Aiden turned around instinctively and ran away. Fighting against two beasts is not going to be a big problem for him, but he was worried that all the others would attack him at the same time. "And if the one with the four hands attacks…" Aiden didn"t even want to think about it. He only decided to engage after they had traversed a long distance. He had no problem fighting the Extrhand, but the other one was a headache.
Continuous dodging made Aiden"s breath more ragged. He wanted to attack, but every time he closed in, the one with an extra head would attack him with a blowpipe.
"And I thought their pattern of attack was the same." Aiden sighed as he moved his body a little to dodge another dirt. He wasn"t wrong about that. The one with the extra arm had only known how to attack, but...
"Looks like having an extra head does the trick." Aiden stared at the "Double-head." The name he gave to the companion of ExtrHand.
[Name: Double-head
Grade: C
Element: None.
Feature: Two heads, High agility, Poisonous blowdart, Cannibal.
Weakness: Unknown
Comment: Keep moving
]
[Author note: There was a mistake in the last chapter. Extrhand is a grade-C mutated human beast, like Double-head.]
"If you"re not coming then..." The speed of the extrhand wasn"t high enough to keep up with Aiden, even without [Light Foot]. But now that he activated it, Extrhand didn"t have a way to touch it.
[The host has activated innate skill [Light Foot]]
Stacked with [Reduced Drag], Aiden had no trouble chasing after the Double-head. As soon as it realized that, it had blown two more poisonous darts to Aiden before running the other way.
When Aiden ran after it, he noticed something. During the run, one of the heads controlled its body, while the other kept putting the darts in the blowpipe.
"Like h.e.l.l, I"m going to give you a chance." After confirming from the ESS that all of his five-unit mana had been recovered, he...
[Skill [Wind Burst] activated. Mana used:2. Remaining Mana: 3]
In a blink, Aiden appeared in front of the Double-head. Not only was it fast, but the Double-head was also nimble enough. Although it looked awkward, it was effective when one head of the body tried to pull the other part out of the blade"s path.
Alas, Aiden hasn"t finished yet. As soon as his leg touched the ground, two warnings and a timer popped up in front of his eyes.
[Skill [Wind Scythe] activated. Mana used:3. Remaining Mana: 0]
[The host has activated innate skill [Zone]]
[4.9998]
Whether it was because of the initiation of two innate abilities at once or because of his mana exhaustion, Aiden felt a little dizzy. But he didn"t have time to relax as he lunged again.
[4.8823]: He could see it in slow motion, as the Double-head was trying to stabilize itself.
[4.6791]: Looking at Aiden"s hand, it understood Aiden"s intention.
[4.5127]: It was trying to blow another dirt, while the other head was trying to duck. It was too late, though.
Aiden"s [Wind Scythe] missed their throat, but not by much.
[4.3819]: The [Wind Scythe] vanished, shedding the blood left on the ground.
Aiden couldn"t dare to look back at the Double-head. Half of its heads had been cut, shedding blood and grey matter all over its body. One of the eyes was still hanging from the veins, as the body fell to the ground.
The effect of [Light Foot] and [Zone] could not be stacked. Still, the change in agility from 47u003e118 is not something that can be ignored, much less when compared to the speed of the ExtrHand.
Before it could understand what had happened, The Extrhand fell to the ground with a pierced heart and a slit throat. Even if its intelligence was low, it could still understand what had happened. As it looked at the human, there was nothing but fear in its eyes.
[3.6749]
[The host manually deactivated innate skill [Zone]]
[Control and understanding of [Zone] increased.]
[Duration increased by .5 seconds]
[Cooldown time decreased by 10 seconds]
[For activating [Zone], The host will be immobilized for 2 minutes 22 seconds.]
But Aiden was not able to hear any of it. His heart worked extra time to pump blood through his veins, and the lungs worked harder to add a little extra oxygen, but none of it could relieve the piercing pain in his brain.
He was swallowing a large mouth full of air as he slowly recovered from the agonizing headache.
"The mana is the secret," Aiden understood the trick behind his [Zone]. To be precise, he understood it when he activated it against Alex. But at that time he didn"t have a chance to think about it.
The human body is created to work on blood and oxygen, but when these things are replaced by mana, the result will be something like "Zone".
But, as everyone knows, the human body isn"t very evolved to work with mana, the consequences are expected.
"I hope there won"t be a long-term side effect." Aiden sat up slowly. ESS had said that the cooldown would take about two minutes, but it wasn"t until five minutes later that he could move again.
