The Wolf Stands on Two Legs (1)
Dive!
When Winter dragged him out of the water.
In the grass, her mother, Yuhua Lin, was watching them.
Worry doesn’t even care about Yuhwarin’s existence.
She came up to the shore, dragging the game she was catching, the tuna, in front of her eyes.
Dadadak!
The tuna struggled with all its might.
Her big, thick tail and loin fluttered and bounced.
‘Stay still!’
It was also at that moment that the instinct that had sunk inside of winter surged up.
He reflexively raised his blade as far as he could, exposing his raised claws.
Pu-wook!
I drove my claws into the tuna’s back as it struggled.
Though blood splattered when he pierced the raw meat and tuna skin.
Winter, whose instincts of a hunter had already manifested, didn’t even realize that fact, and held onto him tightly and asked him as it was.
His jaw bit him hard.
And winter.
[Arrr!]
Only as instinct taught me, I bit him with all my might and shook him from side to side.
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Kwadeuk. Quadduk.
I bit him with sharpened molars.
Dadadak!
Tuna fiercely resisted.
It flopped its thick back and its tail pounded the ground recklessly.
Its torso was very thick and large, and it was only part of it that Winter could bite.
Naturally, the resistance of the guy was relatively greater in winter.
But Winter acted solely on instinct.
[Arrr!]
Now, with claws sharpened even sharper than before, I firmly planted them so that they could not move.
Shaking the fluttering guy from side to side with great force in his chin.
It was an act based solely on the instinct of a carnivore.
Its feast, engraved from time immemorial, has certainly existed even for a mere young child.
He narrowed his vertical pupils and let out a ferocious beast growl.
The more he resisted, the more it brought about the ferocity of winter.
In no time, blood red like water flowed on the surrounding grass from the blood of the tuna.
‘Hot.’
And when the realm of instinct that soared finally subsided.
Winter was able to face a bloody scene full of surroundings.
He realized that the sight in front of him was exactly what he was doing.
And then how he was able to capture a guy who was so much better than he was.
It came to my mind very clearly.
Winter thought with her vertical pupils still wide open.
‘My attributes. Grabbing him, I dragged the incapacitated one out of the water.’
The elemental power manifested, and it grabbed the guy who had kept a distance for a long time. It was an action enumerated by instinct, not based on consciousness.
Winter thoughtfully recalled his actions.
It was like a video playing clearly in my mind.
As if.
I’m trying to make sure I don’t forget the memory of this first hunt.
[Are?]
Then, suddenly, winter.
Recognizing that there was a shadow over her head, she raised her head slightly.
He and his sisters’ mother, Yuhwarin, was there.
“How.”
My mother Yuhwarin.
She smiled and slowly hugged Winter, making eye contact with hers.
The emotions I felt were clear.
It was gratification, pride, or joy and other positive green lights.
The unique way of communicating with the werewolf pack, conveyed through glances and short voices.
With that, Kyeol realized that Yuhwarin was proud of him.
She was celebrating this moment in winter, the end of her first great hunt.
[Grrr.]
Suck. Swoop.
Winter rubbed his face in the arms of his mother, who rubbed his bloody nostrils.
My neck trembled and his pleasant noise leaked out.
A warm and fragrant scent came from the air.
It smells good.
It was the same scent of mother Yuhwarin as always.
Geo-reo buried her face in Yoo Hwa-rin’s voluptuous chest.
I quietly felt fulfilled.
Family love and overflowing emotions that I had never felt in my previous life.
Something inside seemed to fill up.
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[Huh.]
Winter lay on his back in the warm fur nest in the crypt.
He looked up at the ceiling with a protracted yawn.
He was busy looking at the characteristic shop window that popped up in front of him.
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[Speciality Shop: Purchased characteristics can be deleted at any time.]
[New species characteristics are unlocked by hunting ‘Silver’s Tailor Tuna’.]
[Silver’s Tailor Tuna Extraction Attribute ‘Silver Scales’: Exclusive Attribute for Aquatic Creatures (currently unavailable). An outer skin that activates an excellent auxiliary function for aquatic activities.]
