nod and agree.
Seeing that he's safe for now, Venix grips the Gray Wolf's body tightly.
Then Venix rapidly flaps both of his wings up and down.
Flap ~ Flap ~
In a short amount of time, Venix has flown up, carrying the Gray Wolf's carcass with his feet.
The players can only watch as the Black Bird carries their prey away.
"Phew ~ Thankfully, they didn't attack me." Venix feels fortunate.
If the players had attacked him, there would have been a 99% chance he would die.
Venix had already learned the strengths and weaknesses of his bird's body when he was learning to fly earlier.
The strongest parts of his body are his bird's beak, wings, and legs.
For the other parts of his body, they have weak resistance.
That's why, in a previous attack, Venix's bird neck was easily severed.
The gray wolf's body isn't too heavy.
With the strength of his wings, Venix can carry the gray wolf's body in the air.
Slowly, Venix departs and leaves the scene.
After flying for a few minutes, Venix finds a safe spot.
Then Venix flies lower and carefully drops the Gray Wolf's carcass from both of his legs.
Thud ~
The wolf's body falls to the ground.
After a while, Venix also lands on the ground.
"I hope they think I'm just a regular creature, not a player." Venix says, as he walks closer to the wolf's body.
From the game information, Venix knows that to get the loot, a player must touch the creature's corpse and press the extract button from the system interface.
Venix touches the Gray Wolf's body with his bird's beak and is about to press the extract button.
Suddenly, a system notification appears in front of him.
[ Ability
"Eh?" Venix has a confused look in his eyes.
He clearly remembers that he doesn't have the
"Is this a hidden ability?" Venix thinks in his mind.
Curious, Venix opens the settings and searches for the Pain Level feature.
Right now, the Pain Level is at 0%.
"Raising it a bit won't hurt," says Venix.
Then he increases the Pain Level to 20%.
Instantly, Venix feels a significantly clearer and heightened body sensation. The most notable thing is that Venix senses his own body far more distinctly.
"Could this be what the game intended?" Venix guesses.
The game developers stated that the Pain Level could bring a much more realistic experience to players. An example is that Venix feels the blood flowing inside his body.
"Let's think about that later; first, let's see what this
Then Venix uses his beak again to touch the Gray Wolf's body.
The system notification appears again.
[ Ability
"Is 20% not enough?" Venix opens the settings again and increases his Pain Level.
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[ Ability
Venix furrows his brow, increasing his Pain Level again.
[ Ability
"Is 50% Pain Level not enough?" Venix finds this ability confusing.
With confidence and bravery, Venix instantly increases his Pain Level to 90%!
Whooossshh ~
In an instant, Venix seems to have directly entered the game.
The beating of his heart, the slight movements around him, and other minor details, he can truly feel them!
If there were no system interface and game exit menu in front of him, Venix would genuinely be confused as to whether this is the real or virtual world.
"This... is too terrifying..." Venix shivers slightly.
However, the most crucial thing is to test if the
Venix touches the Gray Wolf's body with his beak again.
Instantly, Venix feels a mysterious power flowing through his bird's beak, emitting a dark red aura.
[ Ability
Suddenly, Venix's beak opens, and he devours the Gray Wolf's body into his mouth!
"Uhhh... This taste is so bad!" Venix can genuinely taste the dead wolf's body in his mouth.
As Venix prepares for the worst, thinking he will swallow the wolf's body and experience the unpleasant taste, suddenly the wolf's body starts shrinking slowly and transforms into a bunch of energy that enters Venix's body.
A refreshing and comfortable feeling emanates from inside his body.
Suddenly, Venix feels something moving inside his body.
Crack ~ Crack ~
The sounds of bones and cells moving within his body can be heard inside Venix's mind.
"Ahhhh ~ "
Venix uses both of his bird wings to hold his head.
His bird body collapses in a kneeling position.
Venix genuinely experiences a level of pain like he‘s never felt in the real world.
"I'm dying ~ I'm dying ~ " Venix's bird eyes feel like they're about to pop out.
Fortunately, the painful feeling only lasts for 5 seconds before gradually fading away.
Venix slowly gets up from his kneeling position, panting.
"Damn it! This ability is pure torture!" Venix curses his new ability bitterly.
Venix stands up slowly and composes himself.
After the painful experience, Venix feels that his bird's body is much fresher and more comfortable than before. In fact, Venix senses a certain improvement in his bird's body.
"This..." Venix thinks deeply.
Does this mean he can become stronger with the Devour ability?
[ Player Obtains 100 Exp ]
"Eh? I got Exp too?" Venix is surprised.
Then Venix opens his profile and checks his experience points.
[ Experience: 100/100 ]
Venix remembers that he got 300 Exp from killing the wolf and 100 Exp from using Devour.
Seeing his Exp points can't exceed 100, Venix truly wants to cry.
"If I'd known, I would have leveled up first!" Venix says in frustration.
He wasted some points!
"Never mind, it's all in the past. Now I need to level up." Venix regains his spirit.
"Level up!" Venix commands the system to level up.
In his game's basic information, when a player levels up, their consciousness is brought to the character's consciousness space, and they use their available power to break through the illusionary gate.
Venix is also curious about this leveling experience.
After Venix chooses to level up, his black bird's body emits a dim blue light.
With a 90% Pain Level, Venix can truly feel everything clearly!
"Come on, bring it!"
Venix impatiently wants to experience the sensation of leveling up in this game!
"Kroak ~ "
Venix unconsciously yells as he experiences an indescribable sensation when leveling up.
