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Chapter 14: Wolves

Chapter 14: Wolves

When Mercury came home, he took some time to recuperate. He got himself another rabbit to eat and had a bit of a rest in the log. Then, he drank some stuff and got a good night's rest in. Exhaustion is one of the best helpers for falling asleep after all.

But the next day, Mercury was already back on track. After finishing what was left of the rabbit for breakfast, he started strategizing. He had to figure out a way to beat the royal Wolf. It was actu...

Chapter 13: Stone age

Chapter 13: Stone age

His progress was flying, to say the least. He found back into a routine with extended hunting times the next day. Over the week he kept hunting down spiders and eventually, they couldn't afford to move in larger groups than three anymore. This meant that he had essentially cleaned up the border by the end of the week.

Of course, he kept count. Everything else would be boring, after all. He took down 27 spiders, taming nine. He rose one level. He go...

Chapter 12: Trial

Chapter 12: Trial

Mercury set off to do what he wanted to. Which was taking down spiders. Now, since he wasn't suicidal, he stuck to groups with three spiders, sneaking up on them and throwing his first rock while taming a spider. This strategy worked fairly well, though it was slow. It took a while to find any spiders, since they guarded the entire territory and were always on the move. Then, he also had to be lucky enough for it to be a group of three spiders. Then he had t...

Chapter 11: Conversation

Chapter 11: Conversation

Before getting even more upset about how stupid and unfair this whole thing was, Mercury decided to focus on something else. Going back into spider territory today seemed like a poor idea, so instead he filled his inventory with two rocks and decided to move onto mana training. So, he meditated until he could see his core again and started slowly stirring his mana, having it do tiny motions. By now, these tiny movements were fairly easy to do, making ...

Chapter 10: Spider Strategies

Chapter 10: Spider Strategies

Mercury slept well that day, waking up right around dusk, where he could watch as the world grew darker with every ticking second. After getting his first meal of the day settled by throwing rocky the rock at a mouse, he mentally prepared himself again. He had taken a break for a day, but he couldn't afford any more delay. It was time to continue his miniature war against spider-bitch. Like seriously, how many spiders did she need to produce, jee...

Chapter 9: Evolution

Chapter 9: Evolution

When the next night started, Mercury woke up again. That time, the air was still heavy from rain, but the clouds had stopped crying at least. Some mist still hung above the floor, but it was barely enough to be mentioned. So, Mercury started the night off with some light exercise alongside shooting a squirrel off a tree using a rock. Which he then snacked on. Yummy squirrel.

Anyways, he went for a jog, making his way back towards the edge of the spi...

Chapter 8: Abilities and Nostalgia

Chapter 8: Abilities and Nostalgia

The next evening Cherry was already waiting for him when he walked out of his log. As soon as he came out of there she smiled widely at him. "Morning Mercury! Where've you been?"

The cat himself had a slight smile on his face seeing the girl again. He still felt he owed her somewhat for giving him an Ability point and a name, so he had an idea. After looking at her for a while, he disappeared inside the log, throwing the great Stag's h...

Chapter 7: Battle of attrition

Chapter 7: Battle of attrition

After reaching a plateau and increasing his stats, Steve stopped. He wouldn't be able to level up from mice and carving runes would also take a while. In addition, there was no guarantee he would get good stats. Instead, what he needed was a good plan. He needed to determine the enemy best suited for his abilities and take them down in hopes of gaining a good reward. 

Now, the choice of enemy was fairly doable. The bear could knock do...

Chapter 6: A cat's name

Chapter 6: A cat's name

Steve hadn't put this much effort into anything ever since he studied for his college finals. One more time he grit his teeth as he slowly walked back, crouching down before leaping towards the tree at full speed. He immediately hooked his claws into the bark and used his momentum to carry himself upwards, jumping off when it was out and reaching for the lowest branch. Then, when his claws were only millimeters from touching it, gravity called for Stev...

Chapter 5: An encounter and stats

Chapter 5: An encounter and stats

When he woke up, Steve was in a warm and dry place, wrapped in something soft. For a few seconds then he considered going back to sleep, until his memories came flooding back. The feeling of being chased and having passed out on the forest floor. Of the cold slowly creeping in. Of the wet dirt below him and the pain all over his body.

His eyes shot open then. He was inside for sure since there was a wooden roof and walls around him. He ...

Chapter 4: Steve, use <Throw>

Chapter 4: Steve, use <Throw>

Finally, the evening came again. Steve slowly regained consciousness, blinking and stretching his way out of the land of dreams. His sleep had been surprisingly deep, actually. He was just about ready to have breakfast and head to wo-

Oh. He was still a kitten. So that wasn't a dream, huh? Whelp. Fuck him I guess. Still beats not waking up at all. That was a subtle metaphor for death, in case anyone didn't pick up on it.

Now, ti...

Chapter 3: Questing

Chapter 3: Questing

There were a few major revelations Steve figured out in his digging. The first one was simple and seemed to be nothing more than some quality of life from the system. It was the ability to somewhat customize his windows, deciding after what criteria Skills were sorted or what was shown on his Status for example. For now, he didn't really care about Skill sorting since he had so few of them, though he did add Skill Points and Gold to the bottom of his Statu...

Chapter 2: Hunt and Shelter

Chapter 2: Hunt and Shelter

This was way too cold! Why did he have to reincarnate on a mountain, jeez! The tutorial even ended before he had a chance to check out his shop Skill and everything! So annoying!  Also, these SP were absolute bullshit! One of them was consumed every 5 minutes of running or 30 minutes of walking! This was way too penalizing! This system was unfair, he wanted a refund! This dumb SP system made his progress even slower. He couldn't run down the s...

Chapter 1: Tutorial

Chapter 1: Tutorial

This day couldn't get any fucking worse. I'm… a cat. Well, a kitten to be precise. Yeah, something about as harmless as it gets. One with a light gray, silvery colour and very slight, purple, vine-like pattern on its fur. Now, that in and of itself isn't an issue, I'll take a get out jail free card for being an asshole anyday. The real problem lies in my current location. Please imagine the camera zooming out here. I'm on a mountain in the middle of nowh...

Chapter 0: Introduction

Hello.

This may be a little jarring, give me a minute...

1, 2, 3, test test. Mike check.

Yeah, alright, this seems good.

Hey everybody, this is your narrator. Today- well, actually, perhaps not today. This might take a little while.

For today, I have prepared the first, and hopefully not last, chapter of "Mercury". I have decided to dub it this, as it seemed to have a better ring than "Catboi adventure chronicles!"

I swear, this author.

Well, in any c...

Side Story: First Impressions

Side Story: First Impressions

Avery looked at his regional leaderboard with a big sigh. He had moved down a spot, which was mildly annoying, since it threw him out of the top ten. But then again, at least the newcomer held a very high spot. After all, the Voice of Order wasn't exactly an unknown name.

"<Appraisal>, how could this happen?" he asked, a little sarcastically.

[The individual has failed to meet sufficient qualifications for fame.]

"Thank yo...

Side Story: Christmas

Side Story: Christmas

"Hey, Steve, can you get the chicken out the oven?"

"Ah, yeah, one second!" the young man replied, hurrying into the kitchen. He was wearing an ugly Christmas sweater. Red, woolen, and with a snowman in the middle. He was even wearing a santa hat with a bell at its tip, to the delight of his niece. In the kitchen, he swiped some oven mittens, and quickly took the tray out. The meat on it was steaming, the bottom covered in a thick film of sauce and...