A new level of 'self defence'.

"I can't detect any living creature in a huge radius, so I guess this is the perfect place to test out [black spawn]." Just as well, I'm gonna use this opportunity to see exactly what the shade race has to offer.

As of now, I don't feel any different from when my race was human, but perhaps I need to actually activate the ability for something to happen.

"Tetra, I suggest you move out of the way, in case this ability just does something insane and kills you." I warned her.

"Sure, but even if I do die, you can simply revive me, right?" She's not wrong.

~~~

We are at a mountain range, as planned, and, having spent hours trying to figure out how the ability works, I've started to run out of ideas.

"What have we not tried yet? Fuck. The fact that I have some potentially overpowered ability I don't know how to use is pissing me off." I've already shattered a couple of rocks and left a few craters in the ground out of irritation.

"I think you should try cutting yourself or something. maybe it affects the way your body works, and it's not an external ability like [white spawn]." Blood came up with quite a plausible Idea.

"Right. That's the one thing I haven't tried yet. In that case, lemme have a go. " grabbed a dagger and thrust it into my leg.

"Ah, what the hell is going on?" A thick black fog started bleeding out from the cut, inking in a 100 meter radius black.

All of the gas then seeped back into my cut, but any surface it touched remained black.

After a short delay, all of the blackened surfaces crystallized into towering spikes, and, with the sound of shattering glass, turned into the black fog as well.

"I just started something I really shouldn't have.." I said quietly, watching the scenery unfold.

"Uh-huh." Both Blood and Tetra agreed.

The newly formed black clouds also covered their surrounding vicinity in black, which then crystallized into more spikes, and into the fog, and so on, until, all of a sudden, the gigantic mass of black gas all seeped back into my body, healing the wound I just left on my body as if it was never there.

"Hahaha.. That's so stupidly ridiculous. I've got no words." So THIS now happens whenever I take damage.

That's downright insane.

I just took down a whole forest, a few mountains, and every little thing around, turned it into the [black spawn], and all of this mass just got sucked up by the cut I left on myself, sealing it shut.

"In other words, this ability is an automatic heal I can't disable. Whenever a part of my body gets damaged now, a calamity will unfold around me, consuming everything and turning it into Health Points." I had an odd expression of shock and excitement engrained in my face.

By the looks of things, as long as I have at least some [black spawn] left, I will keep healing and destroying everything along the way. Wild.

Now that I've confirmed that this ability is overpowered as shit, let's see how much [black spawn] this consumed because there is an option that this just consumed my entire supply, plus the regeneration speed is important as well.

Black Spawns: 8,363,121/8,463,120

"Hoh~. Looks like it consumed exactly 100,000 points spawns but thanks to my {Passive regen S+ (can evolve)} title, one point has already healed. I think it's safe to assume that increasing the rank of the ability will reduce the cost to use it and the regeneration speed." So, potentially, I can heal forever as long as I get the rank increased from D-.

"Oh, good, you're moved away in time. I not sure if you would have left a corpse, were you to get hit by the black stuff, so I doubt I could revive you then." I need to be very careful with this, cause I could have just killed tetra by accident.

"Yeah, well I felt like something dangerous was about to happen and moved away in time. It's a good thing your goat is fine." My goat? Oh, she probably meant Blood.

"I agree. I don't fancy dying anytime soon."

~~~

The next day, when we were in Tetra's room, an issue rose up.

"I'm bored. Like, I swear I was more entertained sitting in my hive for years at a time than I am at the academy." The queen here, spitting straight facts.

"Same."

"Yer."

It's great we recognize the fact, but what next?

"In that case, it's about time." I smiled.

"Time? For what?" Tetra took a step back. Oh, I guess my smile caused her to instinctually get wary of me since that's the impression I had when I was killing her for experience.

"It's time I get a part-time job. We're poor as shit, and, since I've decided not to go stealing money unless I have to, so I'm gonna sign up as a "teacher" of sorts for any person aspiring to become an adventurer. I get cash, and lots of other privileges, but, most importantly, entertainment." It's gonna be great, hopefully.

"You do realize you'll just scare the poor people?" Blood hit me with his brutally honest remark.

"Nah, I can be friendly if need be."