The next morning he ventured out before the sun started to rise, being much more cautious he traversed through tree branches. While he was snooping around he'd heard a group of voices off to the side
"Where'd that lil fox guy go?" said a rough and raspy voice, sounding like this person needed to drink more water and less rum. Another voice responded, although this one was far more nasally, "I don't know but we had better find him he's worth 500 gold pieces!" The third person's voice could be described as 'if a boulder could speak', "We only need info on him if he's too dangerous lets not engage"
"Pull down your pants, I gotta check to make sure you're still a man, you pussy" said the nasally guy.
"Why you bas..."
"ENOUGH! We will attempt to capture the creature, we can probably barter for more gold," said the raspy voice in a tone of finality shutting the other two up.
He crouched down behind some brush and peered into the clearing. It was a group of three men moving around a camp fire with an additional man being the lookout, the sun barely rising above the horizon to where there was no additional light to be had. The men were just starting to douse the campfire and clean up their site when Soren smirked with an idea;
I want to see if I can get this to work
Soren's body darkened, not as if he had gotten a tan, it was as if he faded into nothingness against the night as he sank into shadows casted by the dancing flames of the fire. He glided through the ground and positioned himself directly behind the man who was looking out for their group to prevent ambushes, [Shadow Spike]. Soren had rose from the shadows covering the mouth of the man before shadow magic pierced his chest, he then silently set him down as he slunk back into the shadow.
The other three men continued to go about their campsite without noticing anything being amiss, Soren had made his way behind a second person on the outskirts of the campsite, when an unexpected development happened. "Christoph, you want breakfast? I know you've been up all night." "...Christoph?" At that moment at is when Soren popped up out of the shadows and ended the man on the outskirt of the campsite in a similar manner to the first. The other two men had heard a suction type sound as the magic receded from piercing their comrade, and heard his body hit the ground. They drew their weapons fully alerted, and luckily for Soren, they were unable to catch of glimpse of him in the early morning darkness before he was able to slink back into the shadow.
his works better than I expected! The drain on my mana is more than I thought, I can only do this one more time.
Soren struck from the ground dropping another, as he rose from the shadows like a demon.
"H-how did you do that... this bounty is way out of our league," exclaimed the man with a raspy voice, Soren did not grace the bounty hunter with an answer he dashed over and quickly used his [Clawed Slash] the bounty hunter dodged as he took off running. The bounty hunter thought to himself in a panic, " I don't need to engage, I just need to get word out about its abilities and the gold should be mine!"
Should I give chase? I don't know what his plan is, maybe I should just nip this problem in the bud.
The man ran through the woods tripping but in his fear was running hand over hand trying to frantically get away. As the man was finally starting to get to his feet again there was rustling in the brush as sharp needle like hair pierces his legs in over twenty different places. The man fell to the ground again whining over his bleeding legs.
You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
Soren walked over to the man who started to scramble backwards. "No, stay back! Please," the bounty hunter pleaded. Soren swiped his claws across the man's neck, the man grabbed his throat and thrashed about until he settled down struggling to breath. As the man started to gurgle the light in his eyes slowly faded away.
<[Clawed Slash] has leveled up>
Soren
Race: Lesser Astrabi
Level: 12/15
Health: 140/140
Str: 35
Dex:40
Def: 34
Int:25
Vitality:28
Charisma:40
Magic: 30
Luck:100
Bloodline: Royal
Blessing:???????
skill points (SP) available:20, 15 shop currency (SC), free upgrade skill box x2, random skill box x1, random ability box x1
abilities: [25% Magic Resistance-C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Poison Immunity-A] [Indomitable Will-B] [Iron Hide-c]
skills: [Swordsmanship lvl 2] [Polearm Mastery lvl 2] [Clawed Slash-lvl 2] [Inspect lvl 1] [Unarmed Combat lvl2] [Spike Bombardment lvl 2] [Concealment lvl 1]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+] [Shadow- A]
Soren could not afford to let the man go, the last thing he needed was a man hunt out looking for him. Now that the bounty hunters were taken care of he could now start to search for Clyde. Soren climbed into the trees yet again and went searching for the bandit or his hideout, using the higher vantage point he was hoping it'd be easier to spot something. After traveling a little more than nine miles from the city he noticed a cave that had two guards standing outside sporting leather armors and carrying swords. Just as Soren was about to make his move, a third person came darting out of the woods right beneath him, panting. "Guys look alive! There was this little fox boy looking to take on the boss I lost his trail but last I saw he was heading this way," the guy who just came from the woods warned.
"HAHAHA a fox boy?! You're frightened of a child? What a disgrace," mocked the guard with a scar on his cheek.
"You'd be afraid too if you saw what I saw! The kid leaps in and out of shadows and impales people took out three people like it was nothing."
"Magic users are all dangerous, but luckily during the middle of the day like this the shadows are a quite a bit more limited," chimed in the third guard.
Hmmm, didn't realize I was being tailed all that time, I'll have to be more careful in the future.
Soren was listening to the three of them argue while he began to grow restless using his [lightning spear] ability he threw it with all his might. The bandits arguing didn't notice the projectile coming straight for them and it skewered two of them simultaneously. The third guards face went sheet white as the realization came that he was next and bolted into the cave.
No you don't
Soren leapt from the tree and gave chase ignoring a dinging sound in his head.
Being short definitely has its disadvantages, I'm not able to catch up this guy. I'm thinking like a human still and I'm not.
With this epiphany he started sprinting on all fours and got a burst of speed, when he got close enough in range he leapt onto the bandits back grabbed his hair and slammed his head into the ground. Without wasting a single moment he used [Clawed slash] to finish him off.
Wow! What an amazing ability! Alright now I am getting pumped, just two more levels and I should get evolve.
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Soren
Race: Lesser Astrabi
Level: 13/15
Health: 145/145
Str: 36
Dex:42
Def: 35
Int:26
Vitality:29
Charisma:40
Magic: 30
Luck:100
Bloodline: Royal
Blessing:???????
skill points (SP) available:21, 16 shop currency (SC), free upgrade skill box x2, random skill box x1, random ability box x1
abilities: [25% Magic Resistance-C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Poison Immunity-A] [Indomitable Will-B] [Iron Hide-c] [Assassins Vision-B]
skills: [Swordsmanship lvl 2] [Polearm Mastery lvl 2] [Clawed Slash-lvl 2] [Inspect lvl1] [Unarmed Combat lvl2] [Spike Bombardment lvl 2] [Concealment lvl 1]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+] [Shadow- A]
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INVENTORY
-low grade healing potion