Another month had passed and the people were stricken with poverty, talks of having a demon among them became a common occurrence, but no one had yet to make the connection between the deaths of their cattle and the little baby which was now crawling around the village, exploring its ins and outs and killing the occasional beetle. Finally being found by his father Athak was picked up and brought back into his home, the baby crying all the while.

“No Athak, don’t cry…”

His father stricken with hunger gently wobbled Athak left and right until the baby calmed and seemingly fell asleep.

The man stood up and told his daughter to take care of the boy, something Adana had no interest in doing as she left only half an hour after she’d been put on guard. Using this opportunity little Athak opened his eyes and smiled perking up and beginning to walk. Soon he was crawling outside the village grounds, in the wilderness all the while using a recently gained skill called [Blood Sense] to detect living things around him.

Seeing that he was safe for the time being he contemplated something.

Perhaps I’ve been too harsh to the locals, if I am to become a god which these new abilities of mine indicate the possibility of just that I need to develop these poor fucks up from the dirt into something useful… only thing is… I’m too young. Well whatever, I’ll do what I can when I can, thing is, now I have to become strong, and that I will do like this.

Stripping the creature of its blood Athak condensed a blood pearl and smiled. Moving to a tree with a hole in its trunk he placed a palm inside and pulled out a handful of such pearls out. He kept taking them out until he had a large pile weighing around a kilogram all in all. Using his magic on the pearls they quickly liquefied and were molded in what looked to be a thin short sword. Happy with his nifty work Athak smiled and held the weapon in his hand.

Hm… the System didn’t inform me that I’d crafted anything… Ah, of course…

Passing his finger across the edge of the blade with great focus Athak sharpened the weapon and he got what he wanted.

<[Crude Blood Sword] level I has been crafted, allocating experience…>

Neat… So I can gain experience by making blood weapons. But wait, that’s not what I had in mind with this weapon…

What he’d intended to make was a weapon that would grow the more blood he’d assimilate into it, but it seemed that that would be a dream for the future instead of something he’d be having the benefit of just yet. With such thoughts passing through his mind his [Blood Sense] finally picked a larger signature up, a fresh kill likely.

Perking up Athak walked towards the signature with his sword in hand cautiously, the sword wouldn’t allow for much greater reach than he’d had already seeing as he was three months old but it would be useful nonetheless. Soon he found what he’d been looking for, a large baboon-like creature was munching on a gazelle while Athak laid low in observation of the act.

This was the first time he’d seen such a monster and he was unsure of his ability to deal with it, sighing internally he began retreating… but not before the baboon turned to look straight into his eyes curiously. The creature made some sort of noise which Athak interpreted as a greeting, making the same noise in return Athak held his ground while the beast took a few steps forward.

Seeing no other way out Athak took some steps forward as well until the two were right in front of one another. The baboon was sniffing the baby and Athak did the same, eventually the baboon seemed to lose interest, turning around… but then it saw the world spinning as its head flew from its body.

Idiot.

Draining the body of blood until just a husk remained Athak smiled in satiation, moving to the gazelle he did the same and then felt a sharp pain in his body.

Ugh… Filled up that quickly huh?

As much as being a baby is problematic, it’s allowing my blood reserves to be much smaller than they would if I’d been an adult, benefitting me quite a bit. Wait… what’s this?

There seemed to be some movement in the distance, the savanna was a great expanse but there weren’t many advanced people, or so he’d assumed, it seemed that what he was seeing right now was an indication against his little theory. What he saw was a carriage slowly moving through the grassy savanna. Seeing the opportunity to learn Athak began running stealthily through the tall grass until he was in the carriage’s path, he absorbed all the blood from his sword and used the pain that caused to add authenticity to the crying he was about to start. And start he did.

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“Stop the carriage!”

A woman cried out in English, and so the carriage did and the woman, a blonde in fancy looking leather armor, rushed to Athak’s aid. Finding the baby on the ground, with no clothing on it or guardian around it she was stumped. A tall man with dark hair and a fair complexion much like the woman’s came and was equally stumped when he saw the little thing.

“Do you think we should take it with us?”

“What do you mean ‘do you think’!?”

The woman yelled at the man and proceeded to gently pick the baby up, immediately the little thing stopped its cry and began giggling with its little palms twirling blonde hair between their little chubby fingers.

