The beast have come to a stop as its small dot black eyes were locked onto Nate.
Seeing this alone gave Nate made Nate notice one thing. There was no zombie in their surroundings and the beast from before where running away from the squid beast.
Seeing that Nate was not moving nor was he showing any sign of fear. The squid slammed its front tentacle on the ground.
The impact was strong enough that the group broke and multiple chunks of piles of earth were thrown up.
In mid-air, the beast was hitting the rocks with its other tentacles sending it off towards Nate. The speed was so great that before all the fragments could drop down, they all have been sent out towards Nate.
'Such strength,' Nate thought. Although the rocks were fast, but they are not faster than Nate as he could still see them and had more time to conclude what to do.
However, rather than dodging, Nate decided to do something else. He readied his fist and prepared himself before throwing it out to hit the first rock.
The rock was smashed into different pieces, but that was not over yet because Nate continued to destroy the rocks with his fist.
Meanwhile, the beast didn't just stop there. Out from one of its tentacles was a red thread with a shared end like a needle.
The thread was so tiny and also was moving fast that Nate didn't notice this. The thread connect to his armpit and at that moment Nate started to feel something strange happening.
[Your strength state is being drained]
[Strength= -5 >>>70]
'What is this?' Nate panicked.
He could feel his strength diminishing after the message appeared.
It was then he noticed the thread in his body. Trying to break out from it, he noticed that couldn't grab the thread. It was as if his hand was phasing through it.
Just then, another thread came out from the beast tentacle. This time it went for nates thigh.
[Your agility state is being drained]
[Agility= -5>>>60]
'Is this the power of this beast?' Nate thought. Rather than feeling scared or something of that sort, Nate started to think of the weapon he can make out of the beast crystal.
'Let's kill it first.' Nate concluded.
He rushed in towards the beast. Nate noticed that his speed indeed did decrease but five out of sixty isn't that much and won't change anything.
[Agility= 50/ 60]
[Strength = 55/70]
'This will continue,' Nate noticed. His speed will continue to decrease and so as his strength also. Knowing this, Nate became worried.
The beast swung its tentacles at Nate. The later speed was decreased again sending Nate into a state of panic. He quickly activated his light foot, moving out of the way.
The tentacle smashes into the ground with great strength and speed. This of course didn't go unnoticed by Nate.
'Wait... Don't tell me this beast is adding my stats to its own?' Nate noticed this.
The speed in which the tentacle was swung this time was greater than before and the impact was great that more and more fragments were sent flying.
Trying again to remove the thread, Nate found it impossible again. Just as he was doing this, and thread was sent out, but this time, Nate summoned his axe and altered it into a shield to block the thread.
The thread was blocked, however, something Nate didn't expect to happen. The thread stabbed into the shield.
[Weapon durability is being drained]
'Fuck this beast...!!!' Nate shouted as he altered the shield back to a sword before swinging it at the beast. A thread of his own was sent out at the beast.
One of the tentacles was sliced off meanwhile, the freezing ray activated also stopping the beast for a brief moment.
At that instant, Nate rushed in with his sword before leaping up. However, Nate's speed was no longer as before. His speed has gone down to almost thirty and a second was no longer enough for him to do much.
Before he could reach the beast, its other tentacle was free and it was swung at him.
Nate retracted his movement and then raised the sword to block the tentacle.
Bang....!!!
Nate felt the sword vibrating in his hand as he was sent flying backwards.
'Shit...that beast has taken nearly all my strength,' Nate caused as his body smashed into one of the buildings.
Surprisingly, the thread was still on his body.
He no longer was with the sword, but that is not the problem. He can call the sword towards himself. Getting up from the ground, Nate was getting ready to call for the sword when the building he was in started to crumble.
The squid beast swung its tentacle as the building knocked down some parts of it.
"Swap!!" Nate yelled, using the swap power on the beast.
The building collapsed on top of the beast.
Nate now outside of the building quickly called out for his sword before also turning to face the building.
He placed the sword away and summoned something else. It was two guns. These were Tel guns.
After Nate took over his body, he decided to keep the guns because he found out it was something at the king's level.
'I am not as fast as before with my sword due to this thread, but that couldn't be said for this gun,' Nate thought before pulling the trigger.
Bang...!!!
Two black dots followed by some dark shadow smoke came out from the guns at lightning speed.
One of the bullets hit the shoulder of the beast's other tentacles and exploded instantly, while the other just stuck to its body and started beeping.
The beast was badly injured, and it one has two legs down.
[Agility stats point has been restored]
'Nice..!' Nate rejoiced.
When aiming, Nate was careful to aim for the tentacle that has been the thread that was draining his agility and he seems to have gotten the right one.
With his sixty points of agility back, Nate's speed was back again and he dashed towards the beast.
Placing the guns away, Nate once again summoned his axe. After placing the axe back into his inventory, the thread that was attached to it was detached.
Nate didn't bother to change the weapon shape, rather he went ahead with the axe. The beast has no other tentacle to swing and could only do one thing.
Turning around, the beast was going to escape.
"There is no way I will let that happen.!!" Nate shouted.
Just then, the beeping dot exploded sending the beast down. Nate then leapt up and swung his axe down at the squid's head.
Bang..!!!
[Congratulations you have killed an emperor beast]
[Reward = Diamond medal]
[It's your first time killing a beast of this level]
[Reward = instant level up]
Nate for now was not concerned about the reward, he quickly searched for the beast crystal and it didn't take long for him to find it.
The crystal is located at the beast's back skull.
It was a black crystal, something Nate haven't seen before.
Normally, the Crystal will usually be either light green, light blue or dark red colour. Not that there isn't a possibility of it having another colour but these three were the main popular colour a crystal can be.
Regardless, Nate didn't care as long as it can make a great weapon for him, he was okay.
Activating his master craft skill, Nate was planning to look for a better matter he can make from the crystal.
[I think I have a perfect weapon that will suit this crystal and will help in bringing out more of its power] Jim said to Nate.
[It's called the chain dagger] Jim answered as a blueprint appeared before Nate.
"This...why does this seem familiar?" Nate asked himself.