TF chapter 77 A Win
Before the twig could even get within 5 inches of the palm, the creature withdrew it and its body blurred before appearing at my side where, its open mouth was just a grasp away from biting my head off!
Seeing that any movement I could attempt, was slower than the attack, I leaned back, with the mouth missing, only for a punch to be thrown towards my stomach!
I let myself fall to the ground and rolled away, feeling my very muscles screaming in strain. Just those few movements alone were exhausting! But the beast had changed its attack pattern. Where it had been content to attack from afar, now it was going for close range. Though, I had been the first to initiate an attack, it wasn't withdrawing from me, instead matching and even surpassing my reactions.
I cursed at its well endowed physical body. If one of its attacks so much as hit me, I was pretty sure that I would most definitely be severely injured, if not dead!
As I dodged attack after attack while also dishing out my own which were also being effectively dodged, I noticed something. The creature was fighting calmly, all its moves the picture calculation.
My dodging was haphazard, while its own was perfect, allowing it to conserve more energy while I wasted a lot of it.
A breakthrough was needed. If I only relied on the twig, a battle of attrition would only eventually lead to my own death instead of its own.
With a bit of concentration during a minor respite from its continously chained attacks, I concentrated immensely, causing the surroundings of my body to become lit up as I formed a few balls of burning brightness.
They expanded until they reached the level of tennis ball, where I stopped them as being too big would only make it easy for them to escape my control.
Another attack came at me, a swipe of the claw, which I barely dodged by taking a step back before mentally moving my intent spiritual balls, one of them, towards its arm as it passed by. I hit it on the elbow, causing a pained scream to reverberate in the surroundings as the creature once again retreated a few meters away.
Its disability of having zero eyes was serving to be the greatest advantage for me. It had been capable of dodging my attacks with the twig because my physical prowess had been lower than its own, but these flaming plasma balls didn't have that same constraint as with just a thought, I could move them way faster than even its reaction speed, as long as it was within the domain of my spiritual powers!
There is no human who won't feel the satisfaction of wielding power, the rush that came with feeling unbeatable. Some, became taken in and turned prideful arrogant and conceited while others, became even more humble. As they always say, there are even greater mountains beyond those that you see.
The rush of joy and pride and many other complex emotions alone added to my spike of adrenaline. There was this satisfaction that bloomed within me the longer I looked at its thrashing and screams.
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This was power in its truest sense!
The orange plasma balls floating around me made me feel that I had finally reached my peak!
I pulled my hand back and through the twig, which after exiting my spiritual domain, where all its particles had been in perfect control; its tip exploded due to the abrupt expansion brought upon due to me relinquishing control.
The explosion was minor in nature, simply kicking up a gust of wind, but the screaming creature took off, scared by the mere shockwaves of a mild heat battering at it.
I smirked at the fact that I might have caused it to develop some sort of trauma.
"That was cool! How I wish I had power like yours!" Exclaimed Danny, while I disabled my spiritual powers, only after hurling all the balls of plasma away from myself, where they exploded at a safe distance.
"You were struggling. If it wasn't for your intent, you would have been dead." Bora's calm analysis broke me out of my pride. She was right, its physical body was far far above mine.
"If I hadn't analysed where it was going to attack just by reading the movement of its muscles...I would be most definitely dead. But, the idea I figured out at the end helped me. It looks like I will have to figure out more uses for my intent. Adding more fighting styles to my repertoire would allow me not have to contend with these physically stronger creatures."
"It will also allow you the versatility to take on multiple of the creatures." She added.
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I winced as one of my scrapes was rubbed at using some sort of rudimentary cloth from some animal dubbed with some sort of thick paste. It almost caused me to scream as the pain was akin to being rubbed in the wound with salt.
Bora wasn't being gentle here. It was like she was taking her revenge out on me. I could practically see the wrath that was seething within her by gazing into those purple pupils of hers. But I wasn't going to apologise, no way! I had kissed her and she was going to have to live with it!
Though, the taste of those lips wasn't something I could easily forget. I even developed the urge to lean in closer and go for another one, but decided against such a course of action as I wouldn't love something ambiguous to turn into hate.
We were up within one of the tree branches, resting and with me trying to at least get back into exploration shape. The strain upon my body by the battle was making me feel pain everywhere, like I had just had every muscle stretched to its limits...which I had.
"We can't always be fighting every creature we meet as that will cut down on our exploration time. You need to come up with a move that would make you win easily and cleanly without tiring yourself out... Those balls of plasma were a step in the right direction."
Even angry, she was still capable of seeing the big picture.
"A star isn't just known for being very hot. There is gravity too. But for now, I think I will go with the plasma balls as they are easier to manage." I had put much thought into that decision.
"We can't linger here for long. The day might end without us having even made any headway!" Danny reminded.
I stood up after a few minutes and moved on, this time being cautious. We had started noticing signs of increased creature activity, which made us certain that we were entering a part of the forest that was home to them.
At first, it was critters like mis-shapen centipedes, rabbit-like creatures that had a leap so powerful, their counterparts on Earth would be put to shame...as we had even caught sight one leaping so high, it had practically matched a tree! You had to know that these trees would make the ones on Earth feel like babies!
Of course, we made sure to avoid most of them, which was made even easier with their lack of light sensory organs or sound ones. All we just had to do was not be in the range of their spiritual perceptions, a fairly easy task.
Though, there were those that we failed to avoid, whether because the meeting had been surprisingly abrupt, or that avoidance would have been even more troublesome! These ones we killed. Most of the kills were being done by me. Some of the edible ones were harvested by Bora and carried within her leaf bag. They were going to be our night snack.