《Grand Adventure》Chapter 2. The Great forest
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The skinny boy, scrutinized the black bearlike creature, after that he focused his mind, immobilizing it by restraining him with telekinesis and letting it float just above the earth. The Bloodlust grew denser, he could fully utilized the bloodlust, because it wasn´t related to mind manipulation, it was just pure instincts and the strong feeling of wanting to use violence.
Aluzar, was barely able to restrain the beast while lifting it just above the ground, it took him serious concentration maintaining them. He walked towards the large monster, with the hands behind his back, a devious grin formed on his face, furthermore, the teeth in his mouth, began all changing into evenly sized fangs making him look all the more sinister.
Aluzar, unlike lower pure bloods and lesser vampires, could change minor body details like, the color of his hair, eyes, transfiguring his teeth or face. It was one of the innate abilities, the supreme pure blood vampire possessed, to integrate with the humans.
You can´t become a supreme pure blood vampire, your are born as one, in contrast to lower pure blood vampires that underwent transformation through an enzyme injected, by a bite from a supreme pure blood vampire. But since the fertility of them, is almost non existent, the birth rate was also at a rock bottom and only female supreme vampires are compatible with the male counterpart and we don´t have to mention the lower pure bloods ,or lesser vampires, they are practically impotent.
Through human folklore and myths, vampires are believed to be undead beings, but that incorrect conclusion was caused by supreme vampires, faking their own death while living under humans, as to not raise suspicions on the basis of living to long.
It could be said, that supreme pure blood vamires are one of the superior evolution branches, besides the homo sapiens, possessing eternal youth, a high regenerative body, physical strenght and mental capacitys, exceeding the humans by far. Yet the infertility of them was the fatal flaw, that led them almost to their extinction. With only males being born in the new generation, as well as the older generation entering their eternal sleep. The downfall of the supreme pure blood vampires, was destined.
Aluzar standing in front of the large horned black bear creature, still having his evil grin all over his face was delighted,
“ Mmhahahaha....Oh What, do we have here , a big teddy bear came out to play catch but unfortunately for you, I am not in the mood right now for such play, thus let me suggest a game we can play together. Hmm...Ah, I have an brilliant idea, let´s play doctor. You will be the patient and I will be the doctor. hehehe...,”
The Fingernails of his right hand transformed into sharp black claws. He walked to the side of the bear creature, he straightened out an arm before him, with his vertically stretched out palm, then he twisted his palm to a horizontal angle and simultaneously the huge beastmonster swirled into a horizonal position. The young boy, slammed the beast into the ground with a downward hand motion.
Lying on it´s back, the horned black bear wanted to growl and roar, but was completely immobilized, it couldn´t crompehend what was happening. The fragile looking child, climbed on top of the upper body, standing face to face, showing the monster his baleful smirk.
He released the restraining on the head of the bear beast, it began let out a deafening roar, it tried to bite him, Aluzar could only chuckle,
“ Now, now, you should behave a little, he he he, since you are my precious first patient, I will examine you really thoroughly, mahahahaha.”
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Aluzar, pointed out his clawed index finger piercing through the upper section and slowly cutting down to the lower section, an anguish roar echoed through the forest, as he finished bisecting through the abdomen. The innards were now visible, from the lungs to the intestines, everything could be seen.
The Boy, inspected the insides of the beast very carefully, while the horned bear roared and whimpered in pain at the sametime, to him it was just amusing background music.
He rummaged in the oversized stomach to find some differences, to bears on earth and the cause why the beast, he is rummaging through with his whole body inside it´s belly, grew so large.
The young kid first of all, removed all the non vital organs like the intestines and gallbladder, seeing the young one inside it´s belly ripping out parts from it, the beast could only wail in agony of pain and despair, waiting for it´s seemingly far away death.
After some time, Aluzar managed to remove most of the innards, leaving only the vital organs intact. The Black beast was left in a vegetative state, between life and death. The Young boy jumped out from the insides of the creature, coated with blood all over his naked body.
