I used my Steal unique skill to get the skill that first caught my attention and that was Armord Hide and the newly acquired skill went now like this :
(Armored Hide) (Passive Skill) :
The holder of the skill grew scales above his skin which provide a natural defense against physical attacks and magical attacks too can be hidden at will without affecting the working of the skill, each time its holder successfully avoids damage, the scales harden , increasing their resistance to both physical damage and magical damage by 100% .
A few modified sentences were added to the skill but i only got pros and no cons, so i paid those changes no mind , and now i was covered by blue like scales from my neck to my feet, i felt it and very much was sure of it happening , as i noticed it appearing on the back of my hand.
With this new skill i believe that my strength increased once more and my body defense to some degree was impenetrable .
Ggggroooaar .
I focused more on the matters at and woke up from my trance by the angry roar of the creature currently beneath me, a nostalgic sound too ,it was that damn familiar sound again .
I jumped off his back and saw that the creature was 10 meters tall or more and was now completely out of the cave he was staying in , looking at me warily for a few seconds before he swung his poisonous stinger at me .
I stopped there unmoving while cupping my chin thinking about if i need anything else from that creature, or should i just finish him directly and my head was leaning more towards the latter, since i already felt that it was pointless to waste another 10 minutes here since i have already achieved my objectives , the attack of the creature appeared in my view but i was still standing there looking quite unbothered by it .
~CLANK ~ that was the only sound that came out from the stinger trying to pierce into my skin but it was utterly futile and unlike my fight against the Goblin Lord, i wasn't being sent flying like before after the collision , i was still fixed in my place with the same unbothered expression on my face .
Grr? , i believe him to be quite baffled about how i was able to do something like this .
~CLANK~ CLANK ~CLANK ~ .
He tried to strike at me with his stinger a few more times but the results were all the same, completely futile attacks that wasn't able to even impenetrate through my armor .
But i was still undecided on how much time did i want and need to prolong this battle for and if i even wanted to .
The last skill that creature had quite intrigued me but till now my luck with the skills which had weird effect wasn't that well , so i kept on wondering whether do i want to waste another 10 minutes here to get that skill , Hunter's Instinct .
I have a lot of means at my current disposable if i want to maims the monster and have other means if i wanted him paralyzed too, but which route should i choose ,~CLANK~ CLANK ~.
The huge creature was still not losing hope in breaking through my defense , unaware that he still didn't even scratched the surface of my strength , and most importantly that i could finish him with a single blow .
But another problem was that i wasn't sure how would my newly weird new skill react to that, so it's time to make up my mind about my next set of actions , ~CLANK~ .
I parred another tailed attack and activated Obsidian Armor and decided that first and foremost that annoying tail of his have to go .
I unsheathed my sword and moved at incomprehensible fast speed as if teleporting and swung my sword and here was the weird part a black void appeared following the swing of my sword.
I felt as if the whole world came to still around me then a second later came the scream of the creature, howling in pain in a very loud pitched voice and turning over dozen of times while making the whole ground shook from his turning before he was cladded in a ice like sculpture and his howling stopped, but with my new enhanced strength i was able to feel a dozen of Kaiju-0 or more heading in my direction .
So i decided to finish this as quickly as possible , since i believe that i don't need to waste even a second of my current state, i can't afford to .
So i again sprinted towards those incoming enemies and dismembered each and every one of them and the same black like the abyss void appeared and the stillness i felt earlier was more apperant and in 3 seconds all the enemies were finished .
A few of those that attacked were the ones who helped me in getting rid of those scum human lizards, so ironically i believe i gave those guys some sort of retribution by doing this, it wasn't my intention but it just happened i guess , i used appraisal on those guys and the weakest of them were that of Rank C monsters .
I discovered that their skills are quite alike the Kaiju-0 that i was originally fighting but more adapted to their shapes and form and fighting capabilities and style too , yes Kaiju-0 wasn't the name of the monster, it should be called the race of those creatures as they all have Kaiju-0 in front of what i presumed to be what kind of Kaiju-0 were they, quite fascinating and daunting too .
There are still a lot of different kinds of those guys out there with different skills, shapes of form and even Ranks, a quite versatile in the enemy's side on the battlefield that was capable of mass destruction .
I turned off the skill after i felt the tightening of the air around me increasing , i guessed that the world of the will won't gave me a countdown like the last time, a nerve-wracking move if i was allowed to say , i'm at least still here and didn't get ejected to anywhere else .
But on a more serious notice, what was exactly happening, first the strange void then the whole world coming to a still like state then my sword was covered now in cracks as if the blade would began to shatter at any moment now something that gave me a creepy feeling of bitterness and sadness .
