When the street dog entered the scene, the bandicoot bailed. The street dog was so hungry it didn’t even sniff the human lying on the ground. It directly bit his foot with all of its might. It viciously shook its head, trying to rip a chunk off.“What the hell are you doing to him?” an old woman just entered the alley and was shocked to see what the dog was doing. Despite her arrival, the dog didn’t let go of Myles’ foot. This angered the old woman who was none other than Penny. “Hundred Kilo Crush!” She waved her hand downward, and an invisible pressure pressed the dog down, forcing its belly to hug the ground. It let go of Myles and howled in horror. “Yeah? It’s just a hundred kilos, so stop overacting!” she came over and kicked the dog’s face, making it go silent.She removed the pressure, and the dog skedaddled with its tail tucked between the legs.“Now, what have we here?” Penny squatted down and checked Myles’ pulse. It was there.“I closed the shop early because I profited tod
Myles’ face swelled in shame and anger. He kept glaring at Penny.“What?” she indifferently asked. “You got hit by a woman before or what?”“Kick me again, and I’ll—” Myles was saying, but she kicked him in the face again. Myles couldn’t believe it. He should have seen her kick coming from a mile away, but he couldn’t tell that. Not even a bit. This made him frown deeply. (Don’t tell me… the spiritual seal has bloomed after I passed out? Did it completely seal my powers?) He quickly sat up and began murmuring something.“Mm?” Penny wondered what Myles was suddenly doing. “What are you doing now? Are you trying to muster some kind of energy?” she shook her head. “You don’t get any power from meditating, dude.”Despite her words, Myles still kept mumbling.“You hear me?” she snapped her fingers, but again, there was no response, so she slapped him.Myles was forced to open his eyes, which visibly gained red. “Hit me again, and you’ll regret it.”Penny sighed. “It seems nothing I say to
Despite how human lives were treated outside the wolf city, humans were put on the pedestal within the city walls.Even in the saber ward where Justin and others were staying, they were given respect no matter where they went. The woke animals generally treated them like the humans were above themselves. And there was a reason for this.The first and foremost rule of the city was: Respect each other regardless of the race.So, the humans also had to respect the woke animals. Quarrels between two humans or two woke-animals were taken lightly, but quarrels between a human and a woke animal would immediately result in prosecution of both parties. Both sides would generally end up paying a fine.Currently, Casey and a woke-cow were being prosecuted in a public court, where the judge was the warden himself. He was a woke-sabertooth cat with a huge build enough to intimidate most people.“I’ve been telling you that I didn’t do it on purpose,” Casey was trying her best to not tell at the wok
Justin and others headed to the ward center. However, all of them stopped near a warehouse, as they saw Myles carrying rice bags. This left everyone in surprise. Why was someone like Myles working as a mere porter? They couldn’t comprehend it. Most of them didn’t want to go and meet him, but Justin went up to him.“Hey, Myles, are you busy?” Justin asked from a distance.Myles, who was carrying a large rice bag on his back, stopped and looked at Justin. “One second.” He hurriedly dropped the bag inside the warehouse and came out. “Where are you guys headed?”“To the ward center. To get our IDs. Want to come with us?”“IDs? You mean the identification cards?” Myles asked.“Yeah. How did you get the job with an ID card?” Justin couldn’t help but ask.“Well, I told them a joke, and they happily let me work for today,” Myles smiled. “I needed the money to pay the entrance fee to the dungeon, so I’m working here.”“What kind of joke got you the job?” Justin curiously asked.“The owner of t
After working for ten straight hours, Myles was paid 2000 dollars and a bonus of 200 for his exceptional work.Myles also was given a free meal at the owner’s house. The woke-ram, Rockell, then competed with Myles in the garden. They headbutted, and Myles ended up losing.Myles also suffered a forehead injury, which profusely bled. He was treated by Rockell’s wife.Rockell patted on Myles’ back, “You’re a really hard worker. Seeing your speed, I thought you'd break your back in an hour, but you surprised me. I would love to hire you permanently.”“I don’t have the intention of working like this in the future,” Myles plainly replied. “I will enter the dungeon today. I’ll be much stronger when I come out.”“Haha, I like your confidence. Let’s compete again after you come out of the dungeon.”“Sure, but you won’t be winning for a second time.”“Mehmehmeh,” Rockell laughed out loud. “We’ll see.”Rockell, being the owner of a rice mill, was a rich guy in the neighborhood. Though he didn’t
Entering a dungeon alone…This wasn’t the first time this happened in Myles’ life.He first met Vreka, his wife from the past life, in front of an ice cold dungeon, where winds whipped so harshly, skin would tear off people’s skin. In such a harsh place, despite being wounded severely, she was standing outside, as if waiting for someone to come out. When he asked her, she told him she was waiting for her mother who couldn’t escape from the deadly million monster dungeon. Myles assured her he would bring her mother out if she was still alive. She didn’t believe him, as her ten-membered group was all wiped out except her and her mother. They split up to survive, but only Vreka made it out. Vreka was already quite strong by then, but the million monster dungeon was still on another level. So, she wasn’t sure if her mother would make it out alive.“It’s not something you can do all on your own,” Vreka still told him. “Don’t waste your life.”Myles vanished from her sight, and five seconds
Myles fell back and hit his head to the ground, which hurt him some more. “AHH!” he cringed in pain. No matter how hard he gritted his teeth, the pain wasn’t going away. He kept losing blood. He had to tear his shirt and tightly wrap it around the wound. It stopped the bleeding, but all the nerves in his right foot throbbed even when he wasn’t moving his leg. However, he could tell that he wasn’t poisoned.“Dammit.”There was no way he could walk with multiple holes in his foot. His right foot would only keep swelling with every minute, so he wasn’t sure if he could even climb down and leave the dungeon. Moreover, Bjorn must still be waiting for him outside.“How am I going to get out of this?”He looked around, hoping to find one or two useful things from the wooden chests, but he found nothing. He pushed a wooden lid and covered the hole.And then he crawled on his butt to a corner and sat down, with the sword in his waist, ready to attack any lizard that might crawl out of the hol
“Sentient trap formations…”Most people would have felt threatened, but Myles got excited. If he had his powers, passing through these traps would have been a piece of cake, but with his current condition, where one of his legs were compromised, he was not in a position where he should feel confident about taking this challenge.Nevertheless, Myles didn’t give up.He stood there and kept touching the walls to see if there was any way to deactivate the trap. However, he didn’t find anything. He then observed the third step and noticed if it was any different from the first and two. He couldn’t help but notice a thin horizontal line along the edge, which was obscure because of the dried blood. He looked at the upper stairs, and some of them had this same pattern.“I think I found the clues they left, but it seems I have to go through this horror… with a broken foot, nonetheless.”“The traps will activate if I cross. The only way I can get across without getting hurt is to be fast enough