The ground shook violently from the impact, and all the millipedes were squashed as a result.

[You have slain 7 venomous millipedes]

With them taken care of, I turned my attention to the crocodiles who were crawling out of the river towards me.

[Firebolt!]

[Firebolt!]

[Firebolt!]

Bolts of fire ripped through the air and entered through the crocodiles’ opened mouths.

The crocodiles choked and began shaking violently.

Using their confusion to my advantage, I circled around the crocodiles while spraying googum to trap them when they stood.

The crocodiles fought and struggled to escape, but all their efforts seemed fruitless as they only wasted energy.

They snapped at the googum and tried to tear through it with their powerful jaws, but that only caused the sticky substance to cover their mouths and faces.

They looked like mice caught in a trap.

[You have slain 5 D-ranked Gynosaur]

[You have gained 900 biomass]

With the monsters now dead, I decided to spend skill points to increase one of my skills.

This skill was the molt skill. This skill allowed me to molt once a day and healed all my wounds while simultaneously increasing the hardness of my exoskeleton by 25%.

Still, because of the nature of this skill, it required a lot of skill points to increase its level.

[250 skill points required to upgrade Molt skill from level 1 to level 5]

Thankfully, I had a total of 352 skill points.

[Molt has leveled up from level 1 to level 5!]

[Lv. 5 Molt: Allows the user to molt 5 times every 24 hours. With each molt, the user’s exoskeleton’s toughness increases by 25%]

That means if I molt at least five times per day, my defense would double every single day!

This could allow my exoskeleton to become completely invulnerable!

Immediately, I activated the molt skill to heal all of my injuries. My body swelled to double its size as my exoskeleton cracked to reveal a new, harder exoskeleton.

[Defense: 568 -> 710]

With my injuries now healed, I made my way up the river, hunting and devouring every monster I came across.

The air was thick with the strength of death and the dying snarls of the beasts that crossed my path.

I hunted and killed a variety of different creatures, and with every one I killed, I grew stronger.

By the end of the day, I killed an additional 63 monsters, gaining 7,875 biomass in total.

After I was finished, I logged out of the game. This was my routine for the next couple of days.

I spent at least 5 hours a day learning combat from Amanda, after which I went home and spent some time with Amelia and Lily before I logged in and hunted the monsters at the riverside.

This continued until the monsters became so fearful that they stopped coming to the river altogether.

Their population also dropped significantly, but I made sure that I didn’t wipe out the entire population of a specific species or kill the boss monster incharged of making them.

The river stretched all the way up a rocky mountain. Along with the sand, the rocks of this mountain were also crimson, but it was soon time for me to change that.

"Are you ready, Lily?"

Lily’s antennae waved in excitement.

"Yes!"

With that, I transferred fifteen thousand biomass over to her. Lily’s jade scales grew brighter as she immediately put the biomass to use.

Mana poured out of her body in waves, stretching out as far as the eye could see.

And in response, the environment began to change. The reddish-brown color of the ground slowly faded and returned to its proper brown color.

Plants began to sprout from the ground before growing into massive trees, already with ripening fruits.

The rocks on the mountain themselves began to change color and returned to their natural gray.

The entire landscape had transformed into an Eden, stretching far past the horizon.

The greenery stopped where my bloodlust ended.

After killing hundreds of monsters, I now had a C-ranked threat level and the bloodlust to match and there were no monsters in the area that could stand against me since the wyvern disappeared.

My bloodlust hung as a warning for anyone who entered the forest.

...

After the creation of this forest, which I gave the name ’Eden’, the monsters slowly began moving into the forest and used the river as they pleased.

Though with their tails between their legs. It was like an unspoken agreement had formed between us since these monsters were already used to this type of hierarchy.

Since I hunted most of them, they naturally started to fear me. They just became more docile, although they continued to hunt each other since this hierarchy couldn’t exist without a food chain.

I also continued to hunt them whenever I needed biomass, and once their boss monsters were still alive, they could always create more monsters for me to feed on.

They were more like renewable resources I could snack on whenever I felt the urge.

The giant mountain that sat in the middle of my territory became my nest.

I transformed the inside of the mountain so that it had omplex tunnels and chambers that kept magma flowing through the entire mountain, but only on the inside since I didn’t want to damage the forest.

The mountain more or less became a volcano but one that was specially built for me to live.

At this point, my entire body was long enough to wrap around the mountain many times over, though whenever I leave the mountain, I would make myself smaller to accommodate the world around me.

I rested inside a large chamber overflowing with magma. The piping-hot magma seeped into my skin, leaving me cool and refreshed as I drifted lazily asleep. Lily wasn’t with me since she decided to go shopping with Amelia.

Suddenly, as I drifted lazily I began to pick up on small, unusual vibrations coming from the forest.

These vibrations didn’t feel like they belonged to the monsters that lived in my Eden.

Immediately, my eyes shot open, revealing deep crimson irises.

I slowly raised my upper body and began swimming to the top of the mountain, my body moving like a thin piece of string through the magma current until my head finally emerged from the mountain top.

I then slithered down the mountain, weaving through trees and rocks like a massive serpent as I approached the vibration.

The closer I got, the more I contemplated the strangeness of it.

’What could it be?’

Soon, as my centipede form reached the edge of a cliff, I finally caught sight of what it was.

Before me, cladded in armor and wielding weapons, was a massive demon army!