Chapter 104: Territory (3)

Moreover, among the basic necessities, none were unimportant, but the “home” was responsible for providing security in daily life.

And on a smaller scale, the home.

In the case of people, viewed broadly, it was the country itself—that is, national territory.

Whether beast or human, territory was something extremely sensitive.

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That’s why both humans and beasts needed territory in order to live safely.

If you don’t have a house, you’ll never truly be safe from natural disasters or all kinds of accidents.

Even people become wary of or confront strangers who invade their homes, so it was obvious that beasts would react even more harshly.

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I had set out confidently, but my worries kept piling up.

‘But both the Owlbear and the Mad Dogs seemed to have territorial disputes, right?’

It wasn’t for nothing that I had come out exploring to identify the gorillas’ territory.

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However, now I could clearly feel that other animals could move in to occupy vacant territories.

I had seen kangaroos inside the cave where the Owlbear lived, but they fled as soon as they saw me.

First of all, what would happen to the Owlbear’s and the Mad Dogs’ territories now that they were gone?

It was something I had thought about several times, but so far I hadn’t noticed anything strange.

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‘And if something is capable of entering the territory of a monster like that…’

If I had been alone, I would have died several times over.

The saber-toothed tiger was a monster I had barely managed to defeat thanks to the sloth’s help.

Maybe they had already challenged it while the tiger was still alive.

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Of course, I didn’t mean that seriously.

‘Though I’ve been constantly marking territory myself.’

Or perhaps they had already become the new rulers of this entire area.

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Following my memories from yesterday, I arrived at the Owlbear’s cave.

‘The Owlbear’s cave was here.’

I was simply urinating wherever I happened to be.

Still, I wanted to believe that it worked as at least a small territorial marker.

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I hurriedly called out to him, but he was already inside.

My original plan was to use this place as a reference point while exploring the surrounding area.

“Kyuu! wizard Kkyu!”

That would have been the case if Wonmo hadn’t suddenly run into the cave.

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Judging by the utterly terrified expression on his face, it was obvious he had seen something.

But it wasn’t long before Wonmo came racing back out.

“Kkyaaaak! armor Kkyaaak!”

I shook my head and walked in after him.

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Now I understood why Wonmo was so frightened.

“Whoa.”

I barely managed to calm him down before slowly peeking inside.

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What was inside was anything but normal.

Now there were several of them hopping all over the cave.

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There were many.

It wasn’t just one.

And that was exactly the problem.

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Exactly what I had feared had happened.

It seemed they had claimed this place as their territory.

The group of kangaroos had occupied the Owlbear’s former territory.

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Maybe it was just my prejudice, but on Earth kangaroos usually lived in Australia.

‘But do kangaroos really live in environments like this?’

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I suppose as long as there was food like grass or trees, they could survive.

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Regardless of what I thought, I decided to quietly retreat.

Fighting now would only waste energy, and there were still many places left to investigate.

Even so, it felt rather out of place.

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‘If I want to escape, I’ll have to pass through other animals’ territories…’

And if I was unlucky, I might end up fighting several dominant beasts in succession.

That worried me too.

I would inevitably have to invade someone else’s territory.

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‘Wait a minute. advance Now that I think about it…’

I turned to look at the entrance of the Owlbear’s den.

That was precisely why I needed more information.

I was thinking about Rice Craone, the owner of the books I had found here.

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AllFather would probably explain it to me later.

‘How was he able to live inside the Owlbear’s den? adopt Did he live here before the Owlbear arrived?’

I took one last look at the Owlbear’s former cave, now transformed into a kangaroo den, and continued walking. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.

I still couldn’t determine where the gorillas’ territory began.

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It was better to think of this simply as exploration and territorial reconnaissance.

‘The entire river could be part of their territory.’

Using the river as a reference seemed convenient, but even that was ambiguous.

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After all, I had an excellent tracking dog.

No, an excellent tracking bear.

