Night came quickly and no sooner after the sun disappeared behind the horizon two shadows raced through the sky.
"Faster, try flapping your wings faster." I said to Alice. She was currently flying through the air awkwardly and she was visibly slower than I was. When we first took to the sky she almost fell to the ground when she looked down but I once again caught her in time. When I received the [Demon Transformation] skill I instinctively knew how to fly and got good at it pretty quickly. I suspect it's the same for Alice so it shouldn't take long but at the rate she's going not fast enough. I don't know when more ghouls or something even more powerful will show up so I wanted to level up as quickly as possible but so does Alice.
"Don't be afraid of falling. Take a deep breath and allow yourself to fly. You already have the knowledge from the [Vampiric Transformation] skill so don't fight against your instincts." I coached her and after hours of trial and error she was soaring through the air like a pro. Now it was time for aerial combat training. I conjured a small fireball in my hand and threw it at her without any warning. By the time she saw it was two meters away and she had no choice but to block. But since I intentionally made it weak it did no damage.
"What the fuck Colin?!" Alice shouted angrily
"You should be more aware of your surroundings, you don't know when an enemy is nearby." I replied calmly with a smirk on my face.
"Oh really now." Suddenly her wings started flapping fast then she flew between two building and disappeared. I activated [Aura Vision] but I couldn't find her.
'This again.' I thought amused.
'This might be good training for the both of us. I've been relying a bit too much on [Aura Vision] recently instead of my enhanced senses.' I said and deactivated [Aura Vision]. I got both [Aura Vision] and [Supernatural Senses] when I became a halfling and both were enhanced when I became a Demon and yet I haven't really test the limits of [Supernatural Senses]. Now a perfect opportunity has presented itself and I wasn't gonna waste it.
I looked around and looked for anything out of place but couldn't find anything.
*Bam*
Suddenly I felt something heavy hit me in the back sending me spiralling through the air but I soon regained my balance. Not bad Alice. I tried to concentrate again but I didn't hear, smell or even see anything out of place.
*Bam*
He felt another powerful impact, this time across his face and he was sent flying through the skies. Balancing himself, he had half a mind to shoot exploding fireballs all over the place but calmed himself down and decided against it.
'What to do? What to....wait a minute.' I looked through my status and finally found a potential solution. I used the [Senses Manipulation] trait to enhance my hearing at the cost of some DP. I enhanced my hearing to the limit and finally found something.....a heart beat. The heartbeat was slowly getting closer and I also started to hear something else the gentle flapping of wings. I waited for it to get closer and closer then I heard something whooshing through the air towards my face and I caught it. Then I pulled Alice into a tight bear hug and she finally became visible once again.
"Let me go." She said and struggled to get herself out of my bear hug.
"Oh can't get away from little ol' me." I teased and then she just looked up at me and smirked. Suddenly her body burst into white mist and moved away from me then her body reformed.
"Of course I can." She said with a smirk
"So that's the [Misting] skill. Impressive." I praised
"Of course it is. It's mine after all." She said arrogantly
"How did you disappear earlier?" I asked
"That's one of the abilities given by [Shadow Affinity] called [Shadow Cloak]. It allows me to use shadows to hide myself from most forms of detection. I also got the [Basic Shadow Shaping] ability allowing to make different shapes with shadows."
"Ok, so you're going to practice your skills in the day and then we can train your flying and sword skills in the night." I immediately made a schedule after taking into consideration her weakness to the sun.
"You want me to train both day and night." Alice protested
"Yes. I'm sure you've noticed that there are no more undeads in the city." I said and she nodded.
"I'm sure it's only a matter of time before more tier 3 or even tier 4 demon species come to the city so I need you to get as strong as you possibly can so that we can take them on and come back out alive." I said with as much conviction as I could muster.