I wake up suddenly. A spike of adrenaline running through my veins.

  "What the fuck..."

  I feel a tug in my chest and I focus on it. It wasn't painful, just a tug like something poking my chest. My eyes flicker over the floating notifications.

  [You have unlocked Trapper.]

  [2 of your traps have sin a catch, experience has been given.]

  [You have levelled up Trapper level 5.]

  "Um... ok..."

  I climb out of bed and head in the direction of the two traps, in the first trap I found a beautiful white wolf.

  "Oh no.. I know it is for my survival, but..."

  It made my heart sink to see such a thing dead in a trap I had made. So heart broken, that I consumed the barb from every trap I set within range. I held the soft fur of the wolf, making sure to eat all of the corrosive acid from the venom. I carry the poor girl from the pit, she was dead.

  For the first time, this beautiful creature made me regret setting these traps. I wouldn't use the barbs again, even if meeting this wolf would likely have led to this exact same outcome.

  "I'm so sorry."

  I stroke the face of this beautiful creature, her sapphire blue eyes, the snow white fur. She was stunning.

  Eventually I decide to carry her back to camp whole, she didn't weigh that much. I left her there and head over to the next trap, where I find a bear. It was massive. I consume its head, paws and guts, then the barbs fitted to the trap. This was my st trap, I have already removed the barbs from the others.

  Eventually I get back to base, I skin the bear then consume the guts from the stunning white wolf, just like the savage wolf, I pnned to bury her skull and leave a marker. I skinned her slowly and took my time, after burying her head, I portioned up the meat and hung it in the smoker, I put the bones in the smoker to cook, I wanted to preserve them somewhat, I wanted to make the most of her death.

  I did find after all that, butchering the ursa was almost a complete after thought, seems like wolves were my soft spot. I was after all more a dog person than a cat person, even if I did like both.

  I was able to breeze through the process and portion up the meat, consume the scrap and membrane from the hide, stretch on the rack and then put it in the smoker. I look at my two new contributors.

  Brown Ursa :25%

  Hp+12, Damage resistance [A]

  White wolf :25%

  Sta & Hp +15, Magical Resistance [S]

  I was pretty impressed with the amount they gave, my stats were growing nicely.

  I was surviving pretty well in my new harsh environment. I still had a little nagging thought, why was I brought here.

  Before heading out again, I sit by the two graves.

  "Thank you both, I have grown so much thanks to you. I promise to grow strong carrying on your blood and power."

  I stand up and touch the beautiful tree.

  "Watch over them for me."

  I tap the trunk and head off, I needed some oil berries, and the other herbs I found, I also wanted to sort out some soap. So I gathered as much of everything as I could, mainly the oil berries, the preservative effect was too valuable. I spent the next hours until the sun set, hunting as much as I could, I even had my t-shirt tucked in my combats and had it filled with berried and leaves.

  [You have unlocked Forager.]

  [You have unlocked adventurer.]

  "Nice, 2 for 1."

  I smile and head back to my base. I put all the vegetation in one of the huts I built, then head to bed.

  I wake up at dawn, I hear something. A tapping noise, I grab my knife and throw on my admittedly dirty clothes. Then rush up into the bst of cold and wet. My eyes adjusted to the light, it was raining. Pure life giving rain I rush to the Briar wall, which was now rge enough to make a tunnel through, I grab a berry and consume my way through the wall of thorns and death. I come out on the side under the canopy, I watched as fit to purpose, all the water ran from the canopy into my makeshift ke. I rush over to my pool of life giving goodness and see it about half way full. I finally had water.

  The first thought that struck me was.

  'I can get a bath!'

  The second was.

  'Finally! Clean clothes are within my grasp!'

  Eventually I calm myself and analyse the situation.

  "It's been raining a while then."

  I look over at the wall of thorns with a smile, there was only 2 ways into this section, one requires you to cross the water. The other was at the back of the canopy. I walk over and pnt the berry. I smile as soon my safety will grow, I walk around my base and head over to my smoker, opening it up and refilling it with dry brush. I take out the meat that was in there and take it over to my storehouse. I spend the morning after breakfast pressing oil berries, I had a rge stone that was cold to the touch, I had consumed and spat out the rubble to turn it into storage. I pour all the oil into the basin then add all the ursa meat.

  Once full I put the lid on, with the ursa meat preserved I moved on to the wolf meat, the two meats were delicious, they had a very simir fvour. So I made sure to leave a divider in their container, didn't want to mix them up, not for fvour reasons, but just to maximise my progress.

  I made sure to get each of my meats eaten to get my 5% on each one I had avaible, I even skinned the ape while I was at it, I didn't feel like eating it though, too much like cannibalism for my taste. So I used my ability to get the 5% boosts.

  With the weather being bad I decide to dig a trench, I needed a trench to lead the water away, prevent flooding, and I could patch a small underground stream in for waste disposal.

