Who Said A Mosquito Can't Cultivate?

"Whoever you are, reveal yourself!" With a blanket of qi covering the whole clearing I was currently in, the bear's voice could be clearly heard through my antennae. Then again, my antennae has been upgraded multiple times already so even if it farted or something, I would hear it as clear as day.

As a mosquito, I could see multiple things clearly under low light, even more so with multiple upgrades on my eyes, basically just giving me a negligible difference between day and night as I looked at the big black fear. With my Qi Perception stat at full blast, the bear was currently shivering in nervousness through its aura, even though its voice didn't carry that nervousness. What a pretty good disguise.

Since I could see the bear and it couldn't see me, it would obviously be quaking in fear, wondering as to what animal had done such a thing to its prey. Oh wait, this is going to be my prey soon enough. Nonetheless, it should be taught a lesson before it is gone from this world.

"Hehehehe..." I chuckled through the qi channel, allowing my voice to be clearly heard by the bear. After I chuckled, the nervousness felt by the bear was increased by a few notches, with it being quite visible through my Qi Perception. You know what, this is quite fun, scaring a bear to fear and all that. In my previous life, I wouldn't have this due to me being bedridden most of the time, and the fact that I couldn't even talk to bears. But now, it feels like a good pastime to just scare strong beings to a state where they're close to pissing themselves.

After I chuckled, I maintained my silence for a bit as to instill more fear into the bear, making it wonder more as to who the culprit of the deer killing incident was. While I was staying silent, I upgraded my Second Blood Storage to the sixth level as the third deer maxed out my capacity. After that, I was able to suck up around 220 points of blood or so from the body. I can't waste a single point of blood, just so you know.

It only took a minute or so for me to suck the third deer I killed dry, but to the bear, it must've felt like hours. At this point, I kind of felt bad since the bear was now at an all-time high of fear. I even sensed that any second now, it would definitely piss itself.

So I started to talk.

"We meet again, f.u.c.ker," I said through the qi channel, making sure to release my full aura as to know who it was up to.

"We meet again?" the bear could not help but ask. It pondered over the statement I let out for a bit, its courage gradually rising up. Nonetheless, fear still reigned over its emotions, answering with, "I...don't seem to recall us meeting before. Perhaps you have mistaken me for someone else?"

Eh? Why did this bear become subservient all of a sudden. I already released my aura to its limit, letting it know very well that it was on the same level of strength as me. Did the fear I instill cripple its thinking processes? Did I actually make a bear become a servant to me?

Anyways, I answered its question not long after.

"Hoh? Me, mistaking you for another bear? Impossible. You shooed me a while ago, telling me that this was your territory. And now you have the gall to tell me that I'm mistaken? Are you taking me for an idiot?"

"No, no, not at all," the bear replied, slightly trembling in its voice this time. "I wouldn't dare say that to this esteemed being."

...

What. The. F.u.c.k happened to this bear?

I was trying to make it recall that it had seen me a while ago, albeit in an arrogant manner since it was arrogant to me a while ago as well, but still. I thought that it would connect the pieces together and remember me as the mosquito it shooed a while ago...but it called me an esteemed being. I don't know if I should feel good or disgusted.

At this point, I gave up on going on a roundabout way to make it recall who it was facing against. I'm gonna go straight to the point.

"If you don't remember me that well, I'm the mosquito you shooed earlier. And as you can sense from my aura, I am now at the same level of power as you."

Please let this statement wake this bear up from its subserviency.

The bear went silent for a bit, its fur slightly standing up from the realization of who it was talking to...only for it to sit down on the ground and radiate a cheerful aura filled to the brim with fear for me as it replied, "Ah...that mosquito...ahahah, congratulations!"

Nope, this bear is a lost cause. Its true nature has been fully seen through by me. A bear that's arrogant against beings weaker than it while subservient to those on the same level and above. You know, you could've just extended your arrogance to also cover those at the same level as you, but you didn't! Shame. Shame.

I lost all hopes of fighting against you in a fulfilling and chivalrous manner. Well...a manner that would befit the great arrogance you exuded a while ago earlier this morning.

