But the monster reacted faster and jumped into David. David hits the ground with the strong tackle of the monster.
He was lying on his back and the monster was on top of him. It tried to bite David's neck, but David held the blade and prevented it. I tried to bite again. But this time, David couldn't stop it. The sharp teeth of the monster punctured his skin, David felt the warm liquid sprouting from his shoulder. The pain brought him back to his senses. He collected his strength and stabbed the knife at the monster's neck. Monster let out David's shoulder and screeched. David pushed it to the ground using his legs. With all of his remaining strength, he stabbed the monster's stomach again and again.
Monster was no longer moving but David kept stabbing. He continued it until he couldn't find any strength to pull the knife back. David looked into his bloody hands. They were shaking. He never hurt a living being before, he couldn't believe himself.
Ethan was able to come into his senses, after David's second shout. He was watching the fight for the entire time. David was sitting beside a monster, covered in blood. He tried to remove his shocked expression and asked:
"Dave, are you okay? ANSWER ME!! David!!"
Something was off. David's eyes were no longer shining. The person before him, was David right? Nathan felt uneasy, like he wasn't his friend but rather a… monster?
David's ears were ringing, he couldn't hear anything but the loud ringing noise. He was seeing for sure, but his brain was not processing what was going on. He got startled by a strong headache, felt a large pressure on himself. Like he's been crushing under a heavy object. He felt like all of his bones shattered and reattached again, over and over again. It was painful, a pain that he never felt before. David couldn't hold in, he screamed until he was no longer able to. He felt his voice cords getting ripped off, his screams turned into painful grunts. He bowed down his head and started vomiting the blood that filled his throat. He held his neck and squeezed it. The pain was unbelievable. His vision turned red. The tears filling his eyes were burning like acid. He wanted to peel off his own skin, with his own hands and end this torture.
But then, the pain disappeared in an instant. His breath and heartbeat turned normal. His skin deformed itself, healed the wounds around his neck. He felt free, like he never felt like this in his life.
He was awakened.
David's consciousness started to come back. He wiped the blood on his hands on his clothes. After rubbing his eyes, his blurry vision started to return. His ears were no longer ringing, so he started to hear screams around him once again. But something was different. He wasn't the same person a second before.
He felt a strong bloodlust, he wanted to rip apart... Not his own skin this time, he wanted to rip apart all those monsters. He wanted to destroy, destroy everyone and everything. The wolves close to him let out a faint scream and started running. Even the severely injured ones tried to run.
After seeing the monsters running away, Ethan got on his two feet and walked to David.
"DON'T DO IT!! DON'T GET CLOSER." It was Daniel. "He's awakened. Just by witnessing the pain he suffered, I can tell he is a high-class one." Daniel's eyes were full of fear, he was sweating heavily. The easygoing person was gone. He collected his thoughts and got up slowly. "We need to get away. Let's just hope that he won't be aware of our existence."
Ethan was looking at the person who was sitting on the ground. It was David. He was David. "No, he won't. I know him." Ethan walked closer to David. Daniel watched him with fear.
"DAVE! DAVE! COME ON ANSWER ME'"
He grabbed David's shoulders and tried shaking him with his whole strength. But David wasn't even moving an inch. He felt like he was trying to move a large boulder.
David put his left hand on Ethan's hand and
"You need to run. Go to the crack's entrance and call help. I have unfinished business here. Involving that reptile." He was staring directly at the dragon. His voice was cold and calm. It was terrifying. His aura was totally different. If Ethan hadn't known him for a while, he would be running for his life and getting far away from him. Ethan took a deep breath, knowing there was nothing he could do in the situation.
"Okay. I will go. Please don't die until help arrives."
"I can't promise" His voice was cold and there was no fear in his eyes. Maybe he accepted his end already? There is no way that he can fight that monster and survive. Ethan's eyes filled with tears, but he didn't show them to David.
Daniel was carrying the other hunter to the side. "You are lucky. Just do what he said. I will move others to a safe place, this will get nasty."
"So you won't gonna help him." Ethan had a mixed expression on his face.
