Ch#08 Beast
Skimming through his status he noticed the strength and agility bar
“Comparing the points it seems to have calibrated my status with 1 being the average strength of a human”
“Hmm… my soul points have gone back up” pleased by the revelation that soul points restore automatically he looked at his Mana consumption making him grunt in frustration
“Supposing the surrounding elements restore my soul points, how come my mana is down by 3 points?”
“Haah… the pendant, it consume a portion of my Mana to activate” hitting the pendant with his skinny pale fists he shouted “ how am I supposed to restore my Mana with a limit of 3 macrons”
“Duk… bam” with a forceful push Brian exited the SUV. Facing the park he recalled the information he had previously gathered
“Although no human casualties were reported, the visitors seemed to have heard high pitched shrill noises, while according to some statements they heard a monster growling”
Reading from a pink colored smartphone in his hand, “according to the park authorities there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of domestic animals especially dogs”
Confused his brows creased together into a frown “this Esper or monster likes to eat dogs?”
Unable to find any answers, he took a deep breath. Checking the pistol on his back he walked into the park. After a few minutes of strolling through the park he stopped in front of a large piece of land filled with trees. It could be called a miniature forest judging from the number of trees. A large wooden warning sign was placed by the pavement it read
‘Visitors are advised to refrain from going further. The area is still under development’
“Most of the voices were heard from this area” opening his third eye Brian studied the flow of dark elements
Confirming his speculations he found a considerable increase in the density of dark elements, squinting his eyes, he found a slight irregular movement of the elements far ahead in the skies.
A faint grin appeared on his face “Seems like the reports may turn out to be true”
Adjusting his state of mind he took out the pistol, grabbing it with both hands Brian with extreme caution proceeded to move towards the disturbance. Passing through the trees he could see the movement of dark particles much clearly. The disturbance jumped from one place to another. At some point the disturbance would be to his right and after a few minutes the same fluctuation of dark elements would happen a few meters away
“SKRRAHHH” Brian heard a shrill scream, it sounded like the dying throes of a women mixed with the growl of a beast. The growl had a low pitch it felt sinister like a wailing ghost sending a shiver down his spine. Both the sounds seem to have come a few meters away from his current position
Brian started to sweat, even if his dull emotions prevented him from feeling fear he still experienced a massive amount of pressure.
“The unknown is scary” he muttered, sharpening his senses he started to slowly move forward. But the thing that surprised Brian was lack of any elemental disturbance in the skies.
Getting near Brian spotted a black shadow moving through the trees. After further inspection the black shadow turned out to be a 2 meter tall cat looking monster with two enormous fangs protruding out of the jaw to reach its dark brown eyes. Its charcoal black fur had numerous red spots making it resemble a crossbreed between a black panther and a saber toothed tiger. Clenching a blood soaked body between its sharp teeth’s it walked slowly, the muscles of its body rippled with every movement giving out an oppressive feeling.
“Huh” through his third eye Brian could see a huge ball of dark red energy pulsating at its heart region but to his surprise other than the ball of energy the monster released no aura or Mana radiation. If not for his third eye he wouldn’t have noticed the beast at all.
“Ah yes, A cat” hit by a sudden thought, his eyes shimmered darkly. A cat by his animalistic instincts tends to keep its bestial tendencies suppressed explaining the periodic fluctuations in the elements as well as the massive disappearance in the number of dogs.
But looking at the monster under no circumstance does it resemble a small lovable cat. Tightening his grasp Brian pointed the nozzle at the beast’s dark body.
“I won’t be able to accurately aim, have to close the distance” channeling his Mana the lines on the pistol started to glow with a dark light.
As if sensing brains approach the beast ears stood up, its nose started to move sniffing the air for any uninvited visitor
Brian who was on high alert started to sweat. With extreme haste moved his body behind the cover of a tree barely hiding his slender frame.
Unknown to Brian his sudden movements were picked up by its sharp ears. Turning his massive head its brown eyes peered towards Brian’s location
“GRAAAA”
“BOOM” with a heart shivering roar the beast launched its massive body towards Brian like a bow leaving its string.
“Shit… I got found out” bending his body Brian prepared himself to roll out of the trees protection just as he rolled out, a swift claw appeared above his head smashing the tree, the force of the blow causing him to fall on the ground, after rolling a few time he looked up to his horror a deep claw mark could be seen on the bark, the beast looked at Brian with naked fury in his eyes baring its sharp teeth it growled savagely
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“This is bad, the beast is too strong”
Flexing its frightening muscles the beast once again threw it self towards Brian, before he could react a claw hit Brian across his chest blasting him through the air.
