Blood Assimilation

A while later.

Randy carefully walked around the place where he had landed and tried his best to remember the huge trees, the topography, and even the direction of the sun rose.

Although he had no way of determining the direction, he still thought to memorize as much as he could in order to make sure that he had a rough idea of the location when it was time to leave this world. He just hoped that he would not return too late and then his parents would become aware that he did not participate in the military's special training session.

Then again, he did not really care what they think since the only reason why he was in this world was to get stronger as they had suggested. So would they blame him for taking a risky opportunity rather than a long safe route?

It would be too unreasonable if they found out and then complained about it by saying that he was too reckless just because he did not inform them about this beforehand. After all, they also did not tell him anything when they decided to keep things from him. So why would he tell them everything simply because they are his parents?

With that in mind, Randy carefully looked around the unknown forest a few more times and even left some markings on one of the big trees in the forest. But during his scouting just now, he saw a dark region within the forest, and he had no idea what could be in that place.

Considering that the sun was shining brighter in the forest right now, indicating that it was still daytime in this world, it was simply impossible for one place within the forest to remain in complete darkness.

However, he quickly ignored this situation, as he did not want to pry and get himself killed just because of his curiosity.

After he thought he had memorized the location where had fallen. He decided to walk toward a certain direction hoping to find something along the lines of a path that led to a civilized location like a city.

Afterward, Randy began to survey the surroundings by walking around the huge trees that were on average, about 10 meters tall without knowing where to go or start exactly.

At this point, he wished he would have run into a human or an intelligent life form right away when he arrived in this world. Because all he could see in his vision were these oversized trees that were everywhere in this forest.

While he was complaining in frustration, the system suddenly flashed with new lines of texts appearing in front of his vision one after another, arousing his attention.

He then looked forward in anticipation, as he thought that perhaps the system might actually have a map function after its upgrade.

His hopeful gaze suddenly turned dim as he read the first few lines of text that appeared.

[[The fluctuations in space-time have finally stabilized]]

[[Currently synchronizing with this dimension's space-time coordinates]]

[[Synchronization complete]]

[[Now synchronizing with this current world's time flow]]

[[Synchronization complete]]

[…]

'Is that it? And here I thought that it was because it had a map function, but it turned out it was just talking about the space-time thing from before. I arrived safely, so I don't really care—'

[[Attention!]]

[[Detected a deviation in the time flow. Possibly the result of the fluctuations in the space-time between the previous world and the current world]]

[[As of this moment, the time flow between this world and the host's original world had been slightly altered. The current time difference between this dimension and the host's dimension is approximately seven days to one day. Although there may be a slight deviation in the calculation, the margin of error would not impact the difference in the two worlds' time overall]]

[[In other words, spending one week in the current world be equivalent to spending one day in your previous world]]

The system stated as it explained in detail, but Randy was still taken aback by what he had read, and he reacted right away.

"What?!" Randy exclaimed in shock when he read through these lines of text displayed by the system. That was because, before he came to this world, he heard that the worlds connected to their world through the dimensional rifts always share the same time flow as their world.

But now, the system was telling him that there was a deviation in the time flow because of that fluctuation in space earlier. Then how would he know when to return? What would happen if there was another fluctuation, and he did not arrive during the time that he wanted? What should he do at that time?

Randy instantly felt a slight headache and once again was regretting his decision when he picked this dimensional rift with little to none known about it. Perhaps, he was too impulsive in his decision, but there was no helping it at the time.

A few moments of contemplation later, after thinking of something, he suddenly said to himself in consolation: "Calm down. Isn't this situation a good thing? On the bright side, If I can spend more time here then I'll be able to get much stronger than my original plans. In that sense, this situation might be an unexpected benefit. And If I work diligently for approximately more than three months in this place, I might be able to learn some techniques, skills or even obtain an artifact that cost so much money back in my world."

Randy decided to think positively since there was nothing that he could do to change his current situation, even if he wanted to. On the other hand, he would rather take advantage of this situation instead and grow stronger.

Naturally, that was what mattered more to him right now compared to him regretting his decision all over again.

"Alright. Now, how do I get out of here?" He wondered, but the next moment, he suddenly heard the sound of a screaming voice coming from a place not far from his location.

'What's this situation? Judging by the noise, was somebody getting attacked? More importantly, does someone even live in this forest? Regardless of the case, I need to get closer to verify my assumptions.'

However, Randy could not tell where this seemingly cry of help voice was coming from, and since he did not want to venture too much without knowing where he was going, he decided to remain cautious towards the situation first.

After which, he pondered for a moment, and then after making his decision, he transformed into his werewolf form, and with his current sharpened senses, he could now distinctively tell where the screaming voice was coming from.

With that, he moved toward a certain direction as he followed the voice. But he did not dare to approach the direction of the voice carelessly.

As he now knew the direction of the screaming voice, on his way, he thought about it for a bit, and sure enough, he was still somewhat skeptical about this whole situation. Thus, he decided to tread lightly and cautiously without invoking any unwanted animosity towards himself.

Although they sound like they are screaming for help, he was not about to fall into a possible hidden trap or scheme set up by the source of that voice.

Furthermore, he did not believe it, for even a second, that someone would be living in this unknown forest. Unless it was some monster or something along those lines, he would never believe it. After all, why would someone live in this thick forest?