Thanks Ballernar for the review. You have a very good point regarding on how Bloodseeker's skills must work. Instead of changing the 3rd chapter, I decided to remaster Bloodseeker's skills here. I hope it's understandable and passable.
Skarlet continues her journey in searching a portal to send her back to her master. And her journey is without spilling blood. She kills and takes the blood of those she defeated, trying to gain back the lost strength she used to have. And when she was near her former potential, another army jumps in to spill her blood. This is her flaw: what blood she lost equals to lost strength.
Here she is, walking on a land with red soil and rocks, with barely a life be seen. Passing through an area with tall rocks, Skarlet slows her steps. Nearing a tall rock, she quickly pulls out her kodachi swords and went behind it. Her swords cut off the surprised humanoid's head off his shoulders. After she cuts of the head of the fallen warrior, she quickly stabs the chest so the spurting blood coming from the neck showers her face, even just a little. She then pulls out her sword and turns to face two more of the green-skinned brutes coming her way to avenge their fallen brother... Five... Ten... Twelve... many more are coming from behind the rocks and hill.
Skarlet actually walks into the orcs' camping ground. And their group is a very large force. It will be a difficult battle for she's not in her full potential. But she won't fall. Like how she kills a large army such as what she's facing now, she'll come out victorious and bathe in their blood.
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Strygwyr walks through the sparse grasses and going up a hill. Even if his eyes are covered with a hood, he knows where he's going. The way he sees the world, it's pitch black with things drawn like grey sketches. When he reaches the top of the hill, his Thirst ability activates when he has a sudden vision of ten red silhouettes. Ten red silhouettes mean ten individuals who are seriously wounded and bleeding, thirty percent of their health are low. Even with three hundred meters from his distance, he could see these red silhouettes. The nine were very big and muscular humanoids that belong to the orc race. The nine became six, then their number returned again to nine, then two are added. The number of red orc silhouettes increases or decreases, meaning the silhouettes that are gone are dead then replaced by new bleeding orcs.
But Strygwyr's attention is more focused on the only different red silhouette. The red silhouette is shaped of a tall, female human. "Found at last!"
"So the report is true. My quarry absorbs blood to regain her health too." said Strygwyr when he sees the red, female silhouette fading from his vision, and a couple minutes later, returns again, then gone and returns again.
Strygwyr admits to himself that the red, female silhouette is faster than him, and looks stronger base on the way she fights, a fighting style he has never seen and encounters in his entire life. He sees the way she quickly closes the distance with her enemy and follows up with quick punches, kicks, and slashes, before coming towards another. And she rarely retreats. Rather, she steps back to gather her momentum and dashes towards her enemy by sliding in a line of blood on the ground.
"The Lady in Red proves to be a difficult opponent, even I cannot outmatch her frenzy fighting style. But if she keeps losing blood..." Strygwyr grins knowingly and runs towards where the battle is. His speed is faster than normal because of being frenzied with the blood he detects.
"Let her be weak so I can defeat her and the Flayed Ones will drink her blood! Hmm-heh-heh-heh-heh-ha!"
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The same cycle over and over again. Skarlet gains back her strength, then she loses it again. And these brutes are very stubborn to die quickly. If they cannot match her speed, they match her with their fierceness and brutality. The battle is almost to it's climax, with only her standing alone and surrounded by a hundred orcs. The two-hundred and fifty orc warriors either lay dead or dying on the blood-soaked, rocky, red ground.
Skarlet knows she's weak when she lost too much blood, and she can't absorb the blood in the carcasses when the live orcs are still in a rage to kill her. She needs to end the battle quick before more blood is sipped by the earth. They're not attacking yet, so Skarlet attacks first.
The fifty orcs close in to engage Skralet in melee combat, while the ten kept their distance; seven orc archers and three shaman orcs are ready to assist their brothers. But one of them looks behind him.
"Someone comes!" growls the orc shaman as he spots a newcomer running towards them with unnatural speed. "And coming fast!"
The orc archer looks at the newcomer, then his eyes widen in fear as he sees the red droplet symbol at the forehead. "It's the Bloodseeker!"
Strygwyr is almost upon the ten orcs when the archer orcs aim their arrows at him. He slices the arrows that flies towards him but is struck by one that hits his left bicep. But Strygwyr never bothers of the pain when he just pulls off the arrow and continues to run towards the orcs. He spots three orcs shamans at left side, readying their magic, and he goes to them first despite arrows flying towards him. He silently chants Blood Rite, and created a ritual circle made of blood on the ground where the orc shamans are standing. The ritual circle takes effect when the orc shamans are wounded by invisible blades and find themselves not able to cast their fire magic at Strygwyr. And without their magic, they're helpless when Strygwyr comes upon them with the intent of finishing them off. After quickly killing the orc shamans, the wounded Strygwyr runs towards the archers as he removed some arrows from his person.
Strygwyr comes upon a nearby archer who's notching an arrow. With a quick turn of the handle, he moves the blades' back head to the front and did a vertical cut, cutting the bow in half. After that, he crosses his hands and slices off the orc archer's head off. As he killed the archer, he got hit by two more arrows, one at the hip, the other on his shoulder. He's able to block an arrow coming towards his head by using the flat of his blade as a shield. As he runs while removing the arrows, he casts Bloodrage on an archer, driving the archer into a bloodthirsty rage. The archer keeps on attacking Strygwyr and at the same time, loses blood. Strygwyr slashes the Bloodraged archer on the chest. Because the killed archer is under the effects of Bloodrage, the blood splatters heal some of Strygwyr's wounds.
Strygwyr did a cross-block to protect his head and chest from the arrows as he runs towards the five remaining orc archers. He never lost his stride when arrows hit his arms and legs as he comes upon the archers. First, he casts Blood Rite again and reaches an archer. He swings his blades in an outward move and performs a horizontal cut, slashing an archer's stomach open. Then he casts another Bloodrage upon an archer before jumping on another. After killing the archer by sinking the blades' back heads on the shoulders, he went towards the Bloodraged archer and stabs the chest. Regaining some health, he runs again to the archers who are in the act of notching their arrows. When they finished and tried to aim the arrows, they were stabbed to the head.
Strygwyr grins as he finished killing his opponents. He looks at the battle to witness his quarry fighting for her life as the orcs continue to attack. No one bothered to look at his way. Seeing her wounded yet able to fend herself made Strygwyr's grin wider. He found a clarity, a potion that repletes mana that is used for casting abilities, among the archers he killed and drank it.
"Heh-he-he. Keep fighting while I heal and take whatever blood is left in these bodies." Strygwyr said as he proceeds to stab a corpse. "And when you're done fighting, you'll discover most of the dead have no blood for you to absorb and heal your wounds... And you will die by my hands and the Flayed Ones drink your blood. Hmm-heh-heh-heh-heh-ha!"
This is the site that I based Bloodseeker's distance in detecting blood since his Thirst ability can detect any low hp hero in the map: youtube dot com /watch?v=jMPee7BL4zA