Upourning to the cave, Tara once agaiered a light slumber.

  The way she processed sleep was far different than when she was human.

  She found she slept with her eyes opened. It was the reason she awoke as soon as the crab neared her.

  It made her discover that a part of her brain is stantly alert, even when sleeping, so she is never defenceless.

  It was something she khat some animals oh adapted to have.

  It is so they remain stantly perceptive of threats, and is an instinct that an {Iron Samander} simirly possesses.

  After rest, her trait {Regeion} again allowed her to recover fully.

  Satisfied with the trait's effectiveness, she knew she would likely upgrade it again since she would have long perished without it.

  Knowing she o tio hunt more magical beasts, she had little option but to seek danger as it was her only means to grow stronger.

  The immortal has given her little opportunity but to seek further strength.

  Doing so would open doors for her, includiurning to earth and her family.

  She had no hope of the immortal doing so, so she just had to do it herself.

  It came simply to her because Tara never enjoyed relying on others. Of course, not everything is achievable by yourself, yet now she has a path forward.

  And that path was the only one she could cross. It meairely relying on herself and not moping around, hoping for the immortal to have a ge of heart.

  Tara was a college studely, but now she has bee a samander stantly struggling for survival.

  It utterly made no sense.

  She should be panig, begging to return to her fortable suburban life.

  Yet even now, she was already lurking out of the cave, searg for more dangerous monstrosities to sughter.

  The giant murder turtles were not enough to deter her; instead, the thought ing down such a fearsome oppo sent anticipation throughout her body.

  Then, a delectable smell appeared. Tara had no words to describe it.

  The smell just sent waves of excitement ahrough her body. Each whiff seemed to reinvigorate her.

  Tara had already gotteo the potency of her senses as a samander. Even uer, her senses were far better than when she was a human.

  Though Tara was used to the increased sensitivity, she had yet to master it fully. Now, she knew she had detected something good.

  Her instincts screamed at there being a big opportunity on the horizon.

  Without hesitation, she bolted towards the smell, tailing like a dog caught onto a st.

  It took her a while to navigate past numerous creatures, some of which she was already familiar, yet others she steered clear of.

  One was a giant crocodile creature whose scales gleamed a beautiful silver, known as a {Steel Dracrocodile}.

  The magical beast was the stro being she had ever seen in this world.

  Tara did not even dare to use {Insight}. She just k felt strong.

  Luckily, she seemed too weak for the beast to notice. It did not even gaze in her dire once, and she was not foolish enough to believe she could escape.

  Feeling relieved, she tinued following the smell aually found the sourbsp;

  Sitting there was the most expansive, lush area of s she had seen so far.

  She long ago judged that the system's numerous hints had made her feel like she was in a s.

  It was evident with the rge number of pnts only found in ss, though these seemed supersized and were bursting with much more vitality than their earth terparts.

  There were other pnts she did nnise. Yet, one among those was not even the most exotit she had see.

  However, this pnt was the apparent source of the tantalising st.

  Her eyes could not leave the pnt as soon as she id eyes on it. It was extremely strange and glowing with beautiful silver.

  The pnt was like an uer apple tree. It had strange glowing, transparent branches with strangely shaped fruits.

  As soon as she id her eyes on the fruit, a ravenous look appeared in her eyes.

  Tara felt as if she ossessed. A powerful urge ao e the fruits overe her.

  She snapped out of it, deg it was best to put {Insight} to use.

  After all, it promised to provide descriptions of helpful materials like this could be.

  As soon as she used insight, a description popped up.

  [Iron Body Fruit: Known for creating an ‘iron body,’ it is a low-level body refi natural treasure that will increase the strength of your bone and musculoskeletal structure. The patibility between host current traits is high and is ahat improve the trait strength.]

  Reading the description, she khe fruit was now a must-have.

  She was sure there must be some limit. Otherwise, it would not be sidered a ‘low-level’ natural treasure.

  However, Tara khat it would prove invaluable.

  Anything that could enhance her trait strength without requiring a valuable point was incredible.

  Approag the straree, she found it weird everything was so quiet.

  She thought something that appeared so valuable would attract ical beasts.

  After all, it is not only her who detect the fruits.

  Theiumerous discarded bones around the tree and soon realised she had unknowingly approached nearby.

  Instinctively looking up, she saw nothing above.

  It was then that she heard a rustle below. Before she could move her sight down, the floor, which appeared as a rge patch of grass, opened as a rge maeared, attempting to swallow her in one gulp.

  Instinctively putting all her might in {Poisoion} whilst she narrowly evaded, the gigantic maw still mao tear off her tail and a good portion of her l region.

  Aghhh. The pain was agonising. Tara couldn't help but let out what sounded like a high-pitched hiss.

  Managing to get a good look at the creature with her {Regeion} w overdrive, preventing her from dying from blood loss, she saw a gigantic stingray-looking creature with ahy green colour that allowed it to blend perfectly with its surroundings.

  Damn it, Tara, how could you fet the treasure always has a guardian! She mented, irritated at herself.

  Yet the thing ate a good dose of poison si swallowed such a rge k of her whole.

  After examining it, I noticed that the creature was massive.

  Using {Insight}, she saw its information.

  [Species: S Earthray

  Cultivation: Qi Gathering 5]

  The creature was many times above her in cultivation. And it was way bigger thaoo; she felt it was three times her length and width at the least.

  And looking at the {S Earthray}, it did not seem sated by the bite of all, as a ravenous look of hunger appeared in its gaze. The bite it swallowed in one gulp was far from enough to leave it satisfied and irritated. Tara mao escape its trap.

  It was about to chase her before it suddenly felt a deep pain rack its body, causing it to screebsp;

  Tara, who was about to flee, saw the creature howl in pain, which made her realise that the poison was far more effective than she had thought.

  Yet the poison was not enough to down such a rge beast as the {S Earthray} still moved towards her, though with evidehargy.

  The Earthray us barbed tail towards her. It came at her like a rge whip, moving exceptionally fast.

  Barely getting out of the way again, the {S Earthray} was relentless as it became e this point.

  It had no idea where this pain inated, yet the only possible cause was the strange samander before it.

  The Earthray has eaten many simir-looking samanders before and has never had any issues, so when such a scrumptious meal came along, it had ation in taking a big bite.

  Now it was regretting it as it boured to chase the smaller irritating samander whilst it felt the pain grow more and more intense.

  Eventually, the Earthray paused as it felt the pain bee unbearable, and that was when the damnable samaarted sshing at it with its cws ah.

  Typically, it would have no problem dealing with such a weakling, but it is now vulnerable and has lost much strength.

  Tara, who had been running around like a maniac for ay, smelt blood when she saw the {S Earthray} in such a depleted state.

  The Earthray was many times strohan her, but it couldn't even stand still a her strike it with no abandon like this.

  Taking advantage of its weakeate, she started tearing into it, boriously ripping it apart with her teeth and cws.

  It felt like forever until the Earthray finally stilled. Its flesh was incredibly tough and ridiculously durable.

  She would’ve stood no ce if not for it, swallowing a hefty dose of her poison whole.

  [You have defeated {S Earthray}, gaining 40 EXP. You are now 82/100 intressing to Level 3.]

  Finding a notification, she couldn't help but feel amazing, but now was the time to retrieve her prize, as she stared at the fruit not far away in the distanbsp;

  Lig her mouth, she couldn't wait to sieeth into that delicious fruit.

  Now, let's retrieve it before anything else nears.

  She did not fancy fag anything on the Earthray level again since she had only won this time through sheer luck.