Raven's eyes gleamed as he threw out a punch, the enlightenment had happened in a split second, so when he threw the punch, Adrian had already gotten 100 meters to him.
"Devil's Punch!!" Raven roared as huge dark fist rose above his and punched at Adrian who hit it with his hammer, but it seem to have hit titanium as the hammer shattered and the fist advanced towards Adrian who crossed his fists as he tried to block the punch.
Adrian felt like he was hit by a train, he gasped as he coughed out a mouthful of blood, he floated in the air for some time as the fist dissipated and he immediately crashed down, before he fell, he turned into a particle of light. Raven watched this, as he stood in the water and gasped. He had bruises across on his body, his right hand hung by his side,it was completely red.
He had won but he didn't feel happy at all, he could feel several energies around this pool, he looked at a distant rock, the girl sat there, "king won, yay"
At least, give me a break.
[Devil King Awakening cancelled]
Raven immediately felt a strong sense of fatigue hit him as he crashed back and fell into the water, sinking to the point where only his nose was visible.
Raven stared at the darkened sky and marveled, that high level space order human really knew how to make a pocket dimension, adding in the concept of day and night. Suddenly, the system holographic screen came on with different notifications.
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<<5000 EXP gained!!>>
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All Vitality and Health points restored, due to level increase, Health span has been increased!
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Raven accepted all the energies with a thought as his fatigue immediately disappeared and he regained back the strength in his hands, but his body still ached all over and he just wanted to find somewhere to rest.
He decided to check his quest progress and he was perplexed, he already killed 5 E orders, in his frenzy battle with Adrian. The E orders did not give him any energy but dropped a kind of gemstone which was stored in his inventory.
Raven called out one, and it appeared in his hand, he looked at it, it was small as big as a fist and he could feel the dense energy coming from it, the one he held was red in color, he had looked through his inventory and saw that there were two others with the same colour, there was a purple one and a dark gold one.
As Raven stared at it, his mind clicked, as someone who enjoyed reading novels in his spare time, he came to a conclusion. "Is this the legendary beast core?"
[Stats]
Beast Core of a level 2 E order Star patterned snake.
Does host wish to absorb?
He selected yes with a thought and Raven noticed as the stone's color began to lose its shade, he could also feel how the energy went through out his body and strengthened, when the stone lost it's color, the system gave him a prompt that the absorption was complete.
[Strength +10]
[Speed+70]
[Agility+100]
[Intelligence +60]
[Constitution +0]
[Vitality +30]
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Seeing this, Raven rose an eyebrow, it dropped a skill book. He took out the skill book from his inventory and began to read it.
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Breathing comes naturally, but there's a pattern to breathing that helps convert the energy in the body into Qi. The Arcanian Breathing Technique is that kind of breathing technique. Once used while using a skill, it's attack power can be increased multiple folds.
Raven read on and saw how the technique was practised, it was just like how those cultivators would sit and begin to accumulate qi, but this one was slightly different, he could do it while walking, fighting or even sleeping, it was something he could add as a part of daily life.
"Nice technique, I'll learn it"
Raven returned the book back to his inventory and began to absorb the other beast cores, the other two red cores were from two wolf monkeys of the E order and the other two were from a frost horned deer and a man eater tree, both of the E order. With their energies, Raven's strength increased by 100 folds coming to a startling amount of 1000, while his agility and speed were 750 and 600 respectively. He noticed that his constitution was on the verge of reaching level 2.
After absorbing the beast cores, they did not drop any skills or techniques. "so there's only a 0.001 chance of a technique", Raven muttered as he immediately tried to sit up. Seeing Raven sit up the several berserkers and beasts and some humans who were in hiding, immediately attempted to attack buy immediately an intimidating pressure hit them and they crashes to the ground, Raven was immediately pressed back into the water as he was couldn't even breathe, he heard some screams of help, and a huge shadow blocked the moon that hung in the sky, Raven could not make out the figure, so he decided to scan it.
[Unable to ascertain identity as creature level too high!]
As if the figure felt Raven's gaze, it looked at the water below it, it's bright yellow eyes glowed, it only saw a strand of hair in the water, it immediately lost interest and walked away, stepping on some unlucky ones.
After the figure had become a dot was when the pressure disappeared, Raven immediately sat up as his back was drenched in cold sweat. "What was that?"
He had thought that he was going to die, he breathed in a sigh of relief as he felt his rapidly beating heart. He then noticed his surroundings. There were several bodies, of both beasts, beserkers and humans, above them floated some cube like objects and some cores. Seeing this, Raven's eyes flashed with ferocity as he charged into the bodies and took them, when those that were alive noticed him, they lunged at him with intent to kill, to which Raven sneered.
Meanwhile, Micheal and his echelons were in a very serious discussion, since it was night, it was advisable for the participants to take a night rest, so there wasn't any live broadcast, but they were still watching just in case of any anomaly.
Micheal and his echelons had noticed that huge figure long before it reached Raven's area, it's first sighting was during a battle between a group of the academy and a group of berserkers. One of the academy students who seem to be the leader, got angry and attacked the figure without warning, there was a low whistle and the student turned into a cloud of blood, scaring the shit out of the others, they all fled in different directions.
"What is a Fiend doing here?" was what was going on in everyone's mind.
"You know that old man has a hobby of capturing anything of interest into this pocket dimension, he might have gone dimension hunting?" Dian said and his voice sounded serious. As soon as he spoke, there was call on the screen and everyone looked at Micheal.
"It's the old man"
-End of Chapter 11-