my life was getting weirder day by day. after a limit you just become numb to it. I was in some kind of an altar.

my head was feeling as if somebody was ripping it apart. what can I say, once you live long enough in the forest, pain becomes something that must be ignored.

I had to be ready for whatever comes next. for all I know, that great god, whoever and whatever he was, had kidnapped me, and as for why the book is the obvious reason. it managed to hurt me just by speaking. while I can't discount a special ability, I had to prepare while assuming that the enemy is many times stronger than me.

voice - kid come in here, we have a lot to discuss.

came a voice right in my head. I was sitting outside the altar that I found myself in, I was just sitting there waiting for something to change. I didn't dare to go inside, because pissing off whatever it was something I don't want to experience. after he was a powerful being, respect must be given. no point in waiting outside, I go inside.

the altar is very simple and is a small stone building. as for why I am calling it an altar. I just felt as if that is the right way to call it.

the inside of the altar was even simpler than the outside, being empty except for a throne that is right in the middle.

voice - welcome, the user of the book of the bloody mage.

the voice had a body. he was a youngish kind of man, I think somewhere in his mid-thirties.

me - who are you?

voice - you can call me immortal, you have to be thankful that I brought you to safety. I don't know how you managed to piss off a class six god, but then with that book, it is easy pissing off people.

me - class six god ...

immortal- I forgot that you have recently arrived in this world. let me begin from the beginning then. do you know what classes are.

me - I know what classes are.

immortal - do you know what gods are?

me - no idea, but I think I have some rudimentary idea.

immortal- gods are kind of a vast subject, they have existed for a very long time, you see. you know that every person in this world is born with an ability, right.

now let's say that a person becomes very famous, let's say a very powerful emperor or bloody knight, you become famous in a good way or a bad way, doesn't matter . after you become popular, that person will begin to notice some changes.

let's say that people begin to believe that you are a bloody and evil king. you could be the sweetest guy in the world, but the person will begin to change. the changes will be slight, like become a bit more hot-blooded, crueler minded and slowly but steadily you become the person that people believe you are.

me - so it's like you become what the people believe you are, literally.

immortal- it's not that simple kid, but that what happens basically. if you didn't understand leave it be, I don't have the time to explain it to you. I wish I had more time to explain everything, to be honest, you are not in the least aware of even the basics of this world.

you are being chased by a powerful god. even I am not powerful enough to fight him head-on, at least not yet.

me - so how do we deal with them.

immortal - naturally fighting it head-on is impossible. but the thing is you see, I am confident that I can hide you from him . that bastard is already in conflict with the god of wolves anyways. I want to see if he can take us both

me - what do you get from helping me?

immortal - you are a pretty direct kid, that has become pretty rare nowadays. I want you to destroy something for me. buts it's better if you don't know about it yet. you are not strong enough to deal with this thing yet.

me - okay bu...

immortal interrupted me

immortal - I don't have a whole lot of time, so I have companions looking for you. they will be a very large man and a teenage girl. they will tell you what to do next.

I hadn't noticed this when I was talking to whoever this commander is, but cracks were appearing on the altar. the cracks had already reached the throne. I had a feeling that once the throne was fully cracked, whatever this place would disappear.

commander - be ready to fight, the god of wolf forest has left you a surprise, but I think you should be able to fight it. my honest suggestion kid, leave that wolf forest and to one of the green zones already, you cannot survive If he finds you and honestly you need the challenge. The beasts there are all show.

by this time the cracks had already reached. the armrest of the throne. it looks like wherever this place wouldn't last long.

and just like that, the world faded to black.

I found myself in a familiar stretch of the forest.

right in front of me, a plant man was walking out of the ground. though I think it would be more accurate saying that it was growing out of the ground. it was strong, I could tell that much. thankfully there seems to be no other enemy popping out of the ground.

I catch the blade I took from one of the armors lying on the ground and charge at the enemy. this one is the strongest one I am facing.

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it also quickly reacts by striking me with its giant cleaver. this thing is a giant, while it didn't reach the treetops. it was significantly taller than me. it looks like it is going to be a tough fight after all.

