Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 52: Toward (Part 05)
In front of the mouth of the rocky cave, the Minotaurs looked puzzledly looking for the figure that had provoked them. The bull-headed monsters swarmed in, looking sharply to the right and left with breathless killing lust. Among the Minotaurs, a superior figure stood upright with a leaner posture than the herd. White fur, standing three meters tall with a burly body that looks thin. The White Bull is more likely to be similar to humans in posture, unlike the herd which tends to bend.
“Khaa! Udayah!!”
The white-haired monster ruled, as if it had high intelligence and set other Minotaurs to look for the person who provoked them. But before the monsters split up, a young man came out from the trees and walked leisurely towards the monsters.
The young man in black hair was Odo Luke, he held a sword in his right hand and stared flat at the monsters. Stopping stepping and standing twenty meters away in front of the Minotaurus herd, a glance of the young man opened his left palm forward and sighed. The air that hit his palm provided some information about the Minotaurs.
“I can already control Aitisal Almaelumat. But, still if without gloves the information entered is not consistent. The data is too messed up.”
Odo's eye cornea turned green, using Perception Speculation and starting the analysis of all the monsters before him. When he found out that the Minotaurs were only 22 including the White Bull leading them, Odo lowered his left hand and wore a flat expression.
“Moogghhh!! Agh!!! Uagkkhh!!!”
The White Bull commanded its herd, they immediately ran towards Odo and attacked simultaneously. Understanding that facing the creature with high physical ability from the front was a stupid act, Odo used the power of information manipulation and changed his ability from Magus to Swordman. The magic pressure decreased drastically, replaced by a thin aura radiance from a sword user.
Pressing the left chest with the left index finger to stimulate the heart, it regulates the circulation of Mana in the body and completely changes the circulation of life energy. Quickly the muscles of the young man tightened, his posture briefly shrinking as the muscle mass of his body was centered and maximized. Pressing the hump of the neck with his thumb, the young man maximized his spinal sensory use a simple acupuncture technique.
“Upgrade Type, Swordman to Sword Master. Adjustment process begins, experience level in initial provision type is adjusted, completed. Initial application, adjustable alignment, mode applied. Installing battle tactics data. Removing the initial base of the Physical Body, the Etheric Body was accessed. The adjustment of the energy node, the formation stage of bone, flesh and blood is complete. Soul realm accessed, unlocking the concept of the Third Eye! Execution!”
In an instant the young man overhauled almost his entire Magic Core cultivation stage. It stores information that has previously existed, then overwrites the body with different information to change the ability both in body and soul. The aura emanating from it changed, as if the one standing before the monsters was a different person.
Odo did not put up the horses, he just stood upright even though the Minotaurus herd would hit him brutally. Taking a deep breath, he maximized his Perception Speculation and analyzed all kinds of movements of those monsters. Breathing, muscle movements, grooves of footsteps, gun swings, eye gazes and murderous passions, all of which were put into the head and analyzed completely.
“Main Sword Technique ...”
Odo took one step forward, as the aura radiated and the movements of the monsters looked extremely slow in his eyes. It was not because the scattered aura made them slower, but because Odo's mind was indeed becoming faster. As long as the aura spread within a fifty meter range of his body, the young man could keep up with the speed of his mind which increased even faster by tens of times.
He channeled Mana into the sword, activated the luminous rune and made his weapon vibrate at hypersonic speed. Using a small amount of throw magic on the sole of his right foot, Odo sped at an unreasonable speed and immediately decapitated the two Minotaurus heads in the front row. Before their heads fell to the ground, Odo immediately stepped on the knees of one of the decapitated monsters and again jumped towards another Minotaurus.
The sword swung, instantly ripping apart the neck of one of the Minotaurus and continued with a horizontal slash that until it made its body split into two halves. Moving among the large and tall monsters, the young man seemed to be dancing amongst the dead, continuously swinging his sword and ripping apart their necks and bodies without the slightest hesitation.
In the eyes of the herd of monsters, Odo's movement was very fast, although in reality he only stepped and jumped normally to slash and behead. Before they could react, the young man jumped straight at the other Minotaur in front and again beheaded the bull-headed monsters. Using the same means, in less than ten seconds they all collapsed and left only The White Bull still standing.
Sellaaat!!! Splats! The craat! Croats! Kraayaking!!
As Odo stopped his technique, a new slash effect was seen and blood spurted from each Minotaurus neck he had slashed. There were some whose heads were severed, and some were split into two halves horizontally. Standing among the corpses of the fallen Minotaurs, the young man with black hair swung his sword to the side to wash away the blood that soaked the already no longer trembling sword eyes.
“God Step Download ...”
The field that Odo held to its limit, his sword blade cracked because it could no longer withstand the vibrations during its use to slash and in the end the sword eye broke into several pieces. Throwing the sword on the ground, the young man with black hair stared intently at the white monster that was still standing.
The White Bull trembled at the moment. In the look of his eyes, the young man's black hair could not be captured visually and what the monster saw was only the moment one by one his flock fell in a very short time. The white-haired monster stepped back, completely terrified before trying to fight back.
“What's up? Aren't you arrogant, buffalo? Come on, try and attack me! Help me experiment for a while ..” Odo pointed, then stared with a flat eye and said, “You, up to the advanced mutation stage, right? It should be able to use magic. Try using me.”
“Moogghhh!!”
