Albert actively led the exploration. He was also eager to see what Myles was after.“So, Mr. Albert,” Biskie hesitantly asked. “What abilities do you have? It’s totally fine if you don’t want to answer.”“I don’t have any ability,” Albert replied with a friendly smile. “I just absorbed only power crystals, so my physical attributes are like that of a superhuman. My strength, speed, reflexes, they can compete with beasts.”“That’s cool!” Biskie got excited. “How many power crystals did you consume until now?”“More than ten,” he said. “It’s not easy to find them. In all my years of exploring, I could only find six crystals. I bought the rest in the auction.”“Are all power crystals the same?”“Of course not. Red crystals boost your strength. Yellow crystals boost your speed. Blue crystals boost your agility and reflexes. Orange crystals boost your stamina and durability. Translucent crystals boost your five senses. Brown crystals boost your overall abilities. There are some other types
“Use your flames!” Myles yelled.Justin, who stood frozen in trepidation as four spiders converged onto him, suddenly felt the desire to prove himself. “Haaah!” he screamed and punched the air. Blue flaming fists flew forth and struck the spiders.Parts of their bodies were burnt instantly, but pretty soon, their entire bodies caught on flames and exploded, killing the spiders then and there.This surprised everyone, including Justin himself. The smoke that came from the flames made the other spiders run back to their hiding.Albert, who saw the flames, covered his mouth with a special mask he took out from his backpack. “Those blue flames that are giving off gray fumes. Did he absorb a whiptail wolf’s crystal?” he began seeing Justin in a different light. “From what I saw, his attacks were reckless. He wasted a lot of energy, but that helped us scare the other spiders, so it worked out well for us in the end.” Sheathing his sword, he jumped down using the webs and landed close to Jus
The big pig had boils all over its body, even under its feet. It was angry. It was in pain. It was boiling mad. It looked like it wanted to destroy everything in sight.“It’s the Plague Pig! Run!” Albert unsheathed his ax and threw it at the pig. The ax struck the pig’s head and created flames, which blinded the pig, but that didn’t stop the twelve-foot-tall monster from charging.The bridge was about 100 meters long, but the pig caught up with them before they could cover half the distance.Albert was the closest, but he jumped forward so that the pig would go after others. The one that was now closest to the pig was Myles. He didn’t run anymore. “You pitiful thing,” he stopped and slapped the pig with the back of his hand. The pig fell over the bridge and got sent rolling on top of the black river.The others turned and looked. By then, the pig had already sunk into the river.“Where did the pig go?” Albert asked.“It jumped into the river,” Myles answered and looked at his hand tha
“Heal.”A drop of water flew out of Myles’ palm and struck the pig.A ghastly amount of black vapors escaped out of the Plague Pig’s body the moment a single word escaped out of Myles’ mouth. The Plague Pig which had been suffering for a long time with all kinds of illnesses now felt the changes in its body, and that quickly brought its feet to a halt. All the boils on its body were gone. Even the dirt and filth on its body was gone, making it look like the cleanest pig in the world. The anger in its eyes also faded away, though the pig still seemed to be in shock.It thought nobody could ever help it, but this stranger that had come out of nowhere was able to miraculously heal it.And this brought tears to the pig’s eyes. Until now, everybody kept running away, but this young human didn’t.The plague pig turned into a humanoid pig and spoke, “O, Great Human. I, Porcius, owe you my life.” He fell to his knees. “Ask anything, and I’ll do it for you.”Blood rose into Myles’ throat, but
Myles moved his hand, and Albert’s body was pulled toward him. Albert ended up landing behind Myles, surprising everyone.Porcius increased his speed and speedily left the region fast and reached a place where there was knee-deep water infested with Bonebugs.Bonebugs were nasty amphibious bugs that would enter another being’s body and eat their bones until all the bones were consumed.They were numbered in hundreds of thousands. All of them flew out of the water and scared the living daylights out of Justin and others.Just when Albert was thinking his life was saved, he and everyone else was surrounded by the overwhelming number of bonebugs. Fighting such a number with a sword wouldn’t be possible for him even if he were in good health. As all of them came buzzing toward him, Albert gave up on his life.“You filthy little shits,” Porcius started stamping on the water. “Pig’s Feet Shredding Water!” Water droplets flew like needles and pierced through multiple of the bugs. In a matter
The stone soldier followed the female golem for a while until she started acting like she lost her way.The stone soldier locked his arm with hers and took her with him. Just what Myles and others wanted.The stone soldier, however, brought the female golem to a secret place and tried to go hard at her, but she slapped both of his cheeks with both of her hands.She THEN made her weird gestures, which nobody other than Myles understood.“What’s she doing?”“Is that the sign language of the dumb?”“I have no idea.”Myles then said, “She’s saying she’s only interested in a strong man, and that he needs to absorb some crystals and grow stronger first if he wants to have her.”“And what’s he saying?” Biskie asked.“He says he’s going to try and ask his boss if he can give him a stone crystal or two,” Myles explained, “and she asked him if she could accompany him.”The stone soldier initially rejected that idea, but after the female golem pleaded a little, he took her along. He was about to
Ria wanted to test her strength against the stone hulk as much as she wanted to find out how to bring him down.Porcius backed away and turned back into his humanoid form. “If physical attacks won’t work, this is going to be tricky.”Ria turned into her hybrid hawk form.The stone hulk grew the size of his arm and punched at her. Ria caught his fist with her talons and lifted him up and tossed him toward the ceiling. She soared and attacked him with her sharp wings. “Hawk Assault!”The stone hulk’s body was split into tiny pieces.“Wow, she’s so powerful,” Biskie was extremely impressed. “To be able to cut through tough rock so easily…” she wondered when she would be able to do such a thing.“Is it dead?” Casey’s mouth opened wide after Ria grabbed hold of the two crystals.The stone hulk’s body started rebuilding on the ground, and Ria felt the crystals getting pulled toward him. She clenched her fists, but then the crystals still forcibly flew out of her hands and merged with the st
“We’re all fucked,” Albert said, the hairs on his arms already standing up. “The nether demon must have come here to collect the crystals. What wrong timing! We’re not going to get out of this place alive.”“Is she really that strong?” Justin asked. “Weren’t you an alpha in the past? Can’t you defeat that thing?”“I’ve never fought one,” Albert took a step back. “I might have stood a chance in my prime, but now, I don’t think I’ll be able to beat that thing.”The nether demon took her time to walk to the stone hulk. “I see that you’re struggling to defeat a bunch of trash, except one person.” She considered Porcius to be strong, but the rest were pretty weak in her eyes.“Forgive my incompetence, Young Lady Puck,” the stone hulk fearfully said. “I deserve to be whipped a thousand times.”“Mm,” Puck took a look around and saw that more than ten power crystals and thirty star crystals were gathered in the hall. “I can see that you’ve worked hard and gathered many crystals this time, so