I jump to the side while striking at its leg joint which is at my head's height. it seemed so much smaller when I was far away. my blade struck against the bark of that guy. it has hurt him, I could tell but that was not enough, nowhere near enough.

I know that their weakness is in the head, so that was the place I must target. but the problem was that I could barely reach its leg joints. my original plan was to strike its leg joints, preferably make it lose its mobility and in the best-case scenario, have it fall. but even its joints were pretty well defended and it would take me too long to penetrate its defenses.

so it looks like I have to take the battles to a battleground I am much more familiar with. luckily I had stocked up on blood. throwing a blood whip upwards I jumped to the nearest tree. the giant was slow which was the only major advantage that I held. it beat me in everything else.

with another blood whip, I jumped to the tree which was behind the giant. from here I will jump onto its head and kill.

thinking this I jump, but the giant is not as dumb as it looks. it swings its giant cleaver backward almost taking off my head. I dodge it at the last minute with a blood whip, which redirects me to his back. luckily branches are protruding out of the body of the beast everywhere, so keeping my grip was easy. okay not that easy, as the giant keeps poking its sword trying to hit me. the only reason that I am not in two pieces is that I am pretty lucky and fast at climbing.

but if I don't do anything then, I would be stuck here and with that one lucky strike, I would be dead. there are no branches left to the top and I had no idea how I would go to the top.

crunch, my armour instantly got crushed under intense pressure. while I was thinking all this the giant had pushed his back into a tree and rubbing his back. my armour which was already damaged had begun to fall off completely and I was sure something had pierced in my body.

the bastard was still poking the backside to make me leave. that giant knife was sharp, if it were to hit me it would be pretty damaging. yes, that's it. the giant was lifting his giant cleaver most likely to strike another location. throwing a blood whip at the giant cleaver, I felt the whip wrap around the gigantic cleaver, gripping it tightly, I climbed upwards steadily.

before he noticed me I jumped onto one of his shoulders. taking a small leap the blade plunges into his head. I could see the life draining out of the giant, as it began to fall apart into pieces.

I began to get up from my position when I noticed the pain coming from my chest and it was the last thing that came to my mind as I fell unconscious.

( after a while )

I am losing my consciousness nowadays way too many times .let's hope this trend stops with today. I had patched my wound, which turned out to be a branch of a poison tree. it had a sedative effect, which was the reason I lost my conscious

I don't know who that commander figure was, but I have decided to trust him temporarily. after all, I might not have lived long enough in the wild, but my instincts were top-notch. that's how I survived so many ambushes in the forest.

for now, I just wanted to rest and properly digest my spoils of today.

the giant was my greatest spoil of today. while I might not exactly sure what it is yet, it had a ridiculous amount of life force. this much life force was enough to push me over the edge and finally form my totem. I have told you that my control over blood mana was not enough for the formation of a totem. that is true but there is a simple trick to the formation of a totem. if I were to use a source of a very strong life force to speed up the process.

then I can form a totem finally, but it will be pretty hard. especially since the forest was never static. I won't get the time to create a totem.

fuck, now that I think about it, the forest is empty right now. all beasts are avoiding this place like a plague.

there would be no better time to create a totem than now. I even had a battery of life force next to me. time to get down to it.

( the process of creating a totem is a very dangerous business as I will come to find out in the future.

I never tried to craft a totem with that impulsiveness. anyways, I have interfered to explain about my blood weapon. it is as it sounds, the blood weapons is a weapon that I have purely crafted from my blood. it is a mixture of blood energy and my blood. I still remember the day that I tried to craft the blood weapon. I had Bled out on that day. if it weren't for a few unfortunate flame tigers impulsively coming to attack me, I am sure I would have died that day.

even then I didn't learn my lesson. to be honest I underestimated the danger of making a totem.

the process involved cutting off a small part of your spirit and fusing it with blood weapons. the danger that cut souls possessed was something I have just realized now as you will come to realize with my future logs.

to be honest, I could explain it all now, but that would make my future logs kind of boring, so I have to leave it be. )