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Warning: graphic and gruesome content ahead.
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Ivy dragged the man straight down to her den. Roughly grabbing his hands claws boring into his flesh before tying the man up, leaving him unable to move. A while later he finally wakes up, and he quickly realizes he's fully naked apart from his measly underwear and sitting before him is Ivy. "Hey there cutie why don't you let me go, so we can return to having some fun" Ivy shot awake from the sound disgusted as ever at the man's indecency she was going to show him hell, she confidently stood up and walked over. "Hello you finally awake?" she remarked with an acted seductive tone. The man nodded eagerly as if awaiting what he wanted. Ivy walked over before sitting on his lap and cupping his cheeks even tough she hated him she could easily fool him like this, she wanted to catch him off guard. "You want a reward?" She asked sweetly, but her eyes glinted with something dark. The man nodded desperately again, so Ivy trailed some circles on his cheeks before trailing towards his eyes where she pressed her claws deep into his eyes gauging them out, it was wet and insanely funny to her. The man yowled in pain voice cracking, his eyes throbbing he wanted to hit Ivy, but he couldn't move a muscle. Ivy pressed her claws in deeper, his eye sockets slowly beginning to freeze under her claws. He yelled again pained, broken and anguished. Ivy laughed and giggled in pure amusement. "Wow! You surely get a lot of pleasure out of this." Ivy smiled before grabbing his hands. Piercing one of his nails with her claws, before she yanked it out, The man yelled at the top of his lungs. "Your voice is annoying." she spat and as quickly as she said that the yelling stopped the blood in his vocal cords frozen solid letting it wither and die. She continued with the other finger nails tearing them off one by one, and letting him rest before going to the next one. After those were done she continued with the toenails but this time she went slower. The tearing flesh it sounded like a songbird's melody.
"Oh! What a lovely sound" She screamed. Ivy grabbed the man's shoulder and pressed them into the wall until they popped out of their sockets with a sickening wet sound. Ivy enjoyed this so much as she proceeded to press her claws into the man's ear before ripping them off and eating them. Continuing to bite the man's nose off, blood spraying out the gaping hole. She then slowly twisted off his pride ever so slowly letting him feel the pain. The man face met the ground as Ivy kicked him over. She started laughing maniacally before setting her foot on his back and breaking his spine. She grabbed the man's by his head her ring and index finger sliding in his eye cavity's. "Now I will end your pain" Ivy let the man go before untying him. He started grabbing his belly, tried to scream but nothing came out as his stomach exploded with ice shards. Finally dying, Ivy looked at the corpse and the mess and the massive blood splatters everywhere she knew she enjoyed herself so now she wanted to do it again she just needed a victim.
In the middle of the night the door to a bakery swung open it was pitch black and no one was in sight. The streets were a cemetery completely silent. Ivy dragged the lifeless corpse of the man inside before pinning him with two nearby knifes to the wall. She then threw his nails and eyeballs under his hanging corpse. "Mom, are you there" a voice rang out. A teenager stumbled into the area where Ivy was so she quickly turned the blood in his brain to ice. He collapsed to the ground with a thud. She looked at the boy sat him up in a praying position on the counter and made his corpse grin. She shifted back into a fox before slipping away making sure no one saw her. This event showed her how much she needed a mask in case someone saw her murder somebody. For now, she wanted to increase her mana so she could at least use five low-level spells and hopefully more.
