Author Notes:
Here comes chapter 9! :DDDDDD *Fireworks go off*
Anyway, here's chapter 9, enjoy reading it!
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Chapter 9: The Most Dangerous Fight in My Life?
It was now the last day of hunting, and we planned to leave after one killing one last group of Kyurn.
After the first group, it had mostly just been young ones we that left the nest, but today was different.
I had managed to reach level 87, which is extremely high for someone my age, even if they had the same growth as me.
Today a near 3 meter tall Kyurn left the nest, with 5 small ones. Looks like they noticed that they slowly died off, sending one of their oldest and strongest to protect the young ones.
We decided to take this fight, even if it would be the hardest, now I just came down to deciding how we would engage them.
Me: “The only danger is the 3 meter tall one, the rest of them are all young, and nothing we can’t deal with.”
Har’Que: “Dat true, but whoev’s gonna go against da big one, is gonna ha’ a hard tim’. Someon’ agile would be bes’.”
After Har’Que said that, everyone turned to look at me.
Over the past two days, everyone had started to notice my talent. I was agile, strong, and fast, having nearly no weaknesses.
I had also become much better at wielding the whip-sword; I could now switch between sword- and whip-form easily. But, I still couldn’t combine the techniques properly, making me stick with either whip or sword attacks.
Their looks told me that it was decided that I would face off against the biggest one, while they would take on the young ones.
Half an hour later we were here, ready to ambush the group of Kyurns.
The plan was for me to attack first, getting my damage buff and hopefully damaging the Kyurn enough to slow it.
After ensuring that everyone were in position, I readied myself.
Drawing the whip-sword while pressing the button on the hilt, I made a strike similar to the one I used to kill the Flurne. But this time it was more powerful, fast and smooth, making it at least double as deadly as before.
Aiming for the left front leg, I struck with everything I had. Infusing ki and pushing my muscles to the limit, both my arm and the rest of the body.
The blade finally reached the Kyurn, striking the pelt of where I had aimed. Watching it sink into the flesh, I waited until it wouldn’t get any deeper. The second it stopped, I pulled with all my strength while pressing the button. Resulting in the flesh in a line from where the blade pieces had sunk in got ripped off.
Seeing the start of the fight, the others attacked the 5 younger Kyurns, leaving me with the biggest one.
Turning back to my fight, I saw the Kyurn leaping towards me at an incredible speed.
It reached me in less than a second, making me nearly unable to react. I managed to block its tusks, but it left me to take the force head on. It lead to me being thrown back a few meters, while feeling my bones creak at every movement. But before I hit the ground, I was able to use my tail to fix my balance and land on the feet.
Being back where we had begun, except from its wound and my creaking bones, I decided to not let my attention leave it, even for a second. Losing patience, it once again charged towards me.
But this time… I was prepared.
As soon as it was about to hit me, I shifted my entire weight with the help from my tail, dodging under its tusks, leaving its stomach wide open for me. However, as I was about to attack its right back leg, it jumped, dodging my slash. Looks like this Kyurn isn’t only stronger, but also smarter than the others I’ve met so far.
Again, we stood facing off. However, this time I was the one to charge.
When I closed in on it, it tried to charge and pierce me with its tusks. I had already expected this. Infusing ki into my legs, and then jumping, I was able to dodge its tusks by a hairs breath, this time leaving its back exposed to me.
Slashing at the back of its neck, I was able to get a clean cut in. Looks like it hadn’t expected me to jump. Well, that just makes it easier. However, my slash wasn’t able to cut more than a centimetre or two in.
Before it could turn, I charged at it again. Instead of jumping or rolling, I ran towards its exposed right side, following its rotation. Getting up next to it, I slashed from the front leg all the way to the hind leg, leaving a long and deep wound running across its right side.
The wound was deeper than the one I left on its neck. This was because I had more time and better balance, allowing me to put all my strength into it.
Howling in pain, the Kyurn tried to stomp on me. It had slowed considerably, this being because of the pain, or because I wounded something like tendons, I don’t know. All I know is that its slower than before.
The other reason it has become so slow, could also be because I’ve become able to constantly slow time, in my eyes, by 15% instead of 10. I achieved this after the hunt before this one, but I hadn’t expected the 5% to be that useful.
