Wolf of the Blood Moon: A Blood Magic

Scarlet

As soon as the hounds completely leave my sight, turning a corner, I collapse onto the ground in a sweaty heap. Meanwhile the pain from the bite in my leg just keeps throbbing and throbbing, reminding me constantly of the mistake I made during the fight in turning my attention solely on the ones in front of me, leaving myself wide open to the last one. Which did at least give me an opening to kill that one without the help of the shield, but the price I paid for that opening will take who knows how long to heal from the moonlight.

{Level 5 Demon Hound defeated. Bonus EXP is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 5 Demon Hound defeated. Bonus EXP is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Level 4 Demon Hound defeated. Bonus EXP is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{Ten Skill Points are awarded for killing ten or more demons above your level.}

{Five Skill Points are awarded for killing your first Demon Hound.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 3. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

A very faint smile comes to my face at the constant flood of messages from the System.

Now that’s nice.

I lie in place for several seconds in silence before Tar suddenly says, “You might want to switch back to using your lycan ears.”

My brows furrow for a second, only for me to mentally shrug a second later and switch back to my lycan ears, wincing slightly as the noise of the shield enters my ears. The very reason I switched to my human ears again in the first place, despite it feeling rather uncomfortable for some reason.

“Her ear twitched! Did you see that?! I want to touch her eaaarsss!!”

My eyes shoot open as soon as I hear that before focusing on the security camera that I now see above the bunker.

What the fuck?!

“You would’ve noticed if you hadn’t switched your hearing to your inferior human ears, but the humans in the bunker have been watching you this entire battle,” the tanuki says, satisfaction and smugness practically oozing through his words in the process.

I feel my cheeks heat up before I quickly try to get up, ignoring the throbbing pain from my leg to limp out of the room as quickly as I can, if for no other reason than to get away from those cameras.

“Aww, she’s gone!”

I feel a shiver run down my spine at the disappointment I hear in that little girl’s voice. As if she has lost a toy she had wanted to play with.

Children are scary.

Also, why is there a kid in here anyways?

I continue limping through the hall until I find an office with a window and lie down against the wall next to it, just letting the moonlight from the blood moon soak through my wound. But unlike with my arm wound from before, I don’t roll up my pants, because they’re too tight to do that. And the wound is much worse this time.

Then I lean up against the wall with a sigh of relief.

That hurt.

But it was worth it in the end.

A tense smile stretches across my face, tainted only by the pain in my leg as I open my status.

Name: Scarlet AsgerSpecies: Human/Blood Lycan HybridMagic: Blood Age: 19Level: 3SP: 24 Stats: Physical: 21Mental: 17Magical: 19 Physical/Level: 2Mental/Level: 1Magical/Level: 2 Free Points: 2Mana: 101/161.5Free Points/Level: 2 Active Skills: Blood ClawsSkill Level: 2Description CleanSkill Level: StaticDescription Passive Skills: Predator ISkill Level: StaticDescription

Okay. That’s enough SP for two more common skills.

Also, I focus on the description for Blood Claws again to see if it’s changed.

{Blood Claws - Allows the user to coat their hands with claws of blood. The blood used in the skill is either created through the user’s mana, drained from the body of whatever the user has their claws in, or drawn from the user’s body if they are out of mana.}

Okay, that’s basically what I was expecting.

I quickly allocate the two free points to Mental, just to keep it up with the other two stats, before I close out of my status and open the Skill Store.

Skill Name:Achievement Requirements:Descriptions:Classifications:SP Price: Predator II

Unlocked by killing at least ten demons whose level is higher than your own.

Predator I is required to purchase this.

It grants the user a 7% boost in stats when fighting a creature at a higher level than themselves.

Passive

Static

Uncommon

Active

Static

Common

Active

Static

Common

Active

Static

Common

Wait, an uncommon skill? That’s a welcome sight.

Predator II.

“I’d get it,” Tar says while appearing out of thin air and floating up to the window. “It should set you close to even with the demons a level or so above you in terms of stats.”

I nod in agreement before purchasing the skill and finding it replacing my Predator I skill.

It’s likely that anything I face in this place will be a higher level than me.

Although it’s unfortunate that I don’t have enough SP to buy Repair anymore. But that can wait. It’s not like I’m planning on tearing this jacket to shreds or anything.

After purchasing the skill, I close out of both my status and the skill store before looking out the window. The moonlight isn’t as strong on this side of the building as opposed to the last time I stopped to heal. But that’s because it’s the other side of the building, facing the opposite direction of the moon.

Rather bad luck there, but nothing I can do about that.

Because there’s no way I’m getting up again with this leg.

I close my eyes to listen for demons, blatantly ignoring the small voices I hear belonging to the people in that bunker. And fortunately for me, the two hounds seem to have gone upstairs if the whimpering I hear coming from the stairs leading up is anything to go by.

So I should be able to deal with them after my leg is back to full strength.

I just hope it doesn’t take too long for that to happen.