《Sanguine Paradise》Chapter 4 – [Day 2] – “Growth”
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∼ Day 2 ∼
[Evolution completed]
[Race changed to Lesser Sanguinite!]
[You've acquired two new skills!]
[Skill - Heat Sensitive, has been added to the skill list]
[Skill - Muffled Flying, has been added to the skill list]
Oh god why, why me what did I ever do to yo-
-Oh, it stopped...
T-that... was not fun, to say the least.
For a full minute or two, it had felt like my insides, were on the outside. Yeah, you can probably guess that it was no pleasant experience... Anyways, I shook the last vestiges of pain from my mind and allowed excitement to once again flush my body of the anticipation of how much I'd grown.
Right off the bat, I noticed that I was significantly larger. Before I would've guessed that my approximate size was about that of a rather large mosquito back on earth. Around a 2cm (0.8 inches) in length from head to abdomen. But now I was about a whopping 10cm (4 inches) in length.
Thinking about mosquitoes that size, if I was back on Earth and saw a swarm of mosquitoes each one of such a size, I would probably be shitting bricks by the tons.
It was probably a good idea to buy that hiding skill if I was going to keep growing bigger. With the rate I was going at now, that would be sooner than later. My small size was soon going to stop being an advantage, and it would be a lot harder to feed without being noticed by my prey.
Now, onto my status!
-Status!-
Status
Information Attributes
Traits. Titles. and Skills -Name- "???" STR 0.21 ⇒ 0.50 Skills 4 ⇒ 7 -Race- Lesser Sanguinite VIT 0.26 ⇒ 0.70 Traits 3 -Sex- Male AGI 2 ⇒ 4 Titles 0 -Rank- K DEX 1 ⇒ 2 Skillpoints 0 ⇒ 1 -Level- 1/10 INT 12 Resistances
Health 3/3 CHR 0.06 ⇒ 0.10 Physical Resistance 0.035 ⇒ 0.102 Stamina 4/4 WILL 11 Magical Resistance 0.006 ⇒ 0.010 Mana 0/0 MAG 0.02 ⇒ 0.05 Mental Resistance 5
It didn't seem like much, but for me, it was quite an improvement. With my beady eyes glistening in joy, I looked onto my health.
Yay! I have more than 1 health now, maybe now I take on two gusts of wind now. Come at me, Zeus!
Yeah, I know. I still had a long way to before I could even dream of fighting anybody. The life of a mosquito was really quite depressing when literally anything could kill you but you're still a predator.
Mother nature you're one evil bitch!
Anyway, now to my new skills, I just got two new skills and I hadn't even checked it since I first woke up in this world.
-Skill list!-
Skill list Name Type LVL Blood Profiling Information 1 ⇒ 2 Consumes the blood of biological creatures to create a profile on the creature. Flight Transport 1 ⇒ 2 Enhanced speed and maneuverability Heat Sensitive - NEW Sensory 1 Allows the user to better detect heat sources Hiding - NEW Defensive 1 The basic level of hiding makes it harder for creatures to notice your presence and form. Muffled Flying - NEW Defensive 1 Reduces the sound produced by flight Puncture Attack 1 ⇒ 2 Increased penetration Smell Sensory 1 Enhanced smell capabilities
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These new skills seemed rather useful. Heat Sensitive would allow me to more easily spot prey and danger. Muffled Flying should help me cover the sound produced when I flew through the air, so as to not alert others of my presence.
Done inspecting the new me, I prepared to set off. However, right before I took flight, I noticed the sheer power produced by my wings had now increased many times from that of my previous evolution.
I could feel the growth in my power, however minuscule and inconsequential. But it was an almost intoxicating feeling of success, growth, and power. Those things that I had never experienced back on Earth.
At that moment, all the possibilities that this world offered suddenly became clear, and I couldn't help myself as a mental smile of anticipation for what the future had in store for me.
Taking flight I was slightly shocked by the sound produced by my wings now. It was a lot louder now, even though I had just acquired the Muffled Flying skill.
Severely worried that I might not be able to feed on anybody without noticing now, I started thinking about how I could become more stealthy as soon as possible.
Hmm, I guess I just need to grind my skills. So I'll have to level-up my Muffled Flying skill but am I supposed to go about it?
The skill allows me to fly unnoticed by other creatures, so I supposed that I had to fly close to another creature and try not to be noticed. I mulled over my thoughts for a bit. Finishing the plan on how to approach grinding the Muffled Flying skill, I took off in search of prey worthy of me grinding my skills on.
Only 20 minutes later, my first customer arrived in my sight. An unsuspecting horned rabbit was lazily nibbling on a patch of grass, wholly unaware of my plans to use it for my rise to power! Well, anybody strong had to start somewhere...
Baby steps Micheal, baby steps...
Slowly approaching the rabbit I began to fly about and tried not to cause too much noise while still being in the vicinity of it. But before I knew it, I got a notification. Although, not the one I had been expecting.
[Hiding has reached LVL: 2]
But even though my goal was to level-up my Muffled flying skill, I suddenly noticed as I got the level-up that the sound produced by my wings were slightly reduced.
Oh, it seems that my Hiding skill also masks my sound to make me less noticeable. Good to know...
Less than two minutes later I got the level-up I was looking for.
[Muffled Flying has reached LVL: 2]
With the prompt fading from sight, I could immediately hear a clear difference in the volume of sound being produced from my rapidly flapping wings.
And that! I believe deserves a victory snack.
