Chapter 43

When I was finally in front of it, I used everything I had and kicked the body, yet the only thing I received in the feedback of the kick was the mind-numbing pain that reverberated through my entire being, shooting through every neuron.

'God... DAMNIT!' I kicked again as if I hadn't learned from my first kick, making the pain even more intense.

This thing was simply too big, scaly, and overall just too powerful to be moved by something as simple as a kick.

I was also certain that this thing could have been compared to the size and weight of a small truck, and since it did not have wheels pushing it would have been significantly harder than a car.

After a few more punches, kicks, and even some barging, I gave up and began to walk away.

I could have used the creature for food, but its scaled were simply too tough and hard to take off while even if I was capable of taking them off by some kind of miracle, the meat itself would have been too tough for my mouth to chew.

I walked away sulking, my body still aching and my stomach as empty as a bottomless bucket.

I was truly miserable...

I was painfully pathetic...

On a tree in the middle of the forest stood a figure with tattered clothes and only one visible arm.

Of course, that figure was me, standing on a branch of a large tree that I had painstakingly climbed to find a better spot to look around.

At that point, a day had passed ever since the last encounter, or to be precise, it was the last dangerous encounter with a beast, creature, or whatever abominations this world held.

I knew that something was extremely wrong. Yes, I might have not been the best at my studies, but I was slightly above average and therefore I knew a lot about the periods that Earth had been through for the last 4.5 billion years. After all, I was studying the subject in college.