Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Murdering Bats
She slaughtered them all.
It took maybe an hour or two, but within this time she had ripped and torn through all the bats that got in her way, even going as far as hunting down the ones that tried to flee and killing them as well.
She had spared none of them, as they would be her growth.
After all of this had finished she was covered in blood, a mixture of her own and that of the bats. Her own because she underestimated just how troublesome they would be.
While one bat posed her no trouble, hundreds swarming her at once with their sharp teeth and claws were bothersome— she couldn't avoid them in the small space.
They ended up getting some scratches and bites in before she could get them all dead, littering her clothingless body with small wounds.
Wounds that bleed black blood, pitch black as the darkest of nights.
Like ink dripping out of her body, the blood made a clear contrast to the normal blood of the black, and her pale white skin— yet, the wounds themselves visible starting to heal faster with time.
Yet another proof she wasn't normal.
Proof she wasn't human.
But this didn't matter to her anymore— not that it had to begin with— once the slaughter was over she felt a sense of relief that she had never felt before in her past life.
It was like she had just finished a great battle, and even though she knew she wouldn't have died from it, her body and mind couldn't help but be glad she won.
It was great— she longed for more— but now all that was left was the reward for this great battle.
Hundreds of bats to eat— yet another thing her body and mind looked forward to.
Eating the bats took longer than fighting them— hundreds of bats eaten over the period of hours with little break in between them— all raw since she had nothing to cook them with.
Yet the taste didn't matter to her if she gained more power to aid her— and gained she did.
Getting multiple new skills from all the bats she had eaten, especially a very useful one for the situation she was currently in.
Namely, night vision, which combined with her already adjusting eyes to allow her to see in the dark cave as if she was in bright daylight.
Proving to be rather useful in seeing the layout of the cave, and finding out it was much larger than she had expected, with yet another part of the cave that was blocked by large rocks.
Another skill she gained was Echolocation, which was to be expected with how many bats she ate.
The skill worked in a rather odd way, allowing her to produce a high pitch sound that would bounce off objects that it hit and return to her.
Once these sound waves returned her brain would create a map of sorts of the area that it covered, which allowed her to see the things.
See being used loosely because it wasn't sights but rather, geographic mapping.
So if she did it often enough, she would have a way to map a 20-meter rather around her easily and catch anything trying to sneak up on her.
Because currently, 20 meters was the max range of the sound. But she had ways to increase that as time went on and she got more powerful.
Plus, it's not like she would forget the already mapped area once she moved to a new place, no, it would slowly fill in and create a large map for her to use as she pleased in her mind.
The final skill she was able to decode so far from all the bats she ate was their ability to climb flat surfaces and hang upside down without issues, and while this wasn't very useful for her currently, it would be very useful for her hive.
Speaking of hive, she currently had a ton of mass saved up from all the bats she finished eating, along with the animal from before.
So if she wanted to she could make a ton of units for her hive, or she could use the mass to enhance her capabilities so that she could do stuff herself.
'What should I do?'
She thought to herself as she sat down and looked at her status screen, checking the number of mass points she had on it.
7500.
It was a lot, but it would burn out quickly once she started making hive units.
Or she could spend it all on herself and become a lot more powerful than she currently is.
'Currently I think im already pretty strong, I don't think any animal in the forest will be able to hurt me, so I don't need to worry about my own strength currently.'
She wasn't wrong, as far as she knew she was the strongest creature in this forest, and being much stronger than the average human— she also thought she would be fine outside with her current strength.
But she didn't know the truth about that just yet.
'So instead I should focus on making the hive bigger, if I can make some workers and hunters then it would provide a steady stream of mass to make more.'
Deciding that going the mimic route would be wiser, she nodded her head and sat down, ready to create the greatest hive this planet has ever seen— that is to say, she was the only hive this planet has ever seen.
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Chapter 11: Chapter 11 - Leaving The Cave
Time flew by without the patients to wait for anyone— the seasons changed and a new one took reign.
Around four months, or so, had passed since she first arrived in this world and settled down in the cave, and throughout those months a lot had happened.
