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5.2% Speed Is King / Chapter 23: Giant Armored Mammoth

Chapter 23: Giant Armored Mammoth

"Excellent. Now, how should I spend my points? Hawk! Tell me my options!" Elliot instructed his AI eagerly after he had made sure that his sisters were warm and comfortable atop Winter.

[Acknowledged.]

[You have unlocked Beast Transformation at level twenty. Available beasts to transform into are as follows.]

[Black Bear Warrior - 10 points]

[Frost Wolf Warrior - 10 points]

[Primal Feline Warrior - 10 points]

"Beast Transformation!!! AHMAYZING!!" Elliot whooped for joy deep within his heart. "What else?"

[Skills available for purchase:]

[Leadership Aura - Passive aura that increases all allies' attack power by 50%.] [Cost: 10 points]

[Summon Beast Totem - Active skill which allows you to summon a fearsome Beast Totem that will cause all unfriendly beasts to flee.] [Cost: 10 points]

[Summon Tiger - Active skill which allows you to summon and control a temporary common tiger] [Cost: 10 points]

[Summon Eagle - Active skill which allows you to summon and control a temporary common eagle] [Cost: 10 points]

"Excellent! Excellent! Level twenty opens up so many awesome stuff! I really feel like buying all the skills now! But I need to be patient and wait till I've checked out everything. Hawk! Show me the new items I've unlocked!" Elliot said.

[Acknowledged.]

[Items for sale in the Level 2 Shop:]

[Healing Potion - Heals you for 500 HP] [Cost: 20 points.]

[Attribute Boost Potion - Boosts selected attribute by 4 for 20 minutes] [Cost: 20 points]

[Small Beast Lure - Lures a Small Beast to your location.] [Cost: 20 points]

[Small Stealth Potion - Disappear from sight and smell for 1 minute.] [Cost: 20 points]

[Large Mystery Box - Contains three random items.] [Cost: 20 points]

"Everything is so expensive!" Elliot sighed. "I definitely have to get one of the beast transformations. And I definitely want the Large Mystery Box. And I want to invest 10 points in my personal stats. So that's forty points. So I am able to get two out of the four skills. Alright, I've decided!

Hawk! I want the Primal Feline Beast Transformation, the Large Mystery Box and Summon Tiger and Summon Beast Totem! Put 4 points into Strength, 3 into Intellect and 3 into Reflexes. Please also open the Mystery Box immediately!"

[Acknowledged.]

[Opening Large Mystery Box]

[Received 1x Summon Giant Armored Mammoth]

[Received 1x Large Attribute Candy]

[Received 1x Large Attribute Candy]

Elliot's jaw dropped so fast when he saw the first item that he almost dislocated it.

"Giant Armored Mammoth? What the heck is that? A mammoth is already huge! This one is a giant? AND armored?? My luck is amazing! Amazing!!" Elliot sighed contentedly. "Hawk! How big is the Giant Armored Mammoth?"

[The Giant Armored Mammoth is eight meters tall and weighs forty thousand kilograms.]

"HA HA HA! Perfect! Perfect!! With this skill, I now have no worries about surviving the Apocalypse. I AM SET!"

Elliot was so ecstatic that his happiness spilled into his tamed beasts' mind space.

"Hmm? Why are you so happy, Little Master?" Brock asked as he cantered along at a steady pace.

"Master? Happy?" Ellie yawned from within Jessica's arms.

"Ahahahaha, it's nothing. I just got something wonderful. Don't mind me, don't mind me. Hahahaha!" Elliot laughed happily.

"Good. I hope it's something that can help us take down that stupid monkey." Brock grunted.

Elliot merely chuckled mysteriously and continued his inner dialogue with Hawk the AI.

"Hawk, consume both Large Attribute Candies and assign attributes to Reflexes and Strength."

[Acknowledged.]

[Received 0.8 Strength!]

[Received 0.8 Reflexes!]

"Excellent. Now show me my stats and let me bask in all its wonderful glory!"

Character Name: Elliot Musk

Current Level: 22

HP: 2200/2200

Current Experience: 0/2200

Strength: 3.8

AI Comment: Holy smokes, what happened? Why are you so strong? Monkeys now worship you as the Monkey God of Strength!

Intellect: 2

AI Comment: Twice as smart as the average human being. Monkeys now worship you as their God of Intelligence!

Endurance: 1.0

AI Comment: At the level of the average human being. Monkeys can outrun you anyday.

Reflexes: 2.4

AI Comment: As fast as a monkey! Now you can compete with them when grabbing for bananas!

Looks: 0.6

AI Comment: Uglier than the average human being. Definitely uglier than a monkey.

Emotional health: 0.4

AI Comment: Love tank almost empty. Sicker than the average human being. Let's not even mention the monkey to avoid host's emotional health from dropping further.

