Chapter 230 - Almost alone in the jungle (1) (2/2)
”Shi--”
Just as Mars cursed the panther reappeared in front of him and sent him flying with a swipe of its claws, Mars flew and crashed into a tree sinking no less than half a meter into the bark of the giant tree. The panthers approached Mars thinking he was dead, after all they never hunted a living god before which proved to be their downfall as Mars surprisingly disappeared from view and reappeared over one of the panthers and sunk his adamantite broadsword into its skull, at the same time the area around the two remaining panthers suddenly heated up so much that their fur caught on fire, they let out screams of pain but within moments they had been cooked through and collapsed on the jungle floor. Mars spat out the blood that had acc.u.mulated in his mouth and pulled out the adamantite broadsword out of the skull of the panter before he gave a smile.
”[Energy: temperature control] is truly powerful... And best of all it uses no energy units.”
Mars gave a nod again, the cel he had spent on the magic beast core that contained his new skill were truly worth the price, after admiring his work for a moment Mars quickly harvested some meat from one of the giant panthers he had killed with [Energy: temperature control] and tasted it.
”This is pretty bad, nothing like Elsa's cooking... But it will keep me alive.”
Mars cut off a rather big piece after he had stuffed his mouth and quickly left the place where he had killed the giant panthers, a few minutes later an even heavier pressure descended on the place where the giant panthers had been killed, the.... Creature that emitted the heavy pressure gave a snort and began eating the coupses of the giant panthers...
The next morning as the sun rose Mars awoke from his meditation and quickly looked around, after he confirmed that there was nothing amiss he heaved a sigh and stood up on the branch he had been sitting on and stretched, as he did he heard an unpleasant sound of his clothes tearing and looked down and found 4 cuts long on his shirt.
'Oh right... This is from the fight with the giant panthers...'
Mars gave another sigh and added making some clothes to his list of survival in this jungle, he looked up at the sun and confirmed the direction he was heading in and began moving by flying up above the treetops, after flying for about 10 minutes he suddenly heard a scream and looked back.
”What the f.u.c.k, is that a bird...?
Whatever it was, something was rapidly closing the distance on him even with Mars' eyesight he was only able to see a blur, he reacted quickly and sent a swordlight towards the bird before he dove beneath the tree canopies. Seconds later he heard another scream and something crashing down breaking the trees like they were toothpicks, Mars gave a cold smile.
”Got Em.”
Then he flew towards the crash site and found a giant eagle, or at least what was left of it after the crash, Mars clearly felt that this was a magic beast but no matter how long he waited his skill didn't activate leaving him puzzled.
”Well whatever...”
Mars walked up to the dead giant eagle and activated his [Energy: sense] before he began digging after the magic beast core with his sword, soon he found the core and this time his skill activated as it should.
Class 16 magic beast core
Stored energy: 200.000
Stored status points: 50
Source: ???
Mars gave a wide smile when he held the ash gray magic beast core in his hand before he stroked his chin.
”Maybe staying here in the jungle is not so bad of an idea...? At least until I become a little stronger... Strong enough to kick the administrators ass”
Even though there was a giant gap between the two of them Mars still felt that it would be possible to cross that gap.
”At least that's my goal for now...”
Then Mars began draining the magic beast core of energy and status points with a wide smile on his face.