- Alert: Butcher mutation acquired. Voracious. -
- Voracious: consuming meat from life-steal targets will regenerate limbs and health in relation to the amount devoured. 10% chance of the target's skills being inherited. Upon consuming a certain threshold some stats can be awarded. *Side effect System user gets hungry 500% quicker. -
Like magic, the missing flesh on Hiro's arms and shoulders started to be grown anew with what looked like bubbling baking soda. Amused by the idea of devouring his enemies, Hiro took it a step further, he began licking blood off his spirit sword.
- Alert: Butcher mutation acquired. Unquenchable. -
- Unquenchable: Drinking blood from butcher targets allows Caliber recovery. The amount recovered depends on blood purity and coagulation. If the blood drank exceeds a certain threshold Caliber points can be awarded. *Side effect the host will have occasional bouts of unquenchable thirst. -
Like a lunatic Hiro smiled as wolf blood dripped down his chin like a spilled drink. The reincarnator felt something trigger in him as he came to the realization.
"HAHAHAHAAHA! LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!"
Hiro then assaulted the remaining wolves but this time, the word prey held a completely different meaning. With the role of predator and prey reversed.
Due to their proximity to Hiro, none of the wolves had time to run. They were dumbfounded as the man ripped their compatriot in two. Then grew terrified as he ate their flesh and drank their blood.
The wolves knew the implications of such an act, as they did it to intimidate their prey. It simply implied one simple truth. I am hunting you not because you did me wrong, or because I have to.
I am doing so simply because I can and I want to. This truth hammered in the idea that the prey is weaker and had no other choice but to accept. While the wolves did have hunters, none actively came at them directly.
Thus the surviving wolves grew terrified at the notion of being prey. Hiro then started to carve the wolves like one would do a slice of ham. Like a blood drunk lunatic, the wolves were unable to mount any meaningful resistance as Hiro intentionally killed them softly.
When all four could no longer move, Hiro grabbed one and ripped its throat with his mouth. He then raised the wolf corpse overhead, allowing the blood gushing from its neck to flow into his mouth. The man then sliced the carcass and gorged himself on the heart of the beast.
The heart, lungs, stomach, and kidneys were known to be the most protein-dense parts of any animal. Out of the four, the easiest to extract was the heart. Thus Hiro stuffed the Wolfen heart into his mouth as he swallowed it in bites.
The reincarnator didn't forget to look in the direction of the Alpha still hanging around the vicinity. As if to say, "Are you going to allow me to eat your family as you watch?". Unfortunately for the Forest wolves, the Alpha took the provocation as the time to leave.
The large bear-sized wolf ran away leaving his pack to their fate. Annoyed Hiro openly chastised the fallen leader. "You guys really are pitiful, you have a coward for a pack leader. At level 90 he remained at the back and let you guys die for his purposes."
Due to no longer needing to hurry, Hiro continued to carve the wolves in leisure, he didn't forget to eat and store the meat as he did so. The man also dumped the water in his canteen and filled it with wolf blood.
"I will never be like him. Even if I need to endure a hundred deaths. The first one to fall in any battle will be me. I forbid any of my wives to die."
Losing the possibility of salvation the wolves quietly waited for their death, Hiro systematically sliced the wolf equivalent of tendons in humans, thus none of them could even stand. One of the worse tortures for men was to have the tendons in their hands and feet cut.
The operation does not cause death however upon being removed, the one being tortured will forever lose the ability to use their hands and feet. The tendons connect the bones needed for the limbs to move, when destroyed the remaining muscles can no longer force the bones to follow.
All mammals have the same weakness in their bodies, and Hiro having X-ray vision from [Reverie beyond hope] and [Butcher] naturally capitalized on these weaknesses.
The wolves looked pitiful as they lamented their fate. Most would feel sorry for them and end their suffering with a quick death. Regrettably, Hiro was not like most people. As blood coagulated the moment the owner dies, Hiro wanted to preserve as much as he can.
Being weak prevented him from showing mercy. Mercy remained a privilege of the strong. And until Hiro could kill even Heralds, by his definition, he remained pitifully weak.
After some time passed. Hiro finished storing the processed meat in his inventory and started to work on the bones and pelts of the nine wolves he managed to kill.
On his map, he watched as the Alpha ran towards various places in a mad dash. As he already had a mark, the reincarnator did not intend to allow him to live. If he was any weaker, Hiro would be the one to die instead.
The events that occurred had nothing to do with malice or tragedy. The law of the jungle never changed even before human's learned to hunt. The strong lived as the weak died.
Hiro stored the excess wolf pelts and cleaned up one to use as a fur coat, the wolf's face rested on his head. So he looked like the typical beast master from video games.
Next, he fashioned the wolf bones into short sabers or darts. While he could create them using [Mana Molding] not using the materials available could only be considered extremely foolish.
After drinking and eating his fill, Hiro wondered why he didn't get sick from the uncooked meat. Bored Hiro asked the system for answers.
"System, I ate what seemed like 10 kilograms of uncooked raw meat yet I am fine. Why?"
- Alert: At 30 STR system users have immune systems and digestive systems on part with animals. Cooking is the process of digesting food before consumption. High enough stats removes the need for cooking food altogether. -
"Oh? Can you mention other thresholds that make system users different?"
- Alert: At 40 AGI System users gain reflexes of trained warriors -
- Alert: At 50 INT System users gain photographic memory. -
- Alert: At 60 STR System users no longer need to eat. -
- Alert: At 70 AGI System users gain enhanced spatial awareness akin to radar. -
- Alert: At 80 INT and 40 STR System users longer need to sleep. -
- Alert: At 80 AGI and 40 STR System users longer need to drink. -
- Alert: At 80 AGI and 100 STR System users longer need to breathe. -
"Wait! Stop! Stop! Stop! What do you mean? I no longer even need to eat or breathe now?"
- Alert: Affirmative, [Initiates] already surpass all thresholds of what classifies a human. Or it can be more accurate to say you are no longer human once you leave the novice rank.-
