Chapter 27: Chapter 25 Leaving Another Nest

Poking my head out of my little shelter, I look in the direction of the leviathan.

Making sure that it’s back to sleep for real, I give my second little home a final farewell and leave.

My progress has lately become stagnant which is a rare thing.

As a result of having the combination of Sage, Exhaustion Nullification, and Suffering Nullification, I’ve always been on the move ever since I hatched.

The only times of rest I had were my food breaks after hard fights and close calls when training Stealth.

Most Monsters around here don't reward me with much experience anymore and targeting blade-fish has become near impossible.

All of the stragglers are already in my stomach while the remaining ones are part of the swarm.

I could wait a while for a few of them to get separated to hunt them, but that’d be a stupid waste of time.

Going into a fight with no chance of winning is suicide, however, avoiding all fights unless they’re guaranteed wins is cowardice.

Since I already have all the information-gathering and mental skills down giving me a large safety factor, looking for decent opponents is the least I could do.

My destination is a cave I saw while mapping the area behind the leviathan a few days ago.

The opening has a 10-meter radius meaning my sphere can fully cover it.

I also compared how it looks to the other caves in this area, finally concluding that it is a naturally occurring underwater cave.

This means no huge scary monsters slithering through there doing an impression of a vacuum cleaner, perfect!

And there should be some hidden places I can use for rest shelter as well, my next evolution should be very soon after all.

Serratum Saven are likely to evolve by level 10 in my predictions, the species’ power level is too weak for any higher.

I really hope that my previous skill grind would satisfy the conditions for a poison-type evolution, fighting head-on with my body just ain't my style.

Sneak attacks, swift attack & retreat, highly lethal weaponry, etc... are what my normal combat style revolve around.

Shishou would probably bust his ass off laughing at me if he ever finds out about how I fight nowadays.

Ahhh, I still feel that really deep malice directed towards me! D really loves her entertainment, huh?!

 

Reaching the cave, I reduce my speed and hug upper corner while curiously exploring around.

This way of movement is a neat trick I came up with after some close calls with the blade-fish swarm.

Most living creatures subconsciously look down and around when searching for something.

A human would search for any lost item or person by looking around, an animal would track their prey by stalking it from an upwards position, and a bird looks down or forward while flying.

Even fish face downwards when searching for food.

So, moving alongside the upper corners and adding in Stealth removes the already low chance of being detected.

I’m never gonna admit that I like the feeling of being a ninja though, teehee.

Now then, the fish around here are still the same as in the large cavern, but their numbers seem to have increased exponentially and larger evolved counterparts are gradually increasing.

The ecosystem’s finally turning back to normal, the leviathan’s presence made it so that only weak non-intelligent creatures stuck around, everything smart enough to have a sense of danger has already escaped into different cave systems.

Surprisingly though, blade-fish are almost non-existent around here.

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They behave similarly to the giant bees in Elroe Labyrinth, or it may be that the narrow environment restricts their normal tactics.

You’d think that this is good for me, right?

Nope, fucking nope.