Chapter 7 exposed skills, new companion, new task

You want to know something, I may have fucked myself up.

as everything seemed bigger when I woke up with some familiar equipment around me.

I can move somewhat but the ground seemed closer than usual and my body was still kind of hurting!

so Immediately checked my stats fearing for the worse.

Race: Blood Hawk (temporary)

Class: N/A

Health 2000/2000

Health regen per second 0.4

Mana 2000/2000

Mana regen per second 0.1

Strength 20

dexterity 20

vitality 20

energy 20

Transmogrify level (1/??) (2/10) slots

>!@)#*$ rat (active)

>blood hawk (current form)

Quill rat level 0/0 3/10 fragments

>Quill shot

Blood hawk level 1/??

>Blood Drain (channeling)

>Poisonous Scratch

>flight

>Stomach of Holding

well that's new I got changed into a blood hawk for being an idiot, and now I got a few new things I learned about my questionable skills.

As i used my sword that was on the ground to which i struggled to unsheath to see my current appearance, my face looked like a hawk's with the beak, and all (obviously), I had two sets of wings, one of them were my front legs, the other was attached to my waist, my hind legs covered in thin scales with both paws armed with four sharp claws, i had a somewhat long tail with the tip looking like a decorated blade with jagged edges each one dripped of poison.

Meaning that I can still fight~

As for my companion the quill rat, I decided to give it a name, since I had no idea of what its gender is I picked Angel despite it being a monster spawned by one of the prime evils, heh.

I was able to resummon it again but my current looks made it bring forth a staring contest...

But do you know what was the worst part about it?

Since i was down on the ground unable to move properly The DAMNED rodent leisurely walked behind me then mounted my new body!

I was happy that it wasn't trying to plow my ass, however, it still brought the concern of as to why it was trying to 'dominate' me!

So I smacked in the nose with the back of my head as I attempted to scold it as it whimpered in pain trying to soothe its nose!

which failed miserably as there was no way to properly communicate with it in either of my forms!

Now back to checking out my skills, the Blood drain was easy to understand what it does, the same for the poison scratch it's just I got nothing to practice on, as for flight hell i got to learn how to properly walk then run before even trying that skill, but what got my attention the most was the last skill at the end.

The stomach of holding, while I sort of have gotten the idea of what it does sadly i don't have any way of knowing what it does beforehand unlike those class holders that Silvia ranted about as she tortu- *cough cough* trained me!

So just to test things out i chose the smallest object the ring of light radius, i 'walked' to it as i was struggling to stay on my feet as Angel was watching what i was doing as it rubbed its pained nose.

Once i placed the ring some distance away from my other equipment, i activated my skill.

The object targeted by my skill turned into some kind of mist then entered through my mouth as i panicked a bit there~

but the surprise didn't end there as a grid of some sort similar to what Silvia told me about.. what was it again? Ah Inventory! that appeared within my mind with the grids being 32 X 32 size as the top left corner had the ring that disappeared, but unlike what Silvia told me about there were no equipment areas above the inventory just... four strange slots for something else?

I couldn't really see it but I was wanting to change back into a human as if reacting to my thoughts i felt like something was separating from my body before the experience of looking towards one area suddenly switched to a full 360 degrees view then back to looking upward to the night skies.

I laughed in delight as I was back to my normal body before a cold wind passed by letting me know one more thing... I was naked!

So i rushed to my gear got dressed as quickly as possible as i wasn't enjoying the feeling of the kind of wind from around here on my bare skin.

As for the other thing, that needs to be mentioned, was the sound of flapping before some weight was added on to my head followed by some *cheep cheep cheep* as the new guy happened to be the blood hawk who was small enough to lay its body on my head as I felt some tugging on my hair, it was doing something my hair with its beak as it was covered in saliva when it falls back down against my face.

I was feeling a bit better now understanding my abilities a bit more so I headed back into the camp with these two in tow hoping to get a quick rest.

but upon arriving I noticed that the encampment wasn't as chill as it usually was as the Rogues manned the walls whether they were injured or not, and mercenaries numbers dwindled down to a meager 10 people compared to their large numbers before as these men cowered away from the campfires as they all had all sort of burn marks.

I came close to one of the mercs to ask what had happened but upon seeing me, no, upon seeing my companions they freaked the fuck out before attempting to slash at me with his sword as his words that followed answered some of it.

"You Shaman freak! Get away from me! Don't think you can fool me by taking the form of the newbie!"

He then charged towards me heatedly while slashing around randomly as his fear made his movements clumsy and stiff allowing me a few good openings to exploit something I learned (physically) from Silvia.

I delivered a One-two punch to his face and chin knocking the hysterical man out before I headed to Akara to get some more answers as Kashya wasn't here, neither was Silvia, Charsi was busy repairing the defenses and can be... unreasonable when she's doing that.

as for Gheed don't get me started with that greedy bastard, Warriv was missing as well, so I had little choice on the matter and headed towards Akara's tent.

She will more than likely request that I give up 'some' of my mana for more potions for the injured, to which I have no problem with, as I was going to rest a bit before continuing with the quest that she gave me.

But as always nothing goes according to plan as she told me this.

"Ah young Walter, I am afraid that I'll have to ask you to expedite on the earlier quest that I had given you"

I was about to ask but she had beaten me to it as I grew anxious from her sudden words earlier.

"A newly named monster had joined the den of evil from the reports of the scouts it was a bald shaman that is controlling the monsters within it, making things even more difficult as the Shaman had been training the weaker monsters making them even more formidable"

Sort of getting an idea of who the shaman was i couldn't help but ask.

"would that bald shaman happen to be calling himself... Yok'ta the bold?"

Akara squinted at me for my rhetorical question as she also noticed that I had two monsters with me and one of them was resting on his head.

But her next words with a smile made him wish he didn't ask that.

"Ah, so you know of this monster?"

I gulped as she did something like this before and it led to me having the hardest task to deal with before so I tried to run before she could even say her words, However, she moved faster than me as her vice-like grip held my shoulder.

"I am so glad you are 'eager' to complete my new task~"

I was cursing in my mind towards myself for even mentioning the shaman's name but it was too late for regret as my shoulders slumped down in surrender as i accepted my fate as she continued.

"Slay the named beast while clearing the den of evil!"

I was practically crying because I remembered how difficult it was earlier to survive against that monster.

But her next words made me want to rush to Yok'ta and return as soon as possible.

"complete this and you may have one skill book of your choosing."

So I have forgotten my fear and struggles of earlier from the mere mention of that as I wanted to up my arsenal!

(A/N what skill should he get? I'll let you guys decide~)