Other than familiarizing myself with the local lifestyle and having to be breastfed by a woman other than my mother I had nothing to do in this damned location. I learnt a couple of things though, I hadn’t been the first child in the family. I had an older brother and sister. My brother named Kael was around eight from what I could tell and he would help with milking the cattle while I often saw my sister Adana make baskets from tall grass and the like; she was ten or so. Whatever the case I had a pending decision to make… What class should I acquire?
It seemed as though the best course of action would be to wait and gather information… Blood Acolyte? Should I take the safe option or take my innate class? It should be Blood Sorcerer… Bah it can’t be that bad, I’m getting impatient. I select the innate option as my class. What’s taking so long…? Apply fix. Sigh… It couldn’t have been simple huh? How am I supposed to increase my affinity if my body isn’t meant to be a Blood Sorcerer? Suddenly Athak heard the sound of a horn being blown, he’d been laying on a pile skins in a corner of his caretaker’s hut. Right when it had been played he could hear people beginning to mumble, he’d just been born yesterday and his belly button had yet to heal but even his caretaker left her quarters to go outside, curious Athak crawled out of the little corner he’d been in and went to the open entrance of the hut to see what was going on. Everyone, or what he assumed were almost all the adults were gathered in the middle of the village and were looking up in the sky, when he himself looked up there was a massive bird-like creature which was mounted by a fair skinned man. The creature landed and the man who was clothed in a fashionable blue robe, some plating on his chest, and a metal helmet left his mount as well. When he began speaking Athak immediately forgot of his surprise towards the creature… He could vaguely understand the man, in fact the language was somewhat similar to the English from his world… Surprised Athak thought one thing, this was either a coincidence or… there had been others from his world who’d come here long ago and English had somewhat evolved as a language since. Whatever the case it seemed that one of the village elders knew of the language and spoke back to the fair skin. “Oh man of great bloodline! We have what you have asked of us!” “Good, good... has your tree born fruit yet?” “Sir… you know that that is sacred to our tribe… we have just had a newborn and we have yet to perform our awakening ritual on the boy. We cannot spare-“ “Give me the fruit, the child can wait. What of your priestess?” Silence filled the village, perhaps the regular people didn’t know of the English language but that word ‘priestess’ they all seemed to have understood. “She is the mother, and she has passed away…” The man rose an eyebrow and looked to Athak’s hut, where he’d been born, and turned back to the village elder. “And how are you to house and heal our soldiers now?! Humph, let me see the child!” Hearing this Athak immediately crawled back to his corner and awaited for his caretaker to come and grab him, which she soon did. Being brought before the man he immediately identified him to be of European descent. The man looked at his curious eyes and chuckled grabbing ahold of the boy. “His name is Athak sir… he was born just yesterday…” “Athak… What does his name mean?” Athak gently grabbed the man’s thumb and began smiling and chuckling gleefully making the man smile. “It means of the gods sir…” The man nodded and seemed to contemplate something, holding the baby in one hand he placed his other on its forehead and began speaking in what Athak identified as Latin. Some time passed and a light shone from the man’s hand before Athak being handed back to his caretaker. How do I make my lineage suitable to becoming a Blood Sorcerer? Athak was soon brought back to his corner and the elder continued speaking to the man happily, saying something like he may have the fruit or whatever but Athak was too consumed by reading through the information he was given by the system to care. So in other words, I need to have my body augmented by magic, transfer experience to my lineage with the intent of becoming a blood sorcerer… Or by consuming a total of ten levels of blood magic skills? I have only one level… Also, it seems that the younger I am the greater the effect… there goes my waiting, I have to act soon. But where do I find blood to consume? As he was pondering he heard the flap of wings outside and he assumed it was the man leaving, then he saw something, a large beetle approaching him. Seeing why not Athak grabbed the beetle and attempted to use his [Blood Absorb], making the bug immediately stop moving and scrunch up. