Crashing into a huge pit of thorns pain stirred through Lucian's mind, it was as if a pit was dug and thorns were planted in it, they looked more like a humongous green shrub of wooden spikes.
The greenery hid him from the sight of onlookers but it was his part to stay incredibly still, " Oy, Olivia didn't you hear something or is it just me " an adventurer said.
" I heard it too, it most have been one of those annoying goblins that fell into the thorn pit of the Sly Bush " another replied, " You two are slowly down the group, get a move on " a commanding voice uttered.
Hearing the sound of departing footsteps relief washed over his mind, The Adventurer Guild Association was part of the government, if illegal raiders like him were caught it could spell problems.
Now he had a bigger problem, escaping this torn bush, but before he could think of anything to do calamity struck.
The torns stabbed deeper into his flesh, his blood slowly left his body, it was at this moment he realized, HE WAS FUCKED.
He wiggled his body but that only worsened the situation as more thorns found their way into his body, together all the wooden sticks pierced deeper and deeper into his system while greedily drinking his blood.
Experienced he couldn't shake his body anymore and remaining in that upside down position would allow the Immediate ranked beast Sly Bush to suck him dry faster than he could regenerate.
Gritting his teeth his last option became imminent, he had to use his most deadly embodiment, Darkness.
" Prince of Darkness, Sovereign of Night, Peaceful yet insidious, Cunning Evil merged with Devilish Might, Destroy thy enemies with Unwavering Brawl and Despitefully Wit " a mist of darkness slowly sipped out of his skin.
The thorn branches immediately corroded into black effervescent liquid, he flipped himself as he plummeted down the pit, although his dark mist destroyed the bush the thorns stuck in his skin remained.
His mist diminished significantly because he had not fully mastered using that embodiment, now he had to use his blade.
Unsheathing it with a powerful arc splinters of wood flew in every direction, riddled with numerous four inch thorns, he sliced the shrub which threatened to piece his feet.
A few devastating splashes later he crashed into a deep cavern, although immensely dark that wasn't a problem for the Sovereign of Night, Lucian.
The first thing he noticed was a human sized orb like wooden enclosure which was latched onto the ceiling of the cavern near the opening he fell into from.
" Of all places I decide to crash land " Lucian mumbled at his awful luck, his blade shone with a bright red energy as he closed the distance between him and the vile creature.
His innate technique Energy Turbulence or Energy Force allow him to utilize ten coloured energy forces each having a specific attribute.
Unlike his embodiments which couldn't negatively affect him in anyway, his innate techniques could, infact they all did, his first ever technique Primordial enhancement caused spamming muscles and convulsing if used for a long duration.
Two of his mind techniques gave him headaches and visual impairment if overused, but his most powerful Energy Turbulence destroyed his body as he used it.
At times he wondered what would have happened if he wasn't an immortal being with an extremely fast regenerative attribute, this caused him to barely use any of his technique and rely solely on his embodiments.
He couldn't use his embodiments without reciting his mantra and meditating in his soul space, in scenarios like this when he had no time to chant a rhyme he used his hiden trump card.
His obsidian coloured blade was empowered by the repellant red energy as he charged forward but that was his first mistake.
A huge sprout shot at him, it was fast but he was faster, using the flat of his blade he skimmed the thorn filled sprout aside while continuing his dash.
More sprouts came for him but he sliced them with little effort and eventually reached the encasing which he speculated contained the core of the Sky Bush.
He swing his blade in a wild arc over his head, as his sword went into the wooden encasing it immediately exploded into tiny bits due to the red aura.
A three yellowish crystalized gem fell to the ground, " Truly an Immediate tier beast " he said picking up the gems and placing them in his pockets.
His skin was pale dried and withered akin to a ghost, with his technique deactivated his immortal body began regenerating itself, clenching his muscles all the thorns stuck in his body popped out and he launched himself out of the cavern.
Although he leap high it wasn't high enough to get out of the pit leading out of the cavern, so he used his trusty blade as a leverage in climbing out.
Exhaustion washed over him, nevertheless he rose using his sheathed sword as a support till he could move around, the sun could barely be seen under the canopic trees of the jungle and this posed a problem.
He has to find his friends and warn them about the adventurers, he settled him mind trying to use primordial enhancement to enhance his sense of smell to sniff them out but like an answer to his prayers lightning struck.
He immediately turned to it's direction and unhesitatingly sprinted across the jungle with enhanced speed, ' Gabriel would only use his lightning if it was a problematic situation ' he thought increasing his speed.
Dead bodies of numerous F ranked beasts were littered on his path probably those of which his teammates had killed, they were mostly goblins and horned rabbits.
The blood around his path became fresher and fresher as he soon started to notice the corpses of Red Bears, formidable C ranked Immediate tier creatures.
While studying them he tripped to the path of a live one, without hesitation it sliced his chest leaving three claw marks which might have been deeper if Lucian didn't jump backwards.
His blade escaped it's scabbard as he lunged a horizontal blow at the creature, due to the terrain of the forest and trees closely grown together it unfortunately sliced into a tree and got stuck.
The eight foot tall bear did waste a moment, it slashed it's claws at the human in it's front.
Lucian had to let go of his blade as he moved back with his arm held up in defense, this let him of with deep gashes on his arm, the next claw came and he ducked under it while launching a low punch at the beast's unprotected abdomen.