I came to slightly regret taking those enhanced senses when I stepped out of the portal to my house and immediately got overwhelmed by all the sounds and smells that hit me at ohe pnts, the dirt, the water and so much more filled my nostrils with their sts and it was disorienting. The sounds weren't much better as like you may expect a forest/jungle was ly a quiet pce. It took me a good thirty mi it back to a level that I could ha I twitched at even the smallest sound out of pce.-

  It got better progressively as I walked through the greenery and my brain adjusted but the ime I shot my gun I wi the loud sound. It was just to kill a Prowler but still really sucked even as I harvested the 451 units of lifeforce. I was good oraits of that species at the moment and only took the lifeforce before leaving. I didn't need more physical strength or sharper hearing at the moment so I passed oraits to stockpile lifeforstead.-

  It was a bang act really as I knew I o take traits to improve myself but that I should also be at least a little picky with what I took since I khat I would need a lot of lifeforce if I wahe good shit when it started popping up. Thanks to my new senses after I adapted to them I could traimals that way by following st trails and listening for the sounds of movement. As a result when I picked up a foul odor wafting my way from a certain dire I knew I had found a Woemp.-

  The dumb beast was like the previous one in appearahough it had a mohawk and was waiting up in a tree to clobber anything that walked u. I raised my gun calmly, took aim and pulled the trigger twi quick succession.

  "THUD!" the putrid corpse hit the forest floor dead moments ter.

  I whistled casually as I strolled over and stabbed my bayo into it's throat and began to skiill hot body on the spot. The disproportioure of the species biology and the pnt on it made this process a chore but in the end I had a mostly intact hide.-

  While I was still hungry I wasn't going to eat something that lived in filth like this and merely harvested the nice 949 units of lifeford left since I didn't want to find out if something could just casually stroll into my house through the portal if I left it open right o this bloody and dead Woemp. Once I was a good distance away I opened up my house a straight to the crafting room. The creation thingy was prised of three parts(that I could see). The first was a bd glowing e square sliding drawer that was what took the materials.-

  The sed was an amber knobbed lever like with the food creation thingy that interfaced with the person toug it(me) and told them what materials it had and how much it needed for whatever you wa to make. Unfortunately I also discovered that much like the food creator thing this device also had a cooldown though a much lower four hour one since you had to provide materials which cut the cost siderably. Anyways the final part I could see was a sort of set of square bd glowing e rings that were in the wall to the other side of the lever.-

  I walked over to the depositor drawer and stuffed in the Woemp hide waited for it to get accepted then started to strip. I was totally bald underh it but I wasn't surprised since I HAD lost all of my skin previously whiy hair with it. I tossed all of my clothes down to even my shoes into the depositor and the since I wao get before I put on new clothes.-

  "e out damn it!" I cursed in the shower as I furiously scrubbed at the dried blood on my skin to try a off, it wasn't going well.

  I even had the water at almost dangerously hot temperatures to try ahe scum off but it was stubbornly gy to me. It didn't help that I cked anything abrasive to scrub at it with as well as soap and was just using my hands. At some point I just had to accept less than perfectly and move on with small specks of dark colored dried blood on various points of my body.-

  Thankfully without hair to hold it the water just ran right off me and I dried out very fast. Walking over the smooth stone floors to the crafting room I ehe room and headed straight to the maker thingy.

  'Alright so first I'll have the hide shaped into a set of leather armor like I was used to oh, then remove the crotd repce it with denim and a zipper. Layer the legs with denim on the inside and create hard rubber soles with grip groove add holster fun ht hip thehe top with the cotton of my shirt. Pte with Eridiaal on the forearm, upper arm, chest, thighs and shins.' I thought setting my specifications.

  Once I had what I wanted set in mind I saw I had a good bit of hide left over and decided to create a satchel as well with a button tch. Good and happy with my specifications I pulled the lever and the bd e glowing ring began to hum and glow even brighter as they started rotating in ba opposite dire.-

  "WOOO-THOOP!" The mae made an odd noise and the sey items got shot out between the rings and thudded to the floor.

  'That's trippy as fuck.' I thought with a chuckle.

