As Noctura reached closer to the tree, she could see blood and gore everywhere.
There were residues of goblins, humans, and beasts all piled up together. Some had their faces eaten, some had their legs, and some had something else eaten.
None of them were eaten completely, it was like the one who ate them just a bit and then stopped.
But the real reason for that was that the Gray Goblin only ate its prey till it was alive and then moved on to the next one. The Gray Goblin didn't have time to waste on eating a single pray completely as its other catches might die, and it wouldn't get any profit if it ate them after their death.
Noctura looked up on the tree and she could see a human-sized gray goblin wearing some tattered clothes of some dead raiders.
It had a cut on its hand as it coated the arrows with it and shot them toward Anna hurriedly as they would melt if it took time.
Noctura could see the acidic blood falling on the ground and making a 'Ssssssssssssss' sound.
This was enough to make Noctura reconsider her plan, she couldn't bite the neck of a creature that had its blood so acidic that it could melt the ground.
As she thought about what she could do in this situation, she recalled a lesson that Alex had given her.
"You have a great affinity for the shadow element, Noctura.
All you have to do is make use of it, you need to become one with shadow.
Why do you want to grow strong? Think of it and try to dwell deeper into the shadows.
You need motivation, and it is up to you how you get that, I can't always be there for you."
Noctura never actually understood what that meant because she was getting her attention from Alex all she wanted, but right now, she could lose it all.
'If I disappointed Master, then he might not love me anymore, he might not care for me anymore, he might not pat me anymore, he might now play with me anymore, he might not look at me anymore, he might not want me anymore.......'
As Noctura grew more and more insecure thinking about what would happen if she disappointed Alex, her fur started to turn darker while her eyes shifted from golden, blue to red.
However, she did not notice any of that, she was just overthinking about something that would never happen.
Alex was never going to abandon her, nor was he going to get disappointed, it was just what he said to motivate Noctura.
All Alex's blessing did was upgrade Noctura's blood to the maximum it could.
Noctura who was still hidden, now felt that she had more control over the shadow she was hiding in.
She lifted her paw and the next second her claws which were 2 centimeters long grew and became 6 centimeters. But the extra part that was added was not actually her claw, it was the shadow, she morphed the shadow into her claw.
Noctura waved her paw toward the ground and the extra part that was added to her claws shot towards the ground making a claw mark appear below.
Noctura then smiled as she looked towards the Goblin who was still looking around for the cause of the earlier changes.
It felt like it was being stared at by a predator, one that it would never be able to defeat.
But the goblin wanted to try, it had always had a hard life, from the moment it was born till now it never got love, instead, it was berated, beaten, cursed, and many other things.
However, because of all that the grey goblin got to know about its powers, and one day when its food was snatched away from it, the grey goblin ate a living being for the first time, and it was a newborn, one-month-old baby goblin.
It could've eaten other things or hunted some beast but the child it ate was the brother of the goblin that always made the gray goblins life hard.
The gray goblin laughed as it saw the child squealing like a pig, begging to let it go, but the grey goblin didn't listen instead it bit off a chunk of that child's meat.
The child cried in pain as it was being eaten alive, but the grey goblin was not even listening to it as it could feel it was getting stronger by eating.
From that day till now, it had been growing stronger by eating its enemies and it would do it today as well.
'I will eat all of them, they look strong, hehehehe'
The goblin laughed inwardly as it thought about how strong it would get if it ate those people but then....
*Woosh*
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