"These things just won’t stop coming.." Thaddeus Calder grumbled as he set ablaze another batch of forest crawlers..
They were an A-rank rodent type beasts that had a nasty reputation for being near impossible to clear out, they weren’t that strong or powerful, arguably one of the most weak creatures in that rank, hell their strengths might’ve been even weaker than so of the heavy hitters within the B-ranks..
But they weren’t annoying or ranked that high due to personal strength, their Alias was "Strength in Numbers". Why? Becuase of their main ability.
Their main ability, made it so that unless the main crawler, the queen, was eliminated, the horde wouldn’t stop coming..
And unlucky enough as he was, he had no idea where to even begin searching for the queen..
"I’ll just burn down the whole goddamn forest if I have to" he was absolutely livid, and rightfully so, because right now, he could clearly see the leaderboard flashing in mocking fashion at the corner of his eye..
Over two hundred people had already arrived at the central region, thus qualifying for the next round, yet he was here, stuck clearing freaking rats..
"Damn it....." he gritted his teeth as his 8ft fra unleashed another terrifying Solar flare, the temperature soaring to unbearable degrees as trees and everything else within a five hundred ter radius was turned into molten sludge, yet still....
Screeeeeeechh!!!!
The screeching didn’t stop...
"Fuck... what type of shitty day am I having??" He yelled in frustration..
Little did he know that his day was about to take a turn for the worse..
And right on cue as he heard...
Sweeeereeeeeeeee!!!!!
The air scread as "sothing" forced its way downward at ungodly speeds, Thaddeus raised his head sharply, eyes squinting, trying and straining to recognize whatever it was that was falling..
Unfortunately, it was nothing but a futile attempt as the object seed to moving too fast to track.
Realizing this, he clenched his fist, a Solar radiance condensing around his massive fist and then..
Just when the figure was only 10 ters from touchdown..
BOOOOOOOMMM!!!
He released a catastrophic punch skyward, intent on making sure whatever it was didn’t see the light of day...
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The wind tore at my face from the massive friction, I could’ve easily cancelled it out, but where was the fun in that...
My downward gaze imdiately landed on my fast approaching target...
What’s-his-na, I couldn’t be bothered to rember, all I did rember was the fact that the delusional fool had dared bare his fangs at , so now, it was ti for a defanging...
I sped up my descent, my body becoming nothing but a blazing ball of flas as I shattered the sound barrier once more..
The mont I got within 50 ters above the ground, I could see the little fla giant charging a punch..
"Heh.. wanting to compete in blows?" What a foolish thing to do..
"But who am I to decline a good walloping?" A sadistic grin curled up my lips as I brought my fist forward, taking on a famous pose from that one superhero with an "S" on his chest, only this ti, my fist wasn’t ant for flight directions, no, it was ant for delusion shattering...
"COWABUNGAAAAAASA"...
The mont I got within 10 ters above the ground, the flaming giant below finally released the charged blow..
My already outstretched fist eting it in perfect response..
Now, I’ve always said I understated how monstrous my stats really were..
With the fact that I’d been using more elental and magical abilities, my physical dominance seed to have taken a back seat lately..
But the fact remained that I had Eleven Whooping Thousand points in my fucking strength stat..
That stat being boosted in effectiveness by a scary 2,100%...
So when I say it’s a foolish idea, an utterly nonsensical move for anyone that wasn’t at least an S-rank to dare trade blows with in a head on exchange, I would still be putting it lightly..
That said, it was no surprise what happened the mont our fists connected...
Boooooooooommmmmmmm!!!!!!!
A cataclysmic explosion rocked the entire forest, an apocalyptic shockwave erupting from the collision, sweeping through the entire forest for what could’ve easily been over 5km..
As for my opponent?
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"
What’s-his-na was launched flying, the entirety of the right side of his body being turned into blood mist that quickly evaporated from the heat he himself was generating...
I wasn’t about to let him take a breather, I didn’t know what else this guy was packing, other than the fact that he also had an SSS-rank , I was drawing a total blank..
So, with that thought in my mind, I finally got back to enjoying the props of being overwhelmingly superior to your peers, I literally manifested behind the flying piece of at, fist cocked back, the air whined as I released a rocketing punch straight into his back..
Crackkkkkk!!!!
The audible sounds of bones shattering and organs and muscles liquifying was oddly satisfying..
I grinned, giving chase imdiately, the disfigured piece of at had been launched towards the opposite direction it had been flying it..
I appeared right within its path, deciding, rcifully too finally end this charade...
My hand snapped out, grabbing his neck, cutting its flight abruptly short...
"Ugh—-kugh...kkugh..." credit to the potency of the Solar essence bloodline, this guy was still alive, barely, but still, I could feel the stellar flas trying to reconstruct whatever had been destroyed..
"You...you can’t..my..my..." what’s-his-na tried to give a speech I wasn’t really intent on listening to.
"I don’t know what it is you’re trying to say I can’t do.." I whispered quietly, my grip tightening around his throat.
"But whatever it is, just know that I can, and if it’s necessary? I will.." Snap!!!
With one final decisive squeeze, I snapped the neck within my grasp like a dry twig..
Done, just like that... at least that’s what I thought until..
Buzzzzzzz!!!
The limp body in my hands suddenly vibrates violently..
Woooooshhhhh!!!!!!
A horrifyingly hot fla bursting out the body, it caught my arm "hssssss" and it hurt...
"What?.." I was honestly surprised, especially after realizing that the fla wasn’t going out...
Not by any normal ans..
But before I could wrap my head around that, the burning flas that had engulfed the body of what’s-his-na suddenly vanished, in its place, was what I could only describe as a juiced up whats-his-na..
His blue hair had turned into ashen black flas, his eyes burned with hollow black fla that seems to see through your very soul...
The stellar radiance around him twisted and churned until it beca an unholy mass of black flas that burnt the very atmosphere around it..
I raised my eyebrows at that..
This guy wasn’t just stronger..
He was in essence an entirely different being compared to the whomp I had been pushing around all this while...
"You...You will pay for that..." the living mass of blackened flas spoke, its voice like the hissing of hot coal touching snow, it was jarring to the ears..
Feeling the abysmal heat pouring off of this....thing.. I grinned, a slow, wicked, excited curve touching my lips..
"This..this might just be fun after all..."
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A/N: well, well, well, what do we have here..
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