Ti moved oddly without a clock to asure it.
Ash had no way to asure it precisely - no watch, no sun position he could read with any confidence given that neither of the two overhead followed patterns he had learned.
The one thing he could asure was the state of his body, and his body was clearly telling him, with no room left for interpretation, that he had gone an extrely long ti since having water or food.
His throat was dry, and not in the simple, temporary fashion of thirst, but in a deeper, longer-lasting way.
Hunger was settling in like a weight over his whole body, overshadowing all other thoughts.
There was no question that he had been walking across the grassland, hungry, thirsty, for a long ti, with absolutely nothing to quench either problem.
At least there were more trees.
That was new.
Where once only a few scattered trunks had been standing in a sea of tall grasses, now groups of trees could regularly be spotted.
While the grasslands persisted between the trees, and the sky overhead showed no indication of change other than continuing to be double-sunned and vast, there was more detail added to the landscape than before.
Though there were no people.
Just monsters.
Slis had been nurous, and he had avoided each of them, with no place to store anything, nor reason to fight against them now that they did not give aningful EXP or SP gains. He let them schlorp past him and kept walking.
But Horned Rabbits were a different matter entirely.
When he ca across one, he had argued with himself, using logic and resource managent to convince himself to simply walk past.
But then a mory of the first rabbit crossed his mind, with its flash of white fur, horns, and the place that it hit him.
The logical argunts fell away.
He killed every Horned Rabbit he ca across.
He had killed seven Horned Rabbits since the last ti he stopped to rest. All of them charged straight ahead in the sa pattern, which all t the ♥️ 3 of Hearts.
In the process of these kills, the fire lance had upgraded itself, moving to level three and growing more powerful.
His gain was more unexpected than he had imagined it would be.
The first Horned Rabbit had given him thirty EXP and twenty SP, but as each subsequent one ca, they gave him less, until they were a fraction of what he had received from the first.
It would seem he could expect diminishing returns on repetitive kills of the sa monster type, despite his assumption that the system would give him constant rewards.
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[✦GOD-TIER CARD SYSTEM✦]
[Na: Ash Vulkan]
[Title: Card Bearer]
[Level: 6]
[HP: 500 / 500]
[MP: 400 / 400]
[EXP: 15 / 700]
[SP: 5]
[✦STATS✦]
[STR: 125 INT: 80
DEF: 75 AGI: 155]
[✦ACTIVE HAND✦]
[04 / 54 Cards]
[♥ Hearts - 02/13 Cards]
[♠ Spades - 02/13 Cards]
[★Jokers★ - 2 Cards (LOCKED)]
[✦SKILLS✦]
Storage - Lv.1 (20/20)
[✦QUEST✦]
[★Unique Quest★: SAVE THE WORLD]
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Fifty-five SP gained from the seven Horned Rabbits. Thirty SP had gone into improving his agility, and twenty SP into increasing his strength, while the remaining five were left unused.
He was unsure which of his stats was currently more important than the other.
His Storage was always full, though, even during these kills.
The Horned Rabbits did not drop anything useful for him, and while the first ti he had attempted to clear so of the sli materials in order to make room for more, he had decided that the loss of loot was not worth it.
At the rate he was going, it seed that soon, he would have to find sowhere to sell things in order to clear his Storage.
To do so, he would have to find people.
This proved to be far more difficult than he had imagined.
He scaled a small hill in the terrain, one not high enough to even be considered a hill, yet one that his body sensed as more than that.
He was tired in a way that seed to co not from the mind, but from his muscles. Though he was level six, fast and strong, his level-six self was hungry, and on the verge of exhaustion from lack of sustenance.
But as he got to the top of the rise, he heard sothing.
Coming from just over the crest of the hill, he suddenly heard sothing he had not heard since coming here.
He heard a human voice.
Ash stopped moving forward.
For the first ti since waking up in Veltharion, he forgot entirely about being tired.
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