Anyway, it being so slow allowed me to parry its hoof, opening up its left side. Exploiting this, I ran along its left side, sliding my blade through its flesh, leaving a nearly similar wound as on the right side.
Stopping up and facing it, I spent some time catching my breath, allowing the Kyurn to turn and face me. I might be strong, but working my young body this hard, still makes me run out of breath.
It didn’t move for a while, just observing me, but after a while, it seemed to have come to a decision.
Something that changed the tides of the battle.
Activating ‘Blood Rush’ it rushed at me, this time too fast for me to react. Before I knew it, I was in the air, coughing blood and flying twice as high and far as above. Luckily the tusks hadn’t pierced me, but just the impact had caused me a lot of damage.
Because of the pain, I wasn’t able to correct my balance, making me land hard on my back. The impact made me cough up more blood.
I could taste my thick, warm, dark, nearly black, red blood. It tasted like metal and felt like magma, even if I had never felt that, this is how I would imagine it to be. Warm and thick.
Getting back my senses, I could feel the whip-sword in my hand, and decided to get up, remembering that I was in a life and death battle.
My whole body was moaning and creaking, as I forced it to stand up.
After finally getting up, I looked to my opponent, seeing it still standing there. Probably being convinced of its win, and wanted me to get on my feet before finishing me off.
My vision being a bit blurry from the impact, made me only see a shadow, but I knew it was there. It would be hard, but I could still fight like this.
Before I managed to finish my thoughts, it rushed towards me.
However, this time I was able to see it coming.
Running towards it, I dodged under its tusks by sliding across the grass, exposing its stomach once again. But unlike last time, I was able to hit it.
That was the one weakness of ‘Blood Rush’. It made its user incredibly strong, but made them just as reckless. Attacking while forgetting to defend.
I stabbed my whip-sword into its stomach, leaving its momentum to tear open its stomach. And it did.
What followed was that its entire stomach was cut open, making almost all of its guts spill out.
Still rushing forward for a bit, the Kyurn didn’t notice the damage done to it. But after only a second, the brain caught up, and it died instantly from the pain, the shock killing it.
Getting up, I checked myself.
I was covered in blood and guts, from head to toe. Some had even entered my mouth, replacing my magma like blood with the relatively thinner and much tastier blood.
This time, I looked over the damage I had received.
My bones were creaking, my flesh was moaning, and I could feel some of my internal organs just holding on. One more of its hits, and I would have been dead.
I also looked to my whip-sword.
The edge was slightly chipped, from the days of combat. Even if I maintain it after every use, and once a day no matter what, it won’t repair it. I would have to go to a blacksmith to do that, and I was planning to do so soon.
It would probably have been bent if it had been a normal sword, but being a whip-sword it’s made out of pieces, allowing it to bend without being bent.
Finishing my check-up, I left to find Cecelina, the Human priest.
I might not be in danger, but it hurt so much that I felt like passing out. Everything was hurting, and moving around didn’t help.
Turning to the rest of the battlefield, what I saw was that only two of the five young Kyurns were alive. They were heavily wounded, while the adventurers only had scratches and minor cuts.
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Walking to the backline of the fight, I found Cecelina.
When she saw me, she had a look of worry, and came rushing at me.
Me: “Hey, I finished my fight, but not unscathed. I think that one of my lungs and some other of my organs are about to stop functioning, and some of my bones must be fractured. Mind healing me a bit?”
Even though my throat felt dry, even after having drunk some blood, I managed to speak, even throwing a joke in there to try to lighten her mood.
And it worked, I could see relief visible on her face, looks like she understood that I wouldn’t be dying.
Cecelina: “I don’t mind. Why don’t you sit down and rest while I heal you, the others should be done soon.”
I sat down, and let Cecelina do her thing.
Slowly the pain started to fade, as if it had never been there before.
Holy healing magic.
It had surprised me every time.
Unlike restoration magic, it heals the body instantly, repairing the body instantly. Restoration magic speeds up the body’s natural healing, making it easy to cure diseases and such, while holy healing magic reverts the body’s condition, making it as before a the wound was inflicted. It can only cure curses, not diseases, and the older the wound, the rarer it was for it to be healed by holy healing magic.
