This crying sound was more like screaming.
Screams of a woman and more than anything, I could feel the great pain in them.
I had a bad feeling just from hearing them and my heart was beating faster than it ever had.
Almost on the verge of jumping out.
Even though I was disguised as a tree branch, the dark pressure of this presence was negative.
[[ Master?! What the hell is that!? ]] Celes asked when a humongous figure floated towards the area before us.
This was a presence that I felt from the mama bear, but this was dark, sticky, and angry.
The sorrow, dread, and anger it contained were sothing that only send one na to my mind.
[ "A female ghost who has lost soone dear to her. So of the very dangerous undead monsters and sothing that only seek revenge from whatever it sees. A… Banshee." ]
So creatures were born because of corruption and many of them were already recorded in books.
The only thing that wasn't ntioned in books was that this process is called corruption.
Maybe this was so sort of secret or sothing that normal books shouldn't contain.
This was my first ti seeing a corrupted creature anyway and, from anything it could have been, it was a screaming ghost.
-Kyaaaaaaaaaa!
The sound waves from her voice were sothing that can blast a normal human like a popping balloon.
But, thankfully, I could hold on to them.
My strong physic and Mana inside my body made this ear-piercing sound bearable.
But this was still not that good.
'Appraisal.'
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Race- Fla fairy (Corrupted)
Strength: 142
Dexterity: 132
Stamina: 121
Magic Power: 124
Intelligence: 76
[Skills: Screams of agony, Sorrow of past, Astral body, Void eyes, Warning of death, Shapeshift, Fier of the battlefield, Undead's wreath.]
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'The hell?' I gasped as I studied those numbers and skills.
Just the numbers alone were enough to send shivers down my spine, and the unknown skills this had were... strong.
But more than anything, when I used this skill, this corrupted spirit looked in my direction, still screaming her heart out.
This was sothing that I thought was only possible by high-ranking creatures, but... this ghost was that strong?
Probably because it was a spirit and not a full body of flesh and blood?
Yes, that might be the biggest reason, but... what was the reason it started floating towards ?!
My heart was already beating fast, almost jumping out of my chest, and this lady was constantly walking toward .
-Kyaaaaaaaaaa!
This female voice, piercing, heavy with anguish, made shudder as the sound traveled through my spine and penetrated the base of my skull.
This sound seed enough to wake up the dead itself.
This woman had a pale white body, her jet black hair seed as if a threadbare cloak.
They were long, nodded, and wild and flowed down her thin shoulders and brushed the ground.
She was floating in the air, and her hair was sothing that looked special.
Her face was also pale but strangely enough, when her mouth was closed, she was… pretty?
But that can't be said when she opened that sharp teeth filled mouth like so monster every few seconds.
Her face, when screaming, was waxy and pale. Her skin would stretch to the point I could see every grueso detail of that skull beneath.
From ti to ti, she grinned, and those black teeth were like death itself.
This was horrible, and she was constantly coming in this direction.
But this was a bit different.
A banshee was a creature that mourned death.
Appearing on the battlefields or before soone's death, this fairy 'mourned' the death.
And... this one before only looked like a banshee.
From the na in the appraisal to the bad feeling of death, these were a bit different from what I knew.
But those weren't the things to think about right now.
This thing was now just a few ters ahead of and I didn't know what to do now.
'Huuu...'
Taking a deep breath, I cald myself down.
This banshee or fire fairy or whatever it was… was dangerous.
The very first creature that I saw in this forest was sothing like this.
And it hadn't even been a day.
,m What things would happen when actual night falls?
That was just terrifying to think and right now... the danger seems to finally go away.
The banshee-like thing ca as close as three trees in front of and then scread again.
Maybe corruption can turn beasts into sothing else, but the situation I just escaped now spoke for itself.
Passing this forest would be a bigger thing and I should just forget about sleeping peacefully.
-Kyaaaaaaa!
The sound of the banshee going away from here was calming my heart, not healthy. I was feeling sowhat dizzy.
The death fiery was now gone and my head started hurting.
Looking at her departing figure, I warned Celes that was worried for quite a while now.
Worried, not afraid or anxious, just worried about .
[ "There will be many things here like this, Celes. Unknown, known, familiar, unfamiliar anything might pop up here." ]
But there was no need to worry as long as we maintained our disguise. No beast under at least (Indigo) rank should be a problem.
And... the appraisal skill.
I had to use that mindfully or else sothing like now will happen and I might get caught by that thing.
Like most appraisal skills, this one sends so of the energy to scan the targeted thing.
So might be able to feel the disturbance in the overall energy flow of their body.
If sothing like this banshee or similar beast appears, it will be up to to appraise or just stay still for it to disappear.
[ "Let's go, Celes." ] I said warmly.
If not for her being an important part of this story's plot, I might have died.
[[ Yes... ]] And as expected, her reply was full of anguish.
She was powerless aside from creating these disguises.
With a small helpless sigh, I jumped onto another tree with my silent steps.
I had started with a demon in this hell of a forest and now, I will start with this bringer of death as my new start in this forest.
But I knew this will be uneventful and slow, unlike the green forest.
If I were so author writing a novel, I would put so ti skips as the main objective in this dark forest is to survive and reach the other side.
There should be sothing, a path, a new place, or at least soone else to guide to the exit of this place.
'I hope...'
I hoped with all my heart, mind, and soul that this... this is the last part of being in this forest.
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