┏Tenshi POV ┓
It's been a month since I talked to Samael and a month since I started to hunt. I found my body stronger than it previously was, and no, it wasn't the blood I was drinking. Instead, I theorized it was the eggs… the five Leviathan eggs I had consumed.
Around that time, my mind wasn't… straight, so I never noticed, but after fighting with creatures, I realized my strength had definitely increased.
My increase in strength wasn't massive. I was still weak; at most, I could put a dent in a metal wall, and that is it. But, of course, I would suffer the injury if I punched a metal wall as my skin and bones aren't tough enough.
I have been hunting demonic fishes in a lake nearby, though I suspected it's 'man-made'. Some creatures live inside. Liya has been a tremendous help to me, as anything that made her wet can increase her total power. Weirdly, even soaked in the blood can increase power.
Liya had grown a lot; she almost reached my knee. Then, I found something which might be unique to Leviathans; they can devour any prey and gain strength.
Whenever Liya eats something, it increases her strength. The stronger the prey, the more increased power she would get.
I was able to find it by using a mark on my left hand. The mark allows me to communicate with her telepathically, sense each other's feelings, and finally, the most important of all is to share her gain of power.
Yes, when she gained strength after eating a creature, I too felt an increase, though not as much as Liya had gained, it's even a quarter of the gain, but It was still something.
As crazy and powerful as this may sound, we still aren't powerful enough because we have been hunting fish… yes, past month, all we have hunted are fish.
Those Imps always ran away before I could catch them; their senses were superior to me, so it was hard to catch them as I only caught one with the help of Liya.
Another interesting thing I found is that no creatures come closer to our cave. One day when I was struggling for an answer, I saw large scratch marks periodically placed around the cave, and Liya was able to smell another Leviathan's scent when I asked her.
Then I got to know why all the small creatures were running away when I brought Liya with me to hunt.
The Leviathan's scent is so powerful it can scare almost everything they have ever met other than Pride. That might have been another reason Pride left me alone, as he could somehow smell either Liya on me or the mother Leviathan I had killed with my holy power on me.
So I have been 'using' Liya's scent on me to scare away weaker creatures when I want to be left alone, meaning when I am taking a shit.
It may sound like I am having fun or having an easy time, but sadly, it wasn't the case.
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Kill
Harvest
Eat
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Kill
Harvest
Eat
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Kill
Harvest
Eat
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That's what I have been doing every single day.
If the fishes I was killing might have been better if they looked like fishes from the earth.
Some fishes have sharp piranha-like teeth, and some have legs and hands... I have even seen a human-shaped fish the size of a baby; they look like baby mermaids with legs and hands.
I… killed everything. I would have been satisfied with just killing them and eating, but unfortunately… I need their heart and blood as it contains the most mana in them.
Yes, I named the 'energy' mana, as I have played enough video games to know what it was.
Coming back to my habits of craving flesh… Eating a raw heart and drinking blood have affected me so much that I… started to enjoy it. I needed to eat the heart raw as it holds more mana other than being cooked.
It wasn't the taste that made me enjoy it. It was the mana I would get from it. The addicting feeling from the increase in mana caused me to become more bloodthirsty… literally.
So I would get mana from eating hearts and drinking blood.
I would get strength from Liya after she ate a creature; though only a little, it still helped me.
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┏3rd POV ┓
A four-legged blue creature with massive wings slowly made its way seeing Tenshi close his eyes.
"Rawww" The creature then jumped on Tenshi with its sharp claws in the air
"Haha… stop it, Liya hahah" Tenshi was tickled when Liya licked Tenshi's face, making him laugh.
Tenshi's monologue was interrupted by Liya, who started tickling him, so Tenshi continued to play with her.
"Liya, you ready for today's hunt? We are going to hunt that worm creature which took my hand" Tenshi said. Liya laid on his lap with one arm rubbing her chin.
"Graww" responded Liya by nodding her head, making Tenshi nod happily at Liya's continuous support.