“Boom” his body landed on the ground blowing up a huge cloud of sand creating a pit on the hard ground
“Dammit” relying on sheer will he shakily brought his body to up onto two legs
“agh” puking a mouth full of blood he felt a severe pain in the chest, inspecting his body he found the torso caved in with blood flowing out but looking at the pistol in his hand a weak smile appeared on his face
His body bungled up Brian looked extremely miserable, as if out of energy he once more fell flat on the ground
“Garr” glancing at its collapsed prey, a hideous grin appeared on the beasts face. Slowly walking towards Brian it nudged his body with its paws
Brian who had left control of the body watched the beasts with cold eyes
“Yes closer, just a bit closer”
Sniffing his body the beast gave a content purr, as if confirmed about its prey’s death the beast stretched its mouth wide open as to grab the body
“Now” forcefully activating the soul rune he once more took control of the body and pointed the barrel glimmering with black lines at its opened mouth, startled the beast wanted to move away but it was already too late
“Shooo”
A black light pierced its mouth straight to its brain. The beast gave a painful cry backing away, after taking a few steps its 2 meter tall body fell on the ground, looking at Brian with its despair filled eyes it gave one last growl before the light in its brown eyes faded away
Slowly standing up he walked up to the corpse after kicking it a few times he peered at it through the third eye after seeing no movement of energy a deep breath escaped his lungs relaxing the tensed muscles
“finally, now let’s see what this beast is hiding in his heart” peering through its open mouth he shoved his bloody hands down its throat after a few moments of shuffling through its organs his hands finally touched upon a cold hard object, with a sharp pull his hand came out holding a fist size red crystal with a few glimmering gray lights in its center
As if sensing the crystal the pendant hanging by his neck started to vibrate
“User has obtained a demon crystal *”
A notification popped out of the pendant, but this time a star was attached. Touching the star a new row of red words appeared in the air
“Demon crystal: a soul refining crystal
(Can be used for leveling) ”
As if seeing a ray of light after a century of darkness a smile bloomed on his bloody face, glancing at the red crystal he had the notion of doing some tests but after remembering his previous failure he shook his head
Coming out of his female vessel he popped the crystal into his mouth, similar to the macron it immediately dissolved into streams of red energy, but instead of being swallowed by the vortex the energy spread throughout his soul filling him with a sense of extreme bliss. Leaving the gray spots of light as they flew into the vortex devoured and changed into 3 hovering dark mana crystals
After a few moments the energy was dissolved into his soul refining it and upgrading it to a new level
Glancing at the pendant he directed a little amount of mana into it causing his status to pop out
Name: Brian Nicolas.
Age: 24(possessed)
Gender: Female (possessed)
Class: (level 01) Magician. Special Class: (level 02) Soul warrior.
Blessings/curses:
Curse of the abyss: increases your affinity with dark elements by 10%
Blessing of virtue: increases your affinity with light elements by 10%
SP(soul points): 110/110
MP(magic power/Mana) light magic: 6/6
Dark magic: 6/6
HP(health points): 15/50
Strength: 1
Perception: 5
Endurance: 2
Agility: 1.2
Abilities
Dark magic (user should be at level 2 to unlock an ability)
MACRON swallower (lv 1): allows you to swallow 3 MACRON’s per day.
Light magic (user should be at level 2 to unlock an ability)
Special class abilities *
Soul possession (lv 1): allows the user to possess a single soul
Possession: 1/1
Level up bonus: spatial storage (lv 1): allows user to store a single item*
(The item should possess user’s mana signature)
Brian felt happy seeing the increase in mana,
“My soul related class has leveled up, but my other class” frowning he touched the words to have his hands pass through them
“what about this star” touching the star a stream of formless energy exited the pendant towards his head, he felt a piercing pain and information about a technique started to appear in his head
A new row of words appeared beneath his soul warrior abilities
“Soul eradicator (lv 1): allows the user to attack an opponent’s soul”
After passing through the pain, he shifted through his new memories and was astonished by the lethality of this new technique.
As long as he welled it a ripple would be sent through his head towards the opponent soul, as long as the other person’s soul points are lower than his it would eradicate its soul. But similar to its absurd fire power it came with a huge backlash the ability consumed about half of his current soul points for each attack.
“Judging by my SP I can perform it for a maximum of 2 times”
“Hmm… spatial storage” touching the star the pistol in his hands vanished into thin air
“Item stored” looking at the new words he felt his whole body shiver
“Spatial storage, thi-this” sighing he closed the status magic! How many more surprises will I get?
Limping around he started to look through the forest in hopes of finding the beast’s lair
“This body is too damaged. I should probably replace it as soon as possible”
Remembering the body carried by the beast, he dragged his body past the smashed tree. Standing a meter from the dead body he saw an opening in the ground, it looked like a sewerage hole
Looking through his third eye he saw nothing out of the ordinary, “nothing, guess I can’t push my luck much”
“Hrm” As if sensing someone’s gaze he turned around
“Who!?”
Standing a meter away a man wearing a black leather suit was looking at him with his dark red eyes.