As Elk laid on the ground dark fog rolled out of his body and moved in the surroundings.Elk's body then stood up as if his body was a marionette and darkness overtook his eyes again.
"That was tiresome.I need to...What the hell!!!?"
As the man talked to himself he suddenly saw Elk stood up and was frightened.He tried to crawl away however he was drained of energy causing him to not go far.
"Why?Why?Why!?Whyyy!!?"
As Elk spoke he walked closer to the man and grabbed his hair to pull him back.
"Le..let go!Argh,I...I'm sorry please let me go."
He pleaded as he found he couldn't even recover energy anymore when Elk grabbed him.The fog rolled and covered his body.His body began to wither at a fast speed and dissapeared.The fog behind Elk then became denser and formed a face without many features,only a month and two eyes.It then looked around and spotted the two boddies not far away and went over,in a blink of an eye they where devoured by the fog making it even denser.The a pop was heard.
Pop!
Elk suddenly felt he had become stronger and the hole on his chest healed at a visible speed and closed.The fog with a face rolled back into his body as Elk turned toward a certain direction and walked.
72 remaining
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20 minutes earlier.
Bob and James watched the game began and focused on the screen in the air with Elk on it.
"Do you think the kid will survive?"
"No,however even if he gets caught before he left I told him to mention our names and they will let him live."
"Good work James,if everyone here wants to escape from here they need us and by coincidence we'll need him.Its been a long time since someone with EX rank ability came here and we need that unpredictability of Unranked abilities."
As they watched Elk hiding away in a cave they shook their heads in disappointment.
"I know he has no experience in using his ability or fighting for that matter and the most logical thing to do is to hide,I am still slightly disappointed."
James commented when he saw Elk going into a cave behind the waterfall.Then the scene changed as three more screens reached the waterfall and all four of them fused showing a bigger picture.
The battle between the three men then began and they saw the man with the water attribute use a combat art.
"Now that's surprising,I never saw him use it before.It seems he kept it for emergencies."
"Wait what is that kid doing?Why is he going down?"
They then saw Elk come in front of the man knelt down.
"What is that idiot doing,is he such a fool?"
Bob gritted his teeth in frustration as he looked at Elk's idiotic action.They then saw Elk being pierced through the chest and falling down.
"There goes the Ex rank ability,how disappointing."
"Wait!James look,the number didn't change!"
James then looked the the right corner of the entire screen and saw after Elk's 'death' the number of participants stayed the same.Then it happened.
The entire part of the screen where Elk was,was being covered in fog and the screen malfunctioned.
"Hey what's the meaning of this!Where is the picture!?"
"Shut up you inmates!The runes will repair themselves,so wait."
After a few minutes the picture returned and Elk was the only one left even the two corpses disappeared.
"What the hell happened?"
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Elk walked through the forest and came to a clearing where he saw a battle between two groups happening.Tow groups of six verses four.
"Fireball!" "Waterblade!"
"Earth wall!" "Sound Bomb!" etc
They released their abilities at each other.Three of the men fell as they where seriously injured,two from the group of six and one from the group of four.
69 remaining.
As they fought they saw Elk approaching and stopped.Rhey all looked at him simultaneously and saw him give a eery smile.
They all looked at him warily and brought out their abilities ready to attack him at the same time.
Black fog then escaped from every pore of Elk's body and gathered behind him forming a black figure made of fog with only a month and two eyes.
Tentacles then formed and rushed to everyone on the opposite side.The men were frightened and released the abilities at the fog dissipating it and hitting Elk causing heavy injuries while pushing him back causing him to hit a tree.
"Who was that?"
One of them asked with a dubious expression because that was to easy.What they didn't notice was the dissipated fog gathering behind them into tentacles.
"Yo-ho,all together,we will we'll row..."
Then they heard Elk...sing?
"Yo-ho,thief and beggar never say we...Die!"
The tentacles then constricted then and they lost connection with the energy in their body and were lifted into the air.They realized with horrified expressions they couldn't use their abilities.
"Did I sing that right? I only watched that movie once.Song seemed fitting though,especially at the end."(1)
Elk's eyes were black as night as he looked at the seven men as if they were fresh pieces of meat.
"I'm still too inexperienced and was injured so fast. Luckily that man from before shared some of his experience with me.I must say his experiences were tasty and helpful.Now become my power!"
The tentacles then invaded their bodies and they withered into dust.The fog behind him gained seven extra faces and became denser.It then rolled to the three dead bodies and disintegrated them.
62 remaining.
53 remaining.
"Oh,nine more died."
Pop!Pop!
He then felt his body become stronger and the more lively.
"What did that human call this?Refinement stage?I guess it would be level 3 now counting the earlier breakthrough. Cultivation seems easier like this than with a meditation method,I wonder why?"
The seven fog heads receded back into his body and dissipated.Elk walked in another direction where he felt life while humming.
"I should sing more when I hunt.It makes the moment more interesting,haha!"
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(1)The movie he is taking about is Pirates of the Caribbean 3. The song is the one in the beginning.