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Arc 10.02: The hunter

Arc 10.02: The hunter

Using my ears, I listen to my surroundings. Distinguish between the wonderbeasts, their distances from one another, and which ones could destroy my head, and which ones can’t.

Running forward, I look at the Altas eaters in front of me, and say, “You made a mistake by using dump idiots like them.”

My legacy is running out of power, so this will be the last big attack I have in me so I got to make it count. Create a giant ice block I hit the atlas eaters, which causes them to fly into one another.

The eaters, that hit each other start to fight. They are the foolish kind of wonderbeast that flies into a rage at the slightest of provocations, truly easier to manipulate.

As I move though, the Kovosaurus tries to slice me into pieces, so I dodge and then move away. I need to deal with this annoyance since it’s fast and deadly.

Creating a blast of snow to block its vision, I run around it and head towards the altas eaters, and when I arrive I create the biggest blast of ice and knock another two of them into the Kovosaurs, which causes them to start fighting.

I have reached my limit for ice today, I can only make small amounts from here on out. Now what’s next?

But before I can even gather myself waptors come to attack me. Waptors are the most numerous predasaur on this battlefield, but they have no chance of dealing critical damage to my head so they are not high value.

Their constant attacks are annoying to deal with but nothing more, don’t waste energy on them. Pick a target and deal with it.

From the distance, I hear a vanir’s shot, so I dodge away. It looks like my next target is set, but with the waptors constant approach and the high-pressure shots that the 3 vanirs are shooting it will be hard to get close. So how about a ranged attack?

When I hear the next shot coming I start to move toward it and rotate, building up rotational energy. As the shot starts coming near me, I stop in one place and hold my hands out.

Helix battle arts is the power of rotation, the ability to take force and redirect it. If I were to apply this same concept shouldn’t I be able to redirect attack?

With the air shot coming towards me, I stretch out my hand and say, “Helix battle arts; spiral redirection.”

Using my hands, I try to guide the shot to follow my hands and to turn around so I can send it back. But to my dismay, I fail and both my arms fly off.

I hold back a scream of pain and start to regenerate. It seems that technique is too advanced for me, I need to change my plans then.

Dodging the other shots coming towards me, I hear something fast approach me, so I jump into the air to dodge and looking down I see an astamatisaurus.

Looking at its speed and hard head, an idea pops into my head.

Behind me, I create a thin sheet of ice over the snow. Then I bait the astamatisaurus to run at me with its tremendous speed, and as it approaches me, I jump over it.

While it runs past me and I am still in the air, I activate my legacy on my two legs, then using snowboost I hit it on the back, and due to its speed and the ice the wonderbeast jets forward and flies right into one of the vanir’s shoulders.

Seeing more astamatisaurus coming towards me, I do the same again. I hit the same vanir’s, head and trunk.

Dodging the ongoing attacks of the waptor, I look and examine the vanir. Its trunk looks damaged so that one can’t fire off any more win shots, but it seems even though I send the Astamatisaurus, right into its head it looks like it barely tickled it. The beast's hide is just too tough, if I am to take though beast down I need a weapon to take it down.

From above me, I hear the razordon’s projectiles coming towards me, so I dodge, and as I do the waptors beside me take collateral damage. In actuality waptors have been taking collateral damage this entire fight, it seems the merark doesn’t care for them.

This is simply getting too much for me, I need to find somewhere to escape or, I will be worn down. So I head up towards the trees.

Using my snowboost, I jump from tree to tree until I reach the top, and when I see those annoying monkey wonderbeasts, I say, “It’s time for round two you annoying pests.”

The monkeys come for me, so I move from tree to tree. These predasaurs are simply too good at manoeuvring on the treetops, I won’t be able to outrun them, and I need a spear and my legacy to even damage them, their bodies are simply too sturdy.

But nothing living is without its weakness. Their bodies are cone-shaped, and the area inside the cone which contains the head is quite fleshy, so a direct hit there will probably kill it.

Still, can I move fast enough to hit it precisely and kill it? Wait, I have an idea.

I snowboost right towards one of the wonderbeasts, and this causes it to take one of its large arms and hit me with a lariat which sends me flying.

The body blow causes the judgment wounds to start to ache me, but I persevere through the gut-wrenching pain not only from that but the blow as well.

While I fly through the air, I start to spin my body repeatedly and build up spiral energy, I land on a tree branch, I say, “Helix battle arts; Spiral snowboost.”

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Then I use the spiral energy I have built up to jump forward while activating snowboost.

Using this technique, I fly through the air at a completely ridiculous speed. I am so fast, that my body can barely keep up, but as I move past the monkey, using my legacy I manage to strike one of their bodies as I planned causing it to fall and die.

But I end up flying straight into a tree. The speed was way too much for me to handle, I can’t use it again.

Before I can even stand up another monkey wonderbeast swats me out of the tree causing me to fall to the ground.

Landing on my legs, catch my breath and recover from the blow. If it wasn’t for the added strength I had after using Helix battle arts, my legs would have snapped.

From nearby I hear the waptors coming towards me. So I dodge them, as my time to recover has vanished, then and I do a scream goes through the area.

Looking at its source I see the kovosaurus running towards me, covered in blood and enraged.

Did it kill all the atlas eaters?

It swings its sharp blades at me, and I dodge away, but as I do it slices through one of the trees. Seeing this an idea pops into my head.

I skilfully dodge the attacks of the waptors and the kovosaurus, then I slice it in its neck causing it to bleed out, and wasting no time I rip off one of its blades.

