Plunging into the darkness, Mark transformed into his tiger form, and at full speed, he made his way towards one of the lone stone men, who was eating stones, sitting on the land, minding its own business.

  The moment Mark reached 100 meters in distance, one thing became apparent: this stone man was prey, not predator.

  Well, at least, it posed no threat to Mark at all, so the moment he reached beneath the stone man, he lunged out.

  From inside the ground, Mark lunged out, not giving stone man any chance at all, as he bit onto his mid-section, and like an animal, he shook stone man's entire body like a rag doll.

  WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH……

  The stone cried with all its power as it tried to get out of Mark's grip, but his teeth had already dug into the stone man's mid-section, and with just one pull, it was all gone, as the black blood poured out from inside, making the stone man go crazy in pain.

  While raising his paw, Mark leapt onto the stone man's neck, and in a single slash, four razor-sharp marks were left on the stone man's neck, cutting its throat pipe and making it cough and hold its neck in agony and disbelief.

  Kwak! Kwak!!

  Coughing and holding its neck with one hand and waving its other hand at Mark to hit him, the stone man died.

  [Killer gift activated, permanently stealing 0.1 Strength Stat.]

  The next second, a red fire lit onto the stone man's body and erased it from existence, but Mark's attention was on the notification, which he was dying to hear, and when he read Strength Stat, he nearly jumped high in happiness.

  Finally, everything was going according to his plan, and knowing how easy it was to kill the stone men for him, next he chose a group of two.

  Running to his left, Mark reached his destination, in the middle of the forest, where there were many stones, two stone men stood.

  Roaring from the front, Mark went into their territory, and seeing him, the stone men roared and ran towards him.

  But just before they were about to clash, from inside the land, two more shadowy tigers came out, and from behind they bit at both of the stone men's ankles.

  WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….

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  Both Stone men cried in pain, their left ankles were severed completely, while from the front, Mark leapt on top of one of the stone men, even when that stone man defended with his hand, he didn't care and bit its hand along with its neck and severed them both altogether.

  Wah! Wah!! Wah!!!

  Crying, the stone men fell to the ground, while the second stone men attacked Mark with full ferocity from his left, but before its hand could even reach him, from its own shadow a spike rose and it drilled its neck, pierced its brain and came out of its head, and just like that it was dead.

  Thump!

  [Killer gift activated, permanently stealing 0.1*2 Strength Stat.]

  Thus, the slaughter began; Mark ran everywhere, attacking lone warriors and groups. He didn't even leave those who were four in a group.

  Using his power of shadow, he slaughtered them ruthlessly, as he then ate their hearts to replenish his strength.

  And soon he was writhing in agony, hiding inside darkness, as his strength stat finally filled up completely.

  [Killer gift activated, permanently stealing 0.1*15 Strength Stat.]

  [Status Panel]

  Owner: Mark Adler

  Race: Human

  Gender: Male

  Age: 17

  Rank: Tier 0

  Gift: Killer

  Bloodline: Ratrijita

  True Body Regeneration: 0%

  True Immunity: 0%

  {Stats: The average male human value is 10}

  Strength: 33.5 + 6.5 = 40.0 (+10)

  Agility: 39.9 + 1.2 = 41.1 (+10)

  Endurance: 18.5 + 0.3 = 18.8 (+10)

  Vitality: 23.7 + 1.1 = 24.8 (+10)

  Intelligence: 17.2 (+10)

  Wisdom: 13.7 (+10)

  Physical Resistance: 19.9 (+10)

  Elemental Resistance: 10.8 + 0.1 = 10.9 (+10)

  Charm: 10.4 (+10)

  Luck: = 5.5 (+10)

  {Skills: None}

  {Techniques: None}

  {Unique Skills: None}

  Mark killed 23 fishes, through which he got 1.2 Agility Stat and 1.1 Vitality Stat. Then he killed 47 ants, through which he got 4.7 Strength Stat. After that, the moronic water man came, who gave him 0.1 Elemental Resistance Stat. Then he killed 18 Stone men, who gave him 1.8 Strength Stat Points.

  But a surprising thing was Stone Man's heart, consuming which, instead of getting Strength Stat Point, Mark got Endurance Stat Point, and that is how he got 0.3 Endurance Stat Point.

  And all that was good, but the pain, oh the pain was killing him, this pain was like a jab which would come, hit him like a hammer, and then just go back, as if no big deal.

  But it was a big deal, and it hurt like hell, and like always, it took five seconds for the pain to disappear and Mark to scream like hell even after that in anger.

  Coming out of the shadows, Mark glanced towards Island number two, where Blake was.

  Now, he was 100% confident that he could kill him, slay him, and slaughter him like an animal, just like the death he deserved.

  But before that, just to be sure, he wanted to gain 10 more strength points. Why not? Any mishappening could happen in such a place, so it was always better to be sure than sorry.

  Not to say, here the prey was so easy to kill and was always in his sight, this was literally a Christmas for him, and he wanted to enjoy it.

  Plus, the humans were still alive; he needed to send them to hell before he went for Blake, no?

  And one of those lone warriors was just 500 meters away from him, so without wasting any time, Mark ran towards his target, ignoring the stone men, ignoring all the prey, he went towards his main prey.

  But when he got within 100 meters of his prey, he stopped. He had to, cuz the prey he thought was easy to kill turned out to be a predator, just like him, a killer hiding inside a human shell.