He made his way to the heavily breathing, horned bear and revealed a gentle smile,
“ I sincerely thank you, for being my first patient and taking part in my experiment, although, unwillingly, as thanks, I will free you now, from your suffering, farewell your remains will be of a great uses for me, you have my gratitude.”
The Horned bear, couldn´t understand a word, but could vaguely feel what was conveyed to it´s mind. Aluzar, swiped his bloody right hand in the left direction, at the same time the head of the beast twisted to the left side, resulting in an ugly cracking sound and a broken neck.
Aluzar, noticing his blood covered body, only sighed,
“ Damn it, I overdid it again. Oh well, it can´t be helped, time for some blood tasting.”
He concentrated his mind and soul, then the blood from the bear beast corpse and that what was covering him lifted in tiny orbs in the air, then it gathered into a dark red sphere, before stopping in front of the child. He put, his lips on the large sphere and began drinking, in a mere minutes the 50 cm in diameter big sphere vanished into the small boys mouth.
Supreme pure blood vampires, aren´t required to drink blood it is just an efficient method, evolution developed, to absorb nutritions effectively, they could also eat and drink normal food, just like humans to sate their hunger.
Aluzar, licked his lips,
“ hmm...It has, a very strong gamey flavor, just like expected from a wild animal, it has also a sweet touch, in the aftertaste, really delicious.”
After ascertaining the taste of the blood, he went into dismembering the corpse, before that the boy skinned the fur by peeling it of with his telekinesis, from the carcass. Leaving only red flesh and bones drained from blood. He extracted the sinews from the muscles, with that he could make some durable threads, he forcefully ripped of the pinkyfinger from the bearpaw, removed the flesh from the bones. After that he stored everything, besides the tendons and fingerbones, from the dead sknned beast inside the infinite space, of his interspatial signet ring. He disliked to be wasteful.
The Sun, started to rise and the two moons dimmed.
Aluzars nose, caught the smell of blood clinging to him, he could remove the blood, but not the smell,
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“ I guess, processing the sinews into threads got to wait. I can´t stand this smell, clinging onto my body, I need to find a lake , or river to wash myself off from this odour.”
He had a keen nose and heightened senses, but firstly he cared for hygiene, if he is not too immersed with something he is interested in, and completely forgetting himself. The child, stored the tendons and bones, in his signet ring and was intrigued how it worked, just thinking of storing something and touching it with his hands, will make it disappear into thin air and thinking about wanting something that is stored inside, will make it appear out of nothing.
When he finished, satiating his curiosity, Aluzar kept wandering through the dense forest, the sunrays lightly brightened the morning to come. He encountered small sized creatures, that instantly fled, but he didn´t concerned himself with them, they were unable to harm him either way.
He hiked his way through an ardous mountain range, by the time he found a small creek flowing downwards. The Sun, was at it´s highest point, enliving the forest from it´s slumber, unknown sounds from living things could be heard throughout the thicket of the woods.
He followed the flow the creek, the water flow became denser as he descended further downhill, until he reached a small lake, with crystal clear water shimmering in all colors, the sight was truly gorgeous.
Aluzar, could feel and see the mana gushing out from the lake in the shape of, petite translucent crystals breaking the sunlight, into a rainbow colored aurora, above the surface of the water.
He stepped to the lake shore, further in till the water reached his chin, he took a deep breath and dived under the water swimming around the lake, then he noticed a bright blue shine radiating underwater in the middle of the lake.
He surfaced for a brief moment, took another deep breath and dived, heading straight to the bright light.
He found a single unpolished gem, the raw gem was gleaming in a deep blue color, although, in the size of a pea and unpolished it radiated a strong dark blue light. Aluzar was fascinated and it raised his curiosity, he wanted to know of what the gem was composed of and how it was created.
He stored, the raw gem in his interspacial ring and ascended to the surface. When he came out of the lake, Aluzar took out his sinews and fingerbones from the beast and prepared, the tools for making threads and bone needle. It took a relative flat rock and a smooth stone, he found them at the lake shore. He extracted the moisture from the tendons with telekinesis and laid it on the flat rock, the sounds of pounding could be heard, the sinews splitted into multiple strands, now it only had to be untangled and it could be used, as durable threads for sewing.
