Scarlet
My plan goes awry almost immediately when the door is blasted off its hinges by a fireball, sending a wave of heat towards me and my blood shadow. But fortunately neither of us were close enough to the door for it to hurt us, me having at least considered this to be a possibility, even if not a very large one. The plan then goes back on track afterwards when a single fomorian enters and my blood shadow immediately launches an attack at it, stabbing its sword straight at a gap in the armor on its arm, piercing partially into its elbow.
The fomorian lets out a loud growl before swinging its left fist straight towards my blood shadow, landing a blow to its torso. But I jump straight at the back of the fomorian and reach for its throat with my claws, grabbing onto it and trying to crush it with all I have, making the creature topple over in the process, landing on its front and accidentally cutting itself with its sword while doing so. This makes it easier for me to finish it off via distracting it as I burn more blood to finally rip its throat out before immediately jumping off of the creature.
And not a moment too late either, because a sword swings right past where I was after that, barely missing me in the process.
I alternate my gaze between the fomorian standing at the door now and the two behind him, the only noise that I can hear being that of my own heavy breathing from exhaustion and blood loss, along with the growling of the fomorians.
“Attack!” the acolyte shouts again, just like earlier, adding onto the noise.
My blood shadow recovers enough to stand up again, and I wave my hand over to it, creating another sword of blood that it quickly grabs as I watch the remaining fomorians enter the recording studio. But surprisingly, the acolyte stays back outside of the room.
After a second though, the reason comes to me in the form of a memory about acolytes.
Specifically, the fact that they’re bloody cowards and like to force their team of guards into the narrow and dangerous places for battle while staying at a safe distance.
So it’s going to stay out there instead of coming inside, meaning I won’t have to worry about fireballs.
If that’s the case, then the acolyte can be considered out of the battle for now, unless it starts buffing the other demons. Which I doubt since this acolyte seems to use fire magic. And one of the fomorians is down too, and even gave me a couple of levels along with its brave sacrifice.
My only issue right now…
I open my status.
(I added a line of red between the inherent/achievement-locked skills and the purchased skills. The top are inherent/achievement-locked for both passive and active while the bottom are purchased.)
Name: Scarlet Asger
Species: Human/Blood Lycan Hybrid
Magic: Blood
Age: 19
Level: 77
SP: 8
Stats:
Physical: 190
Mental: 186
Magical: 185
Physical/Level: 2
Mental/Level: 1
Magical/Level: 2
Free Points: 4
Mana: 7186/17205
Free Points/Level: 2
Active Skills:
Blood Claws
Skill Level: 10
Description
Blood Siphon
Skill Level: 10
Description
Life Drain
Skill Level: 10
Description
Partial Shift
Skill Level: Static
Description
Blood Diffusion
Skill Level: 1
Description
Blood Shadow
Skill Level: 5
Description
Blood Retribution
Skill Level: 5
Description
Blood Manifestation
Skill Level: 5
Description
Blood Sacrifice
Skill Level: 10
Description
Blood Boil
Skill Level: 6
Description
Blood Bank
Skill Level: 5
Description
Clean
Skill Level: Static
Description
Repair
Skill Level: Static
Description
Recharge
Skill Level: Static
Description
Passive Skills:
Blood Regeneration
Skill Level: 5
Description
Blood Thirst
Skill Level: 6
Description
Predator V
Skill Level: Static
Description