Vlada
By alternating this he was able to hang on for the entire five minutes. It was only in the last half minute that his mana ran out and he could only try alternating his hands to use his sword to defend.
Sadly he wasn't as proficient in using his sword with his left hand as he was with his right one, so his defense was much weaker and one wing strike went through nearly slicing of his arm.
Luckily for him he managed to twist his body and instead take the hit with his body.
Getting wounded wasn't that bad since as long as he had HP his wounds would heal quickly and if worst came to worst he could just use Reincarnation. Loosing a limb on the other hand was different. Not only would HP be useless since it wasn't able to regenerate lost limbs, Reincarnation too had problems with amputation. Even though the limb would reappear he had found out that he would loose his strength in it which reduced his stats. Surprisingly this only applied before his death. His guess was that it had something to do with his soul form and how the energy and info was stored in it.
So whenever he had a choice he would try to avoid amputation even at the cost of his life.
Now that he had slash in his belly which bled his stamina would reduce even faster. Luckily not much time was left and he was sure that he would be able to survive.
Nearly half a minute later the boss finally stopped attacking him and became still. Then a blue glow slowly emerged from its body. At the same time its body shrank until it once again was of his usual size. It's eyes to turned blue and it's fur went down giving it a much more harmless appearance than before even though the blue eyes looked a bit weird in combination with its smooth black fur.
Then Ivan felt a connection establish to it. It was very vague and only allowed him to feel it's existence and his vague position. At the same time he could feel that he would be able to give it simple instructions through this connection.
<< Congratulation you have tamed your first monster. You have gained the title Monster Tamer >>
<< Monster Tamer (D)
You have tamed one or more monsters.
+ 1 Inventory space (1 m³)
>>
Before doing anything else he first got out a healing pill and swallowed it, following which he could see his wound slowly close. Only then did he read through the prompt.
* Great. The question is if this inventory space counts towards the base space or if it is an upgrade. *
He didn't spend much time contemplating about it and instead used inspect on the freshly tamed bat.
<< Vlada, Vampire Bat , Rank F >>
The skill didn't tell him much besides the name the race and the rank. Luckily a new icon had appeared on his interface which depicted a small monster.
After clicking on it the pet menu appeared, which listed all his slaves and showed how much space he had in his slave space. There was currently only one slave and that was the vampire bat before him, which used up one of his five spaces.
After selecting the icon of Vlada a new window opened which contained more details.
<< Vlada , Vampire Bat, Rank F
Female
Age: 20
Level: 1
Skills: Vampirism Lvl. 1, Wing Slash Lvl. 1
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<< Skill: Vampirism (F)
Drink the blood of an enemy to restore HP and get a temporary strength boost.
>>
<< Skill: Wing Slash (F)
Use the wings to create a saber of compressed air which can slash your enemies.
>>
Both of the skills were nothing special since they both were only rank F and quite generic.
Of course this window too didn't provide much information about Vlada and Ivan realized that he would only be able to understand more about her if they fought together.
"So that's why my mentor put so much emphasis on me training and fighting on it.", he realized.
He then decided to directly use the other skill he had that influenced his slaves, which was Evolution.
When he tried to use the skill he realized that it wasn't as simple as he thought. Because after activating it not only drained the rest of his mana, it too drained all of his remaining HP except a very small amount and his newly formed mental energy too got drained into the skill matrix.
All of these energies flowed out of his body and collected in front of him before creating a rune circle. At this moment the newly created seal on his killing intent broke and a small part of the flame too left his body to arrive at the center of the rune circle were it formed another profound rune that seemed to swallow all the light close to it. Finally he had to spit out a bit of blood that had a red light in it. This blood too formed small runes that circled around the black one inside the outer ring of runes formed by the three energies.
At the same time the blood left his body he felt weakness overcome him and he realized that it should be the essence blood that he had already came in contact with when he found the essence blood crystals.
He could only hope that the weakness was only temporary and not permanent. A quick look at his stats showed that they hadn't decreased but there was a red - 15 besides each of them. But there was no indicator on whether it was permanent or not.
While he had checked his stats the complex rune circle had decreased in size and was now only about 30 centimeters in diameter as opposed to 2 meters it was before. It too seemed to have finished shrinking as it started to spin rapidly before descending into Vlada.