Now he just needed a needle, he crushed the bones, then took the oblonged splinters and shaped them, by grinding it against the flat rock, he morphed his index fingernail into an elongated claw and carved an eyelet, on the broader wider end of the needle.
He brought out the skinned fur pelt. He recently obtained, he dried it from excess moister and started to cut out patterns for fitting shorts and a fur vest, he made buttons out of bone fragments, from the leftovers of the needle production.
For Aluzar, sewing was a piece of cake, since he had nothing to do for a few centuries. He learned various things like, sewing , cooking, martial arts, science, math, chemistry, biology, business management, various languages, gaming and so on. He intermingled, wih humans till it bored him to death, he studied everything the humans offered him and then went into seclusion, because nothing could peak his interests anymore.
When he finished the sewing. He put on the shorts and vest made from fluffy fur, the buttons are perfectly roundly shaped with artistic carvings on them. Even if they were, simple clothes made from fur, they looked elegant on Aluzar.
The Sun, started to set and it became evening.
Aluzar, wanted to make fire and thought that it was now a good time, to checkout how magic worked. The White haired child concentrated his senses and felt a strange energy coursing inside his body, he tried to focus the energy in his right palm, but it took his outmost concentration.
When he succeeded focusing all the energy in his right hand, he stretched his arm, with open hands, directing it at a pile of branches prepared by him beforehand. Aluzar, imagined something hot, burning and blasting out in his mind and a fireball, in the size of a basketball, shot out from his palm, setting the pile of branches on fire, burning it nearly to cinders,then vanishing.
He ran hastily to stockpile of wood branches and fed it to the fire, before it was completely extinguished. He rubbed his forehead and felt very tired somehow. The Young one deduced that the cause was, that he depleted all the strange energy in his body and concluded, the strange energy was mana.
The Young boy sat down in front of the camp fire, that costed him great concentration and mental strain to create, but he was happy, because even if you can control most of the elements with telekinesis, you can´t create the elements through it, thus Aluzar was overjoyed, discovering his new power.
He took out some meat, from his interspacial ring and roasted it on a stick, above the open fire. The Night, had already unfolded and the child devoured, the hot steamy meat. He really felt the fatigue, caused by using magic, so he fueled the fire with more wood and prepared the leftover beast pelt, into a comfortable sleeping mat.
He laid down on the softfur of the pelt near the fire and let sleep overwhelm him. In his deep slumber he had a dream of a woman, he once met back on earth.
It was back in the past, when he was young and inexperienced, he fell in love with her, she was human, but the love was genuine.
They married and were happy, she wanted children, but he couldn´t tell her what he was and why she couldn´t bear his children.
He kept it all a secret, he was afraid of being hated, a few years later, she was pregnant, he was stunned, he couldn´t believed it.
He pretended to be happy and said, that he would be gone for a while. He stayed near his housing, late night someone came knocking at the door, it was a man.
He saw it all , but didn´t accepted it, he walked to his house and opened the door. He saw a scene, that broke his heart, they were naked lying on the bed.
He was overwhelmed by emotions, love, sadness, anger, madness, then everything collapsed in his mind, the woman told him it was´t what he was thinking.
His heart began to froze by that lie, he changed to his true appearance, they were shocked, he grabbed the man at his neck and lifted him in the air.
He ripped out the mans genitals and stuffed it into his mouth, the man gurgled on his dick in unimaginable pain, tossing the man aside, he walked to the woman.
He asked why, but she couldn´t answer, she was scared stiff.
He told her, she could have lived forever, but now he will watch her die alone,of old age, he will kill everyone around her, everyone touching her, everyone speaking to her and everyone related to her.
The Sunrise signaled the awakening of the forest and the sleeping time, for nocturnal and monsters. Aluzar, woke up with a melancholic expression on his face, he murmured,
“ It´s been a longtime, since i had this dream, such relics from the past are still haunting me, how pathetic of me, I am disgusted with myself.”
