A dark swarm of bats could be seen encircling something like a tornado, they could be seen up high in the sky and down below to the ground. Those who are near like Eleanor could feel the beat of their wing creating a faint gust of wind.. but with their sheer number the wind slowly spikes up and began converging into one powerful gust.
Eleanor could hear hundreds if not thousands of screech, squeak and chirp.. its like there's hundred of mice flying around her.. The surrounding were chaotic, their number even made the already dark morning even darker. She looks excitedly in the center of the swarm, her eyes landing on the sole figure of Noir standing at the very heart of it.
He have his eye closed, his head was slightly raised as if he was basking in the sensation of it. After a while he suddenly smiled. 'I can feel them..' he thought as his mind slowly but surely started connecting with the bats. Slowly his senses become connected to them.. He could hear what they could hear, see what they could see and feel what they could feel.
[You have reached the maximum capacity for your Nocturnal Oath!]
[Swarm: 200/200]
'Ah.. I see, what a shame' he thought as he actually planned to visit every cave he could find to amass his swarm, only for it to be shattered the next moment.
He looked around slowly running his gaze across the surrounding, and with a single thought the chaotic bats quickly disperse and slowly got back to their spots as if nothing just happened. With Noir himself turning back to Eleanor, with a warm smile which quickly faded.
'It really is a species dominion!.. Something a creature with a high standing in a race, ecosystem or the entire world.. One of the most common traits of a dragon!' she exclaimed in her mind as her belief towards Noir being a dragon got even more firm and certain. 'But from what I know their dominion in different species depends on their dragon type and elements.. So what does bats means?..'
"Ah, you're awake" at the moment her thoughts were interrupted by Noir as he spoke to her. "And seems like you didn't move a step in your place since last night.." he said.. his eyebrows slightly raised.
"Rest assured my lo-.. Mr. Not Dragon.. I will always do what you asked with all my heart" she said with a faint smile.
'Damn.. this girl have lost it.. she's insane... A psycho!' he silently grimaced inwardly. '..Maybe I can to lessen her up? Though I have to be gentle' he thought that if this girl really is insane and viewed him like a god... she would probably not take it lightly if she thinks he's rejecting her duty.. and so he began speaking.
His eyes squinting, looking straight into her eyes. "I need not obedience, but loyalty" he said with a low voice, almost like a growl.
'Im completely fine with you not doing whatever I say as long as you don't try and harm me!'
"Leave if you can't do it.. I don't care" he spoke still looking at her with a squinted eyes. 'But if you don't want to, you can leave I'll be fine with it' he said as he slowly turned around. 'Since she's still alive I'm done with here.'
And behind her Eleanor looked at his back with a wide eyes, as if she did not expect him to say that, after not moving for a while she looked down with a faint smile. And with a simple nod she spoke.
"Yes, my lord.." she said, dropping the Mr. Not Dragon joke as answered seriously this time... 'As expected of him.. A firm but considerate leader.. He knows what he expects of his follower. Though he seems to be acting a bit different than last night..'
"And stop calling me that.. Just call me.... Noir." he said as he paused. Turning his head back for a bit, he looked back at her.. "Come with me.. If you are planning to follow me, at least try to be useful." he said with a low yet suggestive voice as he began walking again. 'I mean wouldn't it be easier if we fight in a party?' he chuckled in his mind.
"YES- I mean.. As you wish my lo-.. Noir.." she said, restraining her excitement from showing as she bowed again before standing and following in a good distant behind him a smile on her face.
While Noir was unaware of it, something in him is changing once again. More specifically after he gained the Nocturnal Oath. But again, he was completely unaware of it and so they began venturing through the jungle as they hunt for something to kill.
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-{[[Eleanor]}-- 3rd PPOV
'WHY AM I HERE?!!??' Eleanor screamed in her mind as she desperately ducked when she heard someone telling her to do so. And without even looking she knows that she just barely avoided a metallic claw that tried to cut her head open.
'IM JUST A SUPPORT HEALER!!' she screamed again as she saw someone move passed her and upper cut a iron wolf that attacked her previously. "Now!" She saw and heard Noir yelled after lunching that devastating punch.
'AAAHHH' She screamed in her mind but kept quiet in reality as she raised a double edge sword and thrust it forward towards the wolf's throat that was exposed after the uppercut.
She felt the sword tear through the metallic fur and skin of the Iron Hound, she then felt an even more greater resistance when her sword got in deeper.. she have reached the neck bone, and with a groan she pushed harder until the sword pierce through with blood spilling in her face as the wound spurt out blood after blood.
[You have defeated an Iron Hound!]
[You have gained 3 exp]
She heard the Whisper of the her guide as usual, but the fact that this doe not happen often she got distracted briefly. But that was all the wolves need to lunch an attack at her. And when she noticed it, it was too late.
