Soul Monarch: The Eclipse Feast Online

Food Sources, Rat?!

With a wooden stick, I poked the bushes on the right and left, hoping it touched the monster and he came out! But nothing happened until now.

“Did I stay away from the monsters' habitat? Or did I meet a rat earlier just by chance?”

Hmm, I kept walking west for an hour, this is definitely not normal. If the appearance of monsters was this low, how could other players level up? Could I have to go back east again? It would be exhausting, yes.

By the way this wooden stick was the result of a branch I broke, and had been judged as a weapon. It may require certain skills or methods to obtain raw materials.

This wooden stick alone did not have decent attack power, but I guess it was enough to create a disturbance. It can also be used as a boredom release tool like I am doing now.

The level of wood I kept spinning finally stopped along with the decision I made. Let's try a little more. Trying to keep searching for monsters again, I fought for over 20 minutes until I finally managed to find one.

“Chuuuu!”

Yeah, and it's the same rat as before.

Doing almost the same strategy, I threw the Basic Appraisal to provoke rat hatred. While he's here prepare a ball of mana fog, tap with a wooden stick, release the pressure of the ball of mana fog, and finally hold his tail.

This time don't kill as quickly as before, just hold it down so it can't move. Capturing him alive is much harder than killing him. It was on this occasion that I was pleased with the physical strength of my character.

“I'm also glad I don't need to use my feet as bait,”.

Now you don't die first the rat. There are some verifications that I can only do if you are still alive — due to the absence of other lab rats. Well, in this case, the guinea pig is really a rat.

I held the rat's neck and the base of its tail so that he could not fight. Put it on a large rock as a stand and some loadings were placed so that he could not move freely.

“Good, now let's start verification. But I need a sharp tool and don't have it.”

Well, think of a method, a tool, or anything else I can use. Are all of these tools from nature? After a while, my gaze ended on my fingernails.

“For a moment, don't rush. Yes, my fingernails are quite hard, besides .. is sharp enough if used for piercing? Although not as smooth as a weapon.”

Isn't this a claw?

“Then this is okay, huh?”

Stabilizing my heart, I started pointing my nails at the rat's neck. Then press it hard enough to penetrate the skin, go deep enough and try to insert it further. Occasionally throw a judgment to check the rest of the mouse's HP does not decrease too close to death.

If anyone imagines that a pointy-hatted witch is preparing a cursed potion ingredient, that might be what I look like right now.

This isn't what a girl would do, but at least what I expected to happen.

When I pulled my nails, blood started to come out of the rat's neck. In this way, I will be able to gather them and hope to be used as a food source. This is much easier to come by than betting on the meat item drop.

Bloodsucking skill is a blood-sucking ability. That way, I hope blood will be judged as a food source for me, and the path of recovering Satiation will be easier.

However, right before that something unexpected happened. The blood that had been in contact with the air for about 3 seconds immediately evaporated into thin black vapor, disappearing without a trace.

I frowned, but not just at that. “Is not what happened earlier similar to the animation when the item drop occurred?”

It seems to have been confirmed that the Item drop animation is not just animation. Besides, why take time if it's just an animation? I think there's something in it.

Better keep this thought for now. My priority now is to find a way to recover Satiation values.

The notice suddenly sounded. Glancing towards the mouse that was restrained in the stone stand, he had let out a black fog and started to weave. To drop the item, once again, it was a rat tail.

“At least I obtained some information for now.”

Saying that to myself to lift the mood, I nodded lightly. Well, it's not like I'm not profiting from this rat at all.

“Thank you for your sacrifice, Rat.” I heard the typical ‘Chuuuu’ rat sound for a moment, but it might just be an auditory illusion.

Returning to reality, I thought about this matter carefully. Saving blood is not possible at this time. Yeah, I hope just for now. So, the only option is to drink blood directly from the body?

If it's a rabbit-shaped monster, I wouldn't mind, but it's a rat you know? The shadow of how I drank blood directly from the neck of a living mouse momentarily flashed, and I immediately shook my head firmly to drive it away.

Even so, it's the only realistic way ....

Good. Ignore a bit of self-image, after all this is only in the game and I won't tell anyone else, for sure. It will never.

I stood up, left the place before and started looking for another monster. For this time, I really hope that it is not the mouse that I will meet.

“Before I from the east continued to the west but monster populations were rare. If so, would it be better for me to go further south? Yes, with the possibility of meeting smaller NPCs there maybe that direction is better.”

Let's follow the policy of staying away from the city for now. I had to find a reason why they had immediately attacked me earlier, and deal with it before it started to get closer to the city.

“For my Satiation value ... Uhh, it's been at 57 points, huh?”

Calculating the approximate amount of Satiation consumption, I estimated that I would at best last for 3 hours of game time if not eat something.

I started walking south. No need to run or rush, it will only add to the stamina consumption of —which indirectly increases the consumption rate of Satiation.

The forest is getting busier until — road which is actually just an area where the grass grows shorter— is not visible anymore. The atmosphere here was much gloomier and darker than the area before.

Thanks to Night Vision my vision is a little better, but not as good as it is at night. This might be a little troublesome with reduced visibility.

As I was thinking about it, it was seen that some of the bushes around me started to sway with the typical mouse squeaks. Eventually the monsters began to look without having to look for it for hours.

I alerted the wooden stick and was ready to start casting spells at any time. “Let's proceed with caution.”

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Explanation of death and Despena for players in EFO.

Death in EFO does not mean immediate loss. This is because there is no Despena at all, either temporary statistical decline, item drop, or Exp/Level Skill reduction. So far, there is no such thing in EFO.

Instead, players would experience an indirect loss of waiting time after death instead of being raised instantly. It starts from 5 minutes for the first death, 30 minutes for the second, and finally 3 hours for the third.

There is nothing like the 4th death and beyond, death in EFO is limited to 3 times/day. This is the way management enforces an anti-addiction system alongside respawn breaks.

For Despena himself is not at all absent in EFO.

Some common cases are such as punishment for failing a single Quest. While the special case (which is usually heavier) as experienced by Leml and colleagues for killing players with skill levels less than 100 (Basic calculation assuming the initial 10 Skills reach level 10).