The first thing he did was to recover the blade and walk in the direction of the beasts. Even if he wanted to run away, it was no longer possible.
"I made a promise to Levi, and I will keep it." He was very grateful to Levi, to be precise. Without his inheritance, he would have died at the hands of Alex.
Even if he killed Alex because of his misunderstanding, he still reasoned that what he did was right. Alex knew that Elijah did it, he still didn"t stop her.
Aiden didn"t want to think about it right now, as he had a bigger problem to solve. "How did the beast find me? Could it have some kind of skill, too."
"No, it can"t be that way. Otherwise, I would have been found a long time ago. It could have been some kind of sense. Vision, hearing, smell..."
"Can that be because of the blood? "Aiden had not cleaned his hand after he had plunged his hand into the chest of the first Extrhand he had fought against. And the wind had brought the smell to the beast.
"I"ve got to hide my scent." There was nothing in his view that could do that. But he did find another solution.
"Is this plant poisonous?" As soon as ESS responded, he rubbed it all over the body, making him almost green.
Soon, he reached the place, but it was empty with bloodstains all over the place. But the cries could still be heard.
Looking around, he had no difficulty finding the place with a dense amount of red outlines with a green light huddled together with blues. This time, he didn"t dare to be careless. And he cautiously moved it.
But the light had begun to disappear one by one before he could reach them. Only when he could see them with naked eyes did he understand the mystery.
[The host had discovered entry to the mine.]
"Mine, huh? How do you know that? Is the position indicated in your database?" Aiden"s confused. He was also confused as to how the ESS works. But he knew it wasn"t the time to clear up his confusion.
[The position was confirmed by studying the change in the circulation of mana inside the host body due to the radiation of Chaos ore.]
Although the process is a closely guarded secret, it is widely known that Chaos ore was the main source of Conmet production. A conscious metal that could harvest any kind of energy. The backbone of the new era of Mana.
There are also a few mines on the planet Will, but they are of low quality. That"s also why there"s a mission to do that, too.
"Right now, the priority is to save Owen." Aiden checked his body"s situation before concentrating the situation in front of him.
Although it was called mine, it was just a cave without a lot of infrastructures. There were two Extrhands in the mouth. One might think it was all, but the system showed otherwise.
Two more Double-heads were hiding in the forest, 50 meters from the entrance, on each side. With their body, redlined, they had no chance of hiding from Aiden"s vision. Aiden moved without wasting a moment.
Aiden crawled along the ground before stopping 20 meters away from the beast. He chose this one because even if he killed it first, the wind would take the smell of blood away from the cave. Aiden lunged as soon as the wind blew.
[Skill [Wind Burst] activated. Mana used:2. Remaining Mana: 3]
[Skill [Wind Scythe] activated. Mana used:3. Remaining Mana: 0]
Even before it could understand what had happened, two of its heads were already rolling on the ground. Aiden had to move quickly, otherwise, if the direction of the wind changes, it would be too late…
"Is this the blowpipe?" Aiden wanted to use it, but he wasn"t sure whether or not their saliva was poisonous or not. But he took five of the dirt away. All of them had some kind of sticky liquid at the tip.
Wrapping them in a thick leaf, Aiden took a longer route around the cave to reach the other Double-head and waited. Waited for his mana to fill up again.
[Skill [Wind Scythe] activated. Mana used:3. Remaining Mana: 2]
Aiden couldn"t help being too careful, even if it cost too much. Aiden vanished before the head could hit the ground.
[The host has activated innate skill [Light Foot]]
[Skill [Air Spike] activated. Mana used:1. Remaining Mana: 1]
His blade had slit the throat of one of the Extrhands, while [Air spike] had silenced the other.
Aiden could not dare to stop there. He was quick to drag his body to the side of the cave, but as soon as he put it down...
"##@@##@"
Aiden has been stunned. He ran away without hesitation. He looked back at the entrance when he was about 100 meters away from the cave. As expected, his attack was found, and the other three bodies were discovered.
But there was also a fatal mistake on his side. Aiden saw that there were one boss and eight lackeys. But there were five of them in front of the cave mouth, and the boss wasn"t with them.
"There was supposed to be 8, but there are two more. It looks like I"ve been miscalculated. "Aiden sighed at the heart.
Aiden was not sure whether or not there were hordes of these beasts inside the cave. Even if he could tackle these five, it would be impossible for him to fight more if more of them appeared.
"Am I supposed to give up on Owen?"