Old Man

Shian swung his scythe wildly, severing and dissecting several beasts at the same time, he tried his best not to move his legs too much because of the pain that might distract him, but some beasts unknowingly forced him to, and those beasts... He gave them a very cruel death.

A beast charged at him with its horns, aiming to gore him to death, Shian jumped to the side and avoided it but his legs were strained in the process.

Shian gritted his teeth and gave the beast a threatening stare, if stares could kill, the beast would have died a dozen times already. The beast felt a shiver run down its spine, it ignored the threatening gaze of Shian and charged at him again. Shian who was slashing at a beast suddenly stopped, caught the horns of the beast charging at him and snapped them, the beast wailed but it was short-lived as Shian stabbed the beast to death with its own horns and then...he smiled.

'Have a taste of your own medicine' He thought coldly.

The beast he had neglected to kill so as to exert revenge swung its scaled tail and whacked Shian brutally on his stomach. He powered through it and pierced the head of the creature with his scythe. Shian summoned his trident to make his killing faster and began his assault once again.

Shian moved nimbly between the beasts, causing carnage wherever he passed, beasts fell left and right. Shian made sure he didn't get surrounded so as to prevent them from ganging up on him, he killed them in a way that their dead bodies formed a barrier that prevented the beasts from attacking him from his blind spots.

Meanwhile, as Shian was having the 'best' time of his life, a bent old man cladded in blue armour and a large great sword strapped to his back was watching Shian from a distance, he had blue hair with strips of grey in them, he was floating leisurely in the air as if everything happening around him wasn't his concern, but he had an unnerving smile on his face that made anyone who looked at him feel uncomfortable.

'This boy...he's good, I've not seen anyone with such a powerful physique that is not part of the five pillars of earth, I wonder just how much he can keep this up' The old man thought as his eyes glowed a faint golden color.

Shian felt a sudden rise in his strength, he doubled his kill and within an hour he had massacred all the beasts that were left, some where killed with a light cut on their vital parts while some couldn't even be recognized anymore as they had been disfigured beyong recognition.

'Damn!, I never knew I could do it' As Shian was thinking, the old man made a move, he slowly descended to the ground and the moment his feet touched the ground he disappeared with a bang. He moved so fast he broke through the sound barrier. Shian who was about to celebrate his victory by rebandaging his wounds flinched and summoned his weapons again.

The old man came to a stop in the front and another horde of wild beasts, they immediately tried to attack him but he released something akin to an aura from his body and they immediately retreated, full of fear. He attacked them from one of their sides and they began to run in the opposite direction, towards where Shian was.

The old man grinned and said to himself.

'Lets see how long you can last boy.'

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Shian meanwhile had given up when he saw that there was no danger in his area...

'...for now at least' he thought.

Shian moved to a safe place and began the process of wrapping his wounds up, this time he disinfected them before he closed it with a bandage to prevent tetanus from entering his body through it.

As he finished the task, he lay on the ground and closed his eyes to rest for a while before continuing his journey, he didn't even rest for up to one minute before he felt the ground shake again, he looked up and saw a horde of beasts just as much as the ones he finished annihilating speeding towards him.

'Tarnation' he cursed.

Shian wanted to cry, he had just finished taking out large number of beasts and didn't have time to rest, yet another one the same size was heading towards him. Shian's feeling turned to that of anger, he felt the sudden rise in his strength again and charged towards the beast without his weapons, he really looked suicidal that way, but he alone knew what he was doing.

The old man who had lured the beasts towards Shian and boosted his strength also smiled at himself and thought.

'I really hope he has a plan'

Shian who was oblivious to what was happening was running with a frantic expression on his face, the beasts that had already sighted him, hurried their charge and at the last moment when he had almost reached the beasts, Shian jumped and summoned a large war hammer, he swung it out fiercely at the charging beasts, immediately it touched the first beast a devastating shockwave rocked their ranks, killing several of them and injuring more. The ones that survived where pushed back and their charge was stopped.

The old man watching Shian was perplexed, he never expected Shian to do something that incredible and at the same time insane. But the old man was yet to see the real deal.

Shian took off his right blue gauntlet and summoned a grey one, he punched his right hand with his left hand five times, each hit was powerful and by the time he had punched it the fifth time it was glowing, everything happened within a split second, but it was enough for the beasts to attack him. Shian dodged to the side and a sharp spiked tail flew past his face barely missing his face, he activated the ability of his blue gauntlets and jumped, his boots glowed and then he was five meters ahead.

'hmmm...this will be interesting' The old man thought.

As Shian came down, he shouted and punched the ground with his two hands right where the blood of the dead beasts were. This time an explosion though not as large as the previous one but more potent pushed against the beasts, rupturing their insides and killing some of them on the spot, the ones that where lucky enough to survive the explosion where electrocuted and stunned, unable to move, Shian wasted no time and began his killing spree.

While all this happened the old man watched him for a while and then he moved and all the beasts attacking Shian dropped dead with blood spilling out of their necks.

"What!!" Shian said as his vision blurred and he passed out.

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