48 Bloodlus

Before making his way towards the area where he would start hunting down lone spiders, Leo decided to test out some more of his cards. He chose to use three of them that had no real use other than exp pills. Using the new attribute points, he now accumulated by using the cards, Leo now felt his body becoming lighter.

Deep down, he knew that his strength was enough to slice apart many spiders, but the speed of his body was unable to keep up with his thoughts. If he could somehow make up for that, he wouldn't need to exhaust himself so much using basic leveled wind spells to increase his speed.

Now fully prepared and with a new companion he decided to level up alongside himself, Leo took the tiger cub onto his back once again and quickly sprinted away. To his surprise, the attribute points he put solely into his speed was able to dramatically increase his speed to a whole new level!

Instead of heading towards the cave, Leo wanted to test his new power against more than a single spider. He had plenty of antidote left in case the spiders overwhelmed him, and he even had a vitality potion within his possession he could use to recover any lost strength if the situation became too dire.

"Sit right here and do not move." Leo casually placed the tiger cub down behind a bush that was close to two spiders who were hunting for food together. They seemed to be stronger than the other spiders he came across, and he realized they were one level above the rest.

Kreeee!

Leo decided to show himself to both spiders as he casually walked towards them from out of the bush nearby. Seeing a new prey, both spiders started rushing towards him while screeching out what could be considered a battle cry.

Crunch!

Confident in his raw strength with the additional help of his high leveled bronze skin passive ability, Leo allowed the spiders to try to bite his body. He was now overconfident and wanted to use these two opponents to test himself.

To his surprise, these spiders were unable to even bite through his skin. Before drawing his weapon, Leo used the full force of his punch and landed consecutive blows onto the spiders, causing them to retreat backwards quite a bit.

"Is that the best you have?" Leo shouted out while smirking. He understood that he put a larger portion of his attribute points from the cards into his speed, but he also saved a smaller portion to put all towards his strength. Now, it seemed that an opponent under level ten was unable to do any harm to him, even though he was not even at that level himself.

"This is what it must mean to be stronger due to training versus your equipment and level?" Leo thought to himself as he withdrew his high ranked sword. Like the grim reaper himself, he approached the two spiders in a calm and composed manner.

Leo was like a lord of death, and all that faced his blade, would be judged and cut down. Twirling his blade next to him facing the ground, he let out a fierce killing aura that made both spiders pause their movements, frozen in time and just ready to give themselves over to his blade.

"Bloodlust!" shouting out his ability, Leo's eyes started to change color. They became dark red, and extremely hard to read. It was if at this moment, Leo turned himself into a beast who thought of nothing but slaughter. He wanted to feed his urges and so his movements started to become faster and faster with each step until he was sprinting.

As he approached them, the spiders were still frozen from both shock and fear. It was if they were unable to determine how such a smaller sized creature could cause them to feel such a way. Up until this moment, the only other creatures able to drive such fear and agony into their mental states were the Spider Queen's children and the Spider Queen herself.

Within but an instant, Leo finally made his way in front of the spiders and slashed at them with his blade. Blood sprayed into the air like a reverse waterfall as both of their bodies dropped onto the ground. However, before collecting their heads, Leo became lost within the blood that was dripping on his head as he looked up towards the sky.

"Blood, slaughter, carnage!" Leo yelled out these three words before becoming silent yet again and collecting the heads of the two spiders he just slew before just standing in place without a sound or moving.

Leo then looked down onto the ground and started to let out soft, yet, eerie chuckles, before he started to laugh uncontrollably before his dark red eyes started to fade away. Releasing his bloodlust ability and turning himself back to normal, Leo wiped the blood on his hair and looked at his hands.

"I will never bring myself to use that against fellow humans. When I use that ability, it starts to feel as if I am slowly turning into a monster myself. Seeking nothing but endless slaughter and the heads of my enemies." Thought Leo as he made his way towards where the tiger cub was.

To his surprise, the cub gained an entire level, but was now sleeping and it seemed as if it was completely unaware of what Leo had done earlier. Petting the sleeping tiger cub on the head, Leo picked it up and started to make his way towards another area where spiders would be lurking around and hunting.

Just like this, Leo slashed down over ten spiders before being unable to find more within the outskirts. It was now time for him and this tiger cub to head into the cave. He was not entirely sure what to expect, but luckily the tiger cub was now level three and wide awake.

Leo decided to distribute an even amount of attribute points of the tiger into its health, strength, and speed. Due to it leveling up so quickly due to all of the spiders Leo cut down was so high leveled compared to it, the tiger cub now seemed like a more useful companion to Leo.