The Fracture's physique changed drastically at that very moment increasing it's initial incredible speed. It's body bulked up as well increasing the power in it's hands and legs as it was clearly breaking the ground with them. It's originally terrifying face changed to an even more terrifying version of it's former self. The red glow of the crystals mixed together with it's red eyes made it clear that it had no other intention but to kill. The Fracture quickly covered half of the distance between them in few seconds . It was gaining on him faster and faster causing Dante to panic considerably.
Dante not knowing what to do quickly put the phone over his left ear as he ran. Right now, Serena was his only chance of survival.
"What do I do now!?", Dante asked almost screaming in the process.
"What's going on?", Serena asked rather calmly causing him to fill a little bit angry especially since she was the one that brought such a terrible idea in the first place.
Before he could answer multiple spikes fell off in the air striking the phone in Dante's hand as well as his right shoulder. He shouted in pain before turning around only to see the creature a few steps away from him.
'Damn it! It can shoot spikes too! What the hell, this ain't fair. So i am going to die huh', Dante couldn't help but think before being tackled by the creature from behind.
The force from the tackle caused Dante to fly about three meters away before collapsing to the ground. His impact with the ground caused his left leg to twist in the wrong direction. The pain from the injury rushed through his body, however he didn't really feel to it too much because of the fear he currently had. The creature ran covering the distance between them within three seconds. On reaching it's target, it rose both hands up in an attempt to smash him into the ground.
In Dante's mind he only wished for one thing, he wished for the ability to defend himself, the ability to kill these creatures. Because he lacked this he was about to die for nothing. Dante instinctively moved his hand up in an attempt to block the attack when something strange happened. Time seemed to have slowed down all of a sudden. How did he know this? Well it was because the quick creature that was about the squash him was moving so slow that Dante could see it's tiniest movements. The creature never really had blinding speed, however it was quick enough to kill someone without them knowing what really happened.
"What is going on?", Dante asked himself still surprised by everything that had occured so far. That question was quickly answered by some letters in his retina.
[System activated]
[New ability found]
[Note: If ability is accepted all skills learnt in the future will follow the acquired ability]
[Do you accept condition: Yes or No]
Dante was clearly confused by what he was seeing right now, though he couldn't really say no when he was in such a situation. Putting his hopes in this so called ability, Dante accepted the condition.
[Condition accepted]
[New ability acquired]
[Dismantle: The ability to take things apart even to an atomic level]
[New ability acquired]
[Assemble: The ability to join things together in order to create a new or currently known object]
To his surprise, Dante had acquired two abilities. When he accepted the condition he never really thought that something like this would happen, however it didn't really matter as he was finally able to defend himself.
Time began to return back to normal but Dante had already used the time he had to touch the creature. He immediately activated his dismantle ability causing the creature to break down into tiny visible pieces, however before it could break down completely the Fracture gave out a loud roar. Immediately after the creature disintegrated he sighed in relief looking at what remained of the creature. Strangely without Dante thinking of anything his assemble ability activated bring the pieces together and forming a sword in the process. He immediately realized that it was following his previous request, 'the ability to defend himself, the ability to kill this creatures'. The remaining pieces went to his injuries fixing his toren flesh and broken bones. Before he knew it he was far away from death's door feeling much more better than he had ever been
Though he wasn't really too happy about this as he never really knew how to fight with a sword, heck he never even fought once in his whole dream life. Looking at the sword before him, Dante could not help but feel a little bit of happiness. On observing the sword, he noticed it's own information appearing in front of it.
[Anti-Fracture sword: A blade made specifically for slaying Fractures. This blade grows stronger as it consumes more and more Fractures]
Dante didn't know what to think of the sword in front of him. It was kinda cool that it was a Fracture's worst enemy, however he couldn't quite understand what the sword was all about. First of all when it said made specifically did it mean that it couldn't work on anything else and secondly when it said consume did it really mean that it ate them or it was just a term for slay them.
Dante decided not to think so much about it since recently things in this planet didn't really make sense anymore. He was happy that because of that he was alive however he kinda missed the way things made a lot of sense before.
Looking at the tower in front of him. Dante realized that it was only about ten meters away. He quickly started running in that direction before he was interrupted by loud roars from a distance. These roars were not just from four or five Fractures, it was from multiple of these creatures and it was coming from all over the city which meant that they were heading towards his direction. It would seem that the loud roar their fallen comrade had given before his defeat alerted them of his whereabouts. As for Dante this only meant one thing.
"Damn it! I am totally screwed!"