CH 9 CURSED FOREST II
The sound of Anis's scream sent shivers down Jason's spine, He slapped himself to wake his frozen body. He looked at the notification floating in front of him.
'what?' Jason gulped.
Seeing that notification he couldn't believe this smoke was the souls of hounds he killed.
shoosh...
A blade passed close to his ear, causing it to bleed.
argh...
'I am not your common prey' Jason shouted with all his might before the rain of Blade start pouring down from the sky towards Jason. He used all his leftover mana to convert air around him into Energy while running to boost his speed, using Astral burst from his feet. Jason was way faster than normal. It was just a hunch but it saved Jason from these blades
Jason avoided most of the blades by running here and there, But few blades injured him all over his body, He looked at his Fast dropping mana.
{Jason spits blood}
'With this much mana, I can maintain this speed for 30-sec max' murmured Jason.
Jason changed his direction towards the forest, Anis tried to overrun him but Jason was too fast for him, and in front of him Jason walked into the Forest, Losing his prey angered Anis more.
'grorr...' Anis roared
Soon Anis started to glow and His arm regrew, but his wounds enlarged.
'grorrr..' Anis extended his claws and started running towards Jason ripping and tearing everything coming in his way. Trees, rocks even other monsters he ripped them all with his claws.
[ MANA COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED]
Jason stopped when his mana ran out, Veins are popping out from his legs. huffing and panting he looked in the direction he came. He could hear Anis's cries but they were too far. He was completely bathed with sweat and blood.
'argh' Jason yelped and fell on the ground.
'Whats this' Jason mumbled looking towards the Black marks spreading in his body from wounds.
'ahh.., fu**'
[HOST IS AFFECTED BY THE CURSE OF DEAD]
[HOST CAN'T USE SYSTEM ABILITIES]
[HP:52/400]
[MANA: 20/400]
'Curse? I will kill that mf' Jason raged.
Jason was looking at the screen while the roars of Anis was approaching him, Then a smile appeared on his face and
'Open store'
Jason bought 2 bottles of Mana potion and gulped them in a single breath.
hush.....
Warmth spread through Jason's body and mana replenished itself and was ready to run.
[MANA: 200/400]
but Anis leaped toward him before Jason could run again, and at the last second, He dodged the blow and punched the Anis.
boom...
Anis hit the tree but handled himself. He spits a mouthful of blood then took a fighting stance while his chest started to glow. Jason saw this and to hinder his spell he tried to kick Anis with all his strength but Anis kept his posture and at last sec he grabbed Jason's leg and stabbed his claws in his stomach. Jason dug his Hand in one of the Anis's wounds to free himself.
'aahhh...' Anis cried.
Anis loosened his grip around Jason, Which gives Jason an opportunity to free himself. He looks at Anis who started glowing strangely. Jason had an idea what was happening to Anis, Wild animals went berserk if they are too much angry and When they are in berserk mode their Strenght increased by many folds
[ANIS ENTERING IN "BERSERK" MODE IN 5,4..]
killing Intent was increasing with each second and making it difficult for Jason to do anything.
'I had to do something' Jason murmured before he touched the ground and formed a hole there causing Anis to fall in it.
This move was taken in a hurry, After that Jason touched trees and transfigured them to form walls, He did it to buy some time. He jumped up on a thick tree branch and with trembling hands, he took out all the cores of hounds he collected and put them on the branch before putting his trembling hand on them.
Air had become too heavy because of a deadly aura.
Jason's whole body was trembling and it's getting harder to concentrate.
but he tried to calm,
Jason focused and soon all the cores started glowing before transforming into a blood-red spear in Jason's hand. Spear had a crystal in his head and giving off a red smoke. Touching his new spear Jason felt an eerie feeling and soon started hearing screams.
[MANA:20/400]
Nodding his head he focused his mind on the present situation.
[HOST ACQUIRED CURSED SPEAR: HELA]
[HOST ISN'T ACCEPTED YOU AS WORTHY OWNER]
[SIDE QUEST: PROVE YOUR WORTHINESS]
[50 % SPEAR ABILITIES LOCKED]
'wtf, I created this spear, whatever I will show you.' Jason Criticized.
'roar...' Anis roared on sensing this new spear made from his brethren's cores.
Anis ripped all the walls that Jason created using trees easily and start looking for Jason, which he easily sensed. Looking towards Jason Anis roared before appearing just below the tree.
