As the battle rage on , JACK instead of watching how it will all play out, went for a slightly ripe fruit, watching the battle with carefree attitude while nibbling on his meal. DON doing his best to find an opening , but the ROCK lifeform kept his defence strong, while also looking for an opening to take out this pesky opponent in front of him. every slash of the sword was taken with precise ,accurate stroke ,all aiming for way to breach it defence, seeing how his attacks where failing to bear fruit, not that he could not defeat it, but he wanted to accomplish it using the SWORD MASTER skill, that was the only he could speedily level up this particular SKILL.
Every attempt to breach it , was flattering before his eyes, then he thought of an ideal, '' sword kill back then in my past life in those manhua had something called the inner qi , maybe I have been too focus on only one aspect of this skill and have forgotten other factors that could supplement to improve it might ha , ha , ha.''
'' now what element is there that can breach this defence.''
The ROCK lifeform was surprise , while ' why is the being now laughing all of a sudden, did I hit so hard to make it go nut' while worrying if DON might just go crazy and do something stupid, what came next was close to what it was just thinking, a fast sword slash carrying hot fire beam, came crashing in front of his eyes , so fast, that all it was able to register at that moment was searing heat and blur, before it began to take in what was truly going on , he was shock to realise that he had just lost a hand.
What came next was intense pain , of losing an arm, then it was followed by overwhelming rage, killing intent. while DON was admiring his latest discovery. thinking to himself what name he should call this form. the the word clad in red flames, drawing magic from him continuously to stay active. JACK not far away, was also mesmerise by the new discovery . what came next was a angry , blood tasty ROCK Lifeform with one arm, slamming his whole body with tremendous speed, down on DON.
the loud crash happen as expected but the suppose target target was missing, in midst of the dust and rubbles, It couldn't identify his target, what came next was another quick side slash , taking out the remaining hand of the ROCK lifeform. with a loud yell , the ROCK life form cried in pain and despair. DONE feeling this much was enough , just as he was about preparing to end it. loud movements came from the surrounding and JACK cry of shock and urgency.
DON took in his surrounding only to notice he has been be surrounded by angry mobs of giant ROCK lifeforms. DON'' wow look what will have here, 1, 2, 4, 7.... hmmmm ''
'' 20....this might turn out to be a record, ''
JACK that side urging to run. but he ignore his plea... griping tightly the blazing sword, applying SUPER DASH skill, while sharping and tunning the magic energy in the sword. he went for the weaker one , with precise control, almost teleporting, taking it out cleaning in half, from the side, and then leaving , which was followed by a crashing sound at hi previous location, all this happen in split second, in the blink of a eye, one was down, the leader among them release a angry yell, which was followed by the ground below DON feet coming to life, caving in very fast, with little time to response, while caught off guard , by the sudden activity below him, DON though surprise quicky retain focus but not before colliding with strong force with a gigantic rock fist , straight on side .
He slams heavily to the ground, while bleeding on the side of his face. JACK being worried sped towards DON unguarded, DON realising it was a bad time , especially with the ROCK leader pressing for another attack, call to stop jack.
''JACK hey stop, don't--''
His words were caught shot before he could finish, because what followed was the ROCK form spear attack intended for him slamming heavily on the back of little JACK as he took an awful into groups of trees , leaving heavy debris on his trail. DON completely forgetting his injury and his surroundings , shock to the top, he began to walk slowly towards JACK location.
The group of ROCK life forms upon seeing one of the opponent taken out , began to celebrate while praising their leader for his cruelty. The leader receiving the approval looks of his fallowers. felt proud and elevated. but watching as DON was ignoring their battle while making his way elsewhere, He felt insulted, thought he was looking down on him with contempt. he release another rock spear attack that took out a chuck of DON'S flesh. DON slamming hard again to the ground , stood again while still making his way toward JACK location, without care for his injuries.
The ROCK lifeform leader seeing he was still being ignored, realise his previous efforts were not enough to gainer the attention of JACK, while preparing to release a more powerful attack, one of the ROCK lifeform member quickly realise the reason , brought it to his attention. the ROCK life form leader, a higher level rank being already capable of communication between lifeforms thought of something with a sly smile on his face.
'' hey! are you worried about your pet''
still no response from DON, as he kept walking .
''it was being stupid coming in , the way it did, what a weak thing, pest like that deserve to be taught properly their place. don't you think so too.''
Don that was already close to JACK body stop for moment before walking again , but just before he could stretch his hands to JACK, the ground below his cave in completely. DON stop all movement instantly.
ROCK LIFEFORM leader'' ho sorry , are you mad, I thought it will would be better to completely erase him properly for you, save you the heartache''
the rest of the group started laughing. while DON whether if it was because of his injuries or the loss of his companion , started feeling a cold touch inside, it was both rage and sadness, immerse rage. something he has never felt before, and it was not just coming from him , but also from his left eye. V1 noticing the situation tries to address the anomaly.
V1'' noticing enormous spike in rage from HOST. HOST advise to calm down, anomaly occurring because of the sudden rising spike in rage, coming from HOST..... addressing issue. …fail...….fail again...….BERSERK MODE MODE forcefully activated.... commencing interference ..fail ''
'' commencing interference.....''
''fail''
'' commencing interference again''
'' fail''
'' BERSERK MODE NOW ACTIVE''
JACK consciousness began to fade, BERSERK MODE took over, a majestic presence began to emerge from within his left eye, but this time, it was not with the previous gaseous form, this time it was purely liquid ink like form, bringing pure wraith , unbending, uncompromising wraith, the whole group fell in their knees immediately , while shuddering in pure fear, they went laughing anymore, some where even hitting their heads on the floor while pleading. their leader completely lost his past presence, now he look just like an unfilial child that has commit an offence while waiting judgment.
DON whole has transformed now clad in ink like colure, the ink like substance as if sentient began , to cover the very surrounding, creating a kind of king domain, during this process no one acted, while the ink like form swallow their whole few, bringing them to kind of dark domain, where everything was completely dark , screams and grieving sound of the ROCK lifeforms where all that filled this dark ink world. ended, . before long the sounds ended it was complete silence in this ink world, what follow drops of ink like liquid on hard floor, the sound erring to a close Observer. In the ink like world a majestic ancient voice sounded as it echo everywhere in this dark world.
''DEVOUR''
then the sound of bone fragmenting was heard, moment later. it sounded again.
'RETRIEVE''
just a bubble made of dark water and pieces of what remains of JACK came into view. the majestic cold presence as if after contemplating some kind decision sounded again after some time.
'' REBIRTH''
what followed was a dark dark light flashing , taking over the bubble made of dark water In an instant. And then as if creating something parts of the dark energy collected from those ROCK lifeforms that perish, came together forming a spherical shape of dark liquid, then from nowhere came drops of red dark blood that came together with the spherical liquid, before turning solid.
then the red markings began to take form on the black egg structure, while spinning and floating above what seems to be river of dark ink substance. what follow was the the dark ink world fading as if sucked in by an abyss, and after fading away what replace it, was reality returning back to normalcy, the previous rocky surroundings of the RASS CAVE world came into view.