Within the battle, Thomas left as if returned to the past. When the young kid full of expectation towards the world came to know the cold and dark human heart.
Since his early years he showed amazing aptitude for being an Adept. His combat ability, reaction speed and decision making skills were pretty high for a boy his age.
What drove him all this time had been desire of unraveling the secret of the strange spatial rifts. The mysterious Anima Energy that had first appeared together with the rifts. And the whereabouts of his lost father and elder brother who he had no recollection of.
A few weeks before his fourteenth birthday, he was at the peak of his life. He made lots of friends as a first-year student in the Dexia Adept Institute. All the results he showed until them only served as a proof for how promising he once was.
But it all changed on the day of his fourteenth birthday, he found an old yellow chain. It looked pretty damaged at first and there was nothing on it that would catch his attention. Even so the chain never left his side.
He remembered when one of the teachers told him that his rate of genetic Awakening dropped by 2% after a lengthy lecture on how he should put more effort into his training. It was the first time he was ever looked at with stares of disdain and pity.
Right now he felt the same stare from the huge demonic beast he faced. This same stare brough Thomas back to the two years this state was in the eyes of everyone around. Even his mom felt depressed when she knew he was being bullied and wanted to move him to another college. One that wasn't for adepts so he could find a normal job like everyone else.
"Take this!" Thomas saw a huge claw coming at him and responded by sending a punch.
Poooo!
The impact of the clashed pushed away all the injured Adepts that laid on the floor. Frank laid on his back as he blinked repeatedly. Flashes of a radiating orange figure and the yellow demon beast seemed to bring him to his senses.
....Bang! In the after seventeen blows, Thomas' expression faltered and he flew over 30 meters back.
"Urg...." A mouthful of blood flowed from his pale lips, yet Thomas seemed to be calm about it. The fire that was lit in his body burned more and more as he recalled more of the past.
Even when he had to endure the disdain of the people he once regarded as friends, he persisted in the institute to the very end. By the time his life had reached the lowest point. Where he did not even know if he could survive, Thomas learned of the existence of the Deity Index System. A ancient system whose creator is unknown, a system that catalogs all deity to ever exist.
Right now Thomas was facing a creature many times greater than him in a battle he had nearly zero chances of surviving, yet he didn't despaired.
Eying the beast whose horn was several centimeters taller than before, Thomas knew evolution of the beast was progressing. When the Azure horn grows to a certain point, the beast would have advanced into a Elite Demonic Beast.
When it happens, he and the unconscious adepts would have no way to run. Not even the soldiers of Vallar Gate could save them.
"The horn is growing about 10 cm (3,9 inches) per minute, and it has a total of 80 cm right now... I don't know how long the horn must be, but I shouldn't let it grow more than 1 m."
*Growl!* The Azure-horned beast stomped as more lightning bolts fell from the jet black clouds in the sky.
All the elements of nature were going crazy under the beast's evolution. Thomas clenched his teeth as he inspected his energy reserves.
[Sunlight Demonic Energy 146/200] [Anima Energy 0/900]
"As I thought, my anima energy goes away much faster than demonic energy. If I had my other skills available." Thomas observed the beast and calculated as he dodged the lightning bolts. Even so a lightning bolt was able to hit his left left.
"Ahhh... Take this!" Holding back all the piercing pain and lightning that travelled through his body, Thomas rested his right foot on group and pushed his feet, making him lead over hundreds of meters towards the huge beast.
With each second the beast whose expecies was unknown would grow more and more powerful. Right now, even with higher attributes and his physique awakening. So he knew there was only one way for him now.
"It's me or him." Carving these words on his mind, Thomas attacked with everything he had left.
To anyone else, the huge creature could be seen as a horrifying, and unbeatable enemy. He then thought of the events he had seen, Bonher and his power to resurrect the dead. The demon lord whose aura could bring down whole planets. Prometheus and his love for humankind.
All those respetable figures, any one them could kill this beast with a single thought... And this only made his desire of becoming an adept even greater, no, not just adept... Now he had seen how high the deities are and that they existed, he who received the system couldn't accept being any lower than them.
"Now my aim is much farther away."
In a matter of seconds he pounced on the gigantic creature, the bright orange shine on his skin growing deeper and deeper as the bar of Demonic Energy decreased violently.
In mid air, Thomas released layer upon layer of the Orange mist currents from his body as his aura changed.
Like instinct, the orange marks on his right hand deepened before turning into a faint, almost illusory orange claw overflowing with demonic aura.
