Stupid Runners!

The girl, of course, decided to try to leave the area; after all, she had some bad memories here.

She decided on a direction, that being west. How did she know the direction? The sun, of course! Though she got the direction wrong and headed north…

While she was walking, she picked up the occasional stone.

It took only a couple of minutes before she found something.

*rumble*

A 12-meter-long worm-like creature burst out of the ground and landed in front of her.

*Ding* 

{

Name:

Age: 2 years

Gender: Hemorphidite 

Species: Giant Worm

Stats:

Strength: E

Agility: D

Spirit: F

Talent:

Regeneration +

Stretchy

Skills:

}

[Would you like to copy talent 'Regeneration'?]

'Yes.'

*Ding*

[Detected talent 'Regeneration' and talent 'eternity' can be fused; do you fuse?]

'Talents can be fused?'

*Ding*

[Talents that overlap can be fused to strengthen the stronger of the two]

'... then do it.'

*Ding*

[successfully copied 'Regeneration' and fused it with 'eternity']

During the 56 hours she was locked up by the chicken, she had looked over the system many times, finding a few main rules about it. It cannot replicate talents that have to do with body structure; talents are things a creature is born with; the system marks talents that can be copied with a '+' beside them, and the system only responds to questions about talent copying. Of course, she just found out one more rule: talents can be fused.

While she was copying the worm's talent, the worm did not play their cards according to the routine. The worm attacked without waiting for the girl to finish and didn't give any notice.

Seeing the worm charge at her, the girl threw a stone from her pocket into the air. 

If the fight were being watched, it would be extremely boring. After all, the girl didn't even try to dodge and just waited for the worm to eat her.

Normally, the girl would've been eaten, and that would be the end of it; however, the moment the worm was going to close its mouth, the girl disappeared.

She used 'Marked Teleportation' on the stone and teleported to it while it was in mid-air.

She seemed to have calculated the stone trajectory as the stone was just above the worm's eyes when she appeared.

She then smashed the worm's eyeballs with the stone, causing it to swing its head. The girl, however, was prepared for that and teleported away as soon as she burst its eyes open.

*Roar!*

The worm finally stopped being silent and quite literally roared towards her. Just as the girl was waiting for the worm to attack, the worm dove into the ground and ran away. 

She was stunned; why did it run?

She didn't know the reason the worm ran was because it was not worth the effort. She wasn't very big, and the worm could tell it would take a lot of effort to kill the girl, so it would be better off hunting something else.

After thinking about it for a couple of seconds, the girl gave up; she really didn't understand the creature. 

She decided to keep going west! However, she once again got the direction wrong and headed southeast.

…

It didn't take long before she ran into another creature; this time, it was a stag beetle-looking creature. Of course, it wasn't your average stag beetle; it was pure gray and 6 meters tall.

*Ding*

{

Name:

Age: 6 years

Gender: Male

Species: Pincher beetle

Stats: 

Strength: D

Speed: D-C

Spirit: E

Talent:

Strength I +

Flying

Heat generation +

Agility I +

Skills:

Death Grip: 5

Stealth: 4

}

[Would you like to copy 'Strength I,' 'Agility I,' and 'Heat generation'?]

'Why can I copy 'Heat generation'?'

*Ding* 

[Heat generation: while an innate ability is not produced from the body, it is produced from Nen. However, because it has not awakened nen, it is not considered a nen ability.]

'... copy' 

*Ding* 

[Successfully copied 'Heat Generation,' 'Strength I,' and 'Agility I']

*Ding*

[Detected talent 'Agility I' and talent 'Agility I' can be fused; do you fuse?]

'Yes'

Looking back at the beetle, the girl was rather confused. Last time, the worm directly attacked her, but now the beetle waited for her to finish copying its talents… 

Finally, the stag beetle decided to move; it was probably getting impatient. Its attack was quite simple; it just ran towards the girl. The girl was able to dodge quite easily at that, and she even threw a stone out while she was dodging. 

The stone flew out and right in front of the beetle, and as it was in front of the stomach, the girl teleported and used a sharper stone to stab right into the connection between the abdomen and the thorax. Just as the beetle noticed and was about to use its mandibles, the girl teleported away without the stone. The stone was then stuck inside the beetle.

The beetle, like the worm, tried to run away. However, the girl was prepared, teleported to the stone in front of it, and ripped off one of its legs. 

Just when the girl was about to finish it off, the beetle opened its wings and flew away.

"Don't run!" The girl shouted, wanting it to come back; however, the beetle flew faster in response.

"Dammit!" She was really annoyed. While she noticed that she didn't need to eat, she still felt like eating. And from what she knew, bugs were high in protein.

*clatter*

She looked over and saw the stone she kicked landing. Seeing this, she thought of a great idea.

{ 

Name: 

Age: 11 days

Gender: N/A

Species: Eternal

Stats:

Strength: D

Agility: D

Spirit:: F?

Talents: 

Eternity + 1

Strength II

Agility II

Heat Generation

Marked teleportation 

Skills:

Throwing: 1

Sleeping: Max

System Ability:

Talent Copy: Automatically copies all talents within 5 meters

}