Day 5
It has been about an hour since I woke up. My evolution to a one tailed Kitsune was fascinating. Well… to me at least. To start off with, my body was larger. Now, I was about the size of an average fox. My appearance became closer to a fox as well with my mouth starting to stretch out.
Also, it seems that I have some sort of high regenerative power. Upon waking up, my broken front leg was healed with my HP bar being full. In this world, it seems that sleeping and eating helps increase your HP.
It also seems that the HP bar do not decrease at a constant rate. Take for instance if someone punches your arm, your HP will decrease. But after continuously getting hit, you will reach a point where your HP won’t decrease anymore as the blow isn’t deadly. This showed that the HP bar tells you how injured a person is and how close to death they are. Hitting 0 on your HP bar means instant death. This information became apparent to me after toying with my breakfast which consisted of vampire bats.
My body growth did not make me feel any discomfort at all. Growing bigger at such a fast rate felt as natural as breathing. I also did not feel any muscular strains. The only difference was that I felt stronger and faster. As if I can accomplish things that were physically impossible in my previous form.
I also consider the third room as my safe haven. The rocky like room which was basically a cave had food and shelter. I had already found the door that lead to the next room but I’m still preparing myself. My encounter with the hippo had left a distinct mark in my memory. It was because I tried to explore unprepared that I almost faced my death.
This place also feels awfully similar to dungeons from the video game I played. The hippo seemed similar to a boss. Perhaps the only way out of here is defeating the final boss. Either way, I had decided that I would train, make myself stronger before heading to the fourth room.
With that in mind, I went about testing my physical limits while hunting vampire bats whenever I felt hungry.
***
Day 6
I barely managed to wake up, half asleep. I had spent the whole day yesterday running on all fours. I had found out that my current body structure had many limitations. As a four legged creature, I am definitely more agile and faster than a human being. But my only weapons are my claws and fangs. Getting close to an enemy with a frontal attack is suicidal as my only defense are my fur and skin. I would need to rely on ambushes to defeat strong foes.
After waking up, I went to hunt a couple of vampire bats for breakfast.
***
I made a discovery on my new ability. I had been wondering what the window which showed “Ability – Shadow Control” meant. To be honest, I tried saying embarrassing sentences in my head yesterday after waking up. But those efforts were futile.
I had accidentally slipped and fell into the cave’s shadow while chasing after vampire bats. It took me to a whole new world. The place was pitch black with nothing other than me being inside. It was similar to the void I was in after dying. There was a screen that showed the outside world as well. The exact image of where I was before. I was confused at first but eventually realized that I could enter shadows.
Being inside a shadow felt really surreal. It awoken my chunnibyou and I was seriously hyped for gaining such a cool ability.
After testing it more, I found out that hiding in my own shadow was different from hiding in other shadows. If I hid in my shadow, the screen that showed the outside world did not move at all. Which means that my shadow does not change in size nor move when I’m in it. While if I enter the shadow of a flame that is constantly dancing, the screen keeps moving to fit the size of the flame’s shadow at the given time.
If I entered a large shadow, I could travel from within and exit depending on where I leave on the screen. It made hunting vampire bats easier as I could enter the shadow of the cave before exiting from the ceiling where majority of the bats resided.
When I tried exiting the celling for the first time, I fell face first on the ground without catching any vampire bats. I nearly broke my pointy mouth.
But my Shadow Control was most useful as an infinite item storage. Or an adventurers backpack from video games. After discovering that, I’ve confirmed that my ability was most definitely a cheat.
This meant that I could store things within my own shadow, which allows me to take things out at any given moment in time. I could store the vampire bats I hunt into it which would act as my food supply. But most importantly I could store as many thing as I wanted too and would not need to worry about carrying heavy objects.
The only downside to my ability was that staying in shadows costs mana. I’ve not reached 0 mana while hiding in the shadow yet. I do not want to know the downside of such a powerful ability.