Therefore, holy healing magic is used for combat and curses, while restoration magic is used for old wounds or diseases.
A few minutes later, the others returned.
All their wounds were shallow and would heal overtime. But just to be sure, Cecelina healed everyone, ensuring that no scars were left on them.
Of course, Har’Que refused this. Unless it was lethal, Orcs would let the wounds be, and receive the scars. It’s something about their culture regarding having many scars as being very strong and experienced.
Hell, even us Lizardmen respect those with scars on their scales. When people first saw the one I got from the Flurnes that ambushed us, they respected me a bit more, and believed that I had singlehandedly killed two of them.
Anyway, after having healed and rested, we started packing up, putting the useful parts of our prey in our bags, which we hid while fighting.
When we reached the corpse of my opponent, they all had a shocked expression on their faces. They had the exact same expression when they first returned from battle, seeing me covered in blood.
Har’Que: “Ya re’ly did it in, ya did. From wha’ ah can see, the firs’ slas’, a long slas’ on each sid’, an’ the cut to da tummy. No’ a clean kill, bu’ hell, a kill is a kill, espec’ly against an en’my lik’ dat.”
To this comment, the others agreed.
I did as well.
It might not have been clean, but at least I managed to kill that thing. It wasn’t easy, and if not for the healing, I would probably have died from an ambush on the way back. But I killed it.
After that we packed up and headed back to the camp, on the way I opened my Status Window to see what’s changed after that fight.
Stat Points GainedFor slaying an ‘Elder Kyurn’, you have gained stats. +10 VIT, STR, AGI, DEX.
Title GainedFor slaying an ‘Elder Kyurn’, you have gained the title of ’Slayer of Elder Beasts’. Giving you the ‘Elder Beast Slayer’.
13x Level UpFor slaying an ‘Elder Kyurn’, you have leveled up.
Warning!Level limit reached!
The stats and title are good, but what is this?
Level limit?
Never heard about that.
What the hell?!
For now, let’s just dismiss these messages and view the Status Window.
Status WindowName:Li’???Race:LizardmanTitles:Little One, Survivor, Tribe Prodigy, The Lethal Eye, Slayer of Elder BeastsLevel:100 Limit Reached!Class:???Age:0Gender:MaleBody and Mental Condition:Stamina Points:Current:2421Max:11135Stamina Regen:3,39/SMana Points:Current:2640Max:3370Mana Regen:1,64/SKi Points:Current:2893Max:8495Ki Regen3,03/SStats:Vitality:218 + 21Strength:228 + 22Dexterity:233 + 23Agility:231 + 23Wisdom:104 + 10Intelligence:104 + 10Insight:104 + 10Presence:130Magic Amplification:Casting time:-0,342%Mana cost:-0,342%Effectiveness:+0,342%Other:Racial Trait:Lizardmen get 2x Vit, STR, AGI, and DEX from leveling up.Blessing:Increases all stats by 10%.Blessing:Increases learning new languages by 1.000%.God Magic Skill:Identify: The ability see the information on any item, as long as it’s considered weaker than the caster.Title Skill:Survivor: When fighting against the odds, all stats increase by +3%. (Will still count as against the odds, even if the +3% makes your odds equal or greater than theirs.)Title Skill:Detect Life: You’re able to detect life around you depending on your level of mastery of the skill.Title Skill:First Blood: When you’re the ones who initiates the fight, drawing the first blood, you damage +200% more damage on the initiating hit.Title Skill:Detect Weakness: Using this skill you will be able to see your enemies weaknesses. When using this skill, enemy’s weaknesses will be highlighted by a red glow. The stronger the enemies are, the higher mastery you need in order to detect their weaknesses.Title Skill:Elder Beast Slayer: When fighting Elder Beasts, you gain +10% to all stats, except Presence.
What does ‘Limit Reached!’ mean?!
I have to find out, and soon!
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Author Notes:
Guys, hope you enjoyed this chapter :D
Quite long and with a good amount of fighting in it (for my standards, that is) :3
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