God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Chapter 75: Animals, Evolutions and Monsters

Time quickly passed as everyone did their respective jobs. By the time the sun had settled down, Keith had managed to dig up simple, but uncommon firepit. There were two holes on the ground.

One small and one large, which both connected to each other under the ground. Keith tossed in some tinder and lit it on fire before he slowly fed more wood to the flames. Once he saw that the fire was stable, he looked at Caleb.

"Come here and shoot out air from this small hole. The air will help fuel the fire better and will reduce the production of smoke." he said. Scientifically, that wasn't the case, but he didn't bother with giving out the proper explanation as he knew that they wouldn't understand.

He watched Caleb do as he said and saw the volume of flames increase. Along with that, he also did not see any more smoke.

'All that matters is the results. There's no need for a complicated explanation.' he thought as he shifted his gaze to Laura who was busy cutting up a fish that she had managed to catch. Just one fish was enough as it was extremely huge, having a length of three meters.

Keith's expression turned serious as he saw this, but there was nothing he could do but curse his luck. The reason was very simple; it was because he knew that this was no ordinary fish.

'Awakened animals. They'll appear in the novel after the war arc but damn... I really did not expect this.' he thought and sighed lightly, 'Luckily, the ones that are in this island seem to only be the non aggressive ones. At least, that's what Seraphelle said and the events in the novel also slightly point towards the same thing. But I'm still a little anxious.'

He had originally planned to accumulate strength and awakened abilities during the war, so he could prepare for the inevitable catastrophe, but he did not expect that he'd get thrown into an island that had awakened animals in it.

The first thing he wanted to do at the moment, was to learn more about the animals that resided on the island, but he did not have the means to do that efficiently.

'Let's take one step at a time and stop worrying about the things that I have no control over.' he said to himself inwardly as he walked towards Laura to help her out with scaling the fish. It took him a while, but he had to resort to using a cleanly washed stone to scale the fish as he did not want to dull the blade of the machete.

Thanks to his culinary experience in his past life, Keith took up the responsibility to cut up the fish. He couldn't just directly fillet it, so he had to resort to cutting it into chunks before pulling out the bones.

It took him a while, but once he was done, there was a tall pile of delicate fish meat placed on a bunch of cleanly washed leaves.

"Let's eat everyone. We have managed to bring some salt and spices with us, thanks to them being an exception to the food ban, so feel free to do what you want with this fish. But please don't waste it." he said as he grabbed a big chunk of white meat and directly tossed in onto the pan that was on the fire.

Everyone took their turns to cook their own food, and Keith took this leisure time to extract a bit more information from Seraphelle.

"My lady, are you sure that there aren't any dangerous animals in this island? I have a feeling that there should be a handful of them at the very least."

Seraphelle heard him and nodded, "Yeah there are a few, but they're just slightly evolved versions of their normal forms." she said before she began to get into the details. Keith already knew about the evolution phenomenon, but he still silently listened.

"For you to understand what's going on in this island, you'll have to learn about something crucial. We humans can awaken, but the animals also can do the same. The five great divine beings created a magical barrier to protect our continent from creatures like there. That's the stuff that's written in the ancient records, but I don't really understand how the animals in this island can even pose a threat to us.

Anyways, let's get to the main point. The barrier also stops animals from awakening on our continent. We've been sending out people to explore the seas for the past five hundred years, and only a decade ago did we manage to find this island.

It took us a while to learn more about it, but it's pretty safe considering the kind of awakened people we have on our side." she said, but played his part as a curious person and asked her a question.

"How do animals awaken though?"

"They awaken just like us... but for some reason, if two awakened animals breed, they give birth to another awakened. Due to this, they evolve rapidly. The carnivores in this island aren't too strong, so don't worry too much about it." she said and Keith nodded.

He knew even more. He knew stuff that Seraphelle wouldn't even imagine about, but he kept it to himself.

'The reason they created the barrier, was for their own gain. They gain divinity from the actions of humans, so they had to do their best to protect us from dangers because without us, they'll lose their divinity and ultimately, their lives.

It looks like the animals here haven't evolved much, but there were creatures that had turned into dangerous monsters that reached hundreds of meters tall, ones that could control the nature and some that could even move the seas.

Compared to them, we humans pale in comparison and in less than a decade, we'll face the full brunt of their attacks thanks to you guys going out to look for trouble.' he thought, frowning slightly.