CRRR! CRRRR!

The sound of something heavy being pulled along the ground resonated throughout the forest. Except for this sound, everything else was silent.

This was the sound of the Stalker's corpse being pulled through the forest.

White snowflakes fell down around Alex as he walked through the deep darkness.

Suddenly, Alex saw a slight golden light coming from the sky. If his eyes hadn't been strengthened, he wouldn't have noticed this little bit of light.

Above the layer of clouds was a golden shooting star, its light barely visible to him.

'A golden shooting star that's so bright that I can even see it through a thick layer of clouds?' Alex thought with furrowed brows. 'That's strange. However, this world is already strange enough. This is just one more oddity added to the pile.'

Alex looked back down.

This golden shooting star didn't concern him.

After a while, Alex arrived at his clearing.

He hadn't seen another animal or creature all this time.

If it had been a month ago, Alex would have met at least one creature that had been drawn to him due to the sound, but Alex's position had changed.

He was no longer the vulnerable, new survivor.

Now, he was one of the hunters of the forest.

A normal animal would be frightened off by the Stalker's corpse, and a powerful creature would be able to feel Alex's power.

Stalkers weren't the most powerful creatures in the forest, but they also weren't weak.

Alex still remembered the two gigantic beasts he had seen when he had just arrived.

If Alex tried to attack them, he wouldn't even know how he had died.

He couldn't possibly fight against such behemoths with his current power.

Current was the keyword.

When Alex arrived at his clearing, he let go of the corpse and sat down beside it.

Shing! Shing!

Alex took out his sword and started to skin the corpse.

In the silent, cold night, only the sound of cutting could be heard.

It was like Alex was the only being in this world as only darkness surrounded him.

After Alex was done with skinning the Stalker, he took the hide and put it near his hut.

couple of days. After all, when the true winter arrived, the snow would make all the trees wet. Alex needed dry wood to create a fire, and he needed enough to

his head turned to one of the edges

Green eyes.

Alex knew these eyes.

more than once, the one that had shot the fireballs at the

entire dynamic had

If it hadn't

second time they had met, they

Alex was clearly the more

his ability to evade the fireballs, and even if he couldn't evade them, he could still use

but not nearly as

them knew that Alex was

as he looked at the lizard from

that he wanted

Splosh!

Stalker and threw it over to the lizard. The lizard jumped to the

looked

Alex went back to creating his

was a bit confused for a while, but it couldn't resist its instincts. It carefully walked closer to the leg, constantly keeping an

PACK!

the leg and ran away at

Alex only smirked.

create any kind of connection with them, even when one has them as

smart enough to notice that I was weaker without my weapon. I think

knows? Maybe if I work hard enough, I can build some kind of cooperation with that lizard. If its power increases, I might even be

Most reptiles are cold-blooded by nature, and they would freeze to death in these temperatures. I guess the fire the lizard can

I need to see if this will actually work,' Alex thought as he continued building

had placed the fire over ten meters away from his hut for a

some minutes, quite a big

some parts off the Stalker and grilled them around the fire. However, he didn't dry

Why not?

had a

build his hut for the

Boom!

of something heavy hitting the

Alex smirked.

I

louder over the next two minutes until something

and it had gigantic,

It was the hedgehog!

was why Alex had built the

found him the last time due to the fire and smell

hide but sat several meters away from the fire, leaving enough space for

a

over the fire for several minutes. While warming itself,

away

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