NOVEL NEXT B2 | Intermission
Alexia’s Home Island
Astrid vanishes again the moment the group leaves the dungeon, heading straight for the trees above the base. Then she checks in on her status now that she’s alone.
Name: Astrid Knight Species: Shadowborne(T1)
Level: 90 Class: Shadowblade
Health: 1401/1790 Mana: 1245/3570
VIT: 179 DEX: 268 STR: 268 MAG: 357 MEN: 268
Racial Skills Active Skills
Passive Skills General Skills
She grimaces at her level, feeling it is pitiful in comparison to Lexi’s. Even if she knows that she shouldn’t compare herself to a Class S species even if they are twins.
But she can’t help her sister if she’s this weak.
If I could somehow become Class S as well…
After a second she shakes her head at the thought. Because just becoming a Class S species is supposed to be impossible. Unless you’re Lexi apparently.
Astrid sighs before beginning to turn towards the bridge connecting their island and the desert island next to them, only to pause as she hears flapping sounds. So she raises her head, noticing several other people down in the base doing the same.
Then she finds a large half a meter long bat flapping its wings while flying down towards the base. The bat has glowing purple glitchy eyes just like her sister with glowing red and purple veins running underneath its black fur.
Is it just me… or did Luna get a lot… bigger?
Astrid quickly identifies the bat, but it just gives the typical Class C identifier with the same species name as before. So the bat didn’t evolve since the last time Astrid saw her.
Guess Luna can grow larger without evolving? Or something like that?
The quantum vampire bat flies down to the base before latching her claws onto the underside of the roof of a house and just perching there upside down, closing her eyes. Meanwhile all of the new people to the base send her confused looks, some seemingly preparing for an attack only to grow even more confused when Luna just sleeps. Until someone walks up and explains who Luna is.
Luna really does just do whatever she wants, doesn’t she? I hear Lexi occasionally draws soul from her, but the bat kind of just goes off on her own most of the time.
Astrid notices several people sending fearful looks towards Luna despite the reassurances from the people who already know about her. Probably because Luna is the same level as Lexi at level 173 and could kill anyone in this base with ease from that alone, considering how Astrid is the highest level person in the base aside from Lexi. And she’s only level 90.
But that’s expected of a Class S species. They are the apex predators of the world and rulers of their own element after all.
After watching the not-so-little bat for a few seconds, Astrid turns her attention back to the base, which has improved quite a bit over the last couple weeks. To the point that it’s actually looking like a settlement now instead of a ruins turned into a temporary base that it originally was.
And part of that is thanks to their island having her sister’s protection, drawing a bunch of new people to it in the process. After they get past their initial meeting of Lexi, of course.
Astrid can’t help but smirk at the fact that at least half of the people she’s run into expected Lexi to be some sort of murderous monster girl who reaps the lives of everyone she meets. Which has led to some rather amusing reactions from the newbies to how she actually is.
Then again, Lexi’s never particularly cared much about how others view her. As long as they don’t go up and bother her with their views.
Her thoughts pause when she notices movement coming from Luna, bringing her attention and a lot of the people’s attention within the base towards the bat. And what she finds is the bat shrinking back down to the size Astrid had originally seen her at, startling everyone.
Wait, the bat can manipulate it’s size? I thought it was just growing naturally… or maybe it is growing naturally but can shrink back down or something?
Astrid ponders over the subject for a while as whispers run through the base about the oddity that is Lexi’s bonded pet. But eventually she just shrugs her shoulders, deciding not to worry about it while focusing on the bridge again, only to find a man walking across the bridge. One at level 121.
She narrows her eyes and tenses up as she notices the man sending a wild smirk in their direction while holding a staff and pointing it their way, seemingly preparing to attack.
Shit, that’s not-
Her panicking thoughts cut off when a familiar bat glitches into existence right next to him before growing to half a meter in length and chomping down on his neck with her two razor sharp teeth, making the man let out a loud, coarse scream as he falls to the ground trying to swat the bat away. But Luna just ignores him and begins lapping up some of the blood that pours out of his wound with some purple energy filling the blood, occasionally digging her teeth into his neck again to refill the puddle of blood around him until the man goes silent.
And it’s not just the man that goes silent. It’s the entire base.
Even Astrid finds her mouth parted slightly open in surprise before she closes it.
Guess Luna is here to protect us then?
Despite knowing that, Astrid can’t help but feel… a little intimidated by the bat now.
Meanwhile the bat in question finally finishes lapping up the blood and the purple energy in it that Astrid is pretty sure is quantum energy before she flaps her wings again and begins flying back to the base. And without a care in the world for the silence she caused or the fear directed towards her, she perches herself upside down and closes her eyes again with nothing more than a tiny, adorable sounding squeak.
Cute but deadly.