The man wandered through the Jungle, blade in hand.
His life for the past few days was simply to kill, eat, sleep, and repeat. Sure, he had gained quite a few levels, more than he would ever gain in a decade normally, but now he can't just kill any random monster.
With every unsheathe, he had to kill monsters stronger than himself and let the blade drink their blood. The blade refused to be sheathed without it.
Even the monsters from before no longer satisfied the blade, with it rejecting the blood from them entirely, forcing him to wander further and further into the Abyssal Passage, in search of a stronger foe to defeat.
Masamune demanded a sacrifice, and when he couldn't find one, it took from him. Quite literally.
He learned that the hard way, with the sword piercing himself and devouring nearly a third of his blood before becoming satisfied.
Now using the sword sparingly, he simply bludgeoned the weaker monsters to death with the sheathed sword, which doesn't require blood thankfully.
Haggard and tired, he pushed through a thicket of jungle vines and shrubbery to find himself back where he had started, in the clearing where he met the sword.
"Fuck..." He sighed. Well, now he knew where to go from here. Just go straight and he'll be deeper within the forests.
Pushing past the sludge of mud and rotting corpses, he re-entered the jungle thickets, using the sheathed blade to push away sharper foliage.
He was almost having second thoughts about the sword. Sure, it was powerful, but it came with equally powerful restrictions. What if, one day, he became so powerful that nothing else would satisfy the sword? Would he be doomed to be a blood bank for the sword whenever he wanted to use it?
"No thinking about it now... it's my only ticket out of this hellhole." He muttered.
"Status" He commanded.
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[Blood Thirst] - Form |
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There was only 1 skill available to him, which was [Blood thirst]. He hadn't pushed himself to activate yet, simply because he was already struggling with providing the blade adequate blood. He didn't want to activate a skill that might require him to give more blood when he had none, or else the blade might devour him.
Slashing through another thicket of branches, he pondered. 'I wonder if there's anyone else around...'
*ROARR!* The man stopped in his tracks. The roar of a predator was close. He smiled, finally a worthy opponent!
He unsheathed the blade. "Do you hear that too, Masamune? That's your future meal~" He cooed. Days of isolation had done a number on him.
The blade glowed red in response.
Davis used the blade to cut through several trees as he made a beeline directly toward the source of the sound.
As the trees crashed down, the predator knew that someone was coming.
Bursting into another clearing, this time with a sizable opening carved into a wall of rock. The monster stood an astonishing 5 meters tall, was shaped like a lion with a snake tail and had a golden mane that crackled with electricity. In its mouth was the freshly killed boar monster that he'd never seen before.
The two met each other's gaze.
| Level 102: Lightning-charged Chimera (Lesser) [Enraged] |
He grinned wildly. More than twice his current level. Masamune cant reject this one.
The lion swung its head and chucked the boar into the cave, blood and spit drooling out of its open mouth. They circled each other, cautious, waiting to see who would be at a disadvantage by making the first move.
Suddenly, Davis's instincts screamed at him to dodge.
*BOOM!*
A bolt of lightning pierced the ground where Davis had just stood. Another storm was brewing, and the Lion had the advantage.
He grits his teeth, readied his posture, and charged at the Lion.
*ROARR!* It roared, as it called down another 3 bolts of lightning.
*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!* One of the bolts missed, while the other 2 struck him in the back, paralyzing him and causing his momentum to falter.
Stabbing the sword into the ground, he coughed out some blood. The Chimera was now staring at him, slowly approaching.
Davis fell over, sword still in hand. The snake's tail approached from behind the lion as it began flicking its tongue, sniffing the now burnt Davis. As the Lion got close enough and opened its mouth to bite, Davis swung his sword. It cut deep into its jaw, severing the tendons that kept the lower half of the lion's jaw together.
| [Blood thirst] Activated |
The lion roared in indignation. It had been tricked, and now without the ability to bite, it glared hatefully at Davis as it called down a shower of lightning.
| Inflicted with [Chimera Poison] (Severe) |
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Your bond with [MASAMUNE] has increased to stage 2. |
Davis let out a chuckle.
| [Blood Form] activated [Blood slash] activated |
"Look at me bitch." His entire form exploded as his flesh dissolved into blood. The nearby puddles of blood flew towards Davis and absorbed into his new form. Liquid blood in the shape of an hand regrew from his severed arm, as he got into the posture required to use [Blood slash].
"LOOK AT ME BITCHHHH!" He shot towards the Chimera and jumped towards its head, a current of blood emerged from the blade, as Davis did a 360, the current formed into a sword slash and shot towards the Chimera.
The Chimera, now sensing the danger it was in, roared in a panic to summon another bolt of lightning. But it was too late, as the sword slash cut through the Chimera's lion head and deep into its neck, the head now dangling from the body held together only by a couple of muscles and tendons.
Blood gushed out of the opening like a hose, as Davis's blood form greedily absorbing every last drop of the blood.
| [Chimera blood absorbed. +200 to all stat points] |
The corpse faltered, as it dropped to its knees.
Davis held up his sword again. It was not over, he did not get the notification that it was dead.
| LVL 102 [Fire horn Chimera- Lesser] (Enraged) |
From the back of the Lion's body, a bump appeared, slowly growing larger and larger, before finally bursting out of it as a young goat head.
It bleated, as the horns turned a fiery red. David jumped sideways, as a pillar of fire emerged from where he was once standing.
"Just won't stay down..." He gripped his sword in his new form and rushed towards the lion's legs.
More pillars of fire erupted from the ground, creating steam and smoke in the rainstorm, evaporating most of the blood that held him together.
He closed in on the first leg and propelled himself forward. Holding the blade out, he cut through the lion's legs effortlessly, as the Goat head screamed in pain.
It was still getting used to its new body, it seemed, and this was his chance.
Digging his feet deep into the muddy soil to stop himself, he jumped towards the second leg and sliced it clean off again. Absorbing the blood from the cut wounds, he healed himself from most of the damage the fire had done.
More pillars of fire erupted, this time not aimed at him, but surrounding the Chimera, engulfing it in a flame wall.
"Just... FUCKING DIE ALREADY" He screamed as he ran into the wall of fire, not caring if he burned some blood in the process.
He jumped, and performed the [Blood slash] again, this time putting as much blood as possible into the blade, forming a thick arc.
"FUCK YOUUUU!" He roared as he brought the sword down, releasing the blood arc directly onto the goat's head.
It kept bleating in panic, as it summoned more and more pillars to kill Davis, but its end was already near. The blood sliced cleanly through the entire body, and carved a thick trench 6 foot deep below it.
| LVL 102 [Fire Horn Chimera] (Lesser) (Enraged) Has been slain. Awarded +1830000 XP |
Davis smiled, his last sight was the beautifully etched blade of Masamune before hitting the ground.
Hard.
Nice one
Thanks for the chapter