Written by -Silver crown
Ch-8 An Unexpected turn of event
After the pronghorn's death, Jinn's energy level rolled to the bottom. Without sufficient nutrients, he always feels weak and dizzy.
He had to climb down to eat some dew-socked leaves. He didn't have much time before one of the eagles arrives.
He left a half eggshell to collect condensed mist before climbing back.
Eaglet trio had grown a lot over this (2 months and 14 lunar days). They grow to a meter height fledglings with some growing feathers.
However, compared to their parents whose sizes were bigger than two adult men standing shoulder to shoulder, they were like a chicken.
Night eagle came back first. Since he wasn't hunting at night time, the hunt wasn't successful.
Today mother eagle didn't come back from the hunt. It's already evening and the moon with seven rings vaguely shine in the sky.
Night Eagle seem uneasy, he checked his surrounding more often with his sharp yellowish eyes. Suddenly a Griffin with shining blue feathers charged out from the mist.
"Screech"
an Eagle cry resounded and mother eagle with bleeding red wings charged at the griffin from behind.
When Night Eagle saw this scene, he covered the eaglets inside the nest using his body and black wings.
Jinn was stunned by the sight of Griffin who was looking at him as a piece of readymade food.
Under normal conditions, Jinn would immediately deploy emergency protocol.
However, his processing slows down considerably due to low nutrition.
His Mission 1- (Collect data) and his emergency protocol algorithm are clashing in his brain.
In Griffin's eyes, it saw Dao Stigma branded on Jinn. Anyone who exterminated or consumed Dao Stigma-branded things will get a massive blessing from the world.
As soon as Griffin saw Jinn, the craving to devour this creature emerged in it's mind.
Griffin didn't care about the African eagle, it charged straightly at Jinn.
It arrived in front of Jinn just within a few milliseconds his sharp claw moved to aim for a direct kill.
Jinn was so sure that his death was coming in an instant.
At this moment, his newly discovered function = instinctive reaction triggered.
He used all of his psychic energy and some totem energy inside him and materialized a psychic barrier to cover his body.
The sharp claw didn't manage to penetrate his barrier. Nonetheless, the impact force sent him flying into the wall of the canyon. While ripping apart all of his wrapping in the process.
He discovered this new function that saved his life when he realized he was doing things unconsciously without any command or reason.
Simple of this behavior - He is still coming to the tunnel at some time without a specific reason even after the pronghorn's death.
Jinn wasn't seriously injured but the scars on his back were reopened and started bleeding.
Mother Eagle arrived quickly and ripped some of the griffin's back flesh. The griffin became angry and swiped his claws at the eagle mother.
Using the moment the griffin got attacked, Jinn crawled to his emergency hiding place near him.
He crawled into the capsule he made from an empty shell with some diagrams inside.
Jinn calculated and made this place in case eagle parents' hypnosis wears off.
He made this a long narrow sloping tunnel so even a beak or claw couldn't reach him before he escaped from another hole with his capsule.
The fight was still ongoing. Mother Eagle only had a slight disadvantage compared to griffins which have four legs and uninjured wings.
She was so swift and strong that her claws ripped many wounds on the griffin's neck and back.
Night eagle also joined the fight but he was fighting in a passive position while protecting his children. Where three fledgling eagles were chirping inside the nest rooting for their parents.
The astral sun started to set and the fight became more intense.
Blue griffin started to show its hidden power, its feathers became brighter and started to emit some strange energy.
The pale energy covers the mother eagle's attack from the blind spots and rebounds it back.
Griffin's claw landed a solid hit to the African eagle's body and ripped some flesh and feathers.
The sky became dark, and griffin felt some dangerous sensation looming around the place.
It looked back at the nest where the night eagle guarding previously. There were some Eaglets inside the nest but there was no black feather eagle.
Griffin thought that it was a misconception, it screeched for victory and gracefully walked toward the mother eagle. But all of a sudden a shadow passed through without sound or wind vibration.
Griffin's pale barrier couldn't react or cover the attack. A four-strip claw mark appears from both sides of the griffin wings.
Night Eagle finally made his move when the darkness come. His dark feathers assimilated the night color and he flew without a sound or vibration.
His movements were like a phantom appearing out of thin air and disappearing before griffin noticed.
The following part of the fight was a smooth win for the Eagle couple.
Griffin got into the trap lured by mother eagle.
She purposefully delays time, acting like she was shaking off its chase but she didn't use her full speed. So she could lure it near the nest at night time.
If griffin didn't see an empty shell hanging from a vine it would have been a smooth hunt. She tried to draw Griffin's aggro back but she accidentally flew into a spider web.
The injuries on her wings are the result of struggling to free herself from the web in a hurry.
Of course, Jinn didn't know what happening around him. He was inside an egg capsule and his psychic energy was completely exhausted.
He was barely keeping himself away from fainting. His blood dripped down and painted part of the diagram in scarlet color.
He felt some kind of energy circling him for a brief moment. When he was about to inspect the phenomenon, a huge suction force come from the diagram around the shell.
Then, the diagram started to drain his blood. Jinn suffered immensely because his blood was being sucked out from every opening and pore of his body.
Blood seeped out of his whole body parts pushing him into greater anguish. The eggshell became crimson and glowed brighter and brighter.
Jinn searched for a solution or a similar event inside the memory log and the index.
However, his processing algorithm abruptly shut down and he lost consciousness at some point.
The glowing red egg started to become pausing like a heart and began to draw energy from the surrounding.
Jinn's secret place was constructed by inclining downward so eagle's parents didn't notice the bloodshed from their fight disappearing like a vapor.
When they started dissecting the griffin, a small amount of blood drained toward the tunnel.
Jinn was dragged into a strange dream. This was the first time he had a dream for his four life.
In his dream, he was flying freely from a great height without using psychic energy or a spacesuit.
He was flying at extreme speed and could move agile like a fish. He saw tiny little things moving from his height.
Jinn wanted to see what they were so he was about to fly down but something unexpected happened.
His vision changed and zoom in, enabling him to observe what he wants to see in great detail.
Jinn saw them clearly but he didn't know what kind of creatures they were or identify them.
He tried to zoom them very closely to remember what kind of exotic creatures they were.
Strangely, Jinn felt something gaze at him. He promptly looked back toward the direction he felt.
What he saw was some bloody tentacles shooting toward him, waking him up from the dream with a jolt.
Jinn's consciousness was warmly welcomed by more agony. His blood, blood vessels, cells, tissues, bones, and organs started to reform leaving only a bloody mess.
Jinn's throat started to reform and his vocal cord healed completely.
He was able to make audible sounds again.
His grey-white iris become bright and became shining silver iris.
Jinn fainted again after suffering for an unknown amount of time. He passed his awakening ritual without a trace of awareness.