Chosen

Chapter 5: Beastman

The next night I woke up with my black stone glowing on and off absorbing moonlight again, and my tail fully healed (thankfully). I had grown almost the size of an average Feralfang and it was such a rapid growth rate thanks to the 3 wolves. The moon still shining bright gave me more essence, with the abundance of essence that I had gathered and absorbed I had an idea. In my past life i was taught how to use my essence as a weapon, I learned and mastered those techniques succesfuly after so much grueling trial and effort. 

"Hmmm.. before I go out for a wildlife buffet, let's try something out." 

One of the techniques i remember was called "Soulfist" 

It's a technique where you manipulate your flowing essence within to concentrate on your fist, the concentrated essence is dangerous as it may heat up or explode if it was compressed and proper manipulation of the flow is lacking. 

The concentrated essence is then set outside of the fist to make 2 thick barriers of energy, a soft impact absorption energy above the fist's skin for protection and a hard volatile energy on the 2nd layer. With those principles, I started to concentrate my essence to an extended part of my body, my tail. Instead of thick barriers of concentrated essence, i made it thin. 

I don't want any explosive skills used in this forest as it may garner unwanted attention and ofcoarse it may inflict self damage in accidents. It may prove fatal for me so better make something silent and efficient. I meditated with my utmost concentration to manipulate my essence. 

After a few hours of trial and error, I recieved some damage and i had to ignore the pain. No explosion was thankfuly made but multiple wounds apeared due to essence manipulation failures. As I start to reach my limits, I finaly made it. The 1st layer was a thin soft concentrated essence to absorb impact and emit power, the 2nd layer was a very thin and fine essence concentrated on it's limits to make it as hard and sharp as possible. 

Ding!

You have created a new skill, What would you like to name this skill?

"Oh, this could happen as well?" I start to think for a bit and said

"Essence Blade"

Ding! 

You have Learned Essence Blade!

Ignores armor (consumes greater essence upon impact against stronger armor)
Increases Critical Damage.
May cause bleeding.
You have made a very thin and sharp blade of essence on a chosen part of the body. Further use and mastery of skill will unlock more variations of Essence's edge.
Consumes minor essence on activation continously until deactivation.
Requirement: Advanced Understanding and manipulation of the body's Essence flow.

After the skill construction I checked on my wounds, it was painful and my tail is numb as well. Slowly but surely however, they start to heal due to my passive regeneration skill. 

Great Hunger surges forth within me and thus gave my primary objective for the night. I went out for the hunt but I saw from afar the same foxes from before. I took a quick bite on the glueberries near me and tried to see what they were doing, it seems they just returned from a whole day's hunt. I noticed that this morning they seem to have been around 15 by number but now around 10 returned with fresher wounds. 

"What happened?" I came closer and saw what seems to be the Alpha Female feeding of on rodents and snakes that they had gathered as she was the 1st to feed (Essence fox packs have females as leaders, since the females have the stronger essence within the species). The pack starts to feed when the alpha had finished, they were so hungry that they would fight over some pieces of food. What caught my attention is the same Silver colored fox but with fresher wounds all over it's body.