"What happened here?", I asked while slowly opening my eyes. Looking at the surrounding, although it was cleaner then the time I came in, I could still see various traces of fight that broke out last time. As the memories flooded in, I instantly jumped and tried to inspect every part of my body.
"Liza, could you tell me what happened to me? How did my injuries healed? What was that strange mist? And why did those mouse attacked me?"
"This is you racial ability known as DEVOUR. That mist devours anything especially dead bodies along with metals, ores, weapon, etc. and refine them to energy. As for the mouse, whatever you devoured, you could replicate them and form it, if you kill someone stronger whose consciousness is formed then you might even able to reap their soul, and could get various benefits", she said casually.
"Isn't this skill too OP?" I shouted in excitement.
"OP?" she asked confusingly.
"Overpowered? How could such a skill exists, its like breaking laws of nature."
"Who defines that? Listen if you are powerful you will manage to change anything, and that the first rule of magic. So never ever say that breaking the law is impossible, it just either you aren't strong enough or you don't have figured out the way to do so?" she asked while exerting strange pressure on me. For some reason, I felt fear creeping out of nowhere. But she continued, "For you death is one of the eternal truth, but let me tell you, I am much, much older can you imagined, beating the death."
After which she turned silent. I also moved forward putting aside everything, and also used these mouse to scout surrounding. Soon I saw a giant mouse travelling with some of his followers.
We stared at each other for few minutes, I killed one of the lackey.
*Chhhhiiiiiii* after which all of them pounced. I jumped a little, swung my body, and sweep them with my tails. Those who are hit by tail directly died, and some injured seriously.
I also summoned few more mouse, who supported me, while I tried to attract the attention of the giant mouse. I threw a stone, which accurately hit its eyes.
"Bullseye"
After which it dashed towards me in anger, crushing several of his lackeys. As it come closer, I punched its face, followed by a kick. After it stood up, it dashed madly, looking for head on collision, which I dodged, and it collided with wall, before it could even stood up, I punctured my claw in its head.
While my summoned one, took care of most of his lackeys. Soon I saw mist, devouring all the corpses, but a strange thing took place, a white mist appeared on the giant mouse, and it slowly seeped into my body.
"That mouse must have formed a powerful soul, although quite being immature. Now you can also summons some of the mouse with soul, which will have intelligence in them", Liza said.
After that, I sent some of the mouse to map the surrounding, while I looked for a comfortable place to sleep. The battle was quite stimulating.
Next day,
One of the mouse while scouting, found Ant's colony, and this is a Red Flag. Ants, bees and other creatures which lives in colony, are always troublesome to deal with, especially when you don't have any kind of attacks which covers wide area.
So in order to avoid that, I had to look for the diversion. On the way, I encountered various creatures like earthworms, centipedes, maggots, etc. and my cultivation rose to Level 6.
But when I thought everything was alright, suddenly they appeared. It was a small group of ants, leaving the colony along with new queen. Even though smaller then the big colony, they are stills thousands in number.
Watching me, affront all of them are in battle mode, and before I could tried to negotiate, they just attacked at me. During this I also finally manage to learn the signature attack of the dragons.
*FOoooosh*
I released the fire, burning two-third of them, thanks to the compact corridor they are in, including their queen. Which made the rest of them frenzy, I also managed to get the soul of queen ant, and mouse did the rest of the tasks.
After finishing everything, when I was about to leave the place, a shiny thing attracted my attention. I ordered the mouse to carefully dug it, and a humanoid skeleton appeared with bows and arrow.
After devouring it, it was found out that it belongs to elves, thanks to rich mana content in bones. As well as I managed to conjure the arrows from mist, to attack, along with arrows. Liza, had also thought me various skills like one for movement, stealth, etc. simple and useful one.
I opened my status, out of curiosity, which shows:
NAME: Ajay Raj Singh
RACE: Dragon + ????
POWER:
Magic beast: Level-6 | Tier-01
TITLES: Devourer, First Player
PROFESSIONS: Magician
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Official Release in 5 days.