I activate my legacy on the large blade, and then I move through the forest and cut down all the trees the wonderbeasts are on. One by one they fall with the trees, and once they all land on the ground they lose all of their mobility.

So like snow, I crave through all of the monkeys, but the moment I am about to strike the last one, a vanir mammoth crashes through the forest towards me.

It is the one I sent all of the astamatisauruses towards; since it can’t shoot wind anymore it has decided to charge me.

If you had done this earlier when I had no way to get through your hide, I would have been in trouble, but now I should be fine.

Using the blade, I cut the mammoth, but not fatally so I continue. I never realized it till now, but the extra cutting power that comes from freezing my opponent beforehand really can’t be understated. If I could I would easily kill the mammoth, but now all I can do is slowly wear it down.

But I am soon faced with an issue as the last monkey starts to throw pieces of the tree towards me, and then the waptors charge at me suicidally looking for whatever opportunity they can to beat me.

Then from a distance, I hear the other vanir mammoths' shots, and the razordon’s bombardment. I can hear it all, but I am simply too overwhelmed to deal with them all.

So as the vanir shots come I use the blade to block them and all the other projectiles coming towards me. Then as I prepare to move, the mammoth in front of me hits me with its body sending me flying backwards.

Looking at the blade I see it has started to crack. This has reached its limit I need a new weapon. Remember the predasaurs around, I say, “It should be around here somewhere.”

Seeing the annoyances in front of me coming towards me, I say, “But before I move I need to at least finish off that gorilla.”

Using all the strength I can muster I throw the blade high into the air, and then start doing many different flips to build up spiral energy. “I hope this works.”

Jumping up to meet the blade as it falls down, I bunch the ice handle that I made for the blade, and say, “Helix battle arts; Spiral imbuement.”

As my fist punches the blade the spiral I built up in my body is transferred to the blade and it flies towards the monkey. It hits and pierces its chest.

I smile, but then instantly run away as the waptor and the mammoth chase me.

Running around I scan for my target, where is it? Where is it!?

Seeing a spercera, I say, “Found you!”

When it sees me it charges towards me, so I start to build up spiral energy, and as I am about to be struck with its long horn, I duck down onto my back, then I say, “Helix battle arts; Spiral snowboost,” as I kick its horns.

Its large horn breaks off and my legs also break, but I grab onto its body fling myself to its back and then I strike its neck.

After my legs regenerate, I grab its large horn, make an ice handle and then activate my legacy on it. Usually, our spears are made from a section of its horn, but this is the in-tack horn. In all honesty, I wouldn’t call this a spear, but a lance.

Throwing it in the air, I build up spiral energy and then jump up and use, Helix battle arts; Spiral imbuement.

Then my lance flies and pierces the mammoth's skull. At that moment shots from the razordon and vanir mammoths come, but they are blocked by the dead mammoth giant body.

So I use this moment to take out all the waptors around, so I can finally get some time to myself.

After I kill them all I pull the lance out of the mammoth, and say, “Time to end this.”

Φ Standing on its elevated landmass over the top of the two vanir mammoths beneath it, the merark is on high alert.

The wonderbeasts it had been leading to victory have been taken down one by one, even the waptors which it used to keep track of its prey position.

It had survived by turning the hunters that came after it into prey, but now it had to uncomfortable feeling of being prey yet again.

Then suddenly to its far left, a large sound is made. Over there is where the razordon is, so sensing that the boy went after it the merark directs his mammoths to shoot over there.

But as they do Orb comes from with sky with his lance in hand and pierces one of the mammoths' heads.

Φ Ever since I left the ice walls, I have been secretly moving the snow which made up the ice walls over to where the razordon was located.

Then with spiral snowboost, I jumped high into the sky, and then as I was falling down, I turned the snow back into ice and pierced the razordon’s belly.

The distractions worked and now, one of the mammoths is dead. It seems that my training in controlling my legacy under stressful situations paid off.

I instantly jump from one mammoth's head to the other and pierce it, but as I do I notice the merark has jumped forward and has cut off my legs.

Unable to stand anywhere after I pierce the mammoth I start to fall, and as I do the merark falls toward me with its mouth open to bite my head.

I won’t be able to move my arms in time to stop it, but that doesn’t mean I am out of options.

As my right leg bone regenerates, I activate my legacy and freeze the area into a blade, then I infuse that blade with spirit energy and cut the merarks belly killing it.

Falling on the floor, my hair turns yellow, then silver, then green, then gold and I get up and say, “I WIN!”

Getting up, I look at the body of the merark, and say, “Judging by its size relative to what Pine said they should be it was probably an alpha. I am definitely going to brag about this.”

Holding my hands against my head, I say, “But I can’t or everyone will find out about my training and say I am overreacting.”

Suddenly I fall to my knees and hold my throat. It feels like it is starting to swell.

Looking around, I notice this whole area where the mammoths and the merark are is surrounded by flowers, ones extremely familiar. With my breath, I say, “These are the ones that killed "illows parents, I was set up.”

He specifically stood here the entire time, so that if I snuck up and killed him, I would die soon after. What a fool I am I should have been more careful.

If I lose that ability to breathe that would damage my brain, and I might not regenerate.

I need to destroy my throat and force it to regenerate. As I activate my legacy it instantly turns off; I have pushed myself too far today.

Falling to the ground and holding my swollen throat, a thought occurs to me; I am going to die!