Saros could feel the energy brimming through his body, making his body itch for movement and action as if it's begging him to do something or it will detonate itself, so he quickly squatted making his leg veins pop out, and then released all the muscle tension charging himself forward leaving a cracked ground and flying leaves in his wake, even after that he still felt the energy wilding in his body so he made a spinning horizontal kick smashing a rock boulder standing in his way and continued charging deeper into the forest.
'HAHAHA, this feels amazing! incredible! this power and might, I want more of it, it's really addicting HAHA- whoops, almost lost my self there. my strength is incredible right now but my speed is still poor, let me see what I can do with the gravity skills'
Saros felt that he was a bit slow so he started experiencing around a bit and then used [Personal gravity] making himself lighter for the price of losing control over his body, so to solve that problem he activated [gravitational adaption] allowing him to walk, run, and do anything as if gravity is still normal for him, but still having a light body, giving a boost in body movement, speed and running, he could also fly now with [gravity defiance] but it's way faster while he is running.
'alright, time to hunt the real beasts now'
...
back in misty town's castle, inside the palace throne room.
'Master, fanzon has been gone ever since he told us he will take care of the 'hindrance', it seems like something wrong happened' Janaya said while kneeling.'
"Mhm, it seems we a got small trouble this time, that 'hindrance' can not reach human territories by going beyond the mountain, so he will probably enter the forests and get himself killed, don't focus on him now and pay someone to kidnap more orphan kids"
'Yes master'
....
As Saros was running on the forest path he suddenly heard a crying woman, surprised by the fact that there is a human being here, he got overtaken by curiosity and approached the source of the sound carefully.
when he got closer to the location, he did not see anyone there, so he got even closer to the source of the sound, but he still could not find anything out of place so he turned back thinking it was a mistake on his part, but before he could continue walking way he heard a faint web movement, so he started looking around himself until he looked upwards to find a giant black spider hiding within the shadows, giving him a cold chill before the spider suddenly bounced on him.
surprised by this turn of event, Saros quickly jumped back and landed on a tree standing horizontally, and sheathed his sword bound to his back by the torn clothes, and quickly squatted and shoot himself towards the shocked spider driving the sword on its bottom abdomen, cutting it open making its insides fall out with a sticky disgusting substance, killing the spider that was rethinking her life choices and what lead her to the situation unfolding now.
[you killed a Jorogumo]
[you have gained 200 EC]
'God, this thing almost tricked me, but the important thing now is... what do I do with its body, do I eat it? I was thinking about starting a fire, but I'm deep in the forest now, and it's almost night, I have no choice but to eat this thing raw, ugh, it does look like it has some crunchiness at least.
Gulp... crunch crunch crunch
Saros almost threw up from the juices in his stomach and the mix of crunchiness and stickiness of the spider was unsettling, but thankfully the system notifications distracted him from the taste.
[you can now transform yourself to a Jorogumo {Cost:10 OE}]
[you can now add parts of the consumed beast to your body {Cost: 5 OE}]
[you have Learned the following skills]
[Trickster: lure people in by pretending to be an attractive woman or an innocent child in need of help]
[Web generation: produce a sticky web {shot from your mouth as a humnaiod}]
[Spider fangs: permanently generate four poisonous fangs in your mouth {cost 5 OE}]
'Hmm, so that's why I heard a crying woman's voice, this spider variant really is a trickster, also this Spider fangs skill is interesting, activate it, I would also finally check out what would happen if use mp'
Activate [Spider fangs]
Immediately after the activation, four 2 inch fangs grew out of Saros's gum making him looking even fiercer and less human.
[you have gained four poisonous fangs: when biting another person there stats will drop by 1 every minute]
Saros was happy with the results as this could be very useful in a long 1v1 battle that he will probably be experiencing much more from now on.
'it's almost night now I should go look for a cave' After a while saros arrived at one of the many mountain ranges in the forest and found a cave, but as he was about to enter, he noticed there was a huge 8 meters long bear with red eyes and plate-like armor on his joints and claws, his fur even looked metallic, saros knew his capabilities so he did not dare strike the bear from up close instead he used telekinesis to strike with his sword, but.. that was a mistake.
Clash...
the sword did nothing to the bear's hide, just like a sword hitting an iron plate only managing to create sparks, saros got his sword back quickly and started running away but the bear suddenly flashed behind him with his claws descending on saros.
'Shit.. activate [Basic Earth Shield]
just before the bear's claws reached saros an earth wall arose from the ground blocking the claws, but the bear was simply too powerful destroying the wall but saros quickly created another wind wall which stooped the attack and preventing any serious injury, but the force of the attack sent him flying, saros used this to his advantage by using [gravity adaption] and landing on a tree.
'Hmph, let's see what you're capable of bear'
the bear roared in anger seeming as if it understands human speech! and indeed it did.
Roar 'what exactly are you, you freak! come at me'
"as you wish" Saros said with a smirk
saros tried something new this time, he was going to try a technique he founded using his personal gravity field, he dropped from atop the tree on the ground instantly squatting and charged with the sword in his hand, but just before reaching the bear, saros spitted spider web from his mouth hindering the bear's movement, but that was not all, saros raised his sword high and then with [personal gravity] he increased the weight of his body and sword by 3 times giving the bear a huge cut on his forehead, the bear still fought back and tried to smash him, but saros made himself lighter quickly dodging the bear's attack and then doing another heavyweight strike on the same spot, this same scenario repeated itself, the bear simply was helpless with saros's quick dodges and heavy strikes marking him with countless scars.
"just, what are you... you look like a human but you have movement does not suite you and your strikes are unlike anything a human your level should have" the bear thought for a minute and made a suggestion "how about making a truce"
"stupid bear, if you have not attacked me while I was leaving, I would've ignored you"
'HUH?! how could you blame me when you're the one who attacked, quit playing around and tell me what do you want to let me go"
"Oh, if that is the case... be my ride"
GROWL 'be your ride, that is a humiliation, I would rather die'
Sigh "do you really want to die for the sake of your integrity, also, you have to trust me when I say that you won't regret choosing me as your master, what do you say?"
'.... alright, but I will not call you master, whatever happens, understand!'
"sure thing, haha"
Ding!
[the bear Otso have offered to be your mount, do you accept]
yes!
[the bear Otso is now your mount]
'Haha, you made a good choice you know... Otso!'
what saros did not was that this system message appeared in front of Otso
[you now have a contract with a primordial being, any thoughts of hurting your master will inflict great pain]
Gulp! 'W-w- what is this thing that suddenly popped up,what the hell did I get my self into, this thing in front me, just what is a primordial being?
Although the bear was skeptical now, he did not know this choice he made today will engrave his name in history along with the swamp's snake.