The creature's scream reverberated across just as it fell out of Lex's body once again. But this ti, that was not all. The creature started writing on the ground like a poisoned insect. It used its own wings to beat its own body while its eight legs curled up and dug into its own flesh.
Lex was not able to take advantage of the situation imdiately, as he himself was recovering from his sudden weakness and fatigue. Fortunately, he had only recalled that eting for a mont instead of dwelling on it, or he might have once again succumbed to just the mory of it.
When he ca to, he saw that the creature he had been unable to harm at all lay on the ground covered in its own blood, though it wasn't dead yet.
Lex had been forcibly brought out of his Berserk state by the re mory of that eting, which is why he retained the sense to not rush over and attack imdiately. But that did not an he gave up.
Physical attacks weren't working, and though Evisceration hurt the creature, it wasn't doing significant damage. It was at this mont he was really regretting not having a strong attack that used his spirit sense, for he had a feeling that such attacks would be most effective. But instead of lanting what he lacked, Lex focused on what he had.
Lex entered his Flow state, and focused on his spatial affinity. Although he was not a master of it yet, he had teleported enough to learn tidbits about his affinity since he got it. Moreover, his increased analytical skills made it so that Lex could learn new skills much faster than before.
The easiest thing to do would be to manipulate space to sohow cut the creature into pieces, and that's exactly what Lex tried to do. Unfortunately, creating a 'blade' out of morphed space was not exactly easy, let alone anything else.
Lex did, however, manage to warp space a little exactly where the creature was, causing it to suffer imnse pain, waking it from its stupor finally. All of its eyes focused on Lex with a newfound viscousness, as the creature tried to disappear once again. But that was easier said than done.
Lex kept manipulating space within the creature's body, trying to tear space open, or use space to tear the creature open. Either one would do, though all he effectively managed to do was torture it.
"Wait, I'm sorry! I know the dragon's secrets! I can tell you!" the creature pleaded, but Lex was no longer going to fall for such basic tricks. Although he longed for the satisfaction of beating the creature up with his own hands, he had to rely on spatial affinity. He could also co up with arrays to harm the creature, but sohow he felt like he couldn't make arrays strong enough to do that.
Theoretically, arrays could achieve the strongest power level the universe could support, since the universe itself powered arrays. Practically speaking, Lex had hit a bottleneck when it ca to his arrays. Maybe his way of making them was obsolete or faulty, or maybe he didn't know enough significantly strong characters. Either way, his arrays seed to be limited to the Nascent level in terms of power for the mont.
"Lex Williams, don't push too far!" the creature roared as it tried to get up. But its efforts were in vain as its legs were too weak at the mont. The creature had clearly read through so of Lex's mories, which chilled Lex's heart!
He absolutely could not afford to let the creature live now. Since keeping a distance clearly didn't help, Lex leaped forward and imdiately put its head in a lock and placed his right hand on the creature's forehead. His intention was to scramble the things brain!
As if sensing Lex's intention, the creature roared angrily and resisted Lex, but in terms of physical strength, it was clearly below Lex. At the sa ti, it tried to use its ability to disappear once again, but clearly it was too hurt to do so. It seed the mory of that eting had hurt it a lot more than Lex expected.
They struggled for a few dozen minutes before Lex suddenly succeeded in causing a tiny tear in space, within the creature's skull! The creature died instantly, and Lex actually tripped because it had stopped resisting his strength so suddenly.
Lex groaned, feeling exhausted, but did not delay at all. He imdiately stored the creature's body within his spatial ring and began teleporting back to the Inn. He could not risk becoming a victim to spirit pull again.
Yet the next mont, the sound of a notification distracted him.
New Notification: System feature 'Murderer' activated.
Imdiately he felt the change, as he was reminded of the feature he had unlocked so long ago, yet for so reason never triggered.
Murderer: Every ti the host kills soone stronger than them outside of system grounds, the host can learn one of the victim's abilities/techniques!
The ability had finally been triggered, and Lex could tell that the system was transferring so information directly into his brain. He had not suddenly 'unlocked' a new ability, but the thod to replicate the effects of the creature's ability using spiritual energy was fed into Lex's mories.
The ability was one of the most bizarre abilities Lex had ever encountered. It allowed Lex to turn his body into a 'thought' and enter soone's spirituality. What did that entail, and what he could do once he achieved those details he was not given, but clearly this was far from a simple technique.
The next mont, Lex teleported to the Inn, finally leaving the hoard. The effects of the spirit pull on him disappeared, but Lex had not given up on the hoard yet. Since the dwarves had a way to protect themselves from it, the emporium surely did as well.
He put aside thoughts of his newly gained ability, which he aptly nad 'Mindld' and teleported over to X-14. He had so shopping to do.
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