If his previous aura of it caused the Azure-horned beast to feel some fear, then at this moment, the beast truly felt threatened.
The Azure-horned beast gave out hurried and rapid howls repeatedly, was that a human or a demon? The beast didn't remember seeing such demonic human in its life.
Under the stress of both anger and fear, the yellow beast with Azure Horn gave an enraged roar, as it lifted its two front claws, the gray mist surrounding it doubled in power.
The Yellow beast decided to finish the youth by using its strongest skill, and it was called [Azure Horn Devastation]
It was the strongest ability amongst the ones it had recorded in its bloodline. The sheer cutting force of the horn could split a tornado in half, and was not just unbelievably quick, but also able to lock onto any target within 100 meters, and would continue attacking the target until its death.
The only problem was it would delay its evolution.
At this moment, a sounding deep and rumbling low roar resounded within Thomas, like a dragon's roar. The heated air around his body seemed to spread outwards, and the Forest was soon covered in heat.
Seeing the amazingly fast Azure ray coming at him, Thomas moved once again, his right leg which was lifted up high behind him served to give some more impulse.
His entire body of him shooting forth horizontally like an orange flash of light, dodging past the '' Azure Horn's area of attack, and with a mid air flip, he appeared above the yellow beast. As he stretched out both his claw, both sides exchanged some blows at high speed.
"Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill!" Repeating in mind, Thomas slashed with his sharp claw like crazy.
Thomas did not pause a second, as his body dipped down. Once again barely dodging second Azure Horn, sliding on the group and appeared on the back of the beast.
Frank who was slightly better watched the whole scene in stuppor. Moving at an incomparable speed, with perfect coordination and balance, and his pair of ice-cold eyes. It looked more like two beasts facing each other than a human against a beast.
Something strange occurred then the azure horn suddenly moved to the back of the beast and attacked Thomas who wasn't expecting it to happen. Thomas was a little startled, before he understood what was happening.
Immediately after, he brandished his orange demonic claw and struck the [Azure Horn Devastation].
As all the heat retreated back into him, scattering Azure-horned beast's demonic energy in all directions. Some of it landed on Thomas' body, causing dozens of small bloody wounds and lacerations.
"Oh no ... Thomas!" Frank who was watching everything felt a shiver in his spine as he knew his own survival depended on him.
But, once again, another terrifying sight appeared, as the lacerations and wounds on Thomas' body started healing themselves at an astonishing rate. Meanwhile even the near plants and grasses were growing fairly fast.
In that instant and without any warning, the demonic beast felt something tighten around its body. A huge orange hand grabbed its body and pressed it down on the ground.
The Yellow beast went all out in struggling, trying to break free from Titanic Hand which held it in its grip.
In a short while, it actually succeeded in breaking free. Nut by the time it had done so, in that very moment when it got loose, a pair of bloodshot Orange eyes appeared in front of it.
The beast had just broken free of the Titan God's Hand when its body tightened up again. The beast knew something bad was coming and braced itself.
Thomas' demonic claw smashed onto its head.
The sparkle of orange mist shone in the air, as Thomas gathering all the remaining sunlight demonic energy into his claws.
With a huge explosion, the Azure-horned, Yellow Beast cried out pitifully as its entire shook. A layer of orange flames seemed to burn its whole body from the inside.
This Azure Horned beast was indeed worthy of being a peak 3-star demonic beast, although it feared the demonic aura emitted by his unique energy, Thomas knew it won't die that easily.
After taking on the full blow of Thomas' attack, the Azure-horned beast was still alive and its eyes showed the terror it felt from the pair of demonic orange eyes staring at him.
If it were in normal conditions, Thomas would have no way of killing, a peak 3-star demonic Beast.
However, Thomas' sunlight demon energy could break the demonic beast's defenses. With his sunlight claw lifted up high, just like the heavy blade of a guillotine ready to fall down at any moment.
Slash!
With a clean and swift sound, the orange claw slammed right into the Azure-horned beast's throat forcefully, slicing right through it viciously, causing a burst of gray blood.
At the same time, Thomas stumbled backwards, both his hands braced on the floor as he lunged away to the side.
Kri kri kri!
As for the headless body of the demonic beast, intense orange flames burned what remained of the beast vitality.
Having its body consumed by the sunlight demonic energy, the demonic beast's body slumped down onto the ground.
At last, Thomas' body collapsed to the ground as well. In his last moments before he sunk into darkness, Thomas saw three soldiers rushing towards him!