"Are you joking? Of course, I'm not. I don't wanna get involved with that. He's definitely not in his right mind."
Ethan's head was full of thoughts. He shook his head, and focused on his goal. He started to run, following the path they come here in the first place.
David stood up slowly. Dragon was watching the ground from the sky, it wasn't attacking for some reason. That was an opportunity. Since he's awakened there should be skills that could help him. David stared at the sky for a little bit.
"I… I don't even know how to fight. I'm probably the only person who doesn't know a thing about this stuff… Come on, at least give me a tutorial run!"
A little gold-colored paper appeared in front of him. It was transparent, and there were letters on it.
After the little paper disappeared, a larger one appeared.
Mana: 10000/10000
"So what should I do with that information? Also why is my special stat so low compared to others? I guess I'm not a mage type. Can you tell me what those skills do?"
< The Awakener's Sense – S Rank: User can sense awakened auras around him. User can also separate human, monster and item auras and locate them.
< The Awakener's Strength – S Rank: User shows inhuman strength. User can run long distances, carry heavy objects and throw powerful punches and kicks.
< ^%&/?*'s Blessing – Unknown Rank: User cannot die until their destiny is concluded. Restores the user's health and mana to the max, if the user has less than 5 health points left. No cooldown is attached to this ability.
"Until my destiny concluded huh? This is a very open-ended one. I will act like this one doesn't exist. Let's check the others"
< Active Skills (2 of 2)
< The Engineer's Sight – S Rank: Allows user to calculate any type of movement according to psychic laws. User can run simulations independently.
< The Summoner's Mark – S Rank: Allows user to tame monsters. No cooldown is attached to this ability. Only monsters that are S-class or below can be tamed by the skill. When the skill is activated Summoner's Mark glows. The glow forms into a red dagger. Dagger cannot be used as a fighting skill. This dagger could cut through various objects and leaves unremovable red scar on contact. The scar is a contract between the User and the Summon. Skill has 4 effects in total:
*The agreement: …
*The connection: …
*The knowledge pool: …
*The skill table: User can use all the active or passive skills their summons has, regarding their rank. Summons also could use the abilities both Summoner and other summons have, if they are compatible.
"This one is too long. Since I have no summons yet, let's focus on the Engineer's Sight thing"
David's sight was still the same.
"So… There is no difference at all? Let's try this."
David took a small rock from the ground and held it in his hand. A short line of white text appeared in the top right corner of the rock. Showing how much the rock weighs.
"Is this real?" David moved his left hand around the text but nothing changed.
"I think it's only visible to my eye." David held the stone into the sky. A dotted white line appeared between his hand and the dragon. Showing how much power he needs to apply to the stone.
"I guess I don't lose anything if it doesn't reach."
He threw the rock without a second thought. It flew to the sky, and even David himself was shocked by how fast it launched. Rock hit the dragon from its head. It hit so hard, causing the monster to grunted in pain. Dragon's loud screech was enough to make someone deaf. After shaking up a bit, the pair of red eyes searched for the source of the pain. Looked to the ground, and became aware of David's existence. It started to fly into him.
"Oh, it's coming… Well, let's try to calcula…"
Dragon hit David's body with his horns before he was able to react to it. Causing him to launch into the sky and fall to the ground with high speed.
It hurt. It hurts. David lost consciousness for a second. Was he bleeding? Or maybe he's already dead. No, he can't be. When he came back to his senses, the black dragon was staring at him directly. One of its horns was the size of David. Its long body was emitting black smoke that covered its surroundings like there was no one else but them. Red eyes were glowing with rage and they were following every move of his, like being extra cautious. Makes you think, who's the most dangerous one between them?
The Dragon was bleeding between its two eyes. Where the rock hit it.
David took a deep breath that filled his lungs, fixed his composition and got ready for the crash. Dragon rose up to the sky and tried to charge directly to him again… But this time David calculated on time and jumped to the right. He moved so fast that he couldn't believe himself either. But it wasn't the time for rest. Dragon turned back and tried to launch him again. David ducked and dodged the attack. His eyes searched for the knife he used before.
"Come on… Where did I leave it?"