I hear a female voice in my head, I think that it is her voice, she bows down so I think it's her. Why would she call me Red wing? Can I even talk to her? Maybe if I think real hard like with the system?
"Why did you offend me?"
I try to sound domineering, and as I see her shudder, it probably worked.
"You killed few of my workers, so I did send a few scouts. When you suddenly attacked we counter attacked."
What a stupid reason, a thousand bees, a few?
"You should have stopped attacking after the first thousand, I wouldn't have found your hive so soon, but it's too late now."
"If you let me live I'll forever be in your.."
I don't even want to know what she'll offer, she was cut in half before she could finish her offer. I might have let her live if she didn't have what I wanted.
A blood sphere flies to me and there's a shining drop inside, I just hope I don't turn in such an abomination because of her.
I drink the blood essence and my head starts burning, afterwards it's all of my body. But the pain in my head is the worse. If I was stronger I wouldn't need to go through so much pain. My hell ride starts.
After what feels like the shortest pain yet it resides again, I don't feel like much has changed though, just that I'm extremely tired. The fight was long and it pushed me and my blood control hard, I just want to sleep.
I fly to a tree close by and touch down on a leaf and I fall asleep again. I wake up again and I remember my dreams it was about bees, I started as a small bee and leveled my way up. I realized that I was the queen bee I killed today, I went through her whole life in fast-forward. Honestly, it was rather useless, I found plenty of things that I would have done differently. But she started as just a bug, so it's not that bad. The only interesting things were that she gained blood essence when evolving into a variant bee, the queen bee. And that she controlled the bees with her telepathy skill, I can't use this if I made blood bees because they would need to have a mind of their own. Other than that the memories were rather useless.
But there's still this feeling I gained something, but I don't know what. Ugh guess I should ask that guy again, maybe I should just ask a proper status.
"System, give me my status."
[Status
Name: Red Wings
Race: Venomous Dragon Blood Mosquito
Level: 14/55
Skills
Active:
Fly, mosquito bite lvl: 4, blind spot detection, tiger venom claw lvl: 5, blood control lvl: 8, telepathy lvl: 1
Passive:
Mosquito instincts, detection dome lvl: 1, heat sight, blood conversion lvl: 5, poison resistance lvl: 5, Heavens blessing, look of doom lvl: 2]
The name she gave me got recognized by the system? Damn, I'm glad she called me something pretty okay, it's at least way better than my race. It's like a double variant blood mosquito, I guess the quality diet does pay off, and my looks are better too. 4 wings are pretty awesome, such a shame I lost one though, I'm glad it's easy to substitute for it using blood control. I think I should head off again as all the bee blood over here is useless now.
I fly towards the lake once more, I kill everything on my way to gain blood again, let's see my new limit.
My limit has doubled, I can use more of course but that would be way too taxing.
I can have 10 4cm needles around me at all times. The power of the blood has increased too, I can probably kill the warrior bees with the blood cloud now too. As I am now, I could have destroyed the bee hive without any injuries. Having a control type magic is really over powered. Would there be something new when I get blood control to level max? I hope there is.
Something I noticed is that I can make out major blood vessels in creatures if I focus only a little. Before I needed to focus really hard, but it's getting close to being visible all the time. I think I can notice blood essence like this too, it's just that I haven't found a creature with blood essence yet.
As I come to the lake again there is something special, the water deer is fighting. And it's winning.
The opponent is a cat-like creature, it's completely white and shoots lasers. It looks like a light based skill. The deer uses sheets of water to redirect the angle of the lasers, it's a great idea. It can use the created openings to attack the cat. It was over in moments, the deer used the sharp edge of a sheet to cut the cat, it couldn't dodge forever and ended up with losing half its head. I think the deer likes using the sheets of water, it's pretty smart as it can be used for both defense and offense. And I don't think I have a big chance of winning against it, the volume of water it controls is really big compared to me. That might get me in a disadvantaged position.
I don't need to kill it anyway, so I'll just let it do what it wants to do.
After enjoying the show I search for new pray, but there isn't anything much. And as I'm carrying enough blood I don't need to kill. I'll fly north this time, the bee hive was south, and it was pretty domineering in its territory. It's such a shame the bee queen didn't know any good pray close to the lake, or any at all, so I'll need to search far away.