Gary and Rowan were traveling down the central part of the Babuyan islands.Gary took a backseat as Rowan fought in the front. Unlike Sesi who could kill many ants at the same time, Rowan could only kill a few ants at a time because he was still not good at releasing his aura to enhance his swings and amplify the power he could release.Some ants ran past Rowan and attacked Gary, but they got destroyed into smithereens, and even Rowan couldn’t see how Gary was killing them.Gary was punching using his new skill ‘Flash Fist.’It was a combination of aura and the green lightning that he had. Using these two, he could release a condensed version of energy through his punches and make that energy travel and hit a target and explode in a destructive manner. Because of the sheer extreme speed of the attack, the ants died without knowing what hit them.Seeing the ants dying before they could even reach Gary, the other ants focused their attacks on Rowan instead.This gave Gary some time to l
Rowan tirelessly fought hundreds of ants of all levels. In the past, he had no way of accurately guessing the opponent’s level.However, now, his aura has bettered his senses, and he could vaguely guess the strength of the opponents now.As he fought the ants, he also tried to gauge Gary’s level, but he couldn’t tell exactly how strong Gary was. He could only tell that Gary was stronger than him because his aura signature was very strong.Just then, Gary sat down on the ground and started meditating.“What is he doing?” Rowan wondered.The ants initially didn’t attack Gary even after they saw him sit on the ground and close his eyes. They probably thought that he was luring them in. However, as seconds passed, some of them still felt the urge to attack Gary and so charged him.And this forced Rowan to fight these ants that went after Gary.He had to push himself in terms of speed and agility to deal with all the ants that tried to attack him as well as Gary at the same time.As he pre
Gary was trying to get to the stage of Energy Fusion.It was like one’s body absorbing the power of a medicine in their stomach. Only difference was that this medicine would not shrink in size. This medicine was his energy core which kept getting replenished by his breathing and concentrating.It wasn’t easy on his body at all. This felt much more painful than when Ai first entered his body and changed him.He could feel stinging pain in his heart because that was the first organ that he needed to fuse the energy with.Then the heart would be able to bear the increased blood pressure required to pump the energified blood to the rest of the body and the organs.It was a slow, tiring, and hurting process.Gary put his trust in Rowan and closed his eyes. He was also ready to fight in case it was needed, but he hoped that he wouldn’t need to fight because the meditation itself was taking a lot out of him.Rowan finished dealing with all the ants in the vicinity and then he came to sit nex
Rose Witch’s hands were like serrated knives with sharp edges like the thorns on rose branches.Her attacks had an advantage in that they managed to better pierce through Gary’s defenses better than even a regular knife or sword could.So she was able to dig her way through Gary’s aura defense and strike his body, causing him to bleed from his arms.And she laughed maniacally as his blood sprayed into the air.However, Gary’s expression didn’t change one bit. He was already feeling tremendous pain in the heart because he was in the middle of fusing it, so he felt numb to pain anywhere else in the body, and it proved to be a blessing disguise now.He was able to bear the pain and counterattack Rose Witch.However, his fists couldn’t reach her because she was flying so fast he only managed to hit her afterimages. This frustrated him, but he kept on attacking nonetheless as he was not in a position to drag this battle. He had to finish this as fast as possible.Rose Witch was still grinn
Though Rose Witch was glaring at Gary, a lot of thoughts were running through her mind. (He used aura, and he has the healing skill of a vampire, and now he’s used lightning ability. Just how many abilities does he have? He’s not ordinary. He’s dangerous. He’s probably not far from my level. I have to beat him now. If I can’t, then I should at least deliver the message to my mom so she’ll come and deal with him.)A rose bloomed on her head and sent sound waves into the distance.“Are you sending signals to your mother?” Gary asked.“So you were able to see it,” she wasn’t too surprised. “I guess you do have the ability to use aura.” (I’ve killed people using aura before. Not all of them are dangerous, but this guy gives a very dangerous vibe. My instincts are telling me that I need to destroy him even if it means I need to sacrifice myself.)“Your plans will not go as you want,” Gary said.“What do you mean? I’ve already sent the message,” she replied. “No one can stop it. In a minute
Goya was the first to reach where Rowan was.Rowan was still conscious, but his whole body was in a mess. More than outer injuries, his body suffered internal injuries because of Rose Witch’s sonic attack.Rowan was slowly healing thanks to his Jackal’s Recovery skill.“Who did you fight for you to lose like this?” Goya asked him, almost laughing at him in pity.“If you came here just to laugh at me, then get the fuck out of my sight,” Rowan growled, “before I grab you by your ears and break all your teeth.”“You can’t do that now, though,” she covered her mouth with her paw and giggled some more.Rowan wished he could get up right now so he could smash the smugness off of her face. “Mm?” Just then, he noticed something. “Wait, were your eyes always yellow?”“Ah, no,” she said, blinking a few times. “I leveled up and crossed level 100. My sight vastly improved now. I can even see the lines on the leaves of the trees that are hundreds of meters away from me. This is a very handy skill.
A few minutes later.Sesi was the first to arrive at the center where Gary and others were. Before she even got to them, she was laughing. “Hahaha.”Rowan could already understand the meaning behind her laughter, and it disturbed him from his meditation. “Dammit. Did she already reach level 200?”“200? I’m at level 202 now,” Sesi said, snickering. “I wonder what your level is at. Is it 165 or 170? Or is it still at 160? And wait, what happened to your ear? Did a crow bite it off?”“Krgh, if I wasn’t injured, I would have also reached level 200,” Rowan barked.“Hmph, loser’s excuse,” Sesi snorted.“It’s not an excuse. The sentinel came after me. If I wasn’t injured by her,” he pointed at Rose Witch’s head, “I would have hunted more ants.”Sesi looked at Rose Witch and blinked twice. “I-Is that a sentinel? Why is she still alive?”“Boss Gary told us to keep her alive,” Goya said. She was still sitting on top of Rose Witch’s head.“Alive? Why?”“You should ask him.”Sesi looked at Gary w
An ant came running out of the bush. It was a level 173 ant commander.“I’m here!” Rose Witch shouted. “Save me!”Goya stood up in a hurry. She was about to fight, but then a flying slash came out of nowhere and cut the ant commander’s body in two halves.Goya focused her gaze, and in the distance, she saw a spider web joining two big trees. Leah was standing on top of the spider web, with her sword unsheathed. “She managed to kill that ant from more than half a mile away? That’s cool.”Rose Witch, on the other hand, couldn’t believe that the ant commander was killed so helplessly. “W-Who killed my commander? Which bastard did it?”“Hehe, it is one of our team members,” Goya told her. “They are going to come here soon. So, you can take a look at them yourselves.”“Exactly how many members are there in your team?” Rose Witch asked.“Six less than six million,” Goya said.“W-What?” Rose Witch looked petrified. “Six million people? T-That’s impossible. That many humans can’t possibly sti