Since I got to sleep so early, I woke up in the middle of the night. I gained 3 levels after the fight so I decided to put my stat point.

^Status^

Name: Natasha Smith

Offensive job: Beastly hunter

Level: 8

Exp needed for level up: 13/80

Hp: 385/385 +2.1 Hp per minute

Mp: 315/315 +2.1 Mp per minute

Strength: 28 (+6)

Agility: 21 (+3)

Endurance: 28 (+6)

Vitality: 21 (+3)

Intelligence: 21 (+3)

Wisdom: 21 (+3)

Free point: 15

You have 3 points to distribute in strength or agility

^ ^

After yesterday I decided against putting any more points towards mana until I had a proper use out of it. I put the 3 job points towards agility then put 5 in strength, 2 in agility, 4 in endurance, and 4 in vitality, boosting my Hp by 60.

Also, my progenitor weapons skill and the progenitor body both became level 3. I gained a whole 2 levels of Exp for a skill required to get it... I guess I did come close to death there, yet I'm not scared or traumatized.

After using gale favor for a minute I got up and eat some meat, then saw that I had eaten most of the meat.

¨I guess I really need to go to town, I have yet to find suitable meat to hunt. Now that I think about it, how am I supposed to go back to san Francisco?¨

I've come here in a helicopter and it's way too far to walk all the way. I need to call Richards.

I go to grab my phone but stop when seeing that it was still 2 a.m. I instead decided to go train while I wait. I got outside and that's when I remarked that I had some kind of weak night vision. I couldn't see like it was day but it was already so much clearer than when I was human. Before training I had to take a leak, I generally use the bathroom but I already was outside and I always had a nagging feeling when using a toilet. after peeing all over the place and the feeling disappear, I deduced that it was my marking instinct.

I started training my proficiency, they generally give a training method adequate to the level you are at, but at level one, it isn't anything more than flailing around, but after 45 min I got my first level up and my flailing got more direction added to it. I could level up faster with a master or a training partner but all I had right now was a tree. after another hour and a half, I gained another level but that's when I stop.

I was planning on continuing until the sun was up but I was interrupted by my instincts, something is wrong but I don't know what. After sniffing the air, I smelled a few unfamiliar scents. Well, if I hadn't pissed all over the place to mark it I would never be able to remark that.

I don't have enough smell expertise to know what is approaching, all I can say is there is more than one and it's coming my way. I decide to go up a tree Halfway between them and the cave. If they're monsters then the warding array will activate and will go back. If they are too powerful to have an effect then I will run but if they are human... I've heard that changed race awakener are very prized and people try to gain favor with them and make them come to their country, I've also heard of tentatives of kidnapping but I haven't got any demands or even never even spoke with a representant of another country, I can't imagine a country going directly to kidnapping without trying to negotiate, those kinds of countries have been mostly assimilated (forcefully) with the help of the admin.

After 5 minutes of slow movements, the intruders come into sight and sure enough, it was a group of 5 humans. I immediately crossed the enemy countries' possibility the moment I saw them. These guys were in no way shape or form professional and were comprised of 3 men and two women. Of the 3 men, one look young and couldn't be more than 18. He had plain clothes and had a feminine build, it seems he was big into sports or musculature when looking at his muscle, he probably was trying to compensate for his effeminate physique and it definitely make him look very good. Another one was tall and in heavy armor and clearly was a tank or something similar, he had a scar on his face but from where I stood it seemed fake. The last one was a scrawny rogue-looking guy, and he was currently the one leading the other. At the end of the group were 2 women, one bound by rope and handcuffs and the other holding the end of the rope to make sure she followed, they were both around the same age as the guy in plain clothes. The one bound had short black hair and looked like the nerdy type, but I couldn't determine her feature because of the bruise and the broken glasses on her face. She had been half stripped so I could clearly see her body which was, for lack of a better word, gorgeous. The other one had long brown hair fashioned into a singular long ponytail. She clearly also was into sports and was wearing a cut-up front sports top with jackets and leggings, letting her belly show with an outline of abs. When compared to the other girl she had a beautiful face but was clearly losing when looking at her body, not that she was flat but compared to the huge breast and butt of the other one...

Hmmm, it seems my sexual preference has changed, I've never looked in so many details at another woman's body before, but then again, I have a dick now.