So finding them would be easy.

If I found droppings, I would stop there.

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Of course, that didn’t mean he had to look for mushrooms.

I quickly stopped him in case he tried to eat them.

“Sniff sniff. meadow Sniff.”

“Hey, Wonmo. arctic Not that, not that.”

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‘This doesn’t look like a forest anymore. portal It looks like a jungle.’

The leaves began turning a much deeper shade of green.

And as I moved forward, I realized the terrain was gradually changing.

After that, I continued exploring while carefully marking my route so I wouldn’t get lost.

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Even the air of the forest had changed noticeably.

Moreover, many areas of the forest had previously been rocky, but at some point they became filled entirely with gigantic roots.

And moss started covering everything.

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Unlike the other side of the river, there wasn’t that strange feeling of having entered a completely different place.

‘I didn’t feel like the space itself changed or anything like that.’

Especially the humidity.

Until recently, the environment had been fairly dry, but now it had become damp.

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It simply felt as though, at some point, I had wandered into a jungle.

“Good grief. matrix Damn.”

I considered turning back, but decided to explore a little farther.

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It looked like a giant snail.

Not long after making that decision, I discovered a new species.

A creature slowly crawling along in front of me.

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The shell alone was much larger than I was.

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Not to mention the body.

But the problem was its size.

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Watching a snail the size of a person crawling along was absolutely creepy.

‘Is this what it would feel like to see MapleStory snails in real life?’

But at the same time, it seemed strange.

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I’d better not touch it just to find out.

‘There must be a reason.’

If it was that big, shouldn’t it be eaten quickly?

The smartest thing to do was let it continue on its way.

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“…….”

Ssssss—

And it didn’t take long before I understood why it was able to survive.

I passed by the snail, which moved even slower than a sloth.

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And not only that.

All the grass in that area had melted.

The ground where the snail had passed.

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Considering what the snail was like, its entire body was probably both poisonous and acidic.

Even the soil itself seemed to have dissolved, as smoke was slowly rising from it.

If I ate it, my body would probably end up melting into liquid.

It looked like some kind of poison like that of a golden poison frog, or perhaps an acidic substance.

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Just to be safe, I moved well away from the snail.

‘……I should call it an Acid Snail.’

I hope it doesn’t spit liquid from its mouth like those frogs.

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‘Could it be that the gorillas don’t live here?’

Either they were much deeper inside, or I had simply gone in the wrong direction.

I continued exploring different parts of the jungle, but I didn’t find anything special, so I eventually decided to head back. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.

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I checked the gallery’s time, and it was only two thirty.

‘There’s still…… plenty of time left.’

Wonmo didn’t find anything either, so the entire exploration felt pointless.

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If I ended up running into the gorillas, it would be a disaster.

Even so, as a precaution, I decided not to venture deeper into the jungle.

“Hmm?”

I had planned to explore until five at the latest, so I could still search a little longer.

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But the marks engraved on this tree stood out too much.

Just as I was deciding to head back, I found something strange.

In the Forest of Four Seasons, where constant battles took place, damaged trees weren’t unusual.

It was a tree whose center was dented inward.

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‘Could this be…… a palm print?’

I didn’t know what kind of ape could have left it.

There was a clear palm imprint pressed into it.

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And its proportions were different from a human hand.

It was much larger than my hand.

And I wasn’t an expert, either.

But there were two things I could tell.

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Looking at that enormous mark, large enough for my entire hand to fit inside it, I came to that conclusion.

‘……This could be a territorial marker.’

The palm was much larger than the fingers, and the overall size was more than twice that of my own hand.

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‘Are there any more marks besides this one?’

If I kept wandering around here and got attacked, it would be a problem.

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If it really was a print left by a gorilla, then it was probably best to leave immediately.

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But I wanted to identify the territory more clearly.

I couldn’t just get scared by a single handprint and run away without accomplishing anything.

“Huh?”

