[Activating Almighty Surgical Hands!]
[Gear activated!]
'huh?'
Marcus started feeling a cold sensation in the areas where he was experiencing pain, it was a strange feeling, pain, and soothing coolness all together in an area.
'So it is regenerating my organs that have burst'
After a while, the soothing sensation of coolness was now overpowering the severe pain, and Marcus was starting to get his bearings.
Night had already fallen, he struggled and managed to sit up, but the chirping of the beast cricket wouldn't stop.
'I should leave'
[Host has not completed punishment!]
[Severer one would be administered!]
"Damn it!... Shit head! You set me up!"
His mind wandered to how the system had coaxed him into consuming that Axolotl, it knew that he wouldn't die, it was like a torture.
'Shit'
Marcus stood up, he almost tumbled.
"Let's get it over with"
He muttered although Marcus could still feel some stinging pain, but the soothing coolness was so refreshing that it seemed there was menthol evaporating inside of him bringing a cooling effect to the organ areas.
[Host has displayed tenacity!]
[+1 Will!]
[+10 percent chance in activating exoskeleton armor!]
"Not bad"
Marcus trudged over to the beast and looked at the forewings as they kept rubbing together, it was still stridulating trying to defend even though its head was already squashed.
"Son of a bitch"
He knew he didn't have the strength to carry the I-beam again which lay on the other side and was covered in the mess of the cricket head.
[Host could activate Exoskeleton armor!]
Marcus' lips curled into a smile, then he crouched and landed a hit on the loose earth with his right fist.
The punch had taken its toll on him; he spurted out blood.
Even though the gear was regenerating his burst and damaged organs, the sensation remained raw, akin to a wound freshly stitched. He wasn't supposed to undertake strenuous tasks like this.
Then, in the dim light of the night sky, Marcus caught sight of something shimmering.
"Whoa!" he exclaimed, stunned.
The hand with which Marcus struck the ground was now covered in segments of exoskeleton, shimmering with a sheen, golden tone. The golden color lent it a regal and almost divine appearance as if it were armor forged in the fires of the gods.
Marcus spread his fingers, noting that only his palm was devoid of the exoskeletal segments and that his finger joints were surprisingly free. Then, with his left hand, he knocked on the back of the exoskeleton-covered hand.
KOIN!! KOIN!!
It sounded like a metal.
"Metal exoskeleton armor, isn't this amazing!" The words tumbled from his lips, and Marcus was elated suddenly.
He thought back, it was definitely different than when he was punching the floor, this was definitely a life-threatening situation.
At once, the beast cricket stopped the chirping sound, everywhere was so quiet.
[Congratulations! Host has completed the daily quest!]
[+10 gene tokens!]
[+2 XP!]
[Punishment has been cancelled!]
Marcus made a foreboding expression, he never thought the punishment would be like this, he really underestimated the system.
Marcus turned to go then he started hearing another chirping sound.
RRWRRING!!!....RRWRRING!!!...
RRWRRING!!!....RRWRRING!!!...
This time, it wasn't as loud as the first one.
"Fuck! My work is done here let me run"
He turned to dash away.
[Beast Mole Cricket wanted to self-destruct!]
The sound was now getting louder by the second.
[Almighty Surgical Hands Deactivated!]
[Gear on Cooldown!]
POW!! POH!!
Marcus was barely twelve feet from the beast when his head exploded with a splitting headache.
Liquid spurted out from both of his ears, followed by blood. An inexplicable pain coursed through him, and his vision began to swim. Marcus's legs quivered as he lost his bearings.
[Host eardrum has burst!]
POW!!
Marcus spurted blood immediately and his legs gave way.
[Host right lung has burst!!]
[Almighty Surgical Hands Cooldown: five minutes!]
"Shit, damn it... Why!!, I'm going to die"
He lay sprawled on the ground about twelve feet from the beast cricket whose wings were now brushing against each other with force.
Marcus kept stretching his body forward to move away from the area but to no avail.
"Damn it..., It seemed I can't make it"
POW!!
He spurted out another volume of blood.
"Shit...."
Inexplicable pain coursed through his body and he felt light.
As he breathed in, the air seemed to feel his upper body, the air entering his right lung which had burst had escaped into some part of his chest.
Marcus turned and looked over at the beast mole cricket, the chirping seemed to be affecting it too as greenish fluid oozed out of the potion where its head had been—its neck area—after all, it was self-destructing.
It had reached its limit of bearing its noise intensity, even though it kept stridulating.
Its forewings wouldn't stop brushing against each other, but it seemed the noise intensity was reducing with every fluid that oozed out of its neck region, perhaps it was losing energy.
"It can't be helped, if I wanted to survive I would need to kill it completely but it seemed to be impossible"
A thought rang in Marcus' head, he could tear the damn wings.
He crawled closer to the beast cricket and stretched his right hand up.
Immediately the sheen golden Exoskeleton armor manifested, it seemed Marcus could do it with just will.
Marcus' hand touched one of the damn wings, then with last strength, hr held and tug it off from the beast's body, silent fell immediately, and he spurted out some volume of blood.
'The work isn't finished yet'
Marcus landed his left hand on the back of the beast, its body was surprisingly weak, just like an average cricket's strength but Marcus' hand was covered in thick greenish fluid, the beast mole cricket blood.
Its body separated into two immediately and a blue gem fell, it seemed it was in the part where Marcus had broken it into two—its thorax region.
The gem was glowing blue.
[Host has slayed S-Grade Beast Mole Cricket!]
[+1 gene token!]
[+15 XP!]
[Almighty Surgical Hands Activated!]
'So gene cores are bioluminescent'
"Beautiful"
Marcus muttered and clutched the gem in his right hand, he started feeling the soothing sensation in some areas of his body, and then his consciousness faded and he slumped and sprawled on the loose earth.