Chapter 16 - Turnabout

As Neo navigated through the city he tried understanding what happened a few seconds ago. For a moment he felt like he had entered a trance after the memories of the previous Neo Tempest assassin skills raced across his mind. That wasn't the case.

"I see.." He spoke softly within his thoughts, with each dangerous circumstances he found himself in he managed to grasp the memories of the past host in the same scenario. The system integrated the skills the body once possessed. In the terms that Neo could understand, the system resurfaced the skills of his body that was left dormant after the previous inhabitant host's death.

"How did you kill that beast so quickly?" Xenos let out his confusion as he ran behind Neo with Vanessa at his side. Even with his experience and Aen capabilities he took down two E rank beasts in a total of ten minutes and they were nothing compared to what Neo killed.

"I thought you just awakened, so you lied to me?" Vanessa's words sent a chill down the spine of Neo. He never said anything when Xenos asked for their abilities and she was right, he just awakened.

"Okay let's just all take it easy, I'm pretty sure I never said anything about awakening. But yes I did just awaken." He only left them even more confused.

"If not for the training I did earlier I really would have been in trouble." Neo mumbled within his thoughts.

[30:56]

The system displayed in front of Neo the time they needed to stay alive till the first stage was cleared.

"Where are going Reo?" Vanessa asked as they approached the entrance of the city.

"Well to them." Neo replied her as they passed through the entrance of the city and met several man beasts about 4-15 feet in height.

"Are you crazy!?" Vanessa exclaimed as she saw what Neo had led them to, their apparent doom. Several teams had already been defeated and transported back home while the others prevailed against the beasts they came in contact with.

"Not at all." Neo replied her yet again as he dashed forward towards the beasts.

"I'm starting to like this guy." Xenos smiled running behind Neo, Vanessa stood still as she watched her teammates run ahead of her. She didn't know if this was part of some crazy plan Neo came up with or they were truly stupid.

Neo stretched out his right palm towards the three man beasts that stood in his path, electricity surged through his arm and into his palm and he built up a blue ball of energy. He used his ability [Electric Burst] and fired an electric beam towards the ground where the beast in the middle stood.

The burst of energy exploded and the three beasts were caught in it's blast range.

[You have defeated a D rank beast]

[You have gained 40XP]

[You have defeated a D rank beast]

[You have gained 40XP]

[You have defeated a E rank beast]

[You have gained 20XP]

As the notifications from the system were displayed before Neo's eyes he knew he was getting closer. Xenos was shocked after he witnessed first hand the ability of Neo.

"L-lightning?" He stammered, there was no time for him to be astonished by Neo's abilities as two man beast rushed him swiftly. Xenos iris turned yellow and his pupils pitch black as he muttered the name of his ability softly.

"Beast..Nova."

His physical strength was multiplied greatly and he was able to leap as high as 12 feet in the air, he jumped towards of the first man beast that approached him who was 9feet in height and punched it on its chest. The man beast was blown off his feet swiftly, Xenos immediately turned his attention to the second man beast and gave it a roundhouse kick right on its cheeks and the same outcome occured.

[Xenos has taken down two D rank beasts]

"What was that?!" Neo exclaimed, he forgot Xenos description of his abilities he told them about earlier.

"Beast Nova, an ability that allows me to take on the traits and features of the creatures I defeated, although this beasts seems to possess no special traits at all." He replied.

Vanessa watched from behind, as stupid as the two boys were she couldn't let them outshine someone that fell under the Knight Class. She considered it a disgrace.

"Huh, so to gain those creatures abilities you have to defeat them? That sounds like a hassle." Neo spoke with his arms crossed.

"Better than shooting lightning from my palm knowing it's gonna kill me." Xenos replied as an argument started on which ability was more dangerous to the user.

"It's not! Whatever, I'm surprised you didn't get yourself killed the first time you awakened." Neo realized that in this medieval world, electricity hadn't been discovered yet so it was pointless explaining what his abilities was.

"What was that?" Their foreheads clashed swiftly and they started staring down at each other's eyes.

"Don't leach me in with those awakened who doesn't know how to fight." Xenos spoke with a deep voice.

"And don't diss my abilities when they are more safer than yours." Neo replied with a deep voice as well.

"They are not!." Xenos growled.

"Are to!" Neo growled as well as their foreheads rubbed against each other and their teeth grinned.

A light beam shot above them barely touching their hair, they were taken aback as they slowly turned their necks towards the source of the light beam and saw Vanessa.

"Why am I the one who got stuck with two idiots." She complained approaching them and they turned their necks the other way as they heard a large thud.

[Vanessa has taken down an A class beast]

Their eyes met with the dead body of a huge man beast which was right next to them. As they argued it didn't come across their minds that several beasts were present, especially a massive beast which seemed to be the to highest ranked between all the beasts.

[5:04]

The system displayed the time left for the survival stage, each moment became critical as the beasts became more aggressive the more the time elapsed. A total of 290 teams out of the 373 that entered had already been vanquished.