And now at the mentioned of bitterness, i found another reason to feel lost and that reason was that i wasn't able to get my hands on the possessions of those guys, a wasted opportunity to make some easy money , could this be my own retribution .
Well, nothing in the world would have been capable of changing what had already happened , so might as well think of a solution to that too .
I could use Transmute to try and fix it but i'm not much of a blacksmith, i have no experience in using that skill, so trying to use it to mend my sword could probably create more troubles instead of solving it .
The ice began to fell off the sculptured Kaiju-0 monster and seeing its kin current state, it began to howl as if grieving on the loss of his comrades then looked me with wrathful red eyes and began to head in my way without an ounce of hesitation .
Notice, the monster has entered his berserk mode and his Strength doubled and his Stamina and Agility both increase by 10 .
Why i'm not surprised, since vengeance was all what it wants then vengeance will be what it get, it began to sprint directly at me i saw it disappearing from my sight and i saw him appear behind me stealthily as if he was sticking to my shadow or something like that then it opened its mouth and tried to bite me .
I again used Obsidian Armor and my size increased suddenly and i allowed him to eat me if he could and as he tried to eat me and crush me with his teeth, his teeth were the ones to took damages as they got crushed completely .
I then noticed that his assault didn't stop even after getting his teeth crushed he attacked me with his elongated tongue but i just caught it and pulled it completely from his mouth, the full length of his tongue was suddenly piled beside me and i did it very much effortlessly too , a lion without teeth or a tongue, let me see him howling now .
Oggroo , i guess two problems got solved completely already .
He began to claw me who was still standing there like a statue but his claws and the hand that had the claws both shattered at the moment of contact .
But i was still not finished, i began to pull off each centipede like appendages which he used as his legs quickly and swiftly too , agonizing the creature even more to the point that that its angry howling turned into one that of sorrow .
I then used my hand to clutch his lion like head and throw him back into his cave then deactivated my skill again and stood there hearing the the sounds of him hitting the walls of the cave , there were too many sounds that i began to wonder about how deep was that cave , intrigued to find out i went inside the cave and i began to understand how my initial impression about the cave from when the creature head came out of it was very much wrong .
The cave that the creature was inhabiting was very wide on the inside and was actually leading downwards like a tunnel system, i was still hearing echoes of the monster i threw in earlier who was still stumbling to the walls and was able to approximately pinpoint his current location from all the other tunnels and began to head there .
The whole cave insides were dyed red with bones and skeletons spread all over the cave and in the tunnel i was currently walking in but another thing that i discovered was how all those tunnels were connected to the same destination as i find out about this from my tunnel getting even more wider as i keep walking in this complete darkness .
~CLANK ~ , i was suddenly attacked but a few smaller Kaiju-0 monsters which i slashed and cut with my sword with ease but their appearance gave me some guesses about the place that i was currently in .
A nest , a monster nest to be exact and those little guys that were still bigger than me were the offsprings .
I continued to march and the blood and the stench in the air increased and got more heavy, how many humans died here and not only humans too , the walls were decorated by different colors of blood some were green , some were blue but red was still the most consistent color in sight .
I was beginning to get more annoyed at the frequently of their attacks so i used Aura Of The Strong effects to repell most of those annoying visitors but ended having to deal with the more bigger targets , a few B Rank monsters and there was actually another A Rank monster here inside the nest , its appearance had me worried about what was going to happen in the next MONSTER'S RAID .
again, most of the skills that they had were similar to that monster from before with some of them having less number of skills than the A and B Rank monsters, and that A Rank monster attributes were weaker than the one i was fighting before .
For some reason i felt as if this place wasn't a simple nest or a mating ground for those monsters and it was as if it hid some secret in the deepest part of it , if i was only intrigued to figure out how the interior of the cave looked like before, i'm now more genuinely curious about what was going on this cave and what secretes that this place hide .
I finished those guys off using my overwhelming strength and decorated the walls with their blood which was appearing to be a more bright red colored, but the most surprising thing was that the walls actually reacted and swallowed the blood instantly,i got a few chills from thinking that the cave was alive but i again composed myself and it was a quite easy thing to do since i again remind myself of my current strength and different kinds of abilities .
So even if the cave was actually alive , so what , at most it will be another opponent to overcome and that all .
I continued to head deeper but not before dismembering those guys and storing them in my ring but the only unfortunate thing was that there was no trace of mana cores and i hoped to get a few from those guys since they are quite powerful and all .
I then went deeper into the cave and encountered some quite large numbers of C Rank Kaiju-0 , with different shapes and form but they were all slaughtered like their previous kin but they just took a second or two more and i found some information about that the black void that kept appearing everytime i slashed or struck those guys .
