Potential and Bloodline

(General POV)

(A few moments before)

Upon seeing Raas getting injured and laying on the ground unmoving, the veiled girl gritted her teeth and clenched her staff tight but restrained herself from doing something she might regret later.

All around her are different kinds of monsters shouting, cursing, praising, and cheering. There are many mixed emotions between the viewers, some want Raas to win, and wanted him dead. The older and wiser monsters, all had grins on their faces upon seeing the fight between Raas and the Owlcora. They knew how strong an Owlcora could be and are sad that Raas has already a name, but nonetheless, they are happy to see such an interesting fight, and even thought about, helping the young snake.

Well they aren´t so kind to just do it out of their heart, no no no, they wanted to gain some favor, as they couldn´t take Raas under their wings, they might as well try gaining his trust.

Younger monsters would never consider giving resources to others, but the old knew how to invest their resources well, and how important it is to gain favors from future overlords and powerhouses.

They gleamed at the two monsters in the pit, struggling for survival. Both already on their knees and belly, trying their hardest to avoid death, but only one will come out alive.

The veiled girl was on edge, she was the one that suggested, no forced Raas into the pit, and she knew how dangerous it would be, but her greed and confidence in Raas made her think that he would easily win three fights in a row. Sahra told her many stories, well all the stories about him, and from what she heard, Raas is a very unique and strong monster, that could easily rival monsters that are one whole tier higher than himself. But she thought wrong, and now Raas was dying and she could do nothing but pray that he would out sustain his opponent.

"Raas, please. You can´t die here... Sahra is still searching for you. You must survive this..." mumbled the girl while looking at the injured Raas, that was lying in his own blood.

When the announcer finally announced Raas as the winner dozens of healing spells, health potions and more, flew at Raas engulfing him in white light that prevented him from dying. It was the norm that the crowd would heal monsters in the pit that showed potential and are fatally injured. It was all for their own sake, and as monsters, they are being hunted and killed by all the other "intelligent" races, like humans, elves, fehms, and many more. So they needed all the strength they got to survive.

The veiled girl immediately jumped down into the pit and cast her own healing spell while holding Raas head ever so gently.

"You did well Raas..."

Seeing a smile on Raas's tired face she couldn´t help but hug him. "I am sorry..."

"That was one heck of a fight!"

"That Raas boy did quite well against a low tier 2 monster."

"Heh, one more fight to go... but will he be conscious in that short time?"

"I hope he will be or I will personally rip his head off!"

"Ts, that damn snake just barely won and you all are already thinking he is hot stuff!"

The small girl ignored all the comments and brought Raas into the waiting area, where other monsters watched her carrying the much bigger Raas into the room. She placed him into a free corner while sitting beside him.

A small green girl shyly approached the two. "I- Is Raas okay? A- And he has to be in the ring in 5 minutes or he will be disqualified..."

The veiled girl looked at the girl in front of her and said, "don´t worry, he will be back in no time... I hope," while whispering the last part.

The girl nodded but fidgeted a little. After a few seconds, the veiled girl finally asked, "what do you want? Say it already!"

The green girl got spooked and slightly backed off, but replied in a meek voice, "ehhh sorry, but... can I... maybe sit next to Raas?"

The veiled girl tilted her head in confusion, "Why?"

"Raas was friendly towards me... he doesn't look at me like the others do... he was kind towards me..." said the girl tilting her head down, covering her face with her green hair. The veiled girl thought how desperately she for affection soughed. An uncommon occurrence in monsters that are left all alone with nothing to do but to weasel through life, most will get desperate, aggressive, or just lose their sanity and the small bit of intelligence they had.

After a long stare, she finally sighed and nodded, while thinking to herself, 'I somehow pity her... There is really no difference between monsters and humans...'

But just as she sat down next to Raas and wanted to pet him a loud burly voice sounded, "YOU! Are you slacking off again! I told you to inform the contestant and you are here just to get some rest!?"

The vine monster got startled and jumped up at the angry shout while clutching her trembling hands. "I- I- I am s- sorry..."

