It was another long night. Wang Wu lay prone on the ground, his breathing growing long and faint as well.
His spirits were high. Though the past seven days of hunger had cost him 3% of his Growth Rate, that really was nothing.
That Great Mountain Cat, on the other hand, was already unable to hold on. Its family business was too large; it was nothing like Wang Wu, who had nothing to his name.
Wang Wu could endure and lie low without a care, but the Great Mountain Cat could not, because it had many competitors.
For the past three days, the Great Mountain Cat had not appeared. Determined to injure the enemy by a thousand even at the cost of eight hundred to itself, it insisted on catching Wang Wu.
This immediately allowed many of the daily Golden Particles to be claimed by other Sprites.
Before this, the Great Mountain Cat had monopolized this hillside, swallowing nearly all the Golden Particles within a fifty-meter radius. That was equivalent to taking in roughly one or two hundred points of spiritual energy every day.
But now, it had all gone to the Grey Magpie flock. Their entire family consisted of one Magpie Leader, six Great Magpies, twelve Medium Magpies, and around fifty or sixty Small Magpies.
Their territory was a towering ancient tree at the foot of the mountain. Originally, they and the Great Mountain Cat had kept out of each other's way, maintaining a straight-line distance of over sixty meters.
The moment the Great Mountain Cat vanished, they immediately occupied that huge boulder and maliciously drove away any other Sprites that dared approach, nearly monopolizing eighty percent of the Golden Particles on this side of the hill in one stroke.
The results were obvious.
Especially for that Magpie Leader,