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Beast Devourer: I Grow Stronger by Eating Monsters

Chapter 32: The Crimson Sorceress Figured Out How I Steal Skills · Nov 01, 2026

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1 Chapter 1: My Retirement Was an Execution 2026-11-01
2 Chapter 2: A Prophet Said I’d Kill My Boss, So He Tried to Execute Me First 2026-11-01
3 Chapter 3: They Couldn’t Kill Me, So They Overloaded a Dimensional Rift 2026-11-01
4 Chapter 4: They Blew Up the Facility to Kill Me, So I Fell Into Another World 2026-11-01
5 Chapter 5: I Woke Up Under Two Moons With Something Called Predation 2026-11-01
6 Chapter 6: I Had No Magic, So I Killed a Magic Wolf With Scrap MetalSilence. 2026-11-01
7 Chapter 7: Predation 2026-11-01
8 Chapter 8: I Ate a Monster’s Fire Organ and Unlocked Magic 2026-11-01
9 Chapter 9: I Wasn’t Going to Save Them—Then They Offered Me Fifty Crowns 2026-11-01
10 Chapter 10: I Didn’t Save Them for Free 2026-11-01
11 Chapter 11: I Ate a Monster’s Stone Gland and Turned My Skin to Rock 2026-11-01
12 Chapter 12: They Thanked Me for Saving Them. I Told Them I Didn’t. 2026-11-01
13 Chapter 13: I Reached the Human Kingdom and Found Slaves at the Gate 2026-11-01
14 Chapter 14: To Enter the City, I Had to Let Them Track Me 2026-11-01
15 Chapter 15: To Enter the City, I Had to Let Them Mark Me 2026-11-01
16 Chapter 16: I Found a Monster That Could Evolve Predation 2026-11-01
17 Chapter 17: Mercenary 2026-11-01
18 Chapter 18: I Blackmailed a Corrupt Official Into Giving Me a Level 14 Hunt 2026-11-01
19 Chapter 19: I’m Level 3. The Monster Is Level 14. So I Rigged the Battlefield. 2026-11-01
20 Chapter 20: I Trapped the Level 14 Monster. Then It Got Faster. 2026-11-01
21 Chapter 21: I Killed a Level 14 Awakened and Predation Evolved 2026-11-01
22 Chapter 22: Six Cannibals Tried to Eat Me. They Picked the Wrong Prey. 2026-11-01
23 Chapter 23: Predation Never Said I Could Only Eat Monsters 2026-11-01
24 Chapter 24: I Ate a Human Heart and Stole His Skill 2026-11-01
25 Chapter 25: Monsters Weren’t Special. I Can Devour Human Skills Too. 2026-11-01
26 Chapter 26: A Noblewoman Saw My Stolen Skills and Started Investigating Me 2026-11-01
27 Chapter 27: The Crimson Sorceress Knew My Name Before We Met 2026-11-01
28 Chapter 28: The Crimson Sorceress Offered Me a Deal. I Wanted the Monster Instead. 2026-11-01
29 Chapter 29: The Crimson Sorceress Wants the Same Monster I Do 2026-11-01
30 Chapter 30: The Crimson Sorceress Offered Me 200 Crowns. I Still Said No 2026-11-01
31 Chapter 31: I Don’t Work for You 2026-11-01
32 Chapter 32: The Crimson Sorceress Figured Out How I Steal Skills 2026-11-01
33 Chapter 33: The Crimson Sorceress Is Useful. That Doesn’t Mean I Need Her. 2026-11-01
34 Chapter 34: We Followed the Mirehorn’s Blood Trail Into a Leech Nest 2026-11-01
35 Chapter 35: I Took the Bite Instead. 2026-11-01
36 Chapter 36: I Saved the Crimson Sorceress. She Asked If I Cared. 2026-11-01
37 Chapter 37: A Noble Used Slaves as Monster Bait. He Ruined My Hunt. 2026-11-01
38 Chapter 38: Then He Ordered Me to Leave. 2026-11-01
39 Chapter 39: Then His Bloodline Awakened. 2026-11-01
40 Chapter 40: I Killed a Noble. Predation Offered Me His Bloodline. 2026-11-01
41 Chapter 41: Our Level 21 Target Was Killed by a Level 34 Elite 2026-11-01
42 Chapter 42: The Level 34 Elite Learned Our Weakness. I Found His. 2026-11-01
43 Chapter 43: I Overfed the Level 34 Elite Until Its Armor Opened 2026-11-01
44 Chapter 44: Tomorrow I Kill It. 2026-11-01
45 Chapter 45: The Elite Learned My Trap. So I Became the Bait. 2026-11-01
46 Chapter 46: I Crawled Under a Level 34 Elite to Kill Its Second Heart 2026-11-01
47 Chapter 47: I Killed the Level 34 Elite. Predation Gave Me Six Choices. 2026-11-01
48 Chapter 48: I Devoured My First Elite and Unlocked a Second Authority 2026-11-01
49 Chapter 49: I Unlocked FORGE. Now I Have to Choose: Eat It or Build With It. 2026-11-01
50 Chapter 50: I Can Put Monster Skills Inside Weapons 2026-11-01

