Chapter 49

When my eyes had found the strength to look back at the thing that was coming up behind me, rattling in the nearby bushes and looking at me with its piercing eyes, I could not help but sigh in relief.

The creature that had snuck up on me looked a bit like a wolf mixed in with a gorilla to make the thing I saw. It was huge, but in no way was it more terrifying than the red monkeys I saw earlier.

I had already given up on hunting one of them by catching it by surprise, but seeing the corpse had been the flag for me to turn right back the way I had come from, throwing away the little semblance of hope that i had within my heart that was telling me that I could probably win if I take it by surprise.

'I can take on this thing, right?' I asked myself, clearly and utterly unaware of how weak I must be in front of this thing.

However, I had one thing on my side and that was my intelligence. An Intelligence that I believed that no one on this planet so far could rival.

Carefully, I took out the miniature spear I had created and used rocks that I could find in the cave to make it sharper and more deadly if something were to get stabbed by it.

"Alright, show me what you've got." I taunted the creature, and as if it could understand me, it began to growl and lower its center of gravity until it was ready to lunge at me.

Its deep black fur began to emanate a dark hue that I noticed almost immediately, making me a little more cautious about attacking the thing in front of me.

From what I could tell so far, things in this 'world' did not always follow the same rules that applied to us humans in the future.

'I have to be careful. I only have one arm so I might lose my balance at a crucial moment, but if this thing is as stupid as it seems, I should be able to kill it without having to get injured again.' I calculated while my eyes darted all over its body, trying to find a weak spot that wasn't located around its face.

When the wolf was around 5 meters away, I quickly sidestepped to the right, something it seemed to anticipate since it had also turned to at the same moment as me.

However, what it couldn't anticipate was that the moment it did so, I would immediately take a much bigger leap to the left, something it could not do immediately since it would have to sacrifice its balance, pronouncing it dead in the process.