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Chapter 88: Paws Crossed

[You have killed African Black Rhino (Half-Step Evolved level 6)]

[You have earned 32 PP]

Once more faced with a behemoth, Dominic wondered what to do ...

Chapter 87: Nary A Sound

Unlike every other use of Consume where the dust had been quickly absorbed in one go, this one took longer – there was just so much of it. His health and stamina ticked up quickly over time, the ...

Chapter 86: Green Droplet

An excruciating pain went through his guts and a large chunk of his health bar vanished in an instant. The rhino withdrew its horn, the rough glide of it out of his flesh creating a sucking noise t...

Chapter 85: Impaled

His claws buried themselves in unyielding flesh a split second before his teeth dug into the rhino’s thick skin. A trickle of blood entered his mouth, nowhere near the gush that he was expecting....

Chapter 84: What is this place?

‘What is this place?’ Leo asked, as if he hadn’t heard Dominic’s question. He was staring above and around him at the bookcases, the decorations, the fireplace with its crackling f...

Chapter 83: Wrestling

Of course, that was easier said than done. First of all, he was still not up to full health, and when the timer from Second Wind ran out, it felt like he’d been punched in the gut. His wounds did...

Chapter 82: Enhancement Points

No Prey Points? Dominic wondered. Still, it didn’t have to tell him twice to Consume the chimera: he needed the health and stamina desperately.

As the other chimera’s body dissol...

Chapter 81: Close

Before actually jumping back in, Dominic decided that he could do with a pick-me-up – one that offered a bit of extra stamina. One of the veten bodies he’d dumped in his storage not long before...

Chapter 80: Warm up done

Dominic briefly entertained the thought of running away, but if ever he could, that time had passed. He had no desire to find out exactly how the System might impose the conditions of lo...

Chapter 79: Chimera

Dominic followed the traces of the intruder’s journey through the bush. It wasn’t hard to track him since he’d been clearly marking territory with claw marks, urine, and scat in ce...

Chapter 78: An Educated Lion

The pain built, growing until Dominic was clenching his teeth hard enough to crack them. Hopefully the level up would fix that before it finished. It felt like the worst growing pains he’d ever f...

Chapter 77: Powerful Kick

Rushing back to the scene of the battle between him and the vetens, Dominic’s eyes darted around to check for scavengers.

For now, it was clear and he heaved a sigh of relief. He didn’t w...

Chapter 76: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog

Dominic stared, a bit open-mouthed at the sight of a bunch of cute little bunnies hopping towards a bloody corpse. OK, they weren’t exactly the Flopsey and Mopsey of Beatrix Potter, but they had ...

Chapter 75: What The Hell?

It had worked before when he tried this technique; almost too well. This time, he’d make sure not to stick around in the bloody area for too long. Though, if another scrin appeared, he might be t...

Chapter 74: Caught In The Crossfire

By the time Leo let Dominic know that he’d finished for now, the sun was rising over the horizon. One of the moons was still high in the sky, the others almost out of view. Clearly they had diffe...

Chapter 73: Absolute Maximum

Absorbing the six small Cores from the cubs – still bigger than the other level 0 Cores he’d absorbed – and the two Cores from the adult and sub-adult lionesses, Dominic checked the Abilities...

Chapter 72: Can You Imagine Me Wearing It

While he waited to see if any of the lionesses would claim their sisters' bodies – and those of her cubs – Dominic decided to collect the Cores hanging around the place. Finding them wasn’t t...

Chapter 71: This Dangerous World

Author's note:

I meant to say this on Saturday, but forgot, sorry. I've put a poll up on Royal Road (chapter 65) about the direction of this story, in particular the harem/no...

Chapter 70: Battle-lines

What met his eyes was something that might have been an unwelcome sight – at another time. Fresh off his conversation with Leo and with the potential backup of the lionesses, the large group of h...

Chapter 69: Greatest Threat

Although this was his first time as the lead male in a buffalo hunt, Leo suspected that the time it took him to suffocate the buffalo was longer than it would have been Before. He’d hunted buffal...

Chapter 68: Dicey Prospect

Dominic was looking at the powerfully muscled bodies, the broad shoulders, and the side-sweeping horns that met in the middle to make a helmet of bone over the herbivore’s skull. Plant-eater this...

Chapter 67: Merely Phantasmal

Dominic was in the middle of reviewing a memory of his eighteenth birthday when he had the sense that someone was calling him. The sensation was a bit like being in a dream and hearing someone’s ...

Chapter 66: They’re lions. You’re a lion. I’m…not

By the time Dominic decided that it was probably safe to investigate what his co-passenger was up to, he was feeling a mix of relaxed and mournful.

Running through the reel of his favourite m...

Chapter 65: Familiar Unfamiliarity

Author's Note:

Since I don't think I actually announced this, for any of you who would like advance chapters of both my stories, I have released a tier which is a combination...

Chapter 64: One Male is as Good as Another

Leo was satisfied. No, scratch that. Leo was very satisfied. He had won the challenge, sending the older lion running. Had this happened Before, it would have been very different.

A...

Chapter Seventy-Nine: In the Abyss

I don’t know how to deal with all that. River seems almost as confused as I am over it all, only he seems to feel like I’ve acted selflessly while I’m lamenting over my own selfishness. He sp...

Chapter 63: The Lion Approaches

Dominic watched from the backseat as Leo stepped delicately out from the bush where they’d been hiding. The female lions who were congregating around the waterhole immediately looked up. Their re...

Chapter 62: Wait, what

Warning: discussion of lion infanticide

After admiring the beginnings of a proper mane, Leo moved to find a shady spot not too far from the water. Closing his eyes, he slept...

Chapter 61: Until He’d Gained Enough Sapience

Leo padded through the savannah, regularly breathing through his mouth to search for both the scents of water and other lions in the air. Although he was not detecting any scent of lion yet, it was...

Chapter 60: Put Your Back Into It

Even after the body had disappeared, the slightly maudlin mood didn’t leave Dominic. Seeing the glimmering of the Beast Core left behind, he padded over to it, hoping that it might hold some abil...