The bison's eye became blood red.
It's muscles became buffer and veins started to stick out from its skin.
It's aura became very chaotic .
This all happened in a single moment and then it began to rush after Zenon.
It was time for round 2.
Except it wasn't much different from before. The changes were that the berserk creature was relentless in its assault and it has lost all the reason, pain and hesitation.
It was just giving up reason for temporary strength.
In Zenon's opinion it wasn't a good move, but he was curious about this state.
Zenon didn't finish it immediately.
Instead he sharpened his senses to maximum and focused it on the creature, calmly observing every change it was going through.
It's heart rate has increased exponentially.
Breathing is loud and hurried.
Its body was heating up... probably because inability of the body to process the sudden burst of energy or inefficiency in the process.
Sound of bones creaking...probably because of the heavy burden on the body.
After series of exchanges, Zenon began to attack back.
A tail attack which parted air and left afterimages on its wake, smashed against its head.
The blunt strike toppled it from the feet.
It gets up but was disoriented.
It cannot steady it's feet and find balance for while. But surprisingly it's instincts helped it to regain bearing way earlier than it should have been.
But a clean claw strike pierced through its tough hide and takes large piece of meat from its neck. Blood rushes out like a dam opening from the wound.
It seems that due to increased heart rate and the speed at which blood is flowing,any small injury to blood vessels will result in immense bloodloss and Swift death.
The bison couldn't even understand what happened. It mindlessly prepares another charge, but was unable move more than two steps before falling down, never to get up again.
Zenon casts appraisal on the corpse.
[Raging bison-corpse]
[Master rank species.
Common bloodline.
Known innate abilities- horn enhancement, bull rush, berserk rage]
Zenon dragged back today's meal into his new abode. After finishing the the whole meal, he was deep in thought.
He was thinking back to the ability 'berserk'.
It is an ability that enhances the whole body while temporarily surpassing the bodily limit.
If he were to develop a similar ability, then it can aid when facing a much stronger opponent.
It is compatible with martial arts.
As for the disadvantage of losing his reason, it was indeed fatal. For normal creature that is.
Zenon has the ability [transcendental mind].
He will not lose his reason during his fight.
Of the ability,he will get all the good part while eliminating the detrimental ones.
But he did not want the exact ability.
The ability [berserk rage] was an imperfect one.
It activates only when the creature's anger exceeds a breaking point.
It is suitable for bison since, even though it's place in food chain is not that high, it was innately prideful and easily gets triggered.
Though, it is suitable for other general draconic species, Zenon as a reincarnated person, didn't inherit that trait.
So it is not suitable for him.
If he still want a berserk type ability, he has three options.
One is to find a creature with exact same ability he wanted,and take it.
As for how to take an innate ability from other creatures? It's rather simple. He has to defeat the creature who's rank was higher than him and devour it. Thus he will gain a locked bloodline that can be partially integrated at the time of evolution.
The second options is to reach final step of school control martial art. Though to reach a level where one can manipulate heart rate,bloodflow, energy consumption etc to a precise level simultaneously, at least a few decades are needed.
The third option is to gain affinity towards blood element.
Blood element is a very rare element and can rarely seen. Through mastering blood manipulation to certain extent, one can achieve a Berserk state with minimal after effects.
After some deliberations,he put these thoughts to back of his mind. Because all these options are currently unattainable.
He began his regular long meditation session.
Meditation is crucial to achieve the next step in school of control.
For achieving the next step, there is a very important criteria.
Which is known as unity of body and mind.
Usually when one is taking an action, for example, blocking a strike from an opponent.
The Process is, first identifying the trajectory of the attacks using the senses, the mind through processing the information consciously send action stimulus to the body, as a result blocking the attack.
In the unity of mind and body state, what happening will be in the time mind processing the sensory information body would have automatically reacted.
There is no need for mind to consciously process information and send stimuli to body.
Body will do exactly what mind wanted without any delay.
This is also known as the flow state or one with intension.
Since he has already achieved this state in previous life, he only need to link his mind with every part of the body and form a subconscious connection.
He assumes it will take one or two years.
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Few days later.
Zenon was on his regular hunting trip. Today, he was not searching for prey aimlessly.
He has spot an interesting creature yesterday when he was returning.
Although he had an impulse to fight then and there,he held back and saved it for this day.
Zenon hastily reached the place and searched the vicinity.
Soon he found his target. It was a large python with yellow scaled body.
It is around four meter in length and twenty centimetre in diameter.
It is coiled around a tree branch and waiting for an unfortunate life to pass through beneath.
This creature is exceptionally good at comaflaging it's presence.
If it wasn't for [super sense] he would have hard time spotting it. The skill made him basically immune against ambushes.
Zenon came near it and unleashed a powerful breath attack on the unassuming creature.
The breath was very powerful. It burned the tree branch to ashes. But as a testament of its strong defenses, the python only has few burned spot and charred flesh.
It fell into the ground with a loud thud. After a brief shock and searching arounds, it finally spotted Zenon.
"Hisss..."
It let out a bone chilling hise and glared at Zenon menacingly.