I Am the Weakest Cat, but If I Keep Evolving, Can I Become the Strongest? - Episode 18: Thunder Claw

Episode 18: Thunder Claw 

▽ Episode 18: Thunder Claw 

Instinct is the best! 

I freely and at will activate [Thunder Claw]. 

Cats can freely extend and retract their claws. And the moment I extend mine, crackling purple lightning bursts from the claws. 

This electric shock causes no damage to me. 

But, the enemies who get hit by this do not get away unscathed. 

『Ooooo……』 

The one groaning is a violent turtle. 

A turtle that unleashes water magic and ferocious biting attacks. 

Basically, it hides inside its sturdy shell, and comes out at the right timing to bite. 

It used to be an enemy I couldn’t beat. 

Because it nullified poison. 

Even if I desperately bit it, the poison was neutralized — it was a shock. 

Even though paralysis worked, I couldn’t kill it and gave up. 

Now I can kill it easily. 

When its head comes out to bite, I lightly slash it with [Thunder Claw]. 

Crackling, lightning runs through the whole body of the turtle. And it was killed in an instant. 

This [Thunder Claw] may also have a thunder-element enchantment effect. 

Its sharpness is abnormally high. On top of that, the damage from pouring lightning into the body overlaps. Including the pure claw attack, it’s like delivering three attacks at once. 

Ridiculous firepower. 

The paralysis rate clearly decreased. 

Slash ten times, and maybe one time the paralysis happens — that kind of feeling. 

Even so, living creatures have the trait of “muscles stiffening when hit by lightning.” 

In other words. 

As long as this claw is touching, the enemy becomes unable to move. 

It was a de facto paralysis… something like a stun beyond that. 

Then I can calmly bite afterward. 

With this [Thunder Claw], the range of prey I can hunt has visibly expanded. 

Now I can easily kill sleeping rabbits, turtles, Slimes, even those annoying spiders. 

Slimes are immune to physical attacks. But lightning works, so just one stroke is enough. 

The dangerous threads of spiders are burned by electricity, so they’re easy to defeat too. 

I ignore the Crazy Dog because instant death is scary. 

If I must fight it, even then it won’t be as hard as last time. 

Restrain it with [Dimension Wall], and kill it with about two [Thunder Claw] strikes with [Dimension Strike]. 

I might have become the apex predator of this hunting ground. 

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My reign ended quickly. 

Because, worst of all, a parachuter arrived. 

Most likely, a Rank IV creature lost in the survival competition and drifted into this land. 

Clearly, the number of Crazy Dogs is decreasing. 

It’s being hunted. 

I hide in the grass and carefully observe the hunting ground. 

As a result of my investigation, it turns out the one hunting the Crazy Dogs is a huge lizard. 

A lizard with a burning back. 

I saw it breathing fire. 

With that flame, it burns the Crazy Dogs and devours them. 

Back then, our High-Speed Rabbit had some kind of disease resistance. But unfortunately, the fire-breathing lizard does not possess resistance. 

The lizard also became deranged. 

Now it drools and drips fire from its mouth, wandering in search of prey like a half-corpse. 

It’s clearly gone crazy. But since it’s a Rank IV, it’s stronger than anyone else in this hunting ground. 

……I’m almost ready to level up. 

I still want to remain in this hunting ground. 

Because my next evolution isn’t guaranteed to be Rank IV. 

If I remain at Rank III, I want to get stronger here. 

Therefore, that Rank IV must be hunted. 

The problem is — I’ve been forbidden from biting. 

How should I fight… I crackle my claws while thinking about how to deal with the Rank IV.