Venix raises his head high in the sky and genuinely wants to scream!
"Kroak ~ "
Venix feels a warm, gentle, and comforting feeling after an energy unites within his body, having successfully merged with it.
"Eh? Wait!" Venix feels the feeling of power enveloping his body disappear.
Venix opens his profile and checks his information.
He's now at level 2!
His Experience points have changed to 0/200!
Seeing that he had already reached level 2, Venix was truly stunned!
"Does this game have so many bugs!?" Venix complained again.
From the beginning of the game until now, Venix seemed to encounter various bugs within the game.
However, the results remained positive and not bad. At the very least, he managed to level up.
"It seems like leveling up experience needs to be postponed," Venix sighed.
The game's information indicated that leveling up would be a challenge for players.
"Despite being a bug, if it persists, it could become an advantage for me," Venix thought in his mind.
Then, Venix opened the settings and lowered the Pain level back to 0%.
Instantly, Venix felt like his soul was not fully integrated with this bird character anymore.
"Hey, that's a world of difference..." Venix felt the difference very clearly when he lowered the pain level to 0%.
Then, looking at the time, nearly 3 hours had passed since the global server opened.
"I need to catch up with other players' levels and hunt harder!" Venix thought in his mind.
Venix spread his bird's wings and flew into the sky, searching for new prey.
The forest was extensive, and in reality, there wasn't much prey left for other players to hunt. Everyone was competing for prey to level up faster and leave other players behind.
Venix circled the forest from the sky for 10 minutes.
On average, the animals he found had a group of more than 6 animals.
Venix wasn't confident in his abilities, even when in human form.
Especially now he was in the form of a Black Bird. He had no experience using this character for combat.
After searching a bit deeper into the forest, Venix's luck finally came!
He saw a group of three Wild Boars wandering in the middle of the forest.
These Wild Boars were at Level 4, while the Gray Wolves he encountered earlier were at Level 7.
"Prey found, but how should I attack them?" Venix thought in his mind.
Previously, he used the
But these Wild Boars were different. They were healthy and alert.
If he attacked with
The
If he failed, Venix's attack would hit the ground, and it would give the three Wild Boars a chance to attack him together until he died.
"
With that plan in mind, Venix started to fly lower, approaching the group of Wild Boars.
The three Wild Boars were walking around in the area, and Venix kept flying lower to be able to suddenly attack one of the Wild Boars.
Finally, one of the Wild Boars moved slightly away from the other two Wild Boars.
"Now!" Venix thought.
Then Venix maneuvered his bird's body to dive down, and when he was within two meters of the Wild Boar, he assumed a bird's pose, landing with his claws wide open.
"Destroy him!" Venix thought as his claws on his legs began to grip harder on the Wild Boar's back.
"Destroy him!" Venix shouted in his mind as his claws on his legs began to grip harder on the Wild Boar's back.
Scraaaatch ~ Scraaaatch ~
Venix felt that his claws couldn't penetrate the defense of this Wild Boar's back!
"Darn! Normal attacks can't penetrate his body!?" Venix was surprised.
Venix didn't know, which explained why most players struggled when dealing with the Animals in this game.
Normal attacks couldn't penetrate the defense of the Animals in this game, unless they had a powerful weapon.
Only energy attacks or special Skills could penetrate the defense of the Animals in this game.
While Venix was still trying to penetrate the defense of this Wild Boar, he was distracted and unaware that the other Wild Boars were moving, using their heads to attack Venix.
Bang!
Venix's vision shook as his body was attacked by the Wild Boar, and he was thrown to the side, falling from the back of the Wild Boar.
Stabilizing his body, Venix quickly flapped his wings, flying into the sky, fleeing from the three Wild Boars targeting him.
Upon reaching the sky, Venix landed on one of the tree branches with difficulty.
"Darn, I was careless! And also, the
Venix tried to move his right wing up and down.
His right wing had received the brunt of the previous Wild Boar's attack. Now, Venix felt that the movement of his right wing was not as synchronized with his thoughts.
How to put it, it was like Venix was issuing a 100% command to a body part, but only 80% of the command was executed.
His right wing appeared to have suffered a nerve malfunction, making it difficult to control fully.
"The right wing is still functional and doesn't significantly impact my mobility," Venix thought in his mind. "How can I use Skill or energy attacks?"
Venix recalled the information he had read about this game on the internet.
This game offered a different gaming experience. Players controlled the energy within their character's body to engage in combat and use Skills.
So in this game, most features were controlled personally by the players.
"But... I haven't even learned how to use Skill in the white room! And I can't even sense the energy in my body!" Venix felt his inadequacy.
Thinking about this, Venix recalled the sensation of a 90% pain level from earlier.
"Do I need to use the pain feature to activate a Skill?" Venix thought further.
Then, Venix opened the settings and raised his pain level to 20%.
Instantly, the realistic sensation began to return, and Venix became more attuned to his character's body.
Venix didn't want to use the maximum pain level for this. After all, he would be fighting with this 20% pain level against the three Wild Boars.
Then, Venix closed his eyes and tried to feel the energy flowing within his body.
After Venix focused on feeling his own body, he truly felt the energy flowing within him!
"Found it!" Venix exclaimed excitedly.
Then Venix recalled when the
Venix tried to direct the energy to his legs and claws.
Unexpectedly, controlling the energy within his body wasn't so difficult once he felt it directly!
Then, Venix's clawed feet suddenly transformed and emitted a fresh red aura between his claws.
[
Seeing the system notification, Venix became excited!