But since I won, I have the responsibility to live on for the defeated.
I picked up the Red Bear's hand that had rolled near its battered and whipped body, and I ate it in order to regain my strength.
Ability [Peerless Heavy Strike] learned.
Ability [Intimidation of the Strong] learned.
When I finished eating the right arm, all my exhaustion suddenly caught up to me and I felt my consciousness begin to fade.
During the fierce fighting I’d lost a lot of stamina, the body decided that the best way to survive was to cut off my consciousness and preserve my physical strength. Even now my [Rapid Recovery] and Regeneration are still restoring my body, so I'm confident that I wouldn't die even if I fall unconscious. It’s my own body, so that much I can understand.
However, it's obvious that I'm too defenseless if I faint as I am now. There is a high chance of getting eaten by other monsters during the time I was unconscious, so to remain alive I mustered what's left of my strength and sent out my thread to make a wall around me and the Red Bear out of the trees that are scattered around as a result of being mowed down during our fight.
It was an impromptu shelter.
In addition to having the trees as camouflage, because I doused my thread in poison as I was sending it out, even if for example someone were to come and attack, surely the poison should do them in. If, for some reason, all this wasn't enough, then that would be the end of me after all, I thought with resignation.
—As I used up the last of my strength to build the defenses, my consciousness—
[You have exceeded the minimum required level.
Special requirements «Kingslayer», «Tyrant’s Swagger», «■God■■» cleared, [Rank Up] to [Ogre:Rare Variant] now possible.
Will you [Rank Up]?
«YES» «NO»]
—With the last of my willpower I chose «YES» right before I lost consciousness.
Day 35
I woke up due to a strange urge. The lighting was dim, but I didn't mind that very much.