It had some connections to the space and what made me believe so was that even though i attacked those guys in a close range combat, each time i struck with 50 percent of my strength the sword struck my enemies before i finish swinging it as if the attack was teleporting directly in front of the enemies leaving them no chance to react or even parry it .
It was quite the surprise, that i even kept experimenting with it from different varying distances and the results were a hundred percent hitting chance , and maybe the Frosted Edge have something to do with this since it have a hundred percent of critical hits when attacking, something that i wasn't able to wrap my head around for quite some time but maybe it had a hand in this .
Like those novels characters, i was reading about back at my old world who were able to kill with a one swing of their sword, i'm too capable of such feat woohoo .
Ggggrooo, ggggrooo .
Grioooo, grioooo .
They looked at me who was rejoicing weirdly then began to resume their attacks but even before they take a single step i slashed 20 times in their directions and a fraction of a second later 20 headless corpses were surrounding me lying on the ground .
I continued to head towards the now glowing red light having quite a smirk on my face which turned to a deep frown after seeing what was the reason for that glowing red light, a pool of blood, or more likely a river of dark red blood almost completely blackened and filled with human corpses which was being thrown over frequently in there by the surrounding monsters .
The corpses were then shriveled then completely turned to ashes turning the shade of the blood even darker, then the blood river gave me another shock that was enough to stun and dumbfounde me completely, the blood river actually began to give birth to 8 Kaiju-0 monsters and the blood level began to decrease a bit but by not much and the shade of the blood in the river becoming more brighter.
What in the world was going on here , those monsters weren't increasing their numbers by being breeded but by looking at what had just happened they were being actually created, produced and manufactured .
This do explain a lot , like why all of them were sharing a certain set of skills, and the absence of the cores inside their bodies, but it was also raising a lot more questions and those certain kind of questions that were quite difficult to deal with like Who, Why, What .
Who was responsible for doing this ?, my guess would be that it was the doing of the demon king .
Why they were doing this ?, another question that i have no need to guess the answer since it's quite obvious, to try and exterminate the humans ofcourse .
What were they ?, that was the only question that i had no answer too but one thing was certain those things were hunting humans for more reasons than their enjoyment and need for food.
My mind was quite perplexed now trying to figure out answers and ways to eradicate the existence of that river of blood when i noticed the huge creature from before sipping some of the blood by the river and healing himself completely in just a mere seconds before he began to spat the mutilated body of a barely still alive Blade into the river and like what happened to the other corpses he shriveled then turned into ash .
I increased my strength then used my sword and slashed towards the recently healed creature completely losing my cool , i was quite angry, wrathful even thinking of how many lives were sacrificed and used for this kind of thing to actually appear.
But my attack and for the first time was stopped and to be more specific swallowed by the interference of the blood river and it even tried to counter attack by unleashing blood needles at me like projectiles which was completely ineffective.
I looked at the blood river ahead of me and felt as if it or at least something that was inside it was staring at me back .
I began to come closer to the blood river and began to march steadily and with quite carefree attitude towards the A Rank Kaiju-0 and began to size it with my eyes and as a result of the still on effects of my Aura Of The Strong skill and my now agitated mood that was quite apperant on the frowned face that i was currently having and the beating it got from before played some role too,all those said reasons led it to actually began to cower in fear and began to take a step back for each step that i take forward before it stumbled into the wall was nowhere else for it to retreat to , it then looked at the direction of the blood river as if it was asking for its help .
I let out a breath of air and said with an echoing voice : DON'T LOOK AT IT, IT WON'T BE ABLE TO SAVE YOU, IT WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO SAVE ITSELF .
Then i looked at the direction of that Blood River and continued saying : NOW IT FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ITS STRENGTH AND MINE AND GOT A QUICK TASTE OF IT JUST NOW , IT WON'T TRY TO INTERFER IN THIS ANYMORE , AIN'T I CORRECT ?.
I saw the blood in the pool began to suddenly whirl like as if forming a whirlpool then its level were beginning to decrease as if something were brewing In its depths or as if someone was currently sucking all those blood .
I turned off the Obsidian Armor skill and hurriedly turned it back on since i sensed that there were incoming attacks coming in my direction and were quite fast too but luckily i was able to parry them all in time .
I then outstretched my hand towards the still cowering in fear creature in front of me but a sudden barrier appeared trying to block my hand but i passed through it with ease as if it was made out of thin paper and touched the twitching body of the A Rank monster and was about to activate Steal when a playful and a soothing voice came from behind me saying :
Could your excellency be a bit lenient and leave him be, i will be truly in your debt .