Weak Tribe

The scattering ashes of the corpse signaled the waking of the other cocoons. One by one people were waking up with either disappointment or excitement.

Opening my eyes the first thing I saw was the tribe Chief looking down on top of me with surprise.

"Chief, I survived!"

" Yes, congratulations. Come over as everyone else is already awake."

The Chief had a smile on face as he looked at me extending a hand to help me up.

Taking a look around I saw bits of ashes on the black sand.

As me and the Chief approach the tribe, we could hear them celebrating and surrounding Hermione and Eliakim.

" Our tribe is blessed to have two people that awakened!"

" We are going to prosper, maybe even reaching the scale of a large tribe!"

Once they arrived, he smelled a faint smell of blood but it as quickly disappeared as it appeared. Before he could figure out where the blood scent came from, he heard Hermione's voice calling me.

" Vellomao Welcome back!"

" Hey. Hermione and Eliakim what's everyone celebrating for." Vellomao asked with curiosity.

" They are celebrating the fact that our tribe that me and Eliakim have awakened."

" And it seems that we have another member."

Eliakim replied to Vellomao as his eyes pulsed with a golden glow.

" What do you mean? Who is it?"

" Don't you know that you have awakened just like us."

Shock appeared on Vellomao's face as remembered the weird events that occurred inside the blood sea.

The strange feeling of being able to sense the people around him without seeing them. The vision of the sea monster that was about to attack him.

Initially Vellomao thought that these strange events were caused by the blood sea effects and that they might have happened to everyone else as well.

" Wait Eliakim how can you tell that I awakened?"

" That's simple the ability that I awakened is related to my eyes." As he mentioned it his eyes glowed.

" Hermione what ability did you awaken?"

" From what I can tell I can create wind to give me a boost in speed."

Before Vellomao could say anything, saw Hermione draw her throwing spear and whack it in the air. The speed of which she launched her attack was fast, so fast that Vellomao only heard a whooshing sound before her a loud bang!

Shock ran down his spleen as he could tell that she was much stronger now. Even though she had just awakened. Such a simple power to use wind to speed up was already so deadly. The power of those who awakened are on another scale.

"Cool right. When I showed it to Eliakim and the other tribe members they barely reacted at all. " Seeing Vellomao's shocked face Hermione felt a wave of satisfaction from his impression.

"Yeah that was really cool." Vellomao gulped at the thought that a power this strong was barely got a reaction. How broken are the other warriors powers that they weren't impressed.

"Don't get cocky now Hermione, because you impressed Vellomao. He's easily impressed at anything. "

Suddenly Vellomao heard Poldi's voice come from behind him. Before Vellomao could turn around to face him he felt a large hand grab his shoulder.

The hand was hot and felt strange like a rubber. When Vellomao looked at the hand he saw that it was an impossible red color and covered in thick veins. For a second, Vellomao felt he saw blood flowing through the blood vessels of the hand in a messy yet organized manner.

"Poldi, congrats on awakening! It seems that the Blood God has blessed us this year. We aren't even 6 hours in the ceremony yet we already have 3 people in out tribe that have awakened." Eliakim said with a stern smile.

Poldi responded to Eliakim with a nodded before he felt that Vellomao was still staring at his hand on his shoulder.

'Did Vellomao suddenly grow a pair? Does he want me to take my hand off?' Poldi felt that ever since Vellomao had fainted he has regressed. His physical prowess had fallen below that of a childs and that he seem too timid to be part of the tribe.

He had a suspection that he was cursed or gotten infected by a brain controllers. If he hadn't awakened but survived this ceremony he would have used him as a dummy to test his new power.

While Poldi was wondering if Vellomao had become a weakling, more than before, Vellomao couldn't pull his gaze away from Poldi's hand.

At first he was only able to view Poldi's blood flow for a second. But after seeing the strange sight Vellomao focused on trying to activate it again and successful turned it back on. Poldi's skin faded away, only showing the blood streams coming from his body to his arm and hand. Before flowing through his hand and back slightly darker than before.

"Are they depositing the nutrients to Poldi's hand? " Vellomao thought but wasn't able to think about it more before Poldi moved his hand off his shoulder, cutting off Vellomao's vision.

"Okay, Poldi what power did you awaken?" After witnessing the awkward scene, Hermione felt that she should say something.

"Your looking at it." Poldi smirked as he showed his redden and larger muscles. To his credit he had twice as much muscle on his body than before the ceremony.

*crack*

Hearing a sudden Crack near them, the Munday Tribe looked at the a smaller tribe gather around three blood cocoons with excitement in their eyes.

The cracks came out for the largest one and the cocoon rapidly transformed into a puddle of blood revealing the corpse inside.

The tribe sighed with regret and sadness before turning their attention to the two remaining cocoons. After a few seconds the second blood cocoon opened up revealing another corpse inside.

This time the small tribe didn't sigh with sadness instead they turned to see that many larger tribes staring at them with hunger in their eyes.

The aptmosphere of the small tribe shifted from excitement to a chill that signaled that they knew if this blood cocoon didn't reveal a tribe member that awakened. There small tribe would be annexed right there, forever losing their tribal name and identity.

Witnessing the process of the ceremony and the hopeful gaze of the smaller tribe. Vellomao felt odd as he didn't think that it was so simple. His tribe numbered around 150 people before the ceremony and was considered a medium sized tribe. Of those 130 people, 50 were children and 80 warriors, and the rest unawakened adults.

Their medium tribe had 80 plus warriors who have awakened and they could only be considered to be a medium sized tribe. Yet for a tribe to be established they only needed 1 awakened Warrior.

One Warrior! There was a huge difference in the scope and strength of the Munday Tribe and recently established tribes. With a awakening chance of 1 out 20, and a blood moon every few years it made sense for Tribe to have at least one Warrior. Yet, right now Vellomao was watching a tribe with not a single Warrior in their tribe.

"How did this tribe make it to the blood ceremony with no warriors?" Vellomao turned to ask Hermione, who seemed to be the only one that paid attention to his questions.