So after stabilising his his mid level knight and magician breakthrough . He started thinking should he use the darkness of the night first to test the limit of his body and power two to have a look around his town.
At same time he will hunt from some low level 1 animal to drink their blood to support his cultivation and if he need to turn some of his followers which will take to look for someone who wants to turn to a vampire .
As for the knight before they see his power or their is some emergency in which that the only way to save their life or to give them a power up expert maybe for Bruce who took intelligence gathering role people who to those kind of jobs are usually wicked easier to convince to become vampire willingly after all even he has almost totale contrôle on the vampire he make .
that only to not attack or plot against him directly and the progenitor bloodline to suppress then so plotting to topel him can be donne by either turning blind eye on what enemies are doing or the vampire turned by them as he can only suppress them by using the difference of bloodline grades they are as they not considered his creations it's like the saying Your vassal's vassal is not your vassal because they have a different liege: your vassal but in his case is the creature or the patriarch of those vampires or not carrying their duty effectively to do his beading.
First he started by going to his room and changing to something darker fitting for a night escaped.
After he went to a window in the second floor looked around to see if anyone watching and jumped for anyone who was watching he did what could only be called an Olympic level acrobatic stunt.
He silently landed as to be expected of any member who are known as the king of the night and Prince of darkness .
Then he bolted towards the Eastern gate as he wanted to take a look at the forest to see if he could hunt an animal or low level sperituel one and drink his blood directly to see if there's a difference he looked to the gate and steered at the guard at the same moment the guards felt thei spine shivering like they were stared at by an a predator at his prey which wasn't far from the truth.
One of the guard told the other :' did you felt it I think some sperituel animal is around '
The other guard anwsered with a laugh:' hhhhh it's a shiver from the cold you should the inside the guard tower and get us some hot drink to fight the cold'.
He looked at his colleague and said:' I will go this time next is you turn'.
While they where talking they probably didn't think that Damien passed silently through the gate using the darkness of the night . While passing.
After that he run for sometime he found himself facing to the left a vast range of mountains where the mining village is and the right his goal for tonight the green forest where many animals and primitive or exiled races live like goblins,trolls and maybe orcs some others he doesn't know about or more reclusive ones like elves.
So he entered the forest he calmed himself and started focusing on usin his sense of smell ,sight and hearing to the maximum level as they one of the skills he wanted to be proficient in them and to work passively.
Because he could tell in this world and this life he has to use every advantages he get and specifically the ones who can protect his life as smell will help detect approaching enemies or poison in his food and drinks.
Sight will aid him in detecting hiding traps and far away ambushs .
As for hearing he would try to use and train it like how daredevil use it I detect lies or to see building like a radar .
So he started first by concentrating on his sens of smell for a few minutes or more he smelled a few different scents of animals who passed by this place a while ago probably between few minutes to an hour but one off them was still lingering so he started tracking it as for what kind of animal he didn't know as it's was his first time doing it.
By using the darkness of the night and hiding in the shadows he found at as a creature of the dark faction he is harder to detect in the shadows it was more like a passive buff he got so he got more confidence in his choice of hunting in the night.
So after moving in the forest for probably an half hour give or take he hid behind a tree as he could tell that the source of the smell is just a dozen metres away and that's not all they're other strong sents here so he switched to Using his ears.
After concentrating like he did with the sent earlier he could hear everything around him and in his brain he could visualise almost a dozen metre around him like a sonar therewas six different heart beats and a seventh which he vaguely could detect.
The first one obviously belonged to his prey who looked like a big horned rabbit but a lot bigger close to a Mouton size and if his guess is right it's a vegetarian spirit animal with a weak ilusion ability to trick their predator.
The othe five hearts beats belonged to the Universal's cannon fodders goblins surrounding the rabbit in order to hunt it tree using primitive weapons like clubs and rock knife and the other two wilding bows and arrows as for armour some leather hide.
except one of the two goblins equipped with bow and arrow was larger in build more likely his strength was equivalent to a low or mid level 1 knight he was wearing an iron repurposed Armor to match him probably salvaged from an ambushed soldier or adventurer .
And last heart beat belonged to what he could only guess from the shape feedback he got from the Donner like ability he got from concentrating on his ears a felin like animal a wild cat , tiger or other look alike species.
The surprising thing is that beside deducing his location through concentrating his ears and even is just barely could detect it must be using a bloodline skill that shields him from being sensed by others or something in this range.
So it was the like old saying "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind" the goblins where hunting the horend rabbit and the hiding feline animal was hunting them .
He slowed his breath and stuck to the tree he was hiding behind it like a gecko waiting for the show to start few minutes later a goblin tree his spear at the rabbit 🐇 but it chartered to infinit parts it was ana illusion.
