'My secret huh, why is he interested in something like that? Knowing it will achieve nothing. I can't play around with the truth on this one, Aks 3 is a loose cannon, it's too risky to be blurring the truth, but I have no choice' Tim concluded.
"To tell you the truth. I have no idea of what is going on with me. If I was to summarise it, I would say that I am half awakened.
I do not know the details, but I think I can sort of use mana energy to boost my physical capabilities with enough internal visualisation" Tim replied, giving a sort of half truth while completing hiding the very fact that he could absorb mana energy almost infinitely.
Hearing Tim's response to his question, Aks 3 did not know what he believes, he had never heard of using mana to boost his physical capabilities internally. 'Is that even possible? How can he boost his physical capabilities internally without the mana energy coating his body?' Aks 3 wondered.
"Boy, hope you are not lying to me?" Aks 3 asked. Hearing his question, Tim sighed in relief. Aks 3 asking to confirm if he was telling the truth made him know that Aks 3 knew nothing about his secret.
'How can I tell anyone about my major secret. Just them knowing about my super regeneration made them use me as a test dummy for their experiments. Tch' he concluded.
Resuming his journey in the forest, Tim had no idea where exactly to find his target beast. He was just briefed that the beast could be found in the forest.
A few minutes after his journey, he heard the sound of multiple beasts coming towards the direction he was coming from. Tim was no fool, even if he had just faced and defeated 2 awakened wolves, he was not pompous enough to charge into battle against multiple possibly awakened unknown beasts.
The trees of the forest were high. So, Tim hurriedly climbed to the top of the highest tree in his vicinity. He was taking no chance against this group of beasts even with his superior regeneration.
After a few minutes, the group of beasts reached the exact spot he was previously standing at, they seemed to be sniffing for something.
Luckily when Tim climbed to the top of the tree, he covered his body with the poop of an unknown beast and wrapped his body with some tree leaves. All this was done t hide his scent from the beasts that was approaching. Thankfully it worked out perfectly for him.
Looking at the beasts from up high, he saw the details of the beast. There were 9 beasts in total, and he was very familiar with the beast he saw. The beasts were the same specie of beasts he fought with not long ago.
The purple coated wolf. Remembering his battle with the wolves he shuddered briefly. The lightening strike from the tail of the purple coated wolf, was by no chance a thing to be taken likely with.
The strike could literally one shot an unguarded Master. Now there were9 of them. It even seemed that the ones he fought with were not the matured ones of their specie, because he could literally spot two wolves which seemed to be about 10 feet in size with a horn on their head.
How was he even supposed to fight that. Now he was sure that the purple coated wolves were 4 star ranked beast. Just from the oppressive aura that they were giving. The aura reminded him of the San Master he faced just the previous day.
He was being seriously over worked. Just the previous day, he fought way above his class and lost twice shamefully, now he was going to battle again just the following day.
It seemed as if the wolves were tracing a scent. 'Are they tracking the scent of their fellow brethren which are now dead?' he wondered.
Soon 8 of the wolves departed from the spot he was standing at previously and continued their journey towards the battle location of the now dead wolves.
The wolf that stayed back was one of the 10 feet wolf with a large horn on its head. 'It seems that the wolf still suspect that I am around this area. Seriously these beasts are truly intelligent. I should avoid killing them unnecessarily.' He concluded.
Up in another tree was Aks 3. He was not hiding from the wolves like Tim. He just sitting there to have a better view of the events. Looking at Tim hiding under leaves made him laugh out loud, thankfully the cloak he got from Tim also masked sounds, not that he needed them in all truth.
"His he hiding from a punny wolf, he is so weak at heart. I can't let someone so weak at heart continue to steal focus from Reagu" he said to himself.
From what he said, an outsider might judge that Tim was another San Master that could not hold his own against an awakened beast of a similar power class with Tim, they would noy know that Tim was an unawakened teen with a broken bloodline trait.
"I can't let that kid have it easy, he has already healed from his last battle. I think he should battle with this beast, it either he dies or entertains me. Eii hahahahah "Aks 3 said as he bust into an uncontrollable laughter.
Aks 3 suddenly pointed his index finger towards the tree that Tim was hiding on and uttered a single word "Shadow Rail Bust". Dark mana energy quickly gathered at the tip of his index forming into a ball before it shot off at a dangerous speed towards the tree Tim was on.
BOOM!
The tree shattered like a broken glass. The skill did not penetrate the tree, it transferred an overwhelming wave of energy into the tree which caused all the inner structure of the tree to breakdown.
Immediately the tree shattered, Tim knew that he was doomed for battle.
The wolf quickly spotted Tim falling from the place Tim was previously at. Immediately the wolf fired a bolt of purple lightening towards Tim that was falling.
BOOM
He was struck mid air. He flew and crashed into multiple trees from the lightening strike. 'Damn, these wolf its too smart for its own good. Aks 3 you bastard, you actually sabotaged me. I promise to give you a befitting death when I am strong enough' Tim promised himself, as he laid in the pool of his own blood.
The lightening pierced the side of his belly, which stabbed, burnt and electrocuted his body. This was a new level of pain for him. He even had tears in his eyes from the intense pain of the strike.
Unknowingly to him, the moment he promised to grant death unto Aks 3 due to anger and intense pain, another chain restriction was unlocked in his bloodline.
His body was healing at his new accelerated rate 15 times of normal but it was not enough for him. He had to get up to return pain to the wild wolf.
Maybe this was the territory of the purple coated wolf Tim did not know, but what Tim knew was that he had to dish back pain to the wolf.
He immediately entered his Inner Palace, but as he entered a new flood of pain rushed through his body. The wolf had used its paws to slam him. sending him crashing against a range of trees.
Now he knew that he really had almost no time to waist, so he rushed into his Inner Palace once again. Looking at the shell of himself that he created in his inner palace, he was surprised by what he saw.
He saw that his shell had the exact same injury his body had sustained. He was really shocked by this discovery. 'What am I.' he subconsciously asked.
He immediately visualised that mana energy from his Inner Palace would flood his shell. Immediately he visualised that, the golden engraving on the shell's chest and the shell's eyes became to shine a bright golden colour.
Coincidentally his physical body and eyes also began to shine a bright golden colour. His regenerative factor suddenly shot high above the his usual cap.
His regeneration climbed to 30 times that of normal, and almost immediately his injuries, pain and fatigue vanished like it was never there.
When the wolf saw the prey it had given damage to, stand up with no sign of injury on its body, it became angry. It immediately howled. The owl was so loud that it busted the ear drums of Tim's ears, but because of the state Tim was in, the busted hear drums healed immediately.
He had not even brought out his weapon when he was struck by the damn annoying wolf. He briefly wondered, if he would have faced a shameful defeat, if he had entered his current state when he was facing off against the leader of the expedition team.
"Come at me you ruthless beast" He said with a bright smile.