Currently Artha was gravely injured and was lying on the floor, supporting her weak body with her small and weak hands. She had lost too much blood and looked pale because of the blood loss.
Even when compared to a level one monster, she seemed to be weaker now. But surprisingly her eyes were calm, and the level two Minotaur felt a chill down his spine from looking at these calm eyes.
He turned around to avoid the awkwardness and the rising tension in his face, and asked a question. "Where is your lover?"
"Did he get scared? Did he run away? Did he soil his pants as he ran away from seeing me?" The level two Minotaur got more excited as he continued to degrade Sky.
"Well I wanted to 'take' you before him and break his heart, but now, it seems that it is not possible anymore. After all, your lover pissed his pants and ran away." The level two Minotaur laughed crazily as he turned back and faced Artha.
Her cold eyes were crushed under his immense lust for her body. She was wounded heavily and some of her cloth had been torn away. The curves that were revealed by the half torn cloth would even erect a dysfunctional little brother.
As soon as she came to know about the presence of the two level four Minotaurs in this group, she had sent all her foxes into the secret space under the bed, while she alone remained outside to intercept them.
All their food was stored in the secret space, so there would be no food shortage for the time being. The food could probably sustain them for at least five years.
Five years was more than enough for Sky to return back to the fox territory.
She knew Sky would eventually come back and avenge her and save the foxes in the secret space, so she had a clan expression.
She looked as the level two Minotaur's hand make it's way to her remaining cloth and her eyes finally lost their cool and squinted.
She used to be a level nine monster once but now, even a level two monster dared to play with her. Her eyes turned red with fierceness as she used the remaining internal energy in her to heal her injuries as she 'disappeared' from the monster.
The level two monster was shocked to see Artha disappear from his view. He stepped back in fear and tripped down. He started panicking as he did not know what was happening.
But the level four Minotaur beside the level two Minotaur scoffed with disdain as he pointed a little distance away to the level two monster.
The place pointed by level four Minotaur was empty, but when the level two Minotaur looked carefully, he saw blood dripping out of thin air in that location.
"What is that?" The level two Minotaur asked, still not comprehending the situation.
"That is a 'Innate ability'. Seems like this fox was very special. She even had a 'innate ability' that even the territory lords don't have." The level four Minotaur explained slowly.
"Innate abilities are skills that do not need any internal energy to operate. These skills appear from their birth. Even though they appear from the birth, they are rarer than phoenixes."
"In the whole monster population, the number of monsters who awakened their 'innate abilities' are said to less than hundred."
"And this fox's innate ability seems to be invisibility. Too bad that her blood gave her location away, if not she could have escaped from us." The level four Minotaur moved towards the place that was dripping blood.
He caught up to the dripping blood and raised his fist. He wanted to knock Artha out with this punch, so that she would not be able to use her innate ability again. This way, there would be no more threat to his master, the Level Two Minotaur.
As soon as he punched he felt something solid where there was nothing before. He smiled as he thought he felt Artha's original body. But the next scene dumbfounded everyone.
For a second when the level four Minotaur waved his hand, Artha became visible. But suddenly her solid figure turned red and exploded on to the monster.
The level four Minotaur was now covered by Artha's blood. "A blood clone!" He said in a daze.
"Fuck she has two 'innate abilities', first 'invisibility' and now a 'blood clone'. This might be tougher than we think." The other level four Minotaur who had been watching the scene from sidelines suddenly turned serious as he watched his surroundings with higher concentration.
"Ahhhhhh!" Suddenly the Minotaurs heard a loud scream. The level four Minotaur who had Artha's blood on him had collapsed to the ground as he started screaming.
The blood that was on him until now, started to go inside his ears, nose, mouth and every other opening in the Minotaur's body.
Seeing this scene, the other Minotaurs were scared stiff. They did not even move a muscle as they saw the blood enter and tear the level four Minotaur from inside.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Her second innate ability is not a 'blood clone' but 'blood control'. Fuck that, isn't that a 'supreme' level innate ability." The other level four Minotaur took a step back as he screamed. His face was wrapped with extreme astonishment, fear, and respect towards a Supreme Innate Ability.
Every monster at their birth would have an innate ability. But this ability would not awaken until a monster reaches the level of God.
That is, only when the monster converts it's body into that of humans and starts soul cultivation, will the innate ability awaken.
Only after it's awakening can one use their innate ability. But there were always exceptions to the things.
Sometimes a monster's innate ability would awaken before they have reached godhood and Artha was one of those exceptions.
Innate abilities are classified as 'survival abilities', 'attack abilities' and 'supreme abilities'.
Survival abilities are the most common of these abilities and almost all of the gods have a survival ability of their own.
'Invisibility' and 'Blood Clone', both these come under survival innate abilities but 'Blood Control' was in a complete different league.
A supreme ability was something that does not even appear even in a level nine God. It's something that is rarer than the number of wifi connections that do not lag in our world[1] {used to convey its rarity, nothing more}
Blood clone was just a simple survival ability that can be found easily in Gods. But Blood Control is not as simple as that.
There was a reason that 'Blood Control' was defined as a supreme innate ability.
The Purple Dungeon was one of the special dungeons of the seven dungeons just like the Red Dungeon. This speciality comes from one of the strongest race of monsters. The Vampires.
Unlike other dungeons where the first forty floors which contain a meagre amount of Gods, the Purple Dungeon had about half of their Gods below the fortieth floor.
These forty floors were also ruled by a single monster race, the Vampires. Unlike other monsters, the Vampire were lazy and did not try to occupy the higher floors.
Once, A God from the sixtieth floor of the purple dungeon waged a war on the Vampires with the whole of his sixtieth floor.
This war ended in one day and was said to be the bloodiest war in the Purple Dungeon.
The 'Vampire Queen', the sole ruler of the vampires went to the battlefield and used her Supreme Innate Ability and destroyed the whole of sixtieth floor with it.
Her innate ability was precisely, the 'Blood Control'. The same innate ability Artha possessed.
Even though there were differences between the Vampire Queen's Blood Control and Artha's, the Minotaurs were still scared. After all, this was an ability that took the lives of hundreds of gods.
"Calm down! She is already weakened. Even if she has Blood Control, she would not be able to maintain it for long." The level two Minotaur shouted at his comrades.
This calmed down the scared Minotaurs. That's right, no matter how strong Blood Control was, Artha was just a level three fox and was wounded severely. There was no need to fear her if they were cautious unlike the level four Minotaur.
The level four Minotaur had his internal organs destroyed by Artha's Blood Control and died a painful death because of his carelessness. The other Minotaurs were not fools to let this situation occur again.
Currently Artha felt only one feeling. Weak. She felt too weak. Controlling that blood to eliminate the level four Minotaur took almost all her strength.
She was currently in her invisible state but even this, she could only maintain temporarily. After sometime she would lose her invisibility and would be raped and killed.
Thinking this, Artha made a final decision. She looked toward the second floor's stairs with love and whispered, "Sky, We shall meet again in my next life."
She then turned around and faced the Minotaurs. Her blood flew out of her body at a crazy rate and formed blood clones.
These blood clones used invisibility as they sneaked up on the Minotaurs and started killing them.
This took almost all of her blood and Artha fell down, her face pale with lack of blood. She was dying out of blood loss.
The Minotaurs became busy with taking the sneak attacks from the blood clones and did not notice her original body.
...
Author's thoughts.
God, I love Artha!