I look to my left then my right to see nothing around me at the moment. I then look up and shudder to see a ceiling full of man sized bats hanging there with yellow eyes looking at me. SCREEEE! The bats began to fall onto me. I unfurled my wings and covered myself from the bats scratching me. Once it stopped I saw that forty five percent of my health was missing. I decided that right now right here I must run away while having my health chipped away or murder every godamn bat here in order to live.

I gripped the hilt of my blade and began swinging aura blades around slicing a few bats to ribbons. They fell around me while a few were still in the air. They bombed back down at me accelerating at a breakneck speed. The bat hit me in the chest with a wing knocking me down luckily allowing me to avoid another bat but this hit took fifteen percent of my health showing that my wings were two shields on my back.

The bats circled again readying themselves for another attack so I swung a aura blade but then heard a fizzling noise and watched as my skill fell apart. I felt a wave of coldness wash over me. For the first time since Rinx I feel a fear of overwhelming weakness. I saw the bats start to drop.

I fall onto my ass not knowing what to do. I felt the still warm blood of the dead bats washing onto my fingers. I look behind me to see the body of one of the bats lying there. I scramble behind it and use it as cover from the assault. The bats hit the bats body and made a squishy noise with a pinch of cracking ribs.

I decided to try and leak some mana into the blood and try to draw it into me. A screen popped in front of me. It told me that I could use the blood of fallen opponents to fuel my mana needs. The skill is called blood siphon. I began to draw on the blood of the bat but then realized that a bat grabbed its dead comrade to take away my cover.

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Right before the bat got out of my range I slashed the bats wing off. This left me with one injured bat and two more flying bats. I stabbed the injured bat in the chest killing it then I slit its belly open to let blood pour onto me so I could absorb it. I had maybe fifteen to twenty seconds to absorb blood giving me about ten percent of my mana. I threw the body off of me and made two more aura slashes killing the other two bats.

I walk around to each bat looting them and absorbing their blood. My skill level of blood siphon went to level three from level one since I absorbed a blood that is higher level than my own. I even managed to level up to level six. I felt a flood of an irony flavor. A window popped up gving me a very exciting skill

You have gained the feature Blood defusion

You can now absorb the blood of your enemies!

You can soak up the blood to fill up your blood wheel.

The current blood wheel fill rate is 0.01 percent per quart of blood.

You can also destroy any genes you don’t want at the time of absorption.

You can gain nothing else for now.

I went around the entire cavern soaking up the blood till the corpses were dry like husks. I decided that I shouldn't go any further for today. I walk to the maggot den and absorb all the blood from the dead maggots and their eggs. Once that was done I walked out of the dungeon to the farm and decided to walk to the resting area and sleep after hanging my armor on the wall. I noticed Jack was gone then went to sleep on the couch.