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Beast World: They Hated Me, Then I Cooked Them Dinner

Chapter 4

Word Count: 1017 | Released on: Today at 14:46

crisscrossed above their heads, leaking foul-smelling condensation onto the cracked pavement. The sky was

r looked back. Terra practically jogged to keep up. Her chest heaved. The cheap, high-heeled

hes. They looked at her unblemished skin. But then they looked at Zev. They saw the slight bulge of his muscles under his dark military shirt. They sensed the violent, suppressed energy rad

ay to dark, muddy earth. Before them ran a wide, slow-moving riv

at the muddy bank. He crossed his arms and stared

ell was awful-a mix of old copper and rotting ve

The industrial plants upriver filter out the heavy radiation. It's s

it onto her skin. It stung. The water was harsh, highly acidic. But as Terra scrubbed aggressively, peeling away the thick layers of waterproof white foundation and neon pink dye, she felt an intense sense

tion in the moving water, a sharp, synthe

r hands hovered

ctivation

directly into Terra's brain. It did not

signed for tactical survival and biological

ransmigration cheat code. It was real. Terra didn't speak out

metric scan. Acces

directly onto Terra's retinas. She blinked rapidly

t Pr

Terr

lnutrition, Mild

vel: 12%

: 500 (Initial

been zeroed by the Board, but the system just handed

ntracted Asse

ed. It showed a list of names: her c

1: Ze

erpent

Status:

tric: -90 (L

Metr

The man literally wanted her de

2: Rhys

quatic

us: Critical

ime to Deat

ric: -99 (Abs

Metr

emories. Rhys. He had an aquatic bio-form, a mermaid-like beast. He required high humidity and clean water to maintain his scales. The original Terra had locked him in a dry, concrete ba

he feedback loop would tear straight through her life force. It wouldn't just kill T

ing around in the mud, her f

cond, a flicker of surprise passing through his golden eyes, but

muddy bank. Her wet boots slipped, but she caught

of the warehouse in Sector 4," Zev said, his voice dropping into a deadly, quiet register. "You told Corbin to s

yelled, pushing past him.

nto her bicep. "He's a Level 5," Zev growled. "He ca

m out of his grip. She didn't have time to ex

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“Waking up with a cold, scaly hand wrapped around my throat wasn't the worst part. The worst part was realizing I'd transmigrated into the body of Terra Mason-the most despised woman in the entire Enclave. She drugged high-level beast-men and forced them into life-binding bio-contracts. She locked an aquatic warrior in a dry basement until his organs failed. She treated the most lethal males in the city like broken toys. Zev, the Level 6 serpent who's currently choking me, would rather blow up his own heart than spend another day as my slave. His affection metric? Negative ninety. His trust? Zero. Then my system activates: the Kore AI. It gives me exactly 500 credits, a medical nano-gel, and a recipe for neutralizing the radioactive poison in mutant meat. Real food. In this world, that's worth more than gold. I save Rhys, the dying aquatic male everyone left for dead. I season a slab of purple mutant steak until Sam, a battle-scarred grizzly shifter, groans at the taste-and his trust points finally tick above zero. When my backstabbing ex-best friend tries to steal my males and destroy me, I don't scream or throw a tantrum like the old Terra. I dismantle her with the truth. But earning their trust means more than grilling meat. A scorpion swarm ambushes us at midnight. Sam throws himself between me and a stinger the size of my arm. As he stands over the corpse, fur receding from his claws, he stares at me and whispers, "You were testing me." Yes. I was. Because in this world, the weak don't survive. And I refuse to be weak again. Four beast-men. Four contracts. One system. And a whole lot of steak. Let this dystopian wasteland know-I'm not the monster they remember. I'm worse. I'm the one who's going to feed them until they'd kill for me.”