It had already surprised her on her way to the spring, but she couldn’t help but marvel at her physical stamina. Although not at full speed, she could run nonstop.

“I could win a marathon,” Gjaki murmured convinced.

She encountered various skeletons and zombies along the way, including a level 11 one, but she didn’t fight them. Although it might seem like a good idea in order to level up, as many were isolated, she was in a hurry. If the sunrise arrived while traveling, the journey would be much more difficult.

Now, she could defend herself if necessary, move with agility, climb trees without problems, see clearly at night while her enemies had much more difficulty. However, if she had to cover her body and eyes to avoid the sun’s rays, she would lose some of her advantage, plus it would be very dangerous to fight. Any scratch on her clothes would let in the sun’s rays.

It’s true that she could use the sunscreen that was stored in the inventory, but she preferred to reserve it, since she didn’t have much of it, and didn’t know when she might really need it. Also, Gjaki wasn’t sure if it worked.

“I should have tested it at the spring,” she complained.

Suddenly, she saw some small level 5 creatures in the distance. There were two rats. Although she had seen others before, they were the first which hadn’t yet noticed her presence and fled.

She drew her bow and shot an arrow, and then another. The first hit the target, but the second rat had already fled when the next arrow hit. She approached the inert body of the rat, which was bleeding on the arrow that pierced it.

“Now what? Do I have to bite it? It’s not very appetizing,” she doubted, somewhat apprehensive.

It was then that two fairies appeared. One was wearing overalls, and started extracting the rat’s skin, teeth, and meat. The other carried a huge syringe, huge if compared with the fairy’s size. She punctured the rat with it, drew the blood, made an empty vial appear, and filled it with the red liquid. She disappeared shortly after.

“Hey! Come back here!” the vampire demanded.

The new miniature Gjaki appeared before her, her syringe in her hands.

“Much better,” the vampire smiled satisfied.

She had dressed her miniature version in a bluish nurse outfit, which included a hat with a cross, a cross that had no effect on her. It made her wonder if it was that particular one, or no cross had any effect on vampires.

“Will I be able to eat garlic?” she hesitated, too.

Crosses and garlic were supposed to harm vampires in the tales of her world, and it had been the case in the game. However, now that it was reality, she wasn’t sure if it wasn’t an invention, as the supposed damage the Sacred Spring did to them was. However, she couldn’t be sure. This was a simple cross painted on a hat, not a crucifix, and there were no garlic in the inventory. Besides, the sun did damage her.

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“Yuck. It’s bitter,” she complained.

Despite this, she drank the level 5 rat’s blood. It wasn’t much, and the level was low, but right now her pool was empty. It was better than nothing. The blood didn’t even fill in a 1%, but it would at least heal some scratches. Despite that, she refrained from hunting any more rats. Time was too precious, and the reward too poor.

“Shit!” she exclaimed.

She could see the direction of the beginner’s village in the virtual map, but, on that map, most of the area was covered by a kind of fog. Only the areas she had passed through were visible. Therefore, she couldn’t know what there was on the road.

Gjaki had found a cliff, and had walked it until finding the bridge that she remembered from the game. However, that bridge had been demolished many years ago, long before the game had begun. In fact, it had been demolished to prevent the undead from passing through.

She stared at it for a while, until making up her mind. Then, she climbed the tallest tree she found by the cliff, as high as possible, and stayed resting until her energy was fully recovered. Only then did she jump.

She was convinced that with Glide she could cross it with ease, and her calculations weren’t wrong. At the speed she was Gliding, she would have plenty of energy after reaching the other side. However, there was something she hadn’t anticipated.

Over the cliff, where there were no trees to protect the path, a strong wind was blowing. Although it was far from a hurricane, it could affect an object that was being carried away, Gliding. She could only weakly control the direction, which was far from being able to counteract the force of the wind.

The vampire was dragged despite herself. She was frustrated that she couldn’t do more than stay in the air, than let herself be carried away. It didn’t take long for her to realize that her direction had changed, that she was traveling over the cliff instead of across it. If it continued like this, she would end up running out of energy and falling, just as she had fallen against the rocks in her original world. She didn’t want to die like this again.

Gjaki looked around. She was looking for an opportunity, an option, but she found nothing. So, before running out of energy, she decided to let herself drop.

Without the membrane that allowed her to Glide, her body began to descend faster and faster. It was really intimidating to see the rock walls pass in front of her eyes, to see the riverbed approach, to remember her death.

She moved her body in the air to point towards the ground, spread her arms, and activated Glide again. At her speed, it was impossible to stop in time, but she could change direction.

Little by little, the angle of fall changed, less and less vertical. Although it seemed to her that it wasn’t doing it fast enough, that the ground was too close to her, that the change in direction was slower than she had assumed. Of course, she had never Glided at that speed.

She couldn’t avoid hitting the surface of the water. However, the falling speed had noticeably slowed down, thus transforming into horizontal speed.

The membrane that allowed her to Glide was damaged when she hit the water, and her speed caused a strong pressure against her. Luckily, it was also braking her, so it didn’t take long for her to control her body, to move her sore arms to stay afloat.

Unfortunately, the current was strong on this stretch of the river, and again she was being dragged. Furthermore, she had lost her meager blood pool, as it had been consumed by Self-Regenerate.