When I enter the crevice everything becomes dark and with nothing around, I have already entered once so I know the process.
When I regain my vision it is a desolate and dark area the ground is a dark color and there are small craters ejecting a yellow glow, leafless trees and their dry branches are part of the dark surroundings and the soft mist only adds to the vision of a dreary place.
"Fuck... It's like this place was specially chosen for me to die..."
Rentoki's voice "Come on! It's time to score points, let's level up!".
I started walking through the macabre and evil place until 3 creatures appeared in front of me.
[Thristans Grade E]
They have a rather elongated appearance what appears to be their bodies are black in color with purple spots as if they were rotten areas a mouth covered with teeth and wings with which they hold themselves in the air.
I quickly understand that their weapons are their teeth as they have no other limbs.
"Are these creatures blind? They don't seem to know where I am...". My words are interrupted when the thristan launch themselves in swift movements towards me that I can barely dodge, the teeth of one of those things tears part of my shirt and creates a small cut on my chest.
Rentoki's voice "Apparently they know where you are Ban, it's time to fight".
I dodge almost all of the attacks as my stats were altered with Rentoki and Touma's link to me.
In one hit I sink one of the creatures into the swampy ground.
"Well my strength has increased some more." I dodge another attack and grab the long body of the thristan that just flew past me and use it to hit the other creature I left pinned to the ground like a hammer to a nail.
The two creatures die quickly and only one is left and I smile with Malice.
"What are you waiting for attack me, I'm more than ready."
The thristan lunges at me but quickly from a blow to its long body from the delivery of the glow making it disappear.
["You've gone up 1 levels congratulations!"]
["You've gone up 1 levels congratulations!"]
["You've gone up 1 levels congratulations!"]
I notice how the bodies quickly disappear.
[Poscula Grade E] [Muddy Tooth Grade E]
I quickly start grabbing things.
"The adventurers say they make money from this so I might as well take them".
Touma's voice "With reverse nuclear power? How weird it's not good for much."
"Apparently they know a lot about this sort of thing."
Rentoki voice "Well in a way yes, the energy that all the living creatures in your world have is extremely familiar to me, and it's nuclear energy which means they can expel it from their bodies with destructive techniques.... This thing that these creatures leave behind when they die, what you or yours call "posculas" is reverse nuclear energy is like saying that when that creature or living thing dies its energy instead of being expelled it contracts into reverse nuclear energy keeping all the energy to itself instead of exploding outward it explodes inward and is encapsulated in that little sphere."
I listen as if I were a child listening to his class teacher while I advance through that crack, it seems to me something quite dangerous.
Does it mean that at any moment those little spheres can explode in my pockets?
When a person dies does he also leave one of these things behind?
Rentoki's voice "And tell me Ban, now that you're strong and you're going to have the chance to evolve will you become a hero?"
I laugh at the question, I've never thought of something like that before and it's really not something I feel qualified for.
"Hero?" .... No if anyone had the will and soul of a hero it was helios, I wouldn't be good for that.
I have a lot of work to do on a day to day basis you know, I have a present but practically absent father my little sister requires care the rent is something I have to pay I have debts to some..... Subjects and I never had a "Hero" to help me.
Why should I be any different? All people think of themselves why should I think of others before me and mine?
Voice touma "Wow, now I like you a little bit, at least you don't have a useless hero complex".
Voice Rentoki "I'm surprised too, I didn't expect that answer".
"Well welcome to the world friends, if someone else were in my place I assure you they would have said the same thing I did...".
The conversation ceases as the ground begins to crack and a large creature begins to emerge from it, its body rocky and cracked like a golem with some sort of other leech like creatures attached to it spewing blue flashes.
[Rancdart Grade E+]
"This big guy looks more dangerous than the creatures from a moment ago, I'll have to focus on fighting with everything I've got." The steps of that rocky enemy are very slow and I think it will come close to hit me but I am surprised when one of those leeches launches a beam that hits me directly in the abdomen making me go back 4 meters backwards because of the impact given.
I clutch my stomach and groan from the hit, I quickly look towards the monster and as another one of those attacks comes towards me and I quickly dodge it.
"Fuck... This one is much stronger than the previous ones, even if it's slow those lightning bolts are really fast."
Rentoki's voice "well sure its beams attack at a speed of 1660 km/h. But we must attack."
I dodge the lightning and quickly close in delivering a powerful punch to what seems to be the leg of that huge golem But I can't do anything but dislodge a small part of it.
Quickly another lightning bolt upon impacting me throws me away and and causes me to fall to my knees and clutch my chest.
Rentoki's voice "Oh no~ the attack hit Ban's heart, we have to end this or you'll end up dead.
I stood up and looked at the Rancdart with a smile while expelling blood from my mouth.
"Well this time I don't plan on looking for an escape route or you go down or I go down!". I point at the golem before getting into a defensive stance."
"How can I use my ability? I'll need everything I can use here" I ask as I dodge some of the beams but as I focus on dodging just the beams and distracting myself with that, one of the arms of that huge creature slams me to the ground.
"Ah fuck, that really hurt!"
Touma's voice "Put your human fingers together the ability you can use it like this, it's called manifestation, if you want to get out of here alive you better use it now."
I stood up quickly breathing heavily and did as touma says I raised my hands until they were close to my face I put the fingers of my left hand together with the fingers of my right hand and shouted "manifestation".
I watch curiously and surprised as a white light begins to cover my fingers and expands in my skin until my forearms are white and some lines splashed on them give off blue lights, at the same time some horns begin to grow on my head long and white of about 14 centimeters my muscles tighten and tighten more and my forearms now bright expel small rays.
I see my reflection in a small puddle of a viscous, bluish liquid, my blue eyes glow brightly.
"But.... what the hell" I step aside and look at my appearance in shock and disbelief.
"Horns? Let me confirm that I've never had a girlfriend, so no, I'm not a horned man."
I quickly dodge a punch from the beast by parrying its massive fist with my palm but being dragged back a few inches.
"Oh hohoho! This is going to be so much fun!"
I quickly punch the fist of the creature I stopped earlier causing it to propel itself backwards taking awkward steps to steady itself.
Voice touma "give us a good human show". I see my own hands that strange light and color has given me much more strength I quickly turn and watch as Rancdart dodges a lightning bolt that Hiba straight at my chest.
"For some reason.... I can tell when it's going to hit and where."
Rentoki voice "Well it's obvious, the horns are like catalysts that help it know the movements of its surroundings."
This surprises me But I get much more excited, I start to move forward dodging each attack and repeatedly hitting the big golem's body making parts of it slowly turn into fragments.
To finish I crouch down and jump very high until I am at the height of what would be its torso and with one blow I make it destroy its body falling in fragments to the ground until there is nothing left.
["You've gone up 2 levels congratulations!"]