[Should we kill it?] She asked. She understood that if there's a leader with some influence over these guys then they would be compromising themselves by killing it.
[We should just kill it. We can just leave this area and move to some other area. It's not like we have a shortage of bunkers.] He didn't care about leaving this place.
[Works, I guess.] Neither did Laura. Although they'd decided to spend some time in this bunker, the presence of this abomination changed their plans.
Laura slowly sneaked up to the abomination as she got ready for an attack. Alex had stopped enhancing her stats so she was able to have full control over her body and use her skills perfectly.
Soon, Laura was right behind the abomination and was about to slice its neck with her claws, but it abruptly dodged her attack and moved to the side while swinging its arm at her.
Laura was already prepared for something like this and swung her leg which had a claw extending from it. Her foot claw sliced at the abomination's outstretched arm as it pulled back at the last moment.
Though that action wasn't without any loss, it had lost half of its hand from Laura's attack.
"Arghh!!!" Its screech was loud as it seemed to enter an enraged state.
[Is that normal?] Laura asked as she saw the eyes of the monster glow a crimson red.
[I'm as clueless as you are here babe. It's not like I've fought these guys before.] Alex came clean with her at the worst possible time.
[What?! But I thought—] Laura wasn't able to finish her words as the abomination attacked her again with twice the speed. One good thing that she noticed was that it was only mindlessly attacking her. There was no strategy here.
As Laura dodged another attack she realized that she had to finish this quickly.
'No more probing…' She decided that in its enraged status which had doubled its stats, continuing the fight would get a little dangerous for her, 'Also, that screech might've attracted more of those guys here…' She also realized.
Laura's attacks got more aggressive and she swiped a claw close to the throat of the abomination which only pulled back due to the fear of death that it felt. Laura growled in annoyance, especially since she wasn't able to fight as freely as she was used to. Due to her healing factor going dormant, Laura had to pay attention to dodge the attacks of the abomination. Otherwise, she'd have finished it by now.
[Incoming! Behind you!] Alex's words alarmed Laura as she used the momentary distraction of the abomination after its abrupt pull back to dodge her attack. She quickly jumped over to it and pushed her claws into its neck and through its head, finally killing her opponent.
Though before she could take a breath of relief, she had to use the hand that was still stuck in that dead abomination's head to maneuver herself away from her current position.
Using her acrobatics training, she jumped over the 5-meter-tall giant's head and went behind it as it was falling.
Just as she jumped over, there was another claw that swiped the place where she was standing.
It was an 8-meter-tall giant with a far more buff build than the one that Laura was just fighting.
‹Buff Grunt Class›:: Stronger than Grunt Class. Common. Peak Superhuman Physique. Appearance: Muddy green skin, 8 meters tall, buff body build.
[I don't think you/I can fight this dude.] Both Laura and Alex said at the same time.
[I guess we have an agreement. Now allow me to control your body. You won't be able to outrun this dude without the enhancements. And your control over your base strength itself is also pretty lanky after the enhancement that came with my bonding with you.] He was blunt with her.
[Geez… You could've sugarcoated it.] She felt Alex taking control of her body and didn't resist. Though she felt that if she wanted, she could wrestle back the control from him easily.
This wasn't because Alex was weaker than her or anything. It was because he was taking a more gentle approach with her.
Alex didn't reply and within an instant, started running at Laura's top speed. He'd already left a part of his symbiote body on the dead abomination to devour it. After it was done devouring the dead abomination, the body was going to dissolve into nothingness after transferring all of its shared mass back to the main body.
[Fuck! This is how fast I am now?] Laura had realized just how much of a boost her physical prowess had gotten, [This is going to be a pain to train…] She also realized.
[That it is. But it's going to be fun.] Alex told her.
A few seconds later, they were already a few miles away from their spot. Weirdly enough, the abomination didn't actually follow them. But Alex wasn't going to be taking any chances. He had already camouflaged Laura on the way so that any other abominations that they run into wouldn't sense them.
Soon he saw a notification that made him glad for the risk that he and Laura had just taken.
[EP +0.01]
'That's new…' He thought as he looked at the notification for the tiny amount of EP that he received from that abomination. He usually never received notifications for increases in EP other than whole values.
'These abominations have an infinitely better efficiency in comparison to killing humans.' He thought.
'I have to make her stronger.' Alex got a new drive to make Laura stronger so that the two of them could easily contend with those abominations.
Soon, they were far enough away to stop and take a breather.
[Laura.] Alex called her after stopping and gave her back her body's control.
[What's up?] She asked confusedly. She'd thought that she could take a rest, leaving Alex to find the next shelter, but apparently not.
[We need to get stronger.] He told her.
[I know.] She nodded.
[I have to expedite the recovery of your healing factor.] Alex said.
[Oh? What's the catch?] She caught onto his tone and understood that there was some sort of catch.
[We need to stimulate you. Heavily. I'll have to augment it with a certain type of energy that I control.] He hoped that she would agree. He was going to try to use his mana to awaken her dormant healing factor. He hoped that by absorbing magical energy, it would show some reaction. He could've gone with the route of using electricity to do this, but it would be counterintuitive. Electricity would be a forceful act and would up straining the ability even more, making it prone to going dormant every once in a while. On the other hand, using Mana would be like caressing it to wake it up while also magically empowering it.
[What kind of stimulation?] She asked with narrow eyes.
[Anything that would produce intense emotions while hyperactivating your body. Let's continue this talk after we go into a bunker. Keep going in the direction that I was going. Full speed.] He would have to convince and appease her a little.
[But—] She wanted to tell him that she didn't have any control over herself and might hurt herself again.
[Trust me. I'll be supporting you this time. If you fall and get hurt again, I'll be the one having to fix it anyway.] He seemed to be grumbling.
With slight hesitance, Laura ran at full speed.
And she tripped.
Though, this time, Alex supported her and controlled her legs to balance her again.
Laura who'd closed her eyes tightly in anticipation of pain was pleasantly surprised that she didn't fall.
[I guess you weren't lying.] She said.
[Of course not. Now keep moving. And if you stop again, I might just zap you with my electricity.] She'd stopped after that trip and Alex didn't like that.
[Fine, fine. Geez. I feel like training with you is going to be hell.] Laura felt that Alex was a trainer that was going to drill her to near death.
[I do more of a combination of hell and heaven combined. I'll make sure you get addicted to my training methods.] Alex's tone sent shivers down Laura's spine.
[Yeah? I'm looking forward to it.] Laura said with an anticipatory tone. She hadn't had a real life for years and even the prospect of hellish training to get stronger was seeming like a very pleasant thought compared to the monotonous stuff that she'd gone through during her imprisonment.
[You might not have come out of that facility completely sane.] Alex deduced.
[I take offense to that.] She said.
[Right… There it is. You see that gate. It's one of the bigger bunkers which should've had quite a few facilities and housed a large number of people.] He told her as he directed her to look at the bunker gate that seemed to be extending from the ground with only the gate being visible.
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