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Chapter 7 - The Taste of Blood

Njuko awakens in the late afternoon he is not sure how he can tell the time but he just can. He can also feel his Eleke is much more strongly bonded to him. In fact there is no difference between them besides the fact that one is a person and the other is pure energy. Njuko feels like it's perfectly normal as if this is how they have always been. The floor of the chapel feels warm to him, his thoughts are about his ability he knows he hasn't grown but its like something inside has blossomed and wants to stretch and grow. Like a deep desire to move too action. His does have a notification awaiting thou when he thinks on it open his character sheet.

Name: Njuko

Race: Eleke

Level: 1

Element: Primal lightning

Affinity: balanced [1]

Health: 110/110

Mana: 110/110

Stamina: 110/110

Strength - 10[+1]

Intelligence-10[+1]

Dexterity-10[+1]

Affinity [50%] - [lightning]

5 % bonus to lightning elemental attacks.

15% to critical chance

Resistances

Lightning - 25%

Air - 10%

Water - 10%

Fire - 5%

Earth - 4%

Metal - 3%

Wood - 0%

Spellbook [author note: since I'm writing on the fly✈️things are in the air and subject to change]

Basic Shock

5 - 10 lightening damage.

7% chance to stun.

Cost 0 mana

Shock Shot

8 - 10 lightening damage.

5% chance to stun.

1% chance to leap.

Range 20m.

Cost 5 mana.

Njuko really just feels like moving his whole body is alive. The energy coursing through his body is impatient and so is he for first time he feels powerful. Before he knew there was a power in him now he is power. Looking around the hall the statue has moved from its crossed leg position and the pool has vanished too. At first Njuko thought he must be wrongs but this statue is the only one that is distinctive in gender all the other at the back of the room are wearing robes. And real robes at that as some are moving. All those lovely preist are gone too. Njuko gets to feet, his clothing is fitting rather snug now and the marks on his arms and body are no longer visible. This reminds Njuko who sends a message to Bilat and Mduju about what just happened to him. They thank him and say they will try it.

Njuko takes another look around looking for anyone to explain and maybe to make a donation don't all these institutions survive on the good will of the community they serve. He finds that even thiu from the outside the are several connect buildings all which start at this central hall. There are no doors that he can see anywhere and now with the lack of people it starting to feel rather claustrophobic.

'Well I guess if there is noone to donate to or thank? I will just let myself out.. Yes out and quickly.' Njuko thoughts like his heart beat had started to race a bit and this made his body react instinctively. When he finds the door out well it is the first door he found which lucky lead outside. He inhales deeply looking around to make sure it is infact the village from before. It is the small village with its odd square buildings and green grass.

He walks past the stalls, again in the evening light they have already added a small huminiod creature that glows constantly. Njuko waves as he walks past Freza who gives him one of odd grins. Njuko is slowly leaving the village since he is probably the furtherest behind in levels he plans hunt these beasts.

Outside the useless wooden wall around the village which again made Njuko shake his head and think to himself, 'They probably don't get rock after all it rare outside the Fractured Lands... I do miss the light show it causes thou.'

Chirp!

Njuko jumps to his left from where. His darting left right trying to pin point what caused the noise. The brumblebush shakes slightly Njuko dashes forward. He make sure to approach from a direction that makes it hard to spot. He jumps over the bush using more than half his stamina to this. 'There!' he thinks. His eyes have caught a glimpse of it.

Bilat sat down a moment she had just fought off a couple of guys who were trying there luck because she is a girl. She wipes the sweat from her chin, the blood all around her has not touched her all. She is really bemoaning the way the Seed world has limited her strength if they were back home she could destroyed these four without killing them but due to the limits. She had to go all out just to fight this amateurs. One of them looks familiar but she can't place. She moves closer to him since he also appeared to be the leader as he waited and watched before attacking and he is the only who gave a proper defence but still. The red cloak he is wearing matches his suit which is a variation of beginner suit only painted fully red just like his hair and eyes. She clicks her tongue she is usually much better with remembering people and she would definitely remember seeing someone so distinctive but his face is one she know for sure. She hates not remembering people since it nearly cost a friendship. Once throughly searching his body she doesn't find any clues to where she has seen him before. With that all she reads the message that Njuko had just sent. It's true that her skin has had a strange oiliness to it ever since she bond her Primal Element. Bilat jumps over the other bodies and moves towards the heavily wooded she felt a strange pull in this general direction since she bonded her Primal Element.

There is a strange creature, in front of Njuko. It turns it has a horn on its head thats brown and pointy and fluffy like the rest the beast. It's like a furball with horns all over its front. Njuko relaxes as the creature that was startled by him it can't even run away fast enough. Njuko moves around to block its path the brown furball turns and tries to dash as fast it can in the opposite direction. Njuko punches the little guy.

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more than half if the creature red bar, which above its head when he attacked the furball which even flinched and was staggered by the blow. Njuko is more than a little disappointed 'this can't possibly be training if this is the strength of creatures around I will loss training trying to get experience.'

The furball unable to run and damage badly turns around facing Njuko and rams at him ever so softly. Njuko steps back and launches Shock Shot because for a single moment he felt a chill coming from behind him. It felt like when he is being hunted by someone who has no control or is new to the hunt. He moves to create space between him and the intent. The furball had died giving a small amount of experience points. Njuko gets ready set into a defensible position. He is carefully scanning every blade of grass random bush and trees that have odd balls of different colors. No that's not right the different trees have the balls on them that different in color depending on the tree. The grass to smell sweet to him now that he is really focusing on it. The whole area is timing with life. 'the intent idoit stop drifting,' he was using a hunting tech used to focus intently. First he is glad it worked, secondly the bombardment on his senses was unexpected and great. In the Fractured Lands when he does this, he smell what he should like the strong aroma of fresh kill by Killuatree or the fresh often cinnamon poison smell of Stringervines and such normal things. He has smelled sweet grass.

Njuko still in position starts to move and scan the area making sure to keep a tree to his back. He moves towards a really thick bush surrounding a very thin and tall bush. There he waits. As a hunter he is used to waiting as a Fractured Land hunter, he use to hunting people too. The reason he choose this Bush is because it has buds that are big enough to be thrown to make it sound like he is moving away. Which he does carefully making sure the use the shadows of night and the ample amount of bushes to make it sound like he is moving away.

Unfortunately nobody came out at all to follow up on the noise he made. He waited a whole hour to make sure then moved to where he thought he felt the intent. The inspection should nothing no broken branches flatten grass and fresh bark it is perfectly ordinary. In the dark of night he felt relaxed hunting under the guidance of the moon is best after all. He moves further out by taking the road south like did before when he went to the ruin then setup by the wetland. The beast look stronger no that the night is fully out and one that caught his attention was a bird that flew without making any noise it was only by luck that it's shadow went past him. It's one of the biggest birds he has ever seen it is easily over two meters wide from wing to wing and from the patch work of feathers its a fledgling.

The waters also act as a sound barrier as the natural flow of creates a loud enough noise that he feels he does not need to creep as much. The river with its distinct blue clear water even at night is awesome as it allows him to spot a couple of fish. Then he sports what he might be looking for. The creature that just came to the river has claws and frame of a predator its dark purple skin a perfect camouflage at night. It's ears look like small holes at the bottom of an indentation on either side of its head. Its front teeth are not covered by the lips and it is extremely muscular. An Idea pops into Njuko's head...