Mental health: 0.4

AI Comment: Borderline psychopath.Crazier than the average human being. Totally nuts compared to a monkey.

Beast Affinity: 0.01

Sub Affinity with Monkeys and Apes: 2

AI Comment: Even a gentle cow being butchered would take the time and effort to spit at you. Stay away from animals. ALL animals, except monkeys and apes. They LOVE you!

Luck: 2.1

AI comment: Much luckier than the average human being. If you're a monkey, you'll find bananas to eat every week AND new monkey partners to ehem every day!

Overall: 1.41

AI Comment: You are now in position to help human beings AND monkeys! I suggest you help the monkeys!

Available points: 0

Skills

[Level 1 Beast Taming Aura - Passive aura that increases your affinity with beasts by 0.2.]

[Level 1 Summon Beasts - Active skill which allows you to store, summon and control 2 tamed beasts up to the Medium category.]

[Level 11 Summon Wolf - Active skill which allows you to summon and control a temporary common wolf.]

[Level 3 Summon Hawk - Active skill which allows you to summon and control 3 temporary common hawks.]

[Level 1 Summon Beast Totem - Active skill which allows you to summon a fearsome Beast Totem that will cause all unfriendly beasts to flee.]

[Level 1 Summon Tiger - Active skill which allows you to summon and control a temporary common tiger]

[Level 1 Summon Giant Armored Mammoth - Active skill which allows you to summon and control a temporary legendary Giant Armored Mammoth]

"Mwa ha ha ha ha! Now I am strong! I am powerful!! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!" Elliot cackled happily in his "public" mind space where his beasts could all hear him. He was quite oblivious that he sounded like a madman, much to the consternation of Winter and Brock.

"Now all that's left for me to test is the Beast Transformation and the Summon Giant Armored Mammoth skill! Ah, what a wonderful feeling it is to FINALLY have so many things going well for me…" Elliot sighed and laid down on Brock's broad back in relief and in deep contentment.

After a lifetime of worry, pressure, and hopelessness, Elliot's current condition was so comparatively blissful that he felt like a huge load was taken off his shoulders.

For the first time in many loong years, he felt peace.

He closed his eyes. And very soon, he fell asleep.

NGROOORK! NGROOORK!

And snored.

*-*-*-*-*-*-*

"His luck is absolutely off the charts." Monkey King muttered. "I feel bad for the other Diamond Sponsors. This feels too… unfair."

"HAHA! You morose old monkey. Who cares about fairness when we have a huge bet in place!" Void Walker laughed ecstatically. Ever since Elliot was reverse time walked, her mood and spirits had been rising non-stop and it wasn't showing any signs of slowing down.

"Truly, truly incredible." Monkey King sighed. "A Giant Armored Mammoth is a Legendary Grade beast that cannot be found on planet Earth!"

"What?! Legendary? Hey, even I am jealous of that skill. How on earth are you able to sneak in a system that allows him to learn legendary summons past the Game Masters? I thought they were pretty strict on such things." Void Walker asked curiously.

"I made the Mystery Box draw from an extremely huge pool of items and sneaked in a few legendary summons in there." Monkey King chuckled. "The Giant Armored Mammoth is one of the best legendary skills I have. It's so powerful that it isn't even among the list of beasts which would be released on Earth by the Game Masters."

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Chapter 24: Rak'Tharos

"How in the heavens do you know what beasts the Game Masters sent into planet Earth?" Void Walker asked Monkey King in surprise.

"Of course I know. My Clan supplied almost ten percent of the base beasts prior to their mutation." Monkey King replied. "The other ninety percent are supplied by the other Beast Clans. Unlike you Walkers, the Beast Clans share our information freely."

"Oh? Who says we Walkers don't share information? We share them too! We just like to give each other a little bit of a challenge by hiding them out of plain sight. In fact, I too have brand new information about the fugitives released into planet Earth." Void Walker said proudly.

"Oh? Pray tell." Monkey King said curiously.

"I can't say much. But I can say that one of the Void Clan's ten fugitive Kings would be released into planet Earth this time around."

"FUGITIVE KING?! Why? Why release a damned fugitive king on such a small game world?!" Monkey King asked in shock.

"Because! There is a secret Adamantium Sponsor also participating…" Void Walker whispered.

Monkey King's jaw dropped.

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

"So… All I have to do is to kill all of the natives?" A powerfully built, humanoid beast rumbled in a deep voice.

Standing tall and strong at over three meters, he towered over the small 1.5 meter tall Void Walkers that were talking to him through the bars from outside his prison cell.

His head resembled a lion's, with similar sharp teeth and a beautiful mane. However, instead of yellow, his eyes gleamed a deep sapphire blue.

