[The Lord of the jungle]

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-Somewhere else...

Inside a very mystic and enormous room covered in gigantic tree roots, a small woman of pointy ears and orange hair was looking at a certain scroll on a large table with squinted eyes, seemingly looking for something.

"This doesn't make sense..." The woman muttered quietly, as her eye started twitching in irritation while looking at the scroll.

It wasn't until several minutes passed, that the woman finally stopped looking at the scroll and took several steps back before ruffling her own hair in frustration.

"Ahhhh...! I don't understand, where is that damn time distortion?!"

-Bam!!-

Suddenly, from behind her, the door to the room opened and a purple-haired youth entered the room with a worried expression on his face.

"Are you okay?! I heard a scream from outside..." The youth yelled in worry before he started checking every corner of the room and landed his gaze on the small woman at the center of the room.

Whoever had ever watched Dragon ball could have known immediately who this youth was, as his appearance greatly reassembled that of the animation and drawings from the artists, his characteristic purple hair also gave away his identity.

It was Trunks, the son of Bulma and Vegeta, and also an incredibly important time patroller who was recruited by Chronoa, the supreme kai of time, to help her manage the timelines as she lacked an assistant back during the day.

"It's you Trunks... Come here and help me find the time distortion in this timeline. I've looked for it everywhere, but I simply can't find it..."

Chronoa, who had been looking for the time distortion for a while now, let out a tired sigh before she gestured Trunks to come and help her.

"Oh... Is that so? Normally time distortions should be easy to find... Hmm?"

Trunks, who picked up the scroll in Chronoa's hands, rapidly started looking through the several important events in history, before his eyebrows started furrowing more every time he didn't find anything different.

"What's this...? Why did a new timeline suddenly got created when there has been no change in the slightest in history?" Trunks couldn't help but blurt out his astonishment as he left the scroll back on the table before entering in deep thought.

"Right? I can't understand it either... It's like a new timeline exactly equal to the main one got created out of nowhere... Could it be that someone is messing with time again?" Chronoa frowned while looking at the scroll before she then looked towards trunks with a raised eyebrow.

"We haven't detected anyone messing with time in the timelines that we survey, nor in the Demon realm... Things have been really calm for a long time" Trunks looked back at Chronoa and scratched the back of his head with a puzzled expression on his face.

-Sigh...-

Chronoa sighed before she then moved the scroll somewhere else, and came back to Trunks with a troubled expression.

"What a problem... We will be keeping an eye on that timeline for the time being, Trunks. Tell me if there's any change in history or any mysterious individual roaming around the timeline, that will be the key to discovering whether this is simply a coincidence, or something else..." Chronoa narrowed her eyes and dismissed Trunks.

"Yes!"

As Trunks left the room, Chronoa took a seat on a nearby chair, and let out a tired sigh.

"Let's just hope this doesn't become something so big... Or in the worst case, I will have to erase the timeline..."

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Ryu's POV:

"Hahaha, In your damn face!!" I laughed wickedly as I couldn't help but laugh at the confused face of the vulture that was sent flying immediately after I punched him. These guys always underestimated me because of my size, so it isn't that hard to attack them.

-Boooom!!-

Maybe I was acting a bit more violent than usual because the first vulture I met fucking ate my arm, or simply because this damned jungle was making me more savage than what I used to be.

Yes, that must be it. I don't remember being this violent...

Probably.

Anyways, it was only after some seconds passed since the vulture crashed with the ground that the window that indicated my success in the mission finally showed.

Of course, missions these days weren't as easy as simply hunting one vulture... And the proof of that was the many vulture's bodies laying around the zone, aside from the one that I had just killed.

This time the system had asked me to decimate an entire pack of vultures flying over my base, it certainly wasn't as easy peasy as dealing with just one of them, but I still managed to pull through it without any problem in the end.

The fact that I only had one arm left wasn't bothering me in the slightest either. I mean, when you have superhuman strength and your whole method of fighting consists only in using one arm and your legs, there isn't really that much use for my other arm. There were still some things that would get annoying, but most of them were related to cooking or handling objects... Aside from that, I think I was becoming an expert in being one-armed.

Heck, I even managed to amount a pretty amazing quantity of Z points over these days!

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≡[System bearer: Ryu Kain]

-Power Level: 365

-Z Points: 1350

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Maybe I was getting a bit too over-used to this place... Being among monsters wasn't even bothering me nowadays... Except when I would find their gigantic and stinky dungs all over the jungle... However, besides that, and the loneliness... I think my own mind was coming to an understanding with the fact that I had to live here now... However... There was still one thing that bothered me to no end, even now, I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Everything had been progressing pretty smoothly... To my own distress.

Everything has been going too smoothly for my own mental health... My own mind was expecting something bad to happen at any moment, being alert at every moment for even the slightest thing to go wrong... However, nothing was going wrong, even now...

The more time that passed with nothing bad happening, the more stressed I would become, thinking that a problem might arise at any moment now... Even sleeping was becoming a hard task knowing that I would be in my most defenseless state when sleeping.

Shit, I'm even starting to look forward to the next problem, just so that I can rest even if it is for a bit...

Who am I telling this in the first place? No, why am I imagining myself telling this to someone? Am I really that bored? Or is it that the endless solitude is already affecting my mind?

Should I make one of the beasts in this jungle my pet? Maybe that way I can keep somewhat my sanity in check by having something to talk to...

"Fuck, I have to get out of this planet soon, or I might become crazy before I know it... If I'm not crazy already that is...!"

-Boom!-

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, as I was venting out my frustration, the whole ground shook as if something heavy had landed nearby.

However, the trembling didn't stop there, as soon the floor started shaking repeatedly, as if something enormous was walking nearby.

"Don't tell me..."

-Tremble...-

Like an earthquake, the whole jungle started shaking more and more violently as whatever was creating such disturbance was slowly approaching the area, much to my worry.

-Shoooom...-

Suddenly, an enormous shadow enveloped my body, as my eyes almost popped out of my sockets due to the size of the creature behind me.

"I think I don't want to face this problem anymore... I think I prefer living full of stress..."

What stood behind me, was nothing I had ever seen before... A creature bigger than any other I had met since I arrived here...

Even the bear from before was like a child in front of this monster...

A beautiful, majestic, and intimidating white tiger of more than 60 meters high was looking at me like it was looking at its long-life enemy, baring his teeth and showing off its obvious hostility.

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°Lord of the Jungle°

-Power level: 2194

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"Haha, this isn't even funny..."

Such an enormous difference in power... I guess fate really wanted to kill me this time...

... But...

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≡[New Main Quest 1/2‼]

▸ Escape successfully from the new threat, and make sure you live another day to plan your revenge!

[Rewards for completing the quest successfully:]

▸2000 Z points

▸Receive 1 Gravity-controlling belt [★★★☆☆☆☆]

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... I just can't make it that easy for fate...  Right?

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-End of the Chapter-

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