with a worried expression I gave a no head shake across the distance to the other primals, nodding to Raya and waving them away, thy would get my message, scooping up the girl and fleeing, trusting my decision.
my head turned back to the glowing, sparking teenager in front of me, my body shaking as it recognized the power in front of me, the power of something angry.
I braced myself as I could sense his oncoming attack, the energy building before a spear of golden energy larger than a building grew from the pillars, blasting towards me faster than I thought it could!
my body jumped to the side, twisting as I packed my wings tight, the heat from the spear leaving its mark on my skin as it passed, my feathers shriveled at the tips, my landing anything but graceful as I landed in the mud, shakily standing as I faced the person ahead, a fear rising through me, a fear that was overwhelming.
everything was shaking as the fear spread, the teenager noticed this, taking it as an opportunity as several hundred smaller energy made weapons began appearing in the sky, from sheer panic I activates my (evolving siphon) the life energy of all the nearby plants and trees covering me like armor as I prepared myself, my limit quickly approaching as I felt my muscles bulge, the attacks launching in that one small instant.
I knew I couldn't dodge them all, but I had to dodge as many as possible, time and time again I moved myself out of the way, twisting, ducking, limboing, moving single limbs out of the way, I'd managed to dodge most, several ripping past me and tearing at my skin, burns on the wounds edges, a sick barbecue smell in the air.
I looked up at my attacker as I struggled for breath, something unexpected greeting my vision....one of the towers...it crumbled...?
[STA: 2,675/3,400]
[HP:3,175/3,400]
I shook away the messages as I refocused myself, the teenager looked tired, maybe he wasn't used to this, I could still keep going, maybe all I had to do was push him to his limit?
do I even have time to?
I might not!
he vanished before my eyes as a loud sonic boom echoed as he appeared in front of me, fist reared back.
it exploded forward, my arm blocking as a throbbing waved through my arm, I grabbed his arm and countered, a kick to the stomach as he was launched away, my arm bruising before healing as I shook it, his impact pulling my attention.
the now withered amd dying forest was ablaze with golden flame as the teenager stood, energy swords in hand as he charged, cutting down anything in his path, trees, animals, bushes, didn't matter.
he was on me fast, his blades threatening to cut deep as they blared energy and heat, their sharpness of no question as I ducked to avoid their swing, my eyes locking onto his arm as I sent an uppercut to the part below his elbow, his arm bending the wrong way as he seemed to feel it, aggressively recoiling as he screamed in pain.
my attack wasn't over though, I didn't give him any room to breathe, punch after punch all aimed at vital spots, head, torso, joints.
all landing as he collapsed, broken on the ground.
sputtering blood as he coughed and groaned, twitching sickly as most of his limbs were now going the wrong way, he was still alive, oh it was gross to watch, but he was alive, im gonna vomit.
[primal hunter defeated, New hunter being selected, level up, +200 to all stats]
oh thank fuck for the distraction!
I turned my attention to the screens, away from the teenager.
my small excitement turning to uneasiness, I mean it was nice how many times I'd leveled but it wasn't good enough, nothing I'd had was trained, I was just waving around power hopelessly, this fight was only one of the ones that has shown me that, I NEED to start training!
I opened my stat page for a brief sec, wanting to see what all I could train.
[stat]
name: Syn Ev
lvl: 9
race: progenic winged evole
HP: 3,600/3,600
STA: 3,600/3,600
STR: 3,600
AGI: 4,600
DEX: 4,600
race abilities:
-(human form)[max]
-(evolving siphon)[0/10]
-(evole will)[0/10]
-(elder heal)[0/10]
-(elder siphon bomb)[0/10]
skills:
(evolving primal martial arts:stage 3/6)(authority:stage 2/5)
(winged combat)[1/10]
race passives:
-(anti aging)
-(regeneration quick)
-(recover)
-(evolving senses)
-(siphon boost)
seems I could train everything, but how, I've been using them but nothing.
[experience is shared, focus on one to boost its gain]
of course!
why hadn't I thought of that?!
every ability grew with my level, they had to have shared experience, otherwise they wouldn't scale, no wonder it needed more amd more time to level up at the higher stages, I needed more experience to boost abilities before I could level!
[correct]
but if that was true why don't I have an EXP page?
[you do, you've never checked it, ever]
I feel like an idiot.
[you are one]
it seems that the system voice is slowly gaining a personality again, I really hope this one wouldn't turn out like the last, I'd make sure to stop it earlier this time.
and with my new promise now in mind my attention turned to the screen in front of me.
[EXP page]
abilities gained EXP:
-(evolving siphon): N/A
-(evole will): N/A
-(elder heal): N/A
-(elder Wilson bomb): N/A
passives gained EXP: N/A
-(regeneration quick): N/A
-(recover): N/A
-(evolving senses): N/A
-(siphon boost): N/A
skills gained EXP: N/A
-(winged combat): N/A
[ERROR, EXP page temporarily unavailable]
just great!
sometimes I really fucking hate this thing.
[you wouldn't be here without the system]
my point exactly.
---
James pov...
my vision slowly came back, pain aching in waves as I groaned, how did it get here?! what happened?!
my eyes darted around frantically as I found the man who'd brought me here, one of the primals, Syn.
HIM!
a newfound hatred burning in my heart as i somehow knew that he was responsible for this, everything was his fault!
[you have been gifted a system by the demon queen, main quest: kill Syn Ev added]