His muscular body was covered in thick diamond-shaped scales like a dragon. Fearsome looking blades and spikes protruded in all the critical areas of his body, most notably his long elbow blades and a trio of wicked looking spikes on each knee. Two beautiful curved horns graced the top of his head, giving him an overall elegant yet deadly appearance.

He was a magnificent creature, even the Void Walkers had to give him that much.

However, the fact that he was behind bars and they were not, indicated the true nature of the power structure in that situation.

"Yes." The tallest Void Walker out of the five that were peering at him through their deep hoods replied in a gentle voice. "All day. Everyday. Except for one day each month during Race day."

"And after one year, I will be free?" The beast asked once more.

"Yes. That is the deal." The Void Walker said.

"Hahaha. Too good to be true." The beast laughed out loud. "What is the catch?"

"Kekeke. I knew he would notice." A Void Walker laughed as well and stretched out a slender hand towards another who grunted in irritation. However, currency of some sort was placed on the outstretched hand.

"You bet on my reaction to your offer?" The beast could feel the beginnings of his terrible anger start to awake from within his soul. However, a vastly more powerful surge of fear crashed down upon his anger and immediately killed it before it could amount to anything.

The Void Walkers had done their work well with the beast, and the beast had learnt to know fear. Of them at least, if not of anything else.

"Yes." The second Void Walker replied in a pleased voice. "I knew that you're much smarter than all of your clansmen. You didn't disappoint me. Well done. Here, a reward for pleasing me."

The second Void Walker fished out a small orb of some sort and threw it to the beast who caught it eagerly and with apparent great excitement. He threw the orb into his mouth and crunched on it loudly. After a few seconds, he swallowed it with a smile of satisfaction as he felt his power level increase slightly.

"Good beast core. Got anymore?" He asked shamelessly.

"Join the Games, and I'll immediately give you a hundred of them." The second Void Walker replied slyly.

"Hmmm." Unlike other beasts, this particular beast did not immediately agree. A clear sign of intellect and control over his baser beast nature. "Tell me about the catch."

"The catch, my dear Rak'Tharos, is that the natives will be given all sorts of powerful tools and powers by sponsors up to the King Level of each Empire and Kingdom who are participating." The first Void Walker explained. "You know what King Level means, don't you?"

"Kings." Rak'Tharos scoffed. "Your warriors who are over level 300?"

"Indeed." The first Void Walker replied. "Kings are warriors between level 300 - 399. Like yourself."

"That's hardly a catch. I can easily kill warriors at the King level, much less the natives only armed with their gifts." Rak'Tharos snorted. "Tell me the real catch."

"Kekeke. The real catch is that this time, there will be an Emperor who will be participating as a sponsor. A level 477 warrior who is able to grant gifts powering up one lucky native up to level 399. The Game Masters had granted us the privilege of sending in a Fugitive King to even out the playing field and to give the Emperor's little toy a little bit of a challenge." The second Void Walker said.

"Up to level 399?" Rak'Tharos' sapphire blue eyes gleamed with excitement and a hunger for battle. Years of captivity had dulled his senses, and he yearned for a bloody and glorious fight. "COUNT ME IN!"

"Kekekeke. Excellent. I will send the beast cores and a few women from your tribe to your cell tonight. Enjoy them well. You will enter the planet called Earth in the second month of the Games, exactly 30 days from today." The second Void Walker cackled. "Do not lose! I have a lot of money placed on your victory!"

"Hahahahaha! Lose? I, Rak'Tharos, am the glorious leader of the Golden Fang Tribe. I have killed and eaten over a thousand Kings! I will never lose! Hahahaha!" Rak'Tharos laughed out loud.

He was still laughing when the Void Walkers left the prison.

However, exactly ten seconds after the Void Walkers had left, Rak'Tharos abruptly stopped laughing.

His blue sapphire eyes slowly turned red and a vastly more powerful aura than he had shown the Void Walkers earlier leaked out of his body.

An Emperor Level beast's aura, to be exact.

"I never thought that I would not need to get out of this place by force. The Games, huh? Perfect. I will eat all of the beasts there and power up to level 500, the Hegemon Level! And then I will return here to free my tribe and get my revenge… Hahh... Haha… Hahaha… Hahahaha… HAHAHAHA!"

Rak'Tharos' laughter filled the prison once more. But this time, there was a tinge of insanity within it.

Author's Note

Happy New Year guys!! Hope you all have a great year ahead! Cheers to a much better year than 2021!

Power Levels and Names

Level 0 - 99 : Common

Level 100 - 199 : Elite

Level 200 - 299 : Lord

Level 300 - 399 : King

Level 400 - 499 : Emperor

Level 500 - 599 : Hegemon

Level 600 - 699 : Ancient

Level 700 - 799 : Primal

Level 800 - 899 : Saint

Level 900 - 999 : God


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