Chapter 30: Chapter 30 - The Great Toad
Kyle understood that forests were all different from each other. The forests all were in the positioned in the northern side of the continent. That is why the animals in the forests were more savage and much more tough in a direct confrontation, just like the animals of the earth's north.
If as an example, Kyle was in the southern regions, he would have had to deal with spiders, snakes and much more dangerous and cunning beasts. Those that relied on cheap trick and trickery to get their enemy down. This to a person who didn't know all possible dangers, was the same as death. That is why Kyle was glad to be fighting wolfs and boars instead of spiders and pythons.
As Kyle went deeper into the forest, the enemies started to become stronger and stronger. This was, in particular, true for the appearance of the beasts. At first, the beasts looked exactly the same as the beasts on earth, but very quickly, some of the features started changing drastically.
The wolf would have an additional claw hidden under the fur of its leg. A boar would have a horn that it would use to pierce in the direct attack. A fox that had spiked knives on the tail to instantly kill anything that came close.
After countless fights and absorptions, it was finally night time, and Kyle retreated into the tent to rest. On his way back he has marked one of the trees with a cross so that he knew how far he went the very next day and to try to go further.
This carried on for at least a week, and now Kyle was fully versed with the idea of meeting a level 1 beast. On the 3rd day, Kyle was unlucky enough to meet a huge toad the size of 3 metres. It was sitting on the island in the middle of the pond and looking into the forest. Kyle didn't want to fight it just yet, but seeing a level 2 beast really opened up his eyes to the world.
After 7 days of exploring, Kyle sorted through some of the items and decided to go into the forest to where he saw the toad. If he understood correctly, every beast of high level would claim a particular area and become the ruler of that area, that is why it was nearly impossible to find multiple high levelled enemies at the same time. That, of course, was great news for Kyle. But the beast could claim a territory for a reason.
As an example, the toad had a natural advantage near water, and he was most likely faster in moving in a swampy area than others. That is why he was able to take control of the pond area.
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The next morning Kyle ignored most of the beasts that attacked him and rushed straight through the forest to the pond area. The Lightning Step has improved drastically for Kyle and channelling qi, together with particular stepping pattern, allowed Kyle to boost his speed by at least 50%.
Kyle arrived at the pond after an hour and saw the toad, sitting there just like before, not moving even a little bit.
Kyle got ready with the wolf fang in one hand and a new sword that he got from killing a peak level 1 boar. It was a combination of its bones and some of the claws of other animals that he had in the storage space.
He adjusted his breathing. The qi circulation inside of his body, reaching the maximum he rushed towards the toad.
The water was not deep, but it was full of dirt and sand mixed together into a quicksand, pulling Kyle down very fast. If Kyle didn't have a Lighting Step technique, he would have been pulled down already. Even though Kyle was slowed down, he was still very fast. He wanted to use this opportunity before the Toad spotted him as he was attacking from it's back. Kyle stopped for a second and with a pullback threw one of the swords, that he bought from the village, with unbelievable strength at the toad.
When it was just about to reach and slice its back, the toad jumped up and neatly evaded the sword. The toad now turned towards Kyle and was looking at him with its big eyes. It was looking with a gaze that said 'Why did a mosquito want to bite me?'
Now Kyle stopped and had to think of ways to approach this. Even though the toad was around 15 metres from him, his Wave of Conviction couldn't reach the toad just yet. Also, he didn't know the toad's attack pattern and skills.
Kyle had 2 choices now, run away or rush straight ahead. Running away was not an option as this was a tempering event for Kyle, where he wanted to learn. While rushing straight ahead was not Kyle's style of fighting, but he couldn't see there anything else that he could do. He also couldn't stay still because of the quicksands that below the ponds water.
He rushed straight ahead, and with qi in his hand, he shot the Wave of Conviction. If it landed, it would have pierced straight through the toad's skin, but the toad was fast. Too fast, in fact, for Kyle. Kyle only started to get experience in battles. That is why some of the skills were still very much lacking.
The White line spread for 2 metres, and the toad easily evaded it at this distance and retaliated with its tongue. This was what Kyle was afraid of.
Toads were very well known to use the tongue as weapons and many games that Kyle played, had toads that could poison as well. As Kyle couldn't evade the attack, he prayed that it is not poisonous.
The tongue struck Kyle on the stomach, and it felt as if a hammer was used to strike at full force. The tongue was red in colour but was as strong as steel. Kyle flew for 10 metres before dropping to the water. Kyle quickly stood up and spit a coughed up blood ball. His insides were damaged by this, but not too much, Kyle could still fight.
The toad in all of this time still stayed on the island and looked at this as if some performance was happening in front of it to relax and enjoy.
Kyle was getting mad, 'I have to increase my range somehow. I am still unable to use more than 5 spots on my palm to increase the range or the power of the Wave of Conviction. Suddenly Kyle remembered about a remark that he heard. The Wave of Conviction can be used through the weapon to achieve a different shape, length and power levels of the wave. With this thought in Kyle's mind, he gripped the sword in one hand and started channelling the qi through it.
Chapter 31: Chapter 31 - Injured
Kyle was channelling the power from his dantian and into his hand first, just like he would usually do when performing the Wave of Conviction. Now though he was not pulling his thumb to perform the attack, he willed the qi to stay in that spots and strongly gripped the sword in that hand.