The veiled girl seeing the 2 meters big muscular kobold monster, just furrowed her brows, "Hey, you there. Why are you shouting like that, we aren´t deaf."

"Hah, not your problem midget!" snarled the buff red Kobold back.

"Hmmm, is that so," said the girl irritated while cracking her fingers.

"No stop, please it was my fault!" said the vine monster while pulling on the robe.

The girl looked into her pleading eyes and looked back at the kobold, "She already told us, so cut her some slack. You can go back to wherever you crawled out of!"

"YOU!!!" shouted the kobold angrily, but looking at the commotion he caused he gritted his teeth and spat, "you aren´t off the hook you low life, Vineral!" To which the small monster trembled.

Feeling a hand on her shoulder she turned around. "Why are you even working here? Can´t you work somewhere else?"

The Vineral looked down and spoke, "No... here I get at least a safe place, while also getting paid in some cores... I am too weak to fend for myself and others don´t want a lowly Vineral to work for them..."

*sigh* "You know what, let me look at your status... and if there is even the slightest of potential... then... maybe... and only maybe... will I be training you till you are strong enough to fend for yourself."

The Vinerals´s eyes widened as she looked shocked at her, "What, really? You will train me?!"

"ONLY if you show potential. If not, you will have to find your own way to get out of this hole or rot here in this place..."

The small monster eagerly nodded her head and gave her permission.

With a silent chant, her status screen popped up.

[Status]

Name: ???

Species: Evergreen Vineral

Level: 3

Strength: 7

Agility: 5

Intelligence: 6

Mentality: 9

Hp: 26/30

MP: 0/0

Title: NONE

[Skills: Vine Slap lv 1, Light Regeneration lv 4, Needle shot lv 1]

[Racial Skill: Evergreen lv 1]

[Evolution Path:]

[Small Vine Strucktur]

[Fast Roots]

[Blunt Needles]

[Green Leaves]

[Sensing sprout]

"Oh, you are a variant. Quite a rare one, even having a skill at level 4 already and a racial skill... but your stats seem even lower than others on your level... and your base evolutions seem basic or bad. Hmm, no one noticed you being a variant, because your needles are too small..."

The girl got happy but got saddened as she continued.

"Hahhh, at least you show some if little... in fact, very little potential, but potential is potential... so I will train you for a little while... but for now, sit down and hope that Raas will wake up on time."

The girl nodded and sat down next to Raas with a massive smile on her face, that she tried to suppress.

Meanwhile, constant changes and notifications rang in Raas's head and body.

*Ding*

[New bloodline is conflicting with exciting bloodline!]

*Ding*

[Undergoing physical changes!]

*Ding*

[New bloodline is conflicting with exciting bloodline!]

*Ding*

[Undergoing physical changes!]

*Ding*

[New bloodline integrated!]

*Ding*

[New Racial Skill unlocked!]

*Ding*

[Bloodline unsuccessfully awakened! More Strength, Intelligence, and Mentality needed!]

The two girls stared at Raas with wide eyes as his body slowly changed. His scales grew out turning slightly spiky, while his greyish-yellow scales got a slight gleam to them and turning slightly reddish, making him prettier and more intimidating at the same time. But the most noticeable change is the small crystal that appeared between Raas's eyes on his forehead. It had a pretty midnight black and color to it with a tinge of orange.

Seeing the gem appear on Raas´s forehead the veiled girl gasped, "No way, what in the seven heavens did he do to get that!" To witch the vine monster tilted her head, not understanding why she was freaking out over a gem on Raas forehead.

All of that only lasted for 4 minutes, and Raas finally began to wake up. With a giant yawn, he heaved his body up while looking around in a daze.

"Heh, what´s wrong?" said a confused Raas as he looked at the veiled girl and the Vineral staring at him.

Reading through all the notifications floating in front of him his eyes widened.

"Wtf did that twig guy give me!"

Meanwhile, the so-named, twig guy was facepalming while muttering, "This idiot just drank that without thinking! Haaa~ never mind that, it´s not my problem anymore. My mission is finished, time to get some rest!"