I was excited to test out my ability in future battles. After hunting more vampire bats and eating dinner, I went to sleep.
***
Day 7
I had finished my preparations and was ready to leave for the fourth room.
*Status window open*
Level: 17
Hp: 797/797
Mp: 1171/1171
Species: 1 tailed Kitsune Strength152Intelligence220Agility102Vitality89Luck0Defence85
Hmm… it seems that after evolving, it was harder to level up. I think that I’ve hunted close to a hundred vampire bats over the past two days. I’ve also stored a good amount in my own shadow that acted as a bag.
I’ve spent the entirety of this morning collecting shiny rocks and vampire bats before storing it in my shadow. This ability was really convenient. Being in a fantasy world was really cool.
I walked up to the door and pushed it open.
The doors had handles. In the past, I needed to jump and use my mouth to grab the handle. But now with my tail, opening doors were much more convenient. As usual, the doors had scratches and appeared to be deprived from contact in ages.
*Creek*
The sound echoed throughout the fourth room. The room was pitch black. I took out a torch from shadow and placed in my tail before taking a step in.
After taking a few steps in, the door slammed shut. Looks like there’s no going back.
The terrain of this room resembled that of a forest. The ground was made of dirt with large willow trees filling the room. But with the lack of sunlight underground, most of the trees were dead and seemed hollow. The leaves lacked the usual green and were black in color. The air that would normally have a sweet fragrant from flowers now had the smell of rotting flesh.
Ignoring the creepy atmosphere, I walked in deeper.
Level: 24
HP: 259/259
MP: -/-
Species: Armored Tanuki
Description: Has a strong shell to protect itself from threats
My eyes picked up a group of three Armored Tanukis. I went to hide in a nearby bush to spy on them. The Armored Tanukis were smaller than me. They were about half as big as me. The back part of their skin was made up of metal. But something was strange. They had feelers on the top of their head. Man… this world is weird.
The Tanukis seemed to be looking for something. They kept looking through bushes and even checked under rocks. Hmm I guess I should just look for the door.
『Oh! What a coincidence I’m looking for the door as well (*^ω^*)/ 』
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Oh… want to go together?
『Sure!』
Wait… WHAT?!
A voice was speaking in my head. Wait… was that an emoticon?
Level: 2
HP: 1569/1569
MP: 0/4286
Species: High Elemental(Water) Fairy
Description: Fairies are easily identifiable by their small size and chest
Turning my head to the left, I saw a little girl. Her eyes were dulled blue in color and was fair skinned. She was no bigger than a pen. Her hair was up to shoulder length and was dyed blonde. Her bangs were neatly combed in both directions. And she had two white heart shaped bobby pins holding her double ponytail together.
She wore a light purple oversized tee that reached until her waist barely showing her denim shorts. Her shirt was loose enough to show her pink left bra string. To top it all off, she even wore a loose bright red tie that most drunk bachelors wore. Basically her whole outfit did not match at all.
She was only level 2. It seems to be that your level does not scale with how strong a person is.
But what shocked me was that she was floating… no… wait. She was sitting on a stick that was black in color with a red gem at the tip. She also had magical wings that are in four pieces which closely resembled a butterflies’. Her chest size was a disappointment. She was flat.
『ヽ(≧Д≦)ノI heard that! You want to fight?!』
She stared at me with her eyes showing a huge frown filled with displeasure. Guess she hated my remark about her small bust. No. Nonexistent bust.
W-wait you can read my mind? What are you?
『I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Silica. I am a fairy.』
Well I guess it’s always polite to greet before talking.
I don’t have a name. I am a Kisune sorry for the late introduc-
『WAIT?! What?! A Kitsune?!』
Her voiced scream through my head causing me to fall back onto the ground. Her face seemed really shocked after I mention being a Kitsune.
Crap… we were surrounded by Armored Tankis. They were attracted to the sound I made after falling back. Looks like we have no time to talk. I swallowed Silica whole before running away.
