Swiftly dodging a flying projectile, Calvin swiftly slashed the limb which tried to attack him. A quick stab to the head, and the body of a horror fell.
Panting heavily, he dropped to his knees and caught his breath. A familiar sound rang in his head, but he ignored it. " Calvin don't drop your guard. " A voice barked at him.
He scowled, rolling out of the way as a spiky limb of a spider like horror, stabbed down on the area he rested. His hands reached into his trench coat and a bang echoed moments later.
The horror in say had, a human sized spider body, thick skin as if made for the crudest of leather. Thirteen segmented limbs which made it fast.
However, the most daunting feature was its human face, with black popped eyes, two slits for nose, a lipless maw and its entire face was full of hair patches.
Looking over at Kyra, all he could say was, ' The demon is fairing perfectly fine. ' Apart from the ring of light which burned endless around his neck. A yellow furnace consumed everything behind him.
With nothing attacking him, he stood watching as the yellow flame goddess danced with several horrors.
Her footwork was honed to perfection, her strikes were flawless, Calvin felt shame when he first saw her fight.
She moved like a serpent, twirling and spinning around the creatures. Calvin, not wanting to be left behind, joined Kyra in her massacre.
Gripping his blade with both hands, his veins surged with blood and diabolic essence. In a flash Calvin's physical capabilities soared to heights, adrenaline couldn't reach.
A flash traveled through the horde of Horrors, leaving a nigh endless spurt of green blood. " Save your strength Calvin, it's its plan, to tire us out with overwhelming numbers. "
Hearing those words, Calvin grimace. Her voice daunting yet comforting to hear. Since he could see her or anything, except things in front of him, he was at least informed about her well-being.
Indeed he could see her previously, but that was due to her amber flame ability which was used to burn up a galore of spider creatures. Now the flame was gone, darkness prevailed.
Shrieks rang through the area as bursts of flames consumed the horrors, diminishing their numbers. The flame didn't come from Kyra, she had exhausted her energy to use abilities. Calvin however was different.
Since he had an unlimited generator of mundane fire on his neck. He just have to release a huge burst anytime he was overwhelmed.
So their battle with the dormant horde of spider horrors lasted for the next thirty minutes, before they were allowed to breathe.
Calvin, now panting profusely dropped to a knee. The top of his blade digging into the ground, a blur flew towards him. In reaction he raised his blade to the side deflecting attack.
Still on his knees, several wind cutting attack came and he managed to deflect them barely. His bloodied battered body refused to conduct his diabolic essence.
A spider limb shot towards his abdomen, while he held his blade up in defense for a previous attack. Calvin found his muscles to weak to bring them down, so his fate was unavoidable.
Dropping the blade, he manipulated it to fall tip first towards the arm sized limb as it punctured his abdomen. The blade sliced vertically through the limb and prevented it from exiting Calvin's body.
He held unto the swords hilt and blade, forcing the limb out of his abdomen, his blood poured endlessly through the gapping hole.
' Horrors adore my abs.' he sarcastically said bitting through the pain. Once the limb was out, he stomped on it as he had risen to his feet earlier.
Retrieving his sword he drove it into the face of the horror before him. His stab was weak and his strength faulty, this made him unable to react to six limbs which pierced through his sides.
He grimaced. The flame ring around his neck shone intensely, ' Good thing I am immune to what ever I manipulate. ' the horror burst into a wild flame and was charred in mere moments.
Free, he dropped to the ground, lying supine and bleeding out. Then he heard footsteps, " That seemed to be the last one. Rise let us get going, they are more ahead of us." Kyra said stretching her hand towards him.
Blood spilled out of his lips, it threatened to chock him if time wasn't taken yet Calvin couldn't rise. His formal companion bent over to him, " You have what it takes to survive and dominate, but you refuse to use it. " She said.
{ Lilith : An accurate saying, she reads you like a book. }
Calvin clenched his fists as he tried to rise, he tried to deny the truth. " I despise what I have, it would lead me only to damnation. " He said mentally keeping his blade back into his inventory.
The female looked at him, her expression neutral but he couldn't see it. " What is your purpose? " She asked, " To survive." He replied without hesitation.
" A purpose like that would kill you, believe me. " Briskly she walked forward, leaving him behind. * Sigh *, ' The more time I spend with you, the more I lose my mind ' He thought.
[ Diabolic Trait Activated : Abysmal Regeneration ]
Instantly a wave washed through his body. Bones were rejoined, flesh regrew to cover up gaps and his entire being was restored to fill health. But at the cost of something cataclysmic.
[ Your Possession Grows ]
[ Possession Satiation : 40% ]
Gritting his teeth, he rose and went after Kyra for she was his pathway out of here. Turning on his soul sense, he spotted her observing something, something embedded on the ground.
He went closer but she stood immediately, " We head west, " she said, " And increase the lighting of your flame ring. "
Without question, Calvin did as he was told, the light from his flame influencing an eight meter radius. Now he could see Kyra's behind clearly, knowing not to stare too much.
After observing the area of which she had sight off, Kyra mumbled something then began moving west. Calvin felt his skin crawl, something was off.
He opened his interface to see his rewards from the earlier fight.
[ Notifications ]
[ Host has slain a Glaze Spider, Dormant tier two x32 ]
[ Host has leveled up x4 ]
[ Host is now a level 8 ]
[ Eight free stat points have been credited to account ]
[ An Upgrade card have been rewarded ]
[ Host is adviced to grow stronger in the use of his abilities and level up by battling stronger opponents ]
Having been a long time since he opened his host attributes, he checked on his attributes to see his progress. ' For someone who hates the system, I am growing fast '
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ABSOLUTE OMEGA
< Host Attributes >
– Name : Calvin Braxton
– Race : Possessed Entity
– Level : 8
– Title : Personification of Horror and Nightmare
– Technique : Customization Tab, Manipulation
– EXP : 150/800
– HP : 195/240
– Aether : 200/200
– Possession Points : 0
– Stat Points : 8
{ Stats }
»» Strength : 8
»» Speed : 12
»» Stamina : 9
»» Reflex : 12
»» Perception : 14
»» Constitution : 8
{ Attributes }
»» Skill : Grave Instinct < lv 1 >
»» Traits : Infernal Conduit < lv 1 >/ Abysmal Regeneration < lv 1 >/ Soul Sense < lv 1 >/ Devil's Whisper < lv 1 >/ Unholy Resistance < lv 2 >.
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Pondering for a moment, he added five points to strength and three points to stamina. So they were shown as followed.
[ < Strength : 13 > < Stamina : 12 > ]
The hope to round up his attributes/stats weren't far fetched. He initial need the speed to avoid the corruption of the world, but sometimes a fight would be needed so he had to upgrade his strength.
A peak mundane human had the total attribute of 5 in every aspect, so Calvin's strength was almost that of three peak humans.
As crazy as that was, Calvin was slightly stronger than dormant horrors. To the face of the awakened ones, he was pathetically weak.
While enjoying the feeling of strength coursing through the fibers of his being. A loud cry echoed at a distance and Kyra paused.
" Wait for me. " She said zooming off, in a blur of yellow flames. ' I don't obey orders darling. ' he replied charging a blast of fire in his palms, " Let's test the flames. " He said shooting the flame at the earth, propelling himself into the air.