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. So… I don’t need to draw blood for it to work… A month later his caretaker grew sickly and died. And his level in [Blood Absorb] had risen to III, while his total level did not grow as he assigned the experience to becoming a Blood Sorcerer. It seemed that his lineage developed halfway and he was already plenty eligible to become what he wanted, but he wanted a perfect compatibility with the class before taking it up. Status. Hp: 60 Mp: 440(2.5 mp/min) Status / Strength 9(1+8) Skills: Name Athak Constitution 6(1+5) Unarmed combat III Level 5 Dexterity 22(2+20) Blood Absorb III Race Human Intelligence 44(29+15) Marksmanship III Titles The Merciless, Matricide, Unborn but Kicking, Giant Slayer Wisdom 25(20+5) Mathematics IV Innate Abilities Blood Sorcery Charisma 53(25+28) … So what would the average base stats of a human be as an adult…? I’ll assume ten to twenty… Bah… Wait, all of my titles give some sort of bonus, except the merciless. What does the merciless do? Neat. Looking around Athak sighed, now without a caretaker he had no one to breastfeed him and for him to use [Blood Absorb] on. But luckily for him he was at least fed cow milk from a wooden bottle with a narrow opening… But that was not nearly enough to satiate his growing hunger. Seeing as people connected him to the deaths of both his mother and caretaker people were growing suspicious and afraid of him, but also couldn’t help but love him due to his high charisma stat. It was today when dusk came that Athak decided it would be time to act, from observing the village people whenever he could he knew where the animals were kept and he was happy to pay them a visit. Crawling out of his home after night fell Athak looked left and right and stood on his two feet and began to sprint. Arriving at the fence which surrounded the cattle he crawled under it and found a large cow which was lightly surprised by his presence and just as he was about to place his hand on it as to drain it of life he saw a pair of glowing eyes in the distance. Shit… it shouldn’t target me right…? Wrong. What he soon identified as a lion pounced over the fence scaring the animals senseless and charged towards him. Athak stared the lion down and just as they were about to make contact Jumped over it and grabbed its neck. The beast began rolling on the ground and growling but Athak held firm, he was taking damage from the roll but his blood drain was used to its maximum unlike how he’d been gentle with his human victims. Some time passed and the lion grew weaker and weaker… until finally it fell to the ground having all of its life force and blood sucked away by Athak. <[Blood Absorb] has reached level IV, Con+4> Neat. Quickly, Athak left the animal grounds and returned home, avoiding the alerted people’s sights as he crawled on the ground. Back in his corner Athak attempted using [Blood Sense] on himself and he could feel the blood coursing through him. Like this he observed and observed until he had an idea, what if he used [Blood Absorb] on himself? Rather, what if he increased the flow of nutrients to his body through his blood, he thought it would be worth a try… Unsuccessful he’d had enough for the day so he went to sleep. The next morning he was thinking. So what if he’d gained blood sorcery before his birth, why be so hell bent on becoming a Blood Sorcerer? He thought about his little obsession and shook his head, it wasn’t that he was obsessed per se, it just seemed to be the most powerful path. “Athak, come boy!” His father stood in the other corner of the hut and Athak obliged, he undexterously began to crawl towards his only parent before being happily picked up and thrown in the air. “Good boy!” Giggling Athak enjoyed his time with his father before he was placed back down in his corner and given a bottle filled with milk to drink from. He drank merrily and his father left. Once he was done with his drinking he began his second attempt at blood control… Neat. Like that another month passed and he’d all but learned the local’s language, he absorbed blood from animals and brought the skill to level V and gained enough experience by killing them to become a Blood Sorcerer. His [Blood Control] seemed to level together with any increase in skill of his other blood magic skills so he had reached level III in it as well. Neat. Now all I need to do is grow a little and get out of this place… Status Hp: 230 Mp: 440(2.6 mp/min) Status / Strength 11(2+9) Skills: Name Athak Constitution 23(2+21) Blood control III Level 6 Dexterity 25(4+21) Blood Absorb V Class Blood Sorcerer Intelligence 44(29+15) Blood Rush I Race Human Wisdom 26(20+6) Blood Sense I Titles The Merciless…+3 Charisma 54(25+29) … Innate Abilities Blood Sorcery