Chapter 42: Chapter 42 - Mass Hunting (6)
A few minutes quickly passed, and the girl took the time to soothe her aching body, allowing her body to get used to the pain she was feeling and her muscles to release their tension.
It was a hard fight, probably the most challenging fight she had had since she came to this world, and the only reason she won was because of her tricks and that man's restrictions on himself.
He didn't intend to kill her, and his attacks were held back; if not, she would've died during that fight or, at the very least, won with a badly wounded body.
She was already injured, rather badly at that.
She was contemplating returning to her house for the day and stopping for the day here, but she decided against that.
Her plan for the night was to profit the most she could and attempt to gain a spike in power before things became complicated.
Shield, X-Men, and other heroes and villains were already in the city; two of those already had her on their radar.
She didn't want to risk being weak in such a situation; she, at the very least, wanted to have the ability needed to escape and survive an encounter with them.
'If I'm going to keep going, I need to find mass to speed up the healing process, but I can't eat him without risking the X-Men noticing me again like before.'
Lily thought to herself, her eyes lingering on the blood that had leaked from the corpse.
The corpse itself had already been moved thanks to her worm taking it away to where the others were, in a safe place within the sewers.
That's when an idea came to her mind.
'Wait, rats.'
She was in a sewer; it was filled with rats. She had seen multiple on the way here and simply ignored them.
But now that she was hungry for mass, she could use them as a quick source for mass, albeit and pretty bad one.
She wanted something a little better than just rats.
Still, she didn't have much of a choice right now, and she didn't know any other way to speed up her healing with her current capabilities.
So, she ordered the worms that lingered within the tunnels and underground to gather as many rats as possible and bring them back to her, dead but not eaten.
She wouldn't gain as much mass from them if her units ate it compared to if she had eaten it. Though it would generally be neglectable, she didn't want even a single mass to go to waste in this situation.
She also ordered the units that lived in the large nest within the forest she started in to hunt around and devour whatever they could.
While it would give her less than she would have gotten from eating it directly, it was still a lot.
And everything helped.
The worms moved quickly and collected rats and other sewer-dwelling animals. At the same time, her hive nest had done its best to devour whatever it could without suffering any loss.
Still, she did suffer a loss of two units because of a mistake she made in hunting.
But that wasn't worth dwelling on; they were replaceable.
She had now collected a good amount of mass from the things she had eaten, with a total of around 350 mass collected from the various small animals she had gotten her hands on and the hive had eaten.
It wasn't much, mainly because she was in a hurry, and she didn't go for large animals that would have more mass.
However, it was enough.
She was able to put 13 points into strength and 10 points into durability.
Increasing her current stats to;
Strength: 28
Durability: 40
Which not only increased her body's durability by a good margin but also helped boost her healing factor and constitution.
Her increase in strength was a safety measure in case she came across anyone that would force her into combat again.
But she had no intention of doing that if she could avoid it.
After about 30 minutes had passed, her bones had healed enough that she could get up without constantly being in pain.
As for her organs, while there was still some blood inside of them that shouldn't be there, her organs had pretty much started to heal already, and she would be acceptable to move around.
That doesn't mean she could go around fighting, though.
Fighting would make the wounds worsen, and she wasn't in her top state right now, so she didn't want to take any risk of getting into another fight like she just had.
But she was healed and could once again get moving and continue the hunt since some time had passed since she left. Morning would come soon, and she had to be back by then.
With that out of the way, so pushed herself back into a standing position and looked around.
Her scouts had informed her that a group of around three mutants was currently walking down one of the tunnels nearby, having come from somewhere, so she was going to deal with them next.
She returned to the same method she had used before, crawling along the ceiling of the tunnel and looking down at the targets below in order to avoid being seen.
Moving along the tunnels at a moderate speed, she soon came across the group she had spotted, a group of two men and one female, one of the men looked like some sort of horned humanoid creature, while the other man had a mask on his face.
The lady was the only one among them that seemed average, without much going for her as far as appearance went.
Chapter 43: Chapter 43 - Mass Hunting (7)
Lily observed them for a while, her eyes examing their bodies to get an idea of what they might be capable of.
