2 Hope (2/2)

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'It's a sand beast, 10 meters ahead, right under the sand, if I had stepped on it, I would have ended up in its belly. 10 meters is my limit, does this mean I'm level 10 now, but how is that even possible. Did Hope do this.' Thought Koren as he stopped.

Koren had never seen a sand beast before, he had heard stories, but that's all they were to him, stories. But now he had the opportunity to see one up-close.

'I want to see if I am really level 10. Anyways, I'm a wind spiritualist, so I can out run it.' Thought Koren as he finally stepped forward.

1 step, 2, 3, 4 steps, Koren kept moving forward till the sand beast was only a single step away.

As Koren moved, the whole sand dune exploded, and a huge crocodile like creature came out, the creature had scales like glass, and teeth like sharp crooked twigs. Its huge mouth lunged for Koren's legs.

Just as Koren was about to use his wind to jump back, a voice suddenly sounded from inside him.

…Beep…Threat detected, Spiritual reserve 10 percent 'wind', 3 percent 'fire', 3 percent 'water', 3 percent 'earth'…beep…

…activating Armor …beep

Koren could feel something taking over his body, it was a metallic liquid like substance that started to pour out from inside of him, this substance quickly covered his whole body and solidified, it had turned into a shiny metallic Armor. Koren who had coagulated the wind power around his legs was about to jump back but the beast was faster and bit down on him hard.

Koren's leg was now in the beasts mouth, but it was not bitten off, instead it was the beast who had lost a few of its teeth. Instead of continuing to bite Koren's leg the beast let go and lunged back in pain. It roared, and smashed back and forth on the sand.

Koren, who was in no pain, was stunned. He just didn't know what to make of this. The voice was not Hope.

Koren suddenly realized that the world around him was a bit low, he looked at his own body only to realize he was taller.

”No, not just my height, my whole body has grown, it's this Armor, it made me 'grow up', but how do I go back to normal.” Said Koren as he stared at himself in the shiny Armor.

It wasn't only Koren who was dazed, but the sand beast as well. It wasn't as smart as a human but it still had some intelligence, it knew that the being in front of him was not the man cub from before. The beast thought that it was a rival that had gotten to its prey before it did, and this made the beast furious.

However, the beast had learnt from its past mistakes, this time it didn't go in for the attack headstrong, instead it controlled the sand, to create a sand well, sucking in the Armor, and applying pressure from all directions to directly crush it's enemy.

Koren was completely safe inside the Armor, even though the pressure around him was intense, he didn't feel a thing. Koren had already realized that he was sinking into the sand, if this went on, things would be problematic, but this wasn't important right now. That's right, impending doom had to take a back seat. Every time Koren was sure that something was shocking, a new thing came along and widened his horizons. Koren was once again utterly flabbergasted by what he was seeing in front of him. The Armor was displaying information directly in front of him. Even though Koren never learned to read, he could still understand this strange language.

The thing that caught his eye the most was the level displayed directly above the beast's head.

Name: Sand Crocodile, Type: Earth, Level:9, Harmonization Level:3

'By the Ancestors, harmonization level of 3, if it hadn't been for this Armor, I would have been dead already.' Thought Koren before looking at his own information in the display.

The beast had already pulled Koren all the way into the sand, and was preparing to attack with its final move since its opponent had been immobilized.