Nest. And the first hunt (3)
Dive-!
The surface of the vast lakeside where a huge waterfall falls.
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Above the blue-blue waves, I see something swimming swiftly.
The color of blue.
A giant marlin? Or tuna?
No. It wasn’t.
It was much smaller than that, and the body was not like that.
It seemed to jump up and do acrobatic stunts over and over again.
It was difficult to face it properly because it moved so fast as if it were being shot.
If you take a closer look, you soon realize that it is not a creature with a streamlined body like a fish.
It’s completely different from that.
It is a young wolf cub, a mammal-type creature.
Splash-!
Winter made huge jumps as if gliding on the surface of the water.
He took a deep breath each time he bounced off the surface of the water.
Whoop,
In that short amount of time, the lung capacity to fill the lungs really drew in a large amount of oxygen.
That gave him the impetus to move out of the water again.
Winter is in the waves that blow past one’s cheeks like a blizzard.
I realized the ascended original body.
‘Lung capacity has increased.’
Perhaps it was the case with cetacean animals whose body was mostly composed of lungs.
I felt that Winter had gained so much lung capacity that I wondered if his own body was like that kind of animal.
‘I feel that my physical performance has greatly improved. You can literally run faster and longer without getting too tired from strenuous activity.’
Longer distances than before, longer breaths, and the sensation of lungs that remain unmoved despite vigorous activity.
It was a strange kind, completely different from human beings.
It was like an animal version of Usain Bolt, who is considered the pinnacle among humans.
But apart from that.
There was also a sense of accomplishment for the person who had grown noticeably.
Dive!
Winter was a more natural swim along such a soft current.
I was finally able to face a new message.
Diring-!
[Congratulations![
[Water attribute power will increase from F grade to E grade!]
[Sensory ability for elemental power develops more ‘agilely’!]
‘Oh?’
To the alarm of the message that popped up in an instant.
Winter’s jaw dropped slightly in surprise and admiration.
He slowly slowed down and checked his status window.
‘Again. My abilities have risen again.’
Attribute power. Another growth of a slightly unusual ability that is different from the characteristic.
With him, Winter was able to feel his own attribute power that had become stronger.
He felt the changes in his body while lying on his back with his stomach in the middle of the surface of the water.
‘The sense of handling the water energy of the lake has become much easier. It doesn’t feel like I’m forcibly pushing water like I used to.’
More essential than that.
At the same time, it felt like it was moving more naturally.
As if the currents around him moved along with him.
Even if he wasn’t separately manipulating or conscious of it.
As if the water had a will, it was following him.
And because of that.
Winter was able to understand, albeit vaguely, the conditions for the growth of elemental power.
‘The attribute power grows the longer I spend with water. It will continue to be like that.’
It was a conviction based on experience.
Then, for example. As far as Winter knew, the elemental powers such as fire and wind that were said to exist in this world also meant the same as saying that there was a slight possibility that he could get something from him now.
The hypothesis was confirmed with the immediate situation accompanied by experience.
‘Perhaps, depending on what I do in the future, I might be able to acquire new elemental powers.’
What was needed to acquire attribute power was a physical experience of motivation and attributes.
Just.
Even in the original world, there were a handful of hunters who gained some attribute power.
They are an extremely rare type even among hunters of the same rank, and they used to show quite powerful abilities among those of the same rank.
For example, spirit sorcerers who used to deal with spirits and wizards who used attribute magic were among them.
Undine, who can handle water, and Sylph, the spirit of wind. A wizard who can handle fire and water.
Chack!
Winter stretched out his front paws, splashing them on the surface of the water.
‘In the future, all sorts of things might really be possible like those wizards.’
It was then.
‘Hmm?’
Splash-!
At that time, I saw something popping up on the other side.
‘What is that?’
Winter’s pupils instantly widened, and both ears stood up.
It wasn’t because someone told me, it was an instinctive reflex action.
His slightly widened eyes turned to the surface of the water on the other side.
Very far away, right in the middle of the lake.
He sees through the fast-moving black shadows cast beneath the surface of the water.
I knew that the other person’s existence was a life form with a fairly large size.
The winter’s pupils got a little smaller this time through the process of constriction.
Then I took a closer look at the physique of that shadow.
‘The size is well over twice as big as me. Maybe only people? But judging from its shape, it’s probably a fish?’
