Bab 12: Void Training [2]

"Next." Amon's emotionless voice echoed in the void.

Strangely, he felt a surreal and joyous feeling pass through his body at that moment.

But since there was a bigger matter at hand, he ignored it for now.

Digging his sword out, he shot forwards in the next moment, towards the incoming stampede of monsters.

Two crane like monsters at the front screeched with rage as he approached near, one of them opening its mouth and quickly bring it down, to snap his neck.

The second one flapped its wings with force, intending to create a gust and force Amon away from them.

He, however, remained unperturbed in his approach.

Arriving under their gargantuan bodies, he quickly shoved the pommel of his sword into the opened mouth of the crane, making it choke with pain.

However, he was not able to avoid the incoming gust, which hit his body head on, throwing him back along with his sword.

As he flew through the air with numerous small cuts grazing his body, another skill influx immediately impacted his brain.

It took no more than 2 seconds for it to pass, seconds in which the monsters thought, nothing had happened.

Unfortunately, they were proven wrong when a wide smirk planted itself on Amon's face, and he quickly threw his sword towards the gust crane.

Not expecting the sudden move, it was unable to dodge the incoming heavy odachi, that hit it right in the middle of its long neck.

Now weaponless, he had nothing to defend himself from the stampede of monsters.

Seeing their chance to march forwards, the monsters increased their speed, leaving the sword stricken crane behind.

Amon did not move at the sudden charge. Rather, he waited for them to close in until the last moment.

And just when the horde was inches away from his body, he disappeared from their sight once again, leaving them utterly confused.

It was only a few seconds later, when they heard a sharp scream resound throughout the air, that their heads turned back.

Only to witness another death as the boy dragged the already stuck sword down the neck of the injured crane, ending its life.

Again, just like before, an inexplicable and cherishing feeling rose up in his chest, one that he couldn't ignore this time and he looked down, finding a strange system window that he might have also missed before.

[The Void inside you grows larger..]

'Huh?' He abruptly thought, only for it to be a grave mistake as in the next second, his body was rammed by giant bull like monster, sending him crashing into the buildings.

Blood splattered out of his mouth as pain overwhelmed his whole body.

However, the urgency to not get hit by another monster was higher, and so he blindly rolled to the side.

Fortunately, this saved his life because in the next second, the spot where he landed was obliterated by the same bull charging into the spot.

Standing up, Amon chose that while fighting inside would give him less opponents to fight, it would still put him at a great risk of being attacked from anywhere outside the building.

Therefore, he quickly jumped out of a partially broken window, and using his sword as a weight, plunged down into the open mouth of the previous crane.

The tip of the sword sliced through the large body of the crane like butter, while also providing him with the same relishing feeling as before.

He felt the system window open up again, but he refrained from making the same mistake twice.

Looking quickly to his left, he found two void bears again charging at him, but just as he was about to respond, another skill influx hit him at that moment.

As soon as the inflix ended, another vicious smile crept up Amon's face, giving him a maniacal look.

Without wasting any time, he quickly activated his new skill, making his irises immediately go from black to glowing purple.

Focusing his gaze on one of the charging bears, a purple hue instantly coated the bear, stopping it right in its tracks, while also making it shake his head with pain.

Not wasting the opportunity, he dashed towards the incoming bear, blocking its large gaping jaw with his sword.

For some reason, he felt that his body was alot lighter and stronger than he had first entered the void.

Choosing to use this to his advantage, Amon decided to perform a trick he had often seen in the movies, back at Earth.

Pushing all of his weight on one leg, he raised the other one and spun his body with full force, making the raised leg perform a 360 degree rotation, and impact right on the skull of the bear.

Due to such a large impact, the bear crashed into the ground, and lost its life when its head was pierced with the odachi, a moment later.

Sensing that the his skill had only a second left before it would wear off, Amon dashed with full speed under the bears mouth.

He quickly thrusted his odachi upwards, intending to pierce the brain from below.

However, he was a moment slower, as the skill wore off and the bears gaping jaw closed in on his shoulder joints, making him scream like never before.

Fortunately, the crunch did not proceed further as the bear's life ended in the next moment.

Even so, it had left a large gaping gash in his shoulder, almost leaving his left arm dangling.

Biting his lip to not give into the pain, Amon quickly stood up to face the now wavering horde of monsters.

"I swear, I'll kill you all!" He screamed with rage, but if one noticed closely, they would also notice the insane smile creeping on his face.

*****

[6 Hours Later]

The previously wrecked city was a paradise, compared to what it was now.

With arms and legs of monsters dangling on streetlights and buildings, crimson blood painting the wrecked rusted cars and streets, the place looked as if hell had broken loose right here.

Amidst the countless pile of corpses, shrouded in cold crimson bloody fog, the boy who was responsible for all this bloodshed, sat down tiredly with his back to a wall

With one eye missing, one arm completely bitten off and one leg dangling due to a gaping injury at his waist, the boy's body was mushy mess of blood.

With his head lowered, Amon gasped with deep and large breaths.

So many times he had come face to face with death, and even though he knew it was just training, a deep instinct inside him told him to keep fighting.

Fight for his life. Fight for his life.

And at some point, the lines inside his head changed.

Fight for blood. Fight for blood.

However, they did not last long because the last remaining creatures finally died down to his blood.

Now, sitting with his back against the building, a victorious smile crept up his face.

He had done it.

He had killed all 100 Void Beasts.

He had emerged victorious.

And in the next second, he fell unconscious.

Unaware of the space molding around him back to what it was before, and also unware of.....

The two warm hands that cupped his face and brought him close to their chest.

"You did well, my dear."

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