Anis jumped and slashed the Branch on which Jason was standing in one go causing Jason to fall, Jason stood up with the help of Spear and took a defensive stance.
[26 sec..]
'Just little' Jason murmured before countering Anis's attack with a spear but the next second Anis kicked Jason in the abdomen causing him to fall.
[HP: 23/400]
The agility and strength of Anis had decreased significantly because of the gruesome wounds Jason gave him.
[ANIS IS USING AGRO]
Jason felt fear overwhelming his consciousness, Anis slowly walked towards Jason, with each step Jason felt his consciousness fading but at the last second just before Anis was going to slash his head off.
[AGRO NEUTRALISING....]
With this notification, he started to regain his senses and lifted his spear towards Anis. Crystal of spear started glowing dark red. A cry echoed in the forest then another cry.
Anis fell on the ground covering his ears, Scratching and crying.
[SPEAR HAS USED "HYMN OF DEATH"]
'kyaa..., argh..]
'Hehe' murmured Jason lying on the ground.
Jason kept staring at Anis yelping on the ground while his own HP is dropping.
[HP: 20/400]
[5 MINUTES PASSED]
[QUEST CLEARED!]
Jason stood up using his spear and start walking towards the struggling King of hounds, With each step effect of "HYMN OF DEATH" increases, and the cries of Anis intensified. Standing above the Anis Jason stabbed the spear in the arm of Anis, The instant spear Stabbed Anis Jason started hearing cries of hounds.
'So that's what is happening'
'argh...' Anis yelped.
Jason took out a spear and stabbed Anis, again and again, Atlast Jason stabbed the chest before crushing his skull with a spear.
'hyaa...'
A maniac smile appeared on Jason's face.
With this Anis's torture ended.
[ANIS KILLED]
[BECOMING STRONG STAGE I COMPLETE]
[REWARDS: INSPECT SKILL
DOMINATION (RANK 4)
REPRO ]
[DOMINATION RANGE 10 METERS]
[REPRO COST 150 MANA]
[HOST KILLED RANK A RACE
EXP +++
STATS 10+]
The deadly aura in the air dispersed slowly followed by silence.
Jason may defeat the Anis, but right now his own condition was not good, He lost too much blood, his wounds were bleeding, Mana was below 20,
His vision grew dark and his mind went blank.
thud...
Jason fell on the ground next to Anis's headless body.
[HELA ACCEPTED YOU WORTHY]
[ALL HELA'S ABILITY UNLOCKED]
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'wake up...., wake up.....,' A whispering voice echoed and faded in the noise of creatures.
Jason heard a voice that dragged him out of his slumber, He opened his eye slowly and the first thing he saw was a spear floating over his head giving off red smoke, Jason slowly sat down, and then suddenly the spear fell on the ground.
'Thank you ' Said Jason.
He looked around and found several monsters which were feeding on Hounds dead body staring at him, This spear was protecting Jason from these monsters.
The spear vibrated slightly...
A giant rat leaped towards him but Jason grabbed him in midair and crushed his head by squeezing slightly. He opened his system windows to saw his rewards.
For the last 10 minutes, Jason was staring at the system windows, Trying to understand what his rewards do.
'Ok, Domination is similar to Anis's ability' Jason noded.
'let's try' Murmured Jason lifting his hand.
'argh, It's harder than expected' said, Jason.
Soon out of thin air a glowing blade appeared "energy blade", Aiming towards a giant rat Jason fired the blade which not only slashed the rat into half but also trees behind the rat.
'HA HA'
Soon many blades appeared and massacred all the creatures present there in a second.
Using Domination Jason can control Energy present in 10 meters so he didn't need to touch the object to activate his ability.
'What's this "Enoic energy"? it increased!' Jason shrugged.
Jason closed his eyes and soon all the carcasses lying on the ground disappeared after that Jason picked the cores by controlling them first he may struggle but soon he learned.
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nom.. nom...
munching on wolf's meat while sitting in front of a campfire Jason was staring at Anis's core thinking about something.
'It should work If my concept is right' said Jason while writing something on the ground.
Jason focused and formed a ball of energy which soon started to deform and vibrate vigorously
'If it succeded that will be great but if something went wrong nuclear explosion will erase me from existence, haha' said Jason with nervousness.
Suddenly
A yellow light spread in the whole surrounding