I trained my gaze on the still, oh-so innocent dumb little rabbit. Snack time! Landing on its back, I promptly stuck my needle-appendage into its skin. Without any further ado, I went to town and began slurping the small creature's life blood.
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It was only about two minutes later that I was almost at bursting point by how much I've drunk. To finish off my meal, I took one last furious swig of the rabbit's blood, but that was when something wholly unexpected happened.
[Horned Rabbit takes 1 damage!]
Oh, that can't be good...
Just before I could finish that thought I was almost thrown directly off the rabbit's back as it suddenly bucked and turned around to let out a squeak of furious intensity.
Sitting on its back, completely frozen in shock, was I. Praying to whoever would listen, I wished that the rabbit wouldn't find the perpetrator (me) who so audaciously dared to offend this little furry and innocent animal.
A few more squeaks ensued the next few moments. But without finding any quarry to blame as the guilty one, the rabbit slowly returned to nibbling on the patch of grass, almost as if nothing had even happened.
I let a few minutes go by in muted silence, only broken by the small crunches of the rabbit munching on grass, before I slowly dislodged myself and tríed to take off as silently as possible.
I got a meter or two away before feeling an icy chill of danger run through my body. In my 360-degree field of view, I saw the little lump of fur had turned around at was staring straight at me with a piercing gaze and furious indignation in its eyes.
Immediately making a maneuver that would put even the best fighter pilots to shame (might've skimped on the details a bit) I managed to dodge the lightning-fast lunge of the rabbit who was trying to take a bite out of -ALL OF ME!
Sluggishly flying due to the heavyweight of my blood-filled abdomen, I flew higher and higher to avoid another lunge from the menacing furball.
Now some meters above the trees covering the glades, I desperately tried to get my chaotic emotions back in order. But I didn't have to try for long, as soon as I caught sight of what laid splayed out before my eyes I became almost immediately calmed; panic replaced by awe.
After the evolution, my eyes' field of vision range had increased by quite a lot and I could now see about twenty to thirty meters out before everything started to blur again.
But before me, was a sight that could only be described as beautiful. It had become morning and the sun laid on the horizon lighting up the glades flora and fauna, in all its wonderful glory.
All around me was an explosion of sounds, as the wildlife woke up and chirping birds who flew above.
...
B-birds?!
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck.
Get me the hell back down into the trees!
I had forgotten the fact that I was a motherfucking mosquito AKA, "bird snack". Darting back into the cover of the trees I almost splatted myself on the branch I sought as a refuge from this, although beautiful, unforgiving and dangerous world.
Calming my nerves, I spend a whole five minutes to fully gather myself.
Oooookay - That was a bit of a rollercoaster...
Slumping on the tree branch I pulled up a prompt that I had dismissed as fled for small little life.
[Siphon]
[You've consumed the blood of a Horned Rabbit]
[28 points of EXP has been acquired and stats have been added]
[Congratulations! You've reached level 2]
[Congratulations! You've reached level 3]
[You've been rewarded with 2 skill points for reach levels 2 and 3]
[Blood Profiling has reached LVL: 3]
[Blood Profiling has advanced the profile of "Horned Rabbit"]
Damn, that's a good harvest.
Oh, yeah! I almost forgot I haven't even looked at the profile of the horned rabbits I've drunk from.
-Profile, Horned Rabbit!- I shouted mentally hoping that command would work.
Profile: Horned Rabbit
Information Attributes
Traits. Titles. and Skills -Name- "???" STR 3 Skills ??? -Race- Horned rabbit VIT 5 Traits ??? -Sex- Male, Female AGI ??? Titles ??? -Rank- I- DEX ??? Resistances
-Level- 0/15 INT ??? Health 22/22 CHR ??? Physical Resistance ??? Stamina 11/11 WILL ??? Magical Resistance ??? Mana 0/0 MAG ??? Mental Resistance ???
Hmm, it would seem that the profile collects the information from the animals of the same race and then compiles and makes an average of sorts for the creature's I've blood profiled.
Damn, these lumps of fur are an entire rank above me in power.
Note to myself, "Don't drink so fast that you damage whoever is your lunch, or become lunch yourself".
But anyway, holy shit! That's a lot of EXP from just a normal horned rabbit.
I knew that my new size and that the amount of blood I could store in my abdomen had greatly increased. But this was still quite a lot, maybe it had something to do with me being able to draw out more my trait's potential "Siphon" after my evolution?
Something else I noticed was what the amount of EXP that used to easily take me all the way level 3 this time only got me to level 2, even though the amount this time was almost double.
With that, I could at least confirm that now after evolutions each level required even more EXP. Although, this was something I had already been suspecting. Feeling rather dreary from everything, I took one glance at my status before allowing myself to fall into a deep and dreamless sleep.
-Status!-
Status
Information Attributes
Traits. Titles. and Skills -Name- "???" STR 0.50 ⇒ 0.65 Skills 7 -Race- Lesser Sanguinite VIT 0.70 ⇒ 1 Traits 3 -Sex- Male AGI 4 ⇒ 5 Titles 0 -Rank- K DEX 2 ⇒ 3 Skillpoints 1 ⇒ 3 -Level- 3/10 INT 12 Resistances
Health 5/5 CHR 0.10 ⇒ 0.15 Physical Resistance 0.102 ⇒ 0.128 Stamina 4/4 WILL 11 Magical Resistance 0.010 ⇒ 0.015 Mana 0/0 MAG 0.05 ⇒ 0.07 Mental Resistance 5
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