That moment.
Splash-!!
Once again, it made a big jump up the water’s surface.
And that moment.
Winter was able to accurately capture the guy’s true identity through the narrowing of his pupils.
‘What, what, that.’
It’s embarrassing.
It was ‘tuna’. Even there, it’s quite human-sized.
‘Could it really be tuna?’
It’s so thick that even if a person hugs it with their arms wide open, they won’t be hugged.
That guy was a tuna with a huge physique.
At that moment, another question also popped up in my mind.
How do tuna live in freshwater? Didn’t tuna originally live in the sea?
But before winter can finish the question.
The tuna, which jumped vigorously into the air, plunged under the surface of the water again! And jumped in
There was nothing strange about it. There was no need to ask these questions in the first place.
In the world where destruction has come, all kinds of monsters have popped up.
For that one, only the appearance was borrowed from a wild animal, but there was always a possibility that it was actually a monster.
Like the giant clam captured by Yuhwarin, the mother of winter, before.
Flash.
As soon as he sensed that a ‘prey’ lower than himself had appeared, he sensed his inner nature soaring.
It was something like a beast hiding inside.
He was clearly a prey.
Even though it is large, compared to Winter, which belongs to the werewolf species, it is not enough to say that its weight class is huge even among the pyramids.
I can feel the tail rising stiffly as if expanding.
The blunt, immature jawline snapped together, and strength went into it.
Winter sensed an instinctive desire.
‘I have to chase it.’
The winter that flashed in my eyes was shot at that moment.
Choo!
They split the surface and moved quickly.
Even though no one said anything.
Winter heard the cry of an intense physical instinct that seemed to force him to pursue it.
It was as if my whole body was being pushed.
Take him.
Goooooh!
Winter is rapidly approaching while diving below the surface of the water.
And that moment.
[?!]
Pogrure!
Soon, a change occurred in the guy’s movements, which had been moving leisurely.
In an instant, dozens of violent air bubbles bubbled up in the water, and the guy’s waist swayed left and right more violently and split the depths of the water.
Perhaps judging by the movement.
It seemed that they had sensed the presence of winter, which was rapidly pursuing them.
‘I can’t miss it!’
But the more so.
It was only natural that the nature of winter was also stimulated.
Originally, it was the natural instinct and nature of upper predators to pursue a beast that ran away with all its might rather than a frightened beast.
It was the same in winter. He is a werewolf who is both a carnivore and a predator.
Winter got even more excited and chased after him.
But he was fast.
That much too.
In the first place, winter was a family of mammals with fur. It was also a terrestrial species that stood upright on its legs.
On the other hand, it was a tuna fish with the perfect streamlined body.
Because of that, the speed of such tuna was absurdly fast.
It was only natural that the pursuit of him would be overwhelming, even in the winter, when he had raised his E-class water attribute power.
‘No, I won’t miss it-.’
The gap in the distance that I had worked so hard to close widened little by little.
Georeum saw the guy stepping away from his field of vision.
But you have to catch it.
Winter had no intention of missing him here.
I was going to catch it unconditionally. He was desperate
That moment.
Follow the will of the urgent winter-.
The currents in the water surrounding the tuna.
It took the shape of something artificial and shook him unsteadily.
‘What, what?’
A sight that happened in an instant.
Even though it was a scene he had managed to pull off, Winter showed embarrassment.
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It was the first time in my life, a sight I couldn’t even imagine.
Just now, the current around the tuna fish was visibly shaken.
It was as if they were trying to catch him and imprison him.
But with winter’s bewilderment.
The ‘power’ of the surrounding water holding the tuna was released.
The tuna, free from anything that held it back, tried to escape through the water by kicking off its tail.
‘Oh, I’ll miss it!’
With the feeling of urgency once again soaring at that moment.
An unbelievable sight appeared before his eyes.
Blue magical energy flashed in the winter eyes.
Kwadeuk-!
It’s not because someone told me.
It was an expression of instinctive desire.
The flow of water around the tuna gurgled, trembled, vibrated, and changed in reverse.
Instantly, an artificial flow of water in the shape of a ‘big man’s hand’.
Just like that, I grabbed him.
‘I got it!’
For the first time in my life.
It was the moment when winter caught its prey on its own.
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