Chapter 40: Chapter 35- Lust for Battle

Chomp. Munch Munch.

Hmmm. Puaahh.

Chomp~.

Thanks for the meal.

This guy surprisingly tastes great. Ahhh, I hadn’t had a good meal in nearly a week, I was this close to going insane.

Note to self: The only reason you’re still sane is the tasty food. Never give up the tasty food, no matter what the reason is.

It’s a shame I didn’t get to absorb that wyrm’s soul with Conquest though... I really didn’t wanna risk it, that Greed snake made a big mess of my soul.

But I’m glad I dealt with it before things went out of hand.

Now that I think about it, there’s really no need to stick to the game-like way of leveling up in a biome, then heading to the next one. You can imagine how much influence that illusion had on me.

This world is a real one, not some MMORPG where I can farm and level up carefreely. Combat experience, skill experimentation, and martial arts expertise are all vital parts of your effective strength.

A slow and gradual strength increase is not what I want. I chose this world to escape from the mundane modern society and seek the thrill of tough battles.

Another crucial factor to consider is time. I don’t have enough time to go through the slow process of skill grinding.

It’s been close to three months since I was reincarnated as a fish, this means that human reincarnations only have a bit more than 6 months till they’re born.

Judging by the fact that Ms Oka told the elf patriarch about reincarnations as soon as she found out about her reincarnation skill, I have about 7 months, give or take to increase my strength to the point where I’m comfortable protecting a newborn baby while under the siege of a hundred elves.

You might think that I’m exaggerating, but you should remember that I might have to fully take care of both a baby Aiko and a baby Segawa, all while being pursued by the obnoxious long ears.

I’d love to take the girls into my underwater domain, but it’s impossible for human babies to survive in this environment...

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Hey, D. I don’t know if you’re listening, but I’d really appreciate it if I got some sort of skill to transform others into my race in the future!

Well, I believe that all my hard work will be totally worth it. I mean, just imagine being called mommy by Aiko or Segawa!

Ehehehe~.

Ahhh...! Somehow, I started drooling even though I’m underwater. This should be the legendary power of love, right?!

Wait for me, my lovely girls, I’ll make sure no one lays a hand on you!

Taking advantage of my soaring motivation, I leave this god-forsaken biome and charge towards the delicious food biome—Ahem, the mushroom biome.

All while completely ignorant of the two complicated gazes directed my way by two different beings for different reasons.

 

The large worms that inhabit the mushroom biome are very different from the ones that were near my hatching area.

Hidden underground below me is a long worm with a total length of over 15 meters. That’s literally over 15 times my own body size, and that’s without considering the width difference!

The worm’s body consists of multiple 1-meter-long ball-shaped sections connected to each other. Each section is covered by hard metallic scales that hide two pairs of tiny legs under them.

Its tail ends in a very hard spiky ball that can easily crush me with one shit while two large horizontal pincers grow out from both sides of its mouth.

If I had to describe this freak of nature, I’d say it’s a worm fucked an ant and then their offspring suffered from both deep sea gigantism and radiation mutation.

Now for stats, this guy is what you’d call a proper meat tank.