Raven

A month has passed since Levi got to desolate mountain.

During this time, he found out a lot of things about it.

The trees that tried to eat him, were called nightmare trees.

To kill them, you need to destroy the wooden bead, or core hiding in the middle of their bark.

He was brought to the brink of death multiple times, and by things that no one would expect.

For instance, while he was out looking for firewood, he stood in a patch of dark green grass.

This patch of grass was not tall, but after only standing in it for a few seconds, multiple blades of grass wrapped around his feet, making it impossible for him to move.

Lucky for him, this grass couldn't kill him directly, it could only wait for something else to kill him, or wait for him to die naturally.

Needless to say, he didn't wait for either of those things to happen and chopped the grass from his feet the moment he noticed it.

There were also giant carnivorous flowers.

These flowers had large yellow or red petals, with yellow or red dots on them.

The bird that tried to fly over desolate mountain that day was caught one of their tongues, which was a vine growing from it's hidden mouth in the center, which then pulled it down into it's stomach, which was a hollow enlarged root that was underground.

What dragged the girl Levi saw when he had just arrived was a carnivorous vine.

Those types of vines liked to catch animals or humans and grind them into fertilizer with their vines.

There are also beasts in the mountain, not the beasts of legend that were refined into elixirs.

These beasts were normal animals which evolved or mutated due to the unusual qi in desolate mountain.

The giant purple snake also changed because of the poison fog.

Levi caught and 'extracted' information about desolate mountain from someone who tried to kill him.

Said person was 'let go' after the extraction.

From what the person said, there was a camp of sorts further into the mountain.

Supposedly, a lot of criminals were chased into desolate mountain to die painful deaths, but the ones who survived, made a little village.

A lot of the people who go to desolate mountain to train themselves, end up at this village, desolate village.

The villagers, who were criminals, would sometimes rob, kill or do 'other' things to their visitors.

The only rule of the village is, the strong rule.

So basically, you can do whatever you want, as long as you're strong enough.

At this oment, levi was stalking a certain prey.

He wanted the bloodline of this thing because it was convenient.

In his sights was a jet black raven, a little smaller than the sect master's roc.

It had talons of iron and wings of steel.

When it flapped it's wings, just the wind alone could cut down large trees.

After stalking the raven for a few days, he decided that he wanted the wings of the raven to be able to fly where ever he pleased.

But he knew how strong the raven was, so he had to be carefull not to BECOME the prey.

...

In a withered, barren land, with multiple skeletons sticking out from the dry dirt, a middle aged man sat with a hideous expression.

He was facing two people, one in a golden robe and the other in a white robe.

" I'll agree to your terms! That damn sect master dare to lock me up here!? I want him dead!" The man said.

" And that little brat also! You 3 should also want him dead, so help me kill him!" The man turned to look at 3 other middle aged men who wore black robes.

" That brat has dissapeared. He has not been seen in the sect and we don't know where he went." One of the 3 suddenly said.

" So what if he disappeared? When the 5 year tournament comes around, i'm sure he'll come back! And if he doesn't, then we'll just have to hunt him down!" The man shouted.

The 3 kept silent for a while before one said.

" His strength grows by the day, being gone for a long period of time could mean trouble for us!" He said.

" Don't worry so much! With two superpowers after him, even if he was an undying cockroach, he would still be killed!" The man said hatefully.

The 3 looked at each other.

" We will be going back for now, less the sect master becomes suspicious." After saying this, the 3 then left.

" According to our agreement, if any of you find him first, you will hand that brat over to me!" The man turned back to the two figures.

" We already agreed to your terms. Stop being so anxious, it's annoying." the man in the gold robe turned around and left.

" Rest assured, we will do our part, as long as you do yours." The white robed man said calmly. He then left.

...

Desolate mountain.

Levi was still stalking the raven, but he was becoming impatient.

It suddenly went on top of a large, flat rock and looked like it fell asleep.

Levi saw this, but decided to wait a little longer.

He remembered all of the painful and tragic times when animals beat him up, but when he thought about it, if this raven got angry, it would probably slice him up.

There was no coming back from that, not yet at least.

After thinking for a while, he had an idea.

' Since the venom in my body feels and moves like my blood, would i be able to control it like my blood too?' He thought.

He held up his index finger, and silently, a purple liquid seeped out through his pores and floated.

' So i can do this!' Levi started to direct the poison towards the raven's beak, which was slightly opened.

Just as it was about to go in, the poison stopped and fell to the ground.

' Is there a limit to how far i can send out my blood?' Levi thought.

The raven opened its eyes when it heard the sound of liquid dropping, before closing them again.

It had seen a patch of purple poison, but since desolate mountain was unpredictable, it thought nothing of it and went back to sleep.

Levi sighed in relief and quietly moved a bit closer.

Then he sent out his poison once again, but this time he also sent poison towards it's eyes, so that if it did wake up, at least it wouldn't be able to find him.

He slowly started to send a tread of poison into the ravens mouth so that he wouldn't alert it.

After all of the poison went into its mouth, he sighed in relief.

" Hah!" All of a sudden he shouted, causing the raven to open it's eyes.

As soon as it opened its eyes, the poison flashed as it flew into them.

The raven started to flap it's wings crazily as it thrashed around in pain and anger.

Coincidentally, a blade of wind flew in levi's direction, he barely ducked in time which caused it to hit the large tree behind him.

BOOM!

A deafening boom rang out.

"..."

ba-dump! ba-dump! H

is heart raced.

Levi stiffly turned his head and what he saw made him break out in cold sweat.

The huge tree was cut straight through, cleanly.

It fell to the ground with a loud boom.

After a while, the raven stopped moving and laid weakly on the ground.

Levi was astonished at the lifeforce of the raven, he waited until it stopped breathing before he walked up to it.

He took out his knife and stabbed its neck, which caused an almost black blood to flow out.

Levi absorbed all of the blood which caused the body to shrink.

Suddenly, his fingernails turned black.

He could grow and shorten them at will.

' The raven's iron talons!' He thought.

He could feel that the bloodline was still being absorbed, but very slowly.

He could only hope that after it was completely absorbed, that he would also get the wings.

After thinking for a while, Levi cut off the wings and talons of the raven.

Because it was too full, he took about 5,000 silver coins out of the spatial ring and put the wings and talons inside.

Because he didn't have anywhere to put it and it would be a pain to take with him, he just left the silver coins on the ground and left.