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I appeared to relax, and drifted a little closer. The wyvern appeared to be submitting. If he truthfully was then I had no reason to kill him. That was when he struck. His teeth closing on my throat as my double burst.

Confusion made his jaw drop as the water that made up my double fell. I breathed my icy breath down onto him. Forcing the small cloud I'd made to conceal my real body to burst open. I'd never used ice breath before. The feeling of the ice on my gums made me want to shiver.

Only a pained groan made its way out of the wyverns throat before he froze to death. Falling from the sky looking more like an ice sculpture then a living being. Now I was the only one in the sky. I glanced at Ethan who was sweating buckets after holding that wyvern in place while I froze it to death.

{I could've handled it,} I smirked cockily.

{I know,} Ethan wiped the sweat from his brow, {I just sped it up by making sure he wouldn't dodge.}

{Let's check on the big one,} I circled down lazily.

He'd still had some control over one of his wings when he started falling so I was sure there was a possibility of him surviving. He wouldn't be in good shape, but I had to be sure. I didn't want some miracle survivor going back to the nest to tell them what I did to the others in a few days. I spotted him struggling to breath on the ground not long after I began circling down. He'd managed to make it a good distance before the poison stopped him completely.

His wings were mangled beyond recognition. He'd somehow managed to land on his belly. Belly flopping into the hard half frozen ground can't have been good for him. He tried to focus on me as I landed near him. Blood poured from dozens of bones sticking out from all over his body.

His pupil had grown to cover most of the color in his right eye, while the left kept going from a sharp line to nearly oval in shape as he tried to look at me. The annoying sound of the drones drew my attention up to them for a moment. I snorted, and little clouds of mist form around my hot breath before my attention went back to the dying wyvern. I strode up to him without any more hesitation, and firmly placed my hands on his neck. Hooking his horns with my teeth before yanking hard, and fast.

The resounding pop when his skull disconnected from the rest of his neck was a bit sickening, but I didn't show any outward signs of disgust. I looked at the drone again with a cocky smirk that showed the slightest line of teeth. Two of the three drones drew back. They were probably flying back to the guild. The last one stayed to watch me.

I snorted in irritation, but ignored the annoying pest after that. I raised my wings over my head, and felt the burn. Maybe it was time for a snack. Ethan needed no encouragement after that. He jumped off my back, and found a spot to rest where he wouldn't be able to see me eating.

I hooked one of the bones that had pierced his skin, and yanked it though his flesh. Enlarging the tear in his flesh before ripping the skin away to look at the lean muscle beneath. I wondered if his meat would be tough like jerky. I bit into the solid muscle of his chest, and tore a chunk away. It felt as if I was eating tendon, and not the juicy bits.

I swallowed it whole instead of chewing the overly tough meat. The camera could watch as much as it wanted to. I'd never pretending to be anything but a predator. I scanned through the XP I'd gained by killing the three wyverns while I continued ripping off pieces of flesh.

XP 119,791/2,510,400

Level 28

Health 300

Strength 111

Agility 110

Stamina 117

Instinct 42

Damage resistance 118

Mana 25901

Divine energy 4,386

I was surprised by the sudden jump in stats. Eight points in strength, agility, and stamina. Four in instinct, and damage resistance. Health, and mana each got thirty points. I hadn't looked at how much divine energy I'd stockpiled since I hit a thousand.

Apparently randomly turning all my mana into divine energy was paying off. The number of stat points I got from each level had doubled again. Was this one of the bonus effects of the crown of horns. Leveling up had become the only easy way for me to gain stat points. I was already strong enough to lift entire vehicles in my human form, and that was with my human form restricting my stats by twenty-five percent.

I decided I was done eating after a while, and ripped the large wyvern to shreds before tossing its core to Ethan. It was nearly the size of his head, but he didn't seem to have a problem catching it before allowing his telekinesis to take it off his hands. We moved on quickly taking to the air to find the corpses of the other two. The headless one didn't take long. The frozen one had started to collect the thick snow that was coming down, and was a bit difficult to find.

I chuckled when we found the frozen one. Beside the tail, and one of the wings breaking off this one appeared to be completely intact. It had landed at a comical angle with the broken wing, and tail sticking out of the ground. The rest of the body had snapped off, and ended up flipped on it's back to the side. It was still frozen solid.

Solid enough that my talons glanced off the hardened ice. Ethan used his telekinesis to drive the two scale daggers deep into the wyverns chest. Both blades stopped at the hilt. Now it was my turn. One slow long inhale was followed by a thick stream of lightning.