ALL NOVEL Chapter 22: Massacre
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Ren slowly processed the information.
‘Status’
Host Name: Ren
Species: Ekans (Infant)
Element: Poison
Level: 1 [Limit: 5]
Bio-Energy: 22/20
Length: 53 cm
Spirit: 4.6
Power: 3.5
Wisdom: 4.1
Agility: 2.7
Defense: 3.8
Skills: Breathless Breathing Technique [10.3%], Poison sting [9%], Terrorize [20%], Acceleration [35%] Tier 2 - Limit breaker [6%] Pokémon Appraisal [30%]
Passive Skills: Spirit Manipulation [80%]
Racial Skills: Shedding [8%]
He observed his status.
His eyes were drawn in by his new skill.
‘Limit breaker…’
A fitting name for a skill that allowed him to break past the natural limiter.
Bioenergy continued to strike against the barrier in his body, continuing to create tremors that ran through his body.
The rippled through his flesh.
[Ding! Your physical stats have improved!]
[Ding! Your physical stats have improved!]
His physical strength continued to improve.
‘It was probably the tremors…’
The tremors from the bioenergy were refining his flesh… making him muscles stronger.
He could feel his power growing.
‘More… I want more…’
Ren slithered away in search of his next prey.
***
The lance struck through the ant.
He did not face the same resistance as before.
The lance smoothly cut into the ant and created a hole in its brain.
The Durant did not even have enough time to react.
Ren quickly devoured the ant before moving on to his next victim.
‘I have to be quick…’
Ren moved from location to location, killing and consuming ants.
His bioenergy continued to rise.
His barrier stood strong against the onslaughts of the bioenergy.
As he consumed more and more bioenergy, the tremors that were produced by the bioenergy increased in magnitude.
The pain that he felt continued to increase.
Ren endured.
The physical improvement he could see in his stats made him bite through the pain.
He was getting stronger.
His body moved through the plains.
He hunted ants one after another, leaving only pools of blood behind.
Minutes ticked by as Ren’s stats continued to increase. His body continued to grow longer.
*Shriek*
Loud calls of ants interrupted his thoughts.
Ren knew.
They had found the corpse of one of the ants he had killed.
They were aware!
He could hear the screams of ants further away responding to the original scream. They were communicating, telling each other of the deaths of their comrades.
It was not just the original seven or eight that were following him.
He had hunted most of them.
No… more ants were coming.
‘Shit…’
He was going to battle with a larger number of ants.
He might have to battle multiple enemies at once.
Still, Ren could not help but become excited.
‘I can do this…’
He prepared himself.
Ren moved through the fields of grass.
Ren moved in the direction of some of the shrieks.
‘Enemies…’
He could see ants… two of them travelling together.
He had never fought against more than one enemy at one time.
Ren wanted to try. Even if he could not kill both of them, it would be a valuable experience.
Ren considered the problem.
‘I need to dual cast…’
Just like when he battled the Bulbasaur, he needed to use multiple spirit constructs at once.
‘Two Lances… I can’t do that…’ he rejected
Two lances would use up too much energy. Even with his improved spirit capacity, he would not be able to manage such a feat.
‘I have to use a different method… I need to control my spirit to something different…’ Ren concluded.
His eyes darted as he observed the two ant’s bodies.
‘An opening…’
He needed a method to pierce into the ant’s bodies.
‘Their armor is too hard…’
He needed to somehow pierce into their flesh.
‘But with armor covering their bodies… no… Wait!’
A realization struck him.
‘I don’t have to pierce through their armor…’
He had to utilize his spirit more effectively!
‘First I need to test it…’
His spirit congealed and separated from his body.
‘Needles.’
Ren’s mind controlled the spirit. [Spirit Manipulation] activated.
The spirit slowly began to congeal into 6cm long, needle shaped weapon.
‘Thinner…’
Ren envisioned a thinner, sharper, longer needle.
So thin that you could hardly see it.
So long that it could pierce directly into the ant’s flesh.
Ren’s image slowly manifested itself. With his improved control of spirit, honed over multiple life or death battles and his own knowledge from earth, the aura began to take the shape that he envisioned.
After more than a minute of concentration, the needle began to morph, becoming sharper and more deadly.
A 30 cm long, extremely thin needle of aura emerged in front of him.
‘Step one… done…’
Inspiration filled his mind.
Ordinarily, wisdom was a stable stat. The wisdom that a Pokémon was born with remained constant throughout their lives, determining the full potential of their skills.
Ren was different.
He was able to increase his wisdom stat through his [Breathing Technique].
Ren processed the inspiration and ideas… using his logic and knowledge to filter out the ideas that were unsuited and impossible.
He arrived at a possible solution.
His thoughts aligned.
‘Now I need more…’
Ren looked at the needle in front of him.
‘Copy and paste…’
The computers in his past life has this function… the ability to take something and create clone of it.
‘Can I do this with [spirit manipulation]?’ Ren questioned himself.
He tried it.
He observed the needle that had already manifested itself in front of him. Intrinsically, he knew its properties… its width and its length.
‘Now create the same thing…’
More aura was released from Ren’s body once again manifesting into the shape of a needle.
He expended less aura to create the same thing!
Additionally the needles were much smaller (in terms of volume) compared to the lance.
‘This can work…Second step done…’
He could mass-produce needles.
Now all that was needed was the execution of the attack.
This could only be done against the real enemy.
Ren breathed in, calming himself down.
‘Come on…’
Aura congealed on his tail.
Ren activated [acceleration] launching himself at the side of the ants.
‘Neck…’
His body moved silently through their air and finally landing on the body of one of the ants.
His body wrapped around the body of the ant cementing himself it place.
The ant noticed something was wrong and turned its head.
Its companion was not even aware of what was happening
The thin needle that he had manifested pierced itself into the thin space between the armor on the ant’s body.
Simultaneously, the other needle that Ren had manifested pierced into the other ant’s necks.
Blood spewed out of their wounds.
Their bodies struggled.
‘Still not dead…?’
Ren once again manifested two more red needles and once again pierced into the ant’s necks.
The ant’s bodies went limp.
There was no sound… no battle no nothing.
It was a simple and clean execution.
He had taken like so easily.
It was empowering… it made him feel as if he could take on the world.
Ren calmed himself down.
He still had more ants to massacre.
***
Ren started at his status screen.
After battling the two ants, he had moved throughout the fields hunting ant after ant. His length continued to grow as his bioenergy expanded.
‘Status.’
Host Name: Ren
Species: Ekans (Infant)
Element: Poison
Level: 1 [Limit: 5]
Bio-Energy: 30/20
Length: 61 cm
Spirit: 4.9
Power: 4.3
Wisdom: 4.1
Agility: 4.0
Defense: 4.2
Skills: Breathless Breathing Technique [11%], Poison sting [9%], Terrorize [20%], Acceleration [45%] Tier 2 - Limit breaker [9%] Pokémon Appraisal [33%]
Passive Skills: Spirit Manipulation [88%]
Racial Skills: Shedding [8%]