With an angry look, he rolled up his sleeping mat and stored it away, the fire had already died out, he collected some wood branches on the ground. He once again concentrated his senses and noticed that the strange energy, identified as mana, has slightly densed up, he immediately knew that his mana pool expanded.
He came to an insight, that his body is a vessel and the mana like a liquid coursing through his whole body, adapting to it. Everytime he uses magic, the mana condensed and becomes a little purified.
Aluzar, raised his right hand and focused, half the mana inside his hand and created, a flaming basketball sized globe of fire floating just above his hand, but this time he splitted the globe into two, then into four smaller flaming globes, in the size of slightly bigger baseballs, hovering in a circle above his hand.
He fired a small fireball, on the woodpile and it caught fire without incenerating it to ashes and fading away. He condensed, the remaining three balls, into small tiny glows of fire and fused them together, the result of the experiment was a tiny orb in the size of a pebble, but it radiated an extreme heat.
He shot the glowing red orb towards the small lake, the small orb dived into the water and for brief moment the whole lake began to boil, he could see strange fish creatures floating upside down, showing der bellys.
The Small boy had just now purged the small lake from every life it may have had held. Not even bothered, by his fish creature genocide, he took out some bear monster meat and grilled it above the fire.
He didn´t had any appetite for fish right now, eventhough, the whole lake smelled like a bowl of fish soup. He ate his roasted meat, while doing that, he thought for brief moment about the woman he wanted to forget and instantly shook those thoughts out of his mind, he focused his mind on his insights in magic.
Ending his breakfast, the boy extinguished the camp fire, by pouring water generated from using magic, Aluzar imagined something, wet liquified, formless and it started, flooding from his palm.
The Young child, embarked on his journey, heading to the highest mountain top in this mountain range, in the hope to find civilization. He couldn´t fly long distances, because of his child body, thus he hiked his way through this seemingly endless forest.
Aluzar, estimated the distance to be around 250 km, a normal human needed at least a week, but with his physical constitution, despite being restrained by his childlike body, it was enough to cover the distance in 3 or 4 day, by walking.
He confronted, various beasts, like a eight meter tall white tigerlike beast with 30 cm black spikes coming out of his spine, a four meter big birdlike dove with a 90 cm long beak in the form of a saw , or a two meter large deer beast that was carnivorous and his antlers were bent forward, in the shape of multiple pointed stakes, they all had one thing in common. They all had met the same cruel fate, like the black horned bear beast had suffered from and they all had a dark blue core, unlike the bear beast.
The Little boy was fascinated by this new world and the vast secrets it contained. He thought, about the first beast he met an the differences between the monsters, he recently encountered. Then a sudden insight hit him, they all could use magic, eventhough, he restrained them with telekinesis, they had still used magic against him.
It was really difficult to bisect them alive, thus he had to kill them in the middle of treatment. He gained a white black striped tiger fur pelt and bone spikes from the spine, downy feathers from the saw beak dove and the pointed stake antlers and deer skin and also the magic cores, from the magic beasts he medicated, as a payment he received the knwodledge that beasts with cores can use magic, thus are called magic beasts , and monsters without a core are normal animals.
Of course, he drained the blood and stored all the meat away. The Tiger beast blood tasted gamey, but more intense than the bear beast with a hearty taste, the saw beak dove tasted lightly sour with a metallic aftertaste, the pointed stake antlers deer tasted salty with a fruity flavor.
Aluzar arrived, after 3 days without encountering any beasts, at the foot of the mountain. The Massive peak reached to the clouds, it was astounding gigantic, he estimated the height to be at around 6000 m. He wanted to climb the mountain, to have better view of the region, although, he could leviate himself up in the sky, he couldn´t reach a decent height to catch a look over the forest with his vampiric vision, without burning out his body, but before he could take the first step in climbing the mountain, a huge cave leading into the mountain caught his eyes.
He smirked with an evil expression.
Edit note: Fixed some misplaced commas, pointers and grammatical errors I found, hope that there aren´t anymore.
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