After another couple of minutes, the tank looking-guy started talking. I was surprised that I could hear them from so far, it seems that my sense of hearing also improved.

¨Hey Roy, is it far?¨

The scrawny guy, Roy apparently responded.

¨No, I think we'll be there in another 10 minutes or so¨

And he was right, if they continue walking in this direction they would reach my cave, still, they really are walking slowly.

The young guy said

¨Why did we have to go to a forest 3h from the city¨

Roy responded

¨Because you said you wanted a place where nobody would come looking. This place recently has been given to a new race and is considered not U.S territory, so nobody will bother you here. And don't forget, after that, we owe nothing to you or your brother so only contact us if you have the intention to pay us¨

¨Yeah yeah, as long as what you said is true¨

*Silence*

The ponytail woman said

¨I understand that it's not U.S territory and the government can't bother us but what about the new race living here. Won't they attack us if they know we're here?¨

Roy responded

¨You really don't follow the news? The race just started so there is only one member currently, also there is no shot that it can monitor the whole forest by itself. Even if it did find us, Greg and I are level 23 and 27 respectively. Sure we're not strong enough to go hunt monsters for a living but against civilians or in that case, newly awaken people, it's more than enough, now shut up were here¨

While they were talking they arrived close enough to see the cavern. I descended from the tree and stayed at ambush distance behind them while trying to decipher their intention and it seem that the young boy and the ponytail woman had hired these two guys to lead them somewhere safe from the law and possibly help them with doing whatever they planned to do to that poor woman. Now, while I can't say that I feel the same way about humans as before, I still won't let a crime happen in MY territory. Hmpf, yeah, there is no way I let some humans intrude on my territories. Wait no, it's to save that young woman and stop some criminal. Oh why bother to argue with me, let's just say it's for both.

The Greg guy is apparently level 23, it would definitely be considered low and wouldn't even be a rare rank adventure but its tank build mean it surely focuses on endurance vitality, and strength so he has to have more Hp than the mad coyote. The other one, Roy, is a rogue type so principally strength and agility so he should be fast but low on Hp. I decided to ambush the rogue first, there is no shot I can one-shot a tank so going for the easiest to kill is better to avoid a 2 vs 1 situation.

After carefully assessing the situation, I circle them and hide on the edge of the clearing in from of my home. When Roy who was leading the group passed me, i jump with all my might and bite his neck while clawing at his torso.

^You have dealt a sneak attack^

^You have killed your enemy in a single sneak attack^

^Proficiency gained: Assasination^

^Exp +197^

^Level up^

^Level up^

I immediately put my free point into strength and endurance and my 2 job points into agility and charge at the shocked tank, lashing out at the only unprotected place of his body, his face.

^Ennemy Hp -52^

I then use my finger to gouge his eye out.

^You have dealt a critical blow^

^Ennemy Hp -231^

¨AAAAAAAAH MY EYES MY EYES¨

I distance myself and look at the young trio. The boy seems to be paralyzed in fear, the ponytail has fallen to the ground and pissed herself and the bound one is trying to flee but can't escape because of her restraint.

¨I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU¨

Yells the now blind Greg.

He then pulls out an ax and starts hacking at random before him, even cutting close to chopping the head of the boys who dodge with a shriek and a yell of ¨It's me, it's me¨ he then takes a big swing and imbues his ax halfway into a tree.

I use the opportunity to climb on its back and choke him from behind with all my strength. He has too high of defense for me to effectively damage him with regulars attack and all his vitals are protected by armor.

He let go of his ax and start trying to hit me but he can't hit a target on its back with a lot of strength so I only suffer minor injuries. After his face started turning blue he started to try and ram me against a tree but without his vision he missed. For the last attempt of freeing himself of my choke, he slams his back on the ground causing half of my Hp to disappear but I hold on and he finally starts to lose strength.

After a couple of minutes of me not letting go of fear he wasn't dead, I finally let go and slide out of under his body, gasping for air and my body hurt all over. The fight wasn't as close as with the coyote but if it wasn't for the successful sneak attack, I would've died for sure. Seriously what's with all these near-death experiences. And why am I enjoying them?

But before starting to question my newly acquired desire for a fight to the death, I need to figure out what to do with the other 3, who apparently all fainted during the fight.