+52 Grind : Forest of Kin ¹⁰

With that I started walking towards the base where I met the weird Mid. It was started to get dark which was when the monsters were more active , because of this I met 2 Mid's on my way there. I finally reached the base , the Mid I killed was still lying on the ground.

Green blood covered it's body , walking near it's body I noticed that their were some new wounds on it's legs.

'No , these aren't wounds. These are marks of someone's teeth , are these monsters edible? Ah man I could've just eaten them , why did I visit the shop at the entrance everyday.'

'Who ate him though?'

I looked around to see if anyone was around , the Mid was upper half was completely bitten away. I couldn't notice it as I could only see its legs from long distance , I followed the blood trail leading me in deeper in the forest.

I saw some places that I saw in the previous version when we were completing the secret quest. The trail finally ended and at it's end was a lone Mid-Garfon standing licking the green blood on the ground.

'Cannibalism!?'

'Oh it was cannibalism , it means eating of it's own kind.'

「 A Bloodline Quest has been triggered 」

「

Quest : Cress's Regret ¹

Rank : B

Objective : Liberate the Awakened

Description : One of Devian Cress's regret was when he came across the pitiful Garfon race. The race cannibalised to make themselves powerful , after eating a certain number of Garfons the monster awakened.

It's power increased with the price of eating it's comrade , awakened stood above all the Garfons. Devian couldn't do anything at that time as he had more important matters to turn to , since then awakened dominated the many forests and killed huge number of humans.

Looking at how him being ignorant led to such disaster it became one of his regrets of many.

Rewards : Increases affinity with bloodline , ???

Time Limit : --

」

'What the hell! How am I supposed to clear this? Liberate? How?'

I took a deep breath and saw the 'awakened' Mid , it was running towards I could feel the killing intent it gave away. The pressure of it's killing intent made suffocate , running away from I tried to get out of it's range.

I took out one of my dagger out and looked at the Mid to see how far he was from me.

"Isn't it obvious what I'm going to do?"

"Ain't it obvious , we are escaping from here."

"What huh? What am I going to do with all my skills on cooldown?"

"I'm not explaining , it's going to be impossible to dumb it down for you anyways."

Fortunately I'd an escape plan to use in these kind of situation , this wasn't the first time I was using it. The dagger I took out had a rope tied to one of it's end , it was a 'rope dart' I learned about it from one of the movies I watched back home.

I threw the dagger with my full strength and watched it fly metres away , other end of the rope was tied to my left hand. I aimed for the tallest tree I could see , the dagger stuck in the top most part of the tree. I pulled the rope to see if its safe enough to rely on , the Mid still followed me and the distance between us was now less than before.

I used some of my mana on my legs to increase my leg's strength and speed , I was able to increase the distance between me and Mid. The Mid didn't give up even after seeing me increasing my speed , I stopped at when the distance between us widened and concentrated my mana in my legs to strengthen them as much as possible.

This was only possible cause of my mana control I had , I took a jumping stance and got ready with gripping the rope hard. With not much of strength I pulled the rope while jumping at same time , this launched me high into air. I pulled out the dagger out of the tree and looked at a strong branch which was far away from me.

While being in mid air I threw the rope dart which I retreated , just when my dagger reached the string branch I pulled it which led to the rope wrapping around the branch. With that my escape route was now ready to use , I landed on a tree nearby and launched again while pulling the rope.

Like that I was able to widen the distance between us , I repeated this few times until my skills cooldown was over. Once the cooldown time of 'Inhuman Instincts' was over I finally used it to escape.

Although tiring and inefficient this was the only method I had , if I used mana to strengthen my legs and get away that wouldn't have lasted as its mana consumption couldn't be controlled by me.

"Hah , finally... got away Hah Hah."

×-×-×

Days went by and I didn't encounter the 'awakened' Mid again , luckily most of the monsters I faced were higher level than me. Because of this my quest was progressing faster than before and my leveling up rate also somewhat increases.

The Exp I gained as I got deeper in the forest was higher than what I expected , but the reason for this higher Exp was stronger monsters. It wasn't like they suddenly got intelligent or anything the reason for them getting stronger was increased stats specifically their higher defense.

Some of my attacks didn't even dealt 40% of their original damage , this had a big impact on my rate of clearing base. My skills also leveled up as progressed , my mana control got better. I never let my MP scale be maxed out and always used my mana just for simple things like boosting my speed or using different magic skills.

Devian gave me tips to improve my battle style , I used to gripped my daggers with hold known as 'reverse hold'. Apparently reverse hold had many disadvantages like hard hand movements , less freedom in short the way I gripped my daggers was sh*t.

After getting enlightened by Devian-sensei I started to hold my daggers the way they should've been held. My fingers wrapped around the grip and tip of the dagger pointing forward this was what Devian thought of a good holding technique.

When I gripped it like the way he told me , it just looked like how a normal person would hold a knife. No fancy technique , no weird fingers placement , nothing like that but just like holding a knife.

"Hey isn't this just like holding a knife?"

I didn't think much of it and just went ahead to clear the next base , at then end when I killed the Mid I looked at the bloody dagger in my hand and said ,

"This is better than I expected."

The reason I found it better was cause of the bigger range , the reach of dagger didn't increase much if any third person would've watched me killing. But for me even 1 inch of distance between weapon and target mattered , holding my daggers in reverse made me do weird elbow movements which were hard to do.

While all I had to do with this grip was to straight up cut through the flesh without any of those complicated movements.

"Oh... is that so."

I took me few days to get used to this grip even though I practiced it in my free time.

Today was the 23rd day of my training/sub quest and today I was supposed to clear the last Mid base. That was the plan until I met the awakened Mid-Garfon on the last base , he looked different than before.

'He looks more human-like.'

"What!?"