As I prepare to deliver the final blow I untie the sleeping bag and pull the case sitting beside the bag to bump into the side that Addie is on as a claw of mist slips inside and wakes her up... Addie feeling the weight on her backside and the poking on her face climbed out of the tent to see the faint image of combat through the cloud filled room as I sliced into the other ankle of the vampire and dodged the spike before slicing off his head it tumbled to the floor next the haybail. It took a moment before Addie sounded.
"Lessor vampire level 52 slain exp 2000*21
lvl 40/40 exp 6050/16500"
Wow high level but still lessor vampire. Seeing Addie awake and grabbing her case I nod at her and walk over sitting down beside her and looking in her eyes before curling up. You should be able to protect us till I wake. Alex time for the next evolution. As the words crossed my mind my conciousness slowly slipped away.
Waking in the void I found the familar window before me yet again and smile with my nonexistent mouth. How was your sleep?
"No direct emotions about it. Would you like to continue to evolution or do you have some other snide comment to make?"
Snide? How you've hurt me my love. I have never made a snide comment to you. I am at most cheeky.
"If you say so. Evolution?"
Ah, Alex... you need to work on your banter. Sure what's my options.
"Bladecroc Evolution Path: turn wings into actual swords at the end, shrink legs and enlongate the mouth empowering and thickening the jaw for extra strong snapping.
Clowdy Chompers: Create teeth of thickened mist.
Scythe Wheel: Flail about your sword wings violently with the aid of mist control creating a massive cutting wheel around your person.
Born to bite: Talet that empowers the body indirectly as it massively stregnths the biting power.
Tadpole Evolution Path: The path of the toad begins with a tad of a pole. Get your ones folks.
Splash: turns mist into waves striking others away.
Tail Whip: fusing with mist control and physical body striking a large area with a whip of the tail.
Baby: Sung about in many songs across the land you hold absolute fame and desire in others. Hate in those who are not children is impossible to avoid. This talent... is a negative.
CloudWhelp Evolution Path: The sky once was a path of all as we sought to reach the heavens above. The ancient sky dragons were told to have never touch the ground in all their lives and bore cities upon their backs. This evolution gives you a heart.
Draconic Heart: Unknown.
CloudSteed Evolution Path: Increase body size to fit a human.
Aura of mist: Passively create mist as you breath.
HoofBeat: Passively increase speed along all roads. Works with cloudy pavement.
Insanity: This talent will cause you to slowly lose your mind."
Woah, Ok so no... no... no... Not really any good choices here... I mean the only one without major flaws is the whelp one but it doesn't appear to give much at all. What's with the unknown at the end?
"The heart is an instrument of much importance to any creature. Going from having no heart to having one holds unknown possibilities. That evolution path was decided upon to meet the requirement of reaching spatial techniques and aiding the human companion it is advised despite the unknown."
Ok so clearly I gotta go with that then, but what actual gains will I get from having a heart? The evolution description seems to imply something about dragons? Am I a dragon?
"Race known as mistborn are of draconic descent yet are far too degraded to be called dragons."
Can I evolve into a dragon then?
"Unknown. If possible you would be a unique species of dragon that has never existed before."
Anyways, I guess give me a heart Alex.
<--- This is the moment I checked the chapter word number to see the numbers 669 so... 69 but in a threeway? Side commentary a love triangle is no more a threeway then two guys double teaming one girl a three way goes threeways and a love triangle requires it to go full circle otherwise that's just an angle... I'm just venting at this point. --->
As my vision clears I find myself sitting beside Addie who is silently playing her instrument in a room full of dancing skeletons... Wait... I didn't know it was deja vu a'clock. As the searing pain rose into my gut I had to reliquinsh my right to bare terrible puns... Feeling with the mist I found that I really did grow a sort of heart. It's a emerald jewel at the center of my torso. The pain quickly settled as I began to meditate creating mist and the room filled with mist again as I began to destroy the skeletons that had broken into the room and where stopped by Addie's weird song. Alex status, please.
"Unnamed Race- MCloudWhelp
Level: 1/30 Status: Bound
Exp: 0/1000
Evolution: 3
Hp: 1500/1500
Mp: 2565/2565
Skills: [Mist Art] [Soul Art] [Light-1/10] [Healthy-3/10] [Sight-3/10] [Detect-3/10][Regeneration-3/10] [Weakest-3/10] [Binding- 2/10]"
My body shrunk slightly but clearly, I will be getting a lot more total energy this time around. Seems like that was a fairly mana-focused evolution. I lost a few hundred health but gained some mana. I don't know if those skills leveled entirely due to them getting enough energy or if that was due to my evolution too?
"Skeleton Archer level 13 slain exp 100*13
lvl 2 exp 300/1100"
Oh starting off on one hundred increase every time that is nice. As the skeletons begin to fall the music loses its effect and my clouds fill the room forcing the skeletons back as they continue to attack their skulls. As the clash of combat wages on and I stand and rush up striking the ankles of the skeletons to put them on the ground with my wingblades. Due to the skeletons being all bone the wing blades hold less strength in this fight but I still chip away at the ankles severing the connective material in between as I slowly grind away at the room filled with skeletons.
... Skipping mobs for your sake.
"Skeleton Officer level 23 slain exp 1000*12
lvl 17/30 exp 0/2700"
With the fall of the last skeleton a silence fell but died before I could catch my breath. A sharp blade cutting through the air... Or at least that's what the creepy grating laughter sounded like "Hehehe... You did a good job little visitor from afar. I guess we must resort to drastic measures." The shadows twisted and pulled as the whole room shook and the world seemed to tremble with excitement. Slowly a figure rose from the shadows and it's brownish crimson eyes like old dried blood upon the ground looked down at me on that face I couldn't find hatred, fear, anger of any kind but something much creepier. Desire. However, what it did next surprised me.
The figure of shadows deeply bowed before me and spoke "If you wouldn't mind someone would like to see the young lizard." An invitation?