Chapter 9: Fight To Death
While running towards the falling bat, Evan imbued some mana into the second stone in his hand, and just like before threw it towards the falling bat.
The stone hit the bat right at the centre of its stomach blowing out all the air from its lungs.
Even though like last time the stone wasn't able to pierce through its defence, the pain of being hit by mana imbued stone still made it shriek in pain.
Thump!!
With a loud thumping sound, the two meters long bat dropped to the ground.
Just as it dropped to the ground Evan came before it wanting to slash it with his sword.
But after dropping from the sky, the bat reacted fast enough and swept at Evan with its two meters long tail.
Evan didn't think that the bat will recover so soon after getting hit by stones and dropping from the sky, so he was not prepared for the sudden attack.
Seeing the claw like tail coming towards him like a whip, Evan lifted his sword in front of him trying to block the attack.
The tail of the bat clashed against the sword and Evan felt a terrifying force transmitted to his hands through the sword.
The power of the D rank bat was too much for Evan who was just an F rank hunter.
Because of the powerful impact, Evan was sent flying backwards, he felt his hands turning numb because of the impact and he was sure that if the impact was a little more powerful his hands would have been fractured.
After being blasted away Evan crashed five meters away from the bat feeling a terrible pain all over his body.
'It was just a casual attack from its tail, but it nearly broke the bones of my hands even though I blocked it with the sword' Evan thought while trying to stand up.
A faint tickle of blood was coming out from the corner of his mouth, and a metallic taste filled his mouth.
While trying to stand up he looked at the bat and saw it already recovered from the impact of dropping from the sky.
Even though its forehead was still bleeding because of his earlier stone attack, it was clear that this injury was nothing for the bat.
After recovering, the bat flapped its wings and flew up once again. From above it glared at Evan with its crimson-red eyes which were filled with coldness.
When Evan saw the bat once again fly up he can't help but curse inwardly feeling extremely annoyed.
Suddenly the bat flapped its wings and disappeared from its place. The speed of the bat was so that even before Evan can react it arrived before him slashing at his neck with its sharp claw.
Evan's eyes trembled seeing the bat suddenly appear before him and he tried to step aside.
Because of his quick reaction, the claw of the bat missed his neck but slashed at his shoulder.
"Arghh" Evan cried out in pain as blood spurted out and a large portion of his shoulder was ripped apart.
Because of the impact of the claw, Evan lost his balance while trying to dodge the attack and fell to the ground face-first.
Even though he was feeling a burning sensation on his shoulder e quickly tried to stand up after falling down.
But before he can stand up the bat dived down towards him from the sky and dug its sharp claw into his back.
"Arghh" Evan cried out in pain as the bat started to absorb his blood through its claw.
Evan tried to escape from it, but it attached itself to his back through its sharp claw.
He was already losing blood because of the wound on his shoulder, so when the bat started to absorb his blood he started to feel dizzy.
Even though he already expected he won't be able to escape from the bat after it discovered him, Evan was still unwilling to die just like this.
"Fu*k you, even if I am going to die here, I will take you with me" Evan suddenly shouted in a rage-filled voice and used his skill shadow walk.
---) Shadow Walk :- Your body will turn into a shadow and you can pass through any barrier or restrictions without being hindered.
The next second the bat dropped to the ground when Evan suddenly disappeared.
After freeing himself from the bat Evan quickly returned back to normal because his skills consumes too much mana, and if he runs out of mana he will start to feel dizzy.
In his current condition if he runs out of mana Evan was sure that he will definitely pass out.
After returning to normal, Evan used his sword and stabbed at one of the eyes of the bat.
The bat was still confused because of Evan's earlier disappearance and wasn't able to react on time.
Shriek -!!
The bat shrieked out in pain as one of its eyes exploded and red blood flow out uncontrollably.
But Evan didn't stop there and quickly pulled back his sword.
There was a big hole in his back and blood was flowing out from it without stopping, his shoulder was also wounded and was bleeding heavily.
But Evan ignored all of this and poured his remaining mana into his sword.
A light blue layer of mana appeared around his sword and Evan slashed at the neck of the bat with maddened eyes.
The bat felt the danger of death from Evan's sword and at the last moment used its long tail to stop the sword.
The sword and tail clashed once again, and Evan felt his hands turning numb.
But unlike last time he wasn't sent flying, instead, the tail of the bat was severed into two because of the increased power of his sword.
Shriek -!!
The bat shrieked in pain as the fountain of red blood erupted from the severed tail of the bat.
Evan used almost all of his mana in his earlier attack, and now he started to feel dizzy.
But he knew it is a crucial moment so he forced himself to not pass out, and stabbed at the second eye of the bat with his shaking hands.
The bat was still shrieking in pain because of its severed tail and didn't react on time and its second eye was also destroyed by Evan.
After stabbing the sword Evan was almost on the verge of passing out because of his low mana and injuries.
