Chapter 11 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

System bit off the molting insect’s head effortlessly with his mandibles, and its white blood splashed everywhere.

System looked at the wrinkled wings of the post-molting insect’s carcass and found out the insect’s identity. It was a large dragonfly nymph that lived in the water at the larva stage. It was a fierce aquatic insect that fed on mosquito larvae, tadpoles, or some small fish.

The dragonfly nymph would undergo molting to become an adult dragonfly.

System had killed a dragonfly that was about to complete its metamorphosis.

The molting process softened the dragonfly nymph’s exoskeleton, so System was able to swallow it easily. The softened exoskeleton tasted similar to compressed chocolate milk, and System was full after taking only four or five sips.

Upon feeling the fullness in his stomach, System swallowed even harder. After having endured hunger for five days, System would rather be stuffed than endure it again.

Two hours later, System had nearly eaten and digested a quarter of the dragonfly carcass. A sour and numb feeling coursed through System’s entire body once again, and he reached Level 7.

His body grew from 3.4 centimeters to 4.1 centimeters, and the wing buds on his back were half-grown now. System could even control these newly grown wing buds to move.

After leveling up, System’s [Molting Growth] and [Insect Adaptability] were slightly enhanced, but the talent level still remained at 11. It seemed System’s previous guess was true. Once any of his abilities reached Level 11, progressing them further would be more difficult.

Due to the starvation experience System had gone through, he once again acquired a new derived ability, called [Hunger Tolerance Physique].

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[Hunger Tolerance Physique] (5/11): Acquired by the talent [Insect Adaptability]. The stomach can store more food with higher food utilization and lower consumption of the body’s energy.

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In addition to the newly acquired [Hunger Tolerance Physique], System’s [Fishy Slime] advanced because of this level-up.

[Fishy Slime] (3/7) → [Fishy Slime] (4/7)

The pungent odor of slime, which his mouth secreted, was even fishier and came with some corrosivity.

Perhaps due to [Hunger Tolerance Physique], System felt that his abdomen was bigger now. It was not that his physique became larger, but that his abdomen became larger in proportion to his body.

System felt that his abdominal volume was at least doubled, so he resumed eating the dragonfly before feeling full.

System even had the illusion that he could devour the carcass which was two or three times his weight, before him without needing to defecate first. Soon, System discovered that it was not an illusion at all.

After ten minutes, when only half of the dragonfly carcass remained, System’s abdomen bulged like a balloon to an incredible degree—the entire abdomen was more than twice as large as the rest of his body.

But even so, there was still room left in his abdomen, and he felt that he could still eat more.

However, System stopped himself rationally. Although his stomach could still hold more food, his body could no longer allow it.