[When purchasing this ability, it will be applied immediately.]
Price 5700 points.
[Silver’s Taylor Tuna Extraction Characteristic ‘Strong Spine’: A characteristic that develops the vertebrae, which are the basis of the skeleton of ‘vertebrate organisms’, to be exceptionally large and thick. It helps in the development of more smooth physical functions.]
[When purchasing this ability, it will be applied immediately.]
Price 2700 points.
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Silver’s Taylor Tuna.
That was the official species name for the big tuna that Winter hunted during the day.
I didn’t even know this guy existed until now, so I didn’t even know his name, but even this was properly displayed in the system.
That gave me confidence.
As expected, with this system floating in front of winter.
There is no doubt that there is some degree of ‘relationship’ to the collapse of the current world.
Perhaps these monsters, who originally only existed in dungeons, were released into the world.
It may have been due to some action of this system.
Of course, for now it’s just speculation.
‘By the way.’
For a while, Winter looked at the list of traits the guy had given him, then raised one eyebrow as if wondering.
‘This guy. For what characteristic is the point difference so large? How come one is 5700 and one is only 2700?’
I wonder if this price is too high for a mere tuna.
How come the price is like this? It was downright embarrassing.
Even this trait called ‘silver scales’.
Looking at it, Winter seems to have no use for it, but the price is absurdly high.
Though winter seemed useful only in the case of the ‘Strong Spine’ trait.
Since the price variance was so wide, he felt rather reluctant to the extent that he wondered if it was actually a trap feature.
‘Are those silver scales really that good?’
But soon.
Georeum shook his head after answering his own question.
‘That can’t be. After all, for me, that’s a trap trait that’s completely useless.’
In that case.
What Winter needs is a strong spine character down there.
For him, belonging to the mammalian family and the werewolf species, there was no other trait that would have given him such remarkable development.
But if that was the case, I couldn’t help but question it even more.
Why does this trait he needs seem so relatively inexpensive?
It wasn’t long before he answered the question.
‘Yes. There is no law that only the characteristics I need are always expensive.’
What characteristics are expensive and which ones are cheap?
In other words, it clearly meant that there was a ‘relative reference point’ for them.
However, judging from the experience of winter so far.
He’s not very precise, but he’s been able to come up with perhaps the most fundamental answers.
At least, the reference point was not ‘Winter himself’.
Then this standard would have been based elsewhere.
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‘Maybe that. It must be the degree of variation and rarity of the relative values of the characteristics of all creatures that will exist on Earth.’
This is a biological point of view.
So, if expressed in more detail, it would have been based on the ability to survive from an evolutionary point of view.
Not just in terms of combat.
The rarer, the more survival-specific and evolved traits.
The more and more points are awarded, the more expensive it is.
For example, the thing that Winter had the most difficulty in catching him was his very fast swimming speed.
By the action of the characteristic, ‘silver scales’.
He boasted a speed so fast that even in winter, when he had grown elemental power twice, it was difficult.
Obviously, the support of the large and thick spine also played a big role in its own way.
Rather than that, the contribution of the silver scales was greater.
Because I assisted the flow of water to my heart’s content and to move very quickly.
For a guy like that, the existence of those scales is.
It was clearly a very good survival strategy.
It was then.
“Haaa.”
At that time, a long sigh was heard from the other side.
‘Huh?’
A sign of quite heavy worries and concerns.
Winter turned around wanting something.
There was her mother Yuhwarin, looking at the winter with a worried face.
She was staring at Winter herself with a concerned expression.
‘Ah. Is it because of his attitude?’
At once Winter realized the reason for her worry.
Perhaps Yuhua Lin, she seemed to be concerned about his ‘strange posture’.
Actually, she made Winter lie down on her belly again several times.
It’s too much.
It is useless.
In the winter when he was born as a human and always lay down with his stomach facing the sky, this position was rather comfortable for him.
Wooooo! He did it lads!! The werewolf wizard MC managed to catch and kill a helpless fish!!! *pops champagne*