The first major change is that her hive had grown a decent amount, with her using the mass she had collected to make 30 worker units all similar to the first one in form, and 10 hunter units that looked similar to a large cat with multiple whip-like tails in form.
After making all of those she had a little over 1000 mass points to use remaining, mainly because she decided to implement the climbing skill into the creation of some of the workers to test it out.
With the skill working quite well, being especially useful for digging out a complicated cave system in all directions— without the need to worry about slipping.
With the remaining 1000 she decided to spend 300 to make a scout unit that was capable of flight using the form of a bat— which she had the DNA information from thanks to eating all the bats before.
The reason it took so much even though a scout would only cost 150 mass at best, was because she gave it a capability she didn't already have herself, so the mass had to make up for the difference.
But thanks to this one scout she was able to freely explore the forest around her without once leaving the cave throughout this entire four-month period.
Well, that would be a lie— she did leave occasionally to wash her body in the river because she was used to taking showers.
However, now that she was a different race, her body didn't produce any waste, only using saved mass to create more. Thanks to that she had no need to do a lot of things a normal human would need to do, such as shower, unless dirtied, or use the washroom.
But she decided to shower anyways, as, she preferred to do it over remaining filthy with dirt and blood. Maybe it was the little things that reminded her that she was once human, and made her different from the others of her species that existed.
But that didn't matter, she would still do what they did if she had to— or what she would need to do.
'I should finally leave this forest today.'
That's right, over the course of the four months, she found out that the forest she was located in was surrounded by plains, with multiple human settlements not too far from it.
She sent out the scout to check out each of them, and found out from the signs that she was located rather close to New Mexico— a place she had never been to before.
Which meant she had a large area to explore.
Plus she wanted to leave the forest and see if the world had changed much in her absence, especially since she now knew the universe was much larger than she thought, with alien species she never knew existed.
It wouldn't be surprising if the world was much different than she once thought it was— maybe so many things existed hidden from the common people that she was never truly aware of.
She also wanted to get some proper clothing, because only wearing leaves and fur from the creatures she killed wasn't suitable nor did she enjoy them.
So today was the day she decided to finally leave the forest and head towards a place that was close by.
She had made preparations for this day ahead of time, having her hive create tunnels underground that would lead her in and out of the forest easily.
In the process, they created a large system of tunnels under the forest that could be used for transportation and moving without being seen, which aided in their hunting and gathering.
Easily being able to travel to any end of the forest without once leaving the comfort of the cave system she was in— however she never did leave, opting to focus on growing her hive over the collection of skills.
Something inside of her told her that it was the preferred option— her instincts.
Now was the time for her to leave— heading towards the exit with 5 workers, and 5 warriors following her in the dirt so that they wouldn't be seen.
Digging, a skill she naturally learned due to their efforts in creating large tunnels under the forest.
Thanks to these tunnels she was able to get to the edge of the forest without worry, heading out from it near what seemed like a dirt path.
She decided to go towards a place that wasn't too far from here, for her at least, and see what it had to offer.
So she started walking.
Eventually, after a few days— time of which she lost track of because of how irrelevant it was to her new body— she found the town in the blurred distance.
Approaching the town she found that it wasn't overpopulated, which was good for her since a half-naked girl dressed in leaves and fur would definitely attract attention.
The fact that it was night aided her— as most of the people were either asleep or in their houses, unbothered by the outside world.
But the few people that were walking around during the night glanced at her with a mixture of emotions, from curiosity to even confusion.
Finally, she saw a sign as she approached the entrance, one that read— Puente Antiguo.
'Puente Antiguo? Never heard of it.'
She wasn't very good with locations since she never really traveled a lot— outside of her area that is— so she didn't know the name of a lot of places.
But something about the place was familiar— the look that is— but she couldn't quite put her finger on what, it just felt like she had seen it somewhere before.
Ignoring that she walked into town and looked for the nearest newspapers— her goal was obvious. She wanted to know the date and year and; hopefully get an update on current events.
What she found out when she finally got her hands on a newspaper, however, wasn't something she was expecting.
'2008? Did I go back in time on top of being reborn in a new body— how interesting— maybe I can use this to my advantage.'
She thought as she decided to flip through the paper, seeing some oddly familiar names in them.
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