章 6: ROTWDE CH 6
Acura spent the next few weeks wandering the Kurukshetra and killing lone Aberrants. He could have tried escaping the place, but the materials he gained from defeating the Aberrants were too lucrative to leave them as it is.
Hence he developed a Spatial Pocket technique with Iraivan's help and went on a crazy farming spree. The reason he was obsessed with gaining more of these materials was that it awoke his inner craftsman. In his previous life he was just as famous for his Craftsmanship as he was for his Wisdom.
Seeing all these great materials he got from defeating the Aberrants, he just couldn't stop. However, he was not reckless under his obsession. He took time each day to analyze the surroundings and even practice his body refining technique.
Slowly days passed and week turned into months, which then became years. Acura was now unrecognizable from what he was like five years ago. Apart from his lean yet tough warrior physique, His entire body was decked in self-made armor and weapons, made from the materials he had gathered from Aberrants.
It was surprising that no one came to clean up the Kurukshetra and turn the Chaos Calamity into a Chaos gate. But, it seemed the place was not as much a playground for others as it was for him.
For the past five years, Acura had been slowly but methodically been annihilating the Aberrants in this place, growing stronger with each day. Currently, he had grown strong enough that wiping out an entire battalion of the low class Aberrants was a matter of minutes for him.
His strength and rate of wiping out Aberrants had given him a few new surprises too. He had found that wiping out Aberrants also gave rise to Stellar radiation. Though it was more than ten times less dilute to the Pure Form that Acura absorbed with his Body Refining technique, large amounts of it would still help the other Legend inheritance holders get stronger.
Along with this, Acura had found weird glowing pearls, with swirling mist inside, on rare instances after defeating the Aberrants. Though he wanted to crush them and try making equipment with them, Iraivan advised him to wait until they get out of the place to find more information on these pearls.
Seeing the logic in Iraivan's words, Acura had continued to collect the pearls. Currently he had around 19 of them, some having more glowing mist than others. Acura treated them as collector's toy currently, not knowing their value yet collecting because of their pretty surface.
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It was yet another day for Acura as he dismantled his temporary shelter and took care of his hygiene using a basic body maintenance technique of Spirit Energy. It was not as comfortable as taking a bath in hot water, yet took better care of cleaning the body, which was all he was concerned about currently.
However, something was different in the surroundings today. There were far less Aberrants than there used to be. Usually he could find a group or two within five minutes, yet today took over fifteen to find a straggler.
'Think the Chaos Calamity is stabilizing after all these years?' Acura asked Iraivan.
"I think so too based on the evidence. However, the question is this, whether it was natural or from outside interference?" Iraivan cautioned him.
Iraivan's concerns were very logical. Acura had definitely hunted scores of Aberrants, however, they were not enough to deplete the Chaos Calamity. Either the Chaos Calamity had subsided due to lack of Stellar Energy in the area, or someone was in the process of defeating the Boss Aberrant that maintained the Chaos Calamity of this area.
Though it was risky, Acura wanted to check it out. After all these years, he would have a contact with another human. Whether good or bad, he needed to test it either way.
Acura searched for hours before he was able to find a traces of fighting that didn't belong to him. From the looks of it, whoever it was had Legend Inheritances that could lets them control Fire and Earth at the very least. They also possibly had someone with a strength based Legend Inheritance.
Keeping his guard up, Acura slowly followed the traces to the source, finally reaching the unknown group after half an hour. He was pretty close to the center of the Chaos Calamity when he saw them. It was a group of veteran looking humans who were fighting some very strong Aberrants, much stronger than the ones Acura fought for the last few years.
In the lead was a tall and well built guy, with long gravity defying dark hair and a handsome face. He was holding a heavy looking thick book, whose cover was decorated with a variety of densely packed runes. The weirdest part of the book was the crystal eye in the front cover, that seemed to watch everywhere and everyone constantly.
He was drawing out bolts of pure energy from the book, before hurling them at the Aberrants. His aim seemed to be very accurate, as each bolt directly struck and took out an aberrant in one shot.
Beside him was a average sized beauty with well proportioned graceful physique, who had dark hair with a few reddish-gold strands intermixed. She was floating in the air, with her hair spread around her in midair. She seemed to have telekinetic powers, as she stopped various projectile attacks from the Aberrants before sending them back the way they came.
Final one was a young girl, seemingly of the same age as Acura. She had a pale white, yet cute face with fiery red hair tamed into a ponytail. She was the flame user Acura had deduced about, as she was hurtling large amounts of reddish-orange flames at the Aberrants who charged towards them.
Seeing how seamlessly they fought, Acura planned to just sit back and enjoy the show. However, right at that moment he saw a force, three times as large as the group was currently fighting, march forwards uniformly under the gestures of a huge Aberrant, holding a special mace-like weapon called the Gada.
Realizing that he could not sit on the sidelines any longer, Acura took out a large and heavy looking bow from his Spatial Pocket, along with a few long and thick arrows engraved densely with runes.
He nocked an arrow to the bow, which was more like a small javelin than an arrow, and poured large amounts of Prana into it. The runed arrow devoured the Prana greedily, its runes glowing brightly the more Prana was poured into it.
Acura slowly drew the extremely taut string of the bow, the potential energy of the behind the arrow growing exponentially with every centimeter Acura managed to pull the string to. Finally as the string went to a truly wound up state, Acura aimed at the largest group of Aberrants before releasing the arrow.
The next moment, it was like a huge thunderclap burst in the battlefield, a combination of the ear-shattering sound from Acura's bow and the huge blast that was the result of Acura's arrow striking the group of Aberrants.
Only the shattered weapons were left in the epicentre of the blast, while Aberrants in the radius of dozens of meter from the epicenter sported a lost limb or two at the very least. The group of three who had been fighting, looked at Acura in surprise, before turning their attention back to the Aberrants to take the advantage of the momentary confusion caused by the attack.
Acura kept a watchful eye on the battle, sending more arrows in whenever Aberrants tried to group in to overwhelm the three people fighting them. When he saw the Huge Aberrant finally getting frustrated and moving forward to attack those three, Acura finally decided to move to the front lines himself.
Acura kept the Bow and Arrows back into the Spatial Pocket,before bringing out a Special Three-pronged speak called Trishul. Each of its prongs had a big, flat and deadly sharp blade. Only its central blade was straight, its left and right blade being curved to left and right respectively.
Trishul was a deadly piece of weaponry, especially for heavy combat. It had the momentum, piercing power and reach of a spear, along with the deadly edge of a great-sword. A Trishul was thicker, longer and heavier than a regular spear, making it hard to use, but even harder to defend against.
Acura was a nightmare once the Trishul came to his hand, wading amongst the Aberrants and mowing them down like stray weeds on a field. Within moments he had arrived in front of the Huge Aberrant, before sending a powerful swing of the Trishul hurtling towards it. The Aberrant barely blocked the attack barely with his Gada, sending a crisp and loud ding sound echoing in the surrounding.
Seeing the Aberrant blocking his strike, Acura immediately created a bunch of dagger blades before firing them at the Aberrant like a rain of knives. The Aberrant was struck with a few before it swiftly dodged he rest. Before the Aberrant could counter attack, a barrage of enormous rock chunks hit him, throwing him back dozens of feet.
"Don't worry kid" the tall dark haired guy said while coming next to Acura along with his companions, "We got your back. Now lets finish this ugly piece of crap."
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