Free Web NovelChapter 34: BOSS: King Grey Rat! Phase 3!
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The impacts hit like artillery shells going off in sequence. Andrew was airborne before the fourth one landed, launched backward by the accumulated force, as he collided with the cave wall.
"Bang!"
Stone cracked outward from the impact point in a spider. Dust rained down as Andrew dropped to one knee, both heads coughing, vision swimming at the edges.
[10,000x Multiplier Activated]
[Flowing Phantom Proficiency increased by 9,999x]
[Flowing Phantom (Max)]
Flowing Phantom previously was a stiff and simple technique needed to be activated and then executed. But now, he could use it flawlessly like a Movement skill instead of an attack skill.
Instead of just moving a straight line, he could change his movement and direction in a split second, turning the move from an attacking move to a leg art!
Moreover, just a bit more and he would unlock the next move of the War God Art. Hundred Slaughter Path!
Andrew’s eyes lit up as he pushed off the wall.
"Wa-toosh!"
The sound of a whip slicing through the air echoed as the Rat king swiped its tail at Andrew.
[Oily Skin (E-Rank)]
Andrew ’slid’ right through the coil like water through a closed fist — popping free before the beast could tighten, the tail snapping shut on nothing.
He suddenly spread out his wings and launched upward, looking down at the Rat king from above.
The Rat King looked up it suddenly started climbing up the wall, turning into several afterimages as it ran up the cave roof with its claws digging through rocks.
It was actually running upside down as it closed in on Andrew.
Andrew snapped his wings shut and dove at th beast with speed.
The beast spread its jaw wide and launched off the ceiling to meet him.
"Bang!"
The two monsters collided in the center of the cave with a crash that knocked a section of the ceiling loose.
"KRAAAAAK!"
Four arms locked against claws. Wings beat for leverage as they spiraled through the air.
Andrew’s wings beat violently with a ’WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP’ sound.
Andrew’s Flowing Phantom snapped in and out of activation constantly, his other arms attacking from angles, left shoulder, right hip, the knee — but the instant any single strike found contact the Rat King activated Blitz to either block the attack or completely dodge it.
The two attacked each other rapidly with speed not visible to the naked eyes as they turned into a blur. Andrew was barely able to create any injury in the beast body but Andrew’s body was covered in claw marks, one of his arms snapped in half and his chest where his heart was had been punctured through by the Rat King’s Tail.
Luckily he had th Diamond heart passive Talent.
The cave turning into a blur of purple fire, grey fur, and the constant fireworks lit hung up the cave.
Then the Berserker passive clicked on.
[Titan Berserker Passive: ACTIVATED]
↳ Strength and Speed: Drastically Increased
Andrew felt it the moment it happened as his strength surged, almost doubling.
Ar that moment, a tail came sweeping in from the left, Andrew was able to track it this time.
He activated Flowing Phantom, sidestepping by exactly three centimeters as the tail passed by him and then he slashed out Godslayer in a single arc.
"Slice!"
The thick tail was severed into two as it fell on the floor.
"ROOOOOAR—!"
The Rat King roared in pain as it jerked backward more than 20 meters away.
[System: King Grey Rat has activated ’Berserk’]
Its body inflated as its muscles thickened with veins around its body. Its eyes turned blood red that glowed as its Combat Index climbed rapidly.
[Berserk: ACTIVATED] ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
[Combat Index: 800 → 1,200]
"Fuc—."
Andrew turned and ran.
His wings beat hard and carried him across the cave in two strokes — but the Berserk Rat King was ’already there.’ It had crossed the full distance before his second wingbeat finished, claws punching through the cave wall on the left side.
Andrew curved his left wing and he swerved sharply to the left. A massive claw misses his leg by an inch!
No where was safe! Now even the air or the ground!
"Why is this beast so difficult to kill!?"
Andrew was staring to panic this time. He had used everything in his arsenal but wasn’t even able to kill its second stage.
"I have no choice but to use that move."
Gritting his teeth, Andrew suddenly flipped and reversed mid-flight and flew straight at it!
That wasn’t all, he suddenly closed his Four eyes as he dove at the Rat King.
Strangely, his four eyes began to change as orange glow built at the edges of his skull, filling the eye sockets with building heat like a balloon approaching its limit.
Lights began leaking out at the corners of his eyes, faint at first, then brighter, then ’brighter’!
One meter away. The beast’s jaws open. Its claw already swinging.
He opened his eyes.
"FLASH LIGHT!"
