“She survived that. Being only level 15?... well, I guess you should be able to survive that to make this ugly blood rain in my jungle…”

  Rakikas was conflicted, she wanted to exterminate that pest but she was also curious what else she could do, and she also wanted to ask, what the fuck was in her tail, it hurt a lot and she hated it, he just wanted to kill her at first but then noticed that almost her whole body was covered in it, didn’t it hurt a lot? She only had it in her tail and it already hurt like when she was fighting that middle-aged man a lot of time ago, she couldn’t even remember when.

  “Should I just kill her? Or should I interrogate her and then kill her? Maybe I can keep it as a pet…” While Rakikas was having her session of questioning everything, bubbles started to appear in the black goo on the ground, Rakikas, as curious as ever, started heading over there and she tried to touch the black goo with her paw but as soon as she got near, the pain in her tail doubled and the thing started spreading, now it wasn’t only in the tip of her tail, but now in her whole tail, nearing her legs, shocked she took a jump back away from the goo, and decided to identify it, it was better than getting whole body covered in it, even if it wasn’t fun that way.

  “Iko? Wasn’t that the name of the pest? That’s her blood? And what is corruption? Is it this thing on my body?” Rakikas was surprised of how much blood the pest had, after all this was pretty much a lake, as she was turning around to start looking for her, black tendrils came out the lake of blood going straight for her, without much trouble she just cut it with her claw, but it regenerated and another one appeared, as it happened every time she killed one, so she started running away when the numbers got to more than a thousand, she was stronger but they only became more every time and she really didn’t want to do with anything related to this “corruption”.

  But she didn’t leave before identifying them

  As Iko flew away from the now destroyed land she was before, she couldn’t get the fear out of her heart from the encounter with the king of the jungle, as she flew away, her wings started feeling weak and she started losing concentration, she flew down to the jungle floor to find balance, she sat down on a rock as her wings felt more weak than before, as she wondered what was happening a notification from the system appeared.

  “Corruption levels low? What does it mean?” asked Iko to herself with a weak voice as she started having a headache.

  “…” silence filled the jungle as Iko tried to understand the notification, and the way the system was talking was different from usual. But right now, that wasn’t the most important thing, she was near a near-death experience, weird at it sounded, if she didn’t recollect corruption soon, she might activate [Corrupted Body] and that wasn’t good, she didn’t want to hold a world ending threat inside her.

  “But how am I going to find corruption anywhere near here… with how I am right now, I can’t defeat anyone here…”

  Iko was thinking what to do while her head started feeling heavy, her eyes were almost closed shut and it became harder to breathe, then she heard a noise coming from a bush beside her, she tried to get ready for any attack, but she couldn’t move an inch.

  What she didn’t expect was a baby bird to come out of the bush, covered in wounds and limping around, it had 1 of its wings torn off and it was missing 1 eye but most important, it had corruption on its wounds, as soon as their eyes met, the bird shivered and tried to get away, but with little of her strength left, Iko said.

  “Come here, don’t worry, I won’t hurt you”

  After hearing her words, the bird turned around, and looked at Iko, Iko didn’t know if the bird understood her but at least it understood her intentions as she started jumping over to her, as the bird got near Iko tried to move her tail to kill it but as soon as she tried to move it, the tube containing her future snacks broke, pain exploded in her tail as all the blood inside started flowing out, as the bird saw Iko snacks flow down her tail it started jumping over to the blood and started drinking it.

  I guess that does also work, it will explode from drinking it according to the description given by the system.

  But surprisingly, instead of exploding, its wounds were healed.

  What the hell?! My food just healed!

  As Iko was questioning why the hell the bird healed, she remembered something she could and forget to do, identify it, to identify she only needed direct line sight, she can do it with her body hurting and on an almost near-death state.

  Devourer bird? What is that?

  I didn’t request anything!

  Well, that’s a surprise, this bird eating my blood over there is one of the fears of the gods, interesting, was it a bad idea to try to kill it? Would I just get my ass beaten if I tried?

  While Iko was thinking about if she would win a battle against the bird, the bird stopped drinking her blood and started going over to Iko leg.

  What is it trying to do now?

  And before she could do anything, the bird opened its mouth and dozens of tentacles came out of it, the shock in Iko face disappeared as the bird tentacles grabbed onto her leg.

  What are you doing?! Leave my precious body alone!

  The tentacles grabbed around her, ready to chop her leg off but the collar she had forgotten she had, or maybe she just ignored it because of the pain it gave her, but either way, the collar was now reacting, forcing her to protect the bracelet with chains in her leg.

  God dammit, I swear I’ll kill that bastard of Jaul!

  As the pain in her neck got stronger, she was forced to try to move to stop the bird and at the end she decided to do something stupid, she used the small amount of strength she had left to push herself forward, falling on top of the bird, stopping the process of eating her leg.

  “Stupid bird! I’m not a fucking snack!”

  The bird now trapped under Iko started retreating the tentacles back to its mouth and looked at Iko with an angered look in its eyes.

  You bastard! I healed you even if it was an accident and this is how you repay me?!

  The bird now started hitting Iko with its beak, but for the bird surprise, it beak cracked since even if she was weakened her skin was still stronger than a normal level 15 and the bird was only level 1 at that, but it beak now regenerated.

  Wait, how is it regenerating now? Wasn’t this bird half dead before? Wait, was it because of my blood? The description said it got the power of what it ate… the bird got my regenerating powers?

  The bird, after finally being able to escape from Iko weight, went flying off to the sky, and as Iko realized they were other flying beings in the jungle with wings, she started losing consciousness from the damage in her tail and the low corruption, and when she was about to close her eyes, she saw the bird coming right at her with a mouse on it’s mouth, she did notice the bird now had a little amount of corruption on it beak now.

  God forbidden bird, you are going to re-pay me.

  Was Iko last thought before losing consciousness, but something new attached to her, a small piece of lighting.

  All around the forbidden zone, the land of dragons, different organizations tried to enter the tower, from adventurers from all across the world, to entire armies, some even tried to get ownership of the tower, but if they tried to stop others from getting close, a dark thunder would fall on top of them, killing them and everyone in a 50 meter radius.at first no one was able to get close, but some hours ago the first person was able to get near the tower.

  The Blackstone level adventurer, compared to A rank threats, Kude, was the first one to get near the tower by bringing thousands of monster corpses over to the tower, opening a gate on the tower, allowing him to enter, giving the whole world that wasn’t space sealed the same notification.

  Everyone was surprised, some excited while others scared, but the excited ones soon lost hope as the next notification came.

  As soon as Iko woke up she found she had a rat stuffed into her mouth, she got up and puked the rat and started coughing, as she looked around to see who did that and saw the bird from before looking at her with it small eyes.

  "Did you do this?"

  The bird nodded.

  "So you understand me"

  the bird nodded again.

  "Why would you feed me a rat?"

  the bird didn't do anything other than moving it's wings around like crazy. But Iko did notice that she didn't feel weak anymore and the cylidner in her tail was healed, without any blood, but healed, as she checked her notifications she was surprised to see the number of rats she eaten.

  Apart from the amount of reats she eaten, there were more notifications that she didn't expect.

  "Well that's a lot"

  but that wasn't the last notification

  Iko turned to the bird and grabbed it, lifting it under her eyes level

  "Your one lucky bird, im naming you... Rainari"