"Ugh..."
He grunted, while opening his eyes!
Mind feeling a bit dizzy and disorganised when the warm and bring light of the sun above assaulted his red irises. With a prompt action, he used his hands to cover his face.
As his red eyes slowly adjusted to the brightness of his surroundings.
*HAAAH!*
A minute later, he sighed! Slowly standing up with slothfulness reeking from his every move!
Finally he saw the world for the first time. Indeed, he has just been born in this place, in the middle of a dense forest.
Though where he was, it was a small clearing, about a few dozen meters diameter in size, covered in the soft emerald grass, moving according to the cool wind and shining in the warmth of the brilliant sunlight.
His head moved. Expression confused and curious like a child as he observed his immediate surroundings. Though, there was still the glint of an adults intelligence completely unlike that of a newborn child gleaming in those crimson eyes.
"A calamity...!" He muttered, while looking at the palm of his hands with a calm gaze. "I am...!"
He stood there for a few seconds with a blank look, while his shoulder length crimson hair fluttered in the calm and quiet breeze from this dense forest.
However, soon he grabbed his head, his eyes squinted at the sudden headache that came out of nowhere, but with this new sensation of pain, also came the foreign information about many matters that made his eyes go moderately wide.
"Hmmm!..."
He closed them trying to understand and process this new information.
Ten minutes passed in silence, the pain had already nulled, while his eyes opened, silently and quietly observing the moving grass below! But if one were to look closely, they would be able to see the glint of pain and determination, and even wrath and hatred within those ever calm crimson eyes.
*SIGH!*
He exhaled.
Then in this brief tranquil silence, he heard it! The footsteps of a predator approaching. His slightly pointed ears twitched, while his head turned towards the sound.
Though he could not see the calamity approaching in the darkness of the dense forest clearly, nevertheless, he could still feel the mythical life of the soul just a few hundred meters away from him, lurking in the darkness of the forest surrounding him.
He sensed the calamity which was radiating a strong, gripping and bloodthirsty presence(aura). It was fortunate that his own presence(aura) was still quiet weak as it hasn't been that long since he was born. Nonetheless, this calamity was strong, undoubtedly, proven by the simple fact that despite his weak and unstable presence, it was still able to sense him from so far away.
And was now trying to pinpoint the location of the weak pray it sensed. The distance between them was still approximately four to five hundred meters, so he still had some time to escape.
"How unfortunate...!"
"My birthplace actually lies within the territory of this powerful calamity." He muttered to himself. "Anyhow, just from the massive presence(aura), which it is releasing unabashedly, I suppose it must be a rank 3 calamity at the very least!"
He guessed while rubbing his chin all of a sudden.
Actually, and surprisingly, he wasn't afraid at all. It was completely perceivable from how calm he was despite perfectly knowing that he had no change of winning against this calamity as a rank 1 calamity himself.
The question why that was so could only be answered by him.
However, looking at how he had immediately turned around and started advancing towards the opposite direction from the calamity, it was clear that despite his calmness, he wasn't stupid enough to fight the thing searching for him frantically.
"Although the calamity is unintelligent and savage in nature, unlike me, it still is impossible for me to kill it as I'm now, even with my foreign abilities!"
'I should find some weaker calamities first to get myself familiar with my own strength and weakness first without thinking of anything else.'
He mused while entering the forest.
Not forgetting to completely suppress his own presence(aura) to the utmost, which actually wasn't hard for him as a sentient calamity, making it would be very much harder for most savage calamities to spot him in this wilderness.
However, that doesn't mean he was safe.
Actually, though a calamity, he was still a
... ... ... ... ...
Seconds passed. Minutes passed. Soon, hours passed.
As he walked beneath the dense canopy, and amidst the 20 to 30 meters tall trees, he kept sensing many flaring presences(auras) of many calamities, and unfortunately, they were all far stronger than him, ranging from the ascension rank 3 to some even rank 4.
Oh! And the fortunate thing was that, as a weaker being amidst the strong, he was actually quite good at suppressing his presence(aura) and remaining hidden around the trees as he silently advanced forward in search of his own pray.
*SIGH!*
"I can't believe the first thing I'm doing after being born is hide and hide." He grumbled. "I know I'm strong and perhaps even have a potential far grater than these pitiful savage calamities, but I guess it is still not enough."
Exhaling again, he closed his eyes.
Standing in the shadow of the tall tree while quietly feeling the bloodthirsty presence(aura) of the many savage calamities lurking in the shallow darkness of the unending forest.
'In spite of my intelligence, me hiding from the start of my life to now, even after 6 hours, is prove that I'm weak, pathetically weak...!' He chuckled wryly.
His eyes opened, gleaming with a mocking light. From the little information he got on his birth, he somewhat understood what kind of situation he was in.
He knew as an intelligent calamity, if he cannot become strong quickly, than regardless of the dangers of this unforgiving land, he would certainly be hunted down by outsiders. It was just a matter of time.
After all, every part of his body, a sentient calamity's body, from soul to heart, was a resource worthy of waging wars among the many powers of the outside! And as though to laugh at him, fate had played a cruel joke on him.
Considering, normally an intelligent calamity such as one like himself would be born atleast as an ascension rank 7 calamity, but here he was, roaming and hiding as a pitiful ascension rank 1 calamity!
Now, he did not why that was so.
Whether it was because where he was born there wasn't much energy to raise his ascension rank aside from forming him or was it because that energy went somewhere else.
For example, in developing his innate abilities or maybe towards his calamity blood. However, he was sure that, he was just a tier one
Or perhaps their abilities too! Indeed, that could be the case.
Maybe, he was born weak because the energy that was supposed to go towards raising his ascension rank had rather gone towards developing his strange abilities, of which he had some idea about, yet wasn't so sure regardless!