The monster was provoked easily. The White Bull extended both of its hands forward, made a wide magic circle and fired water cannon magic at high pressure. It sped very fast, but with a simple and quick movement Odo dodged it, and it only grazed thinly on his left temple. The high-pressure water cannon hit the trees, making several hollow and fallen trees.
Odo clapped his hands, staring low as if insulting the magic used by the low-sense creature. “Great. I just saw the first time a lowly monster could use such magic.” Smiling lightly and stopping clapping, the young man humbly said, “Well, to be honest it is still very simple to be called magic. Your structure is still chaotic and very wasteful Mana .... I'll show you what real magic is, take a good look because this will be the last lesson of your life, monster.”
Odo extended his right hand forward, making a magic circle that was at a glance similar to what the monster was using earlier. But when modified, the magic circle increased to four layers but the size shrank and became only as big as a palm.
“Oh dew, be water and let me rule you.”
Within seconds an unnatural amount of fog gathered, moving swiftly from the still dewy forest towards the young man. The mist began to focus on his palm, forming a dense water pattern as large as a palm. Slowly its shape turned into a cone, with its pointy tip leading to a white-feathered monster before the young man.
The water cannon magic instantly shot towards The White Bull at high speed, in one powerful stomp.
Cract!
Without being able to dodge, the monster's chest was hollow as a soccer ball and his body instantly collapsed without being able to incubate before his death. The monsters that were said to need a squad to conquer were easily wiped out with a single strike.
At first glance Odo's expression felt disappointed, not satisfied after defeating his opponent. But suddenly blood flowed from the young man's nose, even until his mouth was also slightly bleeding. Swiping blood and immediately holding his forehead due to the pulse of the headache within, he put on a flat gaze.
“This body is no longer suitable. Even though I changed the body composition to be able to adjust it, still magic was no longer my area of expertise. Is the damage permanent? Though now almost 50% of my magic circuit has recovered, but why the side effects instead ...”
Odo walked up to the white-haired monster, passing the scattered corpses of Monotaurus. Squatting in front of him and holding the surface of the monster's chest skin with his left hand, the young man used his strength to figure out something. With a touch of himself immediately understood what made the monster mutate, a bunch of facts he got made the young man put on a sad face.
“Already expected, where might monsters be able to use such magic despite having mutated at an advanced stage. Damn it, not only did he ever kill a witch ..., he also ate it.”
There is a big difference between Demi-humans and monsters, which is their developmental abilities which are in a very different basic context. The stages of Demi-human development are very close to humans, it takes practice and time to continue to develop in strength and knowledge that is obtained from learning.
In contrast to this, monsters can become stronger by preying on others. In some cases, there are also monsters that can seize the power of other types of monsters with their prey. They are also not uncommon to perform cannibalism, cross-reproductive types and even prey on their own children. In rare cases, monsters that eat humans or other high-intelligence creatures they can become more similar to what they prey on. Not only did they gain power from the creatures they were preyed upon, but they were also able to gain knowledge from the brains they ate.
At first glance he looked really troubled by such a thing. On the Michigan continent, chaos and danger arise not only from war, but monsters as well. This is one of the main problems for each country, but on the surface it is rarely discussed because the Four Great Countries are too busy with other affairs and tend not to think about it.
The crimes of bandits, political problems, welfare plans, war potential, territorial division, and several other things, such problems were mostly included in the main meeting in the Royal Capital of Felixia. About the breeding of monsters and the dangers it produces tend to be bestowed on the leaders of each region, it becomes their own duties and obligations without being able to ask for help to other regions because of self-esteem problems.
Despite the heavy casualties, the leader will not ask for help regarding such issues. Despite asking, as long as it does not concern the link having anything to do with demons or the like other regions will not willingly provide assistance.
Odo stood up again, trying not to think about it and immediately stared at the cave. With apathy and trying to forget the witch who had been preyed upon by the Minotaurus, the young man went into the cave like what he was headed for when he came to the lair of the monsters.
“This power is practical to find information, but if it is like this the reverse effect is severe. Tast—Ueekk!!”
Odo's footsteps halted and he spewed food slightly mixed with blood. The image of the time when The White Bull was still an ordinary Minotaurus clearly flashed in the young man's head. The moment when the monster ate the poor witch brutally really felt. The Minotaur's colorless vision of dragging the robed girl into the cave, slamming her to the ground and a wall ringing inside Odo's head.
The sensation of chewing the soft flesh of a young girl, breaking her bones, and eating every fiber of meat, all of which Odo clearly felt because he had previously used the perception of the white monster to find information.
“Sialan ...! Better I don't have to touch monsters anymore, it feels disgusting ...”
After that, the young man went into a cave that all its inhabitants had built. As expected, at the end of the cave was a magic nectar pond. It is a collection of natural energy in the form of liquid before crystallization, still pure and can be given attributes freely. Because it does not have the tools to accommodate all the contents of the pool that pool like the underground lake, Odo decided to go into it and absorb all the liquid energy to restore the body and cultivate until it depletes all the liquid energy.
Inside there were also some low quality crystals that were visible after the puddles of energy began to recede. Odo picked up all of that after he finished meditating for over twenty minutes, then exited the cave carrying a few pieces of crystals of medium quality C to B.
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Note :
I see a pattern. Ah, never mind ....
This time, a lot has changed from the plan before making it.
Finally got my left hand ....
See You!!