Chapter 65: Apocalypse 3
{Ding!}
{Your audience is impressed}
{+30 CP}
Nicholas saw the notification from the system, but he had no time to celebrate. He was breathing heavily, his arms felt heavy.
Every punch against the Orc had felt like hitting concrete. the short fight had taken a huge toll on him and he could feel his body giving out.
’I’m stronger, but I don’t have enough stamina to match it and I can’t last long in a fight like this’ Nicholas thought, beads of sweat dripping down his face.
He turned to Julie, who had to drop her camera just to hold his coat.
"How the heck do you wear this thing around? What’s inside here?!" Julie cried, just holding up the coat was straining.
Nicholas casually took the coat from her flinging it over his shoulders as he wore it in a clean sweep, "Let’s go, we have to find whoever’s bringing up all these monsters and stop them," Nicholas said as he walked ahead.
"Yeah this is crazy, I didn’t think it’d be this bad...." Julie muttered following right behind him.
"It’s worse than bad" Nicholas said his expression going grim, "With an ability like this, they could summon a creature capable of wiping out an entire town. We don’t want that happening"
"Sheesh!" Julie felt the goosebumps run down her spine, "That would be terrible"
’What’s even worse is that we have no idea how to find whoever is doing this in a town this large.’ Nicholas thought stopping in front of the crossroads, shifting his gaze from left to right.
To his left, he suddenly noticed a figure standing nearly seven feet tall.
The hands, shaped into a blade with two pointed legs and one round big eye on its large head staring ahead past their direction.
’What is that?’ he thought for a second.
{Kamacura detected: A fantasy creature that, they have highly sensitive hearing and are fast, using their sharp bladed arms for attacks} the X glasses chimed as he saw the strange creature.
"With the amount of heroes here, we should be able to—" Nicholas hands wrapped round Julie’s mouth as he took her to the side of the wall, gesturing for her to keep quiet.
Just then a loud voice boomed through the air in the space, almost as though it was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
[Apocalypse descended, the world was split into several zones with veils covering them. Portals appeared, releasing Fiendish creatures that flooded the earth. Orcs, Zombies and creatures only heard of in fantasies.]
"What’s that voice?" Julie said in a low voice, Nicholas simply frowned looking up to the sky.
"I don’t know what it is, but it sounds like it’s from whoever is doing this." Nicholas’s expression darkened.
This wasn’t a random impure anymore.
Whoever was behind this wasn’t just creating a few monsters.
They were creating a scenario.
An entire world.
’... All the beast seemed like they’re ripped straight out of a fantasy..’ Selena’s words echoed in his mind.
’What if it actually is a story?’ Nicholas frown deepened, but he let out a quiet sigh, ’We need to find the impure fast, but let’s deal with this first’
He poked his head past the wall, trying to catch a glimpse of the beast he’d seen earlier, but as he peeked his eyes met a round big eyes in front of him.
A flash of light streaked through the air as its sharp bladed arm sliced down with terrifying speed.
"Fuck" Nicholas muttered as he leaped backwards, with Julie dodging the blade by a brief second, the sharp blade sliced through the brick wall where he was like hot knife through butter.
[Neorion: Shit! That was close, nearly lost a limb there]
[Eat_Em_Up: What sort of monster is that?]
[Literary_Archive: My, I never knew I’d actually get to see one someday.... That’s a Kamacura]
[Primordial_being01: Yeah thanks for educating us... Nerd]
Nicholas stood just a few meters away from the beast, its round big eyes staring back at him like a curious dog. But the intent behind those sharp blades told a different story.
{Charm points: 60}
’I’m burning out fast, and judging from the description of this creature it’s going to be really fast. I have to pick between stamina and speed to survive this fight and to get more charm points, I have to make sure nothing happens to Julie’ Nicholas thought as he stared at the beast.
"You should keep a safe distance—" Nicholas words hung in his mouth as he stared behind him to find Julie missing.
She stood in the distance waving at him with a bright smile on her face, "You’ve got this! We are cheering you on from here!"
Nicholas looked at her with shock, ’When did she get there?’
Nicholas’s thoughts were disrupted as his instincts flared, he caught the flash of the blade coming down on him.
He reacted, leaping backwards but compared to the sharp speed of the blade his reaction time was slow.
The blade made a shallow cut on his legs sending a thin string of blood out.
Nicholas hands slipped into his coat as he pulled out his gun.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Three bullets shot out successively, but the kamacura was faster, weaving through the bullets like a serpent while closing the distance between them.
Nicholas quickly put the gun back into his pocket, pulling out his expandable baton, with a swipe, the metal clanged together as they formed a long rod.
The Kamacura lunged at him without wasting a second and in a flash of motion several slashes came down.
CLANG!
Sparks went off as the sharp blade like arms struck the metallic surface of the rod, digging into them.
Nicholas gaze followed every strike of the kamacura, catching its relentless attacks at the brink of the moment.
With the seconds growing thinner as small cuts began to build up across his body, streams of blood dripping out.
A blade slipped past his guard and carved across his ribs.
Pain exploded through his side.
Nicholas gritted his teeth, bearing through the pain.
[Zrail: That doesn’t look too good]
[Masatoshi_K: That stuff is fast as heck, he’s barely keeping up]
[Ragnar_Knot: He doesn’t have anyone close by to help either]
Nicholas struggle was visible and they could all see it as every strike led to several more cuts.
Nicholas felt his muscles aching from the relentless onslaught, he could tell from the repeated attacks that the Kamacura was no match for him in terms of pure strength.
But his stamina and agility were far too lacking, to keep up with the relentless onslaught.
With a blast of speed, the kamacuras blade short forward like a lance, right below the rod and straight for his neck.
Nicholas gritted his teeth as the blade slipped past his defense. He didn’t have the luxury of time anymore.
With the blade drawing closer with every second, a decision had to be made and in a situation like this... He had only one choice.