'No-!!' she exclaimed as she unconsciously closed her eyes. But the pain did not come.. and slowly she opened her eyes and saw the wolf chewing an entire arm.
Looking besides her she saw Noir pretty much shoved his entire left arm inside the wolf's throat, and briefly after that the wolf fell limp and Noir Pulled his arm out of it's mouth, his wounds already healing.
'..M-my lord!' she quickly approached him. Not because she was worried at him though, she knows he can heal.. What she was worried about was her image towards him.
"I AM DEEPLY SORRY, MY LORD! I WAS FOOLISH!" she quickly bowed at him.. not daring to look up and waited. A little later she heard a sighed.
"Raise your head, Eleanor" Noir said. " Just do not do the same mistakes again, or YOU will die" he said his eyes looking straight at her with a cold glare, his lips twisted in a faint scowl.
Seeing this she felt a cold sweat roll down her back and her felt went cold. With her heart beating crazily at her chest she bowed once again and bit her lips in self frustration as she took his words in mind. 'I was foolish and angered him.. He was merciful enough to save me 2.. I must do my very best to serve him from now on...' she thought as she fix her resolve.
And with that they continued with hunting more Iron Hound. Though they never ventured deeper into the forest and stayed in the relatively shallow part of the forest. And whenever they killed every Iron Hound in that area they would move and roam to a different part of the forest and search for more Iron Hounds.
Though there's one thing Eleanor failed to noticed.. And that's the Black Swarm of bats would always follow them whenever they would move on a different part of the forest. And as they fight with each other the more Eleanor got used to it. And near the end Eleanor barely flinch whenever she was fighting the wolves.
After a recent battle, Noir and Eleanor went and rest after leaving the combat site and having Eleanor carries the drops as Noir already got all his pockets full from 20 piece of essence crystals. And at the moment she suddenly said something out of nowhere.
"You know, you are the first to actually let me get kill more than one monster" she muttered.
"Almost all the time they would only let me kill one common monster for a day and the rest would be for them to take.. saying they were the one who risked their life fighting and that they deserve it more than I do since I just sit back and support them at the back.. This resulted in me getting stuck in lvl 2 for quite some time.." she said.
"That just means they are fools and have not experience the jungle enough." he paused and continued. "Soon, once you reached floor 5 they would fight to themselves just to get you in their team.. That's how good and important healers are.." he said with a smirk in his lips.
"And you should treat your self the same way.. Don't join them if they will treat you like a worthless shit" he spoke before turning quiet and not speaking any further as he focus on resting.
Seeing this Eleanor didn't speak any longer and just nodded to herself. 'So, Healers are not worthless because they cannot fight?.' she thought as her self image change just liked that. No anymore viewing her self as worthless as she thinks before. 'And as expected of him! So he have been in the higher floors?? Then what is he doing here?'
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-{[ Noir ]}-- 3rd PPOV
'She really scared the shit out of me that time.. Who would let themselves get distracted in a middle of battle???' Noir grumbled. He recalled the time when she suddenly stopped moving in the middle of the fight. He got so shocked that he told her not to do that shit again.. Because who knows? what if he couldn't save her next time??.. But what's strange was the way she reacted.. she acted like I just threatened her life.. 'Did I over reacted perhaps?' he asked himself and shrugs.
'Well anyway, the good news is I've killed 5 more Iron Hound and reached the exp gain limit on them, and so I just went and helped Eleanor to reach hers. which took us the entire day. And thus marking the third day in the dungeon.. At least that's what Eleanor said based on that weird device if hers, which resembles an hour glass with 5 chambers. It was small too. only a sized of a fist.
From what she said whenever the top most chamber is empty that means an entire day have passed, and you will then have to pay attention to the next chamber all the way until the sand have all made it to the very bottom of the chambers.
Noir even questioned its reliability asking if it haven been flowing continuously. He also asked if she made sure it stayed upright till now only for her to reveal that its an artefact. And that every time it was activated the flow will never be interrupted unless it was broken. Which Noir finally accepted with a amazed look.. which was once again a look that got misunderstood by a certain elf as different expression.
'Well.. I should rest now.. since I'm planning on on heading deeper into the jungle tomorrow... I need my mind to be fresh since I'll be needing to be in constant alert there... One wrong mistake and I'll be in trouble... Not dead, but in trouble' he sigh. 'Though not sure about her... she might die in there' he thought as he took a peek at her by slightly opening his left eyes.
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Name: Noiren Van Helsing
| Lvl= 2. | Exp( 60 /75) | BP ( 46 / 50)
[Race: Vampire]
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[Stats]===|
Str : 14
Spd :13
Agi : 11
Per : 12
Con : 8
Dex : 14
Cha : 14
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[Skill]
| > [Regeneration]
>[Immortality]
>[Echolocation]
>[Vampiric Claw]
>[Hang]
>[Nocturnal Oath]
[Blessings]
| > [Blessing of Estas]
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