『Let me out!』
Silica kept screaming in my head. But I paid no heed to her cries. I just kept running on all fours. The Tanukis were no match for my speed. But for some reason Tanukis were kept coming in the direction I was running at.
Eventually, they let us to a dead end. They trapped us at the corner of the room. There were close to fifty Tanukis in front of me. I spat out Silica from my mouth.
She was all slimy, drenched in my saliva. The sight of her being wet was arousing. But now was not the time to pay attention to that, there were more important issues at hand.
『Geez… now I’ll never get married ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡』
Silica pouted her face while looking at me.
『…Y-you better take responsibility』
Hey… we have more important issues at hand.
By now, I’ve gotten used to talking telepathically with Silica. In the beginning, it felt as if something was inside my head. But now her voice was surprisingly comforting even though we were in a dangerous situation.
Yo. Fairy you take the left, I’ll take the right.
After saying that, I jumped into the shadow of the wall behind us. The forest was dark, making the whole place my playing field. Inside the shadow, I could see everything through the thin screen that separated the shadow world from the outside world. The perplex look on the Silica’s face made me chuckle to myself.
I exited the screen from beneath the Tanuki’s feet and just like a shark, I bit the weak underbody of the Tanuki before dragging it in the shadow with me. One Tanuki could do nothing against me. With just me and that tanuki in the shadow, I easy bit off his head before tearing his limbs apart.
You have gained 2511 exp
That was really little exp I gained after killing a Tanuki. The other Tanukis on the surface were going after Silica. She seemed defenseless against them.
*Sigh*
I let out a sigh before dragging her into the shadow world.
『Thank god… I have no mana.』
Her face flushed bright red. She looked down in embarrassment with her hands held tightly together and legs squirming. Boy… was she cute.
Her face blushed even brighter. Oh dear… I think she heard my comments.
We were safe for now. But my mana was constantly decreasing, this was only a temporary solution.
The Tanukis outside stood completely still. They did not move an inch. It seemed as if they were dead. They were staring at the wall where Silica was last standing.
***
We had escaped through a shadow in the middle of the forest. Silica and I had been staring at each other for a while now. It was hard to break the awkward atmosphere. But soon enough she started to laugh in my head.
『Pfft… who would have ever thought I’ll meet a Kitsune here. 』
Wait. Do you know where we are? Do you know what I am? What are you doing here?
『Hold on… one question at a time.』
I had been wanting to ask a series of questions after being reincarnated, looks like I’ll finally get some answers.
『To start off with, we are in the Dungeon of one of the seven deadly sins, Gluttony. It is a S rank dungeon you know… up till this day, no one has ever come close to completing it. 』
She was looking at me, as if expecting some sort of response. But after seeing that none, she sighed before continuing.
『If what you’re telling me is true, a Kitsune is a divine creature that is blessed by the gods. From my knowledge they have nine tails… but you only have one.』
Gods? What do you mean?
The look on her face show signs of disbelief.
『You aren’t joking are you…? In order to become a Kitsune, you need to have the blessing of a greater god at least. Well to start off with, there are many gods in this world and we rank them from lesser -> greater -> true gods. And for your information I am a high ele-』
Yeah a high elemental water fairy right?
『How do you know that?』
Well I can see your status window.
『WAIT?! It only says that right? Nothing else?』
Yup, it does not display any additional stats.
She looked really scared for a moment. I think she is hiding something from me. I’ll keep that in mind.
『That is a really rare ability… I’ve never heard of someone being able to see status windows other than their own. You must be blessed by the gods. Anyway, I need your help. The Sin of Gluttony is the Ant Queen that has been controlling all those Armored Tanukis. She sealed away all my mana and I need help getting it back.』
Well, it seems that I would need to defeat the final boss to get out of here anyway. Helping her out aligns with my current goals. With that, I stared at her for a good two seconds before giving a light nod.
『I know the way, shall we go?』
With that, we headed deeper in the forest.
*Day 7 to be continued*
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