Angel Monarch

Chapter 12: Bloodlust

'Fuck, they're really persistent I give them that.'

Sera has been on the ground for a couple of minutes, trying to find a way out of the situation. Every idea she came up with was dismissed pretty fast.

'What to do? I could try to surprise them and while covering myself go for the door, which way was it again? Or could just start attacking, no that would be a death sentence.'

Thankfully the wings were strong enough that the tongues couldn't pierce it. But as time went by and she was running out of ideas, Sera started to become angrier and angrier with each passing moment.

'These assholes. If I get out of here you will be my fucking dinner!'

What's causing this anger? She didn't know but also couldn't stop it from starting to consume her minds.

"I'm going to roast each and every one of you filthy lizards."

While shouting she only got angrier. It was like that anger fed itself. She only wanted one thing, killing the reptiles. Her eyes turned hazy from the anger. No, that wasn't the right word, it was bloodlust. And with that bloodlust came the need to destroy her enemies an that gave her power.

"What-what's this? Ha-ha-ha, now you are well and truly fucked!"

It was the last thing she said before exploding into movement, but something didn't look right with the lizard. They were frozen in their place, as if in total despair.

But Sera failed to notice it through her hazy mind or just simply didn't care. She made quick work of the chameleons, cut off the heads of some of them, the others she straight up gutted. But she didn't stop at killing them, oh no, she obliterated every last one until only bloody piles of pulp remained.

After reclaiming some sense of self, she paled, went on her knees and tried to hold back her nausea.

'What was that? Why did I go full berserker on them? Yes they annoyed me, but definitely not enough to do that!' She said while looking at the piles.

The realization hit her kind of fast. Looking down at her bloody glaive she said: "So that's what your attribute is. Giving me power as my need to kill them arose. But wait, didn't the weapon cause that need as well? Oh, I get it, the weapon causes bloodlust, which could be translated to 'the need to kill', and as the user's need increases the weapon becomes more powerful."

"But that didn't explain why the lizards were cowering in fear."

Thinking for a minute or two she remembered another description, this one for her transformations ability. The Wings of Despair can cause fear in foes. Now that she was thinking about it her essence levels did feel lower.

'Huh weird, I accidently used my ability, I don't even know how to turn it on though.'

She spent the next half hour finding a way to activate it, but seemed to be much harder than using the other ability she had. Outside the Sun began its descent.

'I should make a fire and eat something before the night.'

With that she went to work and in 10 minutes there was already a fire burning at the houses fire place. This room didn't have any dead reptiles and was actually quite cozy. She barricaded herself in for the night.

"I really am moving up in the world, I even have a roof over my head." She said grinning. Yeah everything was shit around her, but that didn't take away from her mood. Its the small things that matter anyway.

'Very sadly' she couldn't harvest any of the chameleon blood because it could be poisonous, and taking unnecessary chances is a quick way to an early grave.

'I'm not that sad about not taking their blood or meat. But I'm starting to run low, so I have to kill another beast and butcher them, I also need to find water asap, this blood is just too disgusting.'

Looking down at herself she said: "Also, a hot shower would be nice as well."

It wasn't the best to walk around encased in dried blood and dirt.

"Anyway the meat is still roasting, I should look at how much essence I got from the fight."

Sera opened her status window. It read:

Name: Seraphine

Title: Angel Monarch

1st Kill: ...

Life Essence Absorbed: 98/1000

"Well I did kill a lot of those critters and they gave 2 Essence each. 1/10th of my core is already saturated, with this speed I should began looking for a monster to absorb for ranking up."

Then she looked further down at the items section.

Items: <Insatiable Hunger>

"No new items? I guess life just doesn't want to take it easy on me."

She closed her status window and started devouring the meat, that has been cooking.

'Hmm... This meat tastes even better with seasoning. Why can't its blood taste the same?'

She quickly ate everything, then put out the fire and went for the door.

'The next night I should probably sleep, its a miracle I can still stand. I'm so exhausted, but have to move on. These corpses will definitely attract the nocturnal monsters.

While thinking that, she heard a big roar coming from somewhere in the forest around the town. Sera quickened her steps and was about to lift into the air, but saw something flying further away and decided against it.

'Better not chance it in my current state.' Then she looked down the ruined road heading west. 'Right, I guess walking it is then.'

She looked around one last time and began walking on the road, into the night.