Blackthorn was different from the forests Raven had seen so far.

Quieter.

Not completely.

Insects.

Occasional birds.

Water somewhere in the distance.

But there were no small animals moving through the underbrush.

Raven noticed that first.

Valeria did too.

”There’s a predator nearby.”

”Or several.”

She looked at him.

”You know that because of your Skill?”

”No.”

Raven pointed toward the ground.

”No fresh small tracks.”

Then the trees.

”Not many birds staying low.”

Valeria looked around.

”I thought your Instinct did all of that for you.”

”Predator’s Instinct improves information.”

”It doesn’t replace experience?”

”Nothing useful does.”

She seemed to consider that answer.

They continued.

Twenty minutes later, they found remains.

A small creature.

It looked like a deer with six eyes.

Its abdomen had been torn open.

Partially eaten.

Raven crouched.

Fresh blood.

Valeria examined the wounds.

”Mirehorn.”

”You sure?”

”Its fangs leave two lines here.”

She pointed.

Raven examined them.

Learned.

”An hour. Maybe two.”

”Less.”

”Why?”

Valeria touched the blood.

A reddish circle appeared around her fingertip.

The droplet rose.

Raven watched.

Blood Magic.

The first time he’d actually seen her use it.

The blood floated like a tiny sphere in front of her eyes.

Valeria closed her fingers.

”Approximately thirty-seven minutes.”

Raven looked at her.

”Specific.”

”Blood remembers.”

”That sounds dramatic.”

”It’s blood magic.”

”I suppose it’s mandatory.”

Valeria smiled.

”I can say it less elegantly if you’d prefer.”

”Try.”

”It’s pretty fresh.”

Raven nodded.

”Better.”

She laughed.

The sphere fell.

Raven studied the tracks.

One direction.

Northeast.

Toward the quarry.

Exactly as the records indicated.

They moved on.

Then Raven noticed something else.

A mark across a tree trunk.

Not from the Mirehorn.

Three narrow slashes.

Shoulder height.

Deep.

Roland approached.

”Black Razorcat.”

Raven looked at the marks.

Valeria already knew what was coming.

”No.”

Raven looked at her.

”What?”

”You are not about to start interrogating us about its organs.”

”I wasn’t going to.”

”Lie.”

”I already read about them.”

Valeria went silent.

Raven continued.

”Reflexes. Claw Reinforcement. Minor Night Vision.”

Valeria stared at him.

”Of course you know that.”

”None are a priority.”

”So we ignore it.”

”Yes.”

She continued watching him as he walked away.

”It’s really deliberate.”

Raven glanced back slightly.

”What?”

”Your progression.”

He didn’t answer.

Valeria walked beside him.

”Most Awakened get whatever their class allows them to have, then spend years figuring out how to use it.”

”Sounds inefficient.”

”They don’t have a choice.”

”I do.”

”That’s what worries me.”

Raven looked at her.

”You don’t look worried.”

”I have a very good expression.”

”I noticed.”

Valeria smiled.

”You decide what you’re missing, then search for the organism capable of giving it to you.”

