With every step that I take, my body seems to be lifted from the ground by some strange force, exactly as if I was about a third of my weight! While this feeling was really familiar to when I was using the overburned running ability, it is entirely difrent at the same time. I don't even need to try to know that I wouldn't be able to jump as high as I did before!
Well, there is no point in jumping now! Even if I was capable of escaping into the air, the effects of this monster crashing on the earth would still be able to catch up with me! Shockwaves spread in all directions after all, not in a single plane!
In less than a second, a small red pond catches my attention. Not only it does contrast with the green scenery of the plain, I feel a strange attraction to it as well! Without even looking up to check how much time is left for me, I use all my strength to kick the earth from under my legs and jump into the direction of this strange place!
As I get close, my guess gets confirmed. Nothing else could emanate such aura except for the top of this monster fin! Crashing into the ground right beside the bloody pond, I immediately reach out with my hands toward the blood.
ABSORB!
In an instant, I can see a number of my attribute points blowing up into the sky! Before I even manage to register the change, they already reached three digits! While its all great and nice, I don't have either the time or enough of this blood to just waste my time on absorbing it! What will be the use of this newfound potential strength if I end up squashed to my death by the overwhelming body of this penguin!?
Not daring to waste any time, I prompt myself upwards. With my left hand still soaked in the blood pond, I grab the former flesh of the monster and propel myself off the ground with my right arm. I might be wasting a lot of the spilt blood, but I need to survive the crash first if I want to ever enjoy my newly acquired strength!
Bonger! Invest all the points that you can into agility, rest into strength!"
"Blop!"
"Agility increased by 132"
"Blop!"
"Strenght increased by 66"
"Blop!"
"Unable to invest the remaining 341 points!"
"Blop!"
"Host…."
Good, I can bother with what to improve later!
With no time to hesitate, I use all my power to run towards the line of the trees. While the effect might be minimal, their rich roots system might be able to alleviate some of the impacts of the crash.
I imagined that I will be able to reach my desired place in a jiffy, but to my surprise, as soon as I made the first step, I already appeared deep into the forest! Looking back, I see a trail of falling trees, probably broken by me passing right through them!
'I will need to work a bit on controlling this power…' I think to myself while scratching my head in unease.
CRASH!
Before I even manage to calm my emotions, I hear a thundering noise! Contrary to my expectations, the earth only shakes slightly, before things calm down!
Wait, I was so on guard against such a tiny force?! If I knew this beforehand, I could've absorbed all of the blood from…
BOOM!
When the shockwave finally hits, it blasts me away! Despite my improved stats, this slight lapse in attention results in me flying away along with a huge mass of entangled trees and bushes. At the same time, the impact harms my ears, depriving me of hearing!
I stop only after flying for about one hundred and fifty meters through the air. As soon as I crash into the ground filled with spikelike tree rubble, another layer of forest giants starts covering me up!
Despite the pain in every part of my body, I propel myself upward, through the trees. While the shockwave was capable of hurting me, with my current resistance stat already at the first pinnacle of the system blasting through the rock-solid trees doesn't affect me at all.
Or nevermind. It makes me furious!
How dare this petty monster put me through such a humiliation!
"b-blop?"
As if feeling the wrath flowing through my head, even usually arrogant and satirical Bonger is reluctant to bother me!
'What do you want!' I scream internally to alleviate some of my anger.
"B-blop!"
"Host reached the pinnacle of mortal agility"
"Host acquired *Nimble as Monkey* title"
"Host reached the pinnacle of mortal strength"
"Host acquired "DPS" title"
Ah, that's what it wanted to say before! Good Bonger! I even imagine a small child in front of me and attempt to pat its head in my mind.
"B-blopP!"
Suddenly, the child in my minds changes its expression from an elated one into one of anger as it pushes my hand away! I promise! It wasn't me imagining it! It happened outside of my control!
Dishing out the fin from my storage ring, I carefully observe it. At first glance, not only most of the blood already flowed out of it or already dried up, it looks like it wouldn't make a good meal ingredient. Since I first experienced how useful can be the bonus stats from the demonic beasts, I started judging my spoils in terms of whether I can cook them up!
Turning the tip of the fin around to face the cut side, I raise my hands over my head and try squeezing all the leftover blood from it on my body. With nothing to gather it efficiently, this seems to be the best way to use it up!
"With the snowflakes dancing in the air, the morbid toxin will force the life to bail"
"As the fighting is but a burning nail, the planet will rebuild itself with the speed of snail"
Just when my mood was improving, my body freezes on the spot, exactly the same way as before.
"Come with me, all those who are lost, and I will guide you to a paradise of frost."
"In this snowy piece of land, all your worries will disappear with just a touch of my wand."