Chapter 21: Level 3 Cannibal Monster
I gripped my hatchets tightly and prepared myself for combat. I stopped at the entrance to the cave, but did not enter it. The cave was narrow, and the ceiling was low. Although it would be easier to fight something large inside, it would also be difficult for me to escape if something went wrong.
But I didn’t need to enter. As if responding to my arrival in its territory, a creature walked slowly out of the darkness...
Its length was almost the same as my box truck, only it was thinner and more slender. It had gray fur, red eyes characteristic of mutants, perky wolf ears, and a huge mouth that constantly leaked black saliva.
This monster would previously have been called the Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus). They lived in several groups in this forest and made these cave systems, which had also been a coal mine, their habitat. But among them, a cannibalistic aberration had emerged. Its hunger and violence made it devour its entire pack. Not satisfied, he also hunted and killed all the mutants he could find in the caves and surroundings of this place.
In the first apocalypse, this monster reached level 2 in just two weeks, and his insatiable thirst for blood took him to Pineview Village... With no mutant humans there, the creature took over the place, killing several citizens every day for pure fun. Almost as if he held everyone hostage for several days... Until the other survivors of SC12 arrived to put an end to his killing spree...
Although Rhayra was still alive, it was too late for my mother, who perished at the hands of this monster... That’s why I came personally, this was an old enemy that I wanted to eliminate with my own hands...
The cannibal wolf was not that smart. As soon as he saw me, he began to circle slowly as if he were observing a new prey.
While he did this, I also watched him. Its claws and teeth were larger, and its size was almost as large as my box truck, meaning it had already become a level 3 in less than 2 weeks...
If I hadn’t come here, he would have threatened the Pineview Village base. But now I was happy... Happy that this trip had yielded me another level 3 crystal... The sooner my allies became level 3 mutants, the sooner they could start practicing their own Universal Force.