Chapter 624 Exhilaration
"What…just happened?"
That question was very necessary as despite being the one responsible for the current scene, Evan had zero idea of what happened.
One moment he wanted to dash in the direction of a monster, and the next he was drenched in the monster's blood and organs.
There was far too much lost in transition here.
After taking a step back and analysing everything, Evan arrived at the answer to the question.
Basically, due to the abrupt increase in power, he had little to no proper control over his body and ended up using more force than necessary in his air dash.
This, coupled with his ridiculously strong physical body, was enough for him to blast right through the monster he wanted to land on top.
Naturally, this attracted the attention of monsters nearby, with many weaker ones running away, while some of the S-rank ones came closer.
As for Evan, he remained in the same spot, surrounding himself in a cave of earth, where he washed the blood and guts off his body before changing his clothes once more.
After this, he destroyed the earthen cave and looked at the monsters around him before saying.
"Let's take this from the top, shall we?"
**GROAARRRRRR!!!!
The roar of a giant grizzly rang out, one that was about two times the size of the one he had just killed, and was glaring at him with bloodshot eyes.
"…I didn't kill her kid, now did I?"
Unfortunately, when he appraised the monster and scanned through the stats, titles and condition, he came to the conclusion that he had probably just done so.
The Giant Grizzly roared once more, with Evan feeling something strange within the roar.
It was only after a few seconds had passed that he realised what this feeling was.
"Right…Grandmasters can sense skill activations.
That was a skill activation I just sensed…the first roar was probably one of rage, but the second was a skill."
It was quite convenient to be able to tell when one's opponents activated their skills, but for Evan's opponents, that privilege was going to be quite limited.
While he was thinking that, the monster charged right at him with breakneck speed, flattening all the trees in its path as it swung its brown aura-coated claws towards him.
'Imperial Scales.'
**BAAAMMM!!!
Evan felt like he was hit by a dump truck, his body was sent flying through the air and he bashed through numerous trees and rocks on his way.
Eventually, he rag-dolled on the ground for a few dozen metres before coming to a stop, staring at the sky through the gaps in the trees.
He held up his arms and looked at them, noticing that there were now white gold-coloured illusory scales coating them, a grin coming onto his face as he noted the lack of damage from the bear's attack as a result of these scales' presence.
Just as he was about to voice his admiration for this new perk of his, a massive shadow suddenly covered him—a result of the airborne grizzly who was about to slam down atop him.
'Okay, even the current me would take damage from that.'
Without hesitation, he turned his head to the side and activated Blink, teleporting barely a second before the giant Grizzly landed on the ground where he was.
The impact of its landing proved devastating, flattening everything within a 200-meter radius, with trees, rocks, and other creatures alike succumbing to the overwhelming force.
Evan landed on the ground not too far off, stumbling a bit due to the shockwaves, but before he could regain his balance, the grizzly turned in his direction and swung its claws, sending two sets of three-pronged aura projectiles in his direction.
Time difference made his perception of the world around him reduce to a crawl, and he took this extra time to decide on what means to use and counter this attack.
In the end, he decided to test how strong his elemental shield had become, setting the element to lightning, one which the earth elemental aura in the Bear's attack was very good at countering.
The spherical shield of golden lightning covered his form, right before the claw-shaped projectiles collided with it.
**BOOMM!!
Despite the power behind the grizzly's attack, Evan's shield exhibited remarkable resilience, revealing nothing more than a small crack under the intense pressure.
"That's goo-?!"
His words were cut short when he sensed energy flowing into the ground around him, half a second before spears of elemental light burst forth from the ground, threatening to impale him.
He jumped back to avoid them, but another set sprung up behind him, and when twisted his body to avoid those, a third set emerged from his both sides.
'This skill…I like it!!'
Evan revealed a grin as he looked towards the grizzly Charging right at him, parting his lips to speak the activation words for his Hero Skill.
"Mystic Eyes of Mimicry Stage 3: Activate."
The inscriptions in his irises lit up with a golden glow, as he locked gazes with the monster barrelling towards him while sending multiple flying aura claws.
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2.
3.
|Elemental Skewer Acquired|
|Rare Skills require one skill slot. |
|Seventeen Skill slots remaining. |
Three Seconds.
That was all Evan needed to mimic his target's skills now.
And this was just one of the boons of his Mystic Eyes Stage Three.
Evan held out his hands and clapped them together, causing two walls of lightning blocks to manifest on both sides of the Bear and slam onto its body.
"GRARGHH??!!"
The bear screamed in pain at the unexpected attack, but still activated its roar-type skill and released a burst of aura, breaking out of the lightning blocks trying to squash it.
Following that, the bear roared once more and activated a buff skill, evidenced by the brown glow that coated its form.
Evan broke free from the range of spears threatening to impale him and landed on the ground, but by this time, the buffed bear had already reached his location.
It raised its hand and swung it down with its sharp claws intending on slicing through Evan's body faster than the boy could activate anything to defend himself.
The Grizzly was 100% sure this attack was going to connect, when suddenly, a multicoloured beam of light shot right past its field of view, from left to right.
"…?"
It took the monster a second to register the loss of feeling in its arm, another to realise that said arm wasn't there any more, with all that was left being a scorched stump that was still burning with prismatic flames, with so much heat the blood evaporated before it dripped to the ground.
And then, the pain hit.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A gut-wrenching scream of agony reverberated across the forest, startling both the monsters and adventurers who were closing in on the area and making them stop in their tracks.
The Grizzly bear could not understand what had happened.
Its instincts told it that the beam of light that had obliterated the arm it was swinging down was definitely a skill and not magic.
So how was it that it could not, with its Superior Grandmaster Senses, tell that a skill was being activated?
The answer was the single line of text floating in Evan's field of view.
| Mimicked Skill Activations cannot be sensed. |
One of the newly unlocked perks of his Mystic Eyes Stage 3.
Evan grinned as he jumped in the air, spinning his body around and delivering a high kick to the side of the screaming grizzly bear's head.
Together with that kick, he activated another mimicked skill.
'Collapse.'
**BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!
The ground beneath the monster cratered on impact, as the explosive force propelled the giant creature through the air, smashing through towering trees before crashing onto the ground.
The grizzly's massive body carved through the earth for hundreds of meters, leaving destruction in its wake. Blood sprayed in all directions, marking the trail of devastation Evan's powerful strike had wrought.
Evan fell on the ground a few metres away from his initial position, knocked back due to the power of his own strike.
"Okay, scratch my earlier thoughts…this is exhilarating."
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