"SHHHHHHHHKK —!"
Twin pillars of brilliant white-orange light shot from his eyes directly into the Rat King’s face from one meter of distance.
No matter how fast the rat was, it couldn’t be faster than the speed of light.
In that split second, its eyes was immediately blinded by the massive glow that beamed into its eyes.
The beast’s vision went ’white.’
Its charge faltered and it stumbled, losing its momentum and crashing to the ground.
Andrew was already past it, twisting in the air and landing behind it in a low crouch. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Andrew suddenly swerved and landed behind the beast, keeping his blade in his inventory, he suddenly pulled one of his right fist back.
The other three arms spread their palm around the fist as they channeled mana and life energy into the fist.
Golden energy wrapped around the fist, thickening from a glow to a gauntlet forged from compressed energy.
The air in front of him bent slightly from the pressure. The stone beneath his feet cracked.
His legs were shaking and his body was at the edge of what it could carry! Every energy was poured into this attack and only his will was left to carry him.
Both heads roared.
"Heaven Shattering Punch!"
The cave shook even before the hit landed.
A 100 meters tall phantom image materialized behind Andrew. It was blurry but its fist was clear as day!
He removed his three arms and punched out.
"RUMBLE!"
"KA —"
"— BOOOOOOOOOM!"
Tiny cracks of space appeared the fist strike as the air warped and twisted as though being ripped apart.
The sound didn’t arrive with the hit. The hit happened first. The result happened second. The sound caught up third, arriving like a physical object and slamming into every wall in the cave hard enough to crack stone on all sides simultaneously.
A perfect circular hole punched through the Rat King’s belly.
The fist energy didn’t stop. It kept going, slammed into the cave wall, hit the next wall, went through that too, rocketing outward in a straight line connecting the cave to the outside world, a tunnel of sheer force boring itself through solid stone and continuing until light was visible at the far end of it. A window to the outside, punched through a mountain by a fist.
Where the fist energy actually ended up was anyone’s guess.
[-5,000 HP]
[CRITICAL HIT: -2000 Hp]
[Ding! King Grey Rat Phase 2: DEFEATED]
The King Grey Rat’s body went rigid. Convulsed once and collapsed forward with a ’boom’ sound then there was silence.
Andrew panted heavily, all four arms hanging at his sides. Both heads tilted slightly downward.
Every single reserve in his body had followed that punch out through the hole in the wall and wasn’t coming back.
He felt like lying down to rest.
His Titan form began to release. Four arms sinking back in.
Second head retracting with a ’crack, crack’ sound and his wings folding away into nothing.
His body shrank back to normal, leaving him standing in the center of a cave that was suddenly much larger than him.
[Combat Index: 158]
[Mana: 12/120]
[HP: 95/650]
He held a mana chip in his arm, absorbed it and conjured a 10kg chunk of meat and brought up a palm-sized Chaos Dao Flame. It sputtered once when the wind from the cave entrance found it.
But it was hot enough.
He cooked the meat and finished it in four bites. Cooked another. Ate that. Meat after meat after meat — fried fast, eaten fast, ’gone’ fast — his Devouring Intestines processing each one in seconds and converting it to usable energy almost faster than he could swallow, the numbers climbing as his body gradually stopped feeling like a wrung-out cloth.
He burned through ten kilograms, then twenty, then fifty, then a hundred, each batch returning a little more color to his vision and a little more steadiness to his legs. He kept eating until he’d gone through nearly three hundred kilograms of Grey rat meat till he felt he was slightly alright.
Then he started to consume them slowly.
Primordial Magus Active Abilities
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1. Heaven Shattering Punch: Condenses all energies, soul, mana, body into a single blow. Can rupture defensive barriers and distort surrounding space. Cooldown: 7 days.
2. Ancestral Awakening: Temporarily becomes Pangu Incarnation (10 seconds), then falls into 1-year slumber.
3. Bloodline Ignition: Triples strength for 30 seconds; One random organ explodes. (Can Stack)
4. Bone Spear: Turns rib into a piercing bone lance; regenerates in 1 day.
5. Blood Rebirth: Rebuilds body from a drop of blood; costs 100 years of lifespan.
[A/N: Been writing for more than ten hours now. Please inform me if there’s a mistake in the Chapter]
[Hell mode Challenge: 200 powerstones = 10 extra Chapters]
[Haha! I know it’s impossible that’s why I did the challenge. I also need the rest. Sorry I made it very difficult. Hehe 🙃]
