Waking up with a yawn she lazily checked her status and saw that her status window had changed. Kristens eyes changed from drowsy to crystal clear as she saw what had happened.
[Level 1]
Exp:10/75
Name:Kristen
Race:Carrion Raven
Evolution:Criteria not met
Lineage:None
Martial Arts:None
Divine Abilities:None
[Stats]
HEALTH:10/10
STRENGTH: 5
STAMINA:20/20
TOUGHNESS:2
[Titles]
Kin killer
[Skills]
Stab:lvl 2
Scratch:lvl 2
Appraisal:lvl 1
[Skill Points:1]
[Stat Points:5]
'Hmmmm looks like I got some exp from killing that mouse, I wonder if the amount of it I get is based on the enemies lvl? 10 exp from a lvl 1 enemy, 20 exp for a lvl 2 enemy and so on. What if I pressed this-'
Kristen curiously reached out and touched the evolution criteria part of the text on the status window causing a new window to pop up in front of her eyes.
[Evolution]
Criteria:
Reach lvl 11
Eat 5 Pitchberries
[Evolution Paths:Unable to see]
'Wait what are Pitchberries? Nevermind I'll deal with it once I get to lvl 11.'
Standing up and stretching her legs she let out a cute little caw and stuck her head out of the tree hollow.
If a someone else was there her actions would look completely comical to them because no one had ever seen a bird stretch its legs and wings like a human, or yawn like a one either.
In her view Kristen could see that there were some tracks just a few meters away from her tree.
Bile rose in her throat as she realised that something had come close to her last night and she didn't even notice, she could have died and might not have even known what was happening until it was too late.
Feeling a little shaken she decided that today she would focus on flying so that if she was in a dangerous state she would have a escape.
Hopping down from her makeshift home she unfurled her big wings and shook them a little to get used to the feeling, by rotating her small bird shoulders she moved her wings up and down.
Observing that the faster she did it that lighter her body felt.
'Faster, Faster, FASTER!'
She thought as she strained my muscles to get herself off the ground, at first she was just hovering a few centimeters above ground, feeling strange, she didn't know what to do and fell back onto the ground.
However, the longer she went at it the more natural it felt, the more it felt like the air was where she was meant to be.
'WOAHHH LETS GO
DAMN RIGHT THAT I'M GOOD AT THIS
HELL YEAH!'
She internally spoke to herself as she found herself a full meter in the air.
Tring to go higher and found that she wasn't able to. Looking at my status window I found that my stamina was dropping at an alarmingly fast rate and saw that there was only about 5/20 left.
'ahhh shit.'
She thought as she dropped down in the least graceful way possible - feathers everywhere, falling face first into the dirt.
Spitting soil out of her mouth she stood up and saw something in the periphery of her vision, turning her head to get a better look she saw a lizard double her size staring back into her eyes.
She tried to see if she could use appraisal on it and a new window appeared in front of her eyes.
[level 8]
[Purple Throat Lizard]
[Status:Injured]
STATS:
HEALTH:20/65 [Weakened]
STRENGTH: 10 [Weakened]
STAMINA:10/100 [Weakened]
TOUGHNESS:5 [Weakened]
After she got a better look at it her stomach rumbled instinctively while she pondered her next choices.
'Perfect! Its injured so this should be an easy kill'
It dashed toward her just as she finished her trail of thought.
Using the remainder of her stamina she took off into the air, dodging the tail whip that hit where she was a second ago.
Taking advantage of the Lizards position she swooped down and used her claws to swipe at its back. In all of her previous battles (there are only two battles she's had) she always managed to overpower it with pure strength so imagine her surprise when her claws only left a small scratch.
While she thought of what to do the Lizard didn't stay idle and instead dropped its tail for some extra speed and jumped onto me.
The encounter went so fast that she didn't even see it coming.
She had the air knocked out of her and lost 3 health, when she looked up from the ground she saw the lizard dashing towards me once more.
Pushing herself through the exhaustion she rushed to the side causing the lizard to miss its lunge, seeing the opportunity she tried to stab its torso but instead got smacked away.
'Bitch...'
Fury coursed through the tiny veins in her body when it rushed towards her while she was in a weak state.
Standing up with renewed vigour she confronted its bite attack and swatted it away with my beak, then slashed its injured side with the sharp singular claw on my wings, opening the gross wound and spilling organs out.
The purple throat lizard started convulsing on the ground after this attack and she could see the rapid decline of health in the status window until it hit zero.
'Um I'm reallllly sorry lizard but, erm, sort've, kinda, not really sorry at the same time if you know what I mean. Hahahahahaha anywayy r.i.p but imma eat u now.'
Of course, like the EXTREMELY hungry bird she was, Kristen left literally nothing of the poor lizard and even had the nerve to say "sucks to suck" to the place where it died.
I mean seriously, the disrespect?!?
Leaving the crime scene bloated and fat, Kristen crawled her way back into the tree hollow and checked her status window, seeing that she managed to get 80 exp from killing the injured lizard and was able to reach level 2. This gave her an extra 5 points on every stat and 15 extra exp.
She sat happily in her little den feeling as if she was on top of the world, laughing internally like a maniac.
After she digested the food she made the choice to go out hunting and luckily managed to find a level 2 adult rabbit and killed it easily because of how crows were a rabbits natural predator.
After that she brought the corpse to her tree hollow and ate it there.
She got 20 exp from killing the rabbit.
While munching happily, little did she know that there was actually a herd of rabbits coming her way and looking for vengeance.
When the herd saw crow eating one of their own and somehow managing to look smug while doing it a blazing inferno of rage took all of them under, causing them to blindly go on rampage throughout the forest.
Kirsten, however, was completely unaware of the devastation her actions caused and was leisurely slurping up her dinner on her bed of leaves.
When she finished chewing on her dinner she looked at her status window and saw that she had completely recovered from her battle with the Purple Throat Lizard and even managed to level up both [Scratch] and [Stab] to level 3.
Feeling a little adventurous she decided to use her stat points to bring her strength to 15 and while she was doing this she noticed that she had learnt the skill [Flight].
'FUCK YESSSSSS'
[Level 2]
Exp:35/100
Name:Kristen
Race:Carrion Raven
Evolution:Criteria not met
Lineage:None
Martial Arts:None
Divine Abilities:None
[Stats]
HEALTH:15/15
STRENGTH: 15
STAMINA:25/25
TOUGHNESS:2
[Titles]
Kin killer - Extra 10% damage when attacking family
[Skills]
Stab:lvl 3
Scratch:lvl 3
Flight:lvl 1
Appraisal:lvl 1
[Skill Points:1]
[Stat Points:0]
(Every time Kirsten levels up the amount of exp needed to level up again increases by 25)