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A group of soldiers riding brown horses along a dirt and gravel path that led through the Forest of Secrets. The third prince was leading the group on a larger black horse. Next to him was Zimo, who wore leather and metal armor.
Third prince had ordered a soldier to scout ahead. The soldier then returned few minutes later with a bloodied pink bird in his arms.
"Sir, a bird was laying on the path a while away from here. What should we do with it?"
"Is it alive."
"Yes, sir."
'I don't recognize this type of bird. Perhaps it's one unique to this forest.'
The third prince couldn't recognize the bird species, but since they were in the forest of secrets it wasn't too surprising. The forest had many powerful Qi beasts so most of the forest was never explored.
"Heal it's wound."
"YES SIR!"
Laying the bird down he proceeded to wash and bandage the wounds till the bleeding stopped. Finishing up the wounds, she was placed onto a relatively high branch on the side of the path.
"All finished, sir."
"Good. Let's go."
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When she finally regained consciousness she wasn't covered in blood or had any severe pain in her back.
'What happened? Why am I on a tree, I was surely on the ground before.... hm..'
[Notice: Host was found by a group of people and was then given first aide. The group has left heading down the path.]
"Some one saved me, huh..."
She found it a bit depressing that no one ever helped her when she was human, but now helped her when she was an animal instead... However it was the first time anyone really helped her when she was injured before.
Her eyes brightened up and she stood tall.
"I will definitely repay this kindness!"
Then, Then a notification from the system appeared after she finished talking to herself.
[Innate skill: Stealth(level 1)]
"I got an innate skill? How come?"
[Innate skill: Stealth was used on host twice and has now been learned as an innate skill.]
"I can do that?"
[Mission: follow the group using innate skill: Stealth until they reached the other side of the forest of secrets. Reward: +10 status points, +10 system points]
"Oh a new mission. So there heading to the other side of the forest huh. Well, this seems like an easy mission. Let's do this!"
She activated Stealth and took off. Her back stung a little but it disappeared with the system fully healing her wounds.
She glided over the path at a fast pace, however it was silent like how the cloud eagle flew.
'At this pace I would probably catch up soon. Oh!'
"System, if Stealth is an innate skill what will it be like if it advances?"
[Innate skill: stealth, advances to Stealth Mastery. Stealth Mastery: Grant's user invisibility, erases the users presence as well. When making a direct noise with something the sound will not be heard.]
'Woah.. if I was an assasin that skill would be really overpowered.'
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The sun was started to go down when she caught up to the group setting up small tents, starting a campfire and preparing rabbit meat on sticks they washed.
[Innate Skill: Stealth(level 2)]
She ignored the notification of her skill leveling up and landed on a tree continuing to use stealth. It eventually got darker and most of the people were still up and chatting with each other.
She tried to listen in on their conversations but somehow she could not grasp what they were saying.
'Looks like I'll have to get closer!'
She used her wings to float down like a parachute, it was easy to do since her flight advanced. Standing on the ground she then waddled her way to behind a tent and peeked her head out from behind.
'What! I still can't understand what they're saying!'
[Host has tried to understand a different language. Would host like to learn innate skill: Universal language?]
"So they're not even speaking the same language... So me coming down here wasn't worth it. T^T"
'Whatever, so, what does universal language do?'
[Innate Skill: Universal Language: Can understand and speak in almost all different languages. However user can communicate with all animals, But cannot freely speak the human language.]
"hmmm.... It should come in handy, and it'd be wierd if a parrot just came out and started speaking like a human so I guess it makes sense."
Learning the skill, the words they were speaking became clearer until she could finally understand it.
"-think there were rumors of the other army camp having Qi beasts with them!"
"Don't say that! you'll jinx it! but i really hope they dont have any."
"I don't think I can even win against one."
The conversation later was just jokes and small talk, but she didnt know about Qi beasts since she didn't see any before.
"Hey, system what are Qi beasts?"
[Qi beasts are beasts that absorbed large amounts of Qi from where they live, or a Qi cultivator had raised them with their own Qi to make it a Qi beast. Qi beasts are usually larger and have a crystal core in or on their body]
'Can i also become also Qi beast?'
[The possibility of that happening is quite low, as you've already become an adult without any Qi.]
'oh.'
RrRrRrrr~~~!
She could smell, the fragrance from the cooked rabbit. When she thought back, she hadn't eaten anything in a long time, except for bugs. She couldn't help herself and quickly looked to see if anyone was still outside.
She them swiftly ran towards a table that had the leftover rabbit. She used her beak to pull herself up and hop on the table. She grabbed the end of the stick that had the rabbit meat on it with her feet and took a big bite of the juicy rabbit meat.
MmMmMmMmMm~~~~!
She almost started to drool at how delicious it was. Gobbling down on all the leftovers she spotted a small square box of berries. OoOo~ Using her beak again to pull the lid off, she stuffed her face in it and began to eat every last berry.
Puahh~~!
She was finally satisfied after drinking a cup of water that had also been left at the table. Then a flash of light came out of the tent behind her, just barely missing her head.
She turned her head around in surprise to see a handsome man pushing the fabric of the tent aside. He then glared at her in silence for a little while.
She got really nervous when he came out of the tent and just awkwardly waved at him with one wing.
'uuuuuuuhh...this..ummm....hi....?'