I'm tired. Especially after the math part that I did horribly on. I hate math.
I leave the room and find Leo and mom talking together.
"Hello, how did the test go?" Leo asks.
"Very well except for the math" I hand him the papers.
"Hmm. Blood Phoenix. Is it true that you are the first one in this race?"
"Yes, that is what the system says. I think I got a special awakening from a awakening crystal mom gave me"
"I still can't believe that you gave it to your daughter for free when you could have gotten a legendary or mithril weapon from selling it. That crystal was mithril rarity after all" Leo said.
"WHAT! IT WAS MITHRIL RARITY!?" I shouted, socked.
"Yes it was. I didn't want to say it before you and your siblings where older" mom said
"Thanks mom!" I give her a huge and long hug.
"Everything for you sweet heart"
"How did you get a mithril rarity in the first place?" I ask.
"It is a temple trail that all students at nightingale academy take. It gives a random reward with random rarity. I was just lucky. Especially considering the highest after me that someone has gotten is epic. I was planning to sell it, but decided to wait until I have gotten a higher level so I know what I really need"
"Then why didn't you give it to big bro or big sis?"
"Because I had obtained two epic awakening stones that I gave to your siblings. But when we got you I decided to give it to you because you would get more use out of it than I would. And you were so cute that it was impossible not to spoil you"
Leo stares at mom with wide eyes "you mean that you gave your child a mithril item because you wanted to spoil her!? Do you have any idea how many would kill to even get a look at that stone?"
"That's why I never told anyone its rarity other than you before my sweet child used it" mom says.
Leo seems to have given up on mom and looks at me "can you wait here while I go over the test?"
"Sure" and with that Leo leaves the room.
I spend my time waiting by expressing my gratitude to mom and talking to her.
*knock knock
The door opens and Leo comes in.
"Your math test wasn't exactly good, but everything else gets a full score. Welcome to nightingale academy"
"Yes!"
"Congratulations, I knew you could do it"
"You will get your uniform and the other stuff in a few days" after Leo said that I and mom left.
"Now that you have awakened, how about we explore a dungeon"
"That sounds fun. I could really hunt something right now. Wait, did I just say that"
Mom giggles "sound like you have gotten some instincts of a predator"
"Well whatever. As long as they live I don't mind what it is"
"I was thinking of starting with the local jungle dungeon. As you know a dungeon can vary in size from that of a little town to a whole country or more. This dungeon is not fully explore yet but is believed to be bigger than our country Tariziana"
"Ohh that's huge. But wouldn't it be better to start in a fire dungeon because of my resistance?"
"I was thinking that it would be best to test and get used to your instinct. Because you now also have wings and probably bird-like fighting instincts you probably are better at attacking and assaulting from high places. Something you get to try from this dungeon because most of the trees are 75 to 225 meters high. Some reach almost 300 meters. This also covers most light near the trees. And this dungeon doesn't have a sun in the first place. It's a jungle in a cave with crystals in the roof that lights up the place. It's really magical"
"That sounds so cool! Now I can't wait"
"Hehe, just wait until we get there"
"But mom, don't dungeons like that hold monsters from level 500 to 1000?"
"Dungeons like that usually have monsters from level 1 to 1000. Where the longer from the entrance you are the stronger they become. That's why those are often used for leveling up new awakened people"
We arrive at the dungeon and I'm so hyped as we enter.
Wow! This is amazing.
Trees that reach hundreds of meter into the cave with thick branches from bottom to the top. Some have green leaves, others yellow, blue, purple and red. The trees themself also has different colors. All are totally brown or brown with another color like blue or purple glows. The grass like it's a half meter long and its color is dark green, almost blue.
The roof of the cave is covered by huge blue and purple crystals that lights up the cave. When I was walking in the sunlight on my way here I felt much weaker, but I don't feel that weak now. Even when I'm not in the shadows. This mean that the light from the crystals don't weaken me as much.
I look at my right and then my left. What I find is that the cave walls go to my left (north) and right (south) as far as I can see. What this means is that I can't go backwards (west) but just forward (east) making getting lost is a lot harder.
Hmm? I see a crystal in front of me with some people around. One of them touches it and disappears.
