Chapter 101 The Great Hunt 22 (1/2)

The Ixodoom soon recovered from the injuries caused by John and Nuru.

The creature didn't turn around to face John again, but rather lifted its head to the sky and stood in that position for a while.

”What's it doing?” John frowned his eyebrows at the sight. He looked at the side and asked Nuru, ”Can you use it already?”

”No.” She shook her head. ”In just a few seconds I'll be able to use it.”

”Okay...”

When John glanced over the Ixodoom once again he realized that he was able to hear a faint rumbling noise coming from inside the creature.

He squinted his eyes and tried to see anything different from the outside, but it was unnecessary because he was about to understand what was happening.

*Plop*

With a a strange strange sound, the creature spit a giant ball made of green acid up in the air.

”What the-”

*Boom*

John wasn't able to finish exclaiming when he saw the ball exploding and sending droplets of acide everywhere, like it was raining.

One look at the sky, and John was able to see that the whole area around him, Nuru and Ixodoom had began raining this extremely corrosive acid.

”It'sss recharged!” Nuru shouted from beside him.

”I'm going in, send the Energy Bomb at the head!” John bent his knees and sprang forward with all his strength.

Bullet Time.

By activating his power he was now able to somewhat predict where the droplets of acid would fall and so he could chose the path which had the least amount of acid.

As he ran forward, twisting and turning his body, he heard the sound of cracking coming behind him. He was sure that it was Nuru, she had already began charging the Energy Bomb.

Without turning his back he continued running with the Grappling Hook in his hand.

The creature had already lowered its head and turned around, hoping to see both John and Nuru as nothing more than a pound of melted flesh.

But the Ixodoom's eyes enlarged as it watched another blue ball made of condensed energy fastly approached its' head.

*Bang*

*BOOMMM!*

As soon as the energy ball touched the surface of the Ixodoom's shell, it instantly exploded, opening a gaping hole in the shell located in the head.

The acid rain was unable to stop John, while he was hit by a few drops of a acid, he didn't suffer any severe wound.

With a quick draw, John aimed at the Ixodoom's head and shot the hook a second before the explosion occurred.

*ROARRRRR!!!!!*

Just as the hook inserted in the shell, the creature once again roared in pain and anger, and started to ran around, destroying the tree on the way.

John was dragged around by the Ixodoom until he had the time to press the other trigger of the Grappling Hook and make him ascend to the creature.

He had to be fast, the creature's healing ability were superb and he had to get to the place of the injury before it's completely healed.

*Bam*

While the creature was desperately moving around in pain, John was sent directly in one of the towering trees.

He coughed a mouthful of blood as the impact was way too strong and heavy, but he kept his grip over the Grappling Hook tight.

His vision was slightly blurred and dark, his hand and body shuddered in pain.

However, he kept ascending over the Ixodoom.

Old and new injuries were flaring up, making the pain almost unbearable.

Even though adrenaline has made some of the pain bearable, now it was starting to lose its effects. Such hormone has a limit at how much pain it could contain, and now this limit has been surpassed.

Realizing that he wouldn't be able to have a smooth landing, he stored the grenade it was on his hand, unsheathed his dagger and prepared for impact as he got closer to the creature's head.

*Blam*

His body slammed at hard surface of the creature's shell.

At the same moment his body slammed at the shell, he used the dagger on his hand to pierce into the shell, this way he would fall over from where he was.

The wind howled at his years as he felt the centripetal force trying send him away flying from the random and violent movements that the Ixodoom was doing.

Even with the burning pain spreading throughout his body he started to climb the head of the creature towards the opening created by Nuru.

Just when he was about the charred crater made by the Energy Bomb, the Ixodoom felt John's presence on its head, and so it started shake the head violently trying to send John away.

John kept his hand tight over the dagger's handle and stood rooted by his target.

Since it was of no use anymore, he stored the Grappling Hook back at the PIPS and took out the yellow grenade.

While keeping one hand over the dagger, he took the grenade with his other hand.

He slowly climbed upward, while using his full strength to keep himself to being thrown off by the violent turns made by the creature.

Once he was by the crater made by Nuru, he saw that it had already healed about 30% of the shell.

Without losing too much time, kept his dagger pierced on the shell with one hand and raised the hand that was graping the grenade.

”HAHHH!” John summoned his strength and swung down his arm with everything he had, completely ignoring the pain in his whole body.

In this exact moment John felt stronger than he ever felt before.

The blood in his vein circulate faster, the muscle in his arm completely bulged.

He felt his strength increasing as his arm descended.

*Boom!*

Blood sprayed all over John's body after his hand opened a deep hole into the Ixodoom's flesh.

*ROARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!*

This time the roar was so loud that even some of the trees that were left standing swayed after being hit by the sound waves.

John immediately retrieved his Grappling Hook and aimed at the nearest tree.