The sword handle at first started heating up, and after a brief pause, Kyle could feel the Qi entering the sword. It was exactly the same sword that the system has made. All of the qi seemingly was going from Kyle's hand and into the mana crystal that was on the handle, after 10% of Kyle's qi was inside the crystal it started glowing azure and Kyle could finally push his qi to the tip of the sword.
Once the sword was fully embedded with Qi, Kyle started running at the toad again. Then when he reacher around 4 metres, he thrust his sword In the direction of the toad and the white and yellow energy shot at the toad.
If the palm strike's energy only travelled for 2 metres and the beam was the size of a man's hand, then the Wave of Conviction coming from the sword travelled much further but was only the size of a needle. Even though Kyle aimed straight at the toad's head to kill it straight away, due to him using the Wave of Conviction together with the weapon for the first time, he missed and pierced toad's shoulder. The Wave of Conviction didn't stop there and hit the trees on the pond's bank, piercing them as well. This range and power really surprised Kyle, but this meant that his range problem could be solved easily, using the Wave of Conviction.
The toad, on the other hand, wasn't so happy about being damaged. Green blood flowing through his shoulder was dropping down on the floor. The toad was clearly furious, and it jumped straight at Kyle to crash it.
Kyle didn't think that toad would go as far as try to crash Kyle, which caused him to try dodging the attack, the only problem was that Kyle has already used Wave of Conviction couple of times and his qi reserves were slowly going down. He couldn't show the same power and speed as when he was at his full qi.
Kyle successfully dodged the jump attack, but the toad also launched a tongue attack straight at Kyle as soon as it landed. Kyle simply couldn't react and got hit on the left hand, very close to the heart with the tongue.
If the first time, the toad was toying with him and hit him with a blank attack like a hammer. This time its tongue was more like a knife blade, and it wrecked Kyle's hand with multiple scars that reaching as deep as the bone.
"Aaaaa!" Kyle screamed with pain. 'This is unbearable. I will die if this keep on going, I need to kill it instantly.'
Without further thinking, Kyle gripped the wolf fang in one hand and started channelling his qi through all of his body and into the wolf fang.
Kyle's hand was bleeding, but the qi was trying to stop it. The pain was terrible, and Kyle's concentration was worse now for sure. He had to finish this quick to recover. Even a normal, level 1 beast could be a problem right now.
Kyle channelled the qi into his foot and started running at the toad with Lighting Step. Even though the toad jumped to dodge Kyle's strike couple of times, Lighting Step allowed Kyle to be faster, and after chasing the toad for a good minute, Kyle was able to finally slide bellow the toad whilst the toad started jumping and stabbed the wolf fang straight into the bottom of the toad.
The toad was about to jump away, and Kyle's energy was dropping too fast. He decided to use Wave of Conviction. As the dagger was already inside of the toad's body the violet white and yellow energy ripped through everything inside and pierced straight through the toad body and exited from the scull together with a bunch of green liquid that splashed onto the earth.
The body of the toad that was mid-air started dropping on Kyle that was already injured and nearly trapped him under this massive body. To make things worse, the green blood that dropped from the toad was also acidic and was eating through Kyle's clothes at an unbelievable rate. Kyle frantically dodged the body and took off these clothes that had green liquid on.
After the surrounding have stabilised, only the hissing sound of acid eating away the earth and some of the plants remained. Everything else was silent.
'I nearly died… again… I thought that level 2 beast would not be a problem to me after all of the power-ups, but it seems that I was mistaken.' Kyle's hand was still a mess, but the qi was trying it's best to heal it. Qi reserves were at around 20%, which caused less qi to heal the injury. Kyle could meditate to recover it or get it from the toad.
As Kyle came up close to it, he got the absorption notice. The difference was that there was a part of the element absorption.
[ Would you like to absorb energy and elements affinity? ]
This was the first time Kyle saw that notice. As if answering Kyle's puzzled thoughts, another notice appeared.
[ Due to understanding of the world have deepened, new options became available ]
'So this how it is. It seems that what system can do depends on my understanding of the world and of the system.' Kyle, of course, liked that system would be upgraded as long as he learnt of more things.
Kyle pressed yes. The huge amount of energy first rushed into his body. As Kyle was constantly absorbing level 1 beats all this time, his qi size was at around 85% now that level 2 beats energy started entering his body, his qi reserves first came to being full, then the qi size started increasing. When the size was at 99%, it stopped. 'This felt so good,' Kyle breathed out, and he could feel purer qi starting to close up his wound.
Next, as the energy finished, a green light started entering Kyle's dantian, and where he had his pearl, next to it, a dim light cracked open, revealing itself to Kyle's consciousness. There appeared 1 tiny sphere that was in the middle completely black, around it were 8 different also tiny spheres rotating. Right now Kyle couldn't really understand what they were, but one of the spheres was absorbing the green light and becoming from fully black to something that had a shade of green and was not as round as a sphere before. After this lasted for more than a minute, it stopped completely.
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Simvolick
Simvolick
The system that will be responsible for the elements is very thought-out Chinese system and the combination of the DnD system that also has some incredible power ups.
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