Just because they looked odd or ordinary didn't mean they were weak, she wasn't going to take such a risk anymore, and she used her keen senses to try and get a feel for her enemies.
They walked and spoke as she followed along.
The conversation could have been more meaningful, but it wasn't. Mainly about their days and other topics she wasn't keen on.
She followed them for a few minutes, just listening to them, before deeming them not a threat to her current self.
Even with her injuries.
She decided to go for the man that looked abnormal first since he seemed the most likely to prove a threat to her with his appearance.
Jumping down from the ceiling, she crushed down on him like before, killing him on the spot since he didn't seem that strong physically.
She broke his body, bones breaking and blood splattering as he crashed to the ground, and so did her.
Quickly she stabilized herself and made a move toward the nearest target, the girl.
She dashed forward, her claws aiming to slash the girl's neck. However, the girl was able to slightly avoid it.
The cut still went through; however, it wasn't as deep as she had hoped, and while the girl's neck was bleeding, she wasn't mortally wounded just yet.
"Shit, run!"
The woman yelled to the masked man, who didn't even need to wait for another scream before he had already begun running.
He didn't even stop looking back at what was happening, his cowardice and fear carrying his legs as he ran with impressive speed.
Lily used the chance of the girl's distraction to go in again for another slash, but the girl whipped her hand in the direction she dashed, a green liquid spewing out towards her.
Avoiding the incoming liquid by jumping to the side, Lily watched as the green liquid made contact with the ground and sizzled, slowly beginning to melt away at the stone.
'Acid.'
She thought, making a mental note to avoid the liquid whenever she could and to finish this quickly.
With a new idea in mind, she zig-zagged towards the girl, her position changing often by jumping from side to side, not allowing the girl to get an idea of where she was going to be.
Lessening the chance of the acid hitting her, and lessening it did.
The girl attempted to spew out more acid from her body. Still, they weren't able to hit the fast-moving Lily, who eventually got close enough to attack.
Her claws slashed forward and cutting the girl's neck; this time, it was deep enough to cut her fatally, killing her on the spot.
'One left.'
The only one left was the masked man who had made a run for it; she had to deal with him quickly, and catching up was pretty easy.
Lily was very fast, much faster than that of a normal human after all the things she had devoured and her increase in stats.
At her top speeds, she could move close to 100 km/h, which was considerably faster than an average human; however, in her current wounded state, she could at most move around 70-80 km/h without worsening her wounds.
That was still enough to catch up to the masked man, that hadn't gotten far since the beginning of the fight, quickly slamming into his back from behind and pushing him onto the floor.
He came to a tumbling stop as he visibly trembled in pain and fear.
Lily walked over to the masked man and grabbed him by his neck, lifting him up and pressing him against the tunnel's wall.
She had no plans to torture or toy with the man; she was going to break his neck as quickly and painlessly as possible so that his suffering would end. Still, the man suddenly gasped in pain and clenched his head.
Which she found strange because she hadn't even attacked him anywhere in his head.
"Did you just try messing with my mind?"
She asked, trying to make a guess as to what he was attempting to do.
She felt the man shake in fear, his body language already exposing that he had done just that.
"I just-t want to live. Please, d-don't hurt me, I-I didn't mean it."
The man begged as tears streamed down his eyes, his words trembling as he spoke.
Lily frowned her brows slightly; she didn't like that.
She didn't want them to suffer; she killed them because she wanted to grow, not torment them or for fun.
Watching them suffer didn't please her.
Not even her alien side enjoyed it.
The only people she liked watching beg were those that tried to kill her— her enemies— and those that are in bed.
But that was beside the point.
She just wanted to know what he was trying to do. She didn't want him to suffer, so she snapped his neck once he began to beg.
Dropping the body on the ground, she called for her worms to deal with them as she moved on to another place to hunt.
This would most likely be the last few mutants she killed before returning.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS
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ZeroX0666
I'm trying not to drag these hunting chapters on too much, but there are a lot of canon characters I'm trying to show her getting and do not want her sudden power spike to seem out of place or unearned.
Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
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12 Power
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