The leaves crunched under her weight as she entered the forest. The cold air breezing around her the leafs whispering. In the distance Ivy saw something move. Green, grotesque and completely naked aside from the skin they wore across their nether region. Goblins they were at least middle to high point in low-rank monsters, variants made them even more deadly and harder to deal with. One of them was grinding a bunny to paste it's sharp mixed with flat teeth working hard. The others were just staring like they just died. The bushes past them rustled as another goblin appeared, throwing something to the ground. It shivered in the cold, It's white pelt reflecting the moonlight. It remained motionless until his captor hit it squarely in the gut, it's black crooked nails burying in. Ivy locked eyes with it as it tried to escape its pale sapphire eyes showing true fear. She just couldn't watch anymore but if she wanted to use a spell, it would be with moderation as she would be spending her lifespan again. One of the green terrors was just about to pass her hiding spot before Ivy lashed out. She went straight for the throat. Her teeth went through with a bit of resistance. The goblin grabbed her head and bit into her ear. Ivy quickly retaliated as she ripped out the goblin's throat. Quickly swirling around to confront the four remaining goblins while the weird creature scurried to her. Two of the four goblins lunged the other two vanishing into the undergrowth. Ivy dodged one and raked the other in the eyes it shrieked like a broken piano. Ivy got hit with confusion at the immensely loud sound, the other goblin quickly took advantage and clawed at her side. Ivy gasped in pain before quickly plunging her claws into the shrieking goblins eye letting it fall under her weight. She reared up before striking down on the goblin's head crushing it. The two other goblins jumped her from behind clawing and biting. She quickly threw one off and smashed her backside into a tree. The remaining goblin on her back let go to catch his breath. Ivy quickly cut open his neck with her claws. She wasn't able to even turn around before one of the two remaining goblins jumped onto her, it clawed her nose, ears, back and sides. The other goblin wanting to do the same threw a stone at the other to get him off, it worked, but it enraged the goblin as it ran over to the other landing a solid punch. They quickly engaged into a full on brawl until one won as it pummeled the other to death. As it gloated in its victory Ivy simply walked over while shifting into her other form before grabbing the horrid creature by the head before bashing its face into a nearby stone.
She finally killed them all but left bloodied and bruised. She quickly went around and gathered the cores which were all of normal grade as she learned in the guild. She felt something rub against her bare leg it was the little creature. Now that she got a closer look she saw that it was an ice cat she didn't know what rank but still, these things could be rather dangerous. It looked at her with sad eyes it's pupils dilated into a vast black-sea. Ivy sighed deciding to take the critter with her for now, she shifted back into her main body before picking up the fluff ball by the scruff of its neck before carrying it to her den. Putting it down on her little moss nest she quickly flips it on its back to check what gender it was, male. Before she went back to retrieve her cores she closed off the entrance. "Hey little one I will give you the skill to talk to any non-humanoid creature. But in return I want you to give me one year of your lifespan." Tsalice voice echoed in her head. Overall, it would be useful to get information she couldn't get physically, and she could talk to the boy she decided to name Ullr until she found his parents. Grabbing the cores she quickly turned back to go to her den. "Alright Tsalice give me that skill when I'm inside my den." Ivy responded. When she finally returned she quickly placed the cores into some wet moss. Suddenly, she felt herself going weaker before collapsing to the ground and coughing up blood. "Sorry it takes a toll on the body to extract large amounts of someone lifespan. On a side note, someone requested that you send over a living noble man in exchange for around a year and two months of their unused lifespan." Ivy quickly took note and accepted the request before blacking out.
Ivy woke to the sound of suckling. Looking down she saw the cat nestled at her belly trying to get milk. "Ullr, I don't have milk production, so can you stop that? I will go to the market today and buy some milk." Ivy gently tolled the little kitten, while she was busy trying to stop him. Eventually, he stopped and nodded.
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Characters:
Ullr: A lost little kitten the size of around a half grown house cat, belongs to the ice cat species. He is five years old, has a snow-white pelt and pale blue eyes. (Male)
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General info of the world:
Magic beasts/monsters:
Every species of monsters is put into a category the lowest is low followed by medium which is followed by high and ends in red grade. Each grade is then divided into low, medium, and high points. So a high point low grade is weaker than a low point medium grade magic beast or monster.
Spells:
Spells are also divided into categories. First is low then medium then high and it finishes with saint or hero grade. There is also god grade, but you need obscene amounts of mana to use it.
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Writer's note:
I don't know if I will let Ivy adopt Ullr, so I want to leave it to your decision please say adopt or don't adopt in the comments if I can add a vote I will.
Also chapter one has had an update and I will probably update past chapters with each new chapter.
On a side note Ivy can freely change her appearance as long as no color like her eyes or fur changes, so she can change her hands into paws or nails into claws and so on.
Have a great read!