"Mom, what is that?" I pint at the crystal.
"Those are teleport nodes that are spread around the dungeon. When one first explores a new dungeon none of them is activated. If one finds an unactivated one and activates it everyone can use it. They are used to teleport from one to another so that you don't have to go months or years to get to where you want."
"That's handy"
"Yes it is. But we won't try it out now because the lowest level monsters are nearest the entrance. Let's go that way. You lead the way and hunt as you would on your own while I will be at the back and protect you if something were to happen" She points north east.
"Ok. I say and begin walking.
Not long time goes before I smell something sweet and a grin appears on my face. Prey.
I start running towards that smell and more and more similar smells start appearing. Something a little strange though. I can smell moms blood and it's similar to the other monsters, but I can tell it's human blood.
Some blood also smells stronger than others and my theory is the stronger one is the stronger the blood smells. Something that is really handy.
When I am getting close I use my wings and jump to a branch. From there I travel from branch to branch. I can jump much higher now and because I can glide with my wings I can jump longer distances making it easier to jump from one branch to another. It's also really easy to use my wings. They feel like something I have had and used all my life.
The monster is right below. [Striped panther lvl 2]. It's a black panther with dark blue stripes on its back. I lean forward on the branch and am ready to lunch myself forward at any moment. I create myself a blood dagger and watch the panter. Something about watching the tpanther, ready to strike while it doesn't even know I'm here is really satisfying. Now! I use my wing and jump forward gaining high speed. In the air I rotate so i get my back against the panter and on my way around I use blood feathers from my wings and hit the panther with 4 of 4. The panther is startled and confused. It looks around before it find me right above it. I throw my dagger where it had planned to dodge from me making it stop it's movement which makes me able to get my hands around its neck, pull myself down, get a grip with my feet and bite its neck. I start sucking its blood. It isn't as good as my brothers but still delicious. The panther doesn't resist as much as I thought it would. Probably because of the stimulation brother talked about. I feel myself replenish the blood I used on my other skills and use the rest to fill up my blood bank. I create a new dagger and stab the panther in its neck. After 3 seconds it falls to the ground.
[You have killed a striped panther lvl 2]
That was fun! I want more!
I start sniffing the air to locate the next nearest prey with similar strength.
Found it.
I jump to the branches again.
It's a wolf this time [earth wolf lvl 4]. Aren't they supposed to hunt in packs? Let's observe it so I don't get surprised. It has a horned rabbit in its mouth. They are common monsters in forests and nature based dungeons like this one.
After following the wolf I have discovered something handy. I can smell the traces it leaves and can see exactly where it has been and went. It's like I can almost see it.
It is kinda strange though. Aren't I supposed to be a bird? They don't have a strong smell. Is it because of the Vampire and shadow wolf genes I was gifted by the void?
I have also noticed that when I focus on one thing like stalking the wolf my eyes become focused on that spot which gives me a way better sight. I can look clearer, longer and make out more details. I don't see much outside the spot, but luckily my hearing is better so it's harder to sneak up on me.
These three senses compared I have found out that smell is strongest, then sight and last hearing.
The wolf goes down in a hole. That's probably where the rest of the pack is and I can smell other monsters down there. Out of the hole comes two other wolves [earth wolf lvl 7] [earth wolf lvl 9].
This confirms my theory. The lvl 7 wolf smells stronger then the lvl 4. And the lvl 9 stronger than the lvl 7.
I'm sad that I lost the pray that I stalked so long, but happy about confirming my theory.
Well lest locate my next pray.
Hmm? I can smell a panther, but how do I know it's a panther in the first place? And it's not a striped panther. Oh, I smell another panther and this time it is a striped panther. But how do I know that? Wait! I tasted brothers blood and knew that mom was a human and tasted a panthers blood and can locate other panthers. I don't know what wariant the other panther is.
So what I have found out is that when I taste a creature's blood I can locate others from the same race and same warriant. Wait. Does that mean if I taste enough human blood I can know what class or/and main element. A grin appears on my face again. Guess I have to find out. But first. lets collect blood from different monsters and variants. I take off to the nex prey. This is just becoming more and more fun!