Chapter 152: Phantom
The pressure on my body intensifies even more as multiple Cinderbears attack. I slip into [Focus], and [Resonance] activates at the sa ti. The air, the space around
resonates according to my will, and I change its frequency multiple tis until the effects of the attack disappear and I'm freed.
Just in ti, I redirect as much kinetic energy as I can towards the ground under , making it explode as I push myself high in the air. I quickly move to the side as a dozen or so sparks barely miss .
The ones that are about to touch , I dissipate with [Resonance] and push myself far in the distance, away from dozens of Cinderbears. The forest behind
imdiately explodes under the heat and flas, and I can feel them following .
The heck!
I don't even have ti to complain as another wave of pressure hits , pulling
down to the ground. I track its source and imdiately create two javelins that I fill with kinetic energy and shoot towards the source.
The bear there just uses its spark and appears in a different place, once again reaching towards .
I cancel out the attack with my skill and propel myself even further, only to be t with a dozen more glowing orange sparks that soon blaze up into massive flas, and even more Cinderbears step out.
Okay.
Okay!
I imdiately stop, and instead of running, I start to release my Mana Regulator, and the Kinetic Mana Heart beats loudly.
I will fuck you up.
Dark blue armor appears on my body, and my head gets covered by a helt without any holes. I send perceiving mana into my surroundings. My heart sends waves of kinetic energy through my body, and I use half of it to strengthen it while collecting the remainder.
Dozens of mana form appear around , and I anchor them to my core. With [Mana Surge], I start spinning them around my body, further boosting them with kinetic energy while continuing to make them denser but not to the point where tricolored mana appears.
A loud whistling noise sounds in the surroundings, along with the roars of the bears as I land on the ground.
The first bear dashes at , the air around him wavering because of heat, and I sling two orbs at his head, one after another. The first one filled with kinetic energy explodes, dissipating so hot air around him, and the other, a bit denser, pierces his skull and imdiately kills the monster.
[You have defeated a Cinderbear - lvl 116]
I absorb the remaining thermal energy from his body and transfer it into kinetic energy, sending more orbs towards the weaker monsters.
[You have defeated a Cinderbear - lvl 106]
[You have defeated a Cinderbear - lvl 119]
[You have defeated a Cinderbear - lvl 118]
A stronger one sends sparks towards , and before I can cancel them, he uses one to materialize near , with an extrely strong wave of heat reaching . At the sa mont, [Redistribution] activates, and I grab hold of all of that thermal energy, fighting for control over it with the bear. I focus on that even as another bear dashes at .
I dodge his bite, then uppercut his bottom chin, breaking it. Then I hit his eye and send a thin cone of kinetic energy towards his brain, and the back of his skull explodes into pieces of bone, skin, and brain.
That mont of distraction allows the other bear to overpower , as I'm trying to grab hold of his heat attack. The armor around my body imdiately starts to heat up, and I can see so thinner parts lting. Still, I let the bear continue, and instead of canceling or controlling this attack, I strengthen my armor.
I take a step towards the bear and continue to send more and more of my mana towards my armor, which becos a darker shade of blue with wisps of light blue mana flowing through it. The ground around us starts to lt, and the grass and the trees catch fire, quickly turning to ash. I take another step towards him.
From a spark behind , another Cinderbear appears, but I ignore him. As my heart beats, I send a cone of kinetic energy at its head. I make it as thin as possible, transfer all this energy into a thin cone, barely thicker than my wrist, and it goes right through its eye.
The bear dies with a wound that looks like an invisible weapon stabbed him.
After taking the final step, I finally reach the bear attacking
with its heat wave. The armor around
holds strong, even as the bear tries to focus its attack on my chest and head. There are no holes in my armor, and it covers the entirety of my body, cutting it off from the space around .
Then the bear stops, as if giving up, and this ti I collect all the heat around
and all the energy from my heart. I transform it, and a beautiful dark yellow fla fires up from sowhere in front of my chest.
The fla reaches the bear with a massive roar, and for a mont, the bear fights back, holding against my attack. Still, I send more and more of it, making it more viscous, and more dangerous, and soon my flas pierce through the bear's heat aura and hit his head.
They lt his fur, his skin, revealing the skull underneath, and soon they reach its brain, finally killing the monster, which falls with a loud thump.
[You have defeated a Cinderbear - lvl 146]
[Lvl 114 > Lvl 115]
Multiple bears surround , and the combined heatwave that hits
is hard to counter, so I send a pulse of [Resonance] into my surroundings and dash towards one of the bears.
Mana flows through my body, my mind is sharp, and my heart continues to beat wildly.
Another cone of kinetic energy obliterates one bear; a javelin pierces another one, exploding in the wound.
A shield forms in front of
and starts to lt slowly while I collect more and more mana into a javelin hovering over , and when the shield disappears, I boost it at the bear.
The javelin pierces the air and starts lting as it gets closer to the monster, yet it's dense enough to reach it, and when the tip of the javelin touches the bear, it explodes. A thin cone of kinetic energy tears though the bear's body and stabs into it.
Then the flas reach it as well, fighting against its own, and soon win over, lting the bear. I pause for a second, and the helt around my head disappears, and I take in a deep breath.
My body is itching to move, my mana rages through my body, and I feel so alive.
I check the ti, and there are still 57 minutes left.
Good, good!
Then, without any warning, I feel a stab in my belly, and when I look down, there is a small green hand holding a knife that seems as if made from obsidian, but there is red mana flowing through the blade. The blade is deep inside my side, totally ignoring my armor.
[Phantom Goblin - lvl ??]
The hand imdiately disappears as if becoming invisible, and I can't feel any presence anymore.
A giggle sounds in the surroundings.
In a rage triggered by old mories, without even knowing what I'm doing, all my mana rushes into my heart, and my heart beats loudly enough for
to hear. A wave of kinetic energy that I send all around
is the strongest that I ever produced, and it totally explodes in a large area around .
Bodies of dead Cinderbears get thrown away like toys, the trees get uprooted from the ground, and the stones and ground fly all away from , leaving
standing in the crater created by my attack.
Silence.
Then another short laugh followed by nothing.
My teeth feel like they are about to break, but I enter a deeper [Focus] and stretch a bandage-like piece of my mana around my wound to stop it from bleeding.
A spark flies next to , and the bear appears in a massive blaze of fla, and without even recreating my helt, I step closer and absorb all the thermal energy it throws at .
I let the armor around
dissipate and sharpen my focus, as even half a second of hesitation or misuse threatens to burn
if I lose control over all that heat.
But I do not.
The ground around us burns, and the air flickers from all that heat as I stop in front of the bear, looking into its eyes.
It bites at , but before it reaches , I throw all the kinetic energy I collected at it, I increase the frequency, and with a loud pitching noise, his head explodes, splashing
with blood.
[Redistribution - lvl 29 > Redistribution - lvl 30]
My mana reaches as far as I'm able to, and with deep rage flowing inside , I look for the invisible monster. I perceive as deeply as never before and consolidate both parts of my [Focus] to strengthen my skill.
Where are you, you little asshole?
[Perception - lvl 29 > Perception - lvl 30]
Then I take a step towards where I felt a movent.
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