For Rito, it wasn't simply luck.
Between intervals of resting, hiding and hunting, he killed sheep and leopards for five consecutive days.
These two were always in groups, which made it easier to get several orbs at once.
Of course, he used the wind to map the area and only attacked when he realized there were no powerful animals nearby and after exterminating all his targets, he fled and hid, recovering and returned to attack.
In this vicious cycle, he managed to kill a little over a thousand sheep and almost a thousand leopards.
'I have a good stock of light orbs... It's time to hunt some lizards.'
He finished resting, now 100% recovered, his next target had divine regeneration art.
Among the divine arts that existed on this map, this was the one he most desired to have at that moment.
...
From the top of a tree, the sky began to lighten and a huge gray lizard becomes more visible.
The gray lizard was five meters tall at the shoulders and twenty meters long in the body.
This creature should weigh at least 30 tons and had a gray light flowing around its body.
This lizard was the size of a truck and resembled the appearance of a Komodo dragon quite a bit. Its skin seemed thick like natural armor, its feet, mainly the front ones, had sharp claws that seemed capable of cutting steel, its neck was long and the tail was even longer, possibly used to attack.
'I need to finish it in a single attack, otherwise... It's a waste of time to get into a fight with an animal of this magnitude with divine regeneration art...'
Even before arriving, he had already activated the Sage's Eyes and now transformed his hands into curved blades.
These blades were 1.5 m and were the sharpest that Yami used against him before.
The consumption of Spiritual Mana was absurd, he wouldn't last more than 30 minutes using them, so he needed to finish this with a single blow.
The blades start to get hot, soon red flames manifest and like aura, surround the blades on his arms.
He concentrated an immense amount of fire power into the blades.
Surrounding his feet with green wind, a pair of white wings manifest on his back and then, Rito shoots like a comet.
The sound he caused draws the attention of the gray lizard which raises its head and turns its neck, looking in his direction, however, Rito was already right above it and with both hands in blade form on fire, he pierces the top of the neck, breaking the defense, piercing the thick scale, and using all the power of the flames, he explodes in flames from the blade-shaped hands.
*BOOM!*
"ROARRR!"
The roar that the gray lizard let out was like the roar of a dragon, but it didn't last even more than two seconds before going silent.
The fight had barely begun and, the gray lizard already stopped moving.
The manifested flames created two pillars of flames, piercing through the lizard's body and extending about 5 meters into the air.
At first, the gray lizard tried to move its body and twist, but this resistance didn't last.
Soon after, with Rito still on top of the lizard, the gray lizard begins to be transformed into ashes.
With the wings, he glided and when he saw the orbs appear amid the ashes, his eyes shine as he made the wind bring the light orbs to him. The orbs were obviously superior to those he had gotten so far.
Among the orbs, there was a gray crystal orb.
Picking it up with a happy smile on his face, with only 9% of spiritual mana left, he shot towards the sky and went to hide to recover.
...
Hidden in a tree, it took 69 minutes for him to fully recover.
'This time, I'll try to use less power to kill a gray lizard.' He thought.
The reason for this was clear: he had already achieved the goal of managing to kill a gray lizard. Now, he wanted to test how much power he needed to use in one go to achieve a one-hit kill.
Using wind, it took him a few minutes until he finally found another gray lizard alone.
To the sound of gears, followed by an eagle's cry, he activated the Sage's Eyes.
Flying, he arrives at the spot where he saw the gray lizard lying in the grass, sleeping.
The corners of Rito's lips rose. When he was about to act, he heard a shrill and piercing cry sound in the distant sky and then, he saw a 'plane'? No...
It was a huge bird, completely covered in blue feathers. It had two blue wings and a long, elegant neck. Its plumage was smooth, and the wind surrounded it with at least a hundred meters of wingspan.
The blue bird's wings folded slightly as it dove with its huge, sharp claws targeting the gray lizard.
The gray lizard sensed the danger and woke up, but when it saw what had woken it, it began to run without hesitation.
Although enormous, the gray lizard ran at least 200 km/h.
However, the blue bird was far beyond this speed. In moments, the blue bird's claws reached the lizard and pierced without any resistance the thick skin of the lizard and began to fly with the gray lizard.
'Damn...'
Rito cursed in his mind, but could do nothing.
Faced with the pressure this blue bird emitted, he felt he was still far too weak and unintentionally copied part of the abilities of the gray lizard and the blue bird, causing his eyes to bleed.
'I can see this as an unexpected gain...' He thought.
The wings of that blue bird were special; in fact, they were coated with a wind ability and just by copying this ability, Rito lost almost 90% of his spiritual mana and another 8% copying the lizard's regeneration.
He deactivated the Sage's Eyes and took a deep breath.
He tried his best not to make noise, even though he was in a lot of pain.
While recovering, he thought about that colossal bird. That creature was immense. The wingspan was the size of a 30-story building. It was ridiculously large.
Even without using its powers, just with that pointed beak it could easily pierce his body, giving him instant death.
'The blue whale wouldn't even have half the size of this blue bird's wingspan...'
Just making this comparison was frightening.
If Rito's current power is that of a High-Class Devil, that bird must be of an Ultimate-Class Devil.
Maybe if he could use the orbs, he would have some chance, but in the hunting dimension, it was almost certain death.
A random thought he had: 'I really want one day to have this blue bird as a mount...'
Just imagining it made him feel cool.
However... It was just a dream, an illusion.
As far as he knew, there was no way to bring animals out of the hunting dimension. And yes, he tried on the first map to stay hugging a rabbit while the time he could stay in the hunting dimension ended.
Result? Well, he couldn't bring the rabbit with him when he woke up.
'If I can't bring it with me, I'll create one!' He had a new reason to create animals in the Garden of Eden.
...
Time passed, soon almost two hours were gone and Rito finally recovered 100%.
Using the wind, he searched for a gray lizard.
The wind's information came back with a gray lizard fighting against a black tiger.
One had the art of regeneration and the other of the body. It was basically a fight between titans.
Obviously, he had to go and take advantage of it.