[You were born on the outskirts of the Gloomy Forest.] [Fortunately, you are a Black Crow with ancestral bloodline regression.] [You are a magical beast, not an ordinary bird.] [During the first month, you grew up under your mother’s protection.] [The ancestral regression made you born stronger than your nest-mates, but your needs were also greater.] [Your appetite was staggering.
To satisfy you, your mother often left at dawn and returned at night, yet the food she brought back was often barely enough to fill your stomach.] [Looking at your rapidly filling feathers…] [She finally couldn’t tolerate you anymore.] [On a dark and windy night, she threw you directly out of the nest.] [“Goodbye Mom, I’m setting sail tonight…”] [Now homeless, you hummed this song in the biting cold wind.] [It was surprisingly fitting for the occasion!] [The second month.] [Waving your still-clumsy wings, you clumsily taught yourself to fly.] [After all, birds are born for the sky.] [How could you tolerate not being able to fly?] [It’s worth mentioning that during this period, you became a “delicious meal” in the eyes of many predators.] [But they all underestimated your level of danger.] [“Wind Blade!
Wind Blade!
Wind Blade again!!”] [Powerful magic was invincible in this barren land.] [Wherever you went, beasts fell.] [Devoured the essence of a Striped Venomous Snake, EXP +1…] [Devoured the flesh of a Forest Cat, EXP +0.1, Agility slightly increased…] [Besides basic experience gain, something more fundamental merged into your body along with the swallowed flesh and blood essence.] [This is the power of “Plunder”!] [It can transform the excellent traits contained in the prey’s flesh into small increases in your own attributes.] [Achieving the true meaning of “you are what you eat”!] [From then on, you began to consciously choose your prey.] [After preying on birds, you felt your wing muscles become more elastic.] [After eating Armored Boars, the hardness of your claws and beak seemed to increase slightly.] [After devouring a large number of insects and worms, your exoskeleton’s toughness improved.] [This month, although your level only increased from LV.7 to LV.9…] […your body underwent a comprehensive basic strengthening.] [The biggest surprise came from your special preference for “spicy strips.”] [Heaven knows why you love eating snakes so much!] [After devouring no less than a hundred venomous snakes and pythons, you finally triggered a gacha pity:] [Obtained Talent: Venom Enhancement (Green)] [Venom Enhancement: The power of all poison-type skills you apply is increased by approximately 10%.] [The third month.] [You were already a notable small predator on the outskirts of the Gloomy Forest.] [Flying became as natural as breathing; a single flap of your wings could send you soaring far away.] [You even started getting creative with your magic.] [You could even add fire elements into your Wind Blades, making their power even more domineering.] [One day, after eating another “spicy strip,” a wave of immense drowsiness instantly swept over you.] [Experience satisfied, Level increased to LV 10!] [Successful Promotion: Elite Magical Beast!] [You have advanced to—”Blood Feather Crow”.] [All attributes significantly increased!] [A day later, you woke up with a start.] [Your body had undergone earth-shattering changes.] [Your size increased by nearly a third, your wingspan was wider, and your sharp claws and beak glinted with a cold light.] [Most importantly, a touch of blood-like red appeared at the tips of all your feathers.] [Magical beasts must sleep to break through.
Unfortunately, no human—oh wait, no beast—told you this.] [And since you possess a trace of ancestral bloodline, there was no bottleneck at the level 10 threshold.] [Thus, the evolution came so suddenly.] [Fortunately, your luck was good.
You fell into the bushes while sleeping, and no creatures attacked you.] [“Damn.”] [Cursing under your breath, you continued to admire your changes.] [Awakened Skill: Danger Sense (Beginner 1/100)] [Danger Sense: You can actively consume mana to scan the environment within your mental range, vaguely perceiving if there are creatures that pose a threat to you.] [An extremely practical survival god-tier skill!] [You couldn’t wait to try it.
Mental ripples spread out, but you saw nothing.] [It wasn’t that the skill failed, but…] [Dear, in these outskirts, you are already strong enough.] [The fourth month.] [Your leveling speed gradually slowed down.] [You tried to practice the “Golden Meditation Method,” but found it completely unusable.] [A magical beast’s energy circuits are entirely different from a human’s; you simply cannot guide specific elemental particles like a human mage.] [A magical beast’s growth, as expected, can only rely on devouring and combat.] [“Perhaps, I should move?”] [Standing atop a withered tree, you gazed deeper into the forest.] [The prey on the outskirts of the Gloomy Forest provided increasingly meager experience.] [Plunder also cannot take effect on species that have already been plundered.] [You seemed to have hit a resource bottleneck.] [Most importantly—the snakes were almost eaten to extinction by you!] [Within a few miles, snakes with even a hint of magic were almost extinct; the rest were just nutrient-free little pets.] [There was no flavor left in your mouth.] [This was practically more painful than not being able to level up!] [You pondered.] [Although you had no cigarettes to smoke, you indeed spent the whole night in deep thought.] [Finally, you decided to head towards the inner region of the Gloomy Forest.] [“The bold feast, while the timid starve!”] [Looking at the dense, towering trees, you pumped yourself up.] [Then, you flapped your wings and flew toward that gray-dark forest.]