Staring up at the icy gray sky with the stars in it which illuminated the sky, Jake was nothing more than just a torso with holes in it yet somehow he was still alive.
He only had a small dent in his head which he got from when the apex ranked beast hit him on the head but it was already healing.
Looking at his system screen, Jake wondered if this was where his path ended.
[Jake Cayden]
[Level: 28]
[Health:70/650]
[Species:Human*]
[Strength:110]
[Speed:125]
[Endurance:114]
[Mental Moxie:85]
[Mana:79/79]
[Magic:74]
[Element: None]
[Ability: Magic mimicry]
[Exp: 19400/50000]
'Who would have thought killing a few beasts would be way harder than killing all those werts back on Soran.'
[Stat points: 2]
[Mimicked magic 1: Divisibility Magic]
[Strength of Mimicked magic: 199]
[Mimicked magic 2: Vanishing Magic]
[Strength of Mimicked magic: 250]
[Total Magic Strength: 449]
The beasts had left his legs and were now searching for Jake. There were two apex ranked beasts and one peak ranked beast left and anytime they got close to where Jake was, Jake would vanish and appear far away from them.
'I can't keep doing this.' Jake thought. 'Sooner or later I have to do something. Or maybe it's better to just give up.'
The holes on his body had now closed up and he had stopped bleeding but his health was still extremely low and he did not even have his legs. How was he supposed to try to fight the beasts, talk less about killing them.
'How did it get to this?' he asked himself. 'From being a normal teenager who moved to Ansteria and got a girlfriend, to fighting beasts at another planet and being on the brink of death.'
Then he remembered when he told Sasha and swore on his mother's grave that he was going to be the strongest mage in the whole world. He knew he wasn't even close to the level of people like Mithral and the other elders when it came to magic so was he going to die now without fulfilling what he swore to do?
'Hell no!' Jake thought as he vanished again and appeared far away from the beasts so they could not find him. 'No way I'm dying by letting beasts kill me. I need a plan or something if I'm going to try to fight this beasts again.'
Shifting his hair away from his face so it didn't obscure his vision, Jake took the bone spikes from his chest and looked at the beasts which were coming closer to him as time passed.
With his resolve and determination getting stronger again, Jake told himself that he had to believe he could beat the beasts. 'Their just beasts.' he thought, trying to make the situation seem way easier than it actually was.
Closing his eyes to regain his concentration, Jake decided to use his energy again. It had not really been useful in the previous fights but he did not really have a choice now and it was one of the few things that could still possibly give him an edge in this fight.
He recalled when he first used the energy. It was when Cat had just died and he was practically at his strongest then since he went on a rampage and killed lots of werts that had attacked.
When he realized he could not replicate the anger he felt initially when Cat died, he stopped trying to overthink his situation and just let his body do it naturally.
He released his energy the way he usually would and used it to cover his body. Now he could feel his energy somewhere that was not connected to his torso.
Opening his eyes, he was dazed and confused for a bit of time. His energy was normally purple in colour but now, all around his body, it was clearly pure white.
He had no idea what had changed but he figured it couldn't possibly make his situation worse than it already was.
With the white energy staying just on his skin, Jake was feeling somewhat stronger and the pain he felt had been reduced further. It was as though the white energy was invigorating him and his strength was coming back to his muscles.
He focused on the energy he could feel which wasn't part of his body and he had an idea of what it could be. Jake controlled the energy back to himself and seeing what was coming towards him, he smiled with relief and thought, 'I might have a chance against those beasts after all.'
Jake's legs which were also covered in the white energy, had just joined back with his waist. Although his body was still not back to the way it was, he could finally stand up and fight now.
His torso was only on his legs for now and the white energy held his whole body in place so he could move and fight like normal. His body still needed time to heal and connect both parts together again through the normal tissues and bones that would normally hold both parts together and make it whole.
The beasts had seen Jake's legs move towards him so now they knew where he was but Jake was not bothered. He had regained control and feeling in his body so he could fight the beasts again as he stood up to his feet, relying on his new white energy for support.
"Ready for round two?" Jake asked, seeing the beasts heading towards him and readying the bone spikes he was holding. The apex ranked beasts vanished and knowing where they would appear next, Jake also vanished.
The beasts appeared where Jake was before but Jake, already knowing what the beasts would do, had appeared right on top of the peak ranked beast smiling because his plan had worked perfectly.
He started of by stabbing the head of the beast just like the last one and this time, Jake held the bone spikes with his mouth somehow and grabbed onto the leg that was sticking out from the side of the beast.
Jake broke it and pulled it out with as much strength as he could muster and with the added strength he had from the white energy around him. The beast screeched in pain but Jake used the leg to whack the head of the beast.
The beast screeched louder and tried to use it pincers to attack Jake by elongating it and bending it backwards. But Jake whacked the pincers again with the leg he broke off and threw the leg away before grabbing onto the pincers and breaking it too, causing black blood to spill everywhere.
He mimicked the magic of the beast, replacing the Divisibility magic then took the bone spikes from his mouth and killed the beast by stabbing it in the neck, putting it out of its misery and ending the screeching and the incessant clicking noise.
[Peak ranked beast has been killed]
[Reward: +1 stat point]
[Stat points: 3]
He had been keeping an eye on the apex ranked beasts and now it was him against the two of them.
Jake vanished and appeared behind one of the beasts, making his hand elongate and stabbing the beast right in its underbelly.
From the bar he could see above their heads thanks to the system, Jake knew that the health of the beasts was relatively in peak condition but now, he had just wounded one of them and its health had gone down. But unlike Jake, it was not healing.
The beast had growled and turned to face Jake while the attention of the other one had also been attracted. Both beasts vanished and Jake also vanished.
Since Jake's own Vanishing magic was stronger, the beasts had appeared where Jake was standing before and Jake had appeared in the air above after a couple of seconds.
He was not falling down but was hovering in the air due to the white energy. He had covered the bone spikes with the white energy as well to make it stronger and less likely to break.
Jake vanished again and appeared right beside one of the beasts then kicked its leg, bending the leg in an awkward position which made the beast limp on the other three legs.
'Slow and steady.' Jake thought to himself before vanishing again to the other beast but elongating his hand to stab an eye of the first beast.
Jake was slowly wearing them out, dealing more damage to the first beast while keeping the second one busy. He knew he could not beat them if he fought them recklessly together so he had to be smart about it.
He watched as their health gradually reduced and when he punched the snout of the first beast, he was relieved when it fell to the ground with no intention of getting up again because it was dead.
[Apex ranked beast has been killed]
[Reward: +2 stat point]
[Stat points: 5]
Giving the one remaining apex ranked beast his undivided attention, Jake was able to kill it fairly quickly.
With his speed and the vanishing magic, it was not hard for him to constantly attack it while making sure he was safe until it died. Plus the added effects of the white energy only made it easier for him.
[Apex ranked beast has been killed]
[Reward: +2 stat point]
[Stat points: 7]
[Quest Completed: Kill the variety of beasts]
[Reward Obtained: +35 Stat points, +2 level up, +40000exp]
[Congratulations you are now level 29]
[You have been rewarded with +1 to all stats]
[Congratulations you are now level 30]
[You have been rewarded with +1 to all stats]