Unfortunately for the two the class was over soon after they reached there areas. Finding each other again they walked to their next class: Wilderness survival.
Arriving the two found a pair of empty seats. The classroom was on the smaller side, but it had an empty area off to the side. Soon the classroom filled. There were not many only a handful or two. At that time the teacher walked in.
"Hello class, I am Awakened Johnith I see that all of you are part of the new set of wilderness survival class participates. This class will last about a month. After that you can join in the extra classes that are more advanced. Till then I will be teaching you lot how to survive wherever you end up. If your lucky you will end up in a place where my teachings can help."
Then someone raised their hand and asked, "What do you mean by your last statement?"
"Well there are some places where wilderness survival would not work at all. For example, if you were to end up past the mountains of Ravenheart you would freeze. Hell almost all awakened would freeze. Another place would be the hollowed mountains that were just recently discovered. Just stepping in there would kill ever single awakened alive right now. Those places are would lead to the death of most. But there are other places like the storm sea where wilderness survival would not work due to a lack of land.
There are many places like this that have environments that most could not survive in even with the best of training. Even so you will be learning to combat the environment and you will need to know how to survive being around nightmare creatures of much greater ranks."
With his speech over he started class. For the first class Johnith went over the know regions of the dream realm. The ones he focused on mainly were the ones that had not been conquered as they would be the most dangerous. Since there were many regions the class only covered about a third of them.
Before, they headed to their next class they went and got lunch. It was the same as before. They sat alone and ate quietly. Once they were done they headed off to their next class: Nightmare Creature Biology.
Once they arrived they entered the class. It was a small class. In the class there was only lab tables. On which rested corpses of a creature. Next to them sat neat surgical kit. In the front of the class there was a board. It read, 'find a lab table and get ready to dissect a nightmare creature.
The two went to a table and stood, waiting for the teacher to arrive. As they waited a few more people arrived. Of the four tables in the room ten people stood around the tables. Two groups of three and two groups of two. The room as fairly quite. Then the scarred faced teacher entered the room. He headed to his own table and unpacked.
"Alright, since we have two new faces in the class we will be dissecting a fairly common nightmare creature around Bastion. From the dissection I want you to tell me what information you can get from it. After you tell me I will guide you on where to improve. You may begin."
Hearing this the groups at the three other tables quickly got to work. Anderson and Zena soon followed suit. Anderson made precious cuts based on the small amount of knowledge he had about nightmare creatures.
Zena on the other hand struggled to make the first cut. It was not due to the lack of strength, but the lack of will to cut the creature in front of her. Her whole life she had loved any animal she came across, even it was just a few. The only reason she did not hesitate in the nightmare was because of the life or death situation. But now she was not in danger.
Slowly she made the first cut. It was not very deep. It barely even scratched it, but a single drop of blood escaped from it. Seeing the blood, Zena changed. Her eyes dulled and her fingers reached out to grab the drop of blood. Once she did. She brought the drop of blood to her lips and drank it. It tasted foul and yet at the same time it tasted like heaven.
However, before she could drink more Anderson tapped her.
"Zena are you ok? You seem weird all of a sudden." Anderson questioned in worry.
"Yes, I am ok. I think I need a minute though, I am going to ask to take a break." As she answer she walked to the teacher who let her leave.
After leaving the room Zena seemed to return to her normal state. 'What in the world was that. I wasn't myself for a second. It's that damned attribute isn't it.'
Zena pulled up her runes to get a look at it.
Name: Zena
True name: [Remorseful Hunter]
Rank: Dreamer
Blood Core: Dormant
Blood Fragments: [1/1000]
Memories: [Shredding Maw]
Echoes: ___
Attributes: [Link to Delusion], [Mark of Divinity], [Blood Lust], [Linked]
Aspect:[Hunter's Dream]
Aspect Rank: Sacred
Flaw: [Accompanied]
'What the hell. How did I gain a blood fragment.' Seeing the increase she quickly looked at the description of one of her attributes.
[Blood Lust]: [You lust for the blood of your enemies. This blood impowers and drives you.]
'Don't tell me. I get blood fragments from drinking the blood of nightmare creatures. But why did I go into such a state when I saw the blood. Does it really mean I lust for blood like that. God that's so bad. What if that happens when something important is going on.
I need Andy's help. Its almost like I have a second flaw. Well I guess my actual flaw has been almost non existent so far. So did the Spell need to make up for it with this attribute?'