Thanks to the subserviency you're showing, I lost all motivation to continue my operation named I'm Beary Grateful For Your Death. By the looks of it, this operation's name is going to be changed to I'm Beary Disappointed At You.

Then again, your arrogance is a pretty good defense mechanism against weaker beings that trek on this territory you set out. Sucks that your arrogance didn't continue at all.

And so, I've decided that...I'll just spare you the death sentence and take something in exchange.

"I was deciding to kill you a while ago because of the arrogance you showed in front of me a while ago but..." After pondering over the bear's words for a bit, I said to the bear. "I've changed my decisions."

"Let me kill all of the deer you've been nurturing. Wait, let me rephrase that."

"Let me kill all of the deer you've been nurturing, expect two."

Hearing these words through its ears, the fear that was crippling its thinking processes was instantly suppressed, transforming into shock that momentarily paralyzed the bear to speechlessness. To be honest, I'd be shocked as well, seeing my excruciating effort being taken by someone on the same level as me as revenge. Well...it's still better than being dead, not being able to regrow it back to its previous level and such.

"E-esteemed being...can't you show mercy to this lowly bear and suck blood from half of the deer in my clearing?" Surprisingly, rather than accepting my commands outright, it started to bargain with me. That kind of raised my opinion of the bear by a slight bit, not enough to reverse my feeling of disappointment though.

"Hmmm..." Listening to the bear's words, it sounded like it was nurturing these deer for a good reason. As for what this reason may be, I probably don't have the strength to fight against it, seeing that a bear of the second evolution tier turned into a servant of sorts. Am I possibly fighting against a being of the fourth evolution tier if I butted in? Fifth? Sixth?

Either way, not my problem for now.

"Ninety percent of your deer. Take it or leave it." Then again, I somewhat felt bad for the efforts of the bear since it was now being so kind to me...if you take subserviency as being kind. I decided to reduce the amount of deer I would kill by a decent amount. That's kind, right?

"I can only part 60% of my deer with you. I apologize for this esteemed being," the bear continued to haggle with me as it apologized. Why would it apologize? If it continued to be arrogant, it would have parted with all of its deer and its body as well!

"Eighty percent." Since it's haggling, let me haggle as well then.

Rather than haggle any further, from the aura I sensed around the bear, it responded with, "Okay, esteemed being. Eighty percent it is."

Well...

Better than nothing, I guess.

I was hoping to get a situation where I would fight against an arrogant young master...well, arrogant black bear and then feel the satisfaction of killing such a bear like the main character of a cultivation web novel. This ending is already good, but very disappointing for my expectations.

It retracted the qi it used to create the qi channel that covered the whole clearing, then released a bit of qi to create a qi channel towards where I was since my presence was not covered at all...well, I didn't even bother to since I could not even get the chance to fight against the bear.

A few seconds later, it then released multiple bursts of qi outwards in a radial manner. At first, I had no clue as to why it was doing it, but then, I heard multiple footsteps gradually get louder and louder as those steps got closer to the clearing.

And then...

A ton of deers appeared.

Compared to what I saw in the clearing before, the amount of deer that I could see with my enhanced 360 degree eyes was multiple times numerous than the amount from earlier. If the amount of deer I saw a while ago was around 20, right now, it's around 200? This bear has been hard at work by the looks of it.

With all the deer it had nurtured congregated in the clearing and around it, the bear then spoke.

"Here you go, esteemed being. All 252 deer I have been nurturing. Please leave twenty percent of it alive, okay? They won't fight against what you do."

"T-two hundred and fifty t-"

If I had saliva, I would be choking on it already. It was even more than what I speculated. How much blood would 80% of these deer give me? At the very least, it would be over 5000 blood points. That's more than enough to upgrade my physique by one more level and upgrade my skills to a good enough level.

Hearing my stutter, the bear asked, "Is there a problem, esteemed being?"

Thinking that this is a once in a lifetime chance, I hurriedly answered, "N-not at all."

I then made my way towards one of the deer, landing on its abdomen as I said to the bear, "I'm going to start now. This might take a while."

"Take as much time as you want, esteemed being."

Oh I'm gonna take my time alright.

What a f.u.c.k.i.n.g twist this situation is.