  I head upstairs and take my shovel out of my storage and head over to the only exit from my safe pce, I dig a trench leading it around my safe zones and down the hill. I didn't get bothered by anything today.

  Stream complete, I decided to head over to the old hornet nest, I needed some grubs for my percentage. I had estimated I would need 18 of the nasty maggots. The treck wasn't long, but when I got back the whole thing had falled off of the tree. I managed to get 18 dead grubs into my inventory, along with the armours I could dig out. Then I set off home, it was uneventful. Scents and sounds travel poorly in the rain, although tracks would be more present, I have light steps from my hunter job, so I could easily avoid problems.

  Once I get back to base I was exhausted, walking in the forest, in the rain was insufferable. I set back to building, this time though was repurposing the armoured hornet ptes. I had to cut it with my consume, since it was just too strong. Same with the stringers, I made 2 stinger daggers, a full suit of armour and a helmet. It took me 8 hours of work to make sure it looked right. I set to work making a basin, In which I washed all my softened pelts. Then I took the bck Necrid berries and ate everything except the tar. I then made a stone pot and lit the fire pit. Proceeding to heat the tar, this was so I could use it as a glue. After adhering the rabbit furs into the armour hornet armour trimming and shaving the furn where necessary. Then after using the savage wolf pelt I padded the joints, extra fur for embellishments. Then I painted the armour with tar, it was already 3 yers of hornet pting. The tar was essentially to make it bck, rather than bck and yellow.

  The next 3 days comprised of me building up the percentages I had, I had to go hunting for vipers and apes, to give me what I needed for my percentage.

  With that I started to rex, I had pretty much conquered most of this pce. I was quickly becoming an apex predator here. It was barely a week since my arrival in this abyssal forest.

  Today was different, today I was the prey.

  "Down kitty..."

  I looked at the rge shadow panther, I knew it as if my body reacted to it. It was a beast and a half. The big beast was the size of a tiger, raven bck fur. The head of a Leopard, there were no spots or stripes, its muscles oozed power. Instead of traditional cat whiskers it had whiskers that reminded me of chinese styled dragons moustache. Long and short raven fur coating their surface, the most terrifying part of the beast before me is the effect shadows had on the beast, it would become completely invisible, almost perfectly cloaked and hidden, if it wasn't for my hunter enhanced senses I would be screwed, since it would be completely invisible. I quickly remove a rabbit from my storage and consume it. This beast had ignored three I threw to it to get it off of the idea of eating me, it did not work. However that pushed me to 100% with forest rabbit.

  Forest rabbit :100%☆

  Dex & Int +30, increased movement speed [B], spring step [B], reduced fatigue [Medium], racial skill: Acceleration, increased nutrition from vegetation.

  The beast pounces.

  'Acceleration!'

  In an instant, I moved backwards.

  'Spring step!'

  I was able to jump higher and run faster, I was able to use acceleration to give me a short boost of speed. I ran, the beast on my heals, every chance I got, I would hit it with an speer or dagger, I jump from tree to tree the beast chasing me.

  There were a couple close calls my thick armour saving me more than a few times. I finally got orientated on my position, I was close to home. I took off at full speed the panther following suit, I was jumping from branch to branch, my other abilities were coming in clutch.

  Barbarous wolf :80%

  Str+32, hunting instinct boost [C], intimidating aura [C], increased Grappling [Medium]

  Shadow panther :5%

  All stats +2

  Armoured Hornet :75%

  Con+35, Poison resistance [S], Venom resistance [S], Poison damage boost [Large]

  Acid Viper :60%

  Str, Int, Wis & Cha +6, Quiet movement [A], Corrosive resistance [A]

  Horned ape :75%☆

  Dex, Str & Int +10, agile movement [A], Reduced fall damage [A], Muscle strength boost [Large]

  Brown Ursa :60%

  Hp+30, Damage resistance [A], Fierce strength [A]

  White wolf :60%

  Sta & Hp +36, Magical Resistance [S], Intimidating Aura [S]

  I hadn't leveled up in the st few days or got any new jobs, however this situation sucked hard.

  'I should have leveled up way more, I should have hunted more.'

  I cursed myself for getting comfortable, for scking in such a hostile environment.

  I take my bow from my storage, I could take the arrows out as I needed.

  My pn was set, using my skills, I was able to get above and away from the panther occasionally.

  Over the next 10 minutes, this let me nd all of my venom arrows, but the damn psycho kitty was out for blood.

  Its fierce gaze never losing sight of me, the low growl it emitted. As our almost comedic chase scene took pce. I was even using consume to eat through branches I was leaving, this successfully helped me slow the giant rage cat.

  Then I saw it, my safe zone. Jumping from the tree, I collide with the water at speed, the panther hits the water soon after.

  "Seriously! For fucks sake at a brothel! You could atleast hate water. You fucking, feline, HELLSPAWN!"