“What a sweetheart! Oh my god!!”

“It’s an aboriginal baby Talia, we need to bring it back to its home… I’m pretty sure there was a tribe living nearby marked on the map.”

“Then let’s go!”

“Hear that old Yan? You know where this tribe is located right?”

The old man responsible for driving the carriage nodded with a sigh as the others returned to the carriage. Talia held the little baby boy in her hands, gently wobbling it left and right before having it fall asleep.

Judging from their blood quality I can’t kill them without a weapon… especially not that old man. Damn it, free experience is just standing right in front of me and I can’t do anything to get it… Whatever. I get to be entertained at least.

“So Jonas, how long until we arrive at the capital?”

“Another month of travel at the most, the experience we’ve been getting from the animals and monsters here has been great though. I can’t say I regret escorting you my lady.”

Talia passed a hand through her hair with a bright smile then turned her head, her eyes widening in surprise.

“Stop the carriage!”

“Damn it Talia! If you keep stopping at every mildly interes-“

“The girl’s right this time, this is strange.”

Yan said as he jumped off of his station, walking to a pair of corpses on the ground, one desecrated and the other decapitated. He placed a palm on one of the bodies and found it unusually dry.

“Blood magic, we might be dealing with a chupacabra here…”

He continued ascertaining the situation for another few minutes before turning around and seeing Talia with the baby in her hands.

“Lucky little shit, if he survived this kind of monstrosity then perhaps aboriginal blood isn’t the tastiest, hah.”

“Say… Why don’t we take the baby with us? If there are these kinds of monsters all around, wouldn’t he be safer if we-“

“No, we’d be kidnapping him Talia, how are you going to explain to the authorities when you bring a random baby from nowhere?”

Deflating Talia sighed going back to the carriage and they were soon on their way.

“Thank you so much for bringing the child back!”

The elder of the village held a “sleeping” Athak as he thanked the three who’d brought him there. He handed the baby back to his father and began discussing something with the people.

“Might you be adventurers…?”

Jonas nodded making the elder smile in hurray. Then, whilst leading the way he brought the three to a cow corpse, its condition was ascertained by Yan as he rested his chin on his palm.

“I saw something like this in the wilds where we found the baby. First I thought it was a chupacabra, but seeing as there are no puncture wounds this is… The doing of some sort of specialized Blood Mage…”

“We have nothing of the sort here sir! It… must be the doing of a demon!”

The three adventurers seemed to be shaken. They looked at each other and nodded.

“Sir, could we setup camp here? We will make sure to get to the end of the issue!”

As they were conversing they didn’t notice a short lasting red glow of a pair of eyes to their side, they were being watched, and whoever was watching them was not pleased with the development.

Damn it. I brought this on myself… sigh… well, I guess I’ll be practicing my Blood Control and Blood Sense for a few days…

“By the way, that’s quite the baby you got there, who knows how fast he is at crawling to have reached that far into the savanna, how old is he?”

“Ah, it’s strange yes… he’s only three months old.”

“WHAT!?”

Shit. Status

Hp: 410

Mp: 440(4 mp/min)

Status

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Strength

19(5+14)

Skills:

Name

Athak

Constitution

41(5+36)

Blood control III

Level

15

Dexterity

32(6+26)

Blood Absorb VI

Class

Blood Sorcerer

Intelligence

44(29+15)

Blood Rush III

Race

Human

Wisdom

40(20+20)

Blood Sense III

Titles

The Merciless…+3

Charisma

63(25+38)

…

Innate Abilities

Blood Sorcery, Blood Bank

Allocate all 15 free status points to constitution.

With that his Hp shot up to 560 and he felt his body physically grow larger. Standing up behind his father he placed a palm on the man’s body stripping it of all its blood in seconds and forming the blood into a blade he quickly hid under a skin in his corner.

<[Blood Blade] level II crafted, allocating experience…>

Allocate free stat point to constitution. Hmm 580 now huh… Integrate blood bank. Suddenly his body grew a whole foot taller, making him smile. It worked! Then, hiding under some blankets he waited for someone to come into his hut. But seeing as no one had until dusk he left the village at full speed, wanting to have nothing to do with whatever would pass.