Two hours had past and the participants had dwindled 23.Elk kept walking in the direction he felt life yet when he reached the location the battle was already over and there where only dead bodies on the scene.
He was confused though if he should be happy he didn't meet anyone or sad he can't get anymore experience from their memories.All he could do was use his ability to wither the bodies and strengthen his fog.
"Since I have nothing to do I guess this is as good a time as any to ask you..."
When he said that the fog gathered infront of him into seven salutes as their bodies waved infront of him.
"...who are you?"
He looked at the fog with his darkened eyes with curiosity. Mainly because he couldn't feel any myriad energy in his body making him wonder why he has an ability and why everytime the fog consumes a living soul a new salute is created.
"You.Not strong enough.To know."
Three salutes spoke and each only a few words.Elk then looked at them with frustration.
"If that's the case get the fuck out of my ability!"
Elk instinctively gathered the fog into a spear and threw it at them.When the spear connected with them and exploded and shrieks where heard.
hhhaaarrrrr!
"Stop!You need.us.We make.ability.stronger.Without us.you have no.energy."
They hissed as they looked at Elk and explained.Elk knew this but he was angry.When he was stabbed through the heart he gain some knowledge about his ability or what it was supposed to be anyway.
His attributes were darkness,shadows and poison while he would have gained two abilities which where supposed to be corrosion,which was the combination of darkness and poison attributes, and infiltration of the shadow attribute.
However that 'was' what is was supposed to be until thus bastard came along He doesn't know when,where or how but it fused with his attributes and abilities and devoured them creating thus unknown attribute that looks like fog yet is not fog or darkness yet is not darkness.The worst thing about thus bastard is the fact that he has changed Elk's personality into what it is now and it will only get worse the more he uses this ability.
'Dammit my abilities!Give them back you bastard!'
Elk then took a deep breath and calmed down.
"Then can you at least tell me why I don't have any myriad energy?"
"Useless.Unneeded.Hatred!New energy.Better!stronger,more.adaptable."
Elk looked at them with confusion.He checked inside his body but did sense any energy of any kind,in fact he felt the same as he was before,like a normal human.
"But I don't sense any type of energy in my body,where us it?"
"Not body.soul.Soul is.more resilient.body fragile.can be easily broken.but soul can be protected by.me."
"Can you stop that!? I get annoyed by listening and looking at the seven of you at once!"
Elk was at his limit of his patience.Having to listen to seven people or things speak only a few word while swaying got on his nerves.
"Can't.you weak.I weak.Only way.of Communication.for time being."
The fog then dissipated and went back into his body and the darkness in his eyes receded.Elk stood there in a daze for a while when suddenly he heard the snapping of a branch behind him.He turned around to see a man standing there looking at him with indifference.
"Guess you'll be number 16."the man muttered.
Elk suddenly felt a tingle go down his spine as the man lifted his hand and pointed his finger at him.Thunder then gathered at the top of his finger and shot out,it pieced Elk's shoulder and an electric current flowed through his body paralyzing him temporarily.
"What a waste,you couldn't even dodge a simple energy expulsion.You can die now."
As the man said this he sighed and pointed two fingers at Elk's forehead and shot out a spark of lightning.Elk's face changed drastically as from start to finish he didn't even have time to react.
'Damn! Is this how I'm going to die.Thus is all that bastards fault!'
As he had this thought the lightning peirced his skull creating a small hole.The man stared intently at Elk's 'corpse' as he felt something off.
"I guess I can't fool you huh?You're smarter than those other fools."
After a few minutes Elk suddenly spoke and dark fog started closing the hole in his head as he stood up.
"How did you know?"
The man stared intently at Elk before answering.
"I noticed your life signs never faded when I peirce you and the number of participants left did go down.Since you were able to survive that is shows you have a little bit of strength."
He said indifferently to Elk as if he didn't take Elk's survival to heart.
"So that's it,it seems I'm still to inexperienced.Will you help me with that?"
Ad Elk said this dark fog gathered around him and spread into the surroundings enveloping the man and blocking of his connection with his energy.
The man's brows furrowed and he finally had a smile on his face.
"Oh,thus is interesting.You can block my energy almost like the void stones.If it were any of the other remaining participants this would've surely been their end but to me this is just a parlor trick!"
"Lightning spear!"
As he said this his blocked energy suddenly burst out of his body and pushed away the fog. Lightning sparks flashed as they destroyed the fog and gathered infront of the man and formed a spear.He grabbed it as a dark blue hue surrounded his body and got into an attack pose.
"Before someone with greater power your tricks mean nothing.Let me show you the difference between an Ability tier and an Armament tier."
'Damn this guy's an iron plate.'(1)
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(1)It means to meet someone stronger than you.So basically it means you fucked!