Wolf of the Blood Moon - Book 1 - Chapter 64 - A Lecture Part I (Patreon)

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Scarlet

I can’t help but skip along the floor into the hallway while whistling very quietly, happy to have finally ditched that creepy Guardian lady, Alex. And not only did I manage to do that, but I also got back at her for stalking me! And gave the kid over to her as well.

“Did you give up on trying to stop calling him a kid?” I hear Tar’s voice resound in my head as I slow down and stop whistling, focusing on the demons on the floor.

Maybe.

Judging by the sounds of it, the other party started clearing out floors of demons from the thirty-fifth floor and on. But they did clear out two floors before that. Floors twenty nine and thirty two. Strictly because there were people on them outside of the bunkers that needed saving.

I can’t help but grin at the thought of having the remaining eight floors to myself, without a single human being on them to interrupt my hunt.

“Your instincts as a blood lycan really are powerful, aren’t they…” I hear Tar mutter seemingly more to himself than to me.

Ignoring the tanuki, I walk into a room before locking the door and sitting on the closest bed while opening my status. Then I quickly allocate my free points before leveling up Blood Thirst once to level 5, using up 11 SP in the process.

[Skill ‘Blood Thirst’ has leveled up to level 5.]

Now to see the difference.

I click on the ellipses at the end of the active skills to extend it to show Blood Thirst before grinning.

“Now that’s exactly what I was hoping for,” I say out loud with my grin stretching even wider across my face as I lie on my back on the bed.

This should help me a lot. An entire percentage per kill higher! And an extra five seconds too!

“Well, it is a legendary skill, after all,” Tar adds his two cents in. “It’d be weird if it didn’t have powerful gains from leveling it.”

Well, yeah, that makes sense. But it’s still nice.

Also, there’s something I’ve been meaning to ask you.

I close out of my status, following which the tanuki appears in the air above me.

“What is it?” he asks while floating down and landing on my chest as if this were some sort of routine.

Are other demons able to identify me? Since I’m clearly able to identify them.

The tanuki blinks at me before answering, “Yes and no. Remember when I said you can’t identify something that is the same species as you?”I nod my head. “Well, technically a ‘demon’ isn’t the same species as you. A blood lycan is. Meaning you can identify any creature that isn’t a blood lycan, and any demon that isn’t a blood lycan can identify you.”

My eyes widen in shock at that, and I begin to sit up, only for him to quickly add, “But don’t worry! The System isn’t designed to handle identifications of a hybrid, so whenever a demon that isn’t a blood lycan tries identifying you, all they will get is your human side!”

I stare at him, half sitting up as he clings onto my jacket’s collar so as to not fall off. Then, after a few seconds, I lower myself back down onto the bed again with a sigh.

Should’ve started out with that.

“It’s your fault for not asking the right questions in the right order,” Tar mutters, making me life my head to stare at him. But he just goes silent so I lie my head back down on the pillow again.

I unconsciously reach up to pet the furball – this being the only reason I let him use me as a bed – before muttering, “So I have to be cautious if I ever get stuck in a Class V Fracture?”

The tanuki nods his head, “Indeed. Because it will be able to tell something’s up just from trying and failing to identify you. And that’s only if it wasn’t stupid enough to recognize the ears on your head and your eyes.”

Ears? Eyes?

“Blood lycans have a unique tail, along with unique eyes and ears. They are one of the only shapeshifting creature that has some of their beast features shown in their humanoid form, and the only one with some human features in their beast form. Such as their humanoid shape when transformed into their other form,” Tar explains, making my eyes widen again. “Putting aside the exact abilities and biology of a blood lycan, their eyes are special in that they have very little, sometimes even no black pupil in the blood red of their eyes. And their eyes are able to track whatever they deem their prey through walls for dozens of meters. Although they are only able to designate one creature as their prey at a time.”

I can’t help but focus on his words as he speaks. Because exact information on Class V demons is generally difficult to find. And the ‘spirits’ – from what I’ve heard – are rather tight lipped about it. So this may be my only chance to learn more about blood lycans.

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For those of you who can't read the images:

Name:

Species:

Age:

Magic:

Level:

SP:

Scarlet Asger

Human/Blood Lycan Hybrid

19

Blood

22

61

Stats:

Physical:

60

Mental:

58

Magical:

58

Physical/Level:

2

Mental/Level:

1

Magical/Level:

2

Free Points:

0

Mana:

349/1,682

Free Points/Level:

2

Active Skills:

Blood Claws

Allows the user to coat their hands   with claws of blood. The blood used in the skill is either created through   the user’s mana, drained from the body of whatever the user has their claws   in, or drawn from the user’s body.

Skill Level:

5

Blood Siphon

Allows the user to drain the blood of   nearby creatures and use it for various purposes, including transfusing the   user’s or others blood or infusing the blood into the blood claws skill and   other possible skills.

Skill Level:

4

Life Drain

Allows the user to drain the life   energy of nearby creatures into themselves, healing them in the process.

Costs mana to use.

Skill Level:

4

Blood Thirst

On account of the user’s absolute blood   thirst and utter lack of a self-preservation instinct, you have learned to   grow stronger through each kill.

This skill passively increases all of   the user’s statistics by a flat 0.6% bonus for each enemy slain for a period   of one minute and twenty-five seconds after their death.

This effect is stackable.

Skill Level:

5

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Passive Skills

Predator IV

It grants the user a 20% boost in stats   when fighting a creature at a higher level than themselves.

Skill Level:

Static