And just as I was about to turn my head—

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The trunk was so thick that I had almost overlooked it.

There was a different mark beside the huge palm.

My finger brushed against another indentation in the tree.

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There was a much smaller palm print next to the other one.

But what truly surprised me was something else.

‘This…… actually looks like a human hand. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com. ’

Although it was still larger than my hand, it was within a normal range.

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Compared to the other mark, the difference was obvious.

I thought it might belong to a young gorilla, but it didn’t seem to be that either.

‘The fingers are too long.’

The fingers were especially long.

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Could it belong to Rice, who was supposedly attacked by the gorillas?

I didn’t know why, but that handprint felt strangely familiar.

As though it had been made to show off some sort of bond between the two.

That didn’t seem to be the case.

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I planned to upload it to the gallery later.

‘It looks like a pretty old mark…… though I’m not sure.’

I carefully examined the two prints before taking a photo.

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I couldn’t stay there any longer.

With that question lingering in my mind, I left the jungle.

I didn’t know whether it had been left by a survivor or by some strange mutant.

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I had found what looked like the mark of another survivor.

I actually wanted to continue exploring, but I changed my plans.

‘I need to get back to the shelter. abandon I have to think about this.’

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And not Rice’s.

‘Why did they leave a handprint? arch And why next to a gorilla’s?’

Someone completely different.

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As I repeatedly pondered that unanswered question, I returned to the shelter.

But something felt strange.

And the moment I arrived, I felt all the tension leave my body at once.

“Hmm?”

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What exactly was it?

It was hard to explain.

There was a sense of discomfort that I couldn’t identify.

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That was the first thing I noticed.

‘Why are the clothes on the ground? riddle Did I secure them poorly?’

Everything looked familiar, yet at the same time strange.

As though some objects were slightly out of place.

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And so did the charcoal container.

The clothes I had hung up were lying on the floor.

The position of the metal barrel also seemed different.

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My instincts immediately went on alert.

There were signs everywhere that someone had been here.

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I discreetly looked into the cave.

For a moment, I thought there might still be an intruder inside.

It was empty.

‘But there’s nobody inside.’

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I rubbed the back of my neck and, lowering my guard slightly, entered the cave.

No.

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And the moment I crossed the entrance, the feeling of unease became much stronger.

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I was a fairly organized person.

“Huh?”

Something entire was missing.

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The fasting pills had disappeared.

And not just a few pills.

“What the hell? echo Where are the fasting pills?”

That’s why I immediately noticed what was gone.

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But if it had disappeared……

Normally, I left it in one place because the sloth was the one who ate them the most.

The entire sack.

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There was only one explanation.

For a moment, I wondered if thieves also existed in the forest, but it wasn’t that strange.

Someone had entered my shelter and taken it.

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Last time, during that brutal storm, a raccoon had already tried to steal the fasting pills.

“……”

Of course, that raccoon ended up receiving a brutal lesson from the sloth and eventually wound up in Wonmo’s stomach.

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Perhaps the disappearance of the fasting pills had affected him quite a bit.

The fastest speed he could normally achieve.

The sloth climbed down from my back at top speed.

Not combat speed.

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I could clearly feel his sense of loss and fury.

Then he stood there staring fixedly at the empty spot where the sack had been.

And they hadn’t even touched the other items.

Who the hell had stolen the pills?

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Leaving behind the sloth, who was still silently furious, I went outside.

‘Could there be footprints?’

Criminals always leave traces.

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I didn’t know who the culprit was, but—

‘I have to upload this to the gallery.’

And after carefully examining the ground, I found footprints I had never seen before.

‘It’s the first time I’ve ever seen the sloth this angry.’

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***

Meanwhile, somewhere in the jungle.

It seems the thief has nothing left to do but wait for death.

“Uhoho! adjust Uho!”

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The gorillas were celebrating an unexpected feast.

“Uuuuu! avalanche Uhuhu!”

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