Chapter 267 Strengthening the Family(2)

For the next two hours, Alice practiced her new abilities especially the [Flash] skill. The skill was very useful as it allowed her to escape attacks easily and appear infront of her opponent faster than they could react. It took her an hour to get the hang of the skill, enough to not go too far from her desired location. Next, she checked out her new shadow abilities, [Shadow Step] and [Shadow Mark]. The [Shadow Step] ability was the one that she used to save Emmett and Paul the previous day from the windigos. The ability allowed her to teleport herself and anyone else from one shadow to the next. The shadows would have to be in a range that she could sense, which was around five hundred meters to the next. The more people she teleported the more DP it took, currently, she could only teleport around five people at the same time.

The next ability, [Shadow Mark] allowed her to mark a person's shadow. This ability allowed her to teleport to that shadow even if they are outside of her range. She tested this ability, and she confirmed that she could use this ability to teleport farther than two kilometers, but it consumed a lot of DP. Next, she tested out her [Blood Affinity], which she also got two abilities, [Blood Manipulation] and [Blood Hardening]. [Blood Manipulation] does exactly with it says, allows her to manipulate blood, hers and others. The amount of energy it takes to manipulate the blood of others is more than to control hers. [Blood Hardening] allows her to harden the bloods the way she did when she made a blood blade out of her own blood. What really stuck out to Alice wasn't the abilities themselves, but the skill's description.

"Blood is life and life is power. You have the ability to manipulate blood as you see fit."

With a description like that, she was sure there was more to the ability than that, but she didn't have the time right now. As before she even had time to think about it, the werewolves returned, covered in blood and scratch marks with bearly any clothes left on them. They carried the corpses of dead beasts in their hands. There were about ten corpses in total and Alice could tell that these beasts weren't weak if they could hurt the werewolves so much, which means that they were tier 4s.

"It seems like you guys had fun." Alice said when she saw the smile on the werewolves face.

"Yes, we even managed to get ten soul crystals." Paul said and Alice took another look at the beasts. One of them was a boar, two of them were foxes, one was a bunny, three of them were goats, and last three were large dogs.

"How far did you guys go from the town?" She asked

"Not too far, around three kilometers. There were more tier 4s around, but we didn't have the time and frankly, these guys alone gave us plenty of trouble." Paul said, gesturing to the beasts. He, of course, understood the implications of tier 4s being so close to the town, it meant that it would be dangerous to roam too far from the town, unless you wanted to run into tier 4s. There was also the possibility of them being attacked by the beasts first, but he wasn't worried.

"Alright, hit the showers boys and girls. You reek of blood and sweat. Once you are done, meet me back here once you are done." Alice said and the wolves headed to their rooms to clean up, in a much better mood than they left. Alice nodded her head before activating her [Beast Transformation] skill, and her body was surrounded by black smoke. The smoke coalasced into a smaller shape, before the black smoke disappeared to reveal a white cat with glowing red eyes.

"I really did turn into a cat." Alice said as she looked at her two front paws.

"This will be fun to use." Alice said with a mischievous look on her face before layed lazily on the ground, wagging her tail.