Kyle walked to the north for a couple of minutes and avoided a quite scary tiger.
That tiger had been like five meters high, and it felt quite terrifying to Kyle.
'Shit's still dangerous. Ferocious Beasts might not be as common here as on the peninsula, but they are still there.'
After a couple more minutes, Kyle finally found what he was looking for.
In the middle of a forest clearing were ten beasts.
Three of them were almost two meters tall, while the others were all quite a bit smaller.
They were chickens, but not the normal kind.
Instead of feathers, they were covered in wooden bark with thorns.
'Bristle Chicken. Fitting name,' Kyle thought.
'There are two adults. One male and one female. I'm supposed to get a female.'
"Theodor, can you tell their levels?" Kyle whispered.
"Do it yourself. You're not a child anymore," Theodor answered with a snort.
'Pleasant as always,' Kyle thought.
As he looked at the smaller chickens, he realized that they were still young.
The weakest one was an Initial Beast, while the strongest one was a Peak Beast.
'As for the two adults, they both seem to be Initial Ferocious Beasts.'
'Not sure how powerful Bristle Chickens are, but they're probably not thaaat dangerous.'
Kyle watched them for a while longer, and as he looked at the smaller chickens, they slowly started to transform into chicken nuggets in his eyes.
'I could use some food.'
Then, he looked at the rooster. 'I'm allowed to hunt here since I'm not a registered hunter. Shouldn't be an issue if I eat the male.'
'I'm not the biggest fan of killing beast babies, but hey, a man's gotta eat.'
'Also, they will probably starve anyway after I get rid of their parents. I'm essentially doing them a favor by eating them!'
'Well, no time to waste. Food's calling!'
Then, Kyle charged out of the bushes and ran right at one of the smaller chickens.
The chickens immediately noticed Kyle and ran to their mother while the father charged at Kyle.
The rooster ruffled its weird bark, and in the next moment, a huge wall of bark appeared behind it.
'Dude, that's a peacock!' Kyle thought as he saw a majestic and scary display of thorns.
The male chicken released a loud sound that confirmed that it was a rooster.
Then, the thorns on its tail exploded forward, all of them shooting at Kyle.
Kyle covered his face with his arms as he kept running forward.
The thorns all bounced off Kyle's armor,
The velociraptor thing flew for over twenty meters before destroying a bunch of trees.
Sadly, these trees were not as hard as the ones in Forest Haven.
The other velociraptor thing immediately stopped moving, turned around, and fucked off.
They did not sign up for this!
Did you fucking see what this guy did to Big Velo just now?!
The velociraptor things immediately fled back into the forest, but they didn't leave empty-handed.
They killed and carried three of the nuggets with them.
The female chicken charged after them a bit to intimidate them.
Then, it heard heavy footsteps coming from behind it and turned around.
Kyle's hammer hit the chicken's right leg, decimating its bones and making it fall over.
After that, he lifted his hammer again and crushed the other leg.
Finally, he grabbed the chicken's head and put it under his right armpit.
'Gotta keep this one alive,' he thought.
The chicken struggled, but its head couldn't do anything while in Kyle's armpit, and since its legs were broken, it also couldn't scratch him with that.
'Oh, right. Thorns,' Kyle thought as the chicken flapped its thorny wings.
Luckily, the thorns were useless against Kyle's armor.
The next moment, he searched for the nuggets.
'Fuck, they're gone,' he thought with annoyance. 'I mean, I can just run after them by following their scent.'
'Actually, never mind,' Kyle thought as the chicken in his arms kept rubbing against his armor. 'Can't focus on eating with this thing.'
Then, Kyle ran back to the rooster's corpse.
"Hey! Fuck off! That's mine!" he shouted as two of the velociraptor things from earlier were tearing chunks out of the corpse.
As soon as Kyle came close, the velociraptor things fled, leaving half of the corpse.
'Fuck! These assholes eat fast! They ate like half of my meal!'
"Yes, yes!" Kyle shouted, looking at the chicken. "I'll bring you to your new home."
Then, he grabbed one of the legs of the rooster's corpse and ran towards the meeting point.