”More or less.”

”Stonehide because you needed defense.”

Raven didn’t confirm it.

”Burst Step for mobility.”

Silence.

”Coagulation Control because you keep getting injured.”

Raven kept walking.

Valeria stopped.

”You’re building yourself.”

That made Raven stop.

Not because the statement was entirely correct.

Because it was more correct than he’d expected from her.

Valeria approached.

”You’re not simply making yourself stronger.”

She looked at his hands.

His legs.

Then his eyes.

”You’re choosing what kind of creature you want to become.”

The forest seemed to go quiet around them.

Raven thought about the Nightfang.

Cinderback.

Ravager.

Gloom Stalker.

The human Mana Heart.

Predation.

Consume.

Adapt.

Evolve.

”’Creature’ is a strong word.”

Valeria raised an eyebrow.

”You ate a human heart yesterday.”

”Part of one.”

”That doesn’t improve the sentence.”

Raven thought about it.

”Fair.”

He started walking again.

Valeria followed.

”Doesn’t that worry you?”

”What?”

”Changing too much.”

Raven looked at his hand.

For an instant, he activated Stonehide.

His skin darkened.

Mineralized.

Then returned to normal.

”I’ll worry when the change becomes worse than the alternative.”

”That doesn’t really answer the question.”

”Answers enough of it.”

Valeria remained quiet.

Raven could feel her eyes on him.

It wasn’t fear.

Not yet.

Fascination.

That could become considerably more annoying.

They found the first sign of the Crimson Mirehorn shortly before sunset.

Not a track.

A corpse.

Large.

The dead creature resembled an armored feline, almost the size of a small horse.

Its chest had been torn open.

But not eaten.

Valeria moved forward first.

Raven raised a hand.

She stopped.

Predator’s Instinct was reacting.

Barely.

But it was reacting.

”Something’s wrong.”

Roland drew his sword.

The other guards spread out.

Valeria watched the trees.

”Ambush?”

”I don’t know.”

Raven crouched beside the corpse without touching it.

The wounds were strange.

Punctures.

Many of them.

Far too small to belong to the Mirehorn’s fangs.

Then he noticed the blood around it.

Not all of it belonged to the feline.

Very dark red.

Threaded with faintly glowing lines.

Valeria saw it too.

Her expression changed.

”Mirehorn.”

”Injured.”

”Yes.”

Raven followed the droplets.

Toward the quarry.

Good news.

A wounded Level 18–22 creature was better than a healthy one.

Then Predator’s Instinct pulsed again.

This time from the opposite direction.

Raven turned.

Something moved between the trees.

Large.

Not the Mirehorn.

Roland raised his sword.

”Movement.”

Another shadow appeared to the left.

Then a third.

Valeria slowly extended one hand.

Blood from the corpse began rising.

Not into a sphere.

Into threads.

Dozens of them.

They coiled around her fingers.

Raven watched.

Now that magic was interesting.

Valeria smiled without looking at him.

”Impressed?”

Raven drew his knife.

”Not yet.”

The strands of blood hardened.

Formed three floating spears around her.

”You could pretend a little.”

”Would you pay me?”

Valeria turned her head.

”How much?”

Raven thought.

”Two hundred crowns.”

She laughed.

”Asshole.”

The first creature stepped out from between the trees.

Raven saw four eyes.

Dark skin.

Narrow jaw.

Then another.

And another.

They weren’t the target.

But they’d been following the Mirehorn’s blood.

Scavengers.

Opportunistic predators.

Raven counted.

Five.

Maybe more.

Valeria raised one hand.

The crimson spears rotated around her.

”I suppose you’ll work with me now.”

Raven activated Stonehide over his forearm.

”No.”

”We’re surrounded.”

”I noticed.”

”We’re fighting the same thing.”

”Yes.”

”That’s called working together.”

Raven felt Predator’s Instinct tighten as the first creature lowered its body.

”No.”

Burst Step began gathering mana in his legs.

”That’s called having mutual enemies.”

The creature leaped.

Valeria smiled.

”You’re exhausting.”

Raven vanished forward.

”I’ve been told.”

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