  I meant it too as one sed there was nothing then the BOOM, items. Definitely not pining but that didn't meant it wasn't hard to fathom. Anywho I collected my new clothes which looked like a pair of leather pants with built in foot wear and a long sleeved leather jacket. The parts I specified also had perfectly stitched on ptes of the Eridiaal that actually matched the dark gray color of the hide very well, nice trast with the ptes bright silver.-

  The satchel was just a normal dark gray leather bag with a fp to cover the opening and ahe shoulder strap. It wasn't anything fancy but I was tired of always having to carry my house in my left hand and this would let me have that hand free now. I attached my shield bay hip since I had to take it off to feed my clothes to the wall. I felt rather vulnerable without that shield and was relieved o was back.-

  For the Coup de grace I holstered my gun at my hip and grinned.

  "Alexander Drake, badass wilderness explorer, syer of monsters!" I struck a pose before bursting out in ughter that I hadn't realized I needed.

  I had been rather high strung since I found myself in this nece after meeting what only be described as a god because I fug died to a sneaky grizzly I probably should have seen ing but hadn't because I was over fident. If you had told me I'd be in this situation even a single day before it happened I'd probably would have beaten you within an inch of death before leaving you to die in a ditewhere thinking you were some lunatic trying to insult me.-

  I wasn't o taking lives, I'm not proud of it but sometimes underground fights don't go so well or your oppos didn't like that they lost and try to get even outside the ring. Ohing leads to another and well eventually your rich buddy has a up crew show up and make the dead guy disappear. At some point I had killed so many people who got unlucky or thought to get even for some supposed slight that it didn't even phase me anymore when I did it.-

  Whoops! Didn't mean to let my mind wahere like that. Anyways ughing like that had helped me unwind a bit, unch that ass as it were. You know it's amazing what a new outfit will do for your self fidence. I was focused and in the zone when I walked out of my house with this new set of threads. Now that I wasn't so uptight I was also able tister the little things I had been ing such as the small is and avian species nearby.-

  Reag out I grabbed a small blue and yellow slug off a tree and activated my powers.

  { slug

  Lifeforce:30

  Traits: [Borash grade]- 50 units, [Slime produ-on grade]- 500 units, [Poisonous skin-on grade]- 500 units, [Poor serash grade]- 50 units.}

  While I couldn't take the lifeforce of the slug since I hadn't killed it I discovered that didn't mean that I couldn't copy any of it's traits, not that I would as all of these had huge ive issues involved in them. Like[poisonous skin] that meant blowjobs would end badly iure, totally not worth it. Still the sheer importance of this discovery couldn't be uated as it meant if I ever found someone or something with a trait I wanted I didn't have to kill them to get it.-

  'I'll o test how my copying of a trait will effect a living thing though so I don't actally kill them in the process or worse leave them braindead.' I thought as I deactivated my powers and put the slug ba it's tree.

  It was a bit tricky but I mao track down a of seven Prowlers and kill all but one of them. The st was a young ohat was just as hostile as the rest so I didn't feel bad about grabbing it by the back of the ned using it for my experiment. It squirmed and hissed angrily but I ig as I activated my powers and focused on the only trait I wanted, [Predatory muscles] for 500 units. I [grafted] it without hesitation and watched to see how it would effect the creature. The answer was that it didn't really have any effe it.-

  It was more like my lifeforce stash flowed into the thing made a copy of the trait and then I got that copy, no messy process or backsh for the creature at all. If anything it actually did it some good as I felt it's total lifeforce rise from 171 to 202.

  'I see! So I lose some lifeforce during the process which bolsters the targets own lifeforce. Does this mean I could just directly infuse lifeforto a creature to make it more powerful?' I pondered and decided that since I was already dug uhical experiments I may as well go further.

  My tattoos thrummed and and red energy began to rise off of my are as I sent a "small" amount of 500 units of lifeforto the very unhappy kitty. It stiffened immediately and I watched as it's body began to balloon.

  "Shit!" I shouted and tossed it hard.

  "SPLAT!" the thing blew up violently and I only just barely avoided the wide area of blood sptter.

  'Okay , so probably should have known that putting almost two and a half times it's lifeforto it would go badly, that's my bad.' I thought with an embarrassed look.