Tenshi went back to the cave to sleep early... His big day and revenge.
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"Yawn…." Tenshi yawned as he was woken up by Liya, asking for food. While she has access to food near her, Liya only eats with Tenshi, as she likes to share her food with him and vice versa daily.
Tenshi wore his armor made up of ribs of a human-looking fish and brought a bone spear sharpened.
"Ready, Liya?" Tenshi asked while looking at Liya's ocean blue eyes.
Tenshi has been tracking that worm-like creature that took his arm at the beginning of his adventure in Hell. He has been pushing himself everyday… and saved the beast so he would kill it himself.
After nodding her head, Liya flew into the sky to keep an eye through the sky for Tenshi. As Liya can communicate telepathically, their strategy is very powerful.
Liya flying in the sky, tails the prey or warns Tenshi of danger, and Tenshi kills it. It's as simple as that.
Tenshi has a habit of going on hunts alone to improve himself, so he wouldn't overly become dependent on Liya, which might weaken him in the long run.
On his single hunts, he doesn't kill anything other than water creatures. He only stalks land creatures like imps, poisonous demonic snakes, and weird-looking deers….
*rustle*
A bush swiftly moved Tenshi's attention in front of him. As it is dark outside, there are sounds of owls and chipping crickets.
Tenshi has a habit of hunting at night, as he feels much safer. Maybe it was related to his home, where he lived in a pitch-black cave for a long time before gaining the power to see in the dark, or maybe the silence at night helped him. Who knows?
"RAWW" A Imp came out of a bush ready to dig its fangs.
Instead of dodging, Tenshi quickly threw a spear with a sharp bone head, nailing the Imp to the wall.
All of a sudden, various hand-like tentacles came from the ground. Liya didn't come to help as she was told to stay in the air.
Tenshi knew if this worm-like creature got a whiff of Liya, it would run away from the area, and he would never be able to find it, as he had no way of traveling underground.
The tentacles slowly warped around Tenshi, which he let happen.
As he expected, a worm-like creature came from below, making a large hole in front of him.
When the creature looked like Tenshi, there was recognition in its eyes, and Tenshi also saw it grow bigger than before. Compared to the last time he had seen it, it grew from a baby to adult size.
"Numm Numm" The creature looked at Tenshi as it opened its mouth and closed it simentinouly while its saliva dripped from its mouth. It looked excited to meet Tenshi, eager to see prey that had escaped.
"Grrrww" Seeing the creature giving that look infuriated Tenshi to the point of him making him growl, A primitive habit he had picked up to intimidate his foe.
Flexing his muscles, Tenshi forcibly stretched his hand away from his hip, creating a gap he could squeeze through. But instead of escaping like a coward, he wrapped the thin tentacles around his left arm and started pulling toward him.
Tenshi felt the worm creature was almost the size of double walruses, making it more than 10,000lbs. If Tenshi returned, he could become world heavy lifting champion by breaking the 6,270lbs record weight ever lifted.
After reaching enough distance, Tenshi squatted down and took a deep breath.
"AAAA" With a heavy shout, Tenshi stood up and yanked the tentacle in the air, causing the creature to do a complete 180 over his head and crash behind him.
Tenshi didn't stop there. With tentacles still wrapped around his arm, he smashed the creature towards the trees over and over again.
The creature looked like a mangled mess. While it was swishy, Tenshi saw its eyes and ears were bleeding, as he caused heavy internal damage.
*swish*
A massive bone odachi-like weapon dropped from the sky next to Tenshi.
Tenshi smirked while thanking his trusty carrier in the sky, who carries all the large weapons that can cripple his movement.
The weapon looked short for an odachi, but it resembled one, with a large curved blade with sharp teeth attached to its back.
Tenshi gripped the weapon handle tightly with one hand. This weapon's handle was wrapped with the skin of a shark, which coincidentally came from an actual lake.
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