The real one was just a few foots away it's launched at the goblins aiming it's horen at the heart just right for the kill his enemy surprised but what happened couldn't evade the attack died at the spot but the other goblin an effected by the death of it's camarade drew the bowstring of it's weapon and a woochhh sound heard the animal was injured in it's leg become a sitting duck for the other goblin who threw the as spear which impelled the rabbit taking its life coming out of it's hiding place the so-called leader of the goblins and rest of their group he ordered them' quickly you of scumbags and misfits skin the rabbit and remember to carefully remove the horn don't damage it it will Fitch a good price'.
The turning to the unfortunate goblin ' take everything of that foul how could he fall for a beast trick fast befor Any predator shows up'.
And like it's on que you he heard 'ahhhh' he saw with horror the bowstring goblin dead and just as fast he heard another fry for help and all he could a shadow and the fall corpse of the goblin he reacted quickly and ordered the rest to him.
Then said ' each one of you watch a flank it's just some animal of it was strong he wouldn't have attacked this way'.
But deep he knew it was a lie this is a monster probably with a strength comparable to a medium level 1 like him or more powerful the reason he deduce this because he couldn't detecte the attacker at all so he only either the stalker is strong as him and his ability to hide is from his bloodline or he is a powerful animal who like to stalk and play mind games on its prey so he hopes and preyed in silence to the goblin god that is the former as for goblin believing God is not strange but this is a subject for another time.
So the only way to take home down is to aim for the animal when attacking the other goblin and after lower his guard if it was himself he would start with the weak ones and leaving the strong for last .
Couch the third goblin is down their is only him and two others left with two chances.
A few minutes later it strike again but this he felt it just before he killed the goblin 👺 he will kill it the next attack he griped it's weapon and waited .
What he didn't know the monster hunting him is known as the dark lynx and has an intelligence comparable to a 10 year old child and if he broke through level 2 he will be smart as an adolescent.
As for it's abilities he has two shadow stealth he could hide in the shadows and nullifying anyways to detect him and the second is shadow claw he coat it's claws with shadow elements adding to them piercing and stealth in attack.
So the moment he was detected by that goblin he felt it after all from his perception and every fibre in his body told him that goblin is dangerous,cunning and his meat would helps to advance.
So he decided he is next to be eliminated so choosing his prey he concentrated and aimed for the leaders of the goblins and launched his attack but this time his he activated his second ability.
While waiting for attack he felt an incredible crisis life threatening one like the times he was running for his life from that shadow in the cavern near the humans mines reacting swiftly he activate his bloodline power he got when he advanced to high goblin berserk he would double every physical trait about him from strength to constitution and attacked.
A claw filled with shadow element struck right at the high goblin neck insuring he will day but just before he could savour his win over this oversized ant 🐜 in his eyes he felt the metal of this miserable goblin cutting his right limb.
'Aaaaa' the last sentence spoken from the high goblin before getting slayed by the shadow lynx but he didn't leave without a gift 🎁 to his enemy he gave what could be called a life threatening wound cutting his right front limb.
Stumbling few feets close to the dead goblin looking at him with eyes filled with hate and sorrow that the cause of his death is a member of a lowly race who were in his eyes nothing more than snacks and to play with to forget his boredom.
The goblin who was still a live mustered his courage and started moving to finish off the dying beast if he could eat it he probably will evolve to a high goblin treated with respect wherever he goes even getting rewarded and giving his on wife to start his tribe wouldn't be far off.
The lynx felling humiliated that he would be killed by this despicable vermin shit getting killed by a kobled is better at least they had a trace of dragon 🐉 blood in their vines he could counsel himself and considerate getting kille by dragon kin.
But right at that moment he heard "tudd"a shadow hit the goblin rendering him unconscious and moving toward him and he heard 'i would cherish your blood and make good use of it I would be sending you away'.
Damien launched at it and his fangs pierced the lynx skin like it was nothing he felt different a plethora of felling like he ever felt before in his two lives it was ecstasy no wonder on some stories and novels vampires lost themselves to lust for blood it was intoxicating.
After a time which he didn't know how much but probably under an hour he regained control on front of him dried lynx like mummy.
He has no time waste he turned to the goblin to question him of where is their hideout and the composition of the tribe or clan.
With a kick 🦶 the goblin woke up and he looked nervously at human in front of him.
After some hitting and threatening the goblin sung like bird 🐦 he told everything he knows and the killed him .
He belonged to a sub tribe which consisted of 80 members ant they are 7 tribes like them and the high goblins where the chief of the tribe and one send from the royal tribe where a goblin lord resides and if this goblin to believed they can muster a thousand warrior and some say there even a shaman goblin equivalent inferior version of the human wizard 🪄.
So if he want to clear this pest from his land or subjugate them he need a well trained and oiled machine of war and attack them piece mill of he could.
So he turned to the journey back to his castle before dawn as he need to finish his blueprints and the new military hierarchy and trainings.
Finaly to digest his gains as he gained a lot and it's safe at castle as the sent of blood would have already been detected by others predator and he left in the shadow.
Just as he left a reptile 🦎 showed up eating everything that it's left 'hisssss' and it had small horns spiking from its hair a sign usually mining it has dragon 🐉 blood.