'Just one more attack and it should be over' Evan thought with a fuzzy mind and was about to attack once again when the bat suddenly opened its mouth.
Even though he was dizzy Evan quickly reacted and thrust his sword inside the open mouth of the bat using all of his mana.
Although he reacted quickly and his sword dug deeper into the mouth of the bat, it was still able to release powerful sound waves from its mouth.
Evan was standing very close to the bat and had no chance of dodging its attack.
The sound waves struck Evan like a tsunami, and he was sent flying backwards like a broken kite and his body clashed against the dungeon wall.
The speed at which Evan clashed against the wall was so fast that the wall of the dungeon wasn't able to handle the impact and crumbled upon impact.
Evan fall inside the gap which appear after the wall of the dungeon crumbled and found himself laying on the cold floor of a hall room.
Chapter 10: A New Physique (Part 1)
Evan was laying face first on the ground of the floor room. The hall room was completely dark and there was no light inside it, but it didn't matter to Evan whether the room was dark or bright because after taking that attack head on and crashing against the wall he was barely conscious.
Blood was flowing out from his wounds and a small puddle of blood formed beneath him.
Suddenly his blood started to move on its own like it was being attracted by something.
But because of darkness and his losing consciousness, Evan wasn't able to see it.
The blood moved deeper into the hall room where a small platform was located. At the centre of the platform, a white magic circle in the shape of an octagram was engraved, and a strange black statue was located at the back of the platform.
The statue was five meters tall, and its shape was similar to a human but a one meter long horn was coming out from its head. From the features of the statue it was hard to determine whether it was a statue of a male or female.
Evan's blood moved towards the centre of the platform and came into the contact with the octagram shaped magic circle.
Just as his blood touched the magic circle, the eight points of the octagram lit up and started to absorb Evan's blood.
When the magic circle started to absorb blood, its colour also started to change and In just one minute it turned into deep red from its original white colour.
When the colour of the magic circle turned deep red the eyes of the statue which was located at the back of the platform also lit up in light red colour.
Just as the eyes of the statue lit up, Evan who was about to pass out because of his injuries heard a voice
"What do you want to sacrifice?"
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Present Time...
"Arghh" a pain filled scream came out from Evan's mouth when he was engulfed by the black smoke once again. He never felt a pain like this before. He was feeling like someone was tearing him from the inside.
Suddenly the black smoke which was covering him started to seep inside him through his eyes, nose, mouth, ears and skin.
The pain of sacrificing his physique was so intense that the pain he felt after getting injured by the bat felt like child's play to him. Black tears started to come out from eyes his staining his face, he wanted to scream because of pain but wasn't able to because of smoke which was filling his mouth.
After thirty seconds Evan was on the verge of passing out because of the pain, just as he was about to pass out, the smoke started to come out from his body.
In less than five seconds all the smoke came out from his body and moved away from him.
"I have successfully extracted your shadow physique" Evan heard the same cold voice again. He was laying on the ground breathing heavily and his vision was blurry.
Evan wanted to curse this bastard, but wasn't even able to move his finger much less curse out loud.
"Here are the cores that I promised to give you after taking your physique" he once again heard the same voice and felt something dropping beside him.
Hearing the words cores Evan's eyes lit up, and he forgot about the pain he was feeling.
He wanted to check if he can absorb other cores now that he doesn't have his shadow physique.
He gathered all his strength and sat down with difficulty. After sitting down when he looked around, he saw black smoke which engulfed him earlier floating some distance away from him.
For some reason, he was able to see everything in the hall room even though there was no light.
But Evan didn't care about the black smoke, and was about to check whether he can absorb the other cores when he suddenly felt a sharp pain coming from his heart.
"Arghh" the pain was even more intense than the pain he felt while sacrificing his physique.
He resisted the pain for some time, but in the end, he passed out because of the pain.
Just as Evan passed out a black aura erupted from his body covering the entire hall room including the platform and the statue.
A terrifying pressure engulfed the entire hall room and the walls of the dungeon started to shake.
When the black aura touched the platform and the statue, both of them immediately turned into dust.
The black smoke which was hovering not so far away from Evan was also destroyed by the black aura.
THUMP!! THUMP!! THUMP!!
Evan's heart started to beat faster and faster in the silent room.
An illusionary black round ball size of rice grain started to form inside Evan's heart. The small ball was pitch black and was looking like it will engulf everything that will come near it.
Time continue to pass by and the illusionary black ball slowly started to turn solid. After around thirty minutes the illusionary black ball turned completely solid and was looking like a pitch black marble.
Just as the black ball turned solid, the black aura which was coming out from his body started to retreat and was swallowed by the strange black ball.
Even after the black ball was completely formed inside his heart Evan didn't wake up and continue to sleep.
Many changes appeared on his status window after he sacrificed his shadow physique, and the strange black ball formed into his heart.
And he will see those changes after waking up.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
286 Power
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