《A Curious Bird》14. Black Mist
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A little bird chirps as it hops toward its nest and places a branch in it.
It then examines its nest and began chirping happily. The bird hop into its nest, relax, preparing itself to take a nap.
A black mist suddenly covered the little bird leaving a husk of skin and bones behind. The black mist rushed toward other living beings in the area, covered them, and left husks of skin and bone behind.
There was no life and left in these husks, drools leaking down their mouths, their eyes were filled with one emotion and that was despair.
"Not enough...Not enough..." The black mist form into one humanoid shape with white mists appearing to forms "eyes". The black mist moves its "eyes" to look around, it hungers.
It needed more...MORE! The black mist attacked every other thing in the area that was alive, leaving behind empty husks, eyes filled with despair.
"Not enough...not enough...NOT ENOUGH!" The black mist's humanoid shape broke apart in several other smaller pieces of black mists and began spreading around in different directions.
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Aariv was gasping for breath.
He looked around for danger before relaxing and took a deep breath. "Just what was that?" Aariv asks, the fear, no despair that had been installed into him still lingers. He couldn't believe that he felt such despair.
Aariv took another deep breath as he checks his stat.
Name: Aariv
Species: [Incognita] - Lv. 27
Skills:
[Peck] - Lvl. MAX
[Passive Skill: Flight] - Lvl. MAX [Passive Skill: Night Vision] - Lvl. MAX [Stealth] - Lvl. 12
[Appraisal] - MAX [Pain Resistance] - Lv. 9 [Peck] - Lv. 5
[Scratch] - Lv. 9 [Hypnosis] - Lv. 9 [Will] - Lv. 2
[Ice Magic Mastery] - Lv. 1 [Ice Manipulation] - Lv. 6 [Forest Magic Mastery] - Lv. 2
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[Forest Manipulation] - Lv. 5 [Earth Magic Mastery] - Lv. 4 [Earth Manipulation] - Lv. 7
[Water Magic Mastery] - Lv. 1 [Water Manipulation] - Lv. 8 [Wind Magic Mastery] - Lv. 5
[Wind Manipulation] - Lv. 8 [Ice Arrow] - Lv. 8 [Ice Claws] - Lv. 5
[Stone Claws] - Lv. 7 [Vine Whip] - Lv. 8 [Stone Spikes] - Lv. 7
[Stone Wall] - Lv. 3 [Ice Wall] - Lv. 3 [Barkskin] - Lv. 5
[Stoneskin] - Lv. 6 [Roots Strike] - Lv. 3 [Wood Wall] - Lv. 2
[Fog Create] - Lv. 2 [Water Bullet] - Lv. 8 [Wind Bullet] - Lv. MAX
[Gust] - Lv. 8 [Bubble] - Lv. 6 [Ice Spikes] - Lv. 7
[Passive Skill: Danger Sense] - Lv. 1 [Blood Mastery] - Lv. 1 [Blood Manipulation] - Lv. 2
[Blood Armor] - Lv. 5 [Mana Sight] - Lv.1 [Fire Magic Mastery] - Lv. 2
[Fire Manipulation] - Lv. 5 [Mana Manipulation] - Lv. 2 [Cooking] - Lv. 7
[Skinning] - Lv. 8 [Fire Resistance] - Lv. 5 [Fireball] - Lv. MAX
[Passive Skill: Lesser Regeneration] - Lv. 2 [Moderate Fear Resistance] - Lv. 5
Stats:
[Available Stat Points: [34]
[Strength]: 345
[Endurance]: 298
[Wisdom]: 402 (+35)
[Agility]: 398
[SP]: 632
[Mana]: 745
His [Fear Resistance] had level up to [Moderate Fear Resistance] which was what allowed him to move and fly from whatever was being summoned.
"Just what was that thing..." Aariv mutter. "Most likely some sort of demons based on the blood, dead people, and that guy chanting something." He got up, closing the stats screen as he began looking for prey as he was still hungry.
He snatches a horned rabbit away from a forest fox, just as it was about to pounce on the rabbit and flew onto a branch and ate the rabbit raw. He was too hungry to care.
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Right after Aariv finishes eating the rabbit, he started the scan around for prey again. He was still hungry.
After several more hunting of rabbits, Aariv's hunger was finally satisfied, he was leveling up his skills.
Aariv jumps down from a branch, falling down for several minutes, and slammed into the ground, causing them to groan in pain.
[Stoneskin] - Lv. 6 ---> [Stoneskin] - lv. 7
[Pain Resistance] -Lv. 9 ---> [Pain Resistance] - Lv. MAX
"Oh?" Aariv perks up. Not only did [Stoneskin] level up, so did [Pain Resistance]! Though [Blood Armor] and [Barskin] haven't leveled up. "Still that's good, now I ignore the pain of jumping off twenty feet up in the air over and over again," Said Aarivas he got up, brushing dust off his body.
"Time to do that again," Aariv said. He was about to fly up to a branch before he notices something from the corner of his eyes. Curious, Aariv flew toward it and what he saw, disgusted him.
It was a dead goblin that was a husk of skin and bone with a face that was despair and fear.
"Urgh, what happen to you?" Aariv asks as he circles around the corpse, probing it with his talons. He looks around to see more monsters that were also husks of bone and skin with the same look of terror.
"Don't tell me that this has something to do with that demon," Aariv said growing scared. The fact that all of their faces were that of despair and fear seems suspicious since Aariv had felt despair when the demon was being summoned.
He then heard loud screeches. Aariv turns to the noises, his [Danger Sense] going off, to see a fox screeching, stuck in place.
Aariv was unsure as for what was happening using [Appraisal] to try and find what was happening but only got the fox's stats. He then uses the only sight skill he had which was [Mana Sight].
What he saw was a black mist that he could barely see that was covering the fox. When the fox went limp, the black mist left a husk of bone and skin of the fox, its face of despair.
The black mist didn't move and Aariv could hear something that he was sure was coming from the black mist.
"Not enough..."
Aariv tried using [Appraisal] on it only to have a sudden pain coming to his head before it lessens and Aariv looks at the mist in horror.
"[Appraisal] didn't work on it? Don't tell me that it was so powerful that [Appraisal] wouldn't work on it?" Aariv questions. He began backing away as he recognizes the black mist.
However, the black mist was beginning to moves toward him.
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