Wolf of the Blood Moon: A Blood Magic

Scarlet Asger

I get off of the demon’s corpse right as the message plays in my head about the EXP.

{Level 2 Demon Spawn defeated. Bonus EXP is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.}

That should make eight Skill Points now. Just two more and I can get the cleaning skill.

After canceling my Blood Claws skill, I wipe my hands of the demon’s ichor onto the very small amount of fur that the spider has before walking over to the bunker, grabbing the lever on the outside of it, and yanking it down with all of my strength. Just to find that this one is working perfectly fine.

A little awkward.

Guess I kind of assumed that if the inner lever wasn’t working then the outer one wasn’t too. But then again, they probably didn’t think about the outer one since someone would have to be outside to pull it. And there’s no way to open it or get inside after pulling it.

I glance at the now-shutting doors of the bunker to see a few more pictures being taken of me to my irritation, along with several people waving and expressing their appreciation towards me.

After the door finishes shutting, I find myself heaving a sigh of relief.

I really don’t deal with large groups of people well.

“You do realize those pictures and that video will likely be ‘blown up’ as you humans say on your internet by morning?” I hear the annoying tanuki tell me something I already know and very much wish wouldn’t happen.

“You should’ve already known that this would happen. Guardians don’t live in obscurity. It just doesn’t happen,” Tar says, amusement clear in his normally robotic tone. “There are just too many ways for humans to record images and spread them around for you to-”

I cut him off by saying, “Yeah, yeah, I know that already.”

Such a pain. Despite how cute he looks, he’s practically a devil on the inside.

“Why are you in the form of a tanuki anyways?” I ask out of curiosity as I walk back towards the hall I came from to head towards the other demons on the floor.

“Whatever my appearance is, it’s your fault,” he says, sounding ever so indignant in his response. But I stop walking at that with a confused expression on my face.

How’s it my fault?

“We fae take on the appearance of whatever animal – not including humans – was last on the mind of the human we approach for a contract,” the little tanuki says, making my eyes widen.

Oh. So, it’s Belle’s fault then.

I nod my head, satisfied with my shifting of the blame before I continue walking down the hall.

Somewhere in the back of my head, I hear a certain tanuki scoffing at my thoughts. But I ignore it.

It only takes me around another ten or fifteen minutes to navigate through the maze of a building to find the next demon spawn before I kill it simply by jumping down from a balcony of an upper deck in the room it was in to land on its back and proceeding to do the same thing I’ve done with the last few demon spawn.

{Level 2 Demon Spawn defeated. Bonus EXP is awarded for killing a creature above your level.}

{One Skill Point is awarded for killing a demon.}

{Congrats, you have leveled up to level 2. Two Free Points have been awarded to you and your stats have been updated.}

I let out a sigh as I feel a nice surge of something that feels almost like adrenaline rush through my body from the level-up. Then I open my status to check out the differences, only to pause and ask the tanuki out loud, “What do you think I should put my free points in?”

I kind of forgot to distribute those earlier.

Tar lets out a sigh of relief before answering, “It’s about time you asked.”

Oh? So you were waiting for me to say something about it to talk about free points?

That doesn’t sound like something a good mentor should be doing.

The tanuki appears in the air in front of me with a disgruntled look on his cute little face as he practically shouts in my mind, “I am not your mentor! I am your contracted partner!!! Get it straight, girl!”

I raise an amused eyebrow at his loss of composure.

Right. Keep telling yourself that.

Tar flies up to my face and literally punches me, to no affect. Then he floats up and lands on my head of all places and begins answering my question as if this interaction had never happened.

“My thoughts are always to keep your stats relatively balanced, albeit with your species’ stronger stats with a little bit of a lead. So I’d suggest putting your free points into Mental to let it catch up a little bit with the other two stats before spreading the spare around wherever.”

Hmm. Makes sense, I guess.

Don’t want to leave one of your stats far behind the others, making a blatant weakness open up.

Although, what does the mental stat actually do?

“It increases your ability to affect other people’s minds through skills, to defend against others attempting to affect your mind, and lastly, your ability to process things.”

Right. So having a low mental stat compared to my other stats would leave me weak against mental attacks then.

Good to know.

Name: Scarlet AsgerSpecies: Human/Blood Lycan HybridMagic: Blood Age: 19Level: 2SP: 9 Stats: Physical: 19Mental: 16Magical: 17 Physical/Level: 2Mental/Level: 1Magical/Level: 2 Free Points: 0Mana: 121/136Free Points/Level: 2 Active Skills: Blood ClawsSkill Level: 1Description Passive Skills: Predator ISkill Level: StaticDescription

Alright. That should work.

“You put three free points into mental and one into physical?” Tar asks rhetorically before muttering, “Not bad.”

I smirk at that before heading off to deal with the last demon on the floor. Which is currently standing in front of the sealed bunker.

Looks like I was right. It is a huntsman. And its prey got inside of the bunker, leaving it unable to do anything to them.

